Omaha daily bee., 1908-09-09

W ~ STOPS INTO Ant 4NuuNN ANNAe ~ 1N
back OF the barn.
HE stepped back from me and said:
Shoot me. now shoot. and get back 80
there will be no powder burns on my
clothes
Tears came 10 the eyes OF the woman
witness for the first time. She grew more
vivid In her descriptions. Men and the few
women in the coroner's room leaned for
ward TO hear the next sentence. but It
was Attorney English who uttered It. and
he said:
What did you dor
Silence for ten seconds followed, and the
woman said:
Il lose my nerve"
Them
Grabs Gun Away frsm Eer.
He grabbed me. twisted the gun out Of
my hands and told me he was going to
shoot me and then kill himself. I re-
minded him that a scandal would follow
which would stay with his wife and child
rem forever. He said he did not care a
d. for scandal now. But he did not
shoot. He scoided and was very angry
with me. and finally agreed TO go back
down to the city with me. But the cars
had stopped"
what did you do-did DR.. Rustin come
back to the city with your
Yes. he went into his own home, tele-
phoned for a carriage and we walked but
a few blocks east on Farnam street until
we met the carriage"
Where did you go?"
"Dr. Rustin had engaged a room at
Clara Gleason's by going to the office and
telephoning. We went to the resort Of
the Gleason woman about 3 o'clock In the
morning. DR.. Rustin left there before
daylight Saturday morning"
9TH Saturday before the tragedy which
ended his life?"
yes Saturday. August g."
All Right with Her.
All day Saturday DR. Rustin spent his
time with the Rice woman in the Gleason
house, according to her testimony. remain
ing in the room until $3.50 or 4 o'clock in the
afternoon. During this time he confided
to her everything. including the informa-
tion about the note which was to fall due
at the First National bank Tuesday.
Here Mrs. Rice told Of her efforts and
her woman's sympathy cropped out, when
she related how she had tried to secure
money to pay the interest which DR.. Rustin
had agreed to meet at the bank.
"But I had to tell Saturday that I had
not succeeded but hoped to get the money
he needed by Tuesday she said.
Dr.. Rustin called to see her Tuesday
morning and was In the room with her off
and on until late in the afternoon. when
she was compelled to tell him that she
could not get the money he needed,
What did he say?" interposed the county
attorney.
1T took him off his feet, as he thought
I could get the money and 1 thought so,
too. but he told me to meet him at the
office about s o'clock, which I did.
when got to the office he told me
that ne had to be killed. but that ne had
secured someone else to do the job and
I would not have to do it,"
who did he say the man WASP
Man Named Charley Davis.
"a man by the name of Charley-Davis
was his last name"
Later the Woman says she went down
street and called up DR.. Rustin at his Of
flee. He told her to come back up and
she heard him send the man down for a
bottle of beer.
Charley Davis. brother of the vice pres
ident of the First National bank, says he
was in the office and went out for the
bottle of beer, and that he was there for
medicine with which he expected to com
init suicide.
~ " wv AhANS CAAAa ~ .
in her Statement and in her testimony be-
fore the cornorer's jury:
II tried to persuade DR.. Rustin that he
should not have this man kill him, but
he insisted that he was to die during the
night. He then gave me a bottle Of aconite
and told me I could take that IL 1 wanted
to kill myself, but he did not ask me to
commit suicide"
did he make any provision for you In
the event you did not take your own life o.
Yes; he gave me a check for $780,"
did you think this check was good?"
Il knew 1t vas not good. but he told me
that it could be cashed, II l would see one
of the directors of the First National bank
and ask to nave it paid"
What became of this check?"
1.-THE Gleason woman destroyed it, l be-
lieve, as she said it was no good"
What did you do after you received the
check?'
For the Last Time.
II left the office with DR.. Rustin to ride
out home with him for the last time. He
said 1t was the last time.
w walked down to Farnam street,
where he put the man Davis on the street
car. He said he had given the man some
medicine and that he was to meet him at
Fortieth and Farnam streets and do the
shooting. We went by the Falstaff saloon,
where DR.. Rustin got a drink and think
a pint of whisky. 1 walked up Harvey
street and met him at Seventeenth and
Harvey Streets
Did he take anything besides the whisky
ANY morphine or other medicine?"
"He took morphine. l saw him take a
quarter grain tablet -four different times.
He said he was taking 1t so he could not
think.
But going up Harvey street he talked
about his f~amiiy-his wife and children.
He pointed out a place where they used to
live and said he had not treated them
right.
1--WE walked over to Farnam street and
he left me, saying that he would meet
Davis at Fortieth and Farnam streets and
Davis was going to do the shooting. He
told me that unless ne returned to the city,
l would know what had happened. He did
not return, l believed the man Davis had
not lost his nerve"
Called UD RustIh Home.
The Rice woman told of calling up DR.
Rustin's home and of the sleepless night
she spent at the home of the Gleason
Ill woman. She told that she called the Rus