The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-09-13

the Way and Thus Possibly Position

with the chair car nassed. but did not tell
me why he asked"
ALBERT T. THOMPSON TESTIFIES
Albert L. Thorn pscn. the son of the
dead man, was then called to the witness
chair. He first went and identified the
bodies of his father and Martin. The
witness had not seen his father alive on
Wednesday evening" as ne had arrived after
his death. He did not know from his
own knowledge how the two men had
died or why they had drunk the wine.
His father had been healthy man so
far as he was aware.
DIR. E. A. HANCOCK'S TESTIMONY
DIR. E. A. Hancock, the first physician
to reach the two men, was sworn next.
II was called" he said. "about
clock by some one to go to the River
station as a man had fit there. | went
over at once and found the man known
as Thompson iii the side room next to
the ticket Office, lying on his stomach
and in great agony. He complained of
pains and cramps in both his elbows and
knee Joints. He lived only about seven
minutes after arrived. The man suffer
ed more agony than airy other man l
think L ever saw. He was conscious up
to the last and talked all the while. He
begged me to shoot HIM and put him out
of his misery. He was so rigid that we
could not bend him limbs. Shortly after
| arrived he went into a spasm and
gave him an injection in the arm. He
died almost within minute after / in
serted the needle into his arm. 1 then
thought that he must have taken strych-
L IL
he was So rigid. He did not answer any
thing l raid to him for the reason that
he evidently was suffering so much that
he could not think about anything else.
Seeing that Thompson was gone I turn
ed my attention to Martin. The latter
was lying out ON the rear porch and a
number OF men were ubblng him. Mar.
tin had not been affected so much as
Thompson, as he was able to go out of
the station and walk over to an adjoining
saloon and ask for help. told the men
about Martin to carry him into the room
and put him on cot, which was done.
Martin almost Immediately went into
spasms but between them he talked of the
occurrence. He asserted that he had not
seen anything of the fatal bottle Until
Thompson told him to take drink from
it. saying that he had received it from
boy who in turn had got it from
drunken negro. The boy had been told
to take the bottle to hint Thomps on J and
ask him to hand it to porter on chair
! Car on the overland.
Toward the last Martin was unable
to talk very much owing to the rigidity
OF his jaws. Both he ami Thompson had
| com planned of the terrible cramps and
pains in their knee and elbow joints and
| the latter was continually asking if we
could not relieve him OF the agony in
those parts. In fact the last thing Tomp-
son said was pull my legs apart" The
symptoms in 5oth cases were similar and
| at once supposed that they were suffer-
ing from the effects of either strvchnine
or arsenic poisoning.
THE BOY EDDIE ECCLES.
Eddie Eccles. tho small boy who car
rid the bottle to Thompson, related all
of the circumstances Of his meeting with
Busby. Eccles was first shown the bottle
and asked If he had ever seen it before.
He replied that he could not identify it
as the package had been wrapped in
paper.
about o'clock as was going along
San Fernando street a colored man came
up and spoke to me and asked if would
like to make some money, and 1 said 1
would"
do you know the mans namep"
"No"
"Well. could you tell him again if you
saw hirn?"
Eyes, sir. could.'
SIS that the man?' and here DR..
Campbell pointed at Busby, who had
been brought to the door of the room by
Detective Goodman. Without any hesi-
tation young Eccles said that Busby was
the man who had hired him to deliver
the bottle to Thompson.
II made two trips to the depot for the
man. l saw Busby around the saloon at