The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-12-29

We're in the office during the day and
saw the bottle, bottle holder and por-
ton of the wrapper. His desk was open
the greater part of the day, and in the
evening Cornish said he took the bot
tie, bottle holder and address home
with him to the Adams fiat, at 81 West
seth street
BOTTLE IDENTIFIED.
Cornish was then shown the poison
bottle and holder, and identified them
he again told of taking them home
Shortly after reaching his home that
evening, he said, Mrs. Adams came in
He showed the things to her and they
! both commented on the similarity
between the bottle-holder and some
! small toilet trinkets she had on hel
dressing table. He said he told Mrs
Adams that he had no use for thf
holder, and gave it to her, and that
he was now positive that she put il
on her dressing table. He put the sup
posed b1omo-Seltzer and the wrapper il
his own desk in his room and left them
there.
The next morning when he arose, he
said, he went to the kitchen to get his
morning paper. He saw Mrs. Adams
with a bandage around her forehead
He took his paper and returned to mis-
room and began to read. a few min
utes later Mrs. Rogers went to his
room and told him that her mother was
i'll, that she had a headache, and
wanted him to give her some bromo-
settler. He said he gave the bottle to
Mrs Rogers, who took it out of the
room. A moment later Mrs. Adams re-
urned with the bottle and said she
could not open it, The bottle was
sealed with psraffine wax.
Cornisn told of opening the bottle,
while Mrs. Adams brought a glass for
him to pour out a dose of the bronco
settler. He said he turned the bottle
up, but the contents would not run out,
and he had to knock it against the
palm of his hand to loosen the stuff. He
big dose" and Mrs. Adams drank it,
remarking at the time, Cornish testi-
fed, that 1T tasted sour and queer"
TOOK DOSE HIMSELF.
Il told her." continued Cornish, "that
the stuff was all right and took a dose
Of it myself, though maybe not so large
one as she did. She then went out
and I sat down and commenced read
ing my paper. Not more than two OF
three minutes afterwards she cried out
to me to come and help her. I jumped
up and ran to where she stood in the
dining room. At that time I had felt
no effects of the stuff, but as soon as
l got up my knees failed me-they
seemed to weaken all at once. When
| got to Mrs. Adams, or just as ! got
to her, she fell to the floor. 1 stopped
over and tried to lift her, but could not
do so.
II asked what was the matter and
she said she did not know She could
hardly talk and her face was drawn
and ashy l left her lying on the floor
and ran to the hall and called to the
hall boy to run quickly for a doctor
as some one was sick. Mrs. Rogers and
I then laid Mrs. Adams on the lounge
and 1 went to hurry the boy, but found
he had already gone. Then l went over
to drug store at the corner of the
street, and there I told the druggist
that somebody was sick and that
thought it was poison. He asked %le
what she had taken and 1 picked UP
bromo-SeltZer bottle and said it was
like that. He said, Why, that's not
poison; that's bromo-seltzer.' Then ]
asked him what to give Mrs. Adams
and he said he did not know, that he
did not know what she had taken.
Then I went back to the house.
Had the doctor come them" asked
Mr.. Osborne.
mo- the doctor had not. The boy had
gotten back and said he had asked DR..
Hitchcock to come and that he said he
would"
Here the court adjourned until to-
morrow.