The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1909-11-16
1.-The sheriff sent you some of the
poison did hep"

YES, a bottle of pills, box of paste,
ordinary rat poison. a. small wooden
box of white arsenic mixed with a lit
tie charcoal giving it a brazen color"
Did you test the contents of the
box?"
Il did, finding it to be white arsenic"
What proportion of arsenic?'
Almost all, 50 per cent probably"
Did you make a careful eXamina-
ton of the stomach and the liquid?"
Il made such test of the liquid
first
What test?'
81 first used the Rheims test which
would show a coating on a copper
plate. There was none at all. Then
decomposed the stomach and used the
Marsh test, a gas test which by pass
ing it through a heated glass tube the
presence of arsenic will be shown by a
coating-the arsenic volitizes and forms
on the tube If there is enough arsenic
the tube turns black"
rs that a good test?'
ut is delicate enough so that one
can find arsenic in potato, the vine
of which has been sprinkled with paris
green.
Did you find any trace of the
poison?"
None whatever"
What. doctor, in your opinion would
be enough arsenic poison to cause
death?"
It should say two to five grains might
cause a fatal termination in a half
hour, though the usual period is II
hours"
What are the symptoms of arsenical
poisoning?"
''Violent pains in the stomach which
spreads to the entire abdominal region,
q violent jerking of the limbs in spas
n1odic, cramping and pain throughout
the body and a violent thirst which
late becomes only a sourse of pain"
The two ladies'. Mrs. Ann Dubeck
and Mrs. Holcomb. who saw the death
of Mrs. Short, testified that she COM
planned merely of a terrible pain in her
head and screamed at the top of her
voice. She has said when they reach
ed her that she had just taken NOR
phine tablet for her head and drank
coffee on top of it.
DR.. Amos, who assisted in the post
mortem went on the stand to testify
that there were huge clots of blood
found in the heart which were of sui
ficient size to cause death to a per-
son in the condition of Mrs. Short.
Mrs. Mathcr Not Satisfied.
AS the verdict of the jury was read
by the cornOr and County Attorney
Schenck dismissed the charge of muir
Ger against Tanning. Mrs: Fannie M.
grew pale with anger and Kissed the
officers.
"They rendered a verdict to suit
themselves" averred Mrs Mather,
scornfully, land my sisters blood cries
cut for vengeance. 1t is an outrage
on humanity and has not a parallel in
any criminal court in the United States
Of America.
Protection of crime; call them
selves Christians, in this twentieth
'The dirty villains. You fiaunt the
white flag of prohibition here in Kan
sas to cover your adultery and crime.
You have slandered the dead; you
have robbed my sister, you low down
ours.
1.-THE dirty, bloody Shawnee county
court officers. who call themselves
men-ugh-giv me the gambler, the
saloonkeeper, and all that-but not
your dirty, prohibitionists. 1 knew
when I heard that my sister was dead
that bloody Kansas was at work
again. and I said so. I have come
mere to have justice done, but to what
avail: you have murdered the husband
OF Mrs. Short, and you protect him
that took her life. Justice must be
done, and the curses of God will rain
down upon you--some time my sisters
death will be avenged
We have done justice" one of the
officials demonstrated with her 1--WE
nave taken all the evidence and there
IS no trace that Mrs Shorts death
was IIOi1 Oln0E Indn natural causes,
We have tried. and justice has been
done.'
"Yts. it's lot you've DONE" re-
piled Mrs. Mather.
Whats that word?" queried the
man with whom she was engaged in
heated conversation.
TITS a lot you've done" she
iterated.
But that other word-your first ex-
pression?" he queried again
prohibition, adultery, protection of
crime; Kansas she shrieked.
Then she again launched into her
remuneration, all the while a COPY of
the scriptures under her arm. She
raved. swore. rallied at the authorities
for what she called injustice. and be-
seemed the gods to rain down their
wrath upon the officials, the state, and
all who had aught to do with the
case.
High officials in Topeka have
stolen the property of Sandy Short
They have it in their homes today;
they have what was rightfully that of
my sister who was foully murdered;
and more these same officials know
that I have conclusive evidence that
this is true
mo" she responded in answer to
a query. 81 shall not institute replevin
for them. 1 must return to my home
in Seattle, but expect to return here
in January and when I do I intend to
see that some of these wrongs are
righted.
AZ hope that God in his vengeance
will send his wrath upon the people
who have shielded the murderer of
to avenge her death, pray that curses
may rain down upon them, and they
will