The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-04-27
RATHBUN MURDER TRIAL
ANOTHER BIG CROWD IN THE
 COURT ROOM YESTERDAY.

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 Surprising Statements Read Fron
 stenogrnphtc Notes by the Coroner
 Mrs. Rathbun Accuses Her Dead Illus
 band of the Poisoning - The Afternoon
 Witnesses.
 I The Rathbun murder trial attracted another very large crowd yesterday 1T
 the superior court. In the morning session Coroner Mix was on the witness stand and he read from his stenograph- CTS notes the testimony taken at three examinations of Mrs. Rathbun, one al police headquarters and another at the (jail
 | Calling the coroner into the room af. ! ter having said that she had told the whole truth about the case at police headquarters, he said she told him that she had not told the whole truth. Then she related to him the fact that her husband had sent her to purchase box of rough on rats" with the reason for which he did not give.
 When she got home with it Mrs Rathbun said that her husband told | her it was a good chance to kill Hart | He told her not to let the children touch l Hart's coffee when he went to bed and she in so many words confessed that she suspected when Hart and her hus- band came home that her husband had used the poison in the coffee. oft r,iD xta oy> ened with the testimony of Dr. Klenke continued from the hearing in the morn ing.
 The next witness to testify was Alonzo Johnson, the engineer of the 1, train that carried Hart and Rathbun on the day of the poisoning. MT. John son was put through number of questions by the state and defense. He told of how the men were hanging over the end of the train apparently very sick and what seemed to him an un- successful attempt to vomit.
 John Currier, Q brakeman of the train, testified very much along the same lines.
 Albert Rogers, drug clerk of Hulls drug store, said that the sample of rough on rats purchased by Mrs. Rathbun was the only kind sold in the store.
 He was followed on the stand by Clerk Hayden. of the same store, who identified Mrs. Rathbun as the one who bought a package of rough on rats" on the day before the tragedy.
 A recess was declared at 3:30, and at 3:45 it was over.
 Detective McGrath was put on the stand by the state after the recess. He
 said he was acquainted with Mrs. Rathbun and said he first met her on Sunday after the death of her hus- band.
 Where was Mrs. Rathbun?" m
 At her l1ome.''
 Did you have any conversation with Mrs. Rathbun at the time?'
 Detective McGrath-"Mrs, Rathbun was asked by Detective Ward concern ing the making of the coffee" Object ed to by defense.
 Witness-'I asked her regarding the sugar used in the coffee. She said she took the sugar from the cup and that she used the same sugar for the wine in the house. After boiling the coffee she put it in the can and left 1t on the rear of the stove until morning. The next morning her husband got up and went to his train as usual. The next she knew Hart came home sick, and said her husband would probably come home soon. Mrs Rathbun said that she didn't know what was the matter with the men"
 Attorney Williams-"Were you pres ent at the examination conducted by the coroner and taken down by the stenographer ?"
 Yes sir. I attended two examina- tions"
 Gan you state anything that was said in reference to rough on rats?'
 ''The coroner asked her If she ever had any rough on rats in the house, and she said she never had any,
 Do you remember if anything was said as to her relations with Mir. Hart?'
 She denied that she had been inti- mate"
 Anything else?"
 ''She said she had never been in the Sea View hotel; and later said she had been to the hotel once with Hart. Lat er on the coroner asked her on the same subject and she again admitted that they went to the hotel and got a room Mrs. Rathbun said that she was lnti- mate frequently with Hart up to three pr four months before MT. Rathbun's death"
 The witness then went on to say that Mrs. Rathbun said at the hearing that Hart had gone with other women.
 Did you hear her say what was the ,ause of her husbands death?"
 T can't say that
 Did you hearNher say anything about going up town Thursday night with her 
 Yes" Did she say anything about who let Ter in when she got home?" "Yes; she said her husband got up md let her in Anything about going down stairs hat night?" "Yes. She told her husband not to 1 70 down stairs. and she told Walter | her son) not to go down stairs" Did you hear her say anything about | Ter purchasing rough on rate?'" Yes" When was it?'
 "On the 18th, I think" What was said by her?" "The coroner asked her what time she puubt if and Sbe said Th1lrsdaV at |