The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1902-12-21


small quantity of strychnine and gave
il to her. She rallied Tor a moment
but again went into commissions. Then
became alarmed about the young wo-
man and decided to go 20 the police
station I rushed over there and told
them the circumstances, and when I
came back the woman was dead
The body of Miss Hill was lying on
the sofa when the police arrived, and
her wrap, hat and rubbers were in
other parts of the room When Ques-
toned about this, DR.. Payne said that
he removed the girls things while she
was on the sofa. The rUbbers were
found carefully placed in a corner,
which the police consider as a remark
able fact. if the doctor removed them
while his patient was in commissions.
Left Patient Dying.
The officers believe it strange, too,
that the doctor should have left a dy-
ing patient and walked 10 the police
station. When he got to the station he
told the officers that the woman would
probably be dead by the time they
reached his Office.
Shortly after the death Of the woman
was reported. the county officials and
city detectives were on the scene At
the request of County Attorney Chris
Jensen, DR.. Payne accompanied the pO-
ton was conducted, and he was sub
sequenty locked in Jail and charged
with the crime. A bucket used for car
rying ashes was found in the room
Into this the dead woman had vomited,
and the contents were saved for chem
zeal analysis
The police made a close examination
of DR.. Payne's two rooms They
found enough bottles to stock an or
binary drug store, and a gripsack con-
tanning instruments. They then gath
cred up the letters in the room, OF
which there seemed to be bushels, and
probably not less than 100 were from
girls all over the state of Utah, re-
feTring to criminal operations and re-
questing the doctor TO send them medi-
cines
If any proof of what had occurSed
was lacking after the autopsy, it waF
supplied when Principal Mckay of the
Lowell school opened a letter addressed
TO the dead woman at his home, after
her death It read as follows:
Letter From Her Lover.
COLONY. Mo, Dec. J6, 19O2.-Dear
Anna: Yours Of the 9Th inst. received
this last eve. I have received two let
ters since I came down here. I fear
from what your last adviser said that
he and the other fellow are merely aim
ing TO scare you in order to rob you
of more money. / shall watch the
mails anXiOuSly until I hear what you
have done. Yes, OF course, we viii
hurry things up as much as possible in
order to avoid talk. I viii be ready by
the 10th or 18th of January. VIII that
dO2 By all means, do not tell Matte
MRS. Mckay anything. I want you
to quit worrying yourself sick. We can
marry and live things down. What's
the diff?
Better preserve your health for the
sake of the one who is TO be. Think
of the pleasures We have had and of
the .blisSeS yet to come. 1t viii GER
tainIy be a little paradise of passion.
I don't know Just what you mean by
being satisfied with platOnic love, but
if that's the way you want Il, l VIII
endeavOr to be satisfied. You know
about how platOnic I am in my rela-
lions to the dear women. Well. my ma
ture has not changed, even though I
see the beauties of the unsensual ma
lures. I should like to be a beautiful,
clear. crystallized iceberg, but I amt,
and so. Well, hello, Nc"
The name Of the supposed writer is
McMurray, who was here for several
months during last spring and summer.
and who kept company with Miss Hill.
His letter was from Colony. Mo. as in
dicated. and that town is but a short
distance from Miss Hills home, Novel
ty, Mo.
Came Here From the East
Miss Anna D. Hill, the dead woman,
was % years Of age, and a native of
Novelty, Mo, where her parents and
brothers and sisters reside at the pres
ent time She came here to teach
school in 1896, and was assigned to the
sixth grade Of the Lowell school, under
Principal c.. y. Mckay, whose wife is
a second cousin Of the deceased She
has lived with Mr.. and Mrs. Mckay
ever since her arrival in Salt Lake, at
954 East First South street
Her closest associates stated that she
had never been i'll during her residence
in this city. although during the past
few days she complained Of being IN
able to sleep we'll
Yesterday morning she arose and was
in her usual good spirits, offering be
fore breakfast to go out 10 the barn
and see if the chickens had laid some
fresh eggs Shortly after breakfast.
at about $50. she left the house and
started downtown to do some Christ
mas shopping In her shopping bag
We're found a number of little trinkets,
notably some handkeCchiefs. which she
had intended to send to relatives and
friends in Missouri.
Besides these. an unusual quantity
of gaUze cloth was found among her
purchases. She had secured it at Auer-
bachs store, and when asked by the
clerk if she wanted the kind used in
surgery, she replied that it was to be
used for medicinal purposes
Will Hold an Inquest.
Justice Morris SOmmer was sum
mOned 70 view the remains before they
had been removed by the undertaken.
and he at once decided to hold an in
quest. 1t viii take place at his Office
! in the Eagle block at IL a. m. tomor-
row.
/ DR.. Payne's record is not an enviabIe
/ one. He was mixed up IN two Grim
inaI cases, one of them year ago,
when the girl in the case is said to
have left town TO avoid testifying
| against him. His Office has the ap-
! pearance of a den 1t is dingy. close
and iIly-furnished, and the instruments.
as we'll as the letters found. indicated
only too clearly the class OF clients he
| had.
The county officers declare that they
will prosecute Payne TO the fullest ex-
| tent of the law. 1t is believed they
! have enough evidence 70 prove him
/ guilty of the crime. Although he states
that he did nOth4@eg except give the
woman a stimulant, a towel found on
her bore the laundry mark P-2SS. ,