Tonopah bonanza. [volume] (Butler City [i.e. Butler], Nev.) 1901-1909, 1907-08-10

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pain and resolved to try IL the battery
would give her any relief. She tried
1t and undoubtedly felt better. Then
Miss Treville said she never had felt
an electric shock, SO tried the battery
herself. Within half an hour she be-
gan to be i'll, Soon after she was in
such agony that a doctor was sent
noon. / believe that in some way
for. But in spite of everything that
could be done she died that after
DR.. Beswick knew that in some way
Maud was susceptible to the effects
of electricity, and sen that powerful
battery with the deliberate intention
of killing her.
Is that all your case?" 1 asked.
Yes.
Their Mi, Trevis, | strongly rec
commend you to hold your tongue.
You have not limited your suspicious
to any one yet? All, that's right. All,
that's right. The young woman died
according to the medical evidence,
from strychnine in some form. You
allege that she was killed by an cleo
trio shock. Now, the battery was
sent not to Miss Treville, but to her
mother. You admit the treatment
did Mrs. Treville good. Yet you al
lege that the shock from this battery
killed a healthy person. own that
! regard DIR. Beswick as an utterly un-
scrupulous person. but you have no
case. Has he, to your knowledge,
performed any electrical experiments
on the girl?"
No, | am sure of that. Didn't
she say that she never had felt an
electric shock before?'
: Then | should suspect %strychnine
poisoning in preference to your
theory. Had he given Miss Treyille
any medicine or sent her any pres
ents?'
NO. The coroner made close in
quiries on that point. She had moth
ing of a suspicious nature from any
quarter, and, as far as could be trac-
ed, other people had consumed the
same food she had that day without
any harmful result.
You are quite sure that he gave
her no medicine, no tonic to improve
her complexion, or anything like
that?'
Certain. Why, the last time the
doctor saw her, when we were at his
house a week since, she said to him,
laughingly, that he never had treated
her since she was a baby
"'Ah, what made her say that?'
She slipped when she was play
ing tennis and bruised her arm badly
on the iron supporting of the net. DIR.
Beswick tied it up for her.
"'Oh, he bandaged her arm, did
he?'
Yes. it wasn't a serious thing,
but he went in the no use and brought
out a bandage at once. He told her
to keep it on a week and her arm
would be all right.
Now, YOU are quite sure that he
gave her no medicine as well?'
"'Quite, 1 asked her as we were
coming away, for | mistrusted the
man. She laughed at the idea of
taking medicine for a bruise. Be-
sides, il he had given her poison then
the symptoms would have shown
themselves at once, not some days
afterwards
Well, Mr., Travis, | Will have
everything suspicious about the case
investigated. Only l promise moth
ing. feel the doctor is too clever to
have left any evidence behind him
that would convince a jury of his
guilt
Don't trouble about jurles. Get
evidence to prove it to me. and ri
deal with Beswick.
Il watched his set face as he said
this and felt sure that If the doctor
were guilty he had more reason to
dread Leonard Travis than any Judge
and jury. made every inquiry, but
the only suspicious fact was that Bees
wick needed money badly. On the
Monday the young people left his
house the doctor had gone to New
York. | traced his movements there
with ease. In fact, it seemed as If he
must have wished to be traced. He
could not possibly have slipped back
to Chicago and seen his niece on the
sly. My s%upposition that he might
have met her, given her medicine.
and contrived to keep her from talk.
ing about il saying it might alarm
her sick mother, therefore fell to the
ground. Nor could | find that any
suspicious parcel or letter had been
sent Miss Treville. Every doctor /
consulted scoffed at the idea Of
poison being absorbed into the sys-