New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-05-24

phosphate"
as there no arsenic in it?"
"Not a particle"
Q. When did you first see this de-
PENDANT? A.-On the morning Of sun,
day. March 10. last. | had got word
from Mr.. Potter the night before that
he wanted to talk TO me.
Q.-Why did he want you? Ale
said he wanted TO learn the ingredients
of the embalming fluid had used IN
preparing Mr.. Peck's body for ship
mcnt told him it was secret for
mula.
Did you ask him why he wanted
TO know. A.-Yes; he said he had
asked because they were trying to make
trouble for MIN and he wanted to pro
tect himself.
No Arsenic In Fluid.
go YOU told him? Ayes; said
in that case I would. And ! told HIM
the ingredients -formaldehyde, .glycer-
inc and soda phosphate. lie asked me
IL that was all and wanted TO know II
there wasn't Just little arsenic IN IT.
| said there wasn't.
Odd he say anything else? A.
He asked me if | couldn't put some
arsenic in the fluid. That would be
against the law. | told him.
Q.-Was that all? A.-Before ! left
he asked me where he could reach me
and / said at home.
Q-When did you next see the de-
PENDANT? At was the following
morning
Q-Where? An garage near
Broadway and 18th Street, next TO the
Corn Exchange Bank.
Q.-How did you happen to meet him
there? Al had talked to him on the
telephone. He said he wasn't going to
be home long, but was going over to
the garage to get his car.
Q.-What did you do when you saw
the defendant? Al presented Mr..
Potters bill. | told him IT was Gus
tomary for the undertaken TO be paid
before a body was shipped out OF the
state
@ Where did you get the bill A.
From Mr.. Potter.
O.-What happened then? A-Dc.
looked at it and found it was a check
for $4,000.
O.-To whose order was II drawn {.
A.ETo the order of Eugene Kane.
Kane Identifies Check.
Mr.. Brothers produced the check and
handed it 70 the witness. Kane adjust,
ed a pair Of nose glasses and examined
both sides of the slip with equal care.
Then he nodded.
That's it," he said.
"What did you say or do'T asked the
~ said. That's no use to me Waite
told me TO put il in my pocket
Then what did you do with the
check" .,
The witness hesitated. He carefully
removed his glasses, carefully wiped
them and carefully restored them 70
his pocket Yates genial shoulders
were shaking.
w-I put il in my pocket"
"Did Waite say anything elseT
eyes; he said he put me on Easy
what did he say the check was
for?"
"He Just simply handed It to me-"
did he ask you 70 do anything for
him ,"
"Not M 20 that time"
O. When did you meet the defend,
ant again? A.-The next morning IL
was in a cigar store at Fifth-ninth
Street and Ninth Avenue. ! got there
first and Dr.. Waite arrived shortly al
terward.
What happened? Ale motionedd
did and he went into the next bootn.
He came out carrying a telephone di-
rectory. and stood in front OF me.
Q-Was that all be did? A-No; he
pushed a roll Of money into my pocket.
Money Gift Mystery.
Odd you know what il was for ?
A.-No; I thought il must have been
for something had done.
Ole told you, though, didn't he?
Ale said: Put some arsenic in that
fluid and send it down TO the District
Attorney"
Q.~Were you nervOus7 Al GER
tainly was.
Odd you count the money when
you got home? A.-No. I tried to, but
was too nervous. / saw some ifties
and some hundreds that's all.
Q.-Any larger bills? A.-Yes, sir;
two $500 bills, hid the money I'm n
closet. tried to count it two or three
times Finally ! went out on Long ISL
and and buried it, went to Green
port. way on the cast end Of the island.
! don't remember just how long
stayed. I was too nervous.
Odd you deliver a sample Of en-
bslming fluid 10 the District Attorneys
Office? A-Yes.
Mr.. Deuel's cross-examination Of
Kane was spectacularly brief, but the
defendant got a chuckle out Of il.
"Did you ever find that other 81 zoo? p"
demanded the lawyer
81 don't remember anything about
it," snapped Kane.
"Did you ever commit crime"
yeah"
"That's all" cried Deuel..
The crime to which Mr.. Deuel. re-
ferred was one which the embalmer al
ready had been forced to admit
biCamy.
Aside from the time occupied by Pot
ter, Kane and a few other witnesses
late in the afternoon, it was doctors
day" at the trial.
The morning was devoted 10 the
hearing of technical testimony by Dr.
Otto II. Schultz, the District Attor-
news medical examiner. who went to
Grand Rapids and made a post-mortem
examination of Mr.. Peck's body; BY Dr.
Victor A. Vaughn, professor of pathol-
Ogy in the University of Michigan,
whose chemical examination of organs
sent to him by DR.. Schultze revealed
traces Of toxic dose of arsenic. and Of
DR.. Stanley r. Benedict. of the Cornell
University medical faculty, whose tests
correlated those of the Michigan chem
list.
Chloroform Evidence Sealed.
The promise Of District Attorney
Swami in his opening to show that Dr.