Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1897-10-03

III. Alymer, ana Il Ms for this Of
j fence that he stood ii y0nder dock.
AS regards the theft Of the body
| The lesser offense, said prisoners
counsel, was swallowed up and merged
!, in the greater; therefore, he protested
against the introduction of the theft OF
| the body.
The Judge thought that the two
crimes were, judicially speaking, one
and the same. 1t was right that the
Grown Prosecutor should place before
him the whole facts of the case. One
! part might neutralize or enhance or
| explain the other. The Crown Prose-
| cutor was quite in order.
Counsel for the prosecution accepted
his LOrdship's ruling and would pro-
coed. The body of Mr.. Aylmer was
| taken to the residence of his adopted
| father, Major Jen. There it was
placed in the bed room which had for
merly belonged to the living man.
Thence it was stolen by the prisoner.
! Counsel for the prisoner: "All this
has yet to be proved"
| Counsel for the Crown: 81 shall
| PkOtO IL dAu dL OuCc. uO july are
now in possession of all the facts of
this very interesting case, and every
detail will be confirmed by the most
| responsible witnesses. Call Major
| Jen."
Evidence-in brief-of Major Jen:
Il was the guardian of the deceased
Maurice Alymer. / adopted him as my
| son. He was in love with, and en-
| gagged to, Miss Dallas, but the mother
did not approve of the engagement DR..
! Etwald, the prisoner, also loved Miss
! Dallas, but she refused to marry him.
l showed the prisoner the devil-stick
and explained its use, whereupon he
| wished to purchase it. I declined to
! part with it, and afterwards it was
! stolen. After its disappearance, Mr..
! Alymer was killed by means of the
devil-stick poison. His hand was
| slightly scratched, and he could not
i have died from so trivial a cause had
not the weapon used been poisoned.
| Moreover, l recognized the perfume
which emanted from the body as that
of the devil-stick poison. DIR. Etwald
had threatened the deceased once or
twice. Afterwards, the body of de-
ceased disappeared, and the drug used
| to stupefy the watcher of the dead was
the poison of the devil-stick."
Miss Dallas deposed that she had
been engaged to deceased. Prisoner
wished to marry her and was Jealous
OF the late Mr.. Alymer. Once or twice
he had threatened him. The negress,
Dido, was accustomed to hypnotic
Mrs. Dallas for nervous headaches.
While under the influence of hypno-
tlsm Mrs. Dallas would act according
to the dictates of Dido. On the night
that the devil-stick was stolen from
the house of Major Jen, Mrs. Dallas
had been hypnotized by Dido. Witness
had followed her, and had seen the
theft OF the stick. Afterwards Mrs.
Dallas had delivered it into the hands
OF Dido. Witness never saw the devil
stick again. She had seen Mr.. Alymer
on the night he was murdered, as he
had called to see her. Witness had
parted with him at the gates, and had
seen him go down the road towards
"Ashantee." 1t was the last time wit
ness saw him. 1t was we'll known to
witness that Dido was under the influ-
ence of DIR. Etwald,- on account C< the
latter possessing the Voodoo Stone
charm. Dido had manufactured the
fresh poison of the devil-stick as a
penecea for nervous headache, from
which witness suffered So far as wit
ness knew, deceased was in the best
of spirits at the time of his death. and
had no intention of putting an end to
his life. Witness could swear that
prisoner was bitter and jealous enc
my of deceased
Mrs. Dallas declared that she suf-
fered-like her daughter-from nery-
GUS headaches. To cure these, she
submitted frequently to hypnotic
treatment at the hands of Dido. who
was gifted with a strong will. On the
night the devil-stick was stolen she
mad been hypnotized, but she did not
know what she did while under the
influence. While in the trance-as it
may be called-she never knew what
she did, and she had hitherto had
every confidence in Dido, as an old
and faithful servant, that she-Dido-
would not induce her to do wrong
things while hypnotized She had
never seen the devil-stick, either at
the house of Major Jen or in her own
The negress had prepared a drug for
the cure OF headaches, which witness
believed was similar-as was Judged
from the perfume-to the poison con.
tanned in the devil-stick. She knew
that her daughter wished to marry
the deceased, but for certain reasons
not pertinent to the case-she had de-
cl1ned to sanction the engagement
She would not have permitted her
daughter to marry DIR. Etwald, as she
did not like him or approve of the in
fiuence which he exercised over Dido
She knew what prisoner possessed the
Voodoo Stone, and by means of it
could make any member of the black
race do his will. Prisoner was a de-
clared enemy of the deceased, and a
jealousy existed between them on ac-
count of their daughter. In presence
OF witnesses prisoner had threatened
deceased. She knew nothing of the
theft of the body.
Lady Meg Brance was called by the
prosecution to prove that a certain
mendicant by name Battersea, had Of
fered her the devil-stick for sale as a
curiosity. Knowing that it was the
| weapon with which Mr.. Alymer had