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in good spirits that morning and was
bright rs dollar until after they cross
ed tho Crees ford. That he drove on
until near the Madraz place when she
complained of q pain in her heart and
told him not to drive so fast and he
slowed the horses down and stopped
them. That after he stopped she said
to go ahead and take her home. At
another time heard him say he drove
on to McKee's and at another time said
he stopped near Bud Browns. l went
with defendant to Grand River to get
casket, and then went to Covington &
Armstrong; store to get an underskirt
for his dead wife and he picked out the
cheapest one he could get, 60 cents, and
growled about that because he thought
he ought to got it for SO cents. On the
way back he complained about the cas-
ket costing so much, that if he could
have cut it in two and got it for $40 he
would have done so. That he would
give her decent burial for she couldn't
help it. That he had intended getting
her $500 or $500 monument for her out
of the insurance money, but supposed
he would have to keep the money to
fight the Kinks, for they were going to
put up fight against him. Heard him
say there was no use Of having an in
quest, but if they had one they would
have to crawl his franc before they did
any cutting.
DIR. B. L. EIkER,
was again called and said the medicine
he prescribed for Charles Woodland was
in two ounce bottle and for his wife
was in four ounce bottle. The smaller
bottle contained pink colored nedi-
cine. have since seen what l think
was the small bottle gave to Charles
Woodland at the homo of Lew Green.
Punch Wells and man l don't know
had the bottle. They stopped at the
house and asked me if that was the bot
tie fixed up for Mrs. Woodland and
said it was not. This was the same
evening of the post mortem. Don't
know what became of that bottle.
GEORGE KIRKPATRICK,
was.called to testify his sister was mar
ried TO Charles Woodland in April, 1899.
MON UHNNUrv
recalled for further cross-e1amination
was questioned at length by attorneys
for defendant as to where he attended
school, secured his degrees and what
they constituted, then for more than
two hours technical questions as to the
process used in making the analysis Of
the stomach, and tests to determine the
poison found were followed point by
point from start to conclusion and oc-
cupied the entire time until court adj
journed at 5:35.
When court was called Saturday
morning the examination of Prof. Ken
ney was resumed the state introducing
as exhibits the samples of strychnine
taken from the stomach of Mrs. Chas.
Woodland The defense introduced the
record book of the witness showing the
result of the analysis in which the rec
ord originally appeared as the stomach
of Mrs. Charles Graham, but the witness
explained this by saying the record as
f~, 10 1rbio h
was incorrect but the main entry show
ed it was the identical stomach received
from Drs. Layton and Brown on Dee. II,
1903, and in connection with his testi-
mony several letters from the witness
to county attorney Olsen were read.
E. W. TOWNSEND,
testified he received a telegram from
the Insurance Company on Dec. 16, 1908,
and in reply he wrote them letter say
ing the policies had been delivered to
MIR. Woodland some time before, that the
coraners jury had found nothing but
had sent the stomach away for examina-
tion.
DIR. A. BROWN
testified he never took the stomach of
any woman named Graham to DR.. Ken
ney, the stomach of Mrs. Chas. Woodland
being the only one he ever took there.
Toa hypothetical question describing
the symptoms of Mrs. Woodland before
her death and tho result of the chemi-
zeal analysis showing four-fifths of a
grain of strychnine in the stomach,
would say the person died from strych-
nine poison.
e. A. HE NDRICKS
recalled testified he only recollects of
one conversation with Charles Woodland
about life insurance. Didn't recollect
Of hearing any conversation on this sub
ject at the bank of Grand River between
Il CHARLES Woodland and Hoy1e Gilreath