Norwich bulletin., 1911-01-13
It Was Woman
Against Woman
THURSDAYS DEVELOPMENTS IN
THE scHENk TRIAL.
MISS EVANS A WITNESS
Professional Nurse Tells Why She
Suspected John o. sehenk Was Be-
ing Poisoned.

Wheeling, w. Va, Jan. 12.-It was
woman against woman at today'S Ses-
sion of the Schenk trial, when Alma
j. Evans. a professional nurse, recited
ON the stand her story against Laura
FsFnsworth Schenk and the circum- :
stances that influenced her to suspect
that John O. Schenk was being pois-
oned.
"Dutch Devils"
Miss Evans attended Schenk during
his illness, and the state brought out
on direct examination that time and
again Mrs. ScherHk had instructed her
in case her husband died suddenly, to
take from his pockets as soon as the
breath left his body the keys to his
safe deposit box in a local bank and
notify her before his relatives knew OF
his death.
lis like / do the witness said Mrs
Schenk said on various occasions
when referring to members of the
Schenk family.
Arsenic in Mineral Water.
The state also brought out through
DR.. Charles Glaser of Johns Hopkins
university that the first bottle of min
eral. water sent him for an analysis
contained three and three -sixteenths
grains of arsentic to the half gallon
and that the sample of hyomel quiz
nine, which Schenk was also taking
contained seven grains of sugar OF
lead to the ounce.
Dummy Bottles of Medicine.
Miss Evans futfler testified that
dummy bottle of medicine were kept
in the bathroom of the suite occupied
by Schenk at the North Wheeling hos.
pital, while the remedies given him
were kept in another part of the
building. The dummy bottles, she said
were placed there as a decoy, giving
opportunity to doctor them. She
testified that Mrs. ScIenl had gone to
this room, locked the door and re-
mafned inside for fifteen minutes.
Medicines Not Tempered With.
The defense to offset this testi-
mony drew from DR.. Hupp, who was
put on the stand late in the after
noon. the statement that the medi-
cines in the room had not been tam
pered with. On cross-examinatiOn DR.
Glaser also said that q second bottle
of mineral water, taken from the room
in which Mrs. Schenk was locked fol
some time had not been disturbed.
Charges that the wife attempted tC
poison her husband, after he had beer
removed to the hospital, the defense
claims are shattered by the fact thai
although articles of food prepared b3
Mrs. Schenk and taken to the hos
pital were preserved and analyzed
Miss Evans further testified thai
Mrs. Schenk had the undertaken Sc
lected who was to have charge of hel
husbands funeral. Il won't have any
Dutch funeral she quoted Mrs
Schenk as saying, naming the under
John is Too Old for Me.
At another time the witness testified
Mrs. Schenk told her: John is too
Old for me. / want a young society
blood" And had also said that "JollI
was too much of a, business men" tt
suit her, as she thought she was "en-
titled to break into society. on ac-
count of her wealth.
a detective Mrs. Noto Klein
was placed on the case soon after
Scf1enk's removal TO the hospital tt
clares, and Miss Evans stated thai
Mrs. SchenlS became very friendly
with Mrs. Klein at once, not knowins
her identity.
Nurses Testimony Not Shaken.
Miss Evans was subjected to E
searching cross examination, but hel
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 thai
the witness was prejudiced agains
his client.
During the testimony of Miss Evans
repeated hostile glares passed between
the accused and the witness, so ap-
parent that it was marked by tlIt
spectators, and several times ther;
was a visible sneer in the expression
Of each woman.
Another line followed by the defenst
on cross examination was an attempi
to show a conspiracy on the part o.
the Schenk family against the accus-
ed. especially on the part of Alber-
Schenk, her brotfer-in law Miss
Evans declared if such conspiracy ex-
listed she has never been aware of it.