The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1898-10-13
GOODIN JURY STILL OUT
THE ALLEGED C0NsPIRATOR WILL
KNOW HER FATE TO-DAY.
New Evidence Developed Since the
Case CIOsed-What a Choir
Singer Saw.

The case against Mrs. Maud Goodin,
charged with conspiracy with Mrs. Lulu
Kline to injure DR.. Aimee Haskinson by
throwing acid in her face went to the jury
at $50 o'clock yesterday evening. AT 10
o'clock last night a verdict had not been
reached and it was understood at that hour
that there was not likely to be an agree
ment during the night A crowd of about
fifty people, most of them women, sat in the
courtroom part of the evening waiting for
the verdict. Mrs. Goodin the accused
woman, was not present, but her son-in-law,
Robert Strouse, waited until 10 o'clock. At
that hour Judge McCray came in and re-
manned a few minutes. When he went home
it was with the understanding that he was
not to be disturbed during the night and
that no verdict would be received until this
morning.
Now that the case is closed one or two
things have come to light that were not
brought out during the trial. Much stress
has been placed on the testimony of Mrs.
Kline that she and Mrs. Goodn went to Dr.
HaSkinSon's house at Pennsylvania and
New York streets on the night of May II
last, for the purpose of shooting the doctor.
Mrs. Kline related how they stood outside
at the window and how Mrs. Goodin asked
her to open the blind while she Mrs. Good
i'm would shoot through the window. Mrs.
Kline refused to be party to the assassina-
ton after the preliminaries had been ar
ranged and thus the plot miscarried 1t is
now said that had the women shot through
the window at the solitary figure in the
room DR.. Haskinson would not have been
injured The bullet would have struck DR..
Harriet Turner, the partner of DR.. Haskin-
son. Miss Turner was alone in the Office
that night. AT the moment the two alleged
assassins were standing outside planning to
take her life Dr. Haskinson was in a rear
room asleep and safe from harm. DR..
Turner now lives in Chicago.
Yesterday evening just after the jury had
retired the state learned of some new and
important evidence that goes to corroborate
the story of Mrs. Lulu Kline as to the
events of May II, the night on which the
doctor was to have been assassinated in her
own home 1t is claimed that on that night
a young woman who is a member of the
First Baptist Church choir put in the early
part of the evening at the church, and after
practice had occasion TO wait for several
minutes on the steps that lead TO a side
door of the church. These steps are almost
directly opposite DR.. Haskinson's home.
The young woman, ii is claimed. saw two
women walking back and forth across the
street They wore 'fascinators. and in this
particular filled the description given by
Mrs Nellie Nichols, one of the states wit
nesses, who testified that on the night of
May II she saw Mrs. Kline and Mrs. Goodin
come into the Empire block from the street.
She remembered that they wore 'fascina-
tors over their heads. The choir singer
claims TO have heard one of the women
speak of having a revolver" and of shoot
ing some one" The girl says she dreaded
being called into the court and kept silent
concerning what she had heard.
MR. DIfNCAN'S CLOSE
Attorney John s. Duncan in closing his
argument yesterday had something to say
about the character Of the states witnesses.