The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-01-18
PROOF OF POISON.
DR.. Myers Testifies That He
Supplied Mrs. Schenk
With About an Ounce of Sugar
Of Lead.
TRIED TO GET ARSENIC
On Being Refused, She Said She
Got 1t Elsewhere.
Her Chauffeur Tells of Auto
Rides at Night.

Wheeling, W. Va, Jan. 1S.-Fol-
lowing its successful attempt to show
that poison was obtained by the ac-
cused, the prosecution in the trial of
Mrs. Laura Farnsworth Schenk
charged with administering poison to
her husband, caused an air of ex-
pectancy when the trial was resumed
this morning by the intimation that
still another physician would be put
on the stand to testify that he had
supplied Mrs. Schenk with sugar of
lead.
DR.. j. w. Myers. who yesterday adj
mitted supplying poison, also testified
that Mrs. Schenk declared she had
obtained drug from some oHe else
than DR.. Myers. It is this physician
who was expected to be called before
the day was over.
DIR. Burns, who was cross examined
yesterday, was positive that his dag
nosis of Schenk's illness was correct
and that both lead and arsenic poison
ing was the cause of the millionaire
packers illness.
DR.. Gregory Alderman, who made
diagnosis of lead poisoning before
any other physicians were summoned,
is to be another witness today. DR..
Alderman is recalled for cross ex-
animation. His assistant, DIR. r. U.
Drinkard, is expected to substantiate
DR.. Ackermans testimony and also
{ agnosis through blood tests he made.
When Prosecutor Handlan called
DR.. Myers, Myers said Mrs. Schenk
had secured from him about an ounce
of sugar of lead, one of the poisons al
legged to have been given to Schenk,
and that she had tried hard to get
about two ounces of Fowler's solution
of arsenic. but upon being refused.
Mrs. Schenk finally said she had
bought the other poison from another
physician whose name she refused to
give.
He Gave Her Poison.
The sensation produced when DIR.
Myers claimed he had given the wo-
man the poison came on top of anoth-
er scarcely less dramatic. when Lundy
Wilson, the chauffeur employed by
Schenks, laid bare the story of Mrs.
Schenk and her relations with Daniel
u. Phillips, who, on the stand last
Friday admitted taking long automo-
bile trips with the accused. Wilson
said Mrs. Schenk admitted to him i'm
proper relations with Phillips, giving
several instances to corroborate this
statement.
The last witness of the day, DR.. j.
Edward Burns, one of the physicians
attending Schenk, said in answer to
a hypothetical question that, in his
opinion, prior to October 81, Mr..
Schenk was suffering from lead pois-
oning and that arsenical poisoning
was developed after October %.
The story of Lundy Wilson, the
chauffer, dealt with the relations of
Mrs. Schenk and Daniel Phillips. He
told of automobile rides which the ac-
cused and Phillips took to the coun-
try practically confirming all of Phil
lips testimony earlier in the trial.
He said Mrs. Schenk apparently pre-
ferred the company of Phillips to that
of her husband. On cross examination,
no change in the direct testimony was
brought out by Mr.. Boyce for the de-
Tense.
He said he had driven Mrs. Schenk
and Dan Phillips to the country on
many occasions, principally at night
and that beer and sandwiches were
taken on these trips. The car was
usually driven to a point near Smith
field, Ohio, the lights lowered and wit
ness dismissed until recalled by the
automobile horn.
He related incidents connected with
the purchase of a diamond horseshoe
pin. fur lined overcoat and other ar
ticles alleged to have been bought by
Mrs. Schenk for Phillips.