Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-21
TELLS srRAIGhTFoRWAR STORY
OF INCIDENTS IN
CASE.
IS NOT SHAKEN BY
CROSS EXAMINATION
Defendant Tells Of Relations With
Miss Shade and Young Morris-De.
cIares She Refused to Accommodate
Young People Who Appealed for As
sistance.

shore Moon, indicted for the murder OF
Miss Rebecca Shade by performing a
criminal operation upon her. was on the
witness stand in the district court. DIR
Longshore, as she is more generally
known professionally, was attired in
black satin grown and a black velve,
bonnet. She spoke very low, at times
having TO De requested by attorneys or
the court TO SPEAK louder Often hex
voice seemed to trenIbie as tho she was
on the verge Of tears.
The court room was scarcely more
than half full OF spectators and it is
doubtful if any large percent of them
could understand what the doctor said
in her own behalf. Most of the time
| her voice scarcely reached the press
| table and her own attorneys had dill
! Guilty in following her.
Not Shaken BY Gross Examination.
! Her chief counsel, J. {. Murtaen. az
J ter asking her few preliminary ques-
! tions, allowed her to detail, all tn :
circumsta aces of the visits OF Fred
Morris AMI Miss Shade to hr Office
in her own way and attic not restricted
in any manner. Dr.. Longsno2e rel.':ed
! q SlAoi5I lci W al u Stcl anu C't ~ " ~ =
cross questioned rigdly, as she was
| later, her testimony was not shaken in
/ any noticeable degree.
| The witness began by stating that
j her name is Anna Longshore- Moon;
that she has practiced medicine in
| Waterloo since January 1874. She
/ declared she is a graduate X the State
! University of Iowa, graduating from
. irS IN iS
gagged in the general practice of medi
cine, she declared but makes a spc-
| C atty Of the diseases of women ard
| children She said she was born in
| Eas, St. Louis in 1872, arc srent most
% her girlhood days in Oskaloosa, Iowa
She graduated from he CsH2.oosa high
school and attended, Penn C,:iege. Her
parents are bota living. They resioc
| ! /, Springfield. Mo-. she declared
The witness then detailed the events
leading up to her arrest In part she
testified as follows:
Testimony Of Defendant.
| ION Tuesday Oct. %, a5o1t4 O'clock
n tn. afternoon some one called me
/ up on the telephone. When I answered
| the summons man asked II 1t were
possible to make an appointment with
me for about o'clock. I replied that
| was very busy but would try to see
/ him. asked his name and he gave it,
but I did not understand it. About
5;15 o'clock that evening the man
called at my office. I had just dis
missed a patient when / saw him and
| asked what I could do for him. He
said that he had called 20 see me in
regard to a peculiar matter. He said
he IN with a
! in Waterloo. named Rebecca SHADE:
that the woman was irregular, and he
asked me if could do anything TO
! relieve her. He gave me to understand
! that the girl was in a delicate condi-
! ton and l asked him why he did not
marry her He said he didn't want to
marry her just then. that it would bring
| disgrace on her family and on his fam
| lily if she were to have child TOO soon
after marriage. He said he did not
know what to do for her and offered to
pay me anything to have il done.
/ told him / could do nothing and he left
the office.
| Girl Visits Dr.. Longshore.
| The next afternoon young woman
came to me. She walked into my pri-
! vate Office and asked me if l remem-
/
on me She said the young man had
! sent her to see if there was anything
/ 1 could do for her I told her it was
dangerous work and told her they ought
to get married. The woman also said
she couldn't marry the man on account
/ of the disgrace it would bring upon her
to have child too soon. She vas very
much worried and said she was almost
a ch 10 ;a6
IL everything she could think of to re-
lieve herself She seemed greatly wor-
RED and asked me if l could do any
thing for her. I refused to do anything
for her and told her again the best
thing she could do was to get married.
She then left the office"
Both Called on Doctor.
"On Friday" continued the witness,
"the young man called me up on the
telephone and asked me about a room
for the girl told him had no rooms
but that Mrs. Carr, neighbor next
door, might have some. That evening
, the young man and Miss Shade called
on me again. I invited them into the
reception room He said she had told
her folks she was going to Colfax but
that they wanted to get room in Wa
terloo. They wanted me to undertake
the case but refused, saying it was
dangerous work. The young man said
he had been coming for several days
and called me a coward. He said had
yellow streak: that he had been
around the world some, had been up
against cases like that before and that
there was not so much danger in 1t as
1 tried to make out. 1 told him was
sorry for the girl but would not have
anything to do with the case. The
girl came back on Saturday evening
and l examined her but did nothing to
injure her or endanger her life.
Called to Carr Home.
ION Oct %, Mrs. Carr called me up
on the telephone and asked me to
come to her apartments at once. When
I arrived there I asked her who was
sick and she said it was young
woman. She showed me into the bed
room where the woman was Thought
she was the one who had called on me.
but she was very yellow in color. She
wae in serious condition. I examined
her and found evidences Of severe
hemorrhages. I told the young woman
that she wsssin a ;serious. condition and