Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-05-30
DOXEY SOUGHT As HUSBAND
Nebraska Physician Recommended to
Miss Kate Erdman.
DEAD MANS SISTER ON STAND
She Declares that Accused Woman
Tried to Bring About Marriage
TO DOctor-Columbus witt
nesses Heard.

ST. LOUIS, May 29-Aiiss Kate Erder
whose energy and presidency 10 gatherin,
evidence which led to the indictment o.
Dr. Loren Il. Doxey and Mrs Dora E
Doxey on the charge of the murder OF
her brother, William ]. Erder, testified II
the trial of Mrs. Doxey yesterday thai
the prisoner attempted to induce her &c
correspond with DR.. Doxey with a view
to matrlmony.
This was when Miss Erder first heard
OF the name of Doxey, and soon after Mrs
Doxey, then the wife of William ]. Err
ger gave the witness a letter to mail to
DR.. Doxey, who lived in Des Moines.
Mrs Doxey's speculations before and af-
ter the death of Erder and her conflict
ing statements about DR.. Doxey, her legal
husband, were the subject of extended
testimony.
Mrs. Mollle Brimmer testified she saw
Mrs Doxey pack the Erder household
goods and heard her tell an express com
pany to bill them to DR.. Doxey at Co
lumbus. Neb
Miss Kate Erier, nemesis of Mrs. Doxev.
and held to be the star witness, exchanged
a hostile stare with Mrs. Doxey upon taxi
ing the witness stand this afternoon. Miss
El der" told OF her brother introducing her
to the accused as Mrs. Dora Dodge. The
wedding followed soon after. The first
time the witness ever heard the name of
Doxey was when her brothers wife showed
her the card of DR.. L. b. Doxey of Des
Moines, la.
. she told me Dr. Doxey was her brother
in-laws brother" said Miss Erder. land
that he would make fine husband for me.
Wheh 1 asked her why didn't she get him
herself she said, Doxey is not the Kind
of man L fancy" rs
Miss Erder wept when she related incl
oents connected with the death of her
brother. Miss Erder testified she mailed
a letter for Mrs. Doxey, then the wife Of
her brother,s addressed to DIR. Doxey at
Des Moines.
The formal demand, of the state on the
defense for the marriage certificate of
MRS Boxey to Erder was not passed on
by Judge Grimm today. --...
witnesses from Columbus, Neb., were. NIT
on the witness stand late in the day A.
b. Groves testified he was in charge of n
MOTEL In Columbus on April t. when Mrs
DoXey registered there as Dora Slane He
said the next day she Joined DIR. DOGGY
at another hotel.
q The, proprietor of the hotel where Doxey
lived, Charles Tobenhoft, testified Mrs,
Doxey came to- his hosiery and remained
with Dr. Doxey ten days.
Myron N. Wilson, a druggist of CoIum
bus, Neb., testified at the night session
that he put 100 morphine tablets in a box
for DR., Doxey. On the lid of the box. the
physician wrote For Dora"
Wilson also told the jurors he put I'D five
grains Of cacodylate Of soda, the arsenical
compound. which the prosecution alleges
was used in killing Erder. The poison was
placed in box and given to DR.. Doxey at
the time the morphine was handed to him.
The witness said that when, DR.. Doxey
wrote For Dora" on the morphine box,
the doctor also put another box in the
package. The druggist saw ",St. Louis" on
the label.
Chauncey Goethe, Wilson's drug. clerk
rorroborated his employers testimony and
ADDED that he received telephone mes
sage from DR.. Doxey about buying the
cacodylate of soda. The drug was not kent
IN stock by Wilson and was ordered from
wholesale drug house.