The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-09-25

ltreai: did not telegraph to my friends
that | vas coming; | did not give my
husband any Rough on Rats nor any
other poison.
NIB. LARKE-You knew you were in
Inocent of the charge of administering
poison, tten why did you want to run
away?
/ The WITNEss-Because my sons
wanted nae to go. IT was not because
| was afraid, l was persuaded by my
sons and was acting on the advice of
DR.. LeCompte; nv son Patrick was to
have met me at Evanston with the
bands sickness l prepared his
food; frequently gave him
oat neal mush; 1 never put
/ pepper in his tea, and never told
Annie Martin that I did; I GO not
know what ailment my husband was
suffering from.
TO Mr.. LEwIs-I heard the state
ment made by DR.. Gregor concerning
the swollen condition of Terrence; he
was not swollen any more than he
would have been after big drunk;
Annie and l had several quarrels
while she was at the house.
! TO Mr.. CLARKE-SWeeney was present
at the death of my first husband; l
came out here to marry Sweeney; that
arrangement was made about ten
months after my first husband died;
the arrangement was made by letter;
about month after my husband died:
| was not engaged to Sweeney before l
married my first husband,
| To THE JUDGE-I did not paw Annie
any wages for her services during the
three weeks she was with me.
At this point court took arecess until
2 pm, and on assembling,
AFTERNOON SESSION.
JOHN SULLIVAN Am a son of the de-
endant; was living with my mother at
the time of the alleged poisoning; am
carpenter, and work at the Ontario
mine. He gave a description If the
house ard the number of rooms in it.
went into the cellar every day; my
mother and Terrence Sweeney lived
happily together, SO far as l know; |
never saw but one box of Rough on
Rats, and that was the one Annie
bought; Armies reputation tor ruth
and verscity was very bad.
To Mr.. CLARKE Have heard Jim
QUigg say he would not believe ANNE;
he said she would lie; this was about
six years ago-When she was years of
age; | also heard Ira Collins make the
same remark at about the same time;
when / said on Saturday last that | did
not give mother any money when she
went away | was mistaken; l do not
remember stating, when testified be-
fore the Commissioner at Park City,
that | could not remember any one
person whom I had heard say that
Annie's reputation for truth and We
racity was bad.
PATRICK J. SULLIvAN-Am a son of
the defendant; lived 81 my mothers
home a year ago; remember Annie
Martin leaving the house. and also re-
member Terrence Sweeney being i'll /;
Annie was persuaded to leave by my
self and Terrence; never saw any
poison in the house until Annie Martin |
came there; mother and Terrence
Sweeney lived happily together. so far
rs l know; during last year-summer
and Indifference Sweeney was sick; l |
did not notice that his features were at |
all swollen or that hisGiimbs were;
Annie Martins reputation for truth |
aud veracity is bad, and has been for |
nine years; Terrence Swee ey has been |
Ill since that time. but his illness was /
not OF tne same CudT6CIST,
TERRENCE SWEENEY Am the husband |
Of the defendant; last summer and |
fal, l lived in Ontario Canyon; was |
first taken i'll in July, and was Ill on |
and off till August; don't know just |
what was the matter, except that had |
been drinking very hard; in August |
DR.. Mantor treated me. and later DR..
Gregor and DIR. LIE Compile were called |
uynn$o6 tn tho
Mantor was giving me, and l gave it to
them; they examined it and LIE Compile
said it was mercury and poison, and
that was what salivated me; 1 don't
know what he was treating me for; this
was in the last part of August; LIE |
Compile went on giving me medicine,
and said had the dropsy; leter came
to the Sisters Hospital, when DR.. Fow-
Ter told me l was loaded; staid there
about ten days and then, not getting
any better, I went home, told LIE I
Com ute what DR.. Fowler had said; re-
what Doctor LIE Compile
testified to in rescu1ng me from
death ty putting On plasters and
rubbing me with a stimulant; that
was in the latter part of August: was
lying on the bed on the It'll of Novem.
Der, when Annie came in and said she
had something to tell me, but was
afraid of 1.-The woman" 1 asked her to
tell me, and she said 1.-The woman" had
been feeding me Rough on Rats; l said !
SIS that so?" and DR.. LeCompte was
told the same story; soon after that
Mrs. Sweeney came back and made me
a cup of tea, and l drank it; the next
day DR.. LeCompte and several others
talked to my wife; she left on the night
of the 18th, [ believe; l went down and
bid her good-bye; I advised her to go;
we had lived happily up till she day she
went away; her first husband died of
liver complaint, at least that is what
The doctors said; when | was i'll l had
racking pains, some days feeling well
and others bad; other people besides
Mrs. Sweeney gave me food one night
l was On drunk in Park City. and the
next day | had a vomiting spell.
To Mr.. Clark was healthy and
strong up to my first sickness in July;
my first illness first commenced after a
big drunk; In August [ was drinking
heavily; also in Sept ember; | thought
my sicRness in November might have
been caused by drinking; l have been
accustomed to the use of LIQUORS for