El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1920-05-07
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nervous condition, he said.
After a few minutes at the Hanson
nounced Capt. Doster was at the hos
pital. Maj. Hanson accompanied the
woman TO the hospital, he said, and
there met Capt Doster.
The captain put his hands to Mrs
/ DOster's face and exclaimed. What's
] the matterT" the witness said, and
/ the reply was oh. nothing"
As the pair went out the door for
the hotel where Mrs. DOster had a
] room, Mai. Hanson said he told them
] that If there was anything in the
world he could do for them, he would
/ do it.
Both said there was nothing and
bade him good night and that was
! the last time, he said, he ever saw
Capt Doster alive.
Maj. Hanson said he had told Mrs.
Doster about the Beckley woman
/ coming. TO Columbus and Of Capt
] DOster being confined TO camp and
/ Of the threat the town marshal had
made to arrest the woman on a
charge Of violating the white slave
I Maj. Hanson told Of seeing Mrs.
j DOster after she had been shot. He
I said he had never seen any person
I in such a state Of shock. He said
/ she could only beckOn and whisper.
! W hen he started to give her an in
Z lection Of quarter grain OF NOR
phine. the major said. Mrs DOster
. =
I let which struck Mrs. Doster. the
/ major said. pierced q lung The re-
port first came to the witness, he
/ asserted, that Capt. Doster had shot
her and then himself.
The defence is expected TO finish
I its case late today and the jury may
! get the case tonight
Judge DOster on stand.
Much Of the afternoon yesterday
was taken up with the testimony OF
judge Doster. father Of the man who
was slain in Columbus, March s, this
year. The Dosters are originally
from Kansas, although they now live
in the wealthy Los Angeles suburb Of
Pasadena.
Judge Doster was chief Justice OF
the supreme court OF Kansas from
1897 TO 1893 after which he was an
attorney for a railroad His family
was among the most fashionable in
Topeka, the state capital Of Kansas
and Coldwater. where the son, Wade.
first met the young woman now on
trial After leaving for California,
the jurist testified, he made inquiry
through friends in ColdWater. Kansas. T
about the relation Of his son with
Mrs Garfield, which It was brought
out was her name at that time This
was before 1916. The defendant then. I
SO IL has been stated in court. was
married and the army captain. then .
a civilian physician in the town, had I
not yet lost his wife.
Tells Of SONS Misconduct.
Mrs Doster. It was testified by I
Judge Doster. died after some years .
Of illness during which time she took /
opiates- This was in 1916. Not only .
did judge Doster inquire after his .
sons conduct with the then Mrs Can /
field. but he confessed in sadness on I
the witness stand that he had heard .
Of his sons misconduct with another \
woman This. the former judge said,
he kept locked as a secret within his .
own bosom until the night he re-
ceiFed a telegram from Columbus I
from the defendant. Then. Judge +,
Doster said he confided in his young
est son, John. who lived with him.
and in his wife
The confession was made. the elder
" witness averred, because he knew
nothing until last February Of sons .
common law relations with the &C
cused woman and thought when he .
got a telegram from Columbus telling I
him to come at once that It might .
be either one OF the two women whose 4
names he had heard used in connec- I
ton with that Of his sons.
Thought War WouId End Il.
The war came and in September.
1917, the young physician acquired a
captains commission and went to
Camp Funston Kansas. his mother
less children, meanwhile, had been
taken care OF by their grandparents
by judge and Mrs. Doster and lives
with them in Pasadena The youngest
4, Is with its mothers parents IN
the east
When war came the judge said he
expected his sons relations with the
ColdWater woman 20 terminate The
matter gradually passed out 81 my
mind. he testified. But love. no mat
ter what society may think OF it,
seems TO laugh at war and this case
was no exception. It was declared
on the stand here that the defendant
followed Capt DOster TO Camp
T funston, where, although she did not
live with him. she was within easy
reach Then, so the father testified
the woman followed the officer 10
Camp Kearney. at san Diego. Calf.
and thence TO Columbus. where all
restraint is said 10 have been cast
aside and where. Il has been testified.
the son and the woman Of his choice
lived as man and wife ID
And the aged father told the Luna
county jury that the woman accused
OF killing his son was declared by
his son TO be a good housekeeper. a
good cook and neat and clean. and
the witness said he doubted not she
was true to Capt. Doster. But he
said he told her that because Of the
immoral nature Of her relations with
his son. she could not be received into
the Dosrer family.
Corroborutes sons Testimony.
The testimony OF John Doster.
youngest son Of the family. given
earlier in the day. with regard to
what was discovered when he went
to Columbus for his father in re-
Spouse to the telegram Of February
9. and Of how Mrs. Doster went to
California and how she threatened TO
prosecute the captain. and how she
:
ment Of $3.50 in cash and SIS a month
for a year. in consideration OF which
she was to 90 to Wichita. Kansas.
and leave the army officer alone. was
zorro borated by the jurist on the
stand. He told how the woman was
sent by the santa Fe. so she would
not have to 90 through Columbus.
Both on direct questioning and IN
der cross examination, judge DOster
was asked If Mrs Doster displayed
any emotion when she was neg0- I
tiating for settlement and threat I
ening to prosecute and expose the
son il her connections with him were !
interfered with The answer was
emphatically no. She was as cool and
collected as any person could be at
for such emotion as jealousy and ,
anger might have prompted
"Only once" he continued, did she !
even hang her head That was for a j
few minutes one day and I cannot
say If she was weeping or not"
The Judge declared that Mrs. DOster
talked much less about exposure and
prosecution after he explained to her
that she was just as guilty as his ,