The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-21
.elt pretty wen that night. Wednesday

| to me about o'clock. and insisted
take medicine from larger bottles.
7 did not want to take 1t. He insisted
take a small dose. 7 did so. About
o'clock, he came to my bedside and
| sat fully an hour. At A he raised me
| up and prepared another dose for me.
| / noticed 1t was a large spoonful. He
| said I'll put some water in 1t so it
won't be SO bitter. drank it and soon
| had a recurrence of intense pain.
Il vomited twice after that. He
| brought me the morphine mixture and
| said: Please take 1t, 1t will relieve you
| I did SO, and vonited severely. i
asked him then to bring me a glass of
| lemonade. / heard him in the kitchen
unlocking the trunk. I could see
| through the dining room into the kitch-
en-. The doors were open. The trunk
had been in the kitchen all spring. He
| always kept his private papers there
When I wanted anything belonging to
me that was in the trunk he would
open it.
HE brought lemonade into me.
said: What did you go to the trunk
for?' He requested that I take the
lemonade. / refused. He went to the
sink and threw 1t out, rinsing the
glass. When he returned I said I
would take some of the lemonade. He
went and prepared the lemonade.
When he brought 1t, I said: What
did you put in that lemonade?' He
said nothing. I then told him I had
suspected him for some time Of doctor
ing the medicine. I then asked him
for the keys Of the trunk. He refused
to give them.
II then sent him for the doctor and
when he was gone 7 told my daughter,
Blanche, of my suspicious. She begged
me not to tell anyone of it. I told her
she must not let Mr.. Hull go to the
| trunk again. Mr.. Hull soon came in by
the kitchen. I heard him go and open
| the trunk. Blanche cried out o, papa,
don't do that / then got up and
saw Mr.. Hull coming OUT of the kitchen
with a bottle of Warmers Safe Cure
in his hand. l said Mr.. Hull, you're
doing something wrong He tried to
get away. / sliced him and he carried
me into the yard. He could not get
away and he returned to the house.
Mr. Hull said, IF you let me go this
time 1 will do everything I can for you
II sent the little girl for a neighbor,
Mr.. Anderson. who soon arrived in the
house. Mr.. Anderson said: II don't
understand What's the matter, Mr.
Hu1l?" Hull said: 70, my wife has
been sick and de1irious" I then lay
down at Mr.Hulps request. but informed
him that he could not leave
the house. Blanche went for the doc
l. L
| my suspiccions; told him hoped I was
wrong. I said L thought that he had
| been trying to give me poison. L told
| the doctor to search Mr.. Hull, and if
! was wrong in my suspicious L would
| be very sorry The doctor said even If
/ was insane | was only making rea-
/ sonablerequest."
when Mr. Hull persisted in refusing
| to let me search him, DIR. Hawkins sug-
/ gested that he allow some one else to
| do so. In the meantime, Mrs. Avison
| had come into the parlor and l asked
| for her. When she came I asked to
| see Dr. Avison and Mrs Quehle. When
DR.. Avison came, DR.. Hawkins stated
| the case to him. do not remember the
| exact words, but he told DIR. Avison /
was suspicious of Mr.. Hull; that / had
| been sick for some time and believed
| that Mr.. Hull had been putting some
thing in my medicine. They both tried
to get Mr.. Hull to allow me to search
| him, but he still refused most strenu-
ously. Mr.. Hull then asked for a priv
ate interview with me, but I refused.
| / said the doctor knew the situation
and If he had any communication to
/ make to me. he might as we'll make it
| in the presence Of the doctor. As Mr..
| Hull still persisted in refusing to be
| searched, I asked DIR. Avison and DIR.
| Hawkins whether I had better allow
him to leave the city under promise
never to return or call police officer
| and have him arrested They thought
I ought not to allow him to leave the
i city, and guess 1t was then that DR..
/ Hawkins sent for the officers. This was
| between Z and o'clock in the evening.
I took the lemonade about 5 and I think
| it was 6 o'clock, or a little later when
Mr.. Hull came back to the kitchen and
! opened the trunk We had not been
/ a eli CTR. rTa
/ the medicine"
/ Upon being questioned as to her mar
! ried life the witness then stated that
she had married Mr.. Hull Dec Il, 1884,
| and that their relations had not always
| been pleasant. They had QuarreIed at
| intervals dating from the time they
began housekeeping, but had never
been seriously estranged until recently.
| Mr.. Hull had frequently tried to con-
/ vince her that she was in very poor
| health, and at one time insisted that
| she was suffering from cancer. In the
/ spring of 1894, she was examined by
| DR.. Hall, of Minneapolis, and he re-
| ported that she had no cancer. Mr..
| Hull often said she was sick mentally
/ as well AS physically.
| In response to further questioning by
/ County Attorney Butler, Mrs. Hull stat
| ed as follows:
| 'On April 10 and June Is last, I suf-
/ fered from attacks similar to that of
| Aug. l. but neither of them was so Sc
! we're. April 10 was cold day and I
| complained of feeling chilly In the
! evening Mr.. Hull told me to go to bed
| and he would make me hot lemon
/ ade. After I got into bed he brought
! the lemonade to me but I noticed that
| it tasted bitter and said L can't drink
| this bitter stuff He urged me to
| drink it, and I took several swallows
! Soon afterWard I was siezed with in
| tense pain and fits Of vomiting, but re-
| covered during the night and was
| able to be up the next day The first
week In June, also felt badly and ask
| ed Mr.. Hull to get me some sweet
| cider so / could make remedy the
| prescription for which I had found in
a book. He got the cider and I pre-
| pared the medicine, but I noticed that
| it tasted more bitter than on previous
occasions when I had made it. Again
/ was taken sick in the same way as
! before and asked Mr. Hull to get me
| a bottle of medicine which Dr. Haw-
| kins had prescribed some months be-
| fore. I took some Of that and detected
| in it the same disagreeable taste as I
! had found in the lemonade. After-th
was very Ill and vomited frequently
The next day Mr. Hull told me he had
| thrown away the bottle from which
| had taken the medicine. +58 ..s
Mr.. Hull often made lemonade for
! me and advised me to take it saying 1t
would be highly beneficial to me- I al
ways looked for the bitter taste I have
| described, but only noticed once or
| twice that the lemonade tasted a little
| peculiar"
| The witness was then questioned as
| to the insurance policies on her. life, In