Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-09

then and we decided to commit the
deed there, but in loading the pistol
something broke and we could not
carry out our intentions there.
THAT was on Saturday. Doctor said
nothing more about me killing him for
a week, and then one day he said we
by appointment and went 10 his office.
We carefully loaded the gun, and 1 put
an extra cartridge in my purse so that
1 could kill myself with it.
Pose for Deadly Shot.
Doctor showed me just where to
shoot, and we waited until a street car
was close so it would drown the shot.
Or. Rustin stood straight In front of
me, and when the car got near he said:
Now shoot mel
II raised the gun, but my nerve
failed and / lowered it. i love you too
much; / can't do it, l said
Doctor got very mad and scolded
me. and then he suggested that we go
out to his house and that / wait in his
barn and shoot him, and people would
think a burglar had done the shoot
ing.
Il agreed to that. We took a street
car and went out there and slipped
around to the alley, but a man came
by and ! ran away and came down.
town.
"Dr. Rustin took the next car and
caught me on the street. He upbraided
me so that / agreed to go back and
tryoit again.
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he opened the door for me- The gun
was ready and he again stood up to be
shot
"'Shoot to hit me right here" he
said. and put his finger on the place l
was to hit took good aim and was
just about to shoot, when l broke
down again and told him thatI couldn't.
told him to shoot IL he wanted
to, but that I could not Kill him that
way. He was very angry and took me
back downtown.
Tuesday afternoon when I saw him
he told me not to worry, that he had
found someone else to kill him and that
] would not have to do 1T. A man was
coming to his office. a man named
Charley Davis. was introduced to
him that day at DR.. Rustin's office.
THAT night we met in the DOCTORS
office. he was much depressed. The
man came in about o'clock and I left
them together while.
Poison to Pay for Bullet.
when / came back I)r. Rustin told
me Davis was to kill him in return
for enough poison to kill himself. He
gave me drug in a bottle and told
me to take 1t when knew he was
dead. and that would follow him.
'Then the other man came in and
I left the doctor, agreeing to meet him
later and ride home with him before
the other man killed him.
II met him as I had agreed. The
other man was with him. The doctor
put that man on the car and told him
to get off on the corner near his house
and go on to his house and wait for
him.
1--WE walked all the WHY to his home,
or near there, the doctor talking all
the time about his wife and children
and the insurance.
"When we got to the separating
place. he said 'good-by and told me
to wait few minutes.
eff everything goes all right. VII.
be killed. he said. IL his nerve fails
him, will come back to YOU
II waited and watched him as he
went down the street. He faded into
the darkness Then waited half an
hour and knew everything was all
right and that the man would kill him,
so / came back downtown"
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Mrs. Rice is not handsome. but
pretty, with clear-cut features and a
round face In introducing her testi-
mony she said she was not yet 20
years old Her home was in Des
Moines during childhood, and until she
was married to Irving Rice, private
in the United States army In April,
1906. She said she left her husband
because he abused her.
Mrs. Rice told Of coming to Omaha
last December and meeting DR.. Rustln
two weeks later, when he attended her
in a Douglas street resort She said ne
performed two operations on her and
she had seen him almost daily since.
He first broached the suicide plan to
her month ago, when he detailed his
financial troubles, and declared ms
family would be better off after he
was dead.
After an impressive silence, when ev-