The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-17

defense. proved an asset of questionable
value. On direct examination he sup
ported the testimony of DIR. 10 I'm Marshall
the Philadelphia t~oXlcologist, az to the cause
OF Mrs. death. but in the hands OF
the prosecution c-ross-examiner he weak
ened and fioundered considerably in a tan
gle Of cross fire questioning.
h witness said on direct examination
that he had called to treat Mrs. Brouwer
on the first Sunday of her illness at the
while on this visit hat Miss Lippincott,
one of the nurses from the Monmouth
Memorial Hospital, who was in attendance
upon Mrs. Brouwer, told him of her sus-
plcions relative TO the treatment which
DR.. Brouwer was giving his wife. The
witness said that after seeing the manifesto
ton OF symptoms displayed by the con-
WILSON'S that we're gripping the sick woman
on that day, he told Miss Lippincott that she
was greatly mistaken in her assumption
that DR.. Brouwer war trying to poison his
wife with strychnine.
Powdered glass, the witness said, was not
necessarily fatal when taken into the body
He believed that any one could swallow a
~teaspoonful Of the glass chips such as were
found in the viscera Of Mrs. Brouwer with
out fatal consequences. Nor did DR.. For
man believe that the symptoms of the
woman's illness were other than character
istic of ptomaine poisoning. There was
not a single symptom, he said, in answer
I " AlN maj AANTAlOAA VI OOllirNlt VI W " "lFs
Brouwer's malady that could not he counted
a symptom of ptomaine poisoning. He
denied that the symptoms OF arsenical poison
ing were present.
When Attorney Johnston took over the
witness for crOss-eXamination the weak
points in his evidence were quickly picked
out. The prosecutions questioner had
evidently prepared himself on some knotty
points in medical Jurisprudence after his
somewhat disastrous attempt to assail
n H---N - ANaIA To- B. lEA-A
his cross-examination OF DIR. Forman was
completed he was Juggling technical terms
like the glass bell tOsser IN a midsummer
roof show.
what did you say TO Miss Dudley and
Miss Lippiucott, the nurses, after you
heard that their suspicious in the present
case had got TO the cans of the prosecutor
asked Johnston.
81 said they were talking too much"
Then you were deliberately trying to
suppress the truth, were you?"
Attorney Wilson entered a vehement
protest against the nature of Johnston's
question and the prosecutions attorney
took a new tack. He asked If ptomaine
poisoning induced commissions of the nature
Of those affecting Mrs. Brouwer. The
witness referred the attorney To two cica-
tions in medical works.
Johnston then forced the witness to adj
NIT that the sick woman's commissions
we're not OF the nature Of those detailed
in the authorities he had referred to. The
attorney pushed the medical man further
into the corner by splitting hairs on the
question Of accepted nomenclature in
medical science. A CONFUSION tetantic in
character was not strictly a tetanic ron
v~ulsion, the doctor admitted. He had
said that Mrs. Brouwer's commissions were
~tetanic. Then later he modified this state
ment to read tetantic in character.
Or. Forman," said Johnston ,fwith an
emphasis OF finality in his W ords, do you
know OF any authority in any language
that states that con WILSON'S such as this
woman had were anything but tetanic con-
lockjaw or the administration OF strych-
nine?"
mo. do not, " said the d octor.
The case Ia ready for argument tomorrow
and for the decision Of the jury. Each side
will have two hours for argument. Attorney
McDermott will lead OF for the prosecution
and Attorney Arrowsmith will probably
open for the defence. IL il freely predicted
in Toms River tonight that the jury will
not be out long and that a verdict Of not
guilty viii be found for DR.. Brouwer.
PHILADELPHIA, Oct. l8.-Florence Vim
cent, the missing fourteen-year-old maid
Of Mrs. Frank Brouwer, was discovered here
to-day working for a Mrs.. Anne Waller.
The Vincent girl partook OF the same supper
that Mrs. Brouwer did before she became
i'll, and the girl was taken ill with ptomaine
poisoning. She had been kept hidden by
her father ever since the arrest of DIR.
Brouwer. Attorney Carmichael and others
of counsel for DR.. Brouwer saw the girl
to-day and tried in vain to induce her father
to permit her TO go to Toms River to testify.
The attorneys questioned the child closely
and will take steps to force her to appear at
the New Jersey court.