The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-09
BROUWER'S TRIAL BEGINS.
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accused 0f Poisoning his wife.
ToNs RrvER. n. j.. Oct. She taking
Of evidence in the trial ofDr. Frank Brouwer'
accused OF having murdered his vito on
september IS, 1906, will begin tomorrow.
A Jury was obtained this afternoon. IL
took four hours TO do IL, which IL pretty
Quick work compared with the time II
takes to get a Jury in New York in . muir
der trial when the case has attracted As
much attention as this one has here. Forty
eight talesmen were examined add eacn
side exhausted its peremptory challenges
This town-in fact this section OF New
Jerseys greatly stirred over the n
The hotels are crowded, many persons
coming from out Of town to hear the testi-
mony. for Or. Brouwer had a large practice
an a 10 we'll known. When the tral began
his a.orninS the little court house was
CROWDED TO it's capacity and there were
many who waited around outside. Dr'
Brouser was greeted by some Of his friends
but there were others who passed him un-
noticed. He was cool enough, but nus tscs
was pale from prison coEhn emenr.
II vas noon before the examination OF
talesmen began, because Judge Hendrtck-
son. who lives ct Red Bank. was hte IN
getting here. IL is predicted that the trial
viii Lat two weeks. which raises the ques-
ton AZ 70 whether Judge Hendrickson wiz
he able to stand the strain Of a tpal OF thus
character. There are many who teei thar
,Jud9e Hendrickson's health Is such that be
win not De able to bold out undar ths worry
and pressure Of work coincident with the
trial should il take two weeks. He b an old
man and in addition feeble and infrm-
MANY Of the talesmen examined knew
DR.. Brouwer. Some Of them had a bias
aratnst capital punishment and others were
peremptorily challenged. This jury was
fnaIly selected: 5. Judson Ridgway. John
NJ Cobb. Calvin E. Parker, Harry Seaman,
Thomas B. Mick, Walter Bell. Cornelius
Mathews, Harry W. Erickson, George A.
Jeok, Samuel j. Cramner, ThOnlas Z. AaT$
horn and Joel H. Sprague.
II will be the contention OF the proeecu-
tion. represented bv Thomas P. McDermott,
the public prosecutor. assisted by edward
wilson of Jersey City. that DR.. Brow r
killed his wife by feeding her arsenic and
that she knew during her last illness hat she
WA beinr poisoned. They viii prove that
arsenic " as found in her body and by a series
OF witnesses attempt TO show that there
we've reasons, monetary and others, a
gave DR.. Brouwer a motive for " anting to bs
rid Of his wife.
So far as can be learned tonight the
counsel for the defence, j. W. Carmichael
and Edward Wilson. will try to Offset this
testimony by showing that the arsenic
found in Mrs. Brouwer's body was a part
OF the auid used in embalming her. The
undertaken who embalmed the body will
swear, however, that there was no arsenic
in the embalming iuid. IL is the conten-
ton Of the defence that the instrument
with which the embalming was done had
Al .~sak asaA-to IN - a~1
when Mrs. Brouwer's body was embalmed
some Of this poison got into her body. The
defence will make an effort to bring this
out on the cross-eXamination Of the UNDER
taker. who will be a witness for the prose-
cution.
The principal witness for the prosecu-
ton will be F. A. Genth, a chemist, who
will testify that he found arsenic in Mrs.
Brouwer's body. There was a report his
afternoon that ground glass had also been
found in the body. DR.. Genth is not re-
sponsible for the statement, at least he
won't say anything about II, and the belief
is that 1t is fiction. Second in Importance
to DR.. Genth will be DR.. II. II. Cate, who
signed a death certificate saying that Mrs.
Brouwer died Of BriGht's disease. He
will be asked TO explain how he came to
make such a report when the autopsy
showed that her death was caused by poison.
DR.. Dsbrow, one OF the physicians who
attended Mrs. Brouver, is said to have
been asked TO sign such a certificate and
refused. He will be a witness. as will be
Mary Llpp.ncott, Alice Horlock and Una
Dudley. nurses who attended Mrs. Brouwer
Miss Elizabeth Heyer, a sister Of Mrs.
Brouwer. will swear that Mrs. Brouwer
~ said to her while she was sick hat she
, was being poisoned. u Mrs. Brouwer
suspected who was poisoning her 1t is not
known tina she told her sister. Trevonian
Heyer. Mrs. Brouwer's brother, will also
.estify about her illness.
Not the least interesting figure in the
trial will be Miss Stella M~cClenahan. who
was a governess for the Brouwer children.
Mrs. Brouwer once left her home and went
TO live with her sister at Lakewood because.
according to evidence said to be in the
possession Of the prosecution, she did not
approve OF the friendly relationship be-
tween her husband and Miss MCClenahan.
Miss McClenahan knew a good deal about
what went on in the Brouwer household.
and she will be a witness for the proeecu-
ton. After Mrs. Brouwer left her bus
hand he went to her and got her TO return.
II was soon after that that she became
in. and the doctors who attended her dis
agreed with the diagnosis Of Or. Brouwer,
who said thar she had Rights disease
Nothing was heard OF Miss McClenahan
for some time. but after the indictment 81
DR.. rouwe she appeared as a witness
against him.