New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-29
SYMPATHY FOR MRS. POTTS.
HER TESTIMONY BEFORE MR. RAlNES.
PROOF THAT HER DAUGHTER DID NOT TAKE
MORPHINE.

PROOF THAT HER DAUGHTER DID NOT TAKE
MORPHINE.
(;eorrn Eaues Governor Flowers commissioner
will close his hearing OF alleged new evidence IN 'ne
case Of Carlyle W. Haris In the General sessions
rEildNC to-day. He held long session yesterday
In the courtroom In which Harris was ind ana con-
victed Nuch sympathy has deservedy been given
TO the condemned murderers mother, ana yesterday
attention was called to the fact that the poisohed
Girls mother was also object OF pity ana COM
misoraton Mrs. Potts has suffered much since INC
death Of her young daughter. and her long or"e'"
on the witnesS-stand in conrt have not beeh 'hs
lea, Of her trials She deeply aifcc'ed yesterday.
OF course hardly jot Of testimony III FAVOR !"
Iarri, has been given IN the hearing which was nos
passed on by Recorder smyth. ana whch Is hos
| already before the Governor Mrs. Potts gave tho
strongest possible proof that her daughter was not
| a morphine eater IIeI words are the more con-
yincing because she has not been vindicVe against
| Harris. She said
| .cn the day Of nv daughters fatal Illness saw
bor She WIS feeling very VEL and indeed was radiantly
| happy she showed me the box containing the Plus
| which her husband had given her she said she nie
| taken some and they had made h'r SICK d. INC
| stomach She wanted throw them out OF the
window she said, Int had not don" so because o'''
| had told her they would do her good
Mrs Potts declared that she had never tod MRS.
Cormon and Miss Carman that ii. had doubt about
Usrri,'s guilt her daughter mizhi nave hi'" hcr
self Mrs Potts Lad talked with these women only
three or four times. Miss ,arman cam" 10 II" the
uitnes, because her, the young wonlan'', name had
been mentioned In unpleasant way In The Harris
trial Mrs Potts said she never had morphine ID
her house.
Half a dozen associates Of the dead Girl, Including
several who had r0omed will. her. testified they
never saw any powder or pills In her BEDROOM anu
| never heard her talk of taking morphine ORA
uyron V Tomrkins attended Mis- Potts on Deceni'
Ter a. l-sg and gave her medicine containing ONE
sixth of a grain OF Opium. Her system RESPONDED
a; once 10 the drug He was, Therefore, certain
| she WAS not a morphine eater Dr. Lewis, VINO
also attended the girl never saw ANYTHING To Indicate
| that she took the drug >, Oh, 81.
Mis-, Dav principal Of the Comstock school at
which Helen Potts died said there was No Pill box
i'm her room when her fatal illness overlook ner, eN
cent that brought By Harris she told Miss LAY se Wa
gong to take some medicine that nlSht ana alu los
want To h. disturbed afterwar Her piy sitan nad
given her the same medicine before and had told ner
that IL had not had its intended effect because she
lad been aroused after taking II.
Dr ii,ch : Kinmcuth. who said he sold Ms, Potts
| morphine under oath. Joseph III. Leiierts, whose
reputation /, also Indifferent according to the AM
davit> If several of thos" VINO know MN: lod an
aStn,lndinc story In an Astounding way. He calmly
said that h., -0d Miss Potts morphin" vlrtiiaiiy at
Wholesale In month he sold her ioo griiss,
enough 10 kill her every day Of IN. month lie solo
| poison As H. wuuld soda water, he admitted Ia Mr..
Wtinan. Ici'ri>'S way OF telling his story wonld
hardly have carried conviction with a much lees
remarkable narrative.
mrni thai he had advised Mr. Wellman in the prose-
cution of the Harris true. lie did not
expect BE- called into the case. and had given his
friend the benefit OF his knowledge ana experlrnce:
10 conduct the Harris with ali his force and
| energy since Mr.. Howe became his opponent.