Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-08-04
SHOOK STAYS CALM
AS TRIAL UNF0LDS
Ohio State Veterinary Is Un-
moved by Details of
Tragedy.

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| COLUMBUS, Ohio, August 3.-Dr.
James N. Srook, former Ohio State
veterinary p fessor, listened with
academic interest today while the
State introduced one of its principal
witnesses to prove that he fed his coed
! sweetheart, Theora K Xix, an emo
tional excitant, and killed her in a fit
! of anger when she repulsed him.
1t established through City Chemist
Charles L. Long that stains found
! on the clothing of DR.. Shook after
he was arrested were caused by human
blood and that an examination of the
girls stomach after death revealed a
connection he was alleged to have given
| her.
For nearly two hours Long occupied
the stand for direct and cross examina-
| ton about the tests by which he had
made these discoveries. He was called
| as a States witness. Prosecutor John
j. Chester introduced his testimony
to show that DR.. Shook administered
the preparation to the girl in a beef
| sandwich as they drove out to lonely
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Death Ended Relations.
The death Of Miss Hix ended an
Illicit relationship which she carried
on with the former professor for three
years.
The prosecutor is attempting to prove
for the jury that Miss Xix had tired
Of her 49-year- lover and was I'M
willing to accompany him that night
| to the apartment house where they
shared a room at intervals together
The owner Of the apartment house,
Mrs. NJ. M. Smalley, a little woman
| who has time to read nothing but the
Bible, according to her own testimony,
occupied the stand for about an hour
this morning.
She looked at the figure Of a big
man stretched out in a celored canvas
beach chair in the courtroom and re-
ferred to him not as DR.. Shook but as
Mr.. Howard Shook" The defendant
recovering from a physical ailment that
followed a spinal fluid test last week,
| neither shifted nor stirred in his COM
Portable chair nor did he pay any at
tention to Mrs. Smalley.
Gave Up Room June II.
The testimony disclosed to the jury
that DR.. Shook gave up the room on
Friday, June IA, the day after Miss
Hix had been hammered and slaShed
to death and the same day that he took
blood stained suit to the Brown Dye
House to be cleaned.
Before Mrs. Smalley left the stand
she testified that DR.. Shook on that
day had returned both of the keys to
the room he occupied with Miss Hix,
one of which had been torn from the
keyring that was found beside the CO.
eds body.
Chemist Longs testimony dealt not
only with the bloodstains that were
on DR.. Shocks gray suit, even after it
had been cleaned, but with stains that
were found on the hammer, he Is al
legged to have used to beat the girl
and the penknife with which he slashed
her throat.
He likewise identified as human blood.
stains that were found on the door and
seat OF DR.. Shocks automobile, one
pair of gloves that belonged to the
former professor and on a piece OF
waste which 1t is claimed he used to
wipe off his machine before he drove
away from the rifle range.
Samples IL Years Old.
Bottled samples Of the concoction re-
moved from DR.. Shocks Office and the
drug room were presented to DR.. Oscar
w. Brumley, director OF the Ohio state
Veterinary Clinic for identification.
Dissemination Of DR.. Brumley re-
vealed that the samples were at least
IL years old.
After he had aScertained from the
witness the therapeutic uses OF these
preparations in veterinary medicine,
Attorney Seidel asked him II 1t not be
possible to find samples in any veteri-
nary or medical department. Brumley
said that it would.
And 1t is a fact that these samples
were used by DR.. Shook in the instruc-
ton of students, isn't it?" Seidel asked.
Again DR.. Brumley replied In the
affirmative. One other witness took the
stand today. He was Larry Van Skaik,
the city detective who arrested DIR.
Shook at his home on Tenth avenue the
day after the body Of Miss Hix was
found.