Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1885-11-05

below Memphis. and was sick two days and
did not eat His condition on the second
day was considerably worse than on the
first. He was in bed during his sickness.
Witness attended Walkup during his i'll
ness. There was a physician on the boat,
but he was not called in. as Walkup said
he knew himself what was the matter, and
that he would "pull through" Tho wit
ness said he did not notice cramping or
rightly OF the limbs. Waikup recovered
before the boat arrived at New Orleans.
The witness related how the party went to
Mrs. Wallace's house and made the &C.
quaintance of the family, the daughter
Dora and Minnie, and the boy Willie Willis.
j. h. Harrison, clerk in the Santa Fee
depot at Emp0ria, deposed to a converse.
ton between himself and Mr. Walkup on
Saturday, August Is, in regard to the lat
terS condition.
Eighth Day.
EMroRIA, KAN, October 2s.-Before the
opening of the court room yesterday there
was an unprecedented rush to obtain ad-
mission and secure seats.
The first witness called was Dr.. Charles
w. Scott. of Kansas City, who testified
substantially Ia accordance with his story
OF last September about MIR. Wakup, in
company with another man, corning to hi,
Office in December last and Walkup relat-
Ing symptoms of ill-health and how he had
been and was using arsenical and mercurial
PREPARATIONS RS tones and vital stimulants.
The next witness was Nathaniel B. Nor
ton, an elderly and sickly looking man,
who claimed to reside at Vidalia. La, as
editor of the Vidalia Sentinel He was
the iInpti ioI h,, H.
with j. X. Walkup, ard he testified to the
interview Ia the Office substantially as re-
lated BY DIR. Scott The witness went on
to relate alleged debaucheries carried on by
himself and J. Il. Walkup at Kansas City
and elsewhere at various times, i'm 1884.
IL. Parkham, OF Emp0ria, farmer tes-
tilted TO seeing Mr.. Walkup at the latter's
house on Saturday, August Is, and that the
Iatter told him he was very sick; that he
had been 50 sick with vomiting, purging
and pains Oh his way down from Topeka
that he Thought to God" he would die be.
lore reaching EmpOria; that he was very
sick in the carriage. When he got home
his wife exhausted herself in rubbing and
trying to get him WELL
Gideon L. Miller, of Hutchinson, formerly
of Cottonwood Falls, testified that on the
cars last June Mr.. Wakup told him he was
not well and had been sick the previous
winter; took arsenic then and it nearly got
away with him; was still taking it.
Dr. w. Filkins testified to having seen
Mr. Waikup in his office Saturday after
noon and when he said he was sick, as he
had been when the doctor treated him two
years before. He said he felt 'devilsh
bad and very sick. Two years ago when
the doctor had treated him the symptoms
IN bx-y ".
ing, pains in the stomach and dizziness.
Harry Schmedburg and w. j. Riggs testi
fed to having heard Mr.. Walkup say ut the
depot on the arrival of the train Saturday
morning, August Is, that he had come
home sick. Mr.. Riggs memory was other
wise very deficient.
Mr.. Fleetwort, colored barber of Atchi-
BON, formerly of Topeka, deposed to having
taken Mr.. Wa!kUp, three years ago, in To.
peka, to room of colorcd prostitutes at his
request and once in AtchisOn. He had
never seen Walkup use arsenic or other
medicine.
DR.. w. C. Hamilton, of Topeka testified
that on August Is Mr.. Walkup came to his
Office and asked for treatment for blood
disease. He said he was using arsenic, End
the doctor ordered him to quit
Ninth Day.
EMPoRIA, October 29.-Court opened at
nine O'Clock and Mrs. Walkup, her mother
and Mrs. Mary Jay came in and took their
respective places.
William Jay, guardian of Mrs Walkup.
the first witness, declared that between
July and 10 Mr. Walkup i'm his Office took
dose OF white powder, saying to him that
1t was arsenic. On his cross examination
by Mr.. Sterry the witness said he had not
remembered the incident until after the
Coroner's inquest, or spoken of it before
The trial except to the counsel for the de-
Tense.
b. Graham, associate editor of the Ddilu
Republican, deposed that he saw Mr.. Walk
up the morning before he died and had q
conversation with him. He saw him sitting
On his porch in the summer of 1884. He
said then that he had no appetite and had
pains in his stomach and bowels.
DIR. II. w. Slower testified TO having
treated Walkup twice for private disease,
once last May and over two years before.
j. b. Moore. painter, of Emporia,
painted Mr.. Walkup's house last June, and
saw him sick on his porch. He said he was
taking medicine that would kill dog.
DR.. S. A. Lauphear, Of Kansas City, was
called as an expert. He had made a spe-
cial study of toXicology, and taken lectures
at the Missouri Medical College at st.
Louis, and graduated there. Arsenic
taken as tonic kept the body more nour-
ished and increased the sexual powers.
The symptoms of chronic arsenical poison
Ing and OF acute gasIrits would be similar |
de gave an elaborate statement of the eff |
feet of arsenic upon the system. He next |
explained the blood disease in its stages |
and declared that the last assumed the |
symptoms OF almost every disease |
tne human system was liable |
to. 1t often attacked the hip breast and |
Skull bones. The manifestations might be |
found in any part of the system, and might |
ulcerate the digestive tract and produce oc-
casional depression in cheerful DISPOSE |
ton. A man of good frame and active who |
had the disease would be we'll nourished il |
ne took arsenic as tonic. Arsenic could |
be enveloped in the mucus OF the stomach |
ana eventually become encysted there to re- |
main an indefinite time. Cases were cited.
Inc hypothetical questions read by the |
State 10 Its experts were read to the witness
ana his answers were that it was possible,
Dy having been encysted and enveloped. for
tne arsenic found in the stomach to have
oeen taken long time before. 1t was no
use TO administer an aatidOte after the pa
tient had reached state of collapse.
Dr. Lanphear's examination was con
t,nued duiing the afternoon. He said that
. man was in collapse when the hearts &C.
ton was feeble, the pulse almost imper-
ceptibie, the features pinched, the express
sion indicating fear of imminent peril
The witness described at great length the
condition of patient in various stages of
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