The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-08-27
About his Sickness beginning Just After
the Walkup Reception.
From Tuesdays Daily.

OudUotC0 lutcHCSb COutAuuS6 IL S0o Ctnc
now SO promently before the public.
The coroners jury reassembled this
morning at the Office of s. B. Riggs. By
8 O'Clock large number of spectators
had gathered before the first witness was
summoned:
DIR. PAGES TESTIMONY.
DR.. j. b. Page being duly sworn
Gays: "My name is John 81. Page; my
age is 4S years; my residence Emporla;
my occupation q physician and surgeon;
l have been practiclng medicine twenty
two years. was called in consultation
with DIR. L. D. Jacobs to see J. r. Walk
up in his last illness on Friday, August
21st, 1885, at 10 O'Clock p. m. I found
him bordering on or perhaps at complete
collapse; his extremities were cold his
pulse at the wrist was imperceptibAe; he
was having at that time hiccough, nausea
and pain in the abdomen; his general
appearance was that of q person about
to die. saw him again IN the evening
about 9 O'Clock, and again between z
and 8; Mr.. Walkup was much the same
at that time as before, except the symp-
toms were worse; he was having fire.
quent discharges from the bowels when
I first saw him, and they continued
through the afternoon; they were mucus
and bloody; from the history that DR..
Jacobs had previously given me of the
case and from the conversation I had,
1t seemed to me to be the effect of poison;
He had no fever at any time when saw
him; saw him first at p. m. on Fri
day; did not administer anything IN
the way of an antidote; also applied q
hypodermic injection and directed
that q mustard draft should
be applied to the extremities; saw him
last about Sp. M; there were quite q
number in attendance; one of the Sisters
from the hospital was there; in a solu-
able state arsenic or strichnine, as 8
poison, does not act at any stated time; it
depends upon the condition of the sys-
system; they might be taken after . full
meal and not produce immediate effect;
small: dose taken on an empty stomach
might take effect in a few hours;
any medicine given by DR.. Jacobs or my
self would not have produce the effect;
we thought 1t was too late to give antido-
ties as they only &C. upon the stomach. I
knew Of no disease that would produce
the symptoms manifested by the patient.
was not present when he died. Mr..
Walkup was in his right mind up to
O'Clock Saturday morning and perhaps
later.
MISS LIBBIE wALKUP RECALLED.
Miss LibbIe Walkup again testified
that boy named Willie D. Willis had
been stopping at her fathers house whom
Mrs. Walkup said was her cousin; do
not know how old he is he slept on aIcoi
! down stairs in the sitting room; Wednee-
day night, the 10Th, he slept on the
porch in the large arm chair; slept
that night in the north room up stairs
my father was In the south room; Mrs
Waikup was with him; the rooms are
just opposite each other and are separa.
ted by a hallway; the doors to these
rooms were. both open on Wednesday
| night; l occupied the north room nc
one was with me; there were two beds
| in the room; occupied
bed IN the northeast COZ.
ner of the north room; 1 went
to bed about 0 O'Clock; it was almost an
hour after l went to bed before 1 fell
asleep; was awakened about IL or 10;
could not say which; awakened and
felt that my feet were too warm; ]
looked and saw blaze at my feet and
one at my shoulder; the bedding was on
fire; think sheet and two quilts; the
blaze at my feet was, think, five inches
high, while that at my head was hardly
SO large, and was just commencing to
burn; 1 screamed, went to my fathers
room and took a washbowl and some
wafer aud smothered the fire; they we're
both asleep and breathing quite hard ;
I thought would not disturb them, as
father needed sleep very badly: I took
the bowl and put it back
and they knew nothing of it until morn
ing; l did not SEE the young man, Willie,
that morning; the door was open; there
was no door between my apartment and
the porch where Willie slept that was
locked; the doors were all open; the gas
was burning in my room before I retired,
but on going to bed I turned it entirely
out there the covers that were burned
were brought into courtl; threw the
match with which lighted the gas out
at the open window on
the north side of the house;
I at no time had any burning insect
powder in my room; it was at the hall
way; my bed stood seven or eight feet
from the doorway; there was no odor of
fire in my room when went to sleep
there was only the smoke of the insect
powder, which was left in the dust pan
at the hallway door; there was nothing
added to the powder; 1t did not blaze;
there were about two teaspoonfuls of
the powder; when I woke up and found
the bedding on fire there we're no signs
of fire about the pan; the colored ser
want girl slept IN the hallway up stairs;
The fire In the pan had gone out; the
powder when went to
bed was not blazing or snap
ping; it was simply smoulderlng;
the powder wss was lighted upstairs; l
do not know what did with the matches
used in lighting the powder; several
were used; lighted the powder in the
hail; the colored girl was in bed when
got up; she was on the floor in the hall
upstairs; her name is Mary Moss; I
would know the bed clothing (the quilt
and sheet were then exhibited and show
ed two burned places, the one at the
foot being about TWO and one-half feet
long; the burned place In the sheet was
smaller than that OF the quilt; the fire
at the bed Waa probably foot from the
edge of the bed there were no evidences
that ! saw of the kindling of the fire; I
draft thst night or not; the servant girl
WAS sound asleep. 50 did not awake; I
did not speak to anybody after
I went to bed; there is 9 screen at
the door, but this was not fastened; I
bought the insect powder Of M. b.
Bates; it was the yellow Persian Insect
Powder, used tor keeping away mos
quItOes; bottle OF corrosive subiimate
was in the house; II was bought in the
summer of 1884; the bottle was kept up-
stairs in one of the rooms; l did not
know of q bottle Of stEychnine IN my
room labelled poison; never bought |
any poison in my life, and TO my knowI-
edge never had any IN my room; no
One but myself occupied the northeast /
room Of the house; the door was usually |
kept uElocked whether ! was at hoEae or
NOT
W. t. s0DRN CALLED.
W. t. Soden was next sworn but not !