Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1885-11-05

Dy MI. SlcfTY the WltnesS Saiu NO Hd0 usss
/ remembered the incident until after the
/ Coroner's inquest. or spoken OF it before
i the trial except to the counsel for the %
/ tense.
/ 3. Graham. associate editor OF the Daily
Republican, deposed that he saw Mr.. Walk
i up the morning before he died and had
/ conversation with him. He saw him sitting
| on his porch in tho summer of 1884. He
/ said then that he had no appetite and had
pains in his stomach and bowels. He
| would sit around sick . day or two and then
60 of on trip day or two and be- sick
again and alternate in this way about two
weeks.
| DR.. b. w. Slower testified to having
treated Walkup twice for private disease.
once last May and over two years before.
| He had also doctOred woman for blood
| disease at his request She was now
married woman living in Emporia and re-
| spectacle.
| 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 a dog.
Cross-examined by Sterry, the witness adj
mitted that he had been convicted at New
ton. in 1885, of larceny.
The defense offered letters from j. R
Walkup to Mr.. Finley and Mrs. Wallace.
Mr.. Jay identified the handwriting. The
letters were not read.
DR.. S. A. Lanphsar, Of Kansas City, was
called as an expert. He had made spe-
cial study of toxicology, and taken lectures
at the Missouri Medical College at St
Louis, and graduated there. 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.
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
the human system was Liable
to. It eften 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-
casonal depression in cheerful DISPOSE
ton. A man of good frame and active who
had the disease would be well nourished il
he took arsenic as a tonic. Arsenic could
be enveloped in the mucus of the stomach
and eventually become encysted there to re-
main an indefinite time. Cases were cited.
The hypothetical questions read by tho
State to its experts were read to the witness
and his answers were that it was possible,
by having been encysted and enveloped. for
the arsenic found in the stomach to have
been taken long time before. u Was no
use to administer an antidete after the pa
sichb nou TcdcHcu d STATE OF Collapse
DIR. Lanphear'S examination was con
tinued during the afternoon He said that |
a man was in collapse when the hearts ac-
ton was feeble, the pulse almost imper- |
ceptible, the features pinched, the express |
sion indicating fear of imminent peril |
The witness described at great length the /
condition of patient in varions stages OF |
collapse, what arsenic Is and its effect upon I
the SYSTEM and what the books say about |
irnf ipyo "a
Court adjourned.
Tenth Day.
EMPoR1A, KAN, October 30.-In the
Walkup poisoning case yesterday q.
Tibbals, Of Emporia, was called and gave
testimony of little Importance.
Mrs. Wallace, mother of the defendant,
was next sworn. She said she had lived
tw eutySfour years in New Orleans that her
daughter was born there and would be
seventeen years old on the coming January
ID. She was educated at the st. Louis In
stitute. She then gave in detail the history
of the meeting of Walkup and her daugh-
ter; that Walkup was smitten with Minnie
and very anxious to marry her. She also
gave history of the marriage and why
celebrated at Covington. A rigid cross
examination failed to shake her testimony
The defendant herself was then called
and sworn, and under Mr.. FenIon's exam.
ination proceeded to rapidly and more freely |
stale substantially what her mother had
aanf aRsq With shs sfagalnssnss ecsT.ship and
Libbie had favored the marriage and had
always treated her very kindly, and that
on the July visit Mrs. Hood had called and
invited her to go out and visit at the farm. !
everything was happy between herself |
and husband. He had used her very kindly
n every way. He had sent. for -flef cousin.
Willie Willis. because she was lonely away .
from her own family, and nothing had oc- I ].
cured to mar her married happiness. Com
ng along to Mr.. Walkup's sickness the fair H
prisoner said that he came home SO sick !.
rom Topeka on Saturday morning, August /.
., that she had to take Off his boots and
iotnes and rub him. He complained ct
having been very sick and of vomiting on
ne cars, OF pain in his head and especially
MS hips and legs, with drawing feeling
Il them. He would not let her send for r
MUSICIAN. She did all she could for him. II
In the morning Walkup felt some better r
nd went down town and came back several b
mes though complaining of great weak e
ess. mat night he had worse attack i IN
ut he said he knew what the matter was. d
lie had been sick that way before and c,
enid come out all right She insisted on d
citing doctor, and having heard DR.. nj
acobs well spoken of she tefephoued for [ 7,
nl. ~ Il
After the noon recess, Mrs. Waikup toekr n.
70 stand once more She said that when
sitting her aunt near Cincinnati, her cousin
we her some snowflake for the complex
n and She put it into paper with another C.,
per in which she had calomel, bought in So
ew orleans. She put both side by side =.
ID wrapped them in a third paper and put =. =.
EN- in her satchel, and when she came ia a.
e the calomel in Topeka could not tell on
EN- apart and took them to drug store to 81 e
d out which was which. She purchased ga
me ssrychnine at Bates drug store in the 81
'ernoon about August 49, She did not re- 1u
smber whether Walkup was at home or
that day. She wanted the strychnina
make preparation Of strychnipe and Az
ne 10 take stains out of dress. Sha
ned the book which was handed to her pc
Q dld not tell Mr.. Bates she did not want aft
'ell what it was for. On getting home tri
found that the strychnine had gotten of
OF her hand satchel, where it had been has
ced. She never found out how it had cat
n iosI witness had no further use for to
'hateyer than the reason mentioned. She we
Mary Moss Sunday morning. August I din,
ior some more strychn ne, giving her | per
to Mr.. Bates. She never told Mary dea
IS TO say she was going down for butter dif,
lrs. Waikup said she had got arsenic inn
ce, once on Sunday at Kelly's about four nae
ock She wanted to use it for her skin
remove some blotches. On going into
lys store sne asked for twenty-five
s worth OF arsenic and received and l.
ed the record, stating that it was to he r~pl
TOT the complexion. After leaving the ria.
0 she went to see Mrs Gichrist and
staying fifteen or twenty minutes '
nome and prepared supper and then suit
up stairs and took the arsenic out ~ Col
safchei and was preparing to empty Il the
a Dox when Mr.. Walkup came in and had