Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-12-18

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to the side Of the buggy where Kuhn
was and listened for heart beats. Mrs.
Kuhn was making a noise and he told
me to keep her quiet that he could not
hear anything. So / got her out of
the buggy and told her to keep still.
She made an effort and suppose that
she was as quiet as she could be under
the circumstances. The doctor said
he was not dead yet that he could hear
heart beats. He said that he would
have to get him out and / started to
carry him into the doctors house, but
home and the doctor said we might
just as well, SO she resumed her posi-
ton in the buggy and 1 resumed mine
and we started towards Kuhn's house,
the doctor following us as quick as
he could. We drove to his barn north
of his house and shop which are to-
gether; she told me to drive to the
barn; when we got there l suggested
that she go to the house and light the
lamp. she said that she was afraid
1 told her nothing would hurt her.
Just then some one, two or three par
tiSo, oPPSiiSo SOlliliS3 lloAl IllC ooulll.
They had heard talking and came to
see what was the matter. Sam Wilson
and w. A. Dunn were the first two
that remember coming. told them
that ii they would watch the horse /
woulu go help Mrs. Kuhn. She started
ahead of me. I overlook her and lit
the lamp and ran back to the buggy.
We carried Charles Kuhn into the
hnrca Sam Wi1cnr bo1no6 narrv hi n,
in.
The last talking Kuhn did was
about the time we were passing Will
liam Dunn's barn before we got to DR..
Busby's residence. He was sitting up
in the buggy when we got to the barn.
He was not conscious when we car
ried him into the house, we placed
him on the lounge in the dining room
and waited for the doctor His eyes
were open and looked to me just as
dead persons eyes look, set and glas-
sy, his mouth was open. AS soon as
we got him in where the light shown
on him 1 said: Its goodbye Charley
and no use for the doctor to come
now" 1 don't remember there was
anything SO uncommon about the ex-
preston on his face. He was lying on
his back, his limbs always had
drawn appearance ] noticed no par
ticular difference as to that. When we
carried him in the house he seemed to
be in a rigid condition. DR.. Morris
came and later DR.. Johnston. They
pronounced him dead before l left.
Sigourney, Dec. 14.-(Special.)- lis
Mrs. Sarah Kuhn guilty of the crime
of causing the death of her husband
by placing strychnine in beer and bo-
logna intended for him. And if she did
what was her motive? These are
questions that are agitating the peo-
pie of Sigourney and Delta and in fact
the entire population OF Keokuk coun-
ty. as well as the jury before whom
the case is being tried.
AS to the first proposition, whether
she placed the poison In the beer, the
evidence is bound to be purely circum
stantial. Yesterday two witnesses tes-
titled to the charges made by Kuhn
against his wife the night he died,
and repeated his dying declaration on
the witness stand. Evidence was also
introduced tending to show that the
dead mans stomach was in the pos
session of persons who should have it
from the time it was taken from Kuhn
until it reached the laboratory of the
chemist who made an analysis of its
contents.
AS to the second proposition-the
mysterious man in the case, whose
name has not been spoken in an Of
fetal way, and who is supposed to be
the incentive for committing the
crime, if the theory of the state is
correct, there is no evidence as yet.
None may be introduced, for the wo-
man may be innocent and in that
event the death of Charles Kuhn will
b, shrouded in the greatest mystery.
Mrs. Kuhn Is childIike.
The fair defendant sits near her at
torneys and looks at the witnesses in
open-eyed wonder as they testify to
damaging matters. She does not
finch when witnesses testify to the
accusations made by her deceased
husband. Neither is there any evil
dence of horror when physicians tell
of cutting the body open and remov-
ing the stomach. heart and lungs. In
short Mrs. Kuhn is mystery. She is
being enmeshed in chain of circum-
stantial evidence and the web seems
to be more firmly woven and to be
drawing more closely around her on
each day of the trial, the outcome Of
which is awaited with breathless in
|terest.
The Testimony.
George McVey, of Iowa City, agent
of the United States express company
at that place, testified to receiving the
package which was supposed to have
contained the vltals of Charles Kuhn,
sent to that place for a chemical anal
ysis. The package was re-shipped
from Iowa City to Des Moines where
it was finally analysed. This evidence
was merely to show that the package
had never been out of the custody of
the express company.
w. A. Dunn, Fay Reed and Albert
Dawson, all of Delta, testified that
they heard Kuhn say the night he died
that his wife had poisoned him. Each
of the witnesses described the condi-
lions as other witnesses have said
they were.
The evidence of ]. M. Adams, the
coroner, however, who testified to
what Mrs. Kuhn had said before the
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