The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-02

He said that she had threatened 20 poison
herself. ara shst he had told her 10 go
ahaaa and help herself 20 his poisons-
tn. illness from which Mrs. Buchanan
S,aa began on Friday. April % The wo-
man was enjoying ner natural health on
the day before That afternoon Rucaan-
an engaged Mrs. Childs TO nurse his
wife.
IS she entered the room she saw him
standing by the bedside giving her redi-
cine. That afternoon Buchanan met Ma
-n,,her and showed him his wife's jew
elrv. which he said she had given him
in the presence If witnesses. Before re-
turning home buchanan told another ac-
onafnrsnce that MS wife was dying. DR..
Mcintyre. before leaving the house al 2
d m. had told Buchanan he saw moth
Irrr ala rr,sng about her case.
buchanan returned home about Z p. m.
looked AZ his wife. declared that she was
very III. and that he would go out ard
get The first physician he could find DR..
watson went with him Immediately. He
found her in a state Of profound coma.
with rapid pulse and in desperate con-
dftiou Thinking that IL was the coma OF
Rrfght's disease. because DIR. Buchanan
had rold him that she had had kidney
trouble. he gave her a hypodernic in
Jection
for him. When he left the woman she
was in a nervous and exeitahle state.
He found her I'm condition of profound
coma and she did not respond 70 light.
Tha doctors then concluded that II was
cerebral apoplexy, and Buchanan has
tened their conclusion by stating that
her father had died of apoplexy. This
was lie.
Mrs. buchanan died ar 40 p. m. on
the day following and Buchanan did not
return to the house until Z or s o'clock.
He said he would go TO Philadelphia and
see her brother about the burial. Blu
chanan left the house about 10 p. m, say
ing he would return Sunday morning.
SUNDAY night he said he was going to a
hotel. and he was also absent Monday
night. but came TO the funeral on Tues
day.
While his wife was dying on Saturday
Buchanan met Macomher. Buchanan re-
marked that Providence seemed TO be
smiling upon him. as he thought he was
going 10 have rumpus with the old lady
and she was going TO cause him good
deal of trouble and 1t looked as though
she was going TO step out and save him
all the trouble.
Later in the evening he met Macomber
again and told him that Mrs. Buchanan
was dead and that he intended 10 spend
the night at a hotel. Macomher asked
him why he did not stay al home to
which Buchanan replied: 81 never could
bear TO stay In the house with a body
and | would not stay in that mouse for
$1,000 tonight
The next day Buchanan met Macomber
again and told lin that Mrs. Buchanan
had left him $500 provided he would allow
her to he buried under his name, and he
said: II think I had better do so. don't
you? As she Is dead now. II won't do me
tat md I
know how can make $500 any easier
The following Saturday Buchanan told
friends that the woman had left him
about $40 COO and he did not care whether
he practiced any longer. Buchanan went
10 Nova Scotia May 9, and on the 10th or
that month ne REMARKED the wife from
whom nc had obtained a divorce few
months prior TO his marriage with Mrs.
Sutherland.
Buchanan had the grave watched and
arranged to be notified the very moment
II was disturbed lie had made prepara
tions FOR 2 hasty departure, and said he
wanted to go TO Milwaukee. where he
would live under the name of "A. ].
Reed" During al. this time ne was Nv
ing with his first wife.
Buchanan appeared as a witness at the
trial. On cross-eXamination he became
involved in a maze of contradictions. lie
told a falsehoed as TO his whereabouts en-
the night on which his Wlfe dled tie
gave a preposterous explanation OF the
circumstance that he had administered
two doses of medicine TO his wife instead
of one. as directed; frequently shielded
himself from further Interrogation by
declining to answer on the ground that
II would tend TO degrade him; put him.
self in contradiction 10 almost every wit
ness who had testified TO convers atoms
with him and only helped 10 strengthen
- &c xrasfIr x4rhf IL
denco of the prosecution had so thor
oughly established.
Buchanan was promptly convicted OF
murder IN the first degree.