The Washington herald., 1911-04-04

of $4,000 from Mrs. Cramer, to whom he
is alleged to have been engaged, was
shown in the testimony read before JUS
tice Gould yesterday.
Large doses of strychnine were ad-
ministered to Mr. Hurd by Mrs Cramer.
according to the testimony. and he de-
clared that a few more doses of the
| poison would have killed him. Hurd
| added:
The nurse girl told me-
| He further explained his belief that
Mrs. Cramer was poisoning him by the
statement that his grandson. DR.. Lee
| Hurd. administered antidotes for the
| poison when he arrived thereby saving
his life. The elder Hurd declares it is
| his belief that the poison brought about
his total paralysis below the waist. DR..
Hurd. the grandson. said he found his
grandfather suffering from overstimu
lation by strychnine and told him he
was being poisoned.
DR.. Hurd testified: lit would have
taken very little more TO kill him."
| After recovering at d hospital. Hurd
was removed 10 his grandSon'S home at
| Greenwich, Conn. Or. Hurd further tes-
tifies his wife had warned the elder Hurd
against Mr.. Cramer. Notwithstanding
| friendly letters passed between them.
Denial by Mrs. Cramer.
1t was denied by Mrs. Cramer that she
gave srychnine to HUrd, or had any
| thought of poisoning him. She denied
ever having said she would give him
chloroform She admitted she planned
secret marriage with Hurd, declar-
ing it was their own business il they
no al
her daughter she wanted to marry Hurd,
but was afraid she would be killed. owing
to threats of his son. Byron Hurd.
Many affectionate expressions were in
the letters received by Mrs. Cramer from
Hurd according to her testimony, but
she says their affection soon waned after
their engagement was broken by Hurd
She says she did everything TO humor
him, but that he was unappreciativc, and
that she even surrendered her church
relations for his sake.
HE would complain and say it was
lonely" Mrs. Cramcr testified regard
ing her absences from church at his re-
quest.
Mrs Cramer said at the hearing that
Mr. Hurd was amused at receiving Spirit
letters from his deceased wife He
laughed quite heartily over it, she add
cd.
'bld you lnInh IL AdS an AMUSING Ga
cumstance?" she was asked and Mrs.
Cramer said. why, yes" Mr.. Hurd
laughed at the idea of A letter that came
from his dead wife. and said: We'll,
Laury. that looks about like Mrs.
Shafers.
In testifyinE about Hurd's board, Mrs.
Cramer said she never asked him for II;
that he withheld part of it many times.
He was not stingy with M; was very
ypn,Ild call
him stingy with his family. Don't think
he was stinGy when he took my friends
out
II did not preserve Mr.. Hurd's letters"
said Mrs. Cramcr. II made a practice of
destroying my letters. Never expected
transactions 10 be inquired into
Regarding a note for $1,000 which Mrs.
Hurd held. she said: sure, ] considered
the $4,000 note a gift; they were all gifts.
! He gave them in considers ton OF the
good home he was having and expected To
have the rest of his days"
Some Alleged Love Letters.
Hurd wrote often to Mrs. Cramer. she
said. Il Judge not moro than once
week. I don't know what you would call
love letters. They were kind, gentleman
! " letters to lady. Some contained pro-
| fe4sions of love I guess L must have de-
It was testified repeatedly by Mrs Cra-
mer that Hurd was stingy. Although
had received $500 besides all his other
kindnesses, 1 thought ] was perfectly
justified in saying Mr.. Hurd was stinsy.
He always told me to say he was stinSy
whenever talked to his relatives; always
said 'Laury, tell them 1 am stingy: don't
let them know I give you anything. 1t is
none of their business. I have done my
part by them bravely and we'll
Did he tell you to say he would drop
dead if he had to spend any of his stingy
! old money!
That was Mrs. Lee Iurd's remark to
me- answered Mrs. Crame-. and
| thought it a very unkind remark and yet
! quoted it in the letter l wrote to her.
A letter from Mrs. Cramer to Mrs
Hurd, dated January is, 1909. was read
In it Mrs Cramer thanks Mrs. Hurd for
| n Christmas present, saying: Il show
all my friends my lovely handmade cor
set cover. 1t is beautiful, and 1 am go
ing to keep it until 1 get married. Mr..
| IIurd has had another of his mean,
| ugly spells now for two days 1t is
good thing he sent doctors check
first; maybe that is what he is grieving
over. I don't pay any attention to him
and he gets over it in few days He
still sees Mrs. SnaNer. Sne mas Deen
| treating him for his wind as he calls it
| / wonder what she will take up next?
He gets a letter of about six or eight
pages from Nellie Kelly every week, but
DESTROYS it Just as soon as he reads it. :"
His Alleged Meanness.
In another letter to DR.. Hurd, the
grandson Of Mr.. Hurd, Mrs. Cramer said
in part: But after got your note de-
cided to go home to luncheon and have
talk with him, and see If he wouldn't
| tell me why he was acting SO mean
eve- since he came home. So, finally, he
said that Mary Chis deceased wife) told
him re had a great many more years to
| live and that he had to be economical.
He then told me that in the future he
should only give Lee half Of his allow
ance. and. doctor. IL ever / talked plain
| to any one in my life, did to your
grandfather. l told him he ought to be
ashamed to act so In his old days-after
giving II to you for so many years TO
| change now. told him had often heard
him say il was Mary's wishes for him to
| give II to you as long as he lived, and
| II he had to obey her wishes in other
| things he surely ought to where his own
grandson was concerned, and this she
| had asked him from her own lips. not
/ through any old fraud spiritualist; and
when got through he didn't have q word
| to say, only, I guess you are right And
| 7 also told him IL he couldn't win Meas