New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-03-28
ASSISTANT p1sTH1CTArroRNEY OSBORNE.

ASolSIANI iOh'EA N"'"SN''>@'
Frank Nickerson, lumber dealer No. l63 East
Eighty -secondst. accepted to fill the last chair
In the jury box. after number OF men had been
weighed and found wanting. Mr. Osborne began his
speech at IL AS p. m. II strong and logical
and crammed full of details about Buchanan's life
Is show that the prose cution has worked up its
most thoroughly. Mr.. Osborne said that Dr..
Buchanan originally a drag clerk In Halifax
N. s. He studied medicine In the College OF Ply
sicans and Surgeons in Chicago and then returned
to Halifax to engage in practice. lie soon married
Miss Annie Patterson. woman OF good family. After
q stay in Edinburgh where the husband continued
his studies. the couple came 10 this city. This was
In 1856.
On November t. 1890, Dr. Buchanan got d.
vOrce HON his wife, and two weeks and half later
married Mrs Anna b. sutherland. She twenty
years older than he bnt had fortune OF $4,000
cmassed by keeping a disordery house. Size lived
ut No. 81 Halseyst., Newark. The couple went
10 live at No. 261 West Eeventh'st.. this city. The
Young physician got his wife to pay his debts and
after awhile got tired Of her. He even expressed
his determination TO be rid Of her. If "a scandal
followed. The woman also found that she would be
happier away from buchanan, aud decided IN April
last to 90 back to her old life In Newark to replcn
lsh her purse.
Tie husband had got from his wife a Will. made
In his favor, and deed for her real estate. Then
he began to spread that she suffering from
on April % the woman became Ill. and DR.. Macln-
tyre Was sent for The husband told him OF his
belief wife troubled with kidney disease
Dr. alacIntyre after an examination, did not agree
With his brother physician. Then DR.. Watson was
called In. BY this time the patient was in coma.
The following day she died No notice Of her death
vas sent to any paper. short time afterward Dr.
Buchanan returned Halifax and remarked his first
wife. Then they came to New-York. Tile corpse
had been exhumed and traces Of morphine had been
found In the stomach and intcstines.
After recess the first witness was called 10 t!e
stand By Assistant District Attorney Weliman: he
was James NJ. smith. The only real point in his
evidence was that he Mrs. buchanan ten days
before her DEATH and she seemed In excellent health
The prosecution didn't have mucE TO ask OF smith,
but iarles W. Brooke. for the defence. did ne got
him 10 admit that he had been supported by Mrs
Sutherland before she met Buchanan. Ire witness
would not admit feeling revengeful toward me
Comfortable home By him. Smith also confessed
10 having been an habitua drunkard.
Mr. Weman merely had time to begin the examine
ton OF Richard W Macomber when court was al
tourned The witness keeps a restaurant at NO. 70
Eighth ave. He was formerly In the Ice and In the
milk business lie said that he had known Buchanan
for FIVE years. At first he saw him occasionally. but
later every day at times.
81 met her November 20, 1890 Newark. buchanan
told me that there woman IN Newark VINO
had become infatuated with him and wished TO make
her will in his favor. lie asked me to 20 to Newark
with him to be one OF the witnesses to the document
] consented. We went the following evening" An
adjournment here taken.