The evening world., 1906-05-25
SEEK NURSE WHO
SAW BROUWER'S
WIFE At DEATH
Woman Present with
Doctor at Last Moment
IS Out of State,

TOMS RIVER. y. j.. May 25-Al-
though Or. Frank Bfouwer IS in jail
here. charged with having murdered MS
wife by administering arsenic ana
ground glass. Prosecutor Theodore J. X.
Brown is not satisfied that others are
mot implicated in tho case. and. In an
effort to get all tao evidence available
ne will so 10 Trenton to-day and ask
81 one witness cannot be ~extrad''ed
from Pennsylvania.
The witness Is Miss Alice Horlock, a
trained nurse OF the hlsAcs. reputation
who Was with Mrs. Brouwer when she
died in agony. Miss Horlocit is nov
out Of t,e jurisdiction OF toe state and
sac refuses to return. 1t - believed
that the young woman simply shr'aNs
from notpr.ety Miss iiorio-N lives ~
No. 30 West Logan square, West PM
adelqhla.
Miss Horlock was the nurse who at
tended Airs. Brouwer after the Lone
branch nurses. Mss Emma Dudley and
Miss Anna I~.ipDncott. had boon diS-
missed. Mrs. Brouwer AT that time
twas SAID to be 90 the road to recovery
and at . o'cloc. on the night Of sept
q, tho second day o. Miss HcrioeN
services. Or. Brouwcr went to his wife's
bedside ana ,oid Miss iIoflock 10 80
TO bed and sc, some rest.
She did ms ind was awakened at
midnight by u. shrieks aad groans o!
Mrs. Brouwer The husband and nurse
were alone with the patient Tor three
hours and iorty-Aye minutes, during al
OF which ..me AIRS. hToIwer Was
shrieklng AID clutching her breast
/ These symptoms Immediately preceded
her agonlz!ng doeth. No physician was
aeailed.
The prosecution viii endesvor TO prove
that ground glass Was the cause Of the
several hours OF eNcruciat!ng suffering
Immediately preceding Mrs. BrouweE
death.
DR.. Frank Brouwer has been visited
by his AGED mother. Mrs. Ann Cavcriy.
and his brother. Frederick Brouwer. y.
forked River.
Inc doctors mother assured her sou
OF nor belet IN his innocence, aud
pledged herself TO spend tine last dollar
OF her fortune. estimated At ~.
vo, 10 bring about his acquittal.
The Ions Branch Memorial Hospital
nurses, lsInma Dudley and Anna LIP
pu.cctt. whose appearance before tho
Grand Jury was voluntary, and Or. II
II. Cate, WHIT signed the death certlil-
cate. were served with s-ubpoeaas dt-
Iect4ag them to appea: al tho tria! in
September.
Miss STELLA McClenahan. who has
suddenly come 10 the front as an
ecscr witness against the alleged muir
derer. Is the woman OF whom Mrs.
Brouwei Was Jealous and about whom
! the couple duarrened just before the
wife met her delth She was tho doc
tors patient before his wife died. After
that lie brought her into his home as
governcss for his children.
Although report all along has linked
her name cicScly with the events attend
ing Mrs. Brouwer's death MISS Me
Clershan has held aloot from the au-
thorities. Until yesterday Prosecutor
Brown said no had never spoken to
her. Her attitude had been regarded
as favorable to Or. Brouwer, but now
she is like others OF the doctors neigh
bors who formerly avoided the .nyestl-
CATION, Hers IS among several tongues
mat the Grand Jury's action has I'M
tied. Prosecutor Brown. OF course.
would not reveal tie details OF her
Il must refrain at his time" he
said, "trSw giving the story. I cannot
AFFORD 10 Arm tho defense by making
known what I have learned. l will say.
however, that this new evidence has re-
moved all possibility that our case
asains; DR.. Brouwer may fan"