Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-10-16
BROUN[R ON STAND
New Jersey Doctor Accused Of
Murder Makes Favorable I'm
preston By Testimony
DETAILS wlFE's LAST ILLNESS
Also Denie. That Wife Had Any
Cause for Jealousy or That He Ever
Thought Of Getting Divorce-con-
dennis Miss Ayer's Statements as
Untruths Details Of Testimony.

Toms River, n. j., Oct. 16--Dr. Frank
Brouwer spent some long hours on the
witness stand yesterday afternoon
lighting single handed the states at
torneys, who seek to hang him on a
charge Of murder. The court room
was damned. Miss Hyer and her
brothers, the most persistent accusers
of the doctor, were in their places.
Miss Dudley, the nurse, and Miss Nc
Clenahan, a young woman whose name
figured prominently in the case, We're
sitting well dowr. in front. After the
defendant took the oath he seated him.
self in the Witness chair with his hands
folded and his eyes half closed. AT
first he answered questions indtstinct-
!. ", but when his attention was directed
to the charges made by Miss Elizabeth
Hyer, he sat up straight and began to
shoot back answers in a tense, hard
voice. AS
miss Hyer testified on the stand
that you twitted your wife on her pow
erty before she married you," said At
torney Carmichael for the defense. rs
that true q
"That is falsehood,' replied the
witness. We We're both too poor be-
fore our marriage to permit my making
any such insulting remark.
Il never told Elizabeth Hyer that
had lost respect for my WIFE,. never
told her thought of getting a divorce.
Those statements by her are untruths."
Under the le.ading Of his counsel, DR..
Brouwer then detailed the incidents of
his wife's last illness step by step. He
eaid that wher, his wife was taken Ill,
after partakln,y Of a hearty meal, he
treated her for Indigestion. Later he
believed she was suffering from arsenic
poisoning. He had even discussed the
possibility of cerebro- spinal meningitis
with Miss Dudley, the nurse.
DR.. Brouwel. testified that at din
ner the night before Mrs. Brouwer was
taken i'll she ate canned soup and corn.
meat and potatoes, cottage cheese,
bread and butter, and watermelon.
. and drank some beer. Late that might,
he said, Mrs. Biouwer also ate three
onion sandwiches and drank a cold
bottle OF beer. and just before she
went to bed she also ate a large piece
OF cold watermelon.
The last seven days Of Mrs. Brouw-
er's illness were variable ones, the wit
ness said. One day she was better,
the next day worse IS Is
Attorney Carmichael brought his ex-
animation to a close with a series of
questions framed to bring a categor-
ical denial to each accusation against
his client.
Ibid you ever, at any time. adj
minister arsenic. to your wife,"
.tAs God is my witness, no." replied
the doctor, half rising from his chair,
and speaking each word with staccato
emphasis. AS his attorney put the
same question for strychnine and
ground glass the physician answered
shortly in the negative.
Attorney Johnston, who has done
! most Of the cross examining for the
prosecution, then began to interroGate
DR. Brouwer. n
WAS your wife jealous OF your att
tentions to other women 2"
.sWhy, no. She was curious, as any
woman. might be, and wanted to know
who came to my Office and why. But
3 i never gave her cause for jealousy
..Don't you know snapped Attorney
Johnston, ...tliat your wife was Jealous
i OF Miss McCl enahan?"
I eNo, / do not replied the witness.
Attorney Johnston then mentioned
4 the name of Miss Kearns, whom the
prosecution ,-ainly sought as a wit
ness, and asked questions concerning
the doctors friendship with hers Dr.
Brouwer refused to admit any rela-
tionship between them that might have
given Mrs. Brouwer cause for Jealousy
DR.. Brouwt.r denied any possible re-
Iation between the administering OF
nourishment, a duplicate of which was
made in the court room on Friday, and
the subsequent commissions his wife
endured.
The net result of the cross examina-
ton seemed to be that the prosecution
had failed tt, make any stronger the
slender theory of a motive that II
holds prompted the doctor to murder
his wife, but 1t succeeded in this im-
portant point:
The accused physician, who was
closest in attendance on his wife of any
of the ,physi,,ians or nurses, could not
say definitely what was the cause OF
death.
Counsel for the defense have built
their case on the hypothesis that Mrs.
Brouwer died from ptomaine poison
ing. On the stand yesterday afternoon
DR.. Brouwer said he thought his wife's
ailment at various times to be Brights
disease, cholera morbus, uremic poi
soning, and spinal meningitis. The
shadow of question about the cause
of the woman's death. Which the de-
Tense not yet has been able to dispel,
IS the only strong point against Its
ease.
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