The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1893-01-18
POISONED FooD.

Some Damaging Evidence Given ~ sne
Homestead Poisoning Trial-Testimony
OF Several OF the victims and pheir
Physicians.
PITTsBuReH, Jan. 14.-Ipterest In tne
trial Of Master Workman Hugh "
Dempsey, who is charged with admins,
tering poison TO non-union Homestesu
steel workers, is increasing and the
court room was thronged yesterday
George W. Amy, Harry P Thompson
and L. H. Craig, oil producers residing
ut Millerstown, Butler county, VINO mao
worked in the Homestead mills ana
were compelled to return to their homes
on account Of sickness were the nrst
witnesses examined.
Their symptoms were exactly simns,
All were treated by DR.. j. l.. Camppeh,
who being sworn, testified that he mao
at first treated the men for diarrhea-
The treatment not being successful, ne
made a more careful diagnosis ana
changed the remedies to those used IN
cases of mineral poison and the men be-
gan to improve. They are not yet re-
stored TO health. The doctor was GER
tain that the men had been dosed with
antimony He stated that the drinking
of impure water, or eating Of stale veal
might have caused the purge, but would
not have produced the other symptoms
William H. Johnston, who came TO
Homestead with the Pinkertons, related
his experience in the mill, and DIR. NC
Geary, of Homestead, who treated
Johnston, testified that he did not think
that anything other than arsenieal pol
soninp would cause the condition IN
which he found Johnston.
The cross-examination Of DIR, NC
Geary by Attorney Porter began with
the opening of court in the afternoon.
A long discussion ensued as to the Ell.
fects of the remedies the physicians mac
prescribed. DR.. McGeary did not think
that impure water, spoiled meat or ell
matte influences could produce the re
suits found in patients treated by him
Charles IL. Smith, Of Harrisburg de
scribed his two attacks Of illness; MI
legs became powerless; lost sixty-hv'
pounds of flesh and was yet i'll
William Z. Griffith, one Of the vic
tins of poison, named in the indlct
, ment. then described his sickness. ID
. ate and drank in the restaurant II
, which Patrick Gallagher-the self-con
, fessed poisoner-was cook
: DR.. Fogleman testified in treatin
A Griffith: 81 treated him for dysentery
8 l could not name any cause for his sicl
G ness The treatment / gave him dl
d him no good. changed his medicin
r and made him quit drinking coffee an
G tea. The symptoms he had could haV
h been produced by poison-some corr
n sive poison"
n On cross.examination the doctor sai
d that after Griffith had changed his foe
s. his case yielded to the treatment Co
tinuing, the doctor said: THE cookir
l. of food in large quantities, the drinkir
o. of water such as the men were not us'
d. to and climatic changes would tend
c. produce disease similar to that whi'
a affected these men,"
Of DR.. McGeary, who attended VI
ly Wrinkle, was recalled and stated
Y found the patient in terrible cont
st tion. HE was greatly exhausted a
suffering from fearful vomiting q
diarrhea. We, the other doctors a
myself, after consultation came to
n conclusion he was suffer ng from ar
IT. nical poison. He rapidly grew wo'
and was almost dying when we Sc
dy him to the Homeopathic hospital
on took his case entirely on symptor
wo After careful study Of the case,
las symptoms and the patient, l say II
he my opinion that the man was suffer-
nd from arsenical poison"
las "If you believed this man was I
err soned, why didn't you notify the co
me ner2"
III 'The case did not tdie under my han
it was not my duty to do So"
She DR.. Z. w. Dean assisted in the tre
ter ment Of Van Wrinkle. "We held a
ep' sultation and came to the conclusion
AR was fatally sick. had no "
an grounded opinion, but l said | ha'
md strong suspicion that he was suffer
in. from arsenical poisoning"