The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1899-10-07

Inc LeSLlllUuy VI pltyAASAoAA9 ASoslAee
ing the effect Of narcotics was the fea-
ture Of the Pipes will contest yesterday,
and the Indications are now that the
case will not conclude earlier than Nom
day evening. The interest manifested
was shown in the number Of spectators
and the case is being fought at every
stage. There we're several Tits between
legal counsel and a host Of objections
during the day. An expert on insanity.
DR.. Henry c. Eyman, superintendent
OF the Ohio insane asylum, was one Of
the witnesses. He testified in the FAM
Gus Mrs. George case at Canton.
DR.. Haning, who with Or. Hall, now
occupies DR., Pipes office. was the first
witness, and his testimony was confined
to q letter sent from Mountain Lake
Park, for DR.. Pipes, by DR., Hall.
DR.. Hall testified that he had written
the letter to DR.. Hanlng in order to in-
tluence the latter to locate In Wheeling.
1t received DR.. Pipes approval and bore
his signature.
Miss Mildred Worrell, Of 21S2 Market
street, book-keeper for W. A. Wilson &
Sons, had done clerical work for DR..
Pipes, and said he was forgetful after
he returned from Mountain Lake Park,
and that in business matters his mem
DRY failed him. Witness said to Mfr.
Hubbard that other business men Of
ten made mistakes.
DR.. Eyman. an expert on narcotics,
to Captain Dovener. told Of his expert
ences with insane patients. he was
acquainted with the effect of chloral,
morphla, cocaine and bromldes. Their
continued use he alleged to DR.. Pipes,
for the period noted, would produce
mental and physical deterioration.
And II as testified, DR.. Pipes took large
doses for nearly a year continually. he
couldn't draw up clearly a document
such as his will.
To Mr.. Hubbard, DR.. Eyman said
that II man dictated the provisions of
such a will without suggestions from
others. he was evidently sane. The
witness was then led to discuss the
various stages Of mental failure. and he
distinguished insanity from a loss Of
memory condition, accompanied by &C.
caslonal emotional manifestations. A
man could have an unsound mind and
not be insane. Under the influence Of
drugs his mind was unsound but not
necessarily permanently unsound. A
practical knowledge Of the case was
necessary to say positively whether
drugs made the patient insane.
DR.. Frank lie Moype Hupp testified
that the continuous use Of opiates was
detrimental to the intellect. A man
who exhibited fear as described by
some witnesses, was at that time tenn
porarily unbalanced in mind.
Rev. R. R. Bigger was recalled In
the afternoon and re-examlned, his tes-
tlmony being practically the same as
on the previous day.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jolly. OF Monaco. Pa,
were examined. Mr.. Jolly's sister Is
the widow of DR.. Pipes. Mrs. Jolly
testified to the doctors use Of drugs
and his failure to recognize his friends
and relatives at times, during 1893.
Mrs B. G. Nixon knew Of the doctors
habit OF using narcotics, and that they
caused him to be nervous, excltable,
exhilarated or depressed,
Charles Altmeyer, the next witness,
prescription clerk at Stewards phar-
macy until last February, testified to
Colonel White as to the proximity OF
DR.. Pipes office and residence: they
were in the same building as the drug
store. The doctor often came into the
drug store and took cocaine and NOR
phia tablets from the poison case.
Witness had sent morphIa to him at
Mountain Lake Park. Witness had put
up for him in the store an ounce Of 10
per cent solution cocaine, about every
other day,the doctor making the excuse
that he needed the drug to perform an
operation. Witness learned in June,
1897, first OF the doctors using drugs.
While sick In his bed the doctor used
morphla tablets. The cocaine was of
ten given in a four per cent solution.
without the doctors knowledge, for
good reasons.
DR.. Eugene A. Hfidreth was asked as
to bromidIn, one Of the oplates DR..
Pipes had used. 1t produced a mental
stupor. MorphIa. by weakening the
physical system blunted the mental and
moral forces. Choral and cocaine had
more or less the same effects as the
other drugs. one-elghth ounce was n
dose, a teaspoonful of morphIa. The doc
tor explained the use and effect Of the
drugs, the size Of ordinary doses, ETC..
under Colonel Whites examination.
Persistent use Of opIates lessened the
vital forces, especially cocaine, habItual
users OF which were not capable Of any
sustained mental effort. Witness be-
lleved the nervous system and mind
would be affected Of any user Of large
doses daily for year.
To. Mr.. Hubbard witness said the
effect of a drug depended on the indI-
vIdunls Idlosyncracy and rs to the
period they we're users. Witness would
vnstly prefer to know the case.
In the absence OF a remaining witness
for the plaintiff, nm arrangement was
made to hear the defense. which began
at 1880 p. m. The first witness was DR..