The morning call., 1893-10-04

throughout the hearing listened com.
posedly to the testimony or offered whis
pered suggestions to his attorney.
The first witness called to testify was
John b. Lands, member of the family
where Clara Mathews was employed as 8
domestic prior to her death. He stated
that he had last seen Clara Mathews or
September IL. and that he had seen and
identified her body at the Morgue in thi:
city after 1t had been exhumed from the
grave in the City Cemetery. He described
the personal appearance OF the deceased
and also the clothing worn by her when
she left Lincoln. He knew nothing of the
facts attending her death.
Herman MetZler. the Washington-streel
undertaken who buried the body of Clara
Mathews, was called 70 testify as to his
knowledge of the case. He stated that
at about o'clock in the morning of Sep.
tember II DR.. Won Werthern and young
man who called himself Mr.. Mathews
went to his place of business, 636 Wash
iDgt0n street, and asked him to bury the
body of young woman who had just died
Won Werthern said that Mr.. Mathews wa:
the husband of the dead woman. He
added that Mathews was poor and wanted
the funeral expenses cut down to the low.
est possible figure. The witness agreed to
bury the body for SIT 80. Won Werth-
ern standing responsible for the payment
of that amount. After these prelimip aries
had been disposed of the witness went tC
the house on Mission street where the
body lay and removed it TO his undertak-
ing parlors on Washington street. On
cross-examination the witness said that Dr.
Won Werthern had produced a death GER
tifcate signed by himself, and that he
(MetZler) had suggested that another GER
tificate should be filled out and signed by a
registered physician. Won Werthern had
acQuiesced in this suggestion, and later in
the day produced certificate signed by
DR.. Driscoll. The body was buried at
o'clock of the afternoon of the same day,
Harry Gray. or Mathews, as he was known
to the witness, accompanying the body to
the grave.
DR.. A. P. O'Brien was called and testi.
fed as to the particulars of the in termeni
and the autopsy and its result He said
his conclusions were that death had been
caused by criminal operation. The de-
fendant's counsel, on cr0ss-examination,
attempted to show by the witness that the
conditions found In the organs might have
been due to natural causes. Although the
Questioning occupied an hour of the courts
time nothing resulted. DR.. OBrien main
tanning that the death Of Clara Mathews
resulted from hemorrhage induced by q
criminal operation.
Thomas Egar, keeper Of the City Gene.
Terry, was puI Oh 1ue Stauu' anu iuohuuoo
the receipt which he had given whom the
BODY of Clara Mathews was placed iu
grave No. 3190 in the p0tter's field. George
Ii. Timer, gravedigger. testified as to the
disiD terment of the body under the direc'
tion of Coroner Hughes.
Samuel D. Palmer, good-looking youns
man who pushes his hair up in front and
who gains livelihood by acting as assist
ant to Undertaken Metzler, related the
in xu uhioh tho hurial oArmif n q
been obtained from the Health Office or
the certificate of death furnished by Vor
Wer:hern. He knew nothing of the de
ceased nor the cause of her demise.
The hearing will be resumed at 2 o'clocl
this afternoon.