Morning journal and courier., 1893-09-11
CASH GROSS EXAMINED.
The Principal Witness for the State H
 the Maggie Schloss Tragedy Testifiei

The Principal Witness for the State In the Maggie Schloss Tragedy Testifies That He Told the Doctors About the Condition of the Girl in pr. Whit tens Front Omce-Trial Will be Re-
 stunned To-day.
 In the city court Saturday the trial of Drs. Lee and Whitten charged with mur- der in the second degree in causing the death of Maggie Schloss by criminal operation was resumed. The entire session WAS consumed in the cross examination of young Cash, but practically no new facts were developed.
 Seated in the court room was Dr. Wolff, the we'll known specialist and microscopist who was employed in the famous Dr. Blu chansn case in New Yo'k, was seen sitting behind Attorneys Case and Ely, taking notes of the testimony. He is the expert employed by the defense to keep track of the expert testimony which will probably be put in later by Medical Examiner White and Dr. c. A. Lindsley for the state.
 It was reported that the state had an other important witness to the criminal act alleged, whose testimony would corrobor- ate the testimony of young Cash, the be- trayer of the girl, in many important de- tails, but the officials refused to make any statement in regard to the report. On cross examination by Attorney Caee, testified that he went to New Haven with the expectation of calling on Dr. Sayles, who formerly was in the office where .Dr. Whitten is now located. Cash evidently had not known that Dr. Ssyles vas not in | the city.
 Mir. Case asked him when he first had it l in mind to visit Dr. Ssyles. He replied that the idea first came to him in An sonia, and, in response to other queries, that he went to New Haven with the in tention of calling upon Dr. Sayles or some other doctor, but he had Dr. Sayles first in mind.
 Mrs. Whitten let them into the front ! office when they rang the bell. They l waited there few moments and Dr. Whit 1 ten came in. He immediately showed them | into the rear office or back parlor. Right here was where MT. Case and the witness :! had long wrangle over the exact conver- i sation between himself and the doctor at the time they were on the way from the 1 front office to the back parlor. Cash had 8 bad habit of wiggling in his statements that prolonged the controversy between the attorney and himself. Just as the at- torney was on the point of tripping him up he would say:
 "Well, I didn't mean to say exactly that" or some sentence akin to it which
 would upset not only his own testimony,
 but the lawyers nicely laid plans. His
 final version of it was that he told the doc
 tor that the girl was in trouble while they
 were in the front office, and the dooto,
 then opened the door into the back parlol
 and ushered them in. This statement, |
 true, is damaging to the defense, as i
 shows that Dr. Whitten consented to shov
 his visitors into his back parlor afte
 knowing their errand.
 Among the many questions which At torney Case piled Cash with were severa 1 to the effect that the girl was sick befor
 che went to the doctors office that nigh
 and that Dr. Lee. after making an examin
 ation of her, said that an abortion had d
 ready been performed by her. Cash an
 swered all these In the negative, but h
 finally did recall that there was some tai . about the girls high temperature when sh
 was in the of6cs.
 From these questions can be disoerne
 what will be the defense. It will be, g } has already been intimated, that the gil had been taking drugs before she went 3 the doctors offics at all, and the ipjur
 had already been done to her, Dr. Le | merely trying to right the wrong and cul
 her.
 3 Late Saturday afternoon court adjourne f | until 2 o'clock this afternoon, when tl l trial will be resumed.