The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1896-07-02
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lie Knew Dougherty and Lived
With Him.
A KNIFE AND REVOLVER
With Him.

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The Doctor Kept Under His Pillow Night.
ly Thinking Some Ono Wanted to Kill
Him-A Woman in the Case.
A professor turned up in tho Dougherty.
Moriarity adoption case before Chancellor
Nicholson this morning Thus far, ply.
sicians, diamond merchants and prize
fighters have appeared In tho now famous
the case against Moriarity looks darker.
| This mornings first witness was Profes.
sor Nixey Lowell Of Philadelphia, and
| ilke oil the other witnesses had drank of
| Dr. John A. Dougherty's whiskey. But
he nor any of the other witnesses have
| heir to.
Professor English was an old acquaint.
| ance OF the plaintiff in the suit, having
known him since 1888. Then he was q
bright man. The Professor, by the way,
attains his title from his his position as
instructor in the monthly art In 1888 the
| Professor went to Atlantic City and re.
manned with Dougherty six months. Then
no was using morphine as often as ten
times day together with quart of
whiskey. Dougherty entertained the
hallucinatiOn that some lone wanted to
| kill him and for his own defense slept
| with lance and revolver under his pill.
low.
1t was because of this that the professor
left his friend. During the night Dough.
erty would get up and walk about the
room but the witness always went with
him.
In addition to tho morphine and whis-
key habit, Dougherty was proven to be an
inveterate cigar smoker He smoked as
high as 25 cigars daily, and they were tho
strongest obtainable. The professor had
frequently been with Dousherty when ho
purchased the morphine and therefore was
In position to know just how much Of
the drug he used.
1t was daily occurrence for the doctor
to use ten pellets. These were dissolved
and then injected into the arms.and legs in
hotel or wherever the couple might have
been. Dougherty's legs and arms were
Scared by tho cuts yet he never complain.
cd of pain.
When Professor English left DIR.
Dougherty he went to New York, but in
1894 he went to Pennsgrove in response to
an invitation from the doctor who said he
was very i'll and wanted some one to nurse
him and twas in this capacity that the
witness went.
The professor found his friend very ill.
After sleeping with the doctor several
nights the professor learned that the lance
and revolver were still kept under the
pillow. Dougherty was still using NOR
phine and whisky while under the com.
bined influence Of the liquor and drug
making money off pugilists. The whisky
drank amounted to about a quart and
half
Concerning religion and his fear of death
the doctor talked considerably. He, the
DOCTOR said there were but two religions
the Catholic and the Jewish. Dougherty
said he had been circumclzed and wanted
the witness to join that church also
Dougherty was afraid TO die. The witness
told him this was because of his habits
but the doctor never improved 1t was
the opinion Of the professor that Dough
crty was crazy.
At this point Mr.. Salisbury took tho
witness in hand for cross-examinatiou.
Tho friendship existing between the two
had been formed while the professor twas
in the business" at Johnny Ciark's resort
in Philadelphia. Mr.. salisbury did not
touch on tho capacity of his client for
whiskey, but brought beer into the case.
This liquid the doctor had sent him daily.
They, meaning the doctor and witness,
drank case of twenty-four bottles of the
liquid daily in addition to the whiskey.
You say you have heard DR.. Dougherty
say he expected to make money off Mo-
Rarity. Now was this perfectly sensible
statementY
81 think 1t was"
"Moriarity Ia good man, is he not?"
eyes sir. have never seen him defeat-
ed
''Then there are big prospects that money
would be made Of himl"
"Yes sir"
With this ended the hstic abilities of
the young man, who now has the greatest
fight of his life on hand.
Then woman bobbed up; OR at least
Mr. salisbury tried to bring her into the
case. He began by asking if the doctor
he had
"Was she his wife,"
"She was not known TO be-
1t was brought out that the witness had
not slept with the doctor at Pennsgrove
Mr.. Salisbury asked him who did but the
witness did not know.
"Then how do you reconcile that state
mcnt with tho one that tho doctor had
slept with the revolver and knife under
his pillow"
"Oh, saw them there afterward was
his reply
The professor slept with Moriarity.
1t was brought out that the professor
and DR. Dougherty had parted at Penns-
grove after they had had wordy quar-
rel which ended in Dougherty ordering
the witness from his house and following
it IN with the remark that if he. the wit.
ness, did not 20 an officer Wonld throw
him out.
The professor admitted that upon one
occasion he had drank morphfnn and
whisky with the doctor. This was n few
weeks after the two had uuarrcllcd and
not n wear ago Moriarity was with the
doctor mt the time,