Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-15

Vi Inc pouy when you Wenl INTO the
room?p
The examination was only super
fetal. ] saw that the woman was
dead. 1 turned the bed clothing back.
/ didn't make any further examina-
ton
And when you turned the clothing
back did you find n evidence of a
hemorrhage?"
None"
That is all"
Mr.. McDermit took up the cross
examination, He drew out the fact
that DIR. Gale had talked to the pros
ecutor personally about the case and
had written him a letter, which was
read.
Now at the house" said Mr.. Nc
Dermit, did you go to the medicine
chest YOURSELF"
Yes. sir"
did you look at the medicine
chest? ;"
Yes. sir-looked at It."
did it have doors or not?" de-
manded Mr.. McDermit quickly.
Fails to Remember.
Il don't know. / don't remember
do you remember how many
shelves there were?"
Three or four"
did you look at all the ~shelves?"
81 just glanced at them"
What did you see on the shelves?'
II saw a quantity of bottles"
Mr.. McDermit's questions came
a,,toLIxr ac 1o Io~,. g. koo -
one of the crucial points of the de-
fe~nse-whether the light at the medi-
cine chest was sufficient for the labels
of the bottles to be easily read.
distributed on the shelves?'
Il don't remember. 1t was well
filled with bottles.
you don't know how many on
each shelf?'
There was lots of bottles
More at the top than at the bot
Pretty evenly distributed"
Nov. you observed the labels on
the bottles generality
Il can't say that 1 did
well, you observed THE position
generally, whether the labels were
facing the room?"
II couldn't swear to that
What time of day was it,
Il couldn't place the time exactly.
Somewhere around, perhaps. IL
o'clock"
well, when you went into this
closet, were you able to see?"
No, it was very dark"
narL N CInsat
VERY dark? Did you put the
shades up?"
mo, I didn't"
DO you know whether the shades
were up OF down."
II couldn't swear to it,
DO you know whether there was an
electric light or not?"
81 didn't see any"
DO you mean to say it was dark in
the passageway or the closet?"
I'm the passage"
WHAT"
1T was so dark couldn't see what
the bottles were"
IF you were unable to see the bot
ties. how could you see that the bot
ties were equally distributed
HE didn't say that" put in Prose-
cutor Mott.
st said" began the witness. that
they were pretty evenly distributed.
They were not clearly definite"
your hand?"
did he, Mcfarland, take any bot
ties in his hand?"
He had the bottle he showed me In
his hand"
did he have any other bottle"
HE was handling around the Other
shelves for bottles. I said IT was inn
material to me to know what they
were. Better leave them alone"
What was his condition, physically
and mentality"
Appeared to He Cool.
~ don't know. He appeared to be
cool and composed"
when did you conclude that death
must have been due to cyanide solu-
tom"
when ! saw the bottle, together
with the fact there were no other
evidences Of the cause of death
simply a guess" snapped McDer-
NIT.
"a supposition,' suggested Or. Gale.
The physician went OF to testify
that he found nothing else in the bed
room in the way Of glasses or tum-
blerss
You could plainly read cyanide on
the bother" asked Mr.. McDermit, re-
yerting again to the lighting.
ar ea,1d raad II. yee-b
Then, the passageway could not
have peer SO dark, after all. You did
read 1t, didn't your"
II did"
For a long time Mr.. MoDermit
struggled to get the witness to an
swer this question, resembling. to
some degree, the marvellous h%ypothet-
ical questions put to alienlsts and
other experts.
From the position of the body
you Jay she was lying on her bed
covered up in an orderly manner;
from the position of the body on the
bed would you say that she had
-aabled into bed in . dying condL.