Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-01-16
END NOT IN SIGHT BARRY IS RETIRED
Attorneys Schenk Case Ex Rear Admiral Leaves Active
pect Protracted Trial. Duty at Own Request.
NURSE WITNESS ON STAND APPROVED BY PRESIDENT
Action Before Receipt OF Advlces
% Entrap Defendant. Affecting Officers Reputation.
WORK OF WOMAN DETECTIVE RUMOR OF SERIOUS CHARGES
Commander OF Pacific
Attempting May Face Trial by
Husband Court-Martiai
Attorneys in Schenk Case Ex-
pect Protracted Trial.
NURSE WITNESS ON STAND
Story Of the Effort Made by State
to Entrap Defendant.
WORK OF WOMAN DETECTIVE
Alleged Admissions of Wife Charged
With Attempting to Poison
Millionaire Husband.
Special p;,pa,ch 10 The Star.


Special Dispatch 10 The Star.
WHEELING. ". Va. JanIaly 10
There are So many sides and angles IN
tie trial of Mrs. Laura Farrsworth
Schenk charged with attempting TO
murder her millionaire husband. "a pork
packer. that the attorneys are now con-
vinced il will he several weeks before
/ is finally concluded ii the Ohio county
courts
Judge Jordan has done all in his power
to expedite the trial. but his eNpecta-
ton that it could he disposed Of in a
week has long since gone, and the at
iurneyS in the case arc uncertain as to
the date for the close. Pros acutor Hand
Ian will not have his evidence in until
January 10 and the defense expects to
consume a week in presenting its side,
This will bring the trial TO the end Of
iczt week, without the arguments.
Crowd Early at Court.
In anticipation of hearing more sensa-
tional testimony by Miss Eleanor Zoeck-
Ter. detective nurse witness in the Schenk
case, there was q crowd of 1000 per-
sons that damned the courthouse corri-
doris at 6 o'clock this morning. When
the doors opened the crowd was more
than doubled. score OF deputy sheriffs
and two score police being necessary ID
prevent stampede.
Miss Eleanor Zoeckler resumed her
tory where she left off Saturday. She
told of visit to the Schenk home with
Mrs. Schenk. who told her she had been
well provided for when the house was
built. as every board had been put on to
her satisfaction and under her super
vision.
Friday, November 4. witness said. Mrs.
Schenk requested her and Miss Evans
10 leave Johns room at the hospital.
'rhey did 80 and heard high words OF
quarreling. They were instructed. she
said, never TO leave the room, and this
was the only occasion the instructions
were broken.
Feared Enemies Would Get Estate.
Mrs. Schenk told witness on one oc-
casion that doctor who had treated her
husband for ten years had told her he
could not possibly live long, as he was
suffering from heart and kidney trouble
and was liable to die any minute. Mrs.
Schenk did not seem worried and ex-
pressed no feeling other than the fear
her enemies in the Schenk family would
beat her out of the estate. She told me
when John died / would be well provided
Tor.
Miss Zoeckler said that in the prose
cutor's library after being arrested Mrs.
Schenk expressed herself as being wor-
ried and afraid 1t would be found out
that the attempt at poisoning nad Deen
made and that she would be sevcreiy
punished and had told Miss Zoeckier 70
xeep her mouth shut and lie out OF the
AFFAIR.
Niss Zoeckler also told of an incident
where Mrs. Schenk had inquired about
the marks on the bottles in the bathroom
at the hospital. Mrs. Schnek told witness
of discovering these marks while alone
in the bathroom.
Miss Zoeckler said she came into the
Ease thinking she was to be employed ny
the Schenk family, but had been told
she was to work for the prosecutor. She
never knew any of the Schenks init
mately, but some OF her relatives had
married into the Schenk family. She
never had any dealings with the 6chenks
i'm this case She was employed by DIR.
Hupp and the prosecutor. The latter.
she said. told her Ito catch her by any
means. but to get her with the goods
che said she received daily wages from
the Perkins Detective Agency and did
not expect nor receive any extra compen-
sation. Miss Zoeckler was cross-examin-
"a by Attorney 8. o. Boyce, who drilled
admitted she was to resort to every pos
sible means to catch Mrs. Schenk.
Was to Leave Nothing Undone.
.You were to lie to her. to pretend and
10 suggest things to her.
II was TO leave nothing undone.'
You were doing this for hire
Yes
You were being paid money for lying,
conspiracy, suggesting and laying traps?'
The court here said the witness othe,
answer indicated yes. and objection OF
prosecutor was sustained
The prosecutor said a special ruling
should be made for Miss Zoeckler. as she
was Instructed to do these things In aid
ing the state to get the facts. Attorney
Boyce said il was not the intention Of the
defense to insult browbeat the wit
ness. He said the witness was a spy
and that she wormed and wrigSled in get
ting her facts: that she was com.
mercial and he was going to treat her
commercially. The court ruled in favor
Of the defense.
The jury was excluded during this argu.
ment.
Probing Nurses Private History.
Upon being asked about her marriage
Miss Zoeckler said she welded DR.. Julius
Kline AT Bellaire, Ohio, June -, 1894
lived with him three and a half years and
separated. She brought suit for divorce
which he did not contest. He was a
Sandusky man.
Don't you know that your husband
brought action in Belmont county il
April. 1907. for divorce and the deere,
was granted him.
State objected and the question wa.
not answered
ATTORNEY Boyce drew from witness tn,
details of her life. She admitted she was
employed as detective in various capaci
Ties in Pittsburg and at one time II
Rcsenbloom's store.
Didn't Supt. Blake there discharg,
YOU for drinking"
Never"
Methods of Detective Witness.
Miss Zoeekier admitted she had received
instructions from a man named Miller
~.o q known as silk Stocking Tom
NM said DIR. Hupp and the prosecutor
,sve her next instructions. She was told
~ the action of poison on medicines anc
was told to work so as not 10 arouse
John Schenk's suspicious
witness admitted that during many Of
hep conversations with Mrs. Scnehk sAt
lied In order to entrap her.
Less than half of the thirty-six wit
nesses which, 1t is understood, the state
has listed to testify in the prosecutor
Of Mrs Schenk had been summoned wher
the second week Of the trial began today
The identity OF most of these witnesses
has been carefully guarded until the'i
appearance upon the stand. Two new
names became public today. They are
DIR. II. Drinkard. an associate Of DR.
G~-..k IL =