The Topeka state journal., 1901-01-16
CHLORAL DID IT.
Chemist and Physician Testify
That Jennie Bosschieter
Came to Her Death From Knock
Out Drops.
DEATHS CONFESSION.
Told Detectives She Was Given
Dope Three Times.
Placed the Blame on His Part
ner, McAIlister.

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a. m, on the morning of October 19.
| McAister, Kerr and Campbell awakened
MIN at his house and told him they had
a young woman in a carriage outside
/ who had met with an accident. The
| witness found Jennie BoSschieter in the
vehicle. She was dead.
Professor Witthauss an analytical
chemist of New York, testified that the
\ few drops of liquid in the bottle found
near the scene of the crime We're chlora1
hydrate. He found five grains of choral
| hydrate in the stomach of the girl
DR.. Andrew Mcbride. county physi-
! clan, who performed the autopsy, testi-
fed that the chloral caused the girls
/ death. He said all the organs of the
/ body were in normal condition.
1 Detective Titus gave an account OF
i Deaths confession. Death was worked
up to a high degree of excitement.
| Judge Scott spoke to him, and tried to
| calm him.
Detective McInery went over the same
! ground as the previous witness. He
| then went on to say:
AT $50 the next morning, or rather
! the same one. for it was morning when
Death was in the Office I went to
Deaths cell and asked him if he had
Death sprang to his feet before the
officer could finish. and exclaimed:
You lie; you He.
Judge Scott dragged the highly ex-
cited young man to his seat Death
was trembling violently, and seemed
completely unnerved. Death went upon
I Lle STAND. he Sdlu he WAS dIIGSlc4 OAL
a Monday night and was taken to the
station house. where there were two
other detectives. He continued:
There were three revolverS on the |
table in the station house. Titus said to
me: Billy, these revolvers are not load |
ed, SO don't try to kill yourself "
He was questioned by the detectives |
and answered them Then he testified, |
Titus said TO him:
Billy. you are not telling the truth |
Tell the true story and well see that you /
come out of It all right -
He said he was afraid of the revol- |
vers. He was asked where he was that t
night. He answered because he thought |
the officers could get him free. Death /
was allowed to step down without hav-
ing told what he claimed to have told /
the detectives
Judge Dixon admitted the testimOr
of the officers relative to Deaths doings
and sayings in the station house
Detective Titus was recalled and said
Death had admitted regarding the girl: I
\ Wen, she certainly had the dope
thrown into her."
Death said McAllister put knock out
drops in the girls glass three times
William Perry, policeman, related an
other confession in which Death said
McAllister was the cause of all the trou-
Bile. The defense did not crOSs-examine |
Mr. Emely then submitted his case as
complete.
The state having rested its case the
proceedings continued with the presen-
tation by counsel Of the case for the
defense.
OF the three men accused. Death
showed most the effects nf the stra in !
through which they are passing and
detection and extreme nervousness were
depicted in his countenance and move
ments. McAlister on the other hand
was comparatively self possessed, but
Campbell was evidently troubled and
anxious. There is a posi- bility of the
defense closing it's case today and the
trial being concluded tomorrow with
the summing up and the judges charge.
When Judge Dixon opened court
counsel for the accused asked that
Schulthorpe, the hack driver, be recall
ed so that he might be confronted with
the record of his conviction of a crime
Of which he had previously been found
Judge Dixon denied the request on the
ground that the point sought to be made
Michael Dunn then delivered his ad-
dress, opening the case for the defense
Counsel promised to prove that the
death of Jennie BOSSchieter was not
caused by the commission Of a criminal
assault, and also that the charge of
wilful murder could not stand against
the defendants
Mr.. Dunn proceeded with a narrative
of the events proving the death of Jen-
ME BOsschieter. the purpose of it being
to show that the meeting of the four
men. McAlIister. Campbell Death and
Kerr was not prearranged but that the
girl made the first advances that opened
the way for the meeting at Saals sa-
loon.
IN the saloon, according to counsel,
the girl drank freely, taking cocktails
and absinthe. She became drOWsy-
Then she was escorted from the saloon | :
to the hack, fMcAllister and Death walk
ing on either side OF her. She was not
carried, the attorney said
The narrative of counsel for the de-
fense proceeded with the ride in the
hack to the place where the girl died.
She had become unconscious and the
men lifted her from the hack to the
ground where they knelt around her
and made every effort to revive her
She was taken with nauseau and the
men used their pocket handkerchiefs to
wipe her face. The hackman. counsel
said, was mistaken when he testified that
the accused men assaulted the girl.
Despairing of succeeding in restoring
the girl to consciousness. the men put s
her back in the hack and drove for aid
to the house of the nearest physician. :
The death of Jennie Bosschieter coun-
sci said, was accidental; her drink was
not drugged and her person was not
either of the others Of the party
counsel said fall to any other girl un-
der similar circumstances.
David Vermullen. an undertaken. who
buried the body of the girl. was the first a
witness called for the defense. He tes-
tied that he assisted in embalning the :
body and that two quarts of embaITn-
ng fluid were used. Witness was not
present at either of the autopsies. After
The funeral he was directed to reopen
the grave and a small box which he
contained parts of the girls
remains. was taken out and delivered S
10 the authorities. t