New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-30
INDIsCREET; DR; BUCHANAN.
HE TALKED ENTIRELY TOO MUCH.

HIS CONVERSATIONS REPEATED IN COURT
EVIDENCE THAT HE LIED a GREAT DEAL.
II Dr. Robert W. buchanan were on trial fer being
lndiscreet he would be found guilty the testimony
already given in General Sessions. He undoubtedly
talked too much and was sometimes careless about
telling the truth Then, too he took Into bis conn
dence men on whose devotion and Judgment h. coud
not wholly rely All these things will tell against
him. but there has yet been no direct evidence either
that his wife murdered or that he killed her.
The prosecution. however. has only just begun to
lay its facts before the jury.
Yesterday there was lots Of additional testimony
as to the things said by Buchanan. but almost none
about what he Lad done. Richard w. Maoomber
acA.n took the stand when court was opened Chares
". Brooke continued his cross examination Of him py
asking: "when Buchanan spoke OF dumping the
old woman did You regard the expression as mean
Ing that he INTENDED to do her any harmf"
IL had other idea at the time was the reply.
.Once when he had been drinking. lie swore ana
said III pay her SO she'll stay paid
"why did the doctor take his meals at your res
taurant before his wife died?'
He said the old lady was getting desperate ana
he was afraid she would poison him.
odd Ne suggest as a reason for flight that he was
afraid Of the consequences OF staying or that ne
was guilty. Did he not refer to the publication OF
the story as the only causei'
"That about the fact
lawyer In Newark a brother Mason from whom he
had no secrets ~
Gle might have done So" The witness does not
seem to think that no has betrayed Buchanans con-
fdence OF that he has injured him at ALL lie IA
mtted that he had been fined three times f,r having
adulteIated milk In his store. In spite OF MIR.
Brooke's objection, Recorder Smyth allowed Macom-
Der to say that the defendant had spoken to him OF
Carlyle W. Harris . q young fool who didn't under
stand his business to leave no traces behind.
At the afternoon session Miss Gretchen Mas. OF
No. $50 Sixth-ave.. testified first. She is nurse
ana became acquainted with the prisoner three years
ago. On the day after Mrs. Buchanan's funeral she
was visiting the house Of Mrs. Trimmer, who might
have been a milner, but a dressmaker. Mrs.
Trimmer lived at No. 20 Seventh-ave. DR.. Buchanan
called there. He told Mrs. Trimmer and her guests
that he had buried his sister the day before He
seemed very Jolly and asked him the reason
"Well we all have to die anyway WIS his answer.
This might have seemed q little illogical but Miss
Mas found 1t satisfactory. Later. she said, the
prisoner tried to hug of the other girls present.
but she managed to elude him.
Mr.. Brooke sought to iupeach the young wonan's
testimony by asking If Mrs. TImmer's house was
not a dsorderly The witness Indignantly said
It was not. Perhaps Buchanan would not have scored
Q point II she had admitted the contrary.
It was understood that Miss Margaret Young would
give highly interesting account OF certain things
which Dr.. Buchanan had done. She is yong woman
vsrd Union Hill, n. j. Assistant District Attorney
Osborne questioned her. She said she met the defend
ant in February 1892. lie tod her that he was
single, that is, divorced from his wife, 81"
learned that he married and told him So lie IN
sisted that he free to marry again. and brought
the decree divorce which he obtained from his first
wife,
did DR.. Buchanan say he loved you'' Mr.. Osborne
asked
She 'blushed cast her eyes down and said, "Yes,
SIR"
More than once!'
"Yes SIR. with another blush.
.ptd he propose marriage to yout" Recorder smyth
asked. ....
NO. sir. He did not
IAN her testimony must be stricken out thcn,' do
cided the Recorder, and Miss Young was allowed 10
60. Mncomber. recalled declared that Buchanan
as sy that he n had mot the b. sne @
ness. was another fend Of the prisoner who ap-
b liar rs al Soun " had
aeiendan, In Halifax as drug clerk and ms y.i him
went on, and he told me that he had married the
daughter Of philadelphia banker The d any after ,h his
hemohage Of the brain caused her death. Her father
has d ns va in @ nc he a he ad ao
Ticket read S of his rs%q na ss to his first
saw 'f him I again a'o on June and he asked
60 to his house about p M get v h vase Th d;h
so. The vallsc PACKED full. That night he asked
me to go down TO Park Row with him. TO get copie,,
to see rapt there was sS story il" them about himself
He said he was going cut Of town few weeks
demand the exhuma'ion Of the body t. clear thing, up
He didn't answer. lie asked me where would go
If wanted to be quiet for while. said TO Ncw'urg
suffering from Bigtt's disease The trial was ad-
1ourned until to-day.