Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-21

that positive evidence would be ad.
duced TO show that her urine. taker
two or three days before her death
was SO loaded With afbumen that death
was almost certain from that disease
within a short time.
The Evidence.
DIR. C. c. Gethman. of Eldora, was tn:
first witness called on the part of tn.
state He testified that he was callet
to treat the Defendants Wife on III,
Sunday in question, by telephone. a
about . o'clock, in the evening an.
that he found her in bed and was toi5
by her and by the defendant that she
had been taken sick shortly after ea.-
ing dinner, and had been vomiting vio-
Ilently at intervals all the afternoon and
| evening He testified that the defen-
dant told him that he believed her
| illness was due or partially due 10
4 nervousness and that he also mentioned
| the fact that she had eaten two dishes
of canned peas and that that might
| possibly be the cause. None of the
! rest of the family, however he said
\ who had eaten the same thing had
been sick. DIR. Gethman testified tina.
! Blydenburgh told him that his wife had
gone TO church that morning and that
he had staid home and prepared the
Sunday dinner of which she had eat
1 en- heartily. DIR. Gethman asked her
! IL she had had these attacks of vomi.
/ ing before and she replied in the neg
alive. He testified that Blydenburgh
told him that her kidneys had been bac
for some time. and that he asked for d
sample of urine, which the defendant
promised to save for him so he could
get it the next morning. but that he
did not do SO. saying that he had fo.-
gotten 1t. 1t was again requested by
DR.. Gethman. on the following morning
and the defendant agreed to bring ii
to his Office. which he failed to do, say
ing again, when he came there. that
he had forgotten it. Another physician
was called and Dr. Gethman did not
see the deceased again. He testified
on cross-examination that in the med,-
cine he prescribed and left there TO be
administered was a small quantity OF
arsenic. He testified also that the
defendant told him that the medicine
made his wife sick and that she did
not take but one or two doses.
Mrs. Keller Testif;cs.
Mrs. Cora Keller. of Hubbard. a sis
ter of The dead woman. was the next
wd,ness called by the. state. She said
that she had been notified by the. de-
PENDANT on the morning of the day on
which her sister died that she was
stricken with deat and had driven to
Eidora. arriving here at about noon,
and she detailed the condition of her
sister from that time to the time of her
death. about 8 clock In the afternoon.
She testified that she met the defend
ant at The door and asked him wha:
was the matter with her sister. and
that he replied that DIR. Morse said
that she had oatarrh OF the stomach
and kidney trouble and everything
She testified that the defendant told
her not to pay any attention. to what
her sister said because she was crazy
about half OF the time. This witness
testified that she was conscious and
rational up to within twenty minutes
OF her death: THAI: She had converse
lions with her. from time to time, and
that she understood perfectly what was
going on. and asked her If she was dy-
ing and told her that the trouble was
atoS VAIN iS1 htAiANS D. LUZ Nuuil HGi
stomach: that she constantly called for
cold water to drink and wanted cold
water on her face all of the time
wanted them to pour 1t on her face.
She testified to some conversations
with the defendant. but no additional
facts we're disclosed.
Dr.. Hartmann.
DR.. G. w. Hartmann, OF WATSON.
Ohio. testified that he was one OF the
physicians who exhumed the body of
the deceased. He said the body was
inferred In steel vault. which locked
automatically when the cover was put
on and that It was necessary to use 4
sledge and cold chisel in order to break
1t open. He testified to having re-
moved the left kidney. heart. spleen.
and a portion of the left lung. which
he sealed UP in a glass Jar and deliv-
cred to DR.. Vaughn. OF Ann Ar
hor. Mich, for chemcal analysis. He
testified also to having made an sxami.
nation OF those organs. He testified
that the kidneys were in normal con-
dition. so far as he could tell from their
size, color. etc, and that this was also
true of the lungs, heart and liver. Hs
testified that the stomach pre-
sen.ed an .nfiamed condition
and that the mucous membrane
had stuffed of and that this was also
true Of the intestine next to the stoan-
ach. He testified that this. condition
would. in his opinion result from an
innitant poison and that this condition
would produce death. He also testified
that in his opinion the poison was adj
mtndstered before death and also tina.
1t had been taken thru the mouth.
Court adjourned with DR.. Hartmann
still on the stand.
Hartman mistaken.
When court convened this morning
the cross-examination of DR.. Hartmann
was taken up. He was on the stand all