National Republican., 1885-11-14

it's contents over the door and the porch
floor She stood surprised then procured q
table knife, scrnpod up some Of the powder,
ard gave It to DR.. Jacobs, who admits that
"hcr attitude as she stood after dropping
the box was fixed as II in surprise.n
ON this same Friday evening Mrs. Walkup
told Mr. Scvcry that her husband, few
days earlier, had tried TO kill himself; that
she heard the report Of pistol, and that
she found him with q revolver in his hand.
Wnlkup told her that he had tried TO shoot
himself through the head. Seyery, to test
the truth Of this story, went up to the
room, and, seeing bullet hole In the wall,
asked Walkup for an explanation, and the
sick man told him that he was loading a
revolver and IL went of accidentally.
The medical evidence was striking. DR..
Jacobs held the post-mortem examination
In the presence OF five other physicians.
The stomach was rcd and inilamed, and
the inner coat OF one OF the larger intes-
tines was eaten away. The corrosiOn was
Of recent origin. The liver was fatty, a
condition which arsenic might well pro-
ducc. DIR. Jacobs admitted on his cross.
examination that until Mr.. Bill told him
on the day before the deceased's death
of the purchase of poison by Mrs.
Walkup he supposed the sick man was
suffering from acute indigestion, and
also that even after his suspicious were
aroused he gave no antidote. Most Of the
other physicians examined for the prosecu-
tlOn testified that under like circumstances
they would have given an antidote, bat all
agreed that IL would not have availed.
DIR, Gardiner, chemist, analysed part Of
the liver aud stomach, aud his analysis dem
onstrated with certainty the presence OF ar
sehic In 'ho liver. Prof. Jones, Of the Kan
sas City Medical College, analyzcd portion
Of the remains, and found two and q half
grains of arsenic in the stomach, liver, and
blood. IL appeared that about half Of the
contents Of the stomach had been lost In the
transfer to bottles. DIR. Page, who was called
In, The day before the patients death, thought
the cause of death was an irritant poison.
Ten physicians, including those already
mentioned, were asked series Of ten hypo-
theucal questions, cmbodying the facts in
evidence, and they united in the conclusions
that arsenic had been given on three occa.
sious during the illness, and that the fatal
dose OF arsenic which caused death was
administered on Thursday, us tue arsenic
found in the stomach could not have been
there longer than thirty-six or forty-eight
hours before death. Here the prosecution
rested.
1t was the theory of the defense that
Walkup was a man Of depraved and licen-
tous life, addicted to arsenic-eating as a
tonic to relieve him from the pains caused
by his exccsses, and that his death was the
natural result of dissipation and the arsenic
babit, while Mrs. Walkup had merely
bought the poison for her complexion.
Eben Baldwin, the first witness for the de-
fense, had also been the first witness for the
state. He said that while going to New
Orleans in December last with Walkup, the
latter had severe gripping pains in the
stomach for two days, and that he said he
knew what was the matter with him. The
clerk at the Emporia depot saw Walkup
on his return to town from Topeka on Aug.
10, and the deceased then told him that he
had been sick AZ Topeka, and had come
home sick. DIR. Scott, Of Kansas City, tes-
titled that about Dec. ], 1884, Mr. Walkup
called on him, accompanied by friend, and
said he was suffering from an old difficulty,
and that lie had been taking arsenic and mer-
curry, but strychnine was his favorite rem
edy. He asked the doctor If he had the re-
port of the royal commissioners showing
that arsenic eaters had strong vitality aud
powers. Nathaniel Morton, Of Louisiana,
the publisher Of the Vidalia Sentinel, was
identified as the companion of Walkup, and
he stated to the jury that he had seen
Walkup take arsenic on three separate oc.
casious. A farmer saw Walkup at 10 O'Clock
on Aug. Is In his own carriageway, when de.
ceased said TO him: ~ came home from
Topeka so sick | thought to God would
not live to see Emporia again, and when
got home in the carriage could hardly gel
TO the house. i got to my room, and my
dear little wife pulled off my boots and
rubbed me till she was exhausted" WalkuT
was iu evident pain, and kept humping his
limbs aud abdomen. A stock raiser said
that last June Mr.. Walkup told him he had
been taking arsenic,
Dr. Filkins, who had been Mr. Walkup's
confidential physician, testified that he saw
him in the forenoon Of Aug. 10. Walkup
then said he had been sick in Topeka, and
that his attack was similar to that OF two
years earlier, when the doctor attended
him, and he complained Of vomiting, burn.
ing in the throat, and pains. One day
NoIkup ate cove oysters in the doctors
presence, and was almost Immediately
taken sick In his opinion deceased was
almost always under the influence OF
liquor. Dr. Hamilton, of Topeka, swor,
that on Aug. IA, two days before the begin.
ming Of the fatal illness, Walkup called
upon him and was treated for pain In the
stomach. The doctor then advised de
ceased to stop taking arsenic. DIR. Coma
way, Of Toledo, Kan, said that In 1880 Mr.
Walkup told him he was taking arsenic
and the Hon. William Jay swore that IN
July last, in his presence, deceased took
white powder and said, "lhave been taking
arsenic.n
great effort was made by the prosecu
| tion to exclude all this evidence as to th
taking of arsenic by deceased, but Judg
Graves very properly held IL to be part o
| the res gestp. Abundant testimony us I,
the dissipation of Walkup was given On
medical witness refused to state the remed
he had prescribed. The court at once or
dered him to be committed for contempt
| and the witness turned pale and stammere(
"Leptandrin and podophyllin, to be uset
| internally.n
Mrs. Wallace, the prisoners mother, wht
had been at her side since the second day o
the trial, testified to show that she had dom
nothing TO further the marriage of he
daughter, and thus to refute the theory o
the state that a conspiracy existed to MARI,
Walkup and then to get his property.
The medical experts called by the defens
swore that arsenic was a remedy for diseas
| superinduced by eXcesses, and that arseni
could become encysted in the stomach, an(
remain there inert for an indefinite time
But the best witness for the defense was tn
fair prisoner herself. She took her sea
with composure, and frequently turned he
face to the jury when explaining her state
ments. During the latter part OF the terri
BILE ordeal of cross examination, however
she was almost in tears.
She was educated at the Ursuline conven
In New Orleans, she said. She told Mr.
Walkup, II like you very much, but dom
love you;" but finally, some months later
she consented to marry him. Her husband
camehome very sick early In the morning o
Aug. 10. She testified at lengthin regard h
her purchase Of strychnine, which sh
bought TO remove stains, and arsenic. Tn
latter poison she bought because she hat
head 1t would clear the complexion, ant
in August an eruption had appeared on he
face. On Thursday morning WallSup CAV,
her So, the only money he ever gave her
and asked her about her complexion. Sh,
told him that friend Of hers in New
Orleans used arsenic and had very mic
complexion, and deceased told her to &c
some and use IL.
On rOss-eXamnation Mrs. Walkup wa
asked: "Did you ever administer strych
nine or arsenia>So him 7" The accused hal
rose from her chair and said, "None so hell
me God,n with emphasis. She was on tn
witness stand for over eight hours, but lef
II after having bravely held her own unde
the crucial questions of her examiners
| During the whole trial she conducted her