The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-01-15
PRICE Of POISONING
HUSBAND WAS $4,000
Detective Disguised as Nurse Be-
trays Mrs. Schenk s Alleged
Plan to Kill Millionaire.
TO DOUBLE WIDOWS VEIL
Disconnected Wife S Device to
Hide Mirth Revealed by
Witness for tie State.
TO DOUBLE WIDOWS VEIL
By Associated Press.

By Associated Press.
WHEELING, w. Va, Jan. 14-Testi-
mony that Mrs. Laura Farnsworth
Schenk had offered her $1,000 10 admins
ter poisonous pill TO John o. Schenk
while he lay i'll at a hospital last Novem-
Der was given today by Eleanor zooeck-
Ter. a detectives nurse. who had hereto
iore oeen known as Mrs. Klein, pro-
lessional nurse"
The attempt to induce the nurse" to
give the poison 10 Schenk, witness testi-
ieo, was made while the Lwo were riding
in Mrs. Schenk's automobile, Mrs.
Schenk, Miss Zooeckler testified. said to
heri
John treats me like a dog When
Miss Evans (nurse in the Schenk case)
calls up from the hospital and tells me
that my husband Is dead l will be the
at times like ! could kill that man.
Why don't you?' | asked. She turned
around and said; We'll. you do it for
me-.
Poisoner's Price Too High.
H That is another thing 1 told her.
What VIII you take TO give him the pill?
"T win take $4,000 I replied. I need
money awful bad, have my mother and
g Good Lord replied Mrs. schenk, I
have not $4,000. but / will give you $1,000
IL you will make it that
Il told her that this was a very risky
business for that small amount but /
finally agreed, II she would give me a
paper in writing showing that she was
TO pay me the money as soon as she
came into her widows rights
Mrs. Schenk promised to give me the
money, but objected TO giving me any
written promise. She said that would be
dangerous. She also said she would get
the stuff and would bring il to the
hospital the next morning. She wanted
me either 10 give Il TO Mr.. Schenk or
10 put II in his medicine. which would
be placed beside his bed. so he could take
II himself.
that ! asked her You would know
that you and ] killed him
To Wear Double Veil.
~ will never be happy until that man
Is dead she said. II he dies win wear
a double veil SO they can't see me
1--WE agreed on the plan, and she said:
AS soon as John is dead. call me before
you do the schenks. II Albert Schenk
hospital before l could cross the bridge
and see that you get Johns keys for
me-
"Mrs. Schenk did not come to the hos
vember 2. at the time she said she would.
&C called He'd n her up and asked her why she
did not bring the stuff. She said she
did Inc not care to talk about II over the
later.
when she came I asked her why she
had not brought the pill She said she
was afraid 10; that she had tried 10 get
the stuff but could not. She said she
was afraid because IL John died sudden
~. Albert Schenk and DR.. Haskns
Johns brotherin-law. would have the
stomach examined right away. Then
would be suspected.
The plan 10 poison Schenk the witness
said, was then dropped by Mrs. Schenk
whom she did not see for some time
The next time they took an automobile
ride together. Miss ZooeclSler testified
she tried TO learn from Mrs Schenk II
she had not already administered the
arsenic. but she only tossed her head
and said ''pouf."
Witness freely admitted that she had
been brought here and put on as q nurse
in order TO trap Mrs. Schenk in an at
tempt TO take the life OF her husband
or TO secure an admission that such was
her purpose.
The direct examination OF the witnea:
will be resumed Monday.