The Worcester spy. [volume] (Worcester, Mass.) 1898-1904, 1899-02-16

II she had taken anything else, and the.
told me no." He poured whisky dow
Mrs. Adams throat and did all he coull
to promote artificial respilation. He
was satisfied she was dead then but
Mrs. Rogers kept urging him to do
more.
The doctor continued: Cornish came
in then. I did not like his color at all.
He had the same hue Mrs Adams had
had, and l gave him some whisky. He
asked: Can it be anything else but
bromo- seltzer?' and ! said it certainly
could. Then I asked him for the bottle
and it was brought from an adjoining
room. 1 noticed that very little had
been taken from it,"
DR.. Hitchcock described the white
precipitate in she bottom of a glass that
stood on the table, and said: "The bot
tie stood upon the table. Cornish started
toward it. 1 told him to drop it. Leave
that alone, l said. had previously ex-
amined Mrs. Adams for symptoms of
strychnine poisoning, but as a body
poisoned by strychnine stiffens rather
than becomes limp knew that she had
been poisoned by something else.
placed the bottle within easy reach Of
me so that no one could touch it.
believed that MI Cornish had taken
some OF it by his actions. l am sure
there were two glasses, one in which
was the white precipitate and another
which Cornish had brought from an
other room. When I saw that he was
apparently getting to the danger point
L reached for the bottle and placed it
in my pocket. The cork protruded about
half an inch from the mouth of the
bottle. l removed it. I saw no parafine
about the cork or mouth Of the bottle.
(This is dramatically opposite to the
testimony of previous witness, Mr..
Hovey, who stated emphatically that
the cork was covered with parafne.)
II took the bottle from my pocket,
removed the cork and endeavOred to
find out what it contained by smelling
it. There was no perceptible odor at
that time took my little finger, wet
1t with my mouth and placed it in the
bottle and a little of the powder adj
hered to it which I placed on the end
of my tongue. [ was standing over the
table.
Instantly after | touched the pow
der to my tongue ] sank back into a
chair partially paralyzed. The powder
had metallic taste, and was extremely
nauseating. l had eaten no breakfast,
and l laid its effects partially to this
fact. 1 started to get up, but could not
except by holding to the table. Mrs.
Rogers was continually imploring me to
do something for her mother She did
not realize that her mother was beyond
human assistance. I was very sick my
self. and did not know how soon ! would
follow ner. I sent for DR.. Potter and Sc
lected Cornish to go because he was
sick and | thought that the fresh air
would do him good. This was at $50
o'clock. Ten minutes later DR.. Potter
came, and / asked everybody TO leave
the room except him. ] had the bottle,
holder and wrapper at that time in my
possession. l realized that crime had
been committed. / said a diabolical
crime has been committed This was
said in the presence of Cornish and Mrs.
Rogers. DIR. Potter and l held con-
ference, and DR., Potter asked me what
| thought the bottle contained. I told
him that | thought il was cyanide Of
potassium, with possibly little mer-
curry in it.
AT that time 1 did not know what
cyanide of mercury was. While Dr.
Potter and I were talking, Cornish. Mrs
Rogers and Hovey entered the room
DR.. Potter agreed with me that the
powder was a compound. ! suggested
TO Cornish and Mrs. Rogers to go to
an undertaken and said that | would
notify the coroner at once and the DO
lice. l neglected to notify the police.
They did not know any undertaken
] suggested Undertaken Brown of Col
umbus avenue. Mrs. Rogers asked if