The Portland daily press., 1894-05-04

witness told Mrs. Getchen of the doctors
decision that Getchell's was healthy ooay.
Witness declared that she could't remem-
ber Getchell's reply. Witness was sure tnac
Mrs Getchell said that she, ana not sile
and Henry gave the harness to 1rasK. At
the time of Henry's death, Trasks wi1e was
living. She has since died. In regard TO
the letters brought by Minnie to the school
house, witness said that Trask came 10 the
house to get the letters. Mrs. Getchell salo
to witness after the funeral, THAT she
wished she'd kept the bottle that deorgle
found, but Manson, Henry's brother, had
said to wash it out and she did. witness
was at the house the night Trask and Mrs.
Getchell sat up with Keen's body. Fart OF
the night Trask lay on the foot of her bed.
Both she and Trask were dressed. Trask's
lying on her bed might have been the reason
that Mrs. Getchell didn't.
Andrew Keen, who has lived in Sidney
twenty years, corroborated previous testi-
mony in regard to his going to Getchel1s
house and going for the doctor. He had
seen an overcoat sometime last fall, hanging
from the window of the ell.
Cross-examined. Mrs. Getchell told him
he'd better go and get the doctor, after he
advised it. She did not tell him to get
Ambrose. He had not stated that she did.
This was the first time he had told the
story. Nobody had asked him what he'd
testify to if he came to the court house.
Asked by the State he said he was rela-
tive of Laforest Trask's.
Mrs. Mary E. Peabody testified that she
was at Ocean Point last summer with Mrs
Getchen and roomed with her. The latter
said Trask was coming, and he came. When
Mrs. Getchen took the boat for home
SHE AND TRAsK KISSED
on the wharf "a good while.'' Mrs. Getchen
said to Trask that when she came down an
other summer things would be different,
and she would do as she wanted to. She
didn't want her husband to know Trask was
there as he would be jealous. Trask stopped
at the same house. When he came, Trask
went into Mrs. Getchell's bedroom with her
alone. The two were in an empty cottage
together and they walked together with
Trask's arm around her waist in the eve
ming. Witness and Mrs. Getchell came home
by boat. Trask came home that night by
train. 4f
Cross-examined. Mrs. Burnham the land
lady and her son were the only ones on the
couple were standing at the head of the
wharf. Witness thought Mrs. Burnham
heard the talk about coming down another
summer. Witness did not know that Trask
brought money to her from Henry Getchell,
heard Mrs. Burnham tell Trask that Mrs.
Getchell wanted him to go into the bed
room.
DR.. /. P. Tash of Benton, testified as to
IL oI 1a6rr Of c+v 1hvnir,
poisoning. In one case the patient died; in
another, recovered. The symptoms are
general restlessness, then spasms from
the lower limbs up, then convulsions,
anxious expression of the face, eyes wide
open, suffusion of the face and death in
convulsions. fatal dose exerts itself
primarily upon the spinal cord. He corro-
borated previous testimony as to the
symptoms and said that under the circum-
stances much medicine as that given by DR..
Driscol might be curative, he should think.
THERE WAS A SENSATION
when the County Attorney here produced a
bottle containing four grains of sulphate of
strychnine in little less than pint of gin
and sulphur, and tasted it. A taste of the
saturated solution might be taken and the
patient not discover the bitter taste. the
witness said.
Cross-exaimned. 1t is scientific fact that
the membranes around the spinal cord are
congested and the symptoms are traceable
to that. 1t is fact that the brain is not
affected and the patient has his faculties
till exhausted. Here the facts of Getchelrs
case were recounted, and the witness
thought that under the circumstances, DR..
Driscoll's medicine might not be curative.
ssIn case where one dose produced a
general spasm within twenty minutes; then
inside of a half hour, the dose was repeated
then in an hour and half, there was give
a dose of morphine; then in ten minutes
another dose of strychnine, would it be
possible for a patient to be sitting up in a
chair at the end of fifty minutes, after the
third dose?''
'sNo, SIR
Throughout this long cross-examination,
counsel for the defense endeavored to show
that Getchell's taking the poison and his
symptoms and the remedies and his death,
were incompatible with each other, accord
ing to acceed medical doctrine.
DR., L. J. Cooke of Augusta, and DR.. Gid
dings of Gardiner, also testified as to the
effects of strychnine.
The testimony OF the governments wit
nesses was practically ended this afternoon,
after occupying four days. There were
thrty-five witnesses examined.
Major of the Second.
Augusta, May Sin compliance with
special orders No. 35 from the adjutant
general, an election of major of the Second