The Alaska daily empire., 1926-11-17
WIFE, husband,
Sc .0,i.l WOMAN,
E. s yf', TRIAL
Prosecution i'll Alleged Pois-
onmg NuSe lntlmates
llegna triangle.

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The pro ecution IN the case of Dr
Moore, charged with poisoning his
wife. stated Yesterday afternoon that
1t would show that Mrs. Charlotte
Kendall. who is The wife of cheese
maker. TWO miles from Sequm was
intimate with Moore.
The defense admitted this but
said il would derry the relations were
wrong
DR.. WE Ii. Taylor. of Port An
proved steadily from July to July
Is. He said DR. Moore suggested in
gluvin and bismuth to relieve nausea
The state contends other physicians
thought she was receiving no meGi-
cine.
Ralph Stone. aged Il. clerk in the
Brayton Pharmacy at Sequm, testi
fled he saw DR.. Moore filling cap
sule i'll the prescription room of the
drugstore on July 16, Il and Is.
Mrs Moore died July 20.
Predicts Death
DR.. H. $. Jtssup, of Sequim, who
took over Dr. Moorc's practice on
July 1G, testified Moore appeared
pessimistic about his wife's recovery
and predicted she might die the
ninth day after an operation. She
was operated on July 10. Dr.. Jessup
said he tasted one of the capsules
prescribed for her and asserted ii
was bitter
Pharmacist Brayton testified that
after Dr. Moore was in the drugstore
he noticed a bottle of poison was
empty. Brayton testified that Moore,
in June. asked him about the same
kind Of poison saying he wanted to
get rid of an animal around the
house and wanted to know how
much to give to kill it.
Poison Found In Body
DR. =. C. West, of Seattle. testi
fled this forenoon that isolated
grains Of poison were found in Mrs.
Mocre's body at the autopsy held on
August 30 The first grains were
injected into guinea pig and it
was killed,
Coroner Elect Jones, of King
County. testified Mrs. Moore had
congestion of the brain. dila,ion of
the heart and peyitonitis. but that
none of these three were the cause
of her death.
Case Depresses Doctor
Harriet O'Brien, matron of the
Sequim Prairie Hospital, testified
that Moore seemed depressed and
stated these cases always ended un-
satisfactorily, always ended in con-
vulsions and that he had a book
which he would show me. that fol-
lowing such operations, the patients
generally died.
Matron O'Brien testified that the
night the patient died, she cried
There is something wrong. so very
wrong about this" The witness
stated Mrs. MOore's body started
to tremble, the arms were bent, the
hands were clutched, eyes open and
staring and the mouth frothed. DIR.
Moore came in and said:
"'My God. commissions, cant
stand it,"
MatrOn O'Bren testified that DR..
Moore returned twice during the
night and that DR.. Jessup admins
tered ether and chloroform during
the night.
DIR. Taylor testified that he sug
gested bringing Mrs. Moore to Port
Angeles for the operation but that
DR.. Moore preferred she remain at
Sequim because of the rough roads
Attorney Dore today presented the
theory that Mrs Moore died as
result of ptomaine poisoning instead
of strychnne and asked DR.. West il
he had read a book which told OF a
murder trial in Italy where crystals
OF ptomaine at first thought to be
strychnine were discovered after the
trial to really be ptomaine. DR..
West replied; mo, that ptomaine
would have killed a guinea pig"