The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1896-08-01


to their aid Howard p. Cakes. who is
an expert on medico-legal questions.
The people, or the State, was repre-
sented chiefly by John +. Mcintosh, the
Assistant District-Attorney assisted by
Seaman ii. Miller, an attorney. Also
associated with the prosecution as spec
ial counsel was DR.. w. J. O'Sullivan, a
man OF profound learning, whose ca
reer Is interesting. He Is an Irishman
and a graduate OF Dublin University.
once he was veterinary surgeon and
lived at New Haven and practiced that
profession. Later he studied medicine
and practiced it and then gave his at
tention TO law. He Is a distinguished
psychologist and probably the foremost
man in his line in America He jumped
into local fame in a single day in the
case OF DIR. Buchanan, the New York
prisoner. He was a witness for the
prosecution in this case, all his pre-
vious exploits in the courts having been
on the side of the defense.
These two sets Of legal opponents
summoned to New York the foremost
chemical and medical experts in the
United States. These included DR..
Victor II. Vaughn of the University OF
Michigan at Ann Arbor. His testi-
mony was for the prosecution, and op-
posed to him the defense brought for
ward DIR. Williams, who has the repu-
tation OF being the best expert witness
ever seen on the stand in this country.
The testimony Of these two men threw
light on the particles of poison found
In the sediment in the pitcher which
contained the clam chowder and also
on the poison which was found In Mrs.
Bliss stomach in the possession OF the
state. Science was called as an aid
In this case in an altogether new form
namely: The photography of cry
stalls.
Mrs. Fleming was known moral de-
| generate, but she was not on trial for
her morals. The accusation against
her was murder, and the evidence was
circumstantial. 1t is not known that
any feeling of unpleasantness existed
between the woman and her mother; 1t
rs not known that their paths crossed in
their various loves. Mrs. Fleming was
a woman who wanted money, and one
who would b. willing to take steps pro-
ductive of undesirable note to gain II.
But she never appeared to be vindic-
! tive woman. She loved herself hear
tily, but she does not appear to have
| hated anybody. Furthermore, Mrs
| Fleming loved her children, a trait
which is not often found to be the case
among women of her reputation. II
she were capable of killing her mother
using her own child as tool in the ad-
ministratioh of the poison, she surely
would have teen capable of smothering
her children. for children are an in
| cumbrance to women of her character.
Furthermore, Mrs. Fleming is supposed
to be a woman of intelligence. and II
does not seem that she would brew and
administer poison so clumsily, and
leave so many avenues leading to her
detection. On the other side. II is a
fac. that her mother Mrs. Bliss, was
poisoned. In the case of the daugh-
ter there existed possible motive. Nc
one else had such motive and none
other has been implicated even 1e-
motely. Out of this trial blossomed a
romance which reads like a novel and
upon which novel may be written
some day. Day by day there sat in the
courtroom a man, a manly man, who
stood ready and willing to marry her
should she be found guiltless. This
man is Ferdinand Wilckes. He has
loved her for five years. She has loved
him and has been constant to him. She
says so and he believes
Five years ago Ferdinand Wilckes
lived with family named Kersey, in
Harlem. He had lately come OF age
He had been educated at the college OF
the City of New York. He was hand
some fellow, with good manners. Mrs.
Fleming then lived with the Bliss fam
ily at No. 303 West One Hundred and
Thirty-eighth street. One evening
young Henry +. Bliss took Ferdinand
Wilckes to his home. He introduced
him to Mrs. Fleming. Then there were
many girls in Harlem who would have
been glad to have Ferdinand Wilckes
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