Statewide County OR Archives Obituaries.....Nortono, Mrs. Charles February 15, 1893
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Oregonian February 25,1893
The Strange Death Of Mrs.Norton
Corvallis Times
Mrs.Charles Norton died near Yaquina 10 days ago under very suspicious 
circumstances.Her husband is a brakeman on the Union Pacific railroad,with 
headquarters at Walla Walla. Two weeks before the death of his wife he went to 
Yaquiuna to attend the bedside of a sick child. Up to the day she died was in 
her usual health.Sometime in the forenoon she bacem suddenly ill and in afew 
fours was cold in death,having died in convulsions.Her husband was alone in 
the room with her,and the first information  other persons in the same house 
were afforded concerning her condition was the announcement of her death. When 
they went ot dress her for the grave a newly born six months babe was found in 
the bed.A physician well informed of the symptons attending Mrs.Norton's death 
states that they are the same invariably manifested in arsenic 
poisoning.Norton's true name is Masonfield,and his reasons for sailing under 
an alias are unknonw.Sufficient suspicion attached to the affair that Deputy 
Sheriff Martin came out last Thursday with instructions to exhume the body and 
cause an examination of the contents of the stomach.

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