El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-11-30

been divorced from him and he had
married again She was girl / was
then in California That child was Lii
lie who was two and One-half years old
when / married Mr. Orner. By Mr. Or
ner i had two children, both of them
girls. The flrSttOf these, Ethel, died In
minneapolis, Mimi, in 1904, at the age
Of II months Then we went to clone
and in 1906 the second little girl was
born and died at the age OF a few
weeks She was a seven months child
and never very strong. / did not say
she died Of a scorpion bite, but that
is what 1 heard the nurse said my
recollection is tnat the baby died Of
Summr complaint
Il never testified that I studied nurs-
ing in the Swedish hospital in Chicago.
1 did say / studied in St LUke's hos
pital for six months
4 was engaged to Henry D. Olive,
Of FierrO, N III, by letter, never met
him and broke off the engagement by
letter"
A Third Husband.
Then speaking o. the. reported mar
geles. she said THE first I found out
about il was when he came and ad-
dressed me by a name had never heard
before. / was out there in Los An
geles, sick, dehrious. 1t is not true that
L lived with him % days and then told
anyone that j left him because he
would not have his life insured / was
there with my cousins, Mrs Emma An
Anna SeabrOOke, who IS In Denver
Colo. They were az Santa Monica
spending the summer
Il never told Mrs. Kelly I had re-
ceiVed my insurance and was ready to
get married again 1 did not live with
the man was married to. lived
downstairs and he lived upstairs. L
never in my life told Mrs Samanthy
Kelly that had left him because he
would not insure his life.
The Medicine Incident.
II was alone with Lille when she
died, between 5 ana $50 I did not
make any attempt to get the S. bill
changed 1 did not tell the boy TO call
up the drugstore and get them to
charge it. ] did not think the child was
seriously sick I did not try to get change
from any Of the neighbOrs. If had
known that Lille was going to die
would have given the whole world to
stop It." Here the witness cried again
4 think" she said. that / told Dr.
Brown that I had given Lille castor oil
in a cup OF cold coffee the morning OF
the day she died ] had been advised
by my attorneys in the first trial in FL
PaSO to answer only the questions
asked That is why I did not tell about
that then / just had TO tell 1T after
the lawyers had finished their argu-
ments in that trial.
At SIS judge S J. Isaacks announced
that night session would be held,
commencing at 1850 Mrs Orner was
stin on the stand when court ad-
RE Sensation OF the Trial.
The sensation of the trial was the
admission by Mrs Lucille Archer that
Mrs. Orner had told her that she had
killed her husband and that Lille
Orner had accused Mrs Orner OF the
crime two or three times
Mrs. Archer who at the time Lille
Orner died, was Mrs Riley was the
first witness for the defence and It
was during her cross eZamlnG-
ton, conducted by district attorney
Jos. N NealOu, of FL PasO, that this
evidence was brought out A fight
against its admission was made by the
defence. NealOn contended that the
testimony was admissible for the pur-
pose Of showing motive and j. F. Ross /
Of counsel for the defence, cOntended
that it was inadmissabIe because il
had not been proved that Albert
Orner, husband of Mrs. Orner, had
been killed
After testifying that she was at Mrs.
Orner's house on the night that Lille
died, Mrs. Archer said that j. D. Lee
had gone into the dining room where
Mrs Orner was, and, trying to place
his arm about her, said If you had
been my friend, / could have sympe-
thized with you more Mrs Orner
replied to this: 4 do not need your
Then Lee swore an oath and said:
You viii be sorry said the witness. I
knew Mrs. O-ner Eight Years.
4 have known Mrs Orner about I
eight years. said the witness she
had always been good to Lille in my |
presence I thought Lille was a weak !
child and her mother had told me sew /
eral times that she had kidney !
trouble.
"On the train coming down from /
Fl PasO. / talked about this case /
asked Mrs. Irwin what she was COM /
ing down for and she said she didn't j
know; that she didn't know anything I
about it. She told me she had called (
Mr.. Nichols up on the telephone In !
FL PasO before they had subpenaed /
her and had said if he had any money I
for her she would hike out She said 4
that he told her in reply that he had /
no money to buy witnesses On the /
train when she said she didn't know I
anything I asked her what she was
going to do here and she said she I
didn't know what she would do il z
there was any money in it She said 4
none of them had offered to do any
The Damaging Admissions.
Then began the cross examination !
that brought out the sensational testi-
mOny that has made this the strong
est case against Mrs Orner the state
Nealon asked: what did Mrs.
Orner say TO you about killing her
hus band2'
Mrs. Archer replied: "She did not
say anything about it,"
NealOn asked: DO you remember
her saying, Lucille I killed my child?
Or Lucille I killed Lillie% NO" re-
piled the witness
Did you make a statement like
that to Mr.. Nein and myself in the
presence of Mr.. Raster, in our office Z
In the American bank building in FL
PasO about a week ago"
Il don't know. There have been +
2 good many things said to me during I
he past week. I don't know if 1 said
it,"
Didn't you come up and tell US that
and say that the reason you had not I
said it before was that you had not I
been asked?' querieG the district at
-Orney.
'T don't know" replied the witness.
Then Mr.. NealOn asked; Didn't I
she tell you that she killed Lille Z
)rner and didn't you tell US she did?"
The witness replied. NO"
''a1nmma You Killed Papa
Then NealCn resumed. rs it true
hat i'm your presence and in the pres
nee of the defendant. the child said:
Mamma YOU know you killed papa2' %
Yes, she said that" replied the wit
ness.
J. F. Ross. Of counsel for the de-
ence. suggested that the question was
improper. saying that the woman was
Tot on trial for killing her hus-
'and and il had not been proved that
he husband had been killed. Nea lon
Ontended the right to show motive /