The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-11
my DIAGNOSIS, SVEAUS CATE.
BRIGHT'S DISEASE KILLED MRS.
BROUWER, HE TESTIFIES.

Treated woman for Kidney Trouble,
A TOO-TelIs Of Ills Wandering on.
TONS RIVER, Nj, Oct. I0.-Attorney Ed
mund Wilson, who il conducting the de-
fence Of DR.. Frank Brouwer, on trial here
on the charge Of numbering his wife, to-day
tore away much Of the fabric OF testimony
that the prosecution had raised against the
physician by two brilliant coups. On
REORGANIZATION he stultifed the evidence
Of Miss Una Dudley. the nurse, and by a
brilliant move turned DR.. II. H. Gates testi-
mony for the prosecution into the strongest
kind OF a guard for the accused physician.
DR.. Cate took the stand for the State
after much heralding as one OF the strongest
aocusers. 1t had been said in some OF the
papers that DR.. Cate could prove that he
had been tricked into helping DR.. rouwe
cover up the causes OF his wife's death
declared to be a murder. He had v been
quoted q sayin= that such a been the
,oanaA Whsn ON direct testimony Attorney
Brown for the prosecution asked DR.. Cate
about his visits to the Brouwer house dur
NJ the illness OF Mrs. Brouwer the witness
answered readily.
He said that he first went to see Mrs.
Brouwer in answer to a call from DIR.
Brouwer on Saturday, September IS. At
that time the woman was very sick and wSs
going from one CONFUSION to another.
Cate said he returned each day and In
, each instance he saw DR.. Brouwer. Once
he gave his opinion as to the treatment
necessitated by the patients condition
land upon that point DR.. Brouwer disagreed
with him.
Following the lead Of Prosecutor Brown,
DR.. Cate detailed what the symptoms OF
the sick woman were. He told in substance
what the nurses had testified to earlier in
the trial. He said that the sick woman's
husband had informed him that DR.. Fore
man had diagnosed the case as one OF
Brght's disease. DIR. Brouwer had told him
that in his opinion il was meningitis.
After drawing this from the witness the
prosecution turned him over to the defence.
Attorney Wilson'S first question made those
In the court room stiffen up into alel tness.
DIR. Cate, did your going away from your
home in Lakewood Immediately after Mrs.
Brouwer's death have anything to do with
the fact that you signed the death certificate
in that case2"
None in the least" said the witness.
where did you go7"
Il went to New York"
"Then where?'
Il don't know. From the time l left New
York city until I found myself in Goshen,
N. Y; I have no knowledge of my doings.
My mind was a total blank"
This admission of the witness caused
a stir among the spectators. The mystery
OF his disappearance from Lakewood early
in December last and OF his subsequent
in February when he had beer
found sitting on a bench in a park in Goshen
had been county wide talk for many months.
Gossip attributed his disappearance to DR..
Brouwer.
Have you ever had such an hiatus in
your life before?" asked the counsel for the
defence.
-Yes. Three years ago 1 had a complete
lapse Of memory from April to October"
Then the attorney flung these questions
at the witness:
did DR.. Brouwer ask you to sign the
death certificate after his wife's death2
Did you have any consultation or COM
munication with him before signing it?"
~No; l signed the certificate out Of my
own knowledge Of the case and through my
own diagnosis. As 10 O'Clock on the morn
ing of Mrs. Brouwer's death a mar from
the u0ucILhkiuB tElS1buHLliirub AAiC AlC
by phone and asked me to sign the Certifi-
cate. l gave the cause Of death as Bright's
disease"
"And isn't it a fact" asked the attorney,
shat you treated Mrs. Brouwer for kidney
trouble several months before the fatal
illness seized her?'
THAT is a fact" admitted DR.. Cate.
One more surprise did the witness spring.
this time on Judge. Dur and jury alike.
He was asked a question by Wilson and
replied: Il don't want to offer anythingin
this case that is not drawn from me.
Lawyers for both sides were on their feet
in a minute and Judge Hendrickson looked
down at the witness in surprise. Then he
explained that he didn't mean what he had
said.
The other strong blow struck for the ac-
cused man was delivered at Miss Dudley,
whose testimony yesterday as TO the adj
ministering of treatment by DIR. Brouwer
to his wife appeared to be Of the most dam
aging character. She had testified to seeing
DR.. Brouwer prepare certain medicine,
which as nurse she had refused 10 admin
lister to the sick woman n had secretly
thrown away.
On cross-examination at the opening Of
this mornings session Mr.. Wilson ques-
toned her as to the peptonized milk given
his wife by DR.. Brouwer and about which
Mrs. Brouwer bad complained that it had a
bitter taste. The attorney drew from her
the admission hat all peptonized milk will
grow bitter il allowed to stand and that that
compound about which the sick woman
had complained had stood for some time
"You knew this, yet with a human life at
stake you deliberately concealed part OF the
truth, v charged Wilson. The witness turned
red and looked angrily at her interrogation.
Mr.. Wilson continued to draw admissions
from the witness to prove that she was de-
ceived by the dea that DR.. ouw was
irving. to poison his wife, and that every
he made appeared suspicious.
you tool away with you when you left
the house two of those peptoniZing powders
that DR.. Brouw er had prescribed for his wife
because you thought they contained evil
dences Of his guilt, charged the attorney.
Yes, that is true" said Miss Dudley.
And those are the very powders analysed
by DR.. Genth and found to contain no
poison"
yes"
Again the attorney charged the woman
on the witness stand with a threatening
forehnRer outstretched:
you thought this mar guilty OF murder,
you waited a whole year before you
told the proper authorities what you knew,
SO that the machinery Of the law could be
set in motion"
The witness admitted she had waited a
Miss May Lippincott Of Long Branch Hos
pital, who had also attended Mrs. Brouwer
In her fatal illness, was the next witness