The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-07

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6I5llER MYSTERY
..e in the Case OF the The
sddenoee ,w y" against Or.
u s ssRer now o" Trial at A'''s
| don'
:. THE MOST STARTLING 6:
81 osr,il> OF pss,oEplNARy CASE Tia
s. $50 IxsS TRIED IN TT. The G, eps"'S
81 ~ g .oN9rHwfsrfHS "" 'S'
81 80 full Statement and
So ". CINE, .5n,ony of Or. Giimer ana ana
:n ,.,s druggists who 500
s ,'.on to Or. Baker
|S .,,,cned for Poisoning ms
81 nt porto, c.u.plrinr t" p""tr"y 'n' Tue, =.
81 elfrs"d .'"' in order to Marry Ills
s. Nidos
Angus. The trial of DR..
!! S''' .to !. charged with criminal r'''-
S'S''' ' '1y Mrs. Glmer and the poisoning
. tea viz 10, :. swell as of MIR. Wyndam
! d MINES. ~, '' Ia. been going 0" for the pas,
q ''',' rhe evidence is very startling an"
'''' ...';ne Of the community deeply
i H' Nothing else is talked OF. me
'''',I san.o is crowded day after day. and
'0'' 80, viii likely continue for week or
me ''-' From reports of the Bristol
a'''' ,bc following testimony has been
d tiiciicd =, ,..,,oxinr her veil,
4 testified as follows: .. ,..n
g.; Dd sftccn wears the 18th of Deem,
& n'f''s1 ~ elmer. am we'll acquainted
f 't e. n n, e goker. wellacqualnted with Mrs
q s. j both families the BAKER anu na' tnc
S.s.'- were very intimate: Mrs. Baker
" .1 r,ns,ncctedly Oh Sept. %, 1859; have
& e'' , ' r,eat manv conversations with DR..
w. in the first conversation at our
"AV t,n.s DR. Baker said that his wife
W. t.1 conceived again, and that he would
u -a., n God that she should never see
,t '' Iir,b Of the child, here witness broke
dawn Ip and begged the counsel TO nave
u uo%@' with her little: this talk took
mace about April or May, 80; in the sec
'' '@ conversation between them, which
,a ~ mace some lime in the summer, DIR.
g.ter ,oII her that he had filled up
capsue Of Opium for his wife, which he
had told her to take when feeling badly;
rat # Mr.. Baker took it she would never
awake. in the third conversation Or.
Bsker told me that he had put his wife on
obosphoric acid and strychulne, and that
h. would increase the dose until 1t pro-
duccd paralysis; this talk occurred two or
three weeks before Mrs. Baker died; Mrs.
Bokcr died on Wednesday and was buried
Friday evening; on saturday morning,
the day after the burial, | met DR.. Baker;
Twas sick: he was agitatcd and anncrvcd:
he came ~ stairs at our house and | met
him in the hall and led him to my room;
he then took me in his arms and told me,
little one. YOU are mine and mine for
ever" he also said that he could not en-
durc me liyin. with that man." that l
VAS expecting him Tuesday, but that he
could not come, because 4 son Of his had
sent for him on account of the illness OF
Mrs Baker, and that he had found his
wife OF the floor in the corner, vomiting,
she having been stricken with paralysis
here the witness moancd]: she then told
Dr. Baker to tell ne no more; he tried to
prevail on me 10 give poison to my hus-
band
Here the defense objected to any tcsti-
mony as to the alleged attempted killing
OF ". K. Gilmer, while the Commonwealth
insisted upon It's legality, because they in
tended to show common design between
the prisoner and the witness to kill Mrs.
Baker and Mrs Glmer. Matter passed
over for the present.
Mrs. tilmer continuing, said: | first
met Dr. Baker in August, 1913, at fcsti-
val at Maple Grove two miles from where
| Was living; he does NOT live in that
neshborhood nov; he lived there thir-
teen years; he lived there five wears before
he became our family physician, and was
our family physician eight or nine years;
he was attentive to the sick, and was one
Of the best and kindest nurses | ever
saw; Tor years before he told me SO, /
NheS he was very fond Of me; he was al
ways complimenting me; there was
'timina! intimacy between US; the GRIMM
a. relation hrst began near five years ago
lA's lall; was Dr. Bakers patient at the
''ne; MAD thought great deal Of him
V'cu iin-ior long time. Mr.. Gilmer
WAS absent, and sent 4 message TO DR..
DaSer to come by and see me, as | was
' VI, he visited NE every day that Mr..
-. was absent; Of course nv husband
,'u not know anything about it; he kept
up until last fall, visiting me frequently,
twice day. have FIVE living
la"GFeh; here the witneSa had cry;l
W. BAKER visited ME great many times
'acn my husband was present, but of
ait e'e years Mr.. Gilmcr became Jealous of
~" ana DR.. Baker commenced calling
'"'n Mr. G'lmcr was absent; from the be-
,"i''ifs he said that every barrier should
'e burned away or removed between he
, W., That should he made his own lit
. ~ 0',e' | received great many presents
W" i'f. Baker, some of them are pre-
,' wv. he gave me three very nice rings,
"4'V". a silver pickle castor, gold pen,
n ",nc ''ce hooks, and great deal Of
' "U"vs. Here the pickle castor, China
ln mr. a"u saucer, and one ring were intro
'"NNu Hiiu lUruftEnI