The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1882-06-08
rHE kEIeEn POISONING CASE.
The Preliminary Examination Before
Esquire Bachelor at the
Court House.

he Preliminary Examination Before
Esquire BaeheiIer at the
Court House.
rhe Defendants demanded to JAIN to
Await Trial at the june Term of
District Court ON Charge
of Murder In the
First Degree.
The preliminary hearing in the case
Of the state of Kansas VS.. Isabel Martin
and Z. ID. Mosley. charged with admin
istering poison to Mrs. Lorraine M. Kei-
ger,with felonious intent, began Thursday |
at the court house at 10 o'clock,
with Justice Bachelor on the bench.
THE ACCUSED.
Mrs Martin and her son f. ID. Mos
ley were brought into court in the cusIo-
dy Of the officers and were regarded
with customs interest by the spectators
who were beginning TO crowd the court
70 m. MSs. N. is a very large woman,
weighing probably two hun
bred pounds, and is apparently
about fifty years of age. Her hair
and complexion are dark, and she was
dressed in a genteel suit of black.
Mosley, her son, is ashort, stout built
man, with face not unlike his
mothers, and gave evidence of
his nervous temperament by con-
tinually twisting his dark moustaehe.
County Attorney SedgwIck and Judge
L. B. Kellogg appeared for the state,
and the defense was represented by
Peyton, Sanders & Peyton, w. A. RAN
dolph and 1. Z. Lambert.
After few remarks from Judge Pey-
ton on the part of the defense, requiring
the filing of the evidence of the cQro-
ners' jury, followed by Judge Kellogg
for the state, Justice Bachelor ordered
subpoena duces teeum to be issued,
requiring Coroner Dawson to bring the
evidence into court and adjourned un-
til o'clock to allow him to produce
the required testimony.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The court room began to fiji up short
ly after O'Clock, and by the time court
was called almost every foot of standing
and sitting room was occupied. The
first witness called by the state was
DIR. wETMoRE,
who testified, in substance, as follows:
II was acquainted with Mrs. Keiger
only a short time; was called to attend
her during her last sickness; hal made
her but two visits before being sum-
moned to the house TO find her dead
she seemed to be affected with malaria
and inactivity of the liver, and had
chills every other day; l prescribed
for her, giving her Fowler's solu-
ton; saw the deceased after she had
been dead fifteen or twenty minutes;
was unable to divine, at the time, the
cause of death, but since was led TO be-
lieve that it resulted from the effects of
poison; assisted at Il post norton exam
ination of the body of the deceased, and
found evidences of poisoning by strych.
nine.
DIR. JACOBS
was next sworn and testified that he was
called To see Mrs. Keiger May Goth, and
found her in bed suffering with nausea
and vomiting; prescribed for her, hut
never saw her afterwards until sum-
moned by the coroner to the post NOR
TEN examination, which indicated that
death had been caused by the action of
strychnine.
DR. TRUEWoRTHY
testified to having assisted at the post
mortem examination of the body of Mrs.
Keiger, and described the same evidenc-
es of poisoning noted by Drs. Wetmore
and Jacobs.
LAURA STEVENS
was next called to the stand and tes-
titled as follows:
81 lived at Mrs. Martins mt the time
of the death of Mrs. Keiger, who also
made her home there; the latter was
down; she had chills two different days,
which were followed by vomiting; the
doctor was called and left some pow
ders which l think were quinine; on
Tuesday morning, the day of Mrs.
Keiger's death, tried to give
her some medicine that was
in the stand drawer and was
mixed by Mrs. Martins direction; Mrs.
Martin said she had offered it to her but
she would not take it, and when it was
put in her mouth she spit it out; about
two hours before Mrs. Keiger died, Mrs.
Martin took some cruel and tea to her
room, and she told me that Mrs. X. had
eaten some of it; she was soon taken
with spasm and in about thirty min
utes from that time she was dead when
she died she grasped the bed-clothes,
her head was thrown back and her eyes
rolled in their sockets; the spIttoon used
by the deceased was carried out by Os-
car, and he was told by Mrs. Martin to
be careful where he threw the contents,
as it would kill the dogs if they got hold
of it.
The witness was cross-eXamined by
Mr. Peyton, but no new facts were ad-
duced.
The next witness examined was
Mrs. GREGORY,
who said she was not acquainted
with the deceased; that Laura
Stevens came after her when Mrs.
Keiger was dying; that she and
Laura went into the room of the sick
woman and that the witness tried to
open her hands, which were clinched
in death that Mrs. Martin seemed nerv- |
Gus and told Oscar to take vessel down |
that had been used by the deceased, and |
to be careful not to empty it where the |
dogs could get at the contents as it
would kill them; that there were some |
blue marks on the arm of the deceased, !
and that there was no tea or Cruel in
the room.
MIR. MCINTYRE,
of the Centennial Mutual Life Insur-
ance company was next called and gave
the following testimony:
81 am acquainted with the defendants
and also knew the deceased; took an
application from the deceased for a
policy on her life, at the instance of
Mrs. Martin at the house of the latter
about the LIST of April; saw the parties
by appointment, so the deceased and
were all present; the policy
was for 5000 and was payable to Mos
ley, who paid for the premium, and
agreed to pay all future dues; the APP
plication was signed by the deceased;