Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-05-24
confesses Marriage to Erder.

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E. Doxey's relations with DR.. L. B.
Doxey, her present husband, were inn
proper long before her first husband
left her, and that she and William j
Erder We're sweethearts before she
married Doxey, are two of the revela-
tons of the story she has written.
The story is remarkable in these
confession, and in the confession of
bigamy, here made for the first time
by Mrs. Doxey. She declares that
the habitual use Of morphine wholly
changed her disposition, and this
will be her plea when she takes the
stand in her own behalf, if her law
yers permit her to take it. on the
charge of numbering William j.
Erder by the use Of arsenic.
In some respects the DOXey case re-
sembles the celebrated Swope case, the
trial of which has just been concluded
at Kansas City with a verdict of guilty
against Dr. B. Clark Hyde. In both
cases poisons were used, and in both a
physician is accused.
Erder died July 10 last, after an ILL
ness of three days. Tests of part OF
his viscera by DR.. William H. Warren,
dean of the medical faculty of WASH
ington University, showed about one
fourth of "a grain of arsenic, accord
ing to his report to the coroner. He
continued his tests thereafter, but the
result has not been made public.
In an interview Mrs. Doxey declared
that she would never live again with
her husband, even tho she be acquitted,
as she confidently expects.
Il will either go to JOY to live with
my father, or will go to Chicago and
earn a living as q milliner," she said.
THAT depends on what my father and
sisters advise But / am done with
DR.. Doxey forever"
Mrs. Doxey said she and Erder We're
sweethearts in St. Louis before her
marriage to Dr. Doxey, Aug. 80. 1906.
and that she corresponded with him
after the marriage Erder knew of the
marriage she averred, but persuaded
her to come to st. Louis to see him.
While here, and after her bigamous
marriage to E,rder, which she now adj
mits for the first time, DR.. Doxey cor
responded with her. she says, and sent
her morphine regularly, but she denies
that he knew she was living with
E,rder until short time before Erder's
death.
This death was natural. Mrs DoXey
saws She revealed an important point
in the defense when she declared that.
Erder was taking medicines Whch
might have given the reactions for
arsenic. and which might have Killed
him
II didn't even know he was insured
She said And the charge that l gave
him poison is absurd. AS to the plack-.
berry pie, into which they say I put
arsenic, Will ate that week before ne
died. 1t had no arsenic in it. ana mad
nothing to do with his death.
Drua Clerks as Witnesses.
on some points Mrs. DoXey is silent
She will not say anything about the
cacodylate of soda (karsin) a deadly
arsenical compound, which the prose-
cution charges DR. Doxey bought in
Columbus and mailed to her here. The
Indictment against the two charges that
this was the form of arsenic found in
Erder,s yiscera. Two of the witnesses
for the state are Columbus
drug clerks, who say they sold DR..
Doxey the poison and saw him enclose
it with other drugs and address it to
his wife in st. Louis.
Jefferson Fuller, Mrs. Doxey's aged
father. is in st. Louis with funds for
her defense. He sold his farm at Rock
Island, ILL.,. to provide the money. Fuller
did not call on Dr. Doxey. and the jail
attendants thought this meant that he
was encouraging Mrs. DoXey to testify
against her husband as far as the state
will allow it.
DR.. Doxey doesn't believe his wife
will do this. He is confident of ac-
auittal and says that vixen he is re-
leased he intends to adopt Joseph Geist,
a 16-year- old boy now in the Missouri
reform school at Boonville for cashing