The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1910-06-03
WITNESS DECLARES ACTION WAS
COMMENTED UPON BY
w. j.. ERDER.
EXHIBITS POISON
One-Third of d Grain of Arsenic Found
Through Rutopsy-Mrs. Doxey
and Sister, Mrs. Latham Re-
united in Court Room.

s.. Louis, May 0.-William ]. Eff
der thought it queer that his bride
would not eat the kind of food he ate,
according to the testimony Of a cousin
in Judge Grimm's court, in the trial OF
Mrs. Dora L. DOXey on a charge OF
slowly poisoning Erder, her bigamous
husband, with arsenic in his. food.
The cousin was Mrs. Frances Con
nelly Grote of Mount Pleasant, st.
Louis county. Erder and his bride
visited her mothers home July 4, six
days before his death. She testified
that he said to her, Dora never eats
what | eat-isn't it odd?"
Mrs. Grote is a daughter of MrH
Elizabeth Connolly, a sister of Erder's
mother. She said Erder took his
bride to their home and remained for
the evening meal on the Sunday in
question.
WAS there any conversation about
what this defendant ate during the
meal?" was asked.
Former Judge Bishop at once OBJ
jected, on the ground that eve if the
conversation was in Mrs. Doxeys
presence, it was incompetent as testi-
mony, but it was shown that Mrs.
DOxey took part in it, and Judge
Grimm admitted it.
Husband in Her Defense.
Mrs. Erder wouldn't eat anything"
said Mrs. GrOte, referring to Mrs.
Doxey, land refused one dish after an
other when it was passed to her. l
observed that she must feel i'll.
NO said VIII, Dora is a very Pc
culiar woman. She does not like
what / like. She never eats what l
eat-isn't that odd? She doesn't know
what is good
Mrs. Grote said Mrs. DOXey made
some laughing rejoinder, and no more
was thought of the conversation until
after Erder's death. On that day he
seemed in perfect health, she said,
and exhibited a lively interest in all
that was said and done.
There was a touching scene in the
lr..A witness room where Mrs. Doxey
was waiting. h.rs. Grace Latham OF
Omaha, Neb., her youngest sister, saw
her there for the first time in five
years.
Mrs. Latham and her S-year-old
daughter, Lucille, were taken into the
at Mrs. Doxey's request. The
sisters threw themselves into one an.
others arms, sObbing aloud. After
Mrs. Doxey had Gained herself she
commented on how the child had
grown, and how pretty she a
Mrs Grote told also of being pres
ent at the interment of Erder's body
in Fee Fee cemetery, and of having
the casket uncovered that she might
take a last look at his face. This was
in confederation of the testimony OF
the sexton of the cemetery, who
opened the coffin for her, and was
thus able to identify the body when
it was exhumed.
The testimony of Mrs. Grote was in
itself not considered important, but it
was regarded as significant in cOnnec-
ton with previous testimony that the
autopsy physician found no cause for
natural death in Erder's body, and
that the chemist who tested the or
cans extracted from them nearly one
third of a grain of morphine.
Arsenical Mirror Shown.
The autopsy physician was DR.. j.
A. Hartman. He said Erder's organs
were normal, and the body that of a
healthy man. DR.. William H.. War
rem, dean of the medical department
Washington University and a toxi-
cologist of national reputation, who
has made a special study of arsenic
for 20 years, exhibited in court the
'~arsenical mirrors" he obtained in
the Marsh test on the organs.
These are ring-like deposits of the
metal in glass tubes. BY
every test DR.. Warren found arsenic,
he said. He found no other poison.
Because DR.. Warren is a chemist
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