The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1908-09-12

Ss0A ASeAtdleu 10 commit SUICIDE be-
cause OF clauses in his insurance
policies would prevent his family
from receiving the benefits therefrom;
the woman would not mlrder the
doctor because OF her love; but ,the
third man according to the story on
the witness stand, was ready to shoot
the physician in return for drugs that
would produce death.
After the physician had been shot
the man was ready to take his drugs.
and die, and the woman had prepared
to kill ll9pelf. The physician died;
the woS End the other man still
III The man s.ed from dose Of
dozen table, smorphine and a
swallow Of chlofs e.. gold and the
woman was arrestes Se she could
carry Try. out her part OF No ,?mpact.
so Doctor bought <a4r at a
pawnshop and ! purchaser sshs car
tridges at gun store. After we set
tied upon the time he said he needed
three days in which to fix up his af-
fairs, SO we arranged for Sunday,
August 30, as the day Of death, and
the place was to be in his office.
"He showed me just where to shoot
him in the abdomen, and told me that
he would live long enough for me to
get away after the shooting.
After shooting him I was to get
away and then kill myself. After
shooting him and while on my way to
the place where was to die was to
remove the cartridge, throw away the
empty shell. replace 1t with fresh
cartridge and then kill myself. In that
way his family would be spared the
humiliation OF an association of our
deaths.
I'VE were living at the Loyal hotel
then, at least we took rooms there,
and We decided to commit the deed
there instead of in the office, so we
told each other good-by and got out
the pistol, but in loading 1t something
broke and we could not carry out
our intentions there. q
THAT was on Sunday. Doctor said
nothing more about me killing him
for week, and then one day he said
we must do 1t at once. So that day
he went to Council Bluffs and had
the gun fixed. That night we met
by appointment and went to his Of
flee. We carefully loaded the gun and
put an extra cartridge in my purse
that could kill myself with it.
Doctor showed me just where to
shoot, and we waited until q street
car was close, 80 it would drown the
shot
CDR. Rustin stood straight in front
of me, and when the car got near
he said: Now shoot raised the
gun, but my nerve failed and I low
credit.
81 love you too much. so 1 can't
do It, I said. Doctor got very mad
and scolded me. and then he sug-
gested that we go out to his house
and that wait in his barn and shoot
him, and the people would think a
burglar had lone the shooting,
.;s'.II =. u aSreed to that, and we took, a
lstrestNArNe1A went out there. Slip
BED around Is the alley, but man
came by and ran away, took a car
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 try it again.
THAT time got to the barn and
he came through and opened the door
and entered the building. The gun
was all ready and he again stood up
to be shot. Shoot to hit me right
here he said,and put his finger on the
place was to hit.
II took good aim and was just about
to shoot when he suddenly said:
Wait minute, we are too close. 1t
would leave powder marks and
would look like suicide. Stand further
back
Then broke down again and I
told him could not. I told him to
shoot me If he wanted to, but that I
could not kill him that way.
HE was very angry and took me
back down town and to Clara Glea-
sons resort, where he remained sew
eral days. That was the Friday night
before he was killed.
Tuesday afternoon when saw him
he told me not to worry, that he had
found some one else to kill him, and
that would not have to do it. A man
was coming to his or1ce-a man
named Charley Davis. was intro
duced to him that day at DR.. Rus
tins office.
"That night we met in the doctors
oHice. He was much depressed. The
man came in about 8 o'clock and
left them together while. When 1
came back DR.. Rustin told me Davis
was to kill him in return for enough
poison to kill himself. He gave me
drug In Q. bottle and told me to take
It when / knew he was dead and that
/ would follow him. Then he gave me
q check for $500 which knew was Of
no value. Then the other man came
In and L left the. doctor, agreeing to
meet him at Sixteenth and Farnam
strets later and ride. home with him
before the other man killed him.
81 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 Of on the corner near his
house and go on to his house and
wait for him.
1--WE walked all the way to his
home, or near there. the doctor talk
fnn all the time shout his wife and