Indian chieftain. [volume] (Vinita, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1882-1902, 1885-11-05

VI AlC ANhlllNt Vic NNukNNtT
Dora and Minnie, and the boy Willie Willis.
J. II. Harrison, clerk in the Santa Fe
depot "a Emporia, deposed 10 a conversa-
tion between himself and Mfr. Walkup on
Saturday August IS, In regard 10 the lat
ters condition.
Eighth Day.
ESncRrA, KAN, October 2s.-Before the
opening Of the court room yesterday there
was an unprecedented rush to obtain adj
mission and secure seats.
The first witness called was Dr. Charles
w. Scott, Of Kansas City, who testified
substantially IN accordance with his story
OF last September about Mr.. Walknp, in
company with smother man, coming to his
office in December last and Walkup relat-
Ing symptoms OF ill-health and how he had
boen and was using arsencal and mercurial
preparations rs tOnics and vital stlmulnnts.
The next witness was Nathaniel 3. Nor
ton, an elderly and sckly looking man,
who claimed to reside AZ Vidalia. La, as
editor Of the Vilalla Sentinel He was
the man Identified by DIR. Scott as being
with j. X. Walkup, and he testified 10 the
interview In the office substantially as re-
lated by DIR. Scott The witness went on
70 relate alleged debaucheries carried ON by
himself and j. r. Walkup at Kansas City
and elsewhere at various times in 1854.
III. Parkham, OF Emporia, n farmer. tes-
tilted TO seeing Mr. Walkup at the latter's
house on Saturday, August 10, and that the
latter told him he was very sick; that he
had been 50 sick with vomiting, purging
and pains on his way down from Topeka
that he Thought 10 God" he would die be-
fore 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 Z. Miller, of Hutchinson, formerly
Of Cottonwood Falls, testified that on the
cars last June Mr.. Walkup told him he was
not well and had been sick the previous
winter; took arsenic then and II nearly got
away with him; was still taking IT,
DR.. w. Filkins testified TO having seen
Mr.. Walkup 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 "deyillsh
bad" and very sick. Two years ago when
the doctor had treated him the symptoms
manifested by Walkup were vomiting. purg-
ing, pains IN the stomach and dizziness
Harry Schmedburg and w. J. Riggs testi-
fed 10 having heard Mr. Waikup say at the
depot on the arrival OF the train Saturday
morning, Augus. -, tlat he had come
hoLie sick. az. Riggs memory was other
wise very deficient
Mr. fleetwort a colorcd barbes sf Atchi-
son, formerly OF Topeka, deposed TO having
taken Mt. Walkup, three years ago, In To-
peka, to room Of colored prostitutes at his
request and once IN Atchison. He had
never seen Walkup use arsenic or other
medicine.
DIR. w. c. Hamilton, OF Topeka testified
that on August l3 Mr.. Walkup came to his
Office and asked for treatment for blood
Da ~
the doctor ordered him to quit
Ninth nay.
ESPoRIA, 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 Jsy, guardian OF Mrs. walkup
the first witness, declared that between
July and 10 Mr.. walkup In his Office took
dose OF white powder, saying TO him that
II was srseric. On his cross.examlnatlon
by Mr.. Sierry the witness said he had not
remembered the incident until after the
CorOnef's inquest, or spoken Of It before
the trial except to the counsel for the de-
fense.
b. Graham, associate editor OF the Daily
Ref',Oilcdn, deposed that he saw Mr.. Walk
Mp the morning before he died and had a
conversation with him. He saw him sitting
on bis porch In the summer OF 1854. He
said then that he had no appetite and had
pains In his stomach and bowels.
Dr. II. W. Stover testified to having
treated Walkup twice for private disease,
once last May and over two years before.
j. Il. Moore. a painter, OF Emporla,
Painted Mr. Walkup's house last June, and
paw him sick on his porch. He said he was
viking medicine that would kill dog.
DR.. S. A. Lanphear, OF Kansas City, was
called as an expert. He had made a spe-
fial 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 gaslrlts would be similar
lie gave an elaborate statement Of the ef-
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
the human system was liable
10. II often attacked the hip, breast and
skull bones. The manifestations might be
found In any part Of the system, and might
ulceraie the digestive tract aud produce oe-
caslonal depression IN a cheerful dlsposl-
ton. A man Of good frame aud active who
had the disease would be well nourshed II
he took arsenic as a tonic. Arsenic could
DO enveOped In the mucus OF the stomach
and eventually become eneysted there 10 re-
main an indefinite time. Cases were cited.
The hypothetical questions read BY the
State 10 Its experts were read 10 the witness
and his answers were that II was possible,
by having been encysted and enyeloped for
the arsenic found Ia the stomach 10 have
been taken a long time before lt was no
use TO administer an antldote after the pa |
tent had reached a state OF collapse.
Dr. Lanphears examination was con
flnued during the afternoon. He said that |
man was in collapse when the hearts ac- |
ton was feeble the pulse almost imper- |
cepllble. The features pinched the express |
sion Indicating fear Of imminent peril |
The witness described at great length the /
condition Of a patient In various stages Of |
collapse, what arseuic Is and lis effect npOn /
the system, and what the books say about |
Il His ssexaminatlon continued until
Court adjourned.
rsnih Day.
Ear JnIA, KAN, October s0.-In the
walkup poisoning case yesterday, II.
rlbbals Of Emporla, was called and gave
testimony OF little importance.
MA Wallace. mother Of the defendant
was next sworn. She nid she had lived
Iwenly.four years In New Orleans; that her
laughter was born there and would be
seventeen years old on tie coming January
"a. SHE nas educated al the ST. Louis III.
|lIlult. She then gave IN detail the history