The Tragedy of a Marriage of Convenience

After two days of deliberation by the court of Deputy-Coroner Livingstone, of Sidney, it was decided that sufficient damaging evidence had been obtained to warrant the arrest of Mrs. Charles Lindell for poisoning her husband, who died on January 19 in terrible agony at his home, three miles south of Sidney. At the autopsy which was held Thursday, the remains of the dead man were disinterred, and the regions about the stomach and neck were discolored to a bright green, showing some arsenical agency. Drs. Bradley and Harlow examined the stomach and found decided indications of arsenical poison. The examination of Mrs. Lindell is in progress before a justice of the peace. The Sidney Pioneer reports there is plenty of proof that Mrs. Lindell hated her husband; she told other parties that she married him solely for a home. Shortly before his death, he was making a doghouse, and she told Mrs. Bauer that it was the last work he would ever do. She failed to give medicine as directed by Dr. Bradley and, in defiance of the doctor's orders, gave him water just before he died. At the time of drinking the water, he asked her why she gave him that salty water. She has shady antecedents and has been connected with a notorious character of Oregon by her own admission.