Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1899-10-07
t times nervous, drowsy. fretful


childish, and sick at all times, he
thought he would be of unsound mind
Witness would not undertake to decide
the question of mans sanity, without
a clear history of the case and an in
terview with the patient.
DR.. Hupp read the will, by request
of counsel, and regarded it as the work
of a clear and accurate mind. 1t was
impossible for a man in such a condi-
ton as Capt. Dovener had pictured DR..
Pipes, to write such a document.
Mrs. F. D. jolly testified that she Wis
iited at the home of DR.. Pipes frequent
ly. During the year preceding his
death, the doctor was nervous, forget
full and restless. She had seen him I'M
der the influence of narcotics. There
was no improvement in his condition
after his return from Mountain Lake
Park and Asheville, N. C.
Mrs. Nixon spent the winter of '97-9S
at the home of DR.. Pipes. She thought
he was using narcotics constantly dur
ing that time. He would rave at nights.
and would fall into a stupor. He was
irritable. and excitable.
About three o'clock Mr.. Hubbard
noticed the Rev. Mr.. Bigger in the
court room. He told the court he had
permitted him to be excused because
Mr.. Bigger said he had been called
from the city. He asked that he be re-
called and excluded from the court
room. Mr.. Bigger jumped. to his feet
and stated emphatically that he was
tired of that lawyers insinuations. =
He explained that he was having some
printing done at the Register, and that
he was compelled to wait in order to
read the proof. He had asked the
sheriff as to the propriety of his return
ing to the court room. Judge Hervey
expressed his confidence that DR.. Bigger
had acted in good faith and assured
him that he had done nothing wrong.
The incident created a stir in the court
room.
A little later Mr.. Hubbard objected TO
the presence in the court room of Dr.
Meighen. Dr. Meighen arose, and stat
ed he had been told that he would not
he wanted. Explanations were made by
counsel, and he was permitted to re-
main.
Mr.. Jolly went on the stand, testified
to seeing Dr. Pipes frequently, to his
knowledge of his use of narcotics, and
their effect upon him.
Charles Altmyer was called. He was
clerk at Stewards pharmacy, in front
of DR.. Pipes office, and adjoining his
residence, up to the time of DR.. Pipes
death. He testified that the doctor fire.
quently came into the drug store and
took cocaine from the poison case. He
did not use much morphine while at
home, but witness sent quantities OF 1t
to him at Mountain Lake Park three
times, ten grains each time. He got
the drugs about twice a day. The doc
tor always said he had an operation to
perform. The morphine he sent was in
quarter and eighth grain tablets.
DR.. Eugene Hildreth testified that the
habitual use of bromides and opiates
would induce mental torpor, and that
the mental and moral condition OF the
patient might be upset by their use.
Cocaine is more deleterious in its eff
fects than the other drugs. One-eighth
of an ounce Of morphine is an ordin-
airy dose. If patient took two ounces,
he took sixteen teaspoonsful. The ef-
feet of the drugs would depend in a
measure upon the person, and upon ms
condition The drugs would diminish
the richness of the blood, reducing the
size of the blood corpuscles, making the
face pallid and impairing the vital
forces. They would cause brief exhilar-
alton, followed by extreme mental and
physical depression. A man addicted to
their habitual use would ordinarily not
he canable of any sustained mental eff
fort, but might pursue any ordinary
avocation in an automatic way he
could not say that man might not at
times be of disposing mind.
There was a short delay, occasioned
by the non-appearance of W. r. Cooey,
Of the undertaking firm of Cooey &
Bentz. Mr. Hubbard moved to exclude
the evidence offered by contestants.
The motion was promptly overruled,
and exception noted. The plaintlffs
rested.
The executors introduced DR.. Nc
Glumphy, of Rock Lick, Marshall coun-
ty. He testified that while in Cameron
he visited Dr. Pipes at the request OF
DIR. Stidger, and in company with nm.
He found Dr. Pipes in very poor health,
but his mind was rational, and there
was no indication of insanity. AT the
conclusion of his testimony, court ad-
iourned until this morning. How many
witnesses the executors Will examine is
not known, but it is likely that the en-
tire day will be taken up with evidence,
and that the arguments VIII not De
made until Monday.