The Portland daily press., 1894-05-02

No, sir
Didn't you say that to Charles Robin
'.No, sir.'
On the lounge Getchell said,
''I'M DONE FOR
I'm afraid I'm going to die.''
Didn't he ask his wife for something
hot?'
'I don't remember"
wasn't there anything said about lini.
ment?'
81 don't remember
"Didn't he ask for more of that gin?'
MRS. Getchell suggested it,
The witness suggested putting hot water
into the GIN Mrs. Getchen told him to be
careful not to shake up the gin SO as to
raise the sulphur from the bottom. He
poured out quarter of cupful, added hot
water to make the cup two-thirds full.
He took nearly teaspoonful himself. 1t
was not so bittre, but that he could readily
swallow it.
''Didn't Mrs. Getchen go to that buttery
and find that gin?''
Eyes, SIR
Witness couldn't find it, she came and
showed him. He made the stateme Mt that
it was bitter to Mrs. Getchell. He didn't
remember that she replied Mr.. GetchelI
apparently heard that.
'tWhat did Getchell state before you gave
it to him?''
'sHe said it was bitter
you have never stated that before?'
mo, sir.
''You say that before he took this hot gin
he Objectedr' .
HE said he was afraid it would killshim."
After he had taken the hot drink he
seemed to grow sicker.
Didn't he make the statement that he
"''' BEYOND MEDICAL AID,
| and he knew it?"
II didn't hear him."
Mrs Getchell asked Getchell if she hadn't
better send for doctor.
Didn't you hear Minnie sent to ask Mr..
Nash to go after the doctor?'
'sMinnie was sent TO bring Mr.. Nash to the
! house,
Before the doctor came what medicine
| was given him2''
stGinn
| ssBetween the time when he was taken
| sick at the table and the time when the
| doctor came, did he take any gin exc ept
that yon gave himf'
'sYou were there all the timer
| stYes.''
Ibid he take anything else in that timer"
Mustard and water"
| Mrs Nash gave it at witnesses suggestion.
Mrs: Getchell said there was no mustard In
| the mouse ana minnie was SenU TO n6lSuDOf
| Wyman'S for mustard.
| Before the doctor came Getchell was in
| convulsions, threw his arms out and jumped
nervouSly.
The court room was crowded In the after
| no on when the
| DISCRIMINATION OF MIR. FOWLER
was continued. He testified that before the
doctor came, Mrs. Getchell rubbed her hus-
bands arms and did all she could to help
| Cyl.- o. h.
died. He said he didn't think the doctor
could help him, and that no medicine could.
He also said something about shaving him
| after he was dead.
Laforest Trask came with Andrew Keen
| and assisted in caring for Getchell till he
died. Emery Nash, Trask and the witness
were with Getchen when he died. After the
doctor went away he could t remember that
Mr.. and Mrs. Ge chell talked together.
Ibid you hear him say: I know better
than you do Emma, Pm going to die?' -
mo, sir''
At the time of the death he told Mrs;
Getchell to remember him mns and take good
not there when Getchell died. She went
out to the sitting room, sat dow in chair
and cried.
[ Henry W. Plummer, an undertak er of
| Augusta, assisted in the funeral of Getchell.
He went out to Sidney. He did not embalm
| the body in any way.
PROF. ROBINSON OF BRUNSWICK,
professor of chemistry, at Bowdoin for
| twenty years, testified that he was away
| from home when the glass jars came. He
| got home that night. They were locked in
| his study. There was no evidence that the
| seal had been broken in any way. The
| strings around the package were sealed in
| many places. He found strychnine in the
| kidney, the stomach and the piece of liver.
| He extrac ted some of the strychnine from
them. He had some of it with him in the
| form of the pure alkaloid, the crystal. He
| had about a third of a grain. He extracted
more, but to crystalline it wasted some.
| From the quantity extracted he could 'esti-
mate that there were three or four grains in
| the body.
| 1t was in the tissue of the parts analyzed
| and must have been carried in by the blood.
| There was meat in the stomach. There was
really twice as. much strychine lin the
stomach as in the kidney and liver. The
| smallest amount that has killed an adult,
| as far as he kew, was half grain. The
| symptoms in fatal doses are spasms and
muscular contract1ons.
BELIEF IN DEATH
! is almost always SYMPHONIC slt is very.bitter,
| but would be disguised by gin. The witness
| had taken it himself. The taste Of bitteress
grows stronger, especially in the back part
| of the tongue, down the throat. 1t is kept
| by druggists in this country in the form of
| the sulphate. 1t is soluble in gin or water.
| A fatal dose is felt in a very few minutes.
| Mrs. Arletta Getchell, the wife of Henry
| Getchell, testified to conversations with the
| prisoner, in one of which after her hus-
| bands death the prisoner said that there
| were awful stories about concerning it, and
| that her husband died of what he got out
| West.,' Once when her husband was sick
last fall thesprisoner hung shawl out of the
| porch window as she said, ''to let Laforest
| know that Henry is sick"
DR.. Driscoli of Sidney, who attended
Getchell on the afternoon the latter died,
testified that he found the man in spasms.
| but did not think it strychnine poisoning
| then. He injected morphine and left bromide
of potassium to be taken. He left the
| patient comfortable. When he returned in
| the evening the patient was dead. He un-
derstood he died in convulsions. He thought
| If his treatment had been followed and no