The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-21

| had cried about it. She did not saw t.
! any one on the day before Mr.. Barnet's
| death, It's too bad; the poor fellow is
not getting proper medical treatment !,
Witness said that Barnet said to her
| about AZ hours before he died: Il think
| l am growing weaker, let my friends
| know" She asked MIN if she should
notify anybody besides mis- brother. and
he shook his head. Barnet would not
obey the doctors instructions, but in
sisted upon getting up and sitting
about the room.
David Murdoch, bookseller and sta
| TONER, from whom Mrs. Rogers, the
| daughter of Mrs. Adams, rented a pri-
Nate letter box under the name of
Miss Addison, testified that anna, v
| Addison rented a letter box from him
for three years prior to 1897. She had
g great many letters. Mrs. Rogers be-
came indignant when she discovered
! that her identity had been revealed to
him, and withdrew her patronage from
| Mr.. Murdoch on April IS, 1897. He said
| that number of the letters addressed
! g her bore the winged foot of the
New York Athletic Club. Mrs. Adams
frequently called for the mail.
witness said he had never delivered
Z
nlSh. He had never seen Cornish.
DR.. Albert Nedder. d dentist, testi-
fed thar he knew Mrs. Rogers. On one
! occasion he was entering Mr.. Muir
docks store as Mrs. Rogers was leaV-
ing. She became the subject of CONVEX
Sation with Murdoch, and he learned
that she was living under two names.
He had sent to Mrs. Rogers several
I times 10 collect bill and on discoV-
ering that she was living under the
name OF Addison, addressed another
bill to her under that name. Soon
afterward Mrs. Adams called at his
Office and appeared indignant that he
should have sent a bill to her daugh-
ter under the name of Addison.
Mrs. Florence b. Rogers, daughter of
Mrs. Adams, was next called to the
stand. She was accompanied by her
friend, Mrs. Hovey, who sat behind
her while she was giving her testimony,
and famed her. Mrs. Rogers eyes
were swollen, as If from weeping.
Assistant District Attorney Osborne
invited her TO tell all the circumstan-
ces of her mothers death, and she
I told almost the same story that Cor
nish and Hovey had tCld Of the occur
FENCES of the morning of Dec. 2S.
My mother told me-" she said, "she
had a violent headache and asked me
if there was anything in the house she
could take. 1 told her I did not know
of anything, and then recalled the fact
that Mr.. Cornish had brought home a
bottle of Promo settler the day before.
She asked me what it was like and l
told her 1 had never taken any. She
said she would try it, and l knocked
at Mr. Cornish's' door and asked him
for the bottle. ! triad to open the bot
tie to give it to her myself, but 1
could not. 1 called Mr.. Cornish and
asked him to open it. He did so, and
my mother took the Dose 1t was a
heaping teaspoonful.
"She went to the hath room and be-
came very sick 1 heard her trying to
call out but she couldn't. I went to
her and she tried to speak to me and
fell. l could not lift her 1lp. She was
quite helpless. I called Mr.. Cornish and
he was not able to move her; then we
called Mr.. Hovey, and they both lifted
her from the floor and carried her into
the dining room. I don't remember
how long it was before the doctor
came, and we told him all we knew.
All that time l was beside my mother
chatting her hands.
The doctor asked me for water
think it was warm water. / got a hot
water bottle and some cloths that L
hung on the radiator to heat"
At this point Mrs. Rogers broke down
and cried softly. She complained of
the heat and the window beside eher
was opened and a drink of water was
given to her. Then she recovered her
self ana continued her story.
Or. Hitchcock told me my mother
was very i'll, but he did not tell me she
was dying. Cornish was sick then in
the bath room, and 1 asked Mr.. Hitch
cock to do something for him. The
doctor gave me a tablet as big as a
dime and told me to tell Cornish to
swallow it.
DIR. Potter arrived just then. He
said there was nothing he could do.
don't remember that he said anything
else; but three or four days after he
sent me his bill for $40, for doing
nothing. I don't remember all that was
said and done. DR.. Hitchcock sent me
out of the room several times for diff
ferent things.
II paid no particular attention to
what DR.. Hitchcock said to Cornish I'M
til l heard him say the coroner must
be notified
Cornish said he would tell the dis
trict attorney and [ think both doc
tors said that would not be necessary
After that l was taken out of the
room. People kept coming to the
house. l don't remember who came
until [ saw a policeman. One came
TO my room. Then Mr.. MCINTYRE
assistant district attorney came. He
questioned everybody in the house and
asked for the bottle, the bottle holder
and the glass. He said he thought a
cold-blooded murder had been COM
mitted, with the intention of killing
Mr.. Cornish. Then I saw DR.. Weston
the coroners physician, who took q
statement of mymother's age and told
me she had been poisoned"
Mrs. Rogers told of the receipt of
the holder and poison bottle by Cor
nish as told by Cornish to her dur
ing, the dinner on Sunday, when Cor
nish spoke of it, They had been talk
ing of Christmas presents and Cornish
said he had received one. Next morn
ing / asked him why he didn't bring it
to the house. and he brought it up
that night. She saw the handwriting
on the wrapper, and said it looked to
her like a lady's handwriting dis
guised. When Mrs. Rogers had reached
this point in her statement, Mr.. Os
borne said he would leave the cross
examination until tomorrow
An adjournment was then taken I'M
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