Miami Union - In Piqua Items

March 9, 1878

SPAIGH, LIZZIE - This city still holds its own in the matter of furnishing sensational items.  On Saturday evening, Lizzie Spaigh, a young woman who has been employed as a domestic in different families, was found dying in convulsions, and expired in a few minutes.  There was no doubt that she had poisoned herself, probably with strychnine, but the coroner's jury await the result of an analysis of the stomach.  Dr. W. S. Parker, assisted by Dr. Walter Watson, of Mt. Vernon, Ill., held a post mortem examination of the remains without finding any other cause of death.