The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-04-08

whereat she grabbed for the covers and
pulled them over her head.
| 81 also believed she was shamming
when gave it as my opinion that she
was in At condition to be given her pre-
| liminary hearing in the court of To-
peka.''
Keith Examined Woman.
1t was at that hearing that DR.. H. H.
Keith, the coroner, was called to ex-
anime the woman. DR.. Keith said she
| was in no condition to be tried, that
she ought to be in a hospital, and that
her pulse beat 1865 Her temperature
was 103. She was taken back to the
county Jail.
81 then asked that a consulting
physician be sent for,' continued DR..
NicoI, because I wanted to know
whether 1 or DIR. Keith was right. At
my suggestion, Dr. Van Horn was sent
for. 1 wanted him because he had run
against me for appointment to my posi-
ton and 1 thought he would give us the
truth. Together we found her temper
allure and pulse to be normal Her ex-
ertion and excitement must have
caused the condition reported by DR..
Keith. We also found the slight irres-
ularity in the heart have had Ia
borers working at $1.75 a day in the
ditch come to me for examination With
worse heart trouble than she had said
DR.. Van Horn"
DR.. Nicol, although he had been at
tending physician, says he was not
called to the autopsy or, asked for his
diagnosis. The morning of the autopsy,
he was at the Jail to attend the lunacy
hearing of Matte Troy, negress. which
was postponed, and at the time COM
planned to the other physicians that he
had not been notified
I admit did not know she had
pneumonia said DR.. Nicol. II know
it now from the report of the autopsy.
I had tried many times to examine her
lungs but she always fought me away.
But pneumonia is very quick, five or
six days at the outside, and she had
not contracted that until the last My
report to the city board of health was
that she died of impaction of the
bowels and complications. That was
my diagnosis when first found her i'll.
I still believe that, until ten days
after the court hearing, she was sham
ming her unconsciousness-"
Jail Officers Angry.
Under Sheriff BaylisS, in charge of
the jail, his wife, Deputy Lon Sauls,
and Mrs. Evans cellmate are indig-
nant at the report that Mrs. Evans was
mistreated at the Jail.
1.-The only time she was ever struck
here said the cellmate, May Rogers,
twas when slapped her. 1t was when
I was getting her ready to go up to the
court house. I was washing her face
and she bit me- She did not want to
go. I was real angry for a minute and
slapped her hard. She was always
That's all mistake about her not
being treated right here. These people
did everything for her. Mrs. Bayliss
helped her. One night Mrs. Evans
woke up about 1 o'clock and wanted
some soup. Mrs. Bayliss got up, went
over to the hotel and had some madc
for her. Mrs. Evans didn't starve her
self, either. I'll tell you what she did.
She used to get up at night and eat.
No. she wouldn't eat when any ore
was around. But when we were all in
the big hospital room where the cup
board is, we used to send out for things
and cook some on the stove in there.
We had things to eat in the cupboard
and she would get up and eat We
girls used to lie awake watching her.
Stamey Sent Her Money.
G. V. Stamey. with whom Mrs. Evans
was held for trial on a charge of arson,
was always solicitouS of her wants.
Almost every day he sent her up some
money from his cell. The amount is
estimated by May Rogers at $40 alto
gether, a little at a time when she
wanted to send for things. With tears
in his eyes at her hearing when the Of
fcers insisted she was shamming, he
said, Il tell you, if these
- knew that woman like do they
would see she is sick. I tell you she
will die. I know her temperament. She
is nervous and hystericaI and frighten-
ed to death"
until after that hearing" said May
Rogers. ''She thought she was going to
be killed.