Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-10-27

"What do YOU want me to saw" asked the witness
raising her eyes in pathetic glance at the Coroner
My friend is hard to please, put in raherne, taking
what he fanced meant a to himself from his
client. AT time he declines to hear Mrs. Kyrles
explanations and in the next breath he asks for them
Il don't wish to press the witness to utter a word
than she wishes, said Forbes.
"But where is this testimony leading us? How does
it the death of Mr.. Kyrle? Is the New York
District Attorney endeavorng to establish conspiracy
to bring about this poor man DEATH and his wife,
Claude G.. Waverton this John Stratton Tearle, and
possibly several other people, looked on as parties to
"If you raise any serious objection to the line am
following, amquite prepared to leave the inquiry where
it stands-at present. said Forbes blandly.
But Traherne too old bird to be caught with
that sort of legal chaf He laughed Really we New
Jersey people not quite slow witted the Dis
trict Attorney evidently believes to be" he cried,
confident that this jibe at New Yorker would tickle
his audience. Il am not endeavorng to hamper in
quiry,-indeed, my client welcomes it,-but it is
thing to elicit the truth concerning distressing fatality
and quite another to embark on fishing expedition.
Ask what you please, Mr. Forbes, and you will be
swered; but you must not expect Mrs Kyre to provide
you with material for what practically amounts to
Forbes nodded. He at home in this
of sparrng than in forcing unpalaable revelations from
a pretty woman "Sinee your lawyer thinks | ough;
speak plainly, Mrs. Kyrle shall do So, he said g"
believe you met John Straton Tearle in Paris before
you married Mr. Kyrle?"
Eyes and the witnesses tones were stronger now.
"Did friendship with him provide the first cause
of the quarrel between your husband and yourself"
II. a.
verton to you?"
Eyes"
Every well. That ends this branch of the affair for
the time being Now will you tell us why you got Mr..
Waverton to buy crystals of nicotine at Palm Beach
drugstore?'
poison He said that in New Jersey layman could not
obtain such quantity without great difficulty, whereas
the regulations in Florida were not so strict.
did he say why he wanted the Drug"
GAS nearly as | can recolect he engaged in in
VeStlgang the vegetable used by the obi
the West Indies and needed the nicotine to conduct
tain experiments
How did you forward it to him.
"By mail.
"And did Mr. Claude G. Waverton bring it to you in
person."
"Unquestionaby. He laughed about it, and told me
to retain husbands letter, because it rather
strange commission.
"Have you that letter.
81 believe so. Had l known that all this-all this
dreadful expose would be made today, l should have
searched for it"
FOR some reason best known to himself, Forbes con-
cuded his examination at moment when the court
sympathes veering back to who might
have sinned, but certainly being prosecuted by
Fate
The Coroner was evidently swayed by some such
tment he asked, very gently if the witness could
suggest any motive for her husbands peculiar stpula-
lions to her movements on the fatal Tuesday.
Il hope it is not cruel thing to say, but am be-
ginning to fear that he meant to kill himself that night
and cOntrvlng matters such that suspicion
would be cast me-
Mrs Deamar had soon recovered from the emotion
that shook her utterance responding Forbes
Guiding question: and she put forward theory that
at least reasonable in voice that firm if
slightly metallic.
mo secret was made of the purchase of the poison?"
went on the Coroner.
"NOne whatever
did Mr.: Waverton know your husband?'
"To the best of my belief, he had seen him. |
don't think he knew his name
"Ihen MIR. WaVertOn could have strong motive