George Johnson died at home at Keens today from the effects of a dose of poison administered by Dr. Branson of that village by mistake.

Johnson had been sick for some time and went to Dr. Branson to get some medicine. The latter gave him a liberal dose of a colored fluid from a bottle which stood in his office, but the result was very different from what he expected and the patient instead of getting better grew rapidly worse and died a few hours later from the effects of the potion he had taken.

The particulars of the unfortunate affair could not be learned.

We are under obligations to Capt. F. W. Havill for the facts which we have related.

Source: Mt. Vernon Register News
Date: February 15, 1898
Submitted by: Sharlet Bigham LaBarbera - Jan 28, 1997