Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1912-10-17

with just one leg on the floor and had
fallen back on the pillow. Her arms
and hands had left an impression on
the bed, and the impression that you
will get from looking at the body
was that you might have been look
ing at a statue. Her features were
composed, and l believe her eyes
were partly open. 1t was not a re-
pulsive form Of death. and though !
had seen death as the result of ac-
cident, and other violent deaths, l
did not know much about 1t in such
peaceful form"
II vent owe to the bed and saw
her arm was rigid. I got hold of
myself and concluded that it was not
time for feeling, but for action, so
l put away my emotions, and the
only thing I thought of was to get
a doctor. / saw she was past any
help that / might give her. l thought
she might be alive. My first thought
was to get professional assistance.
Quickly Sought Assistance.
II was Mortified to see the child
5lthluillB oiiliIiiiB " SCt lie COIIll1k
in. When L went to pick the, child
up l saw the child was offering me
something. 1t was a glass. Every
thing indicated that the child had
been walking around there indef-
nitely. / took the glass and set it
on the washstand in the passage and
started down the stairs with the lit
tie girl in my arms. The whole thing
had taken very little time and Rob-
ert had just gotten to the kitchen
and was coming back to see where 1
was. ! made up my mind in the
hallway and said to Robert. Your
mothers sick. Take this baby and
don't go up stairs while I get a doc
tor | think / told him this in a
quiet way.
HE took the baby and l went down
to the kitchen. trying to think of a
nearby doctor. / started on a run
and saw DIR. Gales house and rang his
beu. | told him that / had just re-
turned from New York and had found
my wife unconscious. l did not want
to tell him she was dead. for I wanted
him to come quickly. / told him to
bring re~storatives. On the way to the
house | told him she might be dead,
and asked him If he thought so. He
said he could not tell" Mcfarland
told the doctor that his wife's mother
had been subject to heart attacks and
that he thought his wife might have
had one. Another possible reason for
her death was poison, and MacFar-
land told the physician what poisons
he had in the house, mentioning the
potassium cyanide.
Saw Reason for suicide.
At the house the doctor immediate
ly pronounced her dead, and MacFar-
land went to look at the medicine
closet. The bottle of cyanide which
ne rad left full was half emptied.
Seeing this. Or. Gale Immediately
asked if she had left any note. Look
ing for the note l pulled open the
drawer of the dresser in my room
and found that a couple of letters in
the drawer were not as 1 had left
them. These were letters from Miss
Bromley showing what the relation
ship between us was, and there We're
some letters that showed hat some
furniture that my wife thought we
still had was pawned. AS soon as /
saw that I knew what the trouble
was"
MaeFarland said that he had re-
quested that IN autopsy be made only
in order to save the Crockett family
and his children the disgrace that
would fall ON them II the suicide be-
came known. The doctor, however,
said he would have to notify the cor
oner.
Packing a suitcase with the boys
clothes and sending the girl to a
neighbours apartment, Mcfarland
set out early the next morning with
Robert for Philadelphia, purposing to
leave the boy in the care of a man
named Herman, in Philadelphia, who
had asked some time previously hat
the boy be allowed to visit him. This
time, however. he was not very
anxious. HE must have spoken to his
wife about 1t, and she must have
given him cold feet" as MacFarland
put it, so after putting up for the
night in a hotel he returned the next
morning. While In Philadelphia he
did not see Miss Bromley, because. he
said, he was not In the humor for II.
On his return home he found a po-
liceman %patroling in front of his
house. who said that he wanted, to
speak to him at the station house,
Sending Robert TO join his sister at
the neighbor's house he accompanied
the policeman. That was the last