Arizona republican., 1918-04-28
ALLEGED ACTS IF DR. NORMAN
 TOLD IN COURT

The preliminary hearing in the case of the state against Dr. F. C. Norman on the charge of a criminal assault upon Mrs. Ethel Esgar Murphy, former matron of the state hospital for the insane, while under the influence of a narcotic was begun yesterday before Justice Wheeler and late in the after noon before the testimony of the state had all been put in, continuance was taken until next Tuesday morning.
 The complaint alleged an assault on the night of Tuesday, November 1S. Allegation of a later assault on the night of March 25 this year was made in the course of the examination of Mrs. Murphy. Objection was made to the introduction of evidence as to the latter episode but it was overruled in accordance with a decision of the su- preme court of Arizona when a terri tory, that testimony relating to a sub sequent assault when mot too remote was admissible.
 Mrs. Murphy was on the stand about three hours, on direct and cross exam nation. She related the story of a visit to her room at the asylum on the night of November 13, by the defend ant, her protest, his threat of exposing her. the taking of a drug from him to quiet her nerves and her discovery the next morning of the assault upon her, and the admission of the defendant. 1 As to the later assault which she said took place in the garage at the home of the doctor, Eleventh street and Mckinley, she said that he took her there after having given her whisky and a drug the nature of which she did not know. Late at night she said that 1 Ichn fn11O rrr1 by the doctor and just outside she was met by her brother -in-law and sister, Nlr. and Mrs. J. G. Simpson who had been hunting for her. There was a dis | turbance concerning which the witness said she was confused. She knew that great many people had gathered 0hodt; that her brother in law put her | into his automobile and took her l,onnC that after her arrival there she shot herself with a revolver and while she believed she would die, she disclosed for the first time the episode at the asylum.
 On cross examination the witness denied that she had been user of nar- cotics or whisky until she met Dr Norman when he became superintend- ent of the asylum early in October She said that she had used no mor- phine or other narcotic except such as he had given her; that a craving for it had developed and that the doctor had satisfied it.
 The next witness was Mrs. Jaynes who lives near Eleventh street ano Garfield and who was awakened by the disturbance about the garage or the night of March 25. She heard a woman scream and dressing hastily | Sh trro ctr gling over a woman. She was at last put into a machine and driven away Mrs. Jaynes telephoned to the police.
 Officers Strathy and Sowells, who responded to the call which they saiG had been received at half past clever o'clock, were accompanied by Frank Brown. Arriving in the neighborhood of the reported disturbance they saw a light in only one house, that of Dr Norman. The doctor, they said, tolt them that he had heard of no trouble Later he admitted that a nurse haC taken too much whisky which the wit nesses said the doctor told them haC been brought to his office by d Mrs Gibson.
 Mrs. Gibson was a witness; she wa! at the office of Dr. Norman on tha night submitting to an operation. Sh
 sa1d that MrS. Murpny seemed to 0 under the influence of liquor and tha the doctor took her and Mrs. Murph, for ride and left Mrs. Gibson at tn house where she was stopping. Ther was another witness as to the disturb ance in the vicinity of the garage o } Dr. Norman. There is still anothe : who was so i'll as to be unable to ap pear yesterday but who it was an nounced on behalf of the state was tn
 most important one as to the event of that night.
 Late in the afternoon Justice Wheel CT was compelled to adjourn the cas , for an inquest. George J. Stonemal , for the defendant suggested a contin
 uance to Tuesday morning and he in
 timated that he would probably intro duce medical testimony. County At torney Laney stated that the case fo the state had not yet been closed.