Murder Or Medicine?
True Crime Historian
Richard O Jones
4.4 • 729 Ratings
🗓️ 24 January 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
Episode 436 comes from a request by True Crime Historian patron Marlene Resch, who wanted to hear a story from her home Lane County, Oregon. So I dug up this sordid tale of a man who stands trial for the murder of his wife, with allegations of insurance fraud and lust for his young sister-in-law, who turns out to not have the best reputation herself.Culled from the historic pages of the Eugene Guard, the Eugene Morning Register, and other newspapers of the era.
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| 0:00.0 | The testimony brought out at the coroner's inquest at Springfield showed that Mrs. Bosson had declared to Mrs. A. Holland, Miss. Mary Hendricks, a six-year-old girl who was living in the house at the time, and Dolly Levens, her sister, just before death came, that she had been poisoned by her husband. |
| 0:24.9 | The witnesses each say that Mrs. Bosson declared, quote, Andrew has poisoned me, he gave me some whiskey, |
| 0:32.5 | and it was bitter, oh so bitter. Other testimony brings out the fact that on the night before his wife died, |
| 0:40.7 | Bosson went to the home of Mrs. Hughes nearby to get some whiskey for Mrs. Bosson's cramps |
| 0:47.0 | from which she had been suffering. Mrs. Hughes gave him some in a glass tumbler, |
| 0:53.2 | and Bosson told of giving it to his wife. |
| 0:56.7 | Evidence was also brought out that Dolly Levens was awakened about three o'clock Friday morning by her sister's groanings. |
| 1:04.4 | About five, she heard her sister in the bathroom, and going to her aid, found her vomiting. |
| 1:13.9 | It was then that Mrs. Bosson told her that her husband had poisoned her. A little later, Miss Levens went to the bathroom again and found |
| 1:19.8 | Bawson holding his wife's head up with one arm, a few minutes afterward, and she was dead. |
| 1:26.5 | Doctors Kikindal and Barr testified that they had made an |
| 1:30.3 | autopsy of the remains of Mrs. Bosson and found all of the organs normal. There was no condition |
| 1:37.3 | of any vital organ or the brain that would cause a sudden death from natural reasons. |
| 1:43.3 | They found the presence of some irritant in the stomach, but could not determine what it was. |
| 1:49.0 | The stomach was taken out and is now in the hands of the chemists at the University of Oregon, |
| 1:55.0 | who have been employed to make an analysis of its contents. |
| 1:59.0 | The chemists declare that they cannot ascertain yet how long it will take them to make a final report on the contents of the stomach. |
| 2:06.6 | It takes from three to twenty days to make a complete analysis, they say, depending upon the kind of poisoning, if any, it contains. |
| 2:16.6 | Another instance on which the district attorney based his arrest is the fact that Bosson is said |
| 2:23.3 | to have had $5,000 in life insurance transferred to his wife's name a day before she died. The |
| 2:37.0 | The True Crime Historian presents yesterday's news. |
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