An Enterprise man called on Mr…
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Mrs. Lukeperson
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Thomas Lukeperson
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a.k.a. Mr. Luke
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An Enterprise man called on Mr. Luke,
who has been at the hospital for the past week,
and from him obtained the details of the trouble
between himself and wife. Mr. Luke states that
for the past eight months his wife had given
him morphia with cracked ice and water, and
that he did not know it until he had formed the
habit and could not live without it. He noticed
at different times the bitterness in the water,
but attributed it to his liver, which was out of
order. It was his wife’s custom to fix the
cracked ice and water in a goblet with the drug,
which he usually drank soon after supper. After
drinking the water he became so sleepy that he
always retired almost immediately. This went
on for some time, before he made the discoveiy
that he was being drugged. On several occa-
sions he awoke during the night and found his
wife lying on the bed with her clothes on. He
was sure that she was disrobed early in the
evening, at the time he retired. He was satis-
fied that after he fell asleep his wife dressed