New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-01-29
HARRIS WISHED HER DEAD.
HIS FEELINGS TOWARD HIS GIRL WIFE
THE PROSECUTIONS EVIDENCE ABOUT ALL IN
MR. JEROME TO OPEN TIE CASE FOR


,,.u,nan aud sums certainly did fine piece OF WORK
a collecting and mar,hallng up their evidence no
At hearing AT all on the question 81 iiaHs GUM
yss overlooked. and the chain was foFsed u lui'
recognition OF the principle that the strength oi 'o
Who'll would he the strength Of the weakest part
W Trayers Jerome and John \. Taylor nave hi'ue III
able fight TO- the defence Ny Jerome'e quick Percep
tion and knowledge of medicine standing out III hno
rel,.f Mr. Jerome will open the case Tor Ms $40
this morning aud large crowd Wi no uo"o' DC
pr.sent TO hear TN, able young advocates address
The most important testimony Yesterday Was the
ajidavit of Mis-, May schOled. friend OF Miss HeNn
potts, The young wife forced her husband to zen
Mic Scboee,d about the marriage and he exclaimed
81 wish she were dead aLd out Of 1t all ms
taken with evidence that has already been gwen
shows that IIarrss love for Miss Potts was hardly an
all absorbing passion and casts sinister lSht on the
question Of motive.
.Judre Cowing. Congressman John r. Fellows, Lnd-"
Gidesleeve and ex surrogate Daniel o. Rollins were
seated beside Recorder Smyth at various times yeSer
day
The first witness Dr. George X. smith, WHO
merely testified that Miss May schofed, one OF the
witnesses was too Ill TO appear in court lie had seen
her on Wednesday. Dr. George L. Peabody was 'heh
called lie has been physician for fifteen yeas ana
is professor Of matera mcdica at the College of Physi'
clans and surgeons and attending physician al e
RelI,vue Ncw-York and st. Lukc's hospitals lie
said that he had been present at 1000 poStmoitems'
800 OF which he had conducted himself ON Decehl-
hor IA % and "a 1890 and January 8, and g. 1891,
he gave lectures opium, including mo prime 10
had been previously testified that Harris attended these
lectures.
Shortly after Miss Potts's death the prisoner came
to see Professor Peabody and told him of prescribing
for the girl. lie had had six capsules made up, con
tanning in all grain OF morphine and twenty-five
Of quinne -Four Of these he gave 10 Miss Potts, VINO
had complained Of headaches and Insomnia mat
was bad treatment his professor said to him. " II
was too much morphine to give any gil who was
merely suffering from headaches and insomnia. ii
you had attended all my lectures you would not have
done it," Harris made excuse. Afterwald the
witness remembered that the prisoner had said
After she took of the pills she told me that the
effect unpleasant that she had mind to change
her doctor. / told her to go and take the rest.
Then went to Old Point Comfort. where remained
a week"
This Is Of importance TO the prosecution. If one OF
the capsules produced merely unpleasant effect an
other one would not have caused death unless the
contents of the two vastly different If the first
capsule caused illness, the druggist hardly made
mistake.
The witness WA, then examined as an expert by
Assistant District-Attorney Weman. The symptoms
Of Helen Pots's dying hours and the facts brought
out by the autopsy given in detail, and the
witness was asked what. in his judgment. had caused
death. "Opium poisoning was the answer. 1t
could not have been due to hemorhage OF the pons,
because there were commissions signs of paralysis
which attend that Hines. In uraema there were no
pleasurable feelings preceding the coma. on the
contrary in such cases res esne, distress. vomiting
and commissions occurred several hours before the coma
Dr. Peabody said that too much atropne had not
been Injected By Drs Fowler and Baner. lie him
self might have given more. The witness declared
that phy sicians differed about the use OF morphine IN
kidney diseases Some prescribed 1t, while Others
believed 1t to be harmful The witness himself Lad
given doses Of more than sixth of grain u the
drug In cases of kidney disease Mr.. Jerome 'nadc
q good point when the witness said that IN hs
opinion 1t would have been difficult TO detect evil
dences of disease In the kidneys II the microscopic
examination had been made as long after death a.
IL WAS IN the caH of Helen Potts namely, seven or
eight months.
After recess the cross examination OF DR.. Peabody
was finished. Mr. jerome asked number OF ques-
tons tending to show that the young woman might
have died from apoplexy. The witness admitted
that soms OF the symptoms in the under discussion
might have been caused by apoplexy. Among thee
were the prOfuse Precipitation and the sNInhc'Fi''u
contraction of the pupils OF the eye Inc A"Ser
read the tatement OF medical authority that apOpAS
when IL came On in the presence Of witnesSe' was
usually observed TO cause coma only alter All i'l''
of partial consciousness. in which the SOUND OF
familiar voice might arou the patient Tor time
Professor Peabodys experience with such cases had
L.en different he said. The attack was almost
always sudden.
Uariss lawyer received little comfort when he urea
TO show that DR.. Fowler made a mistake In not usis
the stomach-pump on Helen Potts. The witness Halo
that the circumstances would have TO DC KNOW"
before lie could give his opinion. II seem d 10 nm
that only the attending physician wa, FUZZY competent
TO decide this point he alone saw all the symptoms
Professor Peabody was asked if he ever knew the
firm Of Even Mcintyre & son, druggists 10 mahc
mis- AXE In compounding prescription NO. never
did but they iii prescriptions foI uha"'"o''@o' P'i
sons, as is shown 10y this cdse SUM- every u"7e''-
does this" was the answer.
The person has to give some account oil hiHseH'
does he not 2" asked Mr.. jerome.
"Oh, no, he must only pay for the medicine
Professor Rudolph A. vi thaus was recalled TO say
that Helen Pottss body remarkably well pre'erVcI
when it was exhumed. Then Mr. Wellman oherc1
the deposition of Miss May schoGed, which was taken
before chief Justice Van Brunt OF the Court OF oyer
md Terminer on December g, in the Paik Avenue
Hotel Counsel for both sides were present at ''o
tine and 30 was the prisoner. MI jerome OD!eo'cl
10 the admission OF the document lie sald that Ia
not been filed in The Office OF the clerk OF the COURT
and that his side could not obtain II before the t'
Mr. Wellman sprang up and said: Al MI
Jerones own request refused to give Mr. Davidson
his associate the affidavit ana no one but Mr. DAVID
SOL made application TO see it,
81 declare positively aud without reservation Oh
any kind that made any such request an
swered Mr. Jerome holly. lie far her de Jared tiat
when Justice Van Brunt signed the order for taxing
the testimony the pending IN General Scs-
sions and that Judge had no jurisdiction. The
minutes Of the Court Of oyer and Iermner were sent
for They were brought by tie clerk who kept them.
MI Wel.h ami he sworn a witness lie sa!d
that the case Of CARLYLE ". Hairs vas ansferod
f,om General sessions over and Ieimner on No
venber % IT. transfer back again was entered in he
minutes az over and Tcrmner under date OF December
10 Under the entry written the explanation
that the order FOR The transfer was ac1uaE mace on
January IL. In brackets written That TINS eA
p.ustiou Wa, made by order Of Justice Van Brunt
MIR Jerome tiled to show 10y the witness that on
the face of the record the was sent BACK u
81 -. l,,,. ..n ne1nrnher 10. Tie witness ad-