Lincoln County leader. [volume] (Toledo, Lincoln County, Or.) 1893-1987, 1910-08-26


was himself again.
NO. you're not the same," he assent
ed. But it is strange, miraculous. Who
are you?"
Il am the woman who married Har-
old Harcourt." she replied rather sadly,
and at sign from the judge left the
room.
They brought Harcourt in next and
asked Hackleye If he knew him.
Il never saw him BEFORE" replied the
defendant. who is he?"
Tell him." said the Judge.
Harcourt, cringing and fearful,
stammered out his name. Hackleye
gripped the witness chair hard. You'd
better go away from me-" he said, pc
culiarly. Il have not committed mur-
der yet, for my children's sake, but l
might"
That is all, your honor" said the
prosecution, I'VE are through with the
witness"
Mrs. Harcourt took the stand. Her
testimony divulged nothing new. Mark
S. Flanders. who leased the house to
the supposed Hamley Hackleye, assert
! ed he had never seen his tenant, that
} the whole operation had been by let
ter, accompanied by New York ex-
change to cover the rent for three
months, and that the lease when sign
ed in duplicated by "Hamley Hack
leye," had never been seen by him,
Flanders, till after his return from Eu-
rope.
Hackleye was recalled to the stand.
; You say that Francis Wayne, broth
er of the murdered woman, whose
whereabouts you declare you do not
| know, had visited the room previously
to the morning of her death?"
: 80 l understood" answered Hack
. leye.
"Why?"
We'll, he called upon me at my lodg-
: ings and said that he knew where Ce-
: risse was, and that if wished to see
her he would show me how to get TO
her. On numerous other occasions
had met up with her. but she always
4 declined to see me. Francis took me
e over to the street known as Briarsweet
place. He had latchkey to the front
h door-at No. 94 / think it was a skel-
3 eton key, but he is an artificer of un-
common skill, so l do not know He
let me in. There seemed to be no one
t at home, in the Flanders house. We
t v'"rt into the library, and he lifted
j brass plaque from the wall. We
Z ;reat difficulty in crawling through
e .ole, as the panel stuck. When we
e got in there we found my wife dead.
e 1t was evident, too, that she had not
e occupied the room alone"
1 Gould Francis Wayne have leased
3 this house in your name?" asked the
Court.
J. II hardly think So" replied Ham
ley. In fact, l am positive he did
u not"
}. DO you think he killed his sister?"
l asked the Court again.
i II am positive he did not"
What reason had he for surrepti-
tiously following his sister. Was he
> afraid you would kill her?"
4 Il do not know as to that. / think
i his object was to try and persuade her
l to return home to her children"
Mrs. Dr. Fothergill then testified.
THE morning after l had examined
Mrs. Harcourt at the hospital and
\ noted what seemed to me to be indica-
d tions of this particular form of loco
j poisoning, l obtained permission to
visit the room formerly occupied by
Mrs. Wayne 1t was practically un-
touched and glass stood on the wash
stand. l took 1t away with me- giving
$ the police due notification that l had
done so, and when at home rinsed 1t
e thoroughly with water and a slight
percentage of alcohol, as his latter
solvent has a marked affinity for loco
i in any form. The analysis of this solu-
1 ton showed it to be highly charged
with powdered loco root. On mere wom-
ans intuition and my own initiative. l
sought further Undoubtedly the loco
root was dropped into the glass OF
water and later Mrs. Wayne either wit
: tingly or unwittingly drank it."
i will you tell the court your diagno-
G sis of the ailment of Mrs Harcourt."
i A bad case of poisoning from the
male loco blossoms. Her present state
t Of health is attributable only to the
/ rigorous treatment of morphine and
r female loco blossoms which she was
t subjected. The powders in evidence
5 were dispensed to her daily by her
husband, so she claims, in fact employ
D es at the hotel saw him give them to
!. her more than once They are the
concentrated essence Of the male bios
sim of this noxious plant. I should say
;, that she had been kept under the infiu-
t ence of this drug about five years.
t Those two parchment bags filled with
. white powder there, contain more of
= the same drug. They were discovered
: in Mr. Harcourt's luggage"
And your opinion then is?"
t my opinion is," slowly stated DR..
y Fothergill, "and deduce It from scien-
v tito facts and analyses. that Harold