The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-05-31
STRONG TESTIMONY
AGAINST MRS. DOXEY
Witnesses Tell Things Damag-
ing to Woman's Case
LETTER IS IDENTIFIED
Mrs. DOxey Wrote to n Lawyer Last
June In Which She Says She Ex-
poets Money From Mnn
"AImost Dead"

| st. Louis May S0.--The most damaging
evidence yet introduced against Mrs.
Dora e. Doxey accused of the murder Of
| William j. Erder, was presented today.
First an attorney testified that the wom-
an had predicted the death of a relative
| in a letter and sought to have certain in
debtedness held up pending the settlement
of his estate. Then the pastor of a church
| to which the Doxey family belonged in
| Columbus, Neb., told of their straitened
| circumstances and just before adjourn
ment tonight Mrs. Katherine Erder,
mother of the dead man, corroborated the
testimony of her daughter Miss Katie
Erder. who is regarded as Mrs. Doxey' S
nemesis
| In order to hurry the trial to compile
ton Judge Grimm announced that night
sessions will be held beginning tomorrow.
The defendant appeared much refreshed
after her day of rest yesterday. The an
nouncement of the woman's attorneys
that cacodylate of sodium with which she
| 10 alleged to have poisoned Erder. had
| been fed to a dog for three weeks with
out deleterious effect brought out big
crowd of spectators for today's session.
The defendants attorneys say that ex-
perts will testify that the dog is fat and
healthy and that the drug is not destruc-
tive to human life The animal is said
to have eaten 400 grains of the drug.
Mrs Doxie is wearing two wedding
rings, those of DR.. Doxey and of Erder.
c. H. Miller, lawyer of Des Moines,
Iowa, testified that he received a letter,
dated June a. less than a month before
Erder died, from Mrs Doxey, asking for
a loan of so. She wrote him she was to
get the insurance of a man who is al
most dead
The first part of the letter was written
by Doxey, who offered to give note for
money advanced to him.
In the REORGANIZATION of Attorney
Miller he was asked if he did not know
Mrs. Doxey was a morphine flend and not
at all herself when she wrote letters to
him.
He said he did not know that.
The Rev. Samuel Hardness, pastor of
the Presbyterian church at Columbus,
Neb., which the Doxey family attended,
testified that June Mrs. Doxey told him
that Doxey was In Strengthened circum-
stances, but added that she had property
in st. Louis from which she hoped TO
realize money on. In August the minis
ter said he saw Mrs. Doxey again. This
was after Erder's death, he said. She
told him she had settled matters In ST.
Louis and explained that she had been
nursing Will Erder, whose wife had de-
serted him on his deathbed he said. She
said Erder had given her S7oo to pay GER
tain expenses and $500 which represented
his sisters life insurance, he said.
Mrs Katherine A. Erder, the mother Oh
William j. Erder, took the witness stand
shortly before adjournment.
Miss Kate Erder, her daughter, TO
whose detective work the trial OF the case
is due. burst into tears as her mother
walked into the courtroom
The latter's testimony was mainly cor
roborative of the former.
Charles Schaffer, an insurance agent
and NJ J. Kregell, notary pubic, ioen-
titled the insurance policy on Erder's HE
and the checks which they said were paid
to Mrs. Doxey and Mrs. Erder.