The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1931-10-12

in The Times. The resemblance
was more striking. I believe that's
the woman 1 told my wife. I told
of my beliefs to several friends and
they urged me to tell authorities.
Then The Times man called on ms
and I asked his advice" Friedman
said.
After Friedman'S recital Of tbs
woman'S appearance in the store
three days before the poison deaths,
The Times got in touch with Ben
ScifreS, prosecuting attorney OF
Boone county, and Roy Adney, spe-
cial prosecutor.
ScifreS and Adney checked each
detail of FriedmanS story.
Convinced of its Veracity, and
that 1t was not one of the innumer-
able false clews that have cluttered
the Simmons poisoning case I'D to
now, they brought Friedman to this
Boone county Jail to verify his
Photographic Identification of Mrs.
Simmons.
Mrs. Simmons and her husband
John had been in her cell when
Friedman arrived at the Jail.
During cleaning of the cellroonn
MIS-. Simmons and her husband
were taken by Sheriff Wilbur Small
INTO jail ante-room, where Fried
man sat.
Simmons talked with Friedman.
Mrs. Simmons sat on a sofa, as tins
man who accuses her of buying pol
son eyed her.
Sure of Identification
Several times Friedman stooped
TO pat the sheriff's dog that
squatted at his feet, and each time
he raised his head he looked into
the face and eyes of his alleged
customer.
He sat for ten minutes in the
jails anteroom studying the facial
of the Hancock
county farm mother. The low hum
OF radio music and the few words
ne said TO Simmons were the only
accompaniment for the denoue-
ment that hushed court room
today.
He left the Jail.
Later, in the Office of Prosecution
Ben Scifres, and as Special Prose-
cutor Adney and a Times reporter
listened, he told with aSsuredness
OF his identification.'
It's her. No one could mistake
that mouth and those eyes. Tha
mouth has straight, set, deter
mined line, and the eyes are shiftv.
The woman who was in the drug
store had that mouth and those
eyes. Shes thinner than when she
came to the store-her face isn't as
full
Health Was Failing
But she has that same pale look
as the woman who purchased the
poison" Friedman declared.
The woman who entered the
store and bought the poison didn't
nave very much rouge on, if any.
She looked like she'd been sick.r
Friedman said.
Mrs. Simmons has not worn roupa
SINCE the inception of her trial or
prior to it, observers say. Her face
is pallid.
Scifres and Adney declared evi-
1ence will show that Mrs. Simmons
mad not been in the best of health
prior to the administration of the
poison to her children and their
deaths.
A sworn statement telling of the
"details of the poison purchase and
1rmly identifying Mrs, Simmons az
ne buyer OF the huge dosage was
signed by Friedman.
We'll. that's off my mind. /" he said
Is the ink dried on the legal docu-
nent
First Bottle Sale in Years
The positiveness of Friedman'a
identification and the exact date
II the poison purchase was due to
he fact that it was the first bottle
VI strychnine he had sold in i've
,ears.
We sell it in tablet form and
mall doses, but it was the onJv
Whole bottle I'd sold in several years.
md that's what made me notice it
more. haven't sold a bottle of
trychnine since that purchase on
Tune 49," he said.
I fixed the date of the sale be.
auSe on everything that's sold out
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