The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-01-22
IS. i sympathy Sweeps Toward
IN, schenk Since the Insult
: Of the Christmas
Gifts.
JURY WEDNESDAY
.,ort.nt evidence Is About All in
and Few Days Required 70
Close Up Tho
Case.

fGatc City Leased Wire Service.l
WHEELING, w. Va, Jan. 21.--With
he direct evidence of both prosecut- I
in and defense all in and the prose-
cuton under way with It's rebuttal,
tbe trial Of Mrs. Laura Farnsworth |
Schenk came to close of the twelfth
dsy tonight.
Prosecutor Handlan lost no time,
after the defense rested late this
afternoon in introducing testimony of
character witnesses, designed to re-
hutt the defense's efforts to impeach
ths evidence Of DR.. J. w. fyers. who
wore he sold Mrs. Schenk poison.
Witness after witness, prominent
business men, politicians. were called.
Each testified 60 DR.. Myers excellent
Reputation Handlan said he had sum.
mcned about eighty.
Mrs. Schenk's attorneys did not
lei one Of the character witnesses go
Hthout trying to force some point, up
holding to any degree their arraign-
ment OF Myers.
Alter nineteen had been
called the defense checked the
fow Of the character Wit
nesses by demanding that the
number be limited. The court
confined the prosecutor to ten more.
Handlan pleaded hard for his fifty
remaining witnesses. He requested
that he be allowed to place on rec
crd tie nsmes of those he could not
pat On The stand. The request was
denied.
Allowing at least one more day to
the rebuttal. and summing up of the
case. and another day for the argu-
ments, 1t Is hardl.,- likely that the case
can get to the jury before Wednes,
day The states case rests upon cir
cumstantial evidence Briefly, it is
this:
Evidence purporting to show that
MS. Schenk desired her husbands
death and that she expressed a pref
erence for younger and society
men over the elderly packer: that
sae was infatuated with a man =
Years her junior: that she purchased
lead poison, and that she offered a
uetectye $1,000 to administer knock
oa1 drops to her husband. The
missing link in the states case is
'ne occasion and circumstances OF the
actual purchase of the arsenic which
y IS charged she put into Schenk' s
uflnSing water. DR. Myers testified
laaf he would not sell 1t to her upon
asr request and that she declared she
already had bought a portion of pois
~ from another Wheeling physician
,ianalan said he would produce thai
uoclof He has not done so. He may
,afow more light on that feature ii
.ae course of his rebuttal. The de
lsnse tried to bring every Wheelinf
uussist and physician to court t.
prove Mrs. Schenk did not buy tht
pplson but was overruled.
me defense's c;.se rests upon thes,
10y cardinal points.
schenk was sick before he went tx
Europe; he was not poisoned by tn,
a'need water and medicine: fam
= conspiracy Is behind the charge,
sAu tlat an attempt to create an i'm
p'ession Of unreliability in respec
. DR.. Myers.
hether the defense's witnesses
S''o upheld Myers good name, are t,
= gwen more credit than those Pre-
euceo by the state, is matter for th
JURY to decide.
NMs. schenlt has withstood tn
'uain Of the last two weeks with rt
..alkaole success she came into tn
. .Oa,t room tonight with the usua
sa'ne- The only marked signs q
o'iy she has ever shown was whe
~ gave way to bad headache an
w advantage of recess to go I
-. rs.., cen for treatment. the inciden
i ,sssu''ihg in the report she was o
le verge OF collapse.
-. Mrs. Schenll is acquitted, Al
ss,a aey ), ]. o'Brien. OF her counse
l.. 'onlght "she is going home. An
n, nome, mean that mansion o
w.. aeellng Island. from which sh
w. =. TAKEN to the jail.
!, sentiment % in Wheeling is in fave
INV 's' schenks acquittal. The It'd
tnaS ep IN her favor when it becam
i've o'n ~. mat her Christmas gifts to he
ons. n.'ie children We're returned, VI
M bAsd' to her cell. and sympath
s,no. Deen y sweeping her way eve
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