John Madox
Cincinnati Daily Gazette, Tuesday, 25 July 1871, page 4
James Madox, a laborer, along Monmouth street, near Bellevue, told Theodore Ange of Cincinnati and one of the policemen that John Metheringham had "fixed" him "the dose." "I'm in great misery, I've been poisoned and I want you to go for a doctor. The body was removed to the engine house in that vicinity, where he soon parted with his last breath. An inquest was commenced by Esquire C P Buchanan the same night, but after the examination of Agne had been concluded until this evening.
Sheriff Hugh Clary proceeded in company with one of his deputies to a one story frame house on the northeast corner of Taylor and Saratoga streets and occupied by Mrs. Eliza Carroll, widow with whom Metheringham had been on terms of intimacy. Clary knocked at the front door of the house and demanded admittance. Mrs. Carroll demurred to such a proceeding but upon the officer threatening in a stern tone of voice to break the door down if she hesitated longer, she opened it. Clary asked her if Metheringham was there and received a negative answer. She also refused to admit that either one of the two men had been there during the evening.
Clary commanded his deputy to search the upper room and found John Metheringham stowed away in the only bed about the widow's premises. He appeared quite alarmed and trembled somewhat upon being arrested, and his confidence was by no means restored when the widow, acknowledged that the dead man and his suspected murderer had drank down the greater portion of a bottle of whiskey at her house.
The bottle, which still contained a small portion of liquor, was seized by the sheriff. The two men had been on the best of terms and had known each other for a number of years. The dead man was born and raised in Newport, but had been away from the town about seven years prior to his death. He was about thirty-five years of age, a widower and childless. For the last few months he has been employed in a boating stone from a point about seventy-five miles below the city to Newport.
The funeral of the deceased took place at the residence of his sister on Mayo street in Newport yesterday afternoon. Metheringham and Mrs. Carroll were placed in the jail at Newport to await the finding of the coroner's jury. The woman is a widow of a union soldier.