Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-13
MISS KO[B 1[SI|F|[S
IN C[Ek|NSON TRIAL
WOMAN FIGURING AS INTIMATE
OF ACCUSED DOCTOR TELLS
OF RELATIONS.
NET ON MANY OCCASIONS
BY TELEPHONE APPOINTMENT
Woman Denies That cleminson Paid
Her Room Rent-Evidence Shows
Domestic Relations Of cIeminson and
Wife Were Observation-Disclosures
Charged With Contempt Of Court.

Charged With Contempt Of Court.
Chicago, Nov. 13.-Interest In the
Cleminson trial today centered on the
testimony of Miss Anna Kolb, the prin-
cipal witness for the state. In answer
to questions she said she first met
Cleminson when he was called to at
tend her when she was sick. and after
wards met him by appointments made
over the telephone. She denied that he
ever paid her room rent. After his
Wife's death she met him at the police
station. and she said he told her, "The
least you say about this the BETTER"
That the domestic life of DIR. Hald-
ane Cleminson and his wife ran far
from smoothly was brought out at the
murder trial yesterday by the physi-
| clans sister-in-law, Miss IIilda Nor
gan, a nurse at the Ravenswood hos
pital. Her testimony was given a few
minutes before adjournment for the
day and followed several hours OF
wrangling over technical questions.
| Miss Morgan's most DANA ging point
against the accused physician was that,
month before Mrs. Cleminson's death,
he had threatened to leave her and the
children. Lack of money, the nurse
said, was what prevented him from
acting Immediately on his threat.
The physicians relative testified
against him only after threats of Jail
sentence had been made against her
and Miss Adelaide Lewis, superintend-
ent of the Ravenswood hospital, for
what appeared to Judge McSurely as
contempt of court.
When asked if she had suggested to
Cleminson that he chloroform his wife,
Miss Kolb excitedly declared that to
be "a lie." She read paper handed
her and identified it as typewriter
statement she made to Captain Kane,
and then declared that Kane ques-
toned her persistently and she made
the statement to get rid of him.
Charges Contempt Of Court.
The judge was particularly angry at
Miss Lewis, whom he accused of an
attempt to prevent the witness from
II appearing. Assistant States Attorney
i Northup and Rittenhouse charged that
Miss Lewis had restrained Miss Nor
pair We're taken before the Judge
Miss Morgan as a witness and Miss
Lewis to answer a contempt charge
only after detectives armed with sub
poenas had been sent for them and
ordered to bring them to court in a
patrol wagon if necessary.
you really are in contempt of court,
subject to fine or Jail sentence"
fn
Cor you have interfered with the court
the witness is here now and I'll let
you go, but I warn you to be careful in
such matters as this in the future
Ever since the death of Mrs. Glenn
inson, May 80 last, Miss Kolb has been
the cause of many rumors and much
conjecture. For some time she could
not be found. and later it was reported
, that the defense had made attempts to
take here away from Chicago so That
she could not testify against Dr. Clem-
inson. 1t was said that She was
, watched closely by detectives from the
l states attorneys office. She was taken
from the county building yesterday by
a secret passage to shield her from the
gaze of the curious crowd
w
yesterday when Miss Adelaide Lewis
superintendent of the nurses at the
Ravenswood hospital appeared in court
to answer a charge made by Assistant
States Attorney Northrup that she had
nurse at the hospital and a sister Of
Mrs. Cleminson, to testify in the case.
1t was rumored that Miss Morgan
-, nf fa 11y y1yhr
did not believe DR.. Cleminson killed
3 his wife, and that she was an unwilling
4 witness and was being aided by Miss
p Lewis in evading the courts sum.
mons.
After Miss Lewis had explained tina
! the demands of the hospital were sucf
v that she could not spare Miss Morgan
:, Judge McSurely allowed her to go will
= reprimand and warning.
Miss Morgan testified that two week.
d before the death of her sister, Ds
r Cleminson told her that he and hi
3 wife were mismated. He said, accord
t ing to the witness, that as soon as h
(. had procured sufficient funds he In
tended to leave his wife, and that sh
would be free to go wherever she de
sired. .
n Most Of the time yesterday was con
sumed in taking testimony from med
ical experts, all of whom declared tina
: Mrs Cleminson's death was the resu!
y of chloroform administered by inhala
: ton. Dr. Frederick r. Moorehead testi
u fed that he had administered chioro
: form several times and that it wa
Il his opinion that Mrs. Cleminson die
d from the effects of that drug DR.. E.
LeCount and DR.. Ralph w. Webste
gave similar testimony.
Frank A. Journigan. a policeman O
= the Rogers Park station, was the onl
9 other witness. His testimony corro
r borated that of other policemen and of
= ficers who told of finding Mrs. Glen
5, inson dead and of the doctors subse
quent arrest