The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-11-21
SOUGHT FOR PILL
TO KILL HUSBAND
Mrs. Schenk Fell Into Trap Laid
for Her by Detective
Nurse.
SENSATIONAL EvID ENCE
Witnesses Go Before Grand
Jury and Tell OF Poison
Plot.
SENSATIONAL EvID ENCE

Wheeling, w. Va. November $3.50
sensational was the character OF the
evidence presented before the special
grand Jury that indicted Laura Farms
worth Schenk on the charge of admin
lstering poison. to her husband. John
o. Schenk, the millionaire pork packer,
tor the purpose of causing his death,
that members of the grand jury are
telling their friends just what trans
PRED behind the closed doors.
The evidence disclosed there though.
according to the statement of Prose-
cutting Attorney J. B. Handlan, 1t is
not one tenth OF the evidence he has
against Mrs. Schenk, shows one OF the
most dastardly plots ever conceived in
the mind of human being.
There were only three witnesses-Dr
Frank LIE Moyne Hurn. Miss Evans,
the nurse who waited on Schenk be-
fore poisoning was suspected. and Miss
Kline, the detective nurse. The prose-
cutor told the grand jury it was neces-
sary that he should not disclose the
Identity of the detective nurse, but
once or twice during his evidence he
called her Miss Kline. Miss Kline was
called into the case after suspicion was
aroused. DR.. Hupp informing Mrs.
was such that 1t would be necessary to
have another nurse.
Miss Kline played her part we'll. She
testified before the grand jury that she
was at the Schenls home for two days
before the patient was removed to the
North Wheeling Hospital She first
drew Mrs. Schenk out by saying:
DO you know that your husband Is
likely to keel over at any minute and
drop dead? 1t might happen at any
room or for drink Of water"
He can't die too soon for me-" Mrs
Schenk replied, according TO testimony
of Miss Kline. 1T he'd die I'd be the
happiest woman in the world"
| Witness said Mrs. Schenk told he,
about her home; that her husband mis-
| treated her. and that she was sick of il
| all. The whole Dutch Schenk fam.
| ily." she said. made her sick, All they
knew was money and meat and all
she heard was money and meat"
Well, l don't blame YOU" witness
told Mrs Schenk. Il wouldn't want
| husband like that. l believe I'd wan
him dead, too. and would try to get rio
of him"
At this remark, witness told tn,
grand jury, Mrs. Schenk laid her hant
on witnesses shoulder in a confidential
lway, and said
Would you? Will you help me t,
get rid of him?'' @
Well L have never done anything
like that before Miss Kline replied
But I'm poor woman: L have hat
to work hard all my life, and | don
know what l might do II ii was WORT
my while"
Witness further testified that Mrs
Schenk said she would pay her, an
pay her well. She told Mrs Schenl
she thought Ii was worth $4,000, bu
! Mrs. Schenk said she didn't have tina
much money, but that she would Civ
her $1,000 and see that she never ha
to work again as long as she lived
Mrs. Kline testified that she sug
gested to Mrs. Schenk that she Civ,
him knockout pill and that TIT
latter said she would get 1t. Mrs
Schenk said she would give $500 TO
a pill, that would put an end to he
husbands life. At this time Schenl
was in the hospital, and 1T was ar
ranged that Mrs. Schenk should secur
that Monday morning before she wa
arrested. Miss Kline said she waite
until noon, and Mrs. Schenk failed t
put in her appearance, and she Gale
her up and Mrs. Schenk told her sh
was unable to get the ill, the compc
sition of which the witness did no
know. any place and that she had bee
, all over town, through all alleys an
,, up and down everywhere without be
! ing able to secure the deadly pelle
Mrs. Schenk suggested that the
, had better not discuss the matter owe
the telephone and that she would Sc
her and talk TO her about it. She Wa
, still making IN effort to get the pi
!. up until the time of her arrest Wed
nesday evening, when Mrs. Schen
, created such a scene at the hospita
by threatening to kill Albert Schenl
, that she was arrested that night al
, though 1t had been planned not t
! arrest her for several days.