Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1901-11-29
Trial OF Sarah Quimby.

III Jne trldl OF sara quincy Tor Tn
murder OF her little daughter, Bea
trice, on the night OF May 10, last
the greater lat Of Thursday, all o
| Friday and most OF Saturday fore
noon were used In securing a jury
The regular panel was exhausted,
new one of fifty ordered from tn
townships or North Star, Emerson
Newark and Arcadia, this exhausted
and another OF thirty-tive ordered
from Fulton, Hamilton, Washington
Elba and Lafayette. Eighty-four per
sons were examined as TO their com
potency before Jury was finally ob
tanned This jury consists OF the fol
lowing persons: Bert Melliuger, lth
AGA; Alfred Youngs, Langport; Henry
Cook, Beebe; Thomas Else, Nortf
Star; Louis Mari, Lafayette; Frank
Fox, Ithaca; Geo. Myer, Bannister
Edgar Andrews, Alma; Ray Turner
Eureka: Peter Shank. Edgewood; W.
W. Wyman, Pompeii: Jas. ID. Smith,
Edgewood
Only two OF these, Frank Fox and
Peter Shank, are on the>regular panel.
Prosecutor J. b. Kirby opened the
case for the people at llo'clock Satur-
day. His statement was Gear, con-
else and eminently fair. lie reviewed
the facts as TO Mrs. Bailey's marriage
to Quimby, the purchase OF the NOR
phine, the fact that it was admins
tered Sunday night, and her state
ment TO her niece which readers Of the
HERALD are already familiar with.
He told how she had attempted to
get rid OF the children by binding
them out TO Mrs. IIuson and the Fri
day night before to Mrs. Hallowell.
How the crime was discovered by Mrs.
Odell and John Webster and his wife
TN Monday morning. How Mrs.
Quimby, who claimed to have taken a
large quantity of.morphine was reused
without difficulty and inside Of half
hour was about the house, giving di-
rections as to where mustard ard cof-
fee could be found and the prepare
tion Of the bodies for burial. How
when the prosecutor got there she
said 20 him, IL am a murdereSs, eX-
pect TO 90 to the penitentiary for
life. The emily request | have to
make is tina. you allow me TO see my
children properly buried then | will
90 with you and take nv sentence.
That She wrote a letter TO her mother
in which she confessed the CRIME She
afterward made a detailed confession.
She had dressed the children FOR bur.
ial and removed the furniture from a
north room so that they could be
laid out there where her former hus-
band had been laid ut That she
said ia the presence " the dead bodies
at the undertaker's rooms. Dear ba-
bies, why did mamma-do it," That
10 many other ways she had eStab-
lished her guilt.
John Webster was the first witness
called We shall not repeat the ties.
timony of witnesses given in former
trial bat simply refer 90 il giving only
such parts as diner and apply patric-
ularly TO this case. Mr. Webster's.
the little girl died about 10 o'clock,
lie heard Ms. Quimby say that she
gave the little girl morphine, that she
threw it up and about.l o'clock she
gave her some more. He attempted
to administer water and coffee but
could not. MIS-. Quimby tod where
coffee was and said there was plenty
Of it, where they would find cloths,
board TO lay children out and where to
lay them out. Overheard converse
ton between Prosecutor and Mrs.
Quimby as stated by prosecutor in his
Mrs John Webster confirmed the
testimony OF her husband.
An animated discussion arose over
the corpus deficit but the objection Of
the defense was Overruled.
DR.. F. McCandless was next called.
His testimony was strenuolSly OBJ
jected 10 on the ground that IL was
privileged but the objections were
overruled. His testimony was rep
etitiou OF that previously given except
that he went into detail as TO what
he did and the symptoms OF morphine
and other kinds Of poisoning and
other diseases.
Morphine would cause drOwSiness,
contraction OF pupils, weak heart,
weak pulse, frothing at mouth, uncon-
seriousness, purple lips, palor. He re-
garded the children as beyond help.
Did not use apomorphine because the
children were too far gone. Poison
had gone through the system and par
alyZed the nerve centers. Thought
that no other poison or disease could
give exactly symptoms he found. lie
found no evidence Of violence.
Prosecutor Kirby testified To the
conversation between himself and