The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-09-29
KNEW THE TEETH.
DR.. Stewards Identification of Miss
GiImOur

DR.. Stewards Identification of Miss
Gilmour.
Curious people were so anxious to listen
to the testimony against DIR. Eugene +.
West yesterday afternoon in Judge Con-
lan's courtroom that they usurped the
seats behind the clerks desk, clambered
around the stenographer's chair and were
every place but where they had a right
to be.
The Judge and the 0ailiffs placed no
restriction on the crowd of courtroom fire.
quepters, and, indeed. provided several of
them with choice seats TO the great incon-
venience of persons having business there.
Plymire, the medical student, was the
first to be summoned to the witness-stand.
Judge Conlan questioned him.
.'Mr. Plymire," said the court, 81 under
stand that the last time you saw Addie r.
GlImour was on Thursday, September ~"
Eyes. sir.
THAT is the time the defendant said she
was getting along nicely and that she had
no fever?"
TT was on the Sunday following that
YOU called there and the defendant in
formed you that she had gonew
Yes, sir"
"DQrlng your NI6ilo W tlldt place ulu JOu
seq a PARTY named Annie Staley?"
Not any one that l knew at the time to
be her. o.,
DO you know her now"
'Yes, sill"
SIS she here?"
"Yes, sir"
Point her out"
There she SITS" indicating with his
finger the yang woman who recently
| n,arried Dr. West.
Ibid you ever see her at DR.. Vests
house?'
Yes"
"Did you have any conversation with
her in the presence of DR.. West|
"No."
"Did you ever see her in the room occu-
pied By Addie r. Gilmour?"
- saw her come out of that room. l
don't know whether it was the first or
second time l was there"
In reply to questions by Attorney Will
son Plymire stated that he had never
passed himself of as brother or any
other relative If the deceased girl.
Then DR.. r. Stewart, the dentist OF
Chico, was examined. He testified that
he had lived in Chico since 1881. and that
since 1856 he had been dentist. Addie
r Gilmour had been a patient of his, and
ha did some work on her teeth in February,
1891.
can Won recognize her skull?" asked At
torney O'Keefe.
MIR. wilson was ready with an objection
at once, and from that on kept Judge Con-
len overruling them.
Dr Stewart testified that he had exam.
ined the skull iound at SausaitO, and re-
cognized the dentistry work on the teeth
as his own.
"Whose skull is that?" asked Mr.
O'Ksefe
MIR. Wilson interposed another objection.
He didn't want any iden ;ifcation of any
body that may have been found, excepting
ID were positive.
Then DR.. Stewart told how Miss Gilmour
had COMO 10 his office February 0, 1891, and
he had put in four gold filings.
.Are you positive you could tell whose
head that was that you examined ?" Queried
Mr.. 0'Keefe.
Yes
.'Whose head was it?''
s'If could see the jaws without the face,
and consult the chart in my book, could
tell" replied Stewart
"Well. then, whose head was it?" again
asked O'Keefe.
Mr.. Wilson's objection was overruled,
and at last the witness answered, Miss
Addie r. Gilmour's."
Then Mr.. Wilson began the cross-exami-
nation, which was searching and exhaust
i've.
Wv men ulu you last see Auui6 II. till
mour alive?" he asked.
Il don't know"
"Was it since you filed her teeth ?"
Al could not tell positively"
"At that time did you make chart of
her teeth?"
Yes"
rs that your custom?''
Yes"
you don't go any further than to saw
you believe you could identify Miss Gil
mour's skull, do you? You don't want
the court TO understand that y0u could
identity your work wherever Won saw il pr
Il could if they would let me take the
filling out, but not from the surface"
Then Mr. Wilson asked DR.. Stewart all
sorts OF questions about the way he filed
teeth and his reasons for thinking he could
identify Miss GilnOur's head, with a view
to shaking the positive Identification of the
head. Finally he got the witness to admit
that some person else might have teeth
| filled exactly the same as Miss Gilmnnr's
and that there were other Filings in Miss
Gimour's teeth beside the four he had
made chart of.
That seemed to satisfy Mr.. Wilson. for
he ceased to question the witness further
Miss May Howard, the young woman by
whom the prosecution exnects to prove
That West asked her TO say that she saw
MISS Giimonr jump overheard, was called,
but failed TO answer.
Judge Conlan became quite angry and
ordered an attachment issued for her, with
! bail set at $500.
| Detective Whitaker, another important