St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-08-01
CONTINUATION OF THE PRELIM-
MARY HEARING BEFORE
JUDGE ORR.
LOVES LAWYER WATCHFUL
DIR. GLIDDEN TELLS, HIS STORY
OF ATTENDANCE ON THE
DYING GIRL.
EXPERT TESTIMONY TAKEN,
And Stress Is Laid ON the Fact
That Heavy Meals Were Eat
en- in the Sick Room

The preliminary examination Of
Charles r. Lowe, charged with muir
der in the third degree, in having
criminally neglected the dying Clara
Bergh, was continued in the munich
pal court yesterday afternoon. Half
dozen witnesses were examined,
and another continuance was again
taken until o'clock this afternoon.
In spite of the numerous objections
raised by the defendants attorney,
E. M. Card, ample testimony was in
troduced to the effect that Miss
Bergh might have lived longer by
proper nursing, or might possibly
have recovered; that she did not
appear to have received the atten-
ton which her evident condition de-
manded, and that Lowe had agreed
to nurse her, and had taken upon
himself her exclusive care, even to
refusing to allow the hotel servants
to enter or to clean the sick girls
room.
the Dispatch, swore to certain state
ments made by Lowe few days ago
during the course of an interview
held at the county jail Lowe then
said that he had met Miss Bergh, at
her request, previous to taking her
to the Globe hotel; that she had
begged him to come with her and
care for her during her approach
ing illness; that she had offered to
pay him literally in return, prom
Using, if necessary, to work for him,
without charge, for full year; that
he had then agreed to nurse her on
those terms.
Mrs. Frances Constant, wife of the
proprietor of the Globe hotel, tes-
titled that she had entered the sick
girls room but once during her
three weeks illness. That was just
after the child was born, and at
the request of the physician then in
charge. She said that Lowe had an
nounced to her Clara's death, and
had stated that Clara had had a
rafting in her throat for the pre-
vious two days.
THE DOCTORS STORY.
DR.. c. H. Glidden, whose office is
in the Schultz block on the same
floor with loves loan agency, and
who was called to the bedside Of
Miss Bergh the night preceding her
death, testified that Lowe had spok-
en- to him once of a certain woman
who was just recovering from child
birth, and who had bed sore which
troubled her. The doctor had given
Lowe a prescription for the bed
sore. Several days later the doctor
had made his visit to the Globe hotel,
where he found sick woman about
to die from. septic poisoning. He
had told her that if she lived until
morning she might possibly get we'll;
he had tried to change her position
in order to examine the bed sore, and
had desiSted when she complained
of the pain of moving, telling her
morning.
did you examine it then, DOCTOR"
inquired the county attorney, 'after
she was dead?'
mo, did not''
did you succeed in examining 1t at
the post mortem?"
'tWell-yes, l believe I did,"
Continuing, DR.. Glidden testified that
he found Miss Bergh entirely uncon-
scious, though very near her end. She
had entreated him not to let her moth
er know the real cause of her death
He had respected her wishes as far as
he was able.
did you respect her wishes so far as
to even ask the undertaken to keep the
matter quiet?"
''Oh, told him not to say anything
about it. You see, I had an idea the
matter might be investigated later, and
it wasn't necessary to say much then
''Were. you well acquainted with that
undertaken"
Yes, I knew him quite Well"
'You are pretty well acquainted with
all the undertakers, are you, doctor?'
The witness did not reply, but the
spectators smiled.
William Higgins, assistant court re-
porter of the district court, was next
| called. He was asked to repeat from
! his stenographic notes, or his trans
cript of the same, the testimony of
Lowe before the coroner's jury.
Attorney Card at once objected to the
admission of word of this testimony
He claimed that, at the time it was
! given, the coroner knew that Lowe
was charged with being accessory to
| Miss Bergh's death, while Lowe die
| not know it, and was, therefore, un-
consciously
| TESTIFYING AGAINST HIMSELF
The objection was overruled by Judge
| Orr, who stated that he would allow
to this examination the broad and
complete scope usually accorded tc
| preliminary examinations. 1t was Their
| mutually agreed that, rather than lose
! time by listening to the reading of the
! testimony, copy of the same should
be furnished to the court and to the
| defendants counsel.
| Miss Elsa Johnson, a rather jolly.
looking, plump-faced maiden, was mex
| called upon. She had been chamber
maid for the third floor of the Globe
| hotel last June, and had charge o.
the room occIIDied nv Lowe and C1are