Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-11-12

NANNY tdhcn up Dy TIC utlenS6 IN eXamln-
Ing witnesses as to the physical condition
of J. X Walkup, and of his frequent at
lacks OF illness previous to his last mar
riage.]
Ninth Day.
EMPoRIA, October 29.--Conrt 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 frst witness, declared that between
July 5 and 10 Mr.. Walkup in his Office took
dose OF white powder, saying to him that
1t was arsenic.
Dr. II. w. Slower testified to having
treated Walkup twice for private disease,
once last May and over two years before.
j. Is. Moore, painter, of Emporia,
painted Mr. Walkup's house last June, and
saw him sick on his porch. lie said he was
taking medicine that would kill dog.
DR.. 5. A. Lanphear, OF Kansas City was
called as an expert. He said arsenic
taken as a tonic kept the body more nour-
ished and increased the sexual powers.
The symptoms of chronic arsenical poison
ing and OF acute gastritis would be similar.
he 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
the human system was liable
to. A man of good frame and active who
had the disease would be well nourshed IL
he took arsenic as tonic. Arsenic could
be developed in the mucus of the stomach
and eventually become encysted there to re-.
main an indefinite time. Cases were cited.
DIR. Lanphear's examination was con
tinued during the afternoon. He said that
man was in collapse when the hearts &C.
ton was feeble, the pulse almost imper-
ceptlble, 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 arsenic is and its effect upon
the system, and what the books say about
it. His cross-examnation continued until
Court adjourned.
Tenth Day.
EMPORlA, KAN, October 3O.-In the
Walkup poisoning case yesterday. II.
Tlbbals, of Emporia, was called and gave
testimony Of little importance.
Mrs. Wallace. mother of the defendant,
was next sworn. She said she had lived
twenty-four years in New Orleans; that hel
daughter was born there and would be
seventeen years old on the coming January
IA. She was educated at the st. Louis In
sttute. She then gave in detail the history
of the meeting of Walkup and her daugh
ter; that Walkup was smtten with Minnie
and very anxious to marry her. She also
q hictnru nf tho sr,nr rio h,
celebrated at Covington. A rigid cross
examination failed to shake her testimony
The defendant herself was then called
and sworn and under Mr.. Fenlon's exam
inati0n proceeded to rapidly and more freely
state substantially what her mother hat
done about the acquaintance courtship anC
marriage with Mr.. Walkup. She said tina
Libbie lhad favored the marriage an(
everything was happy between hersel
and husband. He had used her very kind,
In every way. He had sent for her cousin
Willie Willis, because she was lonely ava,
from her own family, and nothing had oc
Cured to mar her married happiness. Com
ing along to Mr.. Walkup's sickness the fai
prisoner said that he came home so sicl
from Topeka on Saturday morning, Angus
Is, that she had to take off his boots ant
clothes and rub him. He complained o
having been very sick and of vomiting OF
the cars of pain in his head and especial,
in his hips and legs, with drawing feeling
in them. lie would not let her send for
physician. She did all she could for him
After the noon recess, Mrs. Walkup too
the stand once more. She said that whe
visiting her aunt near Cincinnati, her cousi
gave her some snowflake for the complex
Ion and she put 1t into paper with anOthe
paper in which she had calomel, bought Il
New Orleans. She put both side by sid
and wrapped them In third paper and pu
them in her satchel, and when she came +
use the calomel In Topeka, could not tel
them apart and took them to drug store +
find out which was which. She purchase
some strychnine at Bates drug store In tn
afternoon about August 10. She did not re
member whether Walkup was OF home O
not that day. She wanted the strychnin
to make a preparation Of strychnine an
wine to take stains out of dress. Sh
sent Mary Moss Sunday morning, Angus
16, for some more strychnine, giving her
note to Mr.. Bates. She never told Mar
Moss to say she was going down for butter
Mrs. Wakup said she had got arseni
twice, once on Sunday at Kely's about fou
o'clock. She wanted to use it for her ski
to remove some blotches. On going int
Kelly's store she asked for twenty-fv
cents worth of arsenic and received an
signed the record, stating that 1t was to b
used for the complexion. After leaving til
store she went to see Mrs. Gilchrist, an
after staying fifteen or twenty minute
went home and prepared supper and the
went up stairs and took the arsenic out c
her satchel and was preparing to empty
into box when Mr.. Walkup came in an
she emptied it into slop pail to proven
him from seeing 1t. Afterward, o
Thursday, she told Mr.. Walkup abor
her complexion which was suffering frol
eruptions, and he gave her SO, the onl
money he ever gave her, to buy arsenic fC
it. as she told him that was what a lad
friend in New Orleans took, and to get pc
for him. Mrs. Walkup then explained tt
dry goods affair and the upsetting of Il
,rsenic box.
The witness was subjected to a rig
.ross-examination, and was on the star
when Court adjourned.
Eleventh Day.
EMPoRIA, KAN, October 21.-As Mr.
Walkup was to take the witness star
to conclude her cross examination, the
was an unusually large crowd of spe
tators present at an early hour yestt
day.
The continuation Of Mrs. Walkup's eros
examination by Mr.. Sterry occupied Il
forenoon session.
The chief testimony in the afternot
was that of DR. Parr. as medical e
nett. The doctor cited several case
recorded in medical annals, in Will,
arsenic had become enveloped in the stoI
ach. and one encystment, the latter Il
same cited by DIR. Lanphear, and on Il
strength Of these last he gave it as his OPT
ion thatthe arsenic found in Mr.. Walkul
stomach had possibly laid developed the
for week or ter days. or encysted for
year. County Attorney Feighan cro'
examined the doctor until he found v
tual acquesence in the opinion profess
BY the States medical experts as to {
cause of that and the time of administeri
t,,o arsenie and the nrobahle efficacy of