The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1906-10-16
DOCTOR UNDER FIRE IN
NOTED MURDER CASE
Alleged POisOner of His Wife
Tries Hard to Prove In
nOcence Of Crime.

TOMS RIVER, n. j., Oct. 15.-Dr,
Frank Brouwer, who has been on trial
here for a week on a charge that he
poisoned his wife, will know his fate
late Wednesday or Thursday. The trial
is nearing completion and it IS expected
the jury will get the case for decision
on one of the days mentioned.
DR.. Brouwcr testified that at dinner
the night before Mrs. Brouwer was tax
en- i'll she ate canned soup and corn,
meat and potatoes, cottage cheese,
bread and butter and watermelon, and
drank some beer. Late that night, he
said, Mrs. Brouwer also ate three
onions and sandwiches and drank a
cold bottle of beer, and just before she
went TO bed she also ate a large piece
of cold watermelon.
DIR. Brouwer defended his diagnosis
Of his wifc's illness as Bright's dis
ease by saying that DR.. Forman and a
firm of New York chemists, after an
alyzing fluid from Mrs. Brouwer s
body, also reported that she suffered
from Bright's disease.
"Why did you say to the nurses
that your wife might not get well7'
"Bccause ! didn It think she would.
Her heart motion was irregular all
through her sickness
Did Give Strychnine
DIR, Brouwer said that he admins
tered to his wife hypodermic iniec-
tion prepared by a Philadelphia firm.
It contained strychnine and nitro
glycerine. He said that his wife i'm
mediately became calmer and her heart
became more regular and stronger DR..
Brouwer said that on the last night of
g all bo har ~. 1,-
and one-twentIeth of a grain Of strych-
nine. He testified that he never gave
arsenic to his wife; that he never gave
| strychnine to his wife except in the
one instance, the night before she
died; that he never put powdered glass
in his wife food; that he never did
| anything to cause his wife s death
DR.. Brouwer denied that his wife
was ever Jealous, although she some.
| times spoke about women who visited
| his Office, and after they had gone she
| would ask who they were and what
| they wanted He denied that he ever
| told any one that he would get a di-
vorce, or that he ever heard his wife
say she would apply for a divorce.
DR.. Brouwer said he did not believe
| that his wife was diving when at
! o. clock on the morning of her death he
called Miss Borlocker, the nurse, to his
summoned another physician He ad
! ministered morphine TO relieve her suf
| ferings and she became unconscious
! II was not until two hours later that
| he began to think she was dying
| The witness said that his wife s
| sickness, in his opinion. was the result
| of over-eating and was not caused by
impure food He thought that toe
hearty meal had produced cholera
morbus,
DR.. Brouwer said the insurance on
his wife S life had not been collected
On redirect examination. DR. Rron.
wer testified that he never SAID any.
thing improper to Miss McCIenahan
| and had never had any appointment
with her previous TO the time he had
engaged her and afterward. He said
he had not only consented to the ex-
humation of his wife's body, but had
| even urged that il be taken up and an
| autopsy performed.