The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-01-13
WOMAN TEST|F|ES
 IN SCHENK TRIAL Nurse Presents Damaging Tes-
 timony to Jury MRS. SCHENK UNMOVED The Contest Between Witness and De- fendant Is Carried on in the Lam guage of the Eyes and Is
 Very Bitter

Wheeling, w. Va, January 12-It was woman against woman at todays session of the Schenk trial when Alma J. Evans, a professional nurse, recited on the stand her story against Laura Farnsworth Schenk and the circum- stances which influenced her to sus- poet that John o. Schenk was being poisoned by his wife
 Her testimony dealt with the &C., cused woman unsparinak.
 It was Miss Evans who attended Schenk during his illness and-the state brought out on direct examination tho statement from her that Mrs. Schenk had lost her love for the wealthy pork packer She testified that time and again Mrs. Schenk had instructed her that if John died suddenly to go to his trousers pocket as soon as the breath left his body, secure the keys and notify her before the Schenks knew of the death.
 You don't know those Dutch devils like do. the witness said Mrs. Schenk said to her on various occasions when referring to members of the schenk family.
 The state also brought out through Dr. Charles D. Grazer of Johns Hop kins university that the first bottle of mineral water sent him for anal ysis contained three and six-tenths grains of arsenic to the half gallon and a sample of the quinine which CahA hAplr xxroc o1 fnl in taf o6 seven grains of sugar of lead to the ounce
 Dummy Bottles Prepared Miss Evans further testified that "dummy' bottles of medicine wero kept in the bathroom of the suite oc- cupied by Schenk at the North Wheel ing hosiptal, while the real remedies being given Schenk were kept in an other part of the building that the bottles were placed there as a decoy and that the accused was given an opportunity to doctor" them; that Mrs. Schenk had gone into the bathroom, locked the door and remained inside for 15 minutes.
 The defense, however, apparently scored when it was declared byp Dr. hupp, who was put on the stand late in the afternoon, that the medicine in the room had not been tempered with and also by cross examination of Dr. Glazer, that a second bottle of min eral water taken from the same room in which Mrs. Schenk was locked for some time had not been tempered with
 The allegation that the wife had at tempted to poison her husband after he had been removed to the hospital the defense claimed. is shattered by the fact that the broth and other articles of food prepared by Mrs. Schenl1 and
 
 the patient. but were preserved and analysed, and no trace of poison was found in them.
 Undertaken Selected
 Miss Evans further declared that Mrs. Schenk had the undertaken se- lected who was to have charge of her husbands funeral
 "I won't have any Dutch funeral,' she quoted Mrs. Schenk as saying, nam ing the undertaken who would Ie em- ployed by the Schenk family and the one whom she had selected herself and who conducts the most exclusive establishment in the city.
 At another time. the witness testi- fled. Mrs. Schenk had told her that John is too old for me. I want young society blood.' and that the accused had confided to her that John was too much of a business man" to suit her, as she thought she was "entitled to so- ciety" on account of her wealth.
 A detective nurse, Mrs. Nota Klein, was placed on the case soon after Schnek's removal to the hospital, for the purpose of trapping Mrs. Schenk. the defense declares. and Miss Evans states that Mrs. Schenk became very friendly with the second nurse at tnce, not knowing her identity.
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 Miss Evans was subjected to most searching cross ss-examination, but her testimony was not shaken In any marked degree. Time after time she went further in her replies than the attorney for the defense anticipated until Attorney O'Brien asserted that the witness was prejudiced against his client.
 During the testimony of Miss Evans repeated hostile glances passed be- tween the accused and the witness, 50 apparent that it was remarked by the spectators and several times there was a visible sheer in the expression of each woman.
 Another line followed ythe defense was an attempt to show conspiracy on the part of the Schenk family against the accused. especially on the part of Albert Schenk against his brother Johns wife.
 Miss Evans declared that If such conspiracy existed she never was aware of 1t. She said she had been employed as nurse at the Schenk home on the recommendation of Mrs. Haskins sis ter Of John o. Schenk. to whom she was recommended in turn by Miss Bell, head nurse at Dr. Haskin's hospital
 The testimony of Dr. Glazer was largely technical and demonstration of the action of sugar of lead on hyomel uuinine was made by Dr. Glazer before the jury as well as a demonstration