Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-12-08


was himself again.
mo, 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 a 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 muir
der yet, for my children's sake. but 1
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?"
$50 1 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 1 wished to see
her he would show me how to get to
her. On numerous other occasions 1
had met up with her, but she always
| declined to see me. Francis took me
| over to the street known as Briarsweet
place. He had latchkey to the front
| door-at No. "a. l think it was a skel-
| eton key, but he is an artificer of I'M
common skill, so l do not know. He
let me in. There seemed to be no one
at home. in the Flanders house. We
went into the library and he lifted
down brass plaque from the wall. We
| | great difficulty in crawling through
the hole, as the panel stuck. When we
got in there we found my wife dead.
1t was evident, too, that she had not
occupied the room alone"
Gould Francis Wayne have leased
this house in your name?" asked the
Court.
Il hardly think So" replied Ham
ley. I'm fact, 1 am positive he did
not"
do you think he killed his sister,"
asked the Court again.
II am positive he did not"
What reason had he for surrepti-
tiously following his sister. Was he
afraid you would kill herr"
Il do not know as to that. / think
his object was to try and persuade her
to return home to her children"
Mrs. DIR. Fothergill then testified.
1.-THE morning after / had examined
Mrs. Harcourt at the hospital and
noted what seemed to me to be indica-
lions of this particular form of loco
poisoning, 1 obtained permission tc
visit the room formerly occupied by
Mrs. Wayne. 1t was practically I'M
touched, and a glass stood on the wash
stand. I took it away with me, giving
the police due notification that hac
done so, and when at home rinsed II
thoroughly with water and a slight
percentage of alcohol, as his latter
solvent has marked affinity for loco
in any form. The analysis of this solu.
ton showed it to be highly charged
with powdered loco root. On mere WON.
ans intuition and my own initiative.
sought further. Undoubtedly the loco
root was dropped into the glass o.
water and later Mrs. Wayne either wit.
tingly or unwittingly drank it,
| will you tell the court your diagno
? sis of the ailment of Mrs. Harcourt.'
A bad case, of poisoning from tn,
male loco blossoms. Her present stat,
{ of health is attributable only to tn,
l rigorous treatment of morphine ans
r female loco blossoms which she wal
t subjected The powders in evidenc,
were dispensed to her daily by he
husband so she claims, in fact employ
D es at the hotel saw him give them t.
L her more than once. They are tn
concentrated essence of the male bios
sim of this noxious plant. should sa,
:, that she had been kept under the iniu
{ ence of this drug about five years
{ Those two parchment bags filled wit
n white powder there, contain more O
the same drug. They were discovere
in Mr.. Harcourts luggage"
And your opinion then is?"
{ MY opinion is" slowly stated d.
Fothergill, and + deduce it from scien
tihc facts and analyses, that Harol