The San Francisco call., 1910-09-27

A-You might say completely out OF
her head.
Q-Isn't it fact that the last time
Parker was there she was seeing
imaginary objects moving across the
ceiling? A.-Yes, sir. He stayed
very short time. After that he had a
conversation with the doctor in the re-
ception room. / didn't hear what that
was.
Led by District Attorney Fickert,
the nurse then went into the grewsome
details of Eva Swans death at an early
morning hour alone in the room where
she had, during ten days, gradually
lost her faculties, raVed in a delirium,
fallen into stupor and finally expired
like a captured thing in the very clutch
of a vulture.
Q.-Now, will you please state in
your own language what happened al
ter her death in the matter of dispos-
ing of her body? A.-Well, she died, l
should judge, about four o'clock in the
morning.
ASKED NURSE TO HELP
Q.-Were you present when she dled!
Al wasn't there at the exact time,
not the exact minute, no. The next
morning the doctor got up very early
and got a trunk that he had In the
front room, took out the upper tray
trunk-and picked up the body to put
it in the trunk. He asked me to as
sist him, but the sight made me SICK
1 couldn't do it. / was sick. L stepped
out for a minute and sort of pulled my
self together, and / came back then,
and at that time he had the saw.
Q=At that time he had what? A
He had the saw He was saving of
the ankles and that made me sick. /
fal+ foir
I saw was the trunk pulled into the
front room and put into the closet, and
that evening the trunk was taken out.
Wren-Q-Teln by whom, and all
that. Take your time. There is no
hurry. BY whom, and what was said,
and all that? A.-There was little
fellow by the name of William Sacks
and
@. (interrupting)-D he see the
body before it was put into the trunk?
A.-No, he didn't. This little fellow
got an expressman somewhere on the
street, but who it was-I couldn't iden-
tify him, because just as soon as the
expressman came up I went out of the
room.
Fickert-Q.-Yo went out of the
room? A.-Yes, sir. 1 got a hurried
glimpse of him. He looked like he
might be Jew. 1 did look out of the
window. The trunk was taken down
stairs by the eXpressman and Will
Sacks, and.I did look out of the win
dow. I saw Willie get on the wagon
with him and go down the street with
the trunk in the back of the wagon.
That is all I saw of it. 1 have not
seen 1T since.
Q.-You don't know where they took
it? A.-No, 1 couldn't swear.
TOLD NURSE HIS PLANS
Wren-Q.-Did the doctor state to
you what he was going to do with the
body, and all that? Ale said he
was going to bury it. He said he
rented the house for that purpose.
Fickert-Q.-Did he tell you where
he had rented the house? Ale said
it was in Eureka street, but 1 don't
know the number. ] didn't want to
know anything about it.
Wren-Q.-Do you know about the
time he hired the house and got Willie
Sacks to rent it? Ale told me that
he was willing to rent a house and that
now, it seems to me they rented. the
day before she died.
Q.-The day before she died? A
day or couple of days. I wouldn't
be exactly positive, but 1t seems to
me couple of days before she died.
Q.-Now, after the body was buried
and Willie Sacks came home, what
did the doctor or Willie Sacks say in
relation to it? The doctor was gone
A. Gnterrupting)-Th doctor stayed
all night at the house.
Q.-The night he took the body
away? A.-Yes, sir, he stayed there
couple of nights, in fact. Both stayed.
OF course, l wasn't out of the house.
/ know the doctor was gone. / know
the doctor was gone from the Office
all night for a couple of nights.
Fickert-Q.-Yeu don't know whether
he stayed there or not? A.-That |
couldn't know, because I wasn't there
Wren-Q.-Did he tell you?
Ale said he did.
Q.-That he stayed out to this house?
A.-Yes, sir.
Q.-Then, when he came back. didn't
he tell you, I'VE buried it, all right:
A.-No, he said, II couldn't on account
Of
Q.-what was the first excuse? A.
He said there was a moonlight night
and that people were watching-the
neighbors were watching, and there
was a low board fence and that the
neighbors all around could see, and
he spoke particularly of two women
that seemed to be watching them That
night, from what he told me, they did
not bury it, but they went out the next
day-or, rather, he was gone all night
L
then when-he stayed there all night
the first night, came back the next day
to the Office about II, stayed around
the most of the day and went back to-
ward evening, and I am pretty sure
that was the night they buried it. OF
course I wasn't there. so I couldn't say
positively.
SIT WAS ALL FIXED"
Richards-Q.-Did he make a remark
the next day when he came back that
he buried her in the basement? A.
Yes, sir. He said it was all fixed. Thai
was the remark he made.
In concluding the examination. Miss
Messerschmidt was asked why she die
| not disclose the secret.
Fickert-Q.-Did the doctor ever ad :
monish you or threaten you not to saw
anything about it? A.-Why, he ALWAYS
had a very large gun, and the onIy
thing he said was if-Here is his
language: "If anybody ever welches in
this game they will get plugged" That
is the language he used. That is the
language he used.
Q.-Why didn't you say something "a
the authorities about this? A.-Prin-
cipally because ! was afraid some time
he would meet me and do some injury
| wanted to go home shortly after this
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