The Northwest enterprise. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1931-1952, 1932-02-18
Vancouver Girl
Murder Victim
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around the pitiful cold little form
on the morgue slab within, the ia
Their, John McAdoo. broke down, sob
bling brokenly:
Father Testifies
Called to the stand, John McAdoo,
the foster father, stated he and his
wife had adopted the child in 1927.
On his way to work at Z p. m.
that night, he took the little girl
with him to a store nearby to pick
up a magazine for his wife.
The storekeeper gave her lolli-
pop.
He saw her safely across the road
on her way home and continued to
his work.
He returned at IL 40 and after
supper went upstairs. McAdoo said
the child called to him for drink
of water as he reached the upper
landing.
He had given her a drink from the
glass near the bed, but she began to
choke, spit it out, dying in his arms
few minutes later.
Insured For $165
The child had been insured about
two years ago for S165.
He did not know who was the ben
eficiary as the policy was in bank
safety deposit box, he said when Mr..
Orr pursued his questioning further
Questioned as anonymous letters
he had received, McAdoo said:
81 don't know who wrote them.
might have kept some boys from
'thugging' out at the race track dur
ing the races last summer. but new
err kept anybody out of work. | sus-
pect nobody"
Window Partly Open
Potassium cyanide was never kept
in the house for household use, and
he could not understand how the
poison could have got into the glass
of water.
Mother Called As Witness
Mrs. Elsie L. McAdoo, the dead
child's foster mother, haggard and
worn looking, was next called.
She testified to retiring to her
room when the child returned with
the magazine and lay on the bed
reading.
The child came into her mothers
bedroom at 8 80 p. m. and asked if it
was her bedtime.
She replied in the affirmative and
a few minutes later saw the little
girl pass her door carrying glass of
water on her way to her own bed
room.
A few minutes later the little one
had called out: Good night, Nam
| ma"
Witness said she had continued
reading for while and, feeling hun
CRY, had gone down to the kitchen
and ate some supper. She sat in the
kitchen with Mrs. Gray, her boarder,
until her husband returned.
She told of hearing her husband
scream, "Bernice. Bernice," a mo-
ment or two after he had gone up
stairs.
She ran upstairs, thinking the child
had had vomiting spell, and found
the little one limp in her husbands
arms.
Questioned by Mr.. Orr, witness
stated that her husband had taken
out insurance on the child, but she
| uid nv hHOW WIZ was IilS pShC1iS-
iary.
At this point Mr.. Orr introduced
another letter which was not read.
1t was said to have been received
by Mrs. McAdoo from an anonymous
person, and it accused her husband
of infidelities.
There was no suggestion of poison
ing her husband in the letter.
Closely questioned by Mr.. Orr,
witness insisted she had kept no
track of times, except when the little
one had asked if it were her bedtime.
AS far as she knew, the two women
and the child were alone in the house
until her husband returned.
Witness said she did not know
who had removed the fatal glass of
water.
Substantially corroborative evil
dence as to the tragedy was given by
Mrs. Beatrice A. Gray, with the ex-
ception that this witness saw mo
commissions in the child.