Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1897-04-01

had died from heart failure and ex-
pected to find structure in that or
gan at the autopsy but the invasion OF
the heart by the operator destroyed 1t
practically for this examination.
:. B. Staples testified to having
known Marsh for several years and
described him as having been in poor
! health.
III. S. Fuller testified to having
known Marsh in 1892 and that at that
time he had bad spells caused by his
stomach. On the occa don of one OF
these Morse took some morphine and
he told witness that when he was so
attacked he always took something to
keep him from suffering. In the cross
examination it was shown that wit
ness boarded with Mrs. Marsh for
time after her first husbands decease,
his wife having also died in the mean
while.
Mrs. Henry Buzzell, mother of the
respondent BuZzell, was recalled this
morning for cross examination, and
admitted that she knew nothing of her
sons whereabouts except as he told
her.
Lyman Farrar said: 81 sell patent
medicines from house to house. From
1889 TO 1893 | saw George Marsh a
often as once in six to eight months.
During those visits he told me of hav
ing a bad stomach and bowel trouble
with vomiting and distressed spells.
| sold him tonic and blood purifier,
kidney balsam and other medicines.
ain the winter OF 1892 and 1913 Mr.. |
Marsh told me he was suffering with
great pain in his stomach from day
to day and asked me for arsenical tab
lets, digitallis, nuX vOmica and other |
medicines which did not carry. The |
last time | saw him in the spring of |
1898 he looked bad. He said he was
nervous and distressed and asked me
If thought il would be wrong for
him TO put himself out of the way"
Edison Wilson testified that in 1894
Marsh told him that he was a very sick |
man, more so than people thought for,
and il it wasn't for his children at
home he would make away with him
self. Marsh stated that he was very
sick all the time and did not want to
live.
II. w. Thrasher testified that he
had a talk with Marsh, in which the
latter told him he was sick all the
time and would rather die than live.
Louis w. Avery of Mortified testi-
fed that he had a conversation with
Marsh before the latter's death.
Marsh asked him for composition OF
horse powders, containing many in
gradients, among them arsenic. Wit
ness told Marsh that il he were not
used to handling arsenic he should be
very careful, because il is poison.
Marsh replied that he was used to
arsenic and had used great
deal OF il in powders for long time.
Witness also testified concerning n
which took place between
|. O. Henry and A. o. Smith, in the
atter's blacksmith shop. Henry re-
lated events which he claimed occurred
In the Marsh house the Tuesday be-
fore Marsh's death. Henry, in this
said that Buzzell gave
him some stuff out of Il bowl, which
looked like sulphur.
\. o. Smith, the Mortified black
smith, testified, corroborating the
testimony Of the preceding witness in
regard to the conversation between
himself and Henry.
George w. Clark of Mortified tes-
tilted that he had conversation with
Marsh in which the latter told him
that he was not able to work and had
an intense agony in the bowels and
stomach. II he worked hard and
then ate supper, he claimed that he
was unable to sleep at all. Witness
also noticed the death-like pallor of
face.
Court then adjourned until 1890
Monday morning.
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