The San Francisco call., 1903-09-15

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IL Ia of Martin L. Bowers, the late
husband of Mrs. Bowers, were
given an examination yesterday after
noon before Police Judge Cabaniss, the
courtroom being crowded by persons anx-
ious to listen to the testimony.
The women charged with the murder
were present and listened to the dam
aging evidence of the physicians that
were the witnesses of the day. Neither
woman showed the slightest trace of emo
ton until the expert testimony of two
physicians proved that Bowers death had
been caused by the administration of ar
senic, when Mrs. Bowers broke down and
shed tears.
District Attorney Byington conducted
the examination for the people and At
torneys Drury and McIsaacs represented
Mrs. Bowers Ex-Police Judge Charles
Low appeared for Mrs. Sutton. Attorney
Vaughan of Portland Ore, was present
at the request of the mother of the ac-
cused women
The evidence given by DR.. Carl Won
Tiedemann was that he had attended
Martin l.. Bowers on June and Of
this year, being called in at the request
of Mrs. Bowers. The witness detailed
the symptoms of the patient and said
that he had diagnosed them as ptomaine
poisoning caused by eating tainted food.
He based his diagnosis on the symptoms
presented, and also son the history of the
case as furnished by Bowers and his wife.
MANY DOCTORS TESTIFY.
DR.. John Gillen testified that he was
called to attend Bowers on June IL and
found that the patient had suffered from
vomiting and in weak condition.
The witness testified that he diagnosed
the case as one of acute Indigestion and
prescribed the usual remedies. The wit
ness then stated that his patient i'm
proved under treatment and then became
worse in the four days he attended Bow
ers.
DR.. Alfred Mclaughlin testified that he
attended Bowers from July 6 until Au-
gust 6 at the Waldeck Sanatorinm and
for eight days after Bowers was removed
from the sanatorium until he died. He
said:
The symptoms of the case indicated an acute
case Of gastral intestinal trouble, caused by
ptomaine poisoning. All the symptoms OF pto-
maine poisoning were present These symp-
toms are similar to arsenical poisoning and it
is impossible to differentiate the two without
complete history of the case.
l prescribed for him, among other things,
twelve Gross pills. each containing one-twen-
tieth of a grain of arsenic. He to be
given three OF these pills each day and when
he left the Waldeck Mrs. Bowers took with
her enough pills to last for two days After
1 visited Bowers at his home Mrs Bowers
asked If she could have the prescription
for the pills made up at a near by drug store
and / consented.
Eight days after Bowers left the Waldeck
he was in the same condition when he was
in the sanatorium. On August IA found him
considerably worse He was vomiting and in
left the Waldeck and there nothing in the
medicines prescribed to cause the change that
took place.
from the Waldeck to his home condition
that he given the same treatment in
not been given the treatment / expected. I
asked Mrs. Bowers If she had given him the
medicine and food / had prescribed and she
said she had but that her husband was vomit-
ing and could not take the medicines and food
1 thought 1t strange. Bowers had taken
the same treatment at the sanatorium.
DR.. Mclaughlin then identified the va
rious prescriptions he had written for
Bowers and they were filed as exhibits.
PRESCRIPTION WAS FORGED.
A sensation was caused in the court
room whan District Attorney Byington
showed the witness a glass frame inclos-
ing a piece of paper on which was writ
ten, Arsenic, one ounce, Mclaughlin
NJ D." The witness positively declared
the writing to be a forgery and that he
had not authorized any other person to
sign his name to the paper.
This document will form a strong link
in the chain of evidence against Mrs
Bowers and Mrs. Sutton. The detectives
found the forged prescription at the drug
store of J. Askenasy at Fifth and Fol-
som streets. and Drug Clerk J.. G. Peter
son has identified Mrs. Sutton as the
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