The Newtown bee., 1893-12-01
The Mannering Trial. WILL SHE BE ACQUITTED?
Various Witnesses Testify.-Court Adjourns from Friday till Tuesday on Accoent of Mrs Manner ing's Weak Condition.

On Wednesday of last week, after the recess was, Mrs Woodin resumed the stand for cross-examination, during which Mir Williams brought out several important facts. The witness stated that Mrs Mannering appeared to feel very badly. She remembered that Mrs Manpering had said several times before that she would not have poison in the house as MT Mannering had threatened to make way with himself The witness remembered also that on Thursday be- fore Christmas, Mrs Mannering had bought poison for her husband to use in killing foxes; and that Mrs Mannering afterwards told her she had accidentally broken the bottle on her way home and threw it all away, as she was afraid the powder would get on something; and that she had not told her husband about 1t as he would have been very angry with her. The witness stated also that Mrs Mannering did not object to an au- topsy, but said she would like to know what caused his death, although she would dread to have it done. The court here adjourned to o'clock. The first witness after session called in the after noon was Fred Schmeidel, clerk en- ployed by Chuch, Ford & Co.,, of Wash ington. He testified as to Mrs Manner ing purchasing bottle of strychnine on December 21, 1892 and that she had asked him whether strychnine would be the best thing for poisoning foxes, which had been carrying away her tur- keys. On cross-examination the wit | ness admitted
 HE COULD NOT SAY POSITIVELY whether the words strychnine, foxes, or | turkeys were used.
 The next witness was Dr Lewis J. Pons, medical examiner for Roxbury. Dr Pons described in full the autopsy. | He found no broken bones and that all the organs of the body were in normal and healthy condition. He described the placing of the stomach and parts of the other organs in several bottles and | their delivery to the coroner. There was no cross-examination. Coroner Higgins was next called. He told of his examining the empty cans in the cup | board. He corroborated the doctors testimony in regard to the autopsy. He described also the autopsy held on one of the pigs and delivery of the jars and cans to Prof Smith of Yale. pr Pons was then recalled and corruborated MT Higgins testimony in regard to the au- topsy held on the pig. He stated that the stomach of the pig and about two quarts of it's contents was sent to Prof Smith. Things became rather exciting on the cross-examination of Coroner Higgins owing to misunderstanding ot questions asked by MT Williams and Judge Andrews exercised his authority to straighten out matters. The outcome of the cross questioning was that Coro ner Higgins was unable to state jus when he first took the empty cans iron the cupboard, or whether Mrs Manner ing was or was not present at the time
 ALSO THAT HE REPLACED
 the cans in the cupboard and did not re move them again until the Sunday morn ing following the Sunday of MT Manner ing's death. At that tine Mrs Manner ing was present and did not object t his taking the cans or anything else I of ha No1a MaC ical college, corroborated Corone Higgins testimony in regard to the de livery and contents of the jars and can: He described technically and very full his examination of the various article submitted to him. He found .6l gram of strychnine in the stomach of MT Mar nering; .367 grams strychnine in tn stomach of the pig and .45 gram stryct nine in one of the empty cans. There al peared to be grams of coffee in bot stomachs andi epsom salts in the car The professor gave the following a proof showing the presence of strycf nine:
 CHEMICAL
 l. Producing of pree;. itatiorfS of whit crystalline solids. N i. ?. Producing of various coiors when tf crystate were treated with sulphuric acid.
 3. Producing ot a yellow precipitatio which dissolved in sulphuric acid with til same change of colors.
 " PHYSIOLOGICAL.
 l. Bitter taste of solution.
 3. Action of solution on frog when injec ed under the frogs skin.
 The professor decribed very minutel the effect upon a person of dose ( strychnine from the time of taking death, thus corroborating very fully \
 Whiteman's testimony as to the actiol of MT Mannering.
 MUCH AMUSEMENT AS WELL AS sURPRI:
 was occasioned by the cross-qestionin
 Surprise, by the very learned way
 which MT Williams propounded his pu
 zling questions and finally obtains
 the information that Prof Smith was u
 able, by any chemical test, to discoy c. whether the strychnine was used in
 liquid, crystate or powdered forr ,c whether the strychnine found in the e
 and the stomach all came from the sar
 as that purchased at the Church
 Ford's store. Amusement, by the W,
 ;n xyb;oh MT Williams hecame mixed