The sun., 1908-07-14

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glass panel woman's form going up
stairs. also heard voices l knocked
several times on the door before getting
an answer, and finally woman appeared
on the inside whom / recognized as my
mother-in-law.'
Dr. simpson then told of the conversa-
ton and OF the shooting and his hurrying
. 10 DIR. Heyden. He aaid that his knowl-
edge Of medicin convinced him that he
was bleeding inwardly, that one OF his
ribs was fractured. his liver punctured ana
his right lung pierced.
AZ ihe Manhattan side DR.. Simpson got
into a taxicab with a reporter ana started
for Roosevelt Hospital. On the way he
smoked q couple Of cigarettes and ,sug-
Eested 10 his companion that II would pe
q good idea for them to get a drink The
re5orter rot out and went into a saloon.
and few minutes later DIR. Simpson ambieo
in after him, impatient at the delay. he
had two drinks of whskey and then re-
sumed the journey to the hospital:
DR.. Simpson walked into the once lnere
nnessstsd and asked for private room.
II have q gunshot wound he told the
clerk, "and am in pretty bad shape. 80
They placed him In wheeling chair and
took him to Rriva.e wardi whege geom ne Tbs tbs
house surgeon. II was decided TO operate
on him Immediately, and DR.. Lucius Hotoh-
kiss of the visiting staff was summoned
In the meanwhile IL was discovered that
DR.. Simpson had no money on MN ana
he was placed in Ward s. He insisted that
they place him in a, private room. but he
remained in the ward until he was removed
to the emergency operating room. =
The surgeons couldn't tell where the bul-
let had lodged. and as the patients neart.
pulse and temperature were good u was was
decided to forego the operation until this
morning.
The hospital surgeons said that lr;
Simpsons condition was serious ana untli
they probe and extract the bullet they
will he unable to say whether or nc. he
will recover. There Is danger of n collapse
at any moment Alter the examination IN
the emergency operating room he was
removed to Ward s, despite his protests =.
c. B. Partridge who acted as the commit
ting Magistrate in 1905. when Dr, simpson
was arrested, arrived here last night and
went to the hospital He said he had been
appointed special Assistant District At
torney to take an ante-morterm statement
from DR.. Simpson should the hospital au-
thorities deem his condition serious. Mr
say anything about his talk with the doctor.
Attorney Miles had a long talk with
Mrs. Horner and Mrs. Simpson at the
Horner houas in the afternoon, and last
night said that Dr. Simpson had been an
noying the two women for some time
sThe doctor came to the house Il week
ago when the family were. absent said
Mr.. Miles, "and tried TO get in. He did get
in, but found the house empty. ne mas
repeatedly written letters asking for
reconciliation with his wife. ont she mas
never seen him or answered his letters
"A week ago." continued MIR. Niles, "a
detective came to see Mrs. Simpson and
told her that il she wanted divorce he
could get it for her. Mrs. Simpson sent
the man to me, but l declined to have
opinion DR.. Simpson wanted divorce,
According to MIR. Miles, the two women
had lived alone in the house since the trial
in 1907 and had always been in fear OF DR..
Simpson. On Sunday night Mrs. Horner
had presentrient that DIR. Simpson would
kill her some time and that she was afraid
Of him, but Miles laughed the matter on
and Mrs. Horner returned home. Ac-
col ding TO the story Mills said Mrs, liorner
told him concerning what happened, the
doctor went to the house and was ordered
aNirs. Horner feared the man. said Mr..
Miles, and went and got her revolver.
She told me that he then went to the door
and made a motion us though to draw a
revolver from his hip pocket and she then
fired"
The history Of the Simpson and Horner
families so far as it is known to the public
is one of family troubles. This came out
at the dentists trial at Rverhead. DR..
Simpson was in the Kitchen according to
his testimony at the trial, cleaning gun
and showing hired boy, Frank Wisnewski.
how to break it, and his father-in- law, Bart
ley T. Horner, entered the room just as the
gun was discharged. DR.. Simpson told the
authorities at the time that the shooting
Of Mr. Horner was an accident.
At the trial Mrs Horner and DR.. Simp-
sons wife were the chief witnesses against
him and both of them showed such bias
and bitterness against the defendant as
to produce an evident bad effect upon the
jury 1t developed that Mrs. Horner and
Mrs. Simpson had taken the initiative In
pressing the murder charge against Dr.
Simpson and that before the inquest over
Bartiey Horner they had made altidavits
to the Coroner which led to DR.. Simpson
being jailed on murder charge.
Both of thess witnesses as well as the
doctor. when called in his own defence,
testified to constant quarrels between the
dentist and his father-in-law, in all OF
which the two women seemed to have taken
the part OF the man who subsequently wee
shot. Simpson declared that his father-in-
law and Mrs. Horner kept constant espion-
age on his movements. whila the women
said that Simpson was oonspiring to get
Horner's money.
In her testimony Mrs Simpson admitted
that she had lived apart from her husband
for considerable time before the tragedy