Barre evening telegram. (Barre, Vt.) 1898-19??, 1899-02-21
NEW TURN TO INQUEST
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DR.. Douglass Tells the story OF bar'
nets Death.
POISON IN KUTNOW POWDER
The Physician Explains why "e
Not Report to the boar"
of Health When the
CIubmnn Died.

New York. Feb. 21.--The Inquest in'o
the poisoning of Mrs. Kate j. Ada"'e
was taken up again before coroner
Hart and a jury of II men in the corr
ner's court in the criminal courts pu''o
ing. This makes the eighth session oi
the court, and there seems no reason 20
doubt that il will take the district at
torney more than week to present 10
the iury all the evidence that he has IN
his possession.
Assistant District Attorney Maurice
Blumenthal said before court began
that he did not think the case would be
finished this week. He also said that
Colonel Gardiner confidently believes
that indictments and arrests VIII io''o"
the close Of the inquest
Before the end of this week" he sald'
you will see what line we have oeeh
following, and then questions that may
have seemed absurd will appear IN 'heH
true light. We have not asked uhneces-
sary questions, and that fact VIII De APP
parent very soon.'
The first witness was Harry A. hins.
one Of Cornish's chief friends. he tolo
about the narrow escape he had had III
the Knickerbocker club from saInpIns
the bromo settler and explained that
the only reason he did not take any OF
it was that there was neither water III
the cooler nor a glass. Or. Douglass
who attended Barnet in his fatal III
ness was then called to the stand. lie
was asked:
"Please tell all you know of Barnets
death"
ION Oct 80, 1898, I was called to at
tend Mr.. Barnet at the knickerbocker
Athletic club. l met him in the care.
He was talking with DIR. A. Nj. Ranney.
met him in the adjoining room. when
he was with Colonel Austin. I asked
him what the trouble was. He said ne
had sore throat. l could not examine
him there, and we went to his room.
Then examined his throat. l told him
he probably had a mild case of diph-
liberia.
Kutnow Made Him Sick.
Upon the morning OF Nov. 4 found
some evidences of mercurial liberation
in the throat. He told me on Oct. 80
that he had taken a small dose of Kut-
now powder, which made him very sick,
so much so that he had almost vomited.
"Then on Nov. looked at the Kut-
now powder and took 1t to some chem
lists for examination. 1 supposed there
might have been some calomel In ii.
Mr.. Ellison, the chemist, smelled 1t and
said there could be no calomel in it, but
there probably was a bichloride. He
analysed it and found cyanide Of mer-
curry. He then labeled the box in my
presence as having been analysed by
him.
II took the box back to Barnet and
informed him what the powder contain
ed. 1 suggested that the mercury may
have been responsible for his symptoms.
II asked him how the poison got there
He said he didn't know. l asked him IL
should keep the box or if he wanted it.
He said l should keep 1t. and he would
attend to 1t when he got we'll.
II thought the case of enough impor-
lance to institute a search for the wrap
per in which it had come through the
mail. We never could find it. I asked
him If he wanted to tell me who he
thought sent it to him, and he said:
No; I'll attend to this when get WE'LL
You came to the conclusion before
his death that Barnet had dphtheria 2"
YES sir"
What was the cause of death given
BY you IN the certif1cate?"
Cardiac failure and diphtheritic
throat"
Made No Report.
"You did not think it necessary to
inform the board of health that he had
diphtheria ?"
"Well / took advantage of a techni-
cality in that respect. He did not have
meteorological diphtheria, but he did
have clinical dphtheria. AS did not
find in the culture had taken from his
throat any real diphtheria germs did
not regard it as incumbent upon me to
report the case as diphtheria."
Then when you took advantage Of
this 1t must have been to the advantage
of some one. Who was that person."
mo one in particular-not to me. The
only idea was that it would be better
for him."
WAS there any person who spoke to
you and asked you to suppress the fact
that he had diphtheria ?"
mo"
1T seems very strange that you
should have acted as you did. The rules
are they not?'
"They are
"They call for isolation, don't they?"
"They do. but we had practiced isola-
ton there"
do you mean that? Don't you know
that the nurses were going about the
club and that the members were going
in to visit him?"
II don't know that. I never saw It,
Orders We're issued to allow no one in"
Fatal Fight of Three Brothers.
St. Joseph, Mo-, Feb. 81 - Thomas