Morning journal and courier., 1894-04-13
THE DIR. LEE TRIAL.

the woman to stop her talking nd answer the questions put to her. [rs. Strom objected still, but after be, ,g reprimanded further by the court he became docile and answered the uestions of the cross-examiner. She vas then asked when she told the | tory to Coroner Mix. She said Detective | }owles came for her and told her the oroner wanted to see her and she went up | Q his office. This was after the regular nquest was held. She next repeated the l tatements to the grand jury. When ! .sked when she told Detective Leete the ,ame story, Mrs. Strom said she could not | ell the time or date, giving as her reason hat she was not interested in the case. Pursuing this line of inquiry still fur her, Mr. Goodhart asked the witness te tell what she told Detective Lsete and MT. After much squabblIng be- tween Mr. Doolittle and MT. Goodhart and a manifest unwillingness on the part of asked, the subject was abandoned by the examiner.
 MT. 4oodhart then began an examina' ion of the witness in regard to her visit to her sister's on December 9. In regard to this visit Mrs Strom said that when she went to Mrs. Miller's on that day the latter told her that she was suffering from perver- sion of nature, and an operation would have to be performed to relieve her condi- tion. On her next visit witness said her sister told her she had been relieved by Dr. Lee, who had operated on her for two hours, part of the time keeping her under the influence of chloroform. "Again went there, and found my sister very sick. Dr. Lee was there, and I said to him that he might as we'll have cut her head with an axe as to do what he had done. He said that he had dons nothing to hurt her. but told him nothing about the operation. Dr. Lee told me after my sister died that he should make out the death certificate, giving the cause of death as congestion of the stomach. He said he should not men tion the operation"
 MT. Goodhart asked the witness as his closing question: "Did your sister ever ever say to you. It's lie, never said SOL"
 ssNo, sir; she did not" was ths reply. The reason for this question will probably develop later in the csse, and probably has a bearing on the paper which Dr. Lee Is said to have, bearing Mrs. Miller's sigma ture, and on which 1t Is said the deceased hV0Il0A tA0b 0A. 4Ao0 oOAAk44AeSOA AO 0OoA- tion.
 MR. MILLER TEsTITIEs.
 The next witness was George Miller, husband of the deceased, and who keeps 8 hotel at 261 Wooster street. His testimo- ny was as follows: Isabella Miller was my wife. We had been married seventeen years. We had five children, the oldest of whom Is fourteen years old. knew that my wife was with child in Augusts.1 knew that my wife and Mrs. Lynch went to see doctor. Upon her return noticed that my wife was i'll. I then asked her where she had been.
 "Objected to-"
 "RuIed out" said Judge Robinson.
 "Did you ascertain where she had bsen4"
 Objected to-" again interrupted Judge Stoddard.
 "You may pass that question for the present." said Judge Robinson.
 Continuing, MT. Miller said: "My wife was away another afternoon between the time she went away with Mrs. Lynch and ing night. Before that I had noticed a change in her health. She seemed heavy and logy and not as she did before she went out with Mrs Lynch. My wife called me up stairs one day, and as the result of our talk went for Dr. Lee and found him in his office on Chapel street. had never seen him before. said to him that my wife sent for him and he must come down as che was in terrible pain. I asked him f if my wife had been there before and he said he remembered her name. He came
 to the house about Il o'clock and brought 8 satchel We went up etairs, where | jr hoA ookad ] him what was the matter with | her and he told me her child had been dead six weeks and an operation, usual ir 1 such cases, must be performed. got some ! hot water for him and then went down stairs and he locked the door. He sent me to ths drug store and when I got back he asked for glass of sherry wine. I took i, upstairs and in the room saw all sorts o1 instruments laying around. (Witness des cribed the instruments He went aftel about an hour and came the next forenoon He next day asked again for hot water and went into the bedroom and locked the door. went in another door and saw the same instruments again. eaw the doctor the instruments four or five times before the result desired was accomplished, which was six or seven days iater.
 Dr. Lee di1 not come for some time. Tho substance which appeared as a result of his operation burned as he directed.
 Miller then corroborated Nrs. Strom in speaking of the death certificate.
 On Sunday morning Dr. Fleischne, called. I heard him tell Dr, Lee that If he had the case he would report it immedi- ately to the coroner. and that he should do SO anyway. Dr. Lee did not say much, but of course he was oosxing Dr. Fleisch-
 "objeoted to-"
 "stop," said Judge Robinson almost simultaneously.
 went to Dr. Lee and told him that l had engaged Dr. Bacon and Dr. Fleisohner to attend my wife. He told me that he could take care of that case himself, and that they would only charge me large bill while he would charge me half, or perhaps nothing. He told me to come and tell him what Dr. Bacon and Dr. Fleieohner had eaid.
 Miller became somewhat perplexed when questioned about his wife going out with Mrs. Lynch and coming home sick, and contradicted himself on some minor de. tails. Witness charged Mrs. Lynch with having taken his wife to Dr. Lees office, in answering question of MT. Goodhart. Mrs. Lynch, who was In the cour room, began a tirade against the witness, which was stopped by Jn1ge Robinson's warning Mrs Lynch to keep still or leave the room.
 One important point brought out in the cross-examination of Nr. Miller was that his wife had suffered from several perver- s'ons of nature during the last few years of her life.
 After the recess MT. Goodhart resumed the cross examination of MT. Miller.
 MEDICAL EXAMINER WHITE.
 Medical Examiner Whita was called to the stand just after Mr. Miller.
 He stated that at the request of Coroner Mix he made a post-mortem examination of the body of Mrs. Miller. The doctor gave very minute, technical description of the operation. He said that all the in- ternsl organs were conge sted, showing blood poisoning. A wound an inch and one-half long was found in the uterus From this wound the blood poisoning originated. The blood poisoning was tho direct cause of death.
 'Do you think that there was an abor. tion. doctor," asked Mr. Blydenburgh. "Yes, sir."
 The ecross-exsminstion was then begun. Considerable sparring and quibbling over tschnicalities was indulged in by the law yers for the state and defence.
 Dr. White, in response to Attorney Goodhart's cross-examinstion stated that the abortion was recent. When asked to say how long before death the operation had taken place, he stated that he would ssy about four weeks.
 Ir, Goodhart in his examination at- tempted to bring out the fact that abor- ton was legitimate and often practicable. Dr. White admitted that at some times it