The Big Stone post. (Big Stone Gap, Va.) 1890-1892, 1891-08-07
TIE IsAKER MYSTERY.
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1t being impossible for my treatment TO
bring about such d. result leftson he
same day.
Cross-examinatson: construed shout
the poison before ] got home did not
come back and tell Gilmer; j never warned
him while thare to use precautions, and did
not return; / do not remember asking Ba-
ker what was the matter with my brother.
REORGANIZATION: l did not suspicion any
one; had I suspicioned DR.. b. would have
returned and informed my brother; the
impression of poisoning was made on me
at my brothers house and deepened on
nv return. ] really wanted time before
making charge Of such a crime. l Consult
ed in Russell with friend about it. The
second time ! went without being sent
for; did not see any of Bakers mediciue
The defense gained strong point in thia
testimony-the fact Of DR.. Gilmer having
failed to warn his brother of his threaten
ed destruction.
DIR. w. H. Washington: | am drug
gist at Abingdon; my impression is | sold
doctor b. Hydrocyanic acid or prussic acid
in:the spring of 80, 2 brahms, homeopathic
vial little higher bottle than this one;
think sold no one else prussic acid at that
time. Have sold prussic acid to no one
else since; have been here two years
| prussic acid is a most deadly poison. and
half teaspoonful would kill man,
don't remember what DR.. B. said. ! used
the label of Trigg, Massie & Co.; don't
recollect selling DR.. b. arsenic. | never
told anybody of this until six weeks ago
have sold no prussic acid in pure state
to physicians in this town or county, but
fill prescriptions with the acid in it two OF
three times week.
Henry Johnson, drug clerk with Wash.
ington, testified to never selling any prus-
sic acid to any one since he has been there
March ~ 1889; evidence withdrawn.
DR.. Chase Gibson: Eight years drug
gist of Abingdon; hydrocyanic acid in
pure state is very rarely sold; prussic acld
is hydrocyanic acid diluted with wafer; in
prescriptions prussic acid is still more d.
iuted; have sold hydrocyanic acid only
once in eight years on prescriptions; il
contains the same frequently.
Daniel Hopkins, an old colored man:
7 lived at Danl Minnick's: ! used te
know DR.. B.; reckon / know him now
I am acquainted with Mrs. Gilmer; on the
day that Mrs. Craig was buried / saw the
doctor come down the road; saw Mrs
Gilmer in the fields going in the direction
the doctor had taken; the doctor came
| around down the lane through Wyndham
Gilmer's place; do not know what ne was
going to do; she was in about 3O0 yards
of the doctor; Gilmer came on to Abingdon
with the corpse; only know what l see
| know.
Miss Mamie Jessie, q young lady: Live
at Montgomcry's. / was at Wyndlam
Gilmer's house the morning after the doc
tors wife died. Saw the doctor come up
stairs in Mr.. Gilmers's house and go into
Mrs. Gilmer's room. I was just across
the hall in another room with the door
open. / heard nothing, only heard Mrs
Gilmer say, "don't tell me NO more"
The testimony of DR.. Taylor the expert
chemist, showed that by numerous tests
he found arsenic in the liver and kidneys
of Mrs. Baker He could not of course
tell whether it was administered as q
medicine or to cause death. The defense
tried hard to exclude his testimony, claim
ing that they had no notice of the cx-
huming of the body and that it was ir-
regular. The court admitted the testi-
mony however. He was very fair to the
prisoner, giving only the results OF his
analysis without going beyond them. II
seems impossible for the defense to over
come the testimony thus far adduced.