The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-06
Members of Fatal Outing
Party Describe Events
of Tragedy.
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into them. Then he passed me the
olives, but I couldn't see anything to
them for a man when he was
hungry.
Then Jackson and me were talk
mig about cutworms and the corn
borer when he passed the sand
wiches. I didn't notice anything
unusual and got me sandwich I
was hunting, and the home proved
to come from my house"
Capsule Is Found
1t was then, with a wave of his
han das though to command atten-
ton, that Pollard testified to the
death-like silence that closed in on
the picnic tables.
Then, a minute later. saw that
capsule in my mothers sandwich,
and 1 got up" he continued.
st asked, Whose sandwiches are
theSe?'
Nobody answered and I yelled
again, Whose sandwiches are
these?'
"Still nobody answered and,
finally, my sister, lisa, said she
thought they were the Simmons
There didn't anybody else reply,
and I yelled loud. I yelled so loud
you could've heard me at the back
end of the house court room and
I was sure none of them were ours"
Pounds on Chair
At times during the telling of
his demands to learn the makers of
the sandwiches, Pollard pounded on
the arm of the witness chair.
He turned now and then to look
at the jury, but generally kept his
eyes on the defense and states
tables. Now and then he looked at
the reporters and the court room
clock.
when nobody answered. he re-
sumed, Il told 'em 1 was going to
see if this was joke. I saw jack
son getting sick. He was right there
beside me.
II went with Dale Simmons (son
of the murder suspecD to DR.. o. c.
Higgins and Dale asked him what
was in the capsule we had.
THE doctor said it was either
quinine or strychnine, and when
Dale asked him what would happen
if it was Strychnine, the doctor told
us everybody would be dead in a
short time.
Father Doesn't Reply
I'VE went right back. Jackson
was having commissions and John
Simmons was sitting under a tree.
Dale went up to bis father and
asked, Are you goiri' to sit there
and let all these people dep His
father didn't answer him."
Pollard said he returned to the
tables and, touching a finger to the
contents of one of the capsules,
tasted it and found it bitter.
Then we took Alice Jean and
Virginia to the hospital" he said.
Mrs. Simmons wasn't doing any,
thing.
'Dr. Rainey was working on
Jackson under the tree. We went
back to the hospital and found out
that Jean was dead.
Legs Got Wobbly
CDR. Rainey was still working on
Jackson when 1 went back and /
told hi INTO forget that idea about
the quinine, because little Jean was
dead.
i says to him he might as we'll
let jackson die on the road to the
hospital as under that tree
Pollard said then his legs got
wobbly" and antidotes failed to re-
lieve his condition. He said he. how
ever, again went to the hospital. as
other members of the picnic party
were being rushed there.
When got there, Mrs. Simmons
wkaS sittin' out in the car with her
sons. Jean was dead. Mrs. Sim
mons was calm
AT this point Mrs. Simmons and
her husband broke into tears and
cried on the defense table.
Pollard will be questioned by the
defense this afternoon and followed
on the stand by his wife.
PollaIs< followed DR.. E. A. Rainey
and John D. GQops and Lester Carr.