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> II made a ridiculous mistake"
he said. II meant to say there
! was that amount (of the drug) in
the organs I examined-the stom.
ach. brain, kidney and liver"
Walton was asked the probable
amount Of drug in the entire body
on this basis.
II would say a probable range
of from 20 to 80 grains,'' he re-
plied-between 10 and 20 capsules.
Walton was then asked the guam
tity of Sodium Seconal it would
require to stop ordinary menstrual
pains.
F 1.-TWO capsules are ordinarily
considered enough to sedate a per-
son-that is, produce a tendency
to Sleep" he said.
''How about for a woman weigh
ing 81 pounds?
''She would have a normal reac-
ton with two-thirds the usual
DOSE" he replied. Two capsules
would have been a good dose"
At what point would Mrs. Epes
have gone to sleep after taking the
drug, he was asked.
"About six capsules would have
put her to sleep" He said this
I would take about an hour and a
half.
Walton said the five tablets Epes
. had stated he gave his wife over a
two-hour period between 10:30 pm.
: and 1890 am. would have put her
into sleep which he described
as "deep anesthesia."
would it be possible after this
for the girl to be struggling OF
vomiting the prosecution asked
in an attempt to refute Epes state
ment that he was. awakened in the
y night by Mary Lees retching.
. IT don't think that's possible, .
Walton replied.
Assuming that Mrs. Epes tool
the amount of drug her husband
said he gave her, the prosecution
asked. would she be physically
capable under her own power O.
! taking any medicine at ALL"
The pharmacist replied:
"She might be able to swallow
il it but she couldn't reach and TAXI
it herself"
Walton said that under ordinary
circumstances the chances of re
:, viving a person from the drug-in
It spired anesthesia would be "rea
sonable good" A practicing physi
clan, he said, would have goos
& chance at any time before dealt
;, of getting such person out o
1 danger in about five or six hours
: The State, which contended tina
L Mrs. Epes' death was double du'
to poison and suffocation, ther
/ questioned Watson further abou
the condition of a persons body
after taking the drug.
Watson said that assuming Mrs
Epes had been given five or si1
capsules of the drug as her hus
band had said, her body Woult
have been "-ecognizably cold witt
very faint pulse" but that a lay
man could possibly see respira
tory movement"
1.-The prosecution will probably
rest its case sometime Friday,
Taylor said.
F. Then the defense counsel-an ar
8 ray of the best legal talent the
defendant wealthy Richmond
:. parents could retain in an effort
, to save their former Army Lieu.
: tenant son-win have its say in
j. court.
State Senate President Edgar
Brown, one Of South Carolina S
most powerful political figures
whose rasping voice has won many
a legislative battle, will lead the
fight for the handsome 27-yearNld
Epes.
The trial was perhaps the most
difficult of Browns long legal ca
reer. Epes has admitted burying
his frail wife's body in the Fort
Jackson grave but said he did so
Gin panic" after believing her dead
from the effects of an overdose OF
strong sedative.
Furthermore, tn prosecution
lost no time in linking him in an
intimate hotel room affair in Lou
isiana with 20-year-old Nelson
Kingsland, beautiful Mississippi
society belle.
The. balding. red faced Brown
and his young client passed notes
back and forth today as the State
began polishing off its case.
Capt. A. L. Vass, Army patholo-
gist who performed the autopsy on
the body of Mary Lee, testified
that cause of her death could not
be determined by the examination
or from a microscopic scrutiny OF
her internal organs.
He was asked pointedly If the
; drug taken by Mrs. Epes covld
have produced death.
81 do not know" he replied.
Vass said her organs gave no
evidence of disease, thus bearing
out statement by Mrs. T. G..
Williams, of Jacksonville, Fla, the
dead woman's mother, who said
that her daughter had never been
IN before her marriage to Epes
in 1910 Several of Epes' letters to
his wife in which he cautioned her
about taking her medicine had in
dictated he may have often pre-