St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
The BRIDE FREE AGAIN
The Bohemian Flats Poison
ing Case Ends in Julia
Martins Discharge.
Everything Is Brought Out in
Her Preliminary Ex-
animation.
The Soup Disappeared, and No
One Had Ever An
alyzed 1t.
No Evidence to Show That She
Had Tried to Poison
Anybody.

The West side Bohemian fats poison
ing case, which is still fresh in the mind
of the public, came up again III the mu-
nicipal court yesterday morning after
several aggravating combinations, and
Mrs. Julia Martin, the young bliie
charged with poisoning seven people,
among them her husband. her sister
and her cousin, had her examination.
The examination was searching one,
and at the end of it the young prisoner
was discharged, there being not suf-
ficient evidence against her to hold her
for trial. T. d. O'Brien. of ST. Paul,
appeared for the defendant and Frank
Nj. Nye for the state. Mrs. Martin was
nicely dressed, but appeared morbid
and melancholy. Her sister remained
near her all the time. Lizzie. KlaYach,
the cousin, over whom it was alleged
Mrs. Martin had become jealous, sat
near the prisoner and performed q
thousand kindly little offices for her.
f SOUP DISAPPEARED.
| DR.. J. p. Hanson was the first wit
ness called. He said he had been called
to the Zuretski residence on the flats by
| Mr.. Martin, the pr s0ner'S husband,
who told him several people were dying
there.
Il went to the house, said he, land
found Victoria Lalla, Lizzie Klavach,
Mr.. and Mrs. ZuretSki and their baby,
all suffering and exhibiting symptoms
| of strychnine and arsenic poison. A few
moments after L went in George Martin
| himself was taken i'll. The symptoms
of all the persons were the same"
The second day he had called to see
Mrs. Martin, who had been taken i'll,
but he found no evidences of poison in
her case, although stomach pump was
used. He had set the soup, in which
the poison was supposed to have been
placed, aside for examination, but it
had disappeared. The cross eXamina-
ton brought out no new facts.
IT WAS MERELY PERHAPS.
DR.. E. J. Kelly, police surgeon, was
the first witness after dinner. He had
been called to the Zuretski residence on
the West side Bohemian flats, he said.
about 10 o'clock the evening of Oct. 25.
He had found there five or six persons
sick, but Mrs. Martin was not among
the numbers. All the patients were
sick in bed. complaining of pains in the
stomach and vomiting.
''What, III your opinion, was the cause
of the sickntss?" asked Mr.. Ne, the
attorney for the state.
"rhe persons had taken something
into their stomachs not palatable. 1t
reached the house DR.. Hanson had been
giving emetics, so that it would be diff
cult for me to testify to what kind or
what amount of poison had been used"
Did you talk with Dr.. Hanson when
you reached the house?"
Il did," and the police surgeon began
to repeat what DR.. Hanson had told
him, but it was ruled out.
Now. doctor. had these persons, in
your opinion, taken into their stomachs
any arsenic or strychnine, or both?"
LAS look at the case cannot an
swer the question directly. If that
poison had been taken possibly such a
condition as found there on that night
might have resulted. / could tell you
more about the case had l seen the pa
tients before they had been given
emetics."
Are there any other poisons which
would have produced results similar to
what you found?''
''Oh, yes, there are a number of them.
l believe that ANYTHING which does not
agree with persons stomach poison
to him, although it may not be such to
other people"
"Did you ever see a man who had
taken Rough on Rats?'"
II have seen one case, and the man
died before morning."
Albert Brown was the next witness.
He lived on the flats, he said, near the
Zuretski house. He knew Mrs. Martin,
having been acquainted with her for
some years. Had seen her on Aug. 25,
near the corner of Fifteenth avenue and
Washington.
Il spoke to her," he continued. land
she waved her hand at me. When
spoke to her she said she was going to
the drug store to buy something. then
left her and did not see her again that
day.
"When did you see her again?'
Il saw her Friday at the house where
the sick persons were. When saw her
near the drug store she had OH a blue
silk plush dress and blue hat. This
was on Thursday"
The witness became somewhat con-
fused under close questioning and con-
tradlcted himself dozen times every
few moments. He kept his hands at
his mouth and it was with difficulty
that he could be understood at all. On
croSS-examinatiOn he told the same
story that he had given before in the
main. In some of the minor points he
was badly at sea, but probably this was
because he did not fully understand the
English language.
SOLD THE POISON.
Peter Myers, q young man with a
white face and red chin beard, was
next sworn. II am drug clerk at 1900
Washington avenue SOUTH" said he. II
was at the store on Oct. %. We keep
Rough Oh Rats iu small round wooden
boxes"
Here the witness was shown the box
of poison found on the flats after the
poisoning: He said he frequently sold
son Oct. % l sold two boxes of it,
said he, on being asked if he had sold
any Oh that date. II sold them about
noon. One was to lady and the other
to man. The woman sold the poison
to was dressed in blue and was not very
tall. She had on blue hat and was
probably sixteen or seventeen years OF
age. l did not notice her particularly
because | was busy. Could not tell
whether her hair was dark or light. |
never saw her before, but since then l
have seen lady who looks very much
like her. | know Mrs. Martin, the de-
PENDANT in this case, but | am not sur
that it was she who came into my store
and bought the poison"
The witness then stated that there
had been another woman in his store
after the poisoning whom he thought
was the woman who had bought the
Trough on Rats"
Andrew Myers. the proprietor of the
drug store where the poison was pur
chased, was the next witness. He had
seen sue h woman as his brother had
described in the store, but did not see
her buy anything.
ONE OF THE PARTY.
Miss Lizzie Hlovack, one of the girls
who got dose of the poison, was next
called. She was neatly dressed and
looked very pretty. She had come from
tin and her husband. Julia was her