New Britain herald., 1917-07-10
POISON USED TO DESTROY
 RATS AT GILLIGAN HOME
Two Witnesses Inform Jury of Methods Employed to Drive Rodents from Place Where Andrews Died.
DEPENDANT NOT AS
 CHEERFUL AS USUAL

CHEERFUL AS USUAL Embolmer Tells of Working on An drews' Body and Contradicts Elm blower Who Testified to Being Pres ent at Operation-Aged Inmate Says Andrews Frequently Received Medicine by Mail.
 Hartford, July 10.-Two witnesses testified to the presence of rats in and around the Archer Home and the use of white powder to exterminate them at the resumption of the trial of Mrs. Amy Archer Gilligan, accused of murder. in the criminal court today. Mrs. Gilligan is specifically charged with poisoning Franklin R. Andrews. an inmate of the home conducted by her, and stands indicted on four other similar counts.
 Another expert entered the case as
 
 witness today in the person of Dr. Otto Schultz of New York, toxologist for the defense.
 Poison was used to kill off rats in the barn and to .exterminate vernin in the bedrooms, according to Harri- son Moses Jackson, employed there. who was the first witness for the de- fense today. Jackson was employed in >H after 1907, and especially in April and June 1914, which was about the time of the death of Franklin R. Andrews. Jackson said he was given white powder which he spread upon bread and then stuffed the bread in rat holes. He used something out of a bottle for washing bedsteads which were infested with bugs and the same liquid for swabbing the mop boards.
 The trial today drew another large audience, the majority of the specta- tors being women. Some brought their knitting and others had lunches which they ate during g1ecsss. in ~order not to lose their seats.
 Mrs. Gilligan did not appear to be in her usual cheerful mood upon ar rival at the court room. although she greeted MT. Holden, her senior coun- sel, with hearty handshake. Her daughter, Mary Archer. received Q motherly embrace. The daughter was atttred in white.
 MT. Holden at the opening introduce ed more probate records of the set clement of the estate of Michael Gill; gan, the defendants second husband. Eleven heirs to the estate had agreed to the report of settlement.
 , The man -of-all work, Jackson, was then called. He said that in addition to caretaking he washed the old men" He did not know the nature of, the poisons used to kill vermin.
 The witness knew Rosie Swan a maid at the Archer Home. He said she was part negro and part Indian. His father had married Rosie's sister.
 Embamer Contradicts Employer.
 Eugene Joseph Shea, formerly em- ployed as an embalmer by Frank Smith & Co.,, of this city, testified to having embalmed the body of An drews after he had brought it from tho home at Windsor to Smiths es- tabltshment in Hartford. He said il was not embalmed that night but the next day, the witness performing the operation. Smith was not present Earlier in the trial he had testified that he had embalmed the body anc later that he did not do 1t himself but was present while his men did 1t Shea testified to having embalmet the bodies of Mrs. Alice H. Gowd, and Michael W. Gilligan. He wa' not sure about that of Charles A Smith. In answer to questions h' said that in most cases arterial em balming Is sufficient but in about on' out of 20 cases cavity embalming fl also used. He used such a proces in the case of Andrews he said
 Testimony of Charles Myers, 78, al inmate of the Archer Home was t the effect that Andrews was not we'll man as had been stated but tha he was always taking medicine which he got through the mails.''
 Dr. Otto Schultz medical assistan to the district attorney of New York retained by the defense, was calle' to the stand and qualified as an ex z pert He said he had held his pres ent office with the district attorne since April 1915, and that he ha performed over 5000 autopsies Il taking the stand he was not swor but made an averment.
 His preliminary testimony covere much of the ground gone over ear Her in the trial.