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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Woman Drank Laudanum to End Troubles but Miscalculated the Dose.
Wearying of the struggle to support her four children, Mary WALKER, living
in the Nagle block at No. 457 State street, attempted to end her troubles
yesterday morning by taking a dose of laudanum. She miscalculated the dose,
and will recover, the physicians at St. Mary's Hospital say.
Mrs. BIDLACK, who lives on the second floor of the
building, heard a heavy fall on the floor above her at 9 o'clock yesterday
morning, and ran upstairs into the apartments of Mrs. WALKER. The woman was
lying on the floor, deathly sick. Mrs. BIDLACK ran from the apartment to the
street, where she found Policeman John HETZLER, of the Fifth precinct. He
went back with her to the room. Mrs. WALKER was moaning with pain. When
asked why she had taken the poison, Mrs. WALKER moaned; "I've lived
long enough this way."
The ambulance from St. Mary's Hospital was called
to the block and the woman was taken to the hospital. Humane Agent KILLIP
was notified of the condition of the children and will take care of the two
small girls.
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YOUNG MAN ARRESTED ON A SERIOUS CHARGE
Joseph POWELL Accused of Entering a Glendale Park Home Early Sunday Morning.
At 4:30 o'clock yesterday morning, Rose CORNWELL, the 18-year-old daughter
of George CORNWELl, of No. 12 Glendale park, awakened to find the window of
her bedroom open and a man in her room. Screaming with fright the young
woman ran downstairs to the protection of her mother. Joseph POWELL, 18
years old, who lives on Fulton avenue, was later arrested by the fifth
precinct police charged with burglary in the first degree and attempted
criminal assault. He was positively identified by the young woman.
Miss CORNWELL sleeps in the front of the house on
the second floor. Her bedroom overlooks a porch on the west side of the
house. Below this is a projection, sufficient to afford a foothold. At 4:30
or a little before that hour, the police say that POWELL, brought a number
of empty barrels and piled them underneath the window. From the top of these
he was able to gain the roof of the porch.
When the screams of Miss CORNWELL aroused the house,
POWELL stepped out on the porch and from there, either fell or leaped on the
top of a peach tree on the west side of the house. He was pretty well cut up
and bruised by the fall, but managed to make his escape before the arrival
of the police.
He walked rapidly away from the neighborhood and
went out Lake avenue in the direction of Seneca park. Policemen COLLINS and
KENEALY got track of him in the neighborhood and started in pursuit. They
came up to him near the park and then he doubled on them, running back to
the corner of Driving park and Lake avenues when the two policemen overtook
him and placed him under arrest.
They started to take him back to the house of Miss
CORNWELL to have him identified and POWELL objected strongly. POWELL was
confronted with the young woman and she positively identified him. Mr.
CORNWELL when he saw POWELL ran out of the room and returned with a shot gun
and attempted to kill the prisoner.
"He won't need an officer if I get at
him," he said. "He won't need a trial." The policemen jumped
between the enraged father and their prisoner. He was finally gotten out of
the house and sent to police headquarters. From there he was committed to
jail. POWELL was partly intoxicated when he was arrested.
It appears from the police investigation that young
POWELL formerly lived opposite the CORNWELLS on Glendale park for six or
seven years and was well acquainted with the family.
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HELD FOR GRAND JURY
William Squires of Jerusalem Must Answer to Manslaughter in First Degree.
The examination of William H. SQUIRES, the young man from the town of
Jerusalem, who was arrested upon the charge of murder in the first degree,
upon the return of the warrant charging that crime, was held before Justice
Gilbert H. BAKER, yesterday. The examination practically occupied the entire
day, and was private. The subpoenas for the several witnesses were issued
late Friday afternoon. SQUIRES was represented by Ex-postmaster M. A. LEARY
of Le Roy, while the case of the People was looked after by
District-Attorney Abraham GRIDLEY, of that village. At the conclusion of the
examination, the justice held the defendant to the Grand Jury on the charge
of manslaughter in the first degree.
Judge John T. KNOX, of Le Roy, admitted the
defendant to bail in the sum of $3,000, the following gentlemen, all
residents of the town of Jerusalem, qualifying on the bond: Niram A.
SQUIRES, J. H. McCONNELL, Elias PULVER, M. R. SMITH, Albert H. GENUNG,
Chester C. CULVER.
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SMOTHERED CAT AND 100 CHICKENS
Fire broke out at the home of Mrs. Robert FULLER one and a half miles east
of Churchville, Saturday morning about 10 o'clock. Mrs. FULLER who was at
home alone had been ironing and went out to the wood pile for wood, and in
opening the kitchen door flames burst forth. She gave the alarm and a number
of the nearest<snip> didn't get the rest.
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LIVINGSTON
Prize Speaking Contest
At the annual prize speaking contest of the pupils of the Dansville high
school which was held in the Heckman opera house Friday evening, the girls'
first prize was awarded to Miss Katharine F. NOYES, and the girls' second
prize to Miss Ruth Stedman BRETTLE. The boys' first prize went to Martin E.
KINS, and the boys' second prize to Charles W. KAAPPENBURG. The prizes,
consisting of fine sets of books, beautifully bound, were distributed by F.
FIELDER, president of the Board of Education. The programme was
exceptionally well rendered.
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DIED FROM PARALYSIS
John D. PARSHALL, who suffered a stroke of paralysis Thursday morning at his
home on Perine street, died Saturday morning at the Dansville Medical
and Surgical Hospital. He was 68 years of age and had spent his whole life
in this vicinity, being born in Springwater, where he continued to reside
until three years ago when made Dansville his home. He was a retired farmer.
A widow, Mrs. Eliza GEIGER PARSHALL, and a daughter, Grace, survive him.
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DEATH OF EZRA M. WILLIS
The death of Ezra W. WILLIS, a prominent and lifelong resident of
Springwater, occurred Friday afternoon. Deceased was 53 years of age and the
greater part of his lifetime had been spent on the homestead farm where
his death occurred, one mile east of that village. Twenty-five years ago he
was united in marriage to Hannah BROCKWAY, besides whom, with one daughter,
Gertrude, an aged father, and three sisters and three brothers, survive.
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DEATH OF CHARLES GARRETT
On Saturday morning at his old home one mile west of Lima occurred the death
of Charles GARRETT, aged 77 years. He was born in England in 1826 and came
to Lima about 30 years ago. He is survived by two children, one son Fred C.
GARRETT and one daughter Anna, both of Lima.
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FOUND IN A CHAIR DEATH
Salamanca, April 26 - Edward MANNING, about 50 years of age, was found
dead sitting in a chair in Ed WEAVER's hotel in Limestone at an early hour
this morning. The deceased had been drinking heavily several days, and
Saturday night he asked the proprietor if he could remain in the men's
sitting room. The request was granted and his body was found by an employee
this morning. Coroner STILLMAN, of Salamanca, was notified. Death was due to
alcoholism. MANNING leaves a sister at Dunkirk and a brother at Johnstown,
Pa. No inquest will be held.
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MONROE
Thos. HAYWARD, Oldest Resident of Pittsford -- From Family of Centenarians.
Thomas Edmonds HAYWARD, the oldest resident of the town of Pittsford, will
celebrate his ninety-third birthday to-day.
He was born in Leicester, Mass., the youngest of a
family of six children, all of whom he has survived. Ancestors on both sides
of the family were remarkable for their longevity, both grandmothers
and a sister having nearly attained the century mark. Mr. HAYWARD is quite
remarkable in many ways, having always enjoyed nearly perfect health.
His appearance and carriage would indicate him to be at least twenty years
younger than he is.
Mr. HAYWARD located at Pittsford seventy-two years
ago, and for fifty years has resided in the same house in which he lives
now, and, during most of this time, was much interested in horticulture.
Last Saturday he superintended the planting of fifty cherry trees, and among
his past experiments in this line is a fine prune orchard in the
village of Pittsford which yields a large income every year the trees bear
fruit. His home is one mile west of the village, and in pleasant weather he
often walks that distance. He reads with or without glasses, and reads the
daily papers aloud to other members of the family. His nearest surviving
relatives are an only daughter, Mrs. Heman LUSK, and a grandson, Stephen
Hayward LUSK, both of Pittsford.
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J. WADSWORTH BICKFORD
J. Wadsworth BICKFORD, one of the most highly respected residents of the
town of Ogden, and a prosperous farmer, died Friday evening at about 5:45
o'clock, at his home about two and one-half miles south of Spencerport, aged
62 years. The deceased is survived by a wife, Sara BICKFORD and three
daughters, Mrs. A. E. GRIDLEY, Miss Mary F. BICKFORD and Mrs. H. C. SNYDER,
all of the town of Ogden.
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MRS. CATHERINE STEVENS
Mrs. Catherine STEVENS, the mother of John STEVENS, of the firm of Truesdale
& Stevens, of Spencerport, died at her home in Churchville Thursday
morning, age 79 years. The deceased is survived by one daughter, Mrs. James
BOUGHTON, of Ogden, and four sons, James STEVENS, of Rochester, Wesley
STEVENS, of Kansas City, John STEVENS, of Spencerport and Daniel STEVENS, of
Churchville.
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ARRESTED FOR CORNER LOAFING
William DONALO, a 16-year-old boy, was arrested yesterday afternoon at the
corner of Plymouth avenue and Cottage street, on the charge of corner
loafing. Policeman RENSLAND made the arrest. The boy was later paroled at
police headquarters for appearance this morning.
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W. C. T. U. AT HELM
Mrs. Effie M. Lambert Says Women Workers Help Navigate Ship of State.
The address of Mrs. Effie M. LAMBERT last evening at the West Avenue
Methodist Church was heard by a large and appreciative audience. Twice
previously during the day, at Charlotte, this earnest young lecturer had
addressed large assemblages but, with the exception of a slight hoarseness,
there was no indication of weariness or abated zeal.
Mrs. F. G. BISHOP, president of the Nineteenth ward
W. C. T. U., introduce the speaker, mentioned the fact of her brief
experience and valuable service to the state organization as lecturer and
organizer, and head of the department of young woman's work.
"To the Ropes" was the theme presented,
and it gave the speaker opportunity to compare the work of the true
statesman with that of the trusty seaman, who 'mld the wildest storm or the
darkest night, stands at his post and does his part toward helping his
vessel to outride the storm and at last enter the desired haven.
Reference was made to dangers which threaten this
nation, and which make it important that every citizen shall hold to the
ropes of principle, and shall cast an intelligent and an unselfish ballot.
The many departments of work of the W. C. T.
U., were compared to the ropes by which the early mariners shifted the sails,
that they might catch the favoring gales, and more surely bring the vessel
on its way.
The speaker said that with such numerous and
diversified departments every woman may work as she will and often finds
that the experience does more for her than she can do for the reform.
Reference was made to the prompt action of the W.
C. T. U. and its trusty helpers, by which legislation proposed by the liquor
organizations had often been defeated. The Yale bill, which if passed
would have nullified the will of the majority of the residents of the
no-license towns in this state, was mentioned as a measure of this class,
the defeat of which had caused rejoicing among temperance people everywhere.
Music was furnished by the church choir and by a
quartette. Appreciative words were spoken by the pastor, Dr. I. N. DALBY,
who said that he resided in the town in which the first W. C. T. U. was
organized, and was most fully in sympathy with its purposes and work.
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MORTUARY RECORD
Adella H. TIBBILS, wife of George TIBBILS, died Saturday evening at the
family home No. 63 North Union street. She was a past president of C. J.
Powers Relief Corps Auxiliary, G. A. R., and a member of Golden Rule
Chapter, Order of Eastern Star. She was also a member of Christ Episcopal
Church. She leaves her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Andrew JACKSON, of Oakfield, N.
Y.; one sister, Mrs. Ella BENNETT, of Auburn, N. Y.; three brothers, Ralph
JACKSON, of this city; Fred JACKSON of Akron, N. Y., and Chester A. JACKSON,
of Oakfield, N. Y.
William SCHEIB died Saturday at the Homeopathic Hospital, aged 57 years.
Besides his wife he leaves one daughter, Lillian, a brother, George, of this
city, and two sisters, Mrs. Joseph BANTEL, of Rochester, and Mrs. A. PIERCE,
of Buffalo. Mr. SCHEIB was a conductor on the Rochester & Ontario
Railway for twenty years. During the Civil war he served in the
Twenty-second New York Cavalry. He was one of the youngest members. He was a
member of the Custer Command, Union Veterans' Union. Rochester has always
been his home.
Elizabeth, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John C. HERON, died Saturday at the
family residence, No. 112 Maryland street, aged 19 years. She was a graduate
of Lazarus Academy, class of 1902. Decedent was of a lovable disposition and
her loss is mourned by a large circle of friends.
Margaret DOWD, daughter of the late William and Margaret DOWD, died at her
home, No. 26 Field street, last Saturday. Two sisters, one brother, two
nieces and nine nephews survive her.
Hannah P. PIKE died at her home on Mount Hope avenue yesterday afternoon,
aged 76 years. The decedent was a resident of Brighton for over fifty years.
She is survived by two sons.
Sophia, widow of Charles E. GROSS, died at the residence of her sister, Mrs.
WOODARD, of Wallace, N. Y., yesterday, aged 59 years and 6 months.
Sarah Clemments THISTLE, wife of Morgan R. THISTLE, died yesterday morning
at the residence, No. 235 Adams street, aged 72 years.
Peter McARTHUR died last night at the home of his daughter, Mrs. R. H.
BYERS, of No. 310 Ravine avenue, aged 80 years.
Henry L. ACHILLES, Sr., died yesterday at his residence, No. 497 Averill
avenue, aged 69 years.
George HART died at the home of his parents, No. 465 Clinton avenue north,
aged 23 years.
Adaline RASCHKE died Saturday evening at No. 4 Widman street, aged 77 years.
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DIED
TEGG - Friday, April 24, 1903, at the family residence, No. 118 Ambrose
street, Dr. Albert TEGG, aged 63 years. He leaves besides his wife, two
sons, Dr. A. George and Frank G., and one daughter, Mrs. Montgomery E.
LEARY, and two grandchildren.
-Funeral from the house Monday at 2 o'clock.
THOMAS - In this city, Friday, April 24, 1903, at her residence, No. 232
Caledonia avenue, Elizabeth Fall THOMAS, daughter of the late Elizabeth
RODDA and John Williams THOMAS.
-Funeral will be held from her late residence Monday afternoon at 3 o'clock.
SCHEIB - In this city, Saturday, April 25, 1903, William SCHEIB, at the
Homeopathic Hospital, aged 57 years. He is survived by his wife, one
daughter, Lillian, a brother George, of this city, also two sisters, Mrs.
Joseph BANTEL, of Rochester, and Mrs. A. PIERCE, of Buffalo.
-Funeral from the residence, No. 86 Conkey avenue, Tuesday at 2:30 P. M.
DOWD - At her home, 26 Field street, Saturday, April 25, 1903, Margaret
DOWD, daughter of the late William and Margaret DOWD. She is survived by two
sisters, one brother, two nieces and nine nephews.
-Funeral on Wednesday morning at 8:30 from house, 9 o'clock Blessed
Sacrament Church.
GROSS - At the residence of her sister, Mrs. WOODARD, in Wallace, N. Y.,
Sunday, April 26, 1903, Sophia, widow of Charles E. GROSS, aged 59 years and
6 months.
-The remains will be brought to this city and the funeral services will take
place from the residence of her sons, No. 126 Lexington avenue. The time
will be announced later.
THISTLE - In this city, Sunday, April 26, 1903, at her residence, No. 225
Adams street, Mrs. Morgan THISTLE, aged 72 years.
-Funeral 2 P. M. Tuesday, April 28th. California papers please copy.
CONNORS - In this city, Saturday, April 25, 1903, Mae Beatrice, only
daughter of Lawrence and Maria CONNORS, aged 15 years and 9 months.
-Funeral Tuesday at 10:30 A. M. Interment in Mount Hope cemetery. Strictly
private.
TIBBILS - In this city, Saturday evening, April 25, 1903, Adelia H. TIBBILS,
wife of George TIBBILS, at the family home, No. 63 North Union street. She
is survived by her parents, one sister and three brothers.
-Funeral to be held from Christ Episcopal Church Tuesday afternoon at 4
o'clock. Friends invited.
NIER - In this city, Saturday, April 25, 1903, Ellen NIER, aged 67 years.
-The funeral will take place from the residence of her daughter, Mrs.
William F. PREDMORE, No. 99 Frost avenue, to-morrow (Tuesday) morning at
8:30 o'clock and at the Cathedral Chapel at 9 o'clock.
ACHILLES - In this city, Sunday, April 26, 1903, at his residence, No. 497
Averill avenue, Henry L. ACHILLES, Sr., aged 69 years.
-Notice of funeral later.
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KENT'S FATE IN BALANCE TO-DAY
People Will Offer Defendant's Statement.
Defendant To Take Stand
Prosecution Closes To-day With Critical Evidence of Case,
Statement to Coroners, Over Admission of Which War Will Rage.
The crisis of the trial of Leland Dorr KENT on an
indictment of manslaughter will come to-day when the prosecution will
offer in evidence the statement made by the defendant to Coroners
KLEINDIENST and KILLIP in the Homeopathic Hospital on the afternoon of
Sunday, September 14th last, the day of the death of Ethel Blanche DINGLE
in room 147 of the Whitcomb House.
This statement is really the people's case and
the remainder of the evidence, with its extremely circumstantial nature,
merely the corroboration of the damaging part of the statement. George
RAINES will bitterly fight its admission, alleging that KENT was
irresponsible from his drugged state and the effects of the gash in his
neck when he made the statement. Around this will wage the battle of the
trial.
The evidence thus far, it is believed by some,
has slightly favored the defense, Dr. PERRIN's opinion on Saturday, in
particular, containing a practical opinion that KENT was irrational at the
time he was attended by the hospital, and the more important testimony
given under cross-examination, as to the extent of the re-action from
atropine poisoning, which is so strong that the witness said, giving his
authorities, that a sufferer from it might the following day forget all
the occurrences of the day he overdosed with the drug. This witness said
that he considered KENT a good picture of atropine poisoning at the time
he was called to the room.
The people's case will close to-day with few
witnesses to call, including the coroners. It is understood that Mr.
RAINES will place KENT on the stand in his own defense. That was stated at
the last trial and developments at this time make the unusual and daring
move look more promising for the defendant than then.
Here are some of the more important words of KENT
taken down by the Coroner in the statement. "After we went to
bed awhile, I got it in the neck and looked around and she had drawn a
razor across my throat and blood was squirting. The razor was mine. I
always carried it with me. She and I talked this matter over about
committing suicide and she was determined to do it all evening. There was
something said about me committing suicide."
Again, he said: "When I saw her draw the
razor across her throat I felt doped and tried to make a noise. I took
some morphine. I took about one grain or 1 1-4. I took this before. I am
not in the habit of taking morphine. We got back there about 3:30 and went
to bed at 4:15, and between that time and 7 A. M. this happened.
"When she drew the razor across my throat I
said 'My God, what are you doing?' I remember getting up and putting a
cloth to my neck. I had pain. I could not breathe. After I got my neck
fixed up she was dead then."
Much will depend upon the evidence of the Coroner
and others present when this statement was made as to their opinions of
KENT's mental condition then. KENT said in the statement that he took
morphine. The couple also used atropine and hyoscine. Mr. WARREN will
probably emphasize the fact that atropine and morphine are antidotes for
each other, in order to prove that KENT was responsible when he made the
statement.
Rochester, Monroe, NY
Democrat & Chronicle
Tue Apr 28, 1903
H. R. CORKHILL
Sudden Death of a Rochester
Business Man at Kyota, Japan
Cable dispatches announce the
sudden death of H. H. CORKHILL, of No. 13 Violetta street, at Kyota,
Japan, on April 25th. Mr. CORKHILL was the son of the late Henry R.
CORKHILL. He was engaged in the lithographing business with the Oriental
Printing Company, as superintendent and general manager. He was a man of
more than ordinary ability. He had created a business that gave him a
reputation in two continents.
The
establishment with which he was connected was the first of the kind in
Japan, and in bringing it to its present high standing he overcame
obstacles that many would have considered insurmountable. It was his
intention to return home last Easter, but at the urgent request of the
directors of the company he consented to defer his visit until additional
plants were completed.
He
leaves a wife, to whom he was devotedly attached, and whose sorrow has
been rendered doubly keen by the receipt of letters since hearing of his
death in which he said that he was in the best of health and was anxiously
looking forward to the time when he would once more be at home.
Mr.
CORKHILL was a member of Valley Lodge, F. and A. M.
The
remains will be brought to Rochester.
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John L. GLANTSCHNIG died
yesterday morning at the family residence, No. 10 Widman street, aged 26
years. He was a member of the L. Bordman Smith Command, No. 53 Spanish War
Veterans, and of the Unique Social Club. The command will attend the
funeral. Deceased leaves his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas GLANTSCHNIG,
four sisters, Mrs. Julia SMITH, of Webster, and Mary, Carrie and Clara
GLANTSCHNIG, and two brothers, Andrew and Thomas GLANTSCHNIG, of this
city.
Mrs. Sarah Clements THISTLE died
Sunday at her late residence, No. 225 Adams street. She is survived by her
husband, Morgan THISTLE, Sr., four sons, John A., Thomas A., James A., and
Morgan R. THISTLE; one daughter, Mrs. Margaret MILLINGTON; one sister,
Mrs. A. T. LEGGETT, and one brother, John A. CLEMENTS, all of this city.
Helen, wife of Bartholomew
GOMMENGINGER, died at St. Mary's Hospital yesterday morning. The remains
were taken to the family residence, No. 98 Reynolds street.
James MURPHY died yesterday at
the home of his sister, Mrs. Catherine GILL, No. 332 Oak street. Another
sister, Mary MURPHY, survives.
Bernard M., only son of Martin
and Belle UNDERBUSH, died at the Homeopathic Hospital Sunday evening, aged
12 years.
Sarah MILLAN died yesterday at
her home, No. 210 East avenue, aged 74 years.
Abigail WIDNER died in this city
yesterday, aged 77 years.
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CRUSHED BY COAL CAR
Young Man Seriously Injured at
Yates Dock in Charlotte
Thomas HAMLON, aged 17 years, was
seriously injured yesterday afternoon about 5 o'clock while at work on the
Yates coal dock at Charlotte. Young HAMLON was shifting cars when his arm
was caught in the knuckle of a patent coupler and badly crushed from the
elbow to the hand. His left foot was also run over and the toes cut off.
HAMLON,
faint from his injuries, was just about to fall from the chute, a distance
of about forty feet, when he was caught by fellow employees and assisted
to the dock. Had he fallen, it would have meant sure death. He was taken
to his home on the Denise road, where Dr. SULLIVAN attended to his
injuries. It is feared that the left arm, and the left leg above the ankle
will have to be amputated.
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UNKNOWN TO HEATH
J. D. HEATH, a railroad man of
East Aurora, yesterday telegraphed Coroner KLEINDIENST that he knew
nothing of the antecedents of the man who was killed at Pittsford last
Saturday. If the body is not identified by to-morrow, Coroner KLEINDIENST
will have it interred in Potter's field at the expense of the county.
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YOUNGEST BICYCLE THIEF
Alexander IVES, 10 years old, was
arrested last night on the charge of stealing a wheel valued at $18, the
property of Park DENSMORE, of No. 230 Rosedale avenue. DENSMORE arrested
him and turned him over to Sergeant KLEIN and Officer QUINLAN.
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SOCIAL OF HUBBELL CLASS
A social will be given in the
First Baptist Church parlors this evening by the members of the HUBBELL
Class. Hon. Walter S. HUBBELL, the teacher of the class, will give an
illustrated lecture on "The Yosemite."
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ORLEANS
Death of Mrs. Mary Rice, Oldest
Resident of Lyndonville
Mrs. Mary RICE, widow of Robert
RICE, who was one of the oldest residents of the village of Lyndonville,
died yesterday in that place, in her 90th year, after an illness of
several years. She leaves one son, Martin F. RICE, a prominent business
man, and one daughter, Mary SHORT, of Norfolk, Eng.
Mrs.
RICE had resided in Lyndonville since 1852, and was for several years a
member of the Presbyterian Church.
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EASY TO RAISE SWEET CORN
The farmers in the vicinity of
Albion have responded readily to the call for acreage of tomatoes and
sweet corn for the Olney canning factory to be located at Albion this
summer. Harvey S. BEDELL, a prominent lawyer of Rome, N. Y., has stated to
them that it was as easy to raise sweet corn as the common yellow corn.
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The death of Eliza J. CALLARD
occurred at Baldwin's Corners, Saturday night, aged 75 years.
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NIAGARA
Death of Hon. George Keeney of
Perry at Home of Mrs. A. Beverly, Lockport.
Lockport, April 27 - Hon. George
D. KEENEY, a prominent citizen of Perry, N. Y., died at the home of Mrs.
Ambrose C. BEVERLY, on Locust street, this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. KEENEY
have been spending the winter at the BEVERLY home, Mrs. KEENEY and Mrs.
BEVERLY being sisters. Mr. KEENEY had been ill about a week and his
sickness was not considered very serious until last Saturday, when he took
a decided turn for the worse and a consultation of physicians was held.
Mr. KEENEY was prominent in public affairs of Central New York.
Judge
KEENEY's funeral will be held at Mrs. BEVERLY's house to-morrow afternoon
at 4 o'clock. The body will be taken to Perry Wednesday morning, and a
funeral will be held at Perry at 2 o'clock.
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YATES
ALICE FITCH vs HENRY CONWAY
Les pendens have been filed with
County Clerk Henry REED, at Penn Yan, in the following Supreme Court
action: Alice FITCH vs Henry CONWAY and others. The property on which it
is sought to foreclose is situated in the town of Potter, and consists of
about twenty-one acres of land. The mortgage bears the date of March 10,
1897.
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AWARDS WILL SOON BE ANNOUNCED
Five bids have been received by
Postmaster George R. CORNWELL, of Penn Yan, for the service of carrying
the United States mails to and from the Penn Yan, Keuka Park &
Branchport Electric Railway and the Northern Central Railway, in Penn Yan.
The award will be announced from Washington within a short time.
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MANY LAUNCHES ON KEUKA
Every season there are one or
more small launches added to the fleet already in service upon the waters
of Lake Keuka. The latest addition will be made this week, when the
25-foot gasoline launch recently purchased by George B. LOWN, of Penn Yan,
will be placed in commission.
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APPLICANTS FOR CLERK-CARRIER
Ernest E. TITUS, secretary of the
Board of Civil Service Examiners, of Penn Yan, announces that he has
received four applications for the clerk-carrier examination in that
village on Saturday, May 9th.
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MRS. DEWEY DIED OF APOPLEXY
Coroner KLEINDIENST was called
yesterday morning to Windsor Beach, where Mrs. Adelaide A. DEWEY, 73 years
old, had died suddenly. The coroner granted a certificate of death from
apoplexy.
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MATTER OF STOLEN CLOTHING
George VETTER is under arrest on
the charge of stealing two coats, a pair of trousers, one vest, all valued
at $20, of Solomon, the tailor. Detective WHALEY worked up the case and
arrested VETTER.
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BRIEF COURT NOTES
The city has appealed from that
portion of Surrogate BENTON's decision in the Simon L. EISNER accounting
matter, in which the Court disallows a claim against the estate of $523.78
for taxes and local assessments.
The Rochester Automobile Club has
incorporated for the promotion of automobiling. The directors are N. P.
POND, C. H. JUDSON, Henry S. WOODWORTH, D. M. COOPER, C. F. GARFIELD, Lee
RICHMOND, C. A. HUBER, W. S. MORSE and J. A. BARHITE.
The Aetna Life Insurance Company
has appealed to the Appellate Division from the $10,800 verdict against it
directed by Justice DAVY on January 8th last in favor of Amelia M. APPEL.
Her husband, Joseph M. APPEL, died from over-exertion after a long bicycle
ride in August, 1901. He had been suffering from appendicitis and the
company contested payment of his policy, raising the question whether
death of a person with a chronic trouble from over exertion is from an
accident.
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MARRIED
McNULTY - FINUCANE - By the Rev. William GLEESON, at St. Mary's Church,
Rochester, N. Y., Monday, April 27, 1903, W. J. McNULTY, of Cleveland,
Ohio, and Miss Ella FINUCANE, of Rochester.
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DIED
ACHILLES - In this city, Sunday, April 26, 1903, at his residence, No. 497
Averill avenue, Henry L. ACHILLES, Sr., aged 69 years.
-Funeral from residence Thursday at 2:30 P. M. Burial private.
DOWD - At her home on Field street, Saturday evening, April 25, 1903,
Margaret DOWD, daughter of the late William and Margaret DOWD. She is
survived by two sisters, one brother, two nieces and nine nephews.
-Funeral on Wednesday morning at 8:30 from house, 9 o'clock Blessed
Sacrament Church.
HART - In this city, Sunday, April 26, 1903, at the family residence, No.
465 Clinton avenue north, George HART, son of John and Monica HART, aged
23 years. The deceased is survived by his parents, one brother, John HART,
Jr., and a sister, Miss Mary HART.
-The funeral will be held from the house at 8:30 o'clock Wednesday morning
and at 9 o'clock from St. Joseph's Church.
PIKE - At her home in West Brighton, on Sunday, April 26, 1903, Hannah P.,
widow of Samuel PIKE, aged 76 years and 5 months. She is survived by two
sons, Albert E., of Brighton, and Frank E., of Henrietta.
-The funeral will take place from her late residence on Wednesday at 2 P.
M. Burial at Mount Hope.
WIDNER - In this city, Monday, April 27, 1903, Abigail WIDNER, aged 77
years.
-Funeral from her late residence, 443 Wilder street, Wednesday
afternoon at 2 o'clock. Burial at Grove Place cemetery, Chili.
GOMMENGINGER - In this city, Monday morning, April 27, 1903, at St. Mary's
Hospital, Helen, wife of Bartholomew GOMMENGINGER. The remains were taken
to the family residence, No. 98 Reynolds street.
-Funeral Wednesday morning at 8:30 from the house, 9 o'clock from
Immaculate Conception Church.
GROSS - At the residence of her sister, Mrs. WOODARD, in Wallace, N. Y.,
Sunday, April 26, 1903, Sophia, widow of Charles E. GROSS, aged 59 years
and 6 months. She is survived by one daughter and three sons, Mrs.
Frederick STEFLIER, Edward G., Benjamin W. and George C. GROSS.
-The remains will be brought to this city and the funeral services will
take place from her late residence, No. 126 Lexington
avenue, at 1;30 P.M. Tuesday.
MULLAN - In this city, Monday, April 27, 1903, at No. 210 East avenue,
Sarah MULLAN, aged 74 years.
-Funeral this (Tuesday) afternoon at 4 P. M.
THISTLE - In this city, Sunday, April 26, 1903, at her residence, No. 225
Adams street, Sarah CLEMENTS, wife of Morgan R. THISTLE. She
leaves her husband, four sons and one daughter, John, Thomas, James and
Morgan, and Mrs. Walter MILLINGTON, and one brother, John CLEMENTS, and
one sister, Mrs. Andrew LEGGETT.
-Funeral 2 P. M. Tuesday.
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ASSAULTED HIS FATHER
Philip NINER, a strapping young man, was convicted in police court
yesterday of assaulting his father, and was given fifteen days in the
penitentiary. NINER's father is a veteran of the Civil war and is a
cripple. Twice before the son has assaulted him, the father says, but the
third time it happened his patience was exhausted and he caused the boy's
arrest.
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FELL FROM TRUCK
A young man named William EVANS, of No. 180 Penn street, fell from the
back of a truck yesterday afternoon near the City Hospital, and struck his
head on the pavement. He was taken into the hospital, but he was not
severely hurt, and after having the injury dressed, he went home.
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POLICE WANT MASHER
The police are looking for a hard-faced young fellow who made himself
obnoxious to respectable women on West avenue Sunday evening. He followed
one young lady from the B. R. P. depot to the bridge. When she appealed to
passers-by to protect her he fled like a hare down Main and Elizabeth
streets.
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PERSONAL MENTION
J. D. McMASTER and M. C. RUTHERFORD have gone for a month's visit in
Denver, Col.
Mrs. Ida E. COSAD, school commissioner of the First District of Wayne
county, is spending a few days in Rochester.
J. Stewart COLE of Logan & Cole, advertising agents, has just returned
to his New York office after a severe illness of several weeks spent with
his father's family at No. 2 Selye terrace.
Charles CHILDS, employed at the local freight offices of the Buffalo,
Rochester & Pittsburg Railroad Company, has been appointed general
agent for the Brunswick & Birmingham Railroad, with headquarters at
Brunswick, Ga.
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GROCERIES TO CLOSE WEDNESDAYS
At a regular meeting of the Retail Grocer's Association in Aebersold's
Hall last evening, it was decided that the special market committee and
all the other members who can be present will attend the May session of
the Board of Supervisors next Friday to work for the passage of Supervisor
TOZER's public market resolution, which will come up then. The association
decided that the retail groceries of the city shall close at noon on
Wednesdays during the months of July and August.
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DROPPED DEAD AT HER GATE
Mrs. Mary KLICK, of No. 83 Hanover street, dropped at her front gate after
returning from work at a rag factory on Herman street last night. Friends
carried her into the house, where she died almost immediately. Coroner
KLEINDIENST had the body removed to the morgue and will have an autopsy
made this morning to find the cause of death. The woman was 50 years old.
It is thought heart disease or apoplexy caused death.
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CANAL APPOINTEES TO REPORT MAY 2d
Superintendent George A. GOSS has ordered all the appointees in the canal
service in this district to report on May 2d, at 9:30 A. M., at the
weighlock. The men appointed to serve on Plymouth avenue bridge will be
notified when the bridge is ready for use.
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KEELEY ESCAPED AUBURN PRISON
John KEELEY, arraigned in police court yesterday for assaulting his sick
wife in their home on Prospect street, several days ago, was arraigned in
police court yesterday. He is a paroled prisoner from Auburn prison and it
was at first thought that he would be sent back to that institution. An
investigation by the police, however, developed the fact that his parole
from prison had expired, so that he could not be sent back there. He was
accordingly given a month in the penitentiary. Policeman MATHIAS, who was
assaulted by KEELEY, when he arrested him, and take the matter before the
Grand Jury, and KEELEY may be rearrested on his release.
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PERPETUAL HELP SOCIETY
The Perpetual Help Society will meet at St. Mary's Hospital to-morrow
afternoon. Mrs. T. A. SMYTH, Mrs. D. J. McLENNAN, Mrs. Otilla K. BERNA and
Mrs. Eliza WILLIAMS will receive visitors.
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POWELL PLEADED NOT GUILTY
Joseph POWELL, accused of burglary in the first degree and attempted rape,
was arraigned in police court yesterday and pleaded not guilty. He will be
given a hearing on Thursday. POWELL said that he had made a mistake and
entered the wrong house. He denied any intention to commit burglary, and
to the second charge entered he also made an emphatic denial. It is
alleged that he entered the bedroom of Miss Rose CORNWELL, at No. 12
Glendale park, Sunday morning.
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FORFEITED $20 SECURITY
Edward MALONEY, arrested Sunday night for annoying Louise WEST, on Main
street west, failed to appear in police court yesterday when his case was
called and the security of $20 which he left to insure his appearance was
forfeited. MALONEY made an insulting remark to Miss WEST, who was walking
with a friend and her husband. The husband went after MALONEY and gave him
a sound thrashing. MALONEY was then arrested by Policeman NELLIS.
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A DIFFICULT SURGICAL OPERATION
A formidable and successful operation was performed by Dr. W. B. JONES, of
525 Lake avenue, at St. Mary's Hospital on Wednesday afternoon, April 22d,
upon Dr. L. W. BYAM, of Mumford, in the presence of several surgeons. The
operation consisted in removing the prostate gland. This was considered a
very formidable operation on account of the shock experienced, but by a
modified and somewhat original plan of Dr. JONES, the shock is reduced to
a minimum. The operation is now where appendicitis was a few years ago.
Dr. JONES has performed this operation several times with perfect success.
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Margaret DOWD, daughter of the late William and Margaret DOWD, died at her
home on Field street, Saturday, April 25, 1903. She had been in ill health
for a number of years, but recently seemed much better, and her death will
be a shock to her many friends. She was an earnest Christian, a true
friend and much beloved by those who knew her patient, kind, generous and
genial nature. She is survived by two sisters, one brother, two nieces and
nine nephews.
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Dr. Edward P. JONES Out of Town
and his dental office, No. 1100 Main street east, will be closed from
April 27th, to May 4th.
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DID NOT NOTICE CUT ON DINGLE GIRL'S HAND
So Declared Coroner Kleindienst and Physician Johnson
Women Crowd Court Room to Hear Grewsome Details of Post Mortem -
George Raines Hints at Possible Insanity of Dead Girl -
Fights Against Admission of Statement Made by Kent to Coroner -
Claims Kent Was Under Influence of Drugs and Was Not Responsible
for What He Said or Did
Yesterday's sessions of the County Court, where
Leland Dorr KENT is on trial for manslaughter in the first degree, were
interesting as emphasizing the line of the defense and the fact that the
defendant KENT will be placed on the stand in his own defense and give
his version of the tragedy. Attorney RAINES is making a desperate effort
to prevent the admission of KENT's statement of the occurrence, made on
the afternoon of the tragedy to Coroners KILLIP and KLEINDIENST.
A portion of the afternoon session yesterday
was taken up with arguments before Judge SUTHERLAND by the opposing
counsel, while the jury were in the jury room, as to whether evidence as
to KENT's condition and his statement should be given to the jury.
Attorney George RAINES claimed that KENT,
when he made the statement to the Coroner and for several day's
afterward, was under the influence of drugs, and specified atropine
poison as the main drug.
"This drug," said he, "has a
distinct effect on the operation of the mental faculties. It produces a
muttering delirium and the defendant was in a stage of this delirium
when he made the statement which the prosecution wishes to get before
the jury. There was no coherence or connection in this statement. KENT
was little better than a gibbering idiot when he was discovered in the
room, and was not much better for several days afterward. It is the
height of unreasoning cruelty to hold a man responsible for what he says
in such a condition. I will bring you physicians and nurses who will
testify that KENT was in a state of coma, except when he was aroused by
the coroners. When let alone he lapsed into a state of coma and remained
there until the next day. When he recovered consciousness he did not
remember talking to anyone or making any statement.
"I claim that the order for the trunk,
written by KENT on the Tuesday following, was an evidence of his
incapable mental condition, as some of the words are misspelled. The
word trunk is spelled "runk" and the word "bearer"
is spelled "bear."
HAD HIS FACULTIES
District-Attorney WARREN stated that KENT made
the statement to the coroners and did so freely. He related coherently
and connectedly, the story of his leaving Buffalo; coming to Rochester;
the trip to the hotel and the incidents in the lunch room.
"He told the story truthfully as we
know it," said Mr. WARREN, "and when the answers were read to
him he made several corrections, which shows that he had a full
knowledge of what he was doing. He gave the facts regarding his parents
and family and their residence, perfectly and correctly, and was
apparently in full possession of his faculties."
Judge SUTHERLAND decided to hear the testimony
of the coroners as to KENT's mental condition, to-day, in the absence of
the jury, and then determine whether he will admit the statement made by
KENT, and the accompanying evidence, to the jury. If RAINES can keep out
KENT's statement, he will materially strengthen his defense.
The first witness sworn yesterday afternoon was
Dr. Arthur M. JOHNSON, coroner's physician. He conducted the autopsy on
Miss DINGLE'S body. He read from his notes and described the operation.
He carefully described the mortal wound and said that the only other
mark on the body was a vaccination scar.
The witness closely described the blood spots
on the undergarments worn by Miss DINGLE. The blood on them was not
quite dry. Some serum was exuding from the wound at the time of the
autopsy. The measurement of the right biceps was 10 1-2 inches and the
left arm 9 3-4 inches.
RAINES FINDS FAULT
Mr. RAINES claimed that the record of the
measurements had been changed on the note sheet, and that originally the
measurements of the left arm were larger than those of the right. Dr.
JOHNSON said he called off the measurements to Coroner KILLIP, who put
them down. Mr. RAINES found fault because accurate measurements of the
depth and direction of the wound were not taken and also a description
of the blood spots on the body.
Dr. JOHNSON resumed: "When I
performed the autopsy I noticed all the blood spots on the body and can
remember their location. I did not note them down. There was some blood
on the operating table."
The bracelet worn by Miss DINGLE on the fatal
night was shown to witness. Mr. RAINES made a strong effort to show that
the blood on the inside rings of the bracelet could not have gotten
there unless there had been blood on her hands or arms. Dr. JOHNSON said
the blood might have gotten there when the body was moved on the
operating table, as there was blood there.
"I made a second examination of the dead
girl's hand and arms, because Dr. VILLIAUME said she was left-handed,
and I also verified and corrected my measurements. The girl's body was
not weighed.
HAND WAS NOT CUT
"I looked for a cut on her hand.
There was no abrasion or cut there that I could find, although I looked
carefully for one. There was blood on the operating table. It did not
reach the hand, but there was blood on the under part of the forearm.
The blood oozed from the wound. A person who received such a wound in
the neck would live from three to five minutes, I should judge. The
condition of the body showed death from hemorrhage.
"I removed all of the dead girl's vital
organ's. I cannot say that anyone else handled them there. I don't think
so. The notes do not give the condition of the brain or skull, although
I think the skullcap was taken off. There were no signs of drugs in her
stomach that I could discover. If she drank a highball at 2 or 3
o'clock, by 5 it would have left no trace in the stomach. I could not
distinguish the odor of any drug in the contents of the stomach.
"All of the organs were in a normal
condition except the ovaries. Both of them were cystic and about twice
the normal size. This was a chronic condition and indicated that an
operation was necessary. This trouble would have a depressing effect on
the mental condition of the woman. She might be nervous and moody,
despondent or melancholy. If the patient was of an emotional
temperament, it might bring on hysteria and more serious mental
disturbance."
HINTS AT INSANITY
"What percentage of such cases
existing for a period of years would result in a form of insanity?"
asked Attorney RAINES.
"I cannot say."
"In the chronic condition found here, with
an emotional temperament, would you expect to find the severest forms of
despondency and melancholia?"
Objected to. Objection sustained.
"This condition is liable to be
accompanied with heavy pains. Cystic ovaries are not unusual."
The bracelet was again shown to Dr. JOHNSON and
Mr. WARREN questioned him about it. He said:
"It is considerably larger than Miss
DINGLE's wrist. It would probably extend five inches from the hand or
wrist. The bracelet moving along the forearm might get blood on the
inside if there was blood on the table."
Four pictures taken of Miss DINGLE's body at
the morgue, showing the horrible, gaping wound in the neck, were
produced in Court and offered in evidence by the prosecution, in spite
of Mr. RAINES's objection, which was overruled.
Dr. JOHNSON said: "The pictures are of Miss
DINGLE and accurately show the position and extent of the cut. The
blotches on the face of discolorations were very murked when the picture
was taken. They were more pronounced then than at the autopsy.
QUESTION BY COURT
By Judge SUTHERLAND: "Are you able
to say what caused these discolorations?
"No sir, I never saw anything like them before
or since. I knew nothing of the particulars of the case when I made
the autopsy. The spots looked like liver spots from unhealthy
circulation. But that is only supposition."
"The picture shows the head turned
slightly to the left. This would throw the wound down and out of shape,
would it not?"
"Yes, slightly."
Mr. RAINES again objected to the admission of
the pictures, as they were not accurate, he claimed.
Dr. JOHNSON said a moment later: "The
change in the line of the wound is not in an appreciable degree,
perhaps less than one-thirtieth of an inch. It would not make the wound
gap more."
CORONER KILLIP CALLED
Coroner Thomas A. KILLIP was the next witness called.
He testified that he had been a physician and surgeon since 1898, and
had been coroner for three years.
"I was present at the autopsy part
of the time. I was there at the beginning. The minutes were in my
handwriting, for the greater part. I observed the wound on the body in a
general way. I did not measure it. I put down the measurements as Dr.
JOHNSON gave them to me. On the measurement of the left forearm I made a
change in the figures. I made a mistake in the first figures. I had not
seen the notes from that day, until noon to-day. At the autopsy,
Drs. McNAMARA and ACHESON were there for a part of the time. I went from
the morgue to KENT's room at the Homeopathic Hospital."
"What occurred there?"
This question was objected to, as Mr.
RAINES claimed that KENT was under the influence of drugs at the time.
"The Court decided to argue this question
after the jury had been dismissed.
On cross-examination Mr. RAINES asked:
"What do you think of the possibility of a person who is
right-handed, and the calves of whose legs are of exactly the same size,
having the left thigh an inch larger than the right?"
Coroner KILLIP declared that he was no judge of
thighs, but a little later said he would expect the body to show uniform
development on one side at least. "The case you mention could
not be normal, in my opinion." he said.
TALK ABOUT BLUNDER
"There is a queer blunder, then, in these
measurements, is there not?"
"I don't know. I took the
measurements down just as Dr. JOHNSON gave them to me. I cannot explain
it and don't intend to try."
Attorney RAINES again attacked the
credibility of the pictures admitted in evidence, and claimed that the
wound in the picture had been sewed up. He produced a magnifying glass
and asked the witness to look and see the stitches in the wound.
Coroner KILLIP said he could not see anything
that looked like stitches. He said the incision along the median line
had been sewed up and presented a different appearance.
"Do you mean to say that the morgue
attendant sewed up the incision on the median line and did not sew up
the cut?"
"It is not sewed up in the picture. I was
not present when the picture was taken."
Then the jury was dismissed with the
customary warning from the judge and the argument over the admission of
the statement to the coroner was commenced. It will be resumed this
morning when Court opens, before the jury enters the box.
WHAT KLEINDIENST SAW
At the morning session, Coroner Henry
KLEINDIENST was placed in the witness box and said:
"I was called to the Whitcomb House on
Sunday, September 14. KENT had been taken away. I was there fifteen or
twenty minutes before I removed the body."
"Did you notice Miss DINGLE's left hand
and arm?"
"Yes. It was extended and the hand
was open."
"Was there any blood on it?"
"There was none that I could see."
"Did you notice her right hand and
arm, whether there was any blood on it?"
"There was none I could see."
"Did you take anything from the room,
bottles or letters?"
"I think I took one letter, a torn
one."
On cross-examination he gave the
following answers:
"What time did you arrive at the
Whitcomb House"
"About 9 o'clock."
"Who was in the room?"
"Several persons, some of them
strangers."
"What did you do when waiting for
the morgue attendant?"
LOOKED AND QUESTIONED
"Looked around and asked
questions."
"Did you go over to the bed and examine
her body?"
"I don't remember."
"Who removed the body?"
"DRAUDE."
"Who tied her hands and arms?"
"DRAUDE."
"Were her hands straightened?"
"One was."
"Which?"
"I couldn't tell."
"What were her hands tied with?"
"A piece of cotton sheeting."
"Torn from a sheet there?"
"No, DRAUDE always has it with
him."
"Who lifted the body?"
"DRAUDE and a couple of officers."
"When did you look at her left
hand?"
"When I first went in."
DIDN'T EXAMINE FINGERS
Then the witness was questioned concerning
the position of the girl's left hand, especially with reference to the
fingers. The witness did not minutely examine the fingers for blood
spots.
"Who put her clothes in the box?"
"DRAUDE."
"Where did you next see her?"
"At the morgue."
"When was the post mortem held?"
"That day, about 12 o'clock."
"Was there any cleansing of her neck
before she was put into the box?"
"Not to my knowledge."
"What became of her clothing?"
"Her relatives wanted it and it was
turned over to the undertakers."
"All her clothing?"
"All but the little undershirt. That was
burned up at the morgue."
"What portions were stained with
blood?"
"The left side and back."
"At whose request was the clothing
delivered to the undertaker?"
"Mr. VAN ALLEN's."
BLOOD ON BRACELET
The witness was shown a silver bracelet and
identified it.
"Was there blood on it when you received
it?"
"There was. It was taken from the body
at the morgue." The bracelet was still on the body when it was
placed in the box for removal to the morgue.
The witness also identified a white shirt
worn by KENT and delivered to the coroner at the Homeopathic Hospital.
Other articles of clothing were also identified.
In reference to a question from the Court,
the witness said that the morgue attendant had destroyed the
blood-soaked undershirt without his knowledge. The witness identified
the razor. He said there was dried blood on it when he received it
from Detective O'LOUGHLIN.
Isaac W. SALYERDS, formerly a deputy sheriff,
was then sworn and identified the carpet and the matting which were on
the floor of the room at the Whitcomb House. They were soaked with
blood.
THE WAD OF BLOODY PAPER
"Do you recall an occasion when you were
given a piece of bloody paper?"
"Yes, sir."
"By whom?"
"Mr. MATSON."
"Describe it."
"It was crumpled and saturated with
blood."
The witness then described how he had wrapped
the "wad" in a wet towel and steamed it for hours and
finally separated it. This is the "wad" taken from KENT's
pocket at the Homeopathic Hospital. It was offered in evidence.
"Do you recall examining the room and
what you found?"
"I found several spots on the radiator
and on the carpet which I thought were blood."
"You wouldn't be positive about those on
the radiator?'
"No, sir."
"And the spots on the carpet?"
"They were towards the window."
"Was the side of the bed towards the
window?"
"I think so."
"Were all the spots between the window
and the bed?"
"Yes."
The court then adjourned for the usual noon
recess.
WOMEN SPECTATORS CURIOUS
During the entire day's session the court
room was crowded with women spectators and they watched every movement
of the witnesses and the defendant with interest. The bloody clothing,
carpet and trinkets of the dead girl were scrutinized with eagerness
and when the four large photographs of Miss DINGLE were produced in
court, the spectators craned their necks in a partially successful
effort to catch a glimpse of the grewsome portraits.
KENT appears paler and more nervous than he
did at the opening of the trial and it is evident that the tension is
beginning to tell upon his nerves. When Attorney RAINES referred to
him as a gibbering idiot, when discovered in the room at the Whitcomb
House, he smiled broadly. The elder KENT appears worn and worried.
THE FAMOUS STATEMENT
KENT's statement which the prosecution
desires to put in evidence and the defense is fighting hard to keep
out was made to Coroners KILLIP and KLEINDIENST and is as follows:
I came to Rochester Saturday night. A
lady came with me, Ethel B. DINGLE. She is the same one that came out
of the St. Mary's Hospital September 2d. I went to Whitcomb House with
her 1:30, and then went to Eggleston's and got lunch and then went
back to hotel. After supper we had a bottle of wine and two high
balls. I finished writing up some letters and she wrote two or three
letters also. I left the money on them and left note saying.
"Will you please mail these letters?" We went to bed. After
we went to bed a while I got it in the neck and looked around and she
had drawn a razor across my throat and blood was squirting. The razor
was mine. I always carried it with me.
TALKED IT OVER
She and I had talked this matter over about
committing suicide and she was determined to do it all the evening.
There was something said about me committing suicide. I had some
morphine tablets in the case. She gave me something out a case. I took
it because, I did not care whether I committed suicide or not. This is
my last year as a student. I wrote a letter to my father and the
fraternity. Ethel wrote a letter to Dr. RANDALL and also to her
sister. I gave my father my full expense account and told him it was
all up. I contemplated suicide when writing these letters. I do not
know anything about why. I went to bed and fell asleep. I do not know
whether her clothes were new or not. I have known her intimately for
two months. I brought her here to go to the hospital. Dr. ACHESON took
care of her. I cannot say what her ailment was, female trouble.
KENT FELT DOPED
When I saw her draw the razor across her
throat I felt doped and tried to make a noise. I took some morphine. I
took about one grain 1 1/4. I took this before. I am not in the habit
of taking morphine. We got back there about 3:30 and went to bed 4:15,
and between that time and 7 A. M. this happened. She made the
suggestion about committing suicide. She was despondent and had a love
affair with a fellow and he dogged the life out of her. Before we went
to sleep we both agreed to commit suicide. I intended to use a razor,
but could not do it. I could not do it. She wanted me to give her some
dope. I would not, and she took it herself. I do not know how much she
took after she was in bed. Shortly. I never touched the razor. When I
went to bed the razor was in my overcoat pocket. I did not see her get
up to get the razor. A man is a damned fool to commit suicide.
TRIED TO DISSUADE HER
I followed her all over the city to prevent
her to commit suicide Saturday. She had trouble with her sister. She
locked the door and put the chair under the knob. In these letters I
wrote I said I would commit suicide. I am 22. Ethel, don't know. She
was not syphilitie that I know of. Neither am I. She had a vaccination
scar on her leg. I did not notice any rash on her face. She had the
razor in her left hand. She could use one hand as well as the other.
When she was a girl she was left handed. She was on the left side of
the bed. She had razor in her left hand when she drew it across her
throat. I do not think she realized what she was doing. I realized
that I had to get up and fix that neck. I got up and fixed my neck,
but did not ring.
CHANGED HIS MIND
After I got the gash I changed my mind about the
suicide. Friday I was at a pawn shop at Pratts. I pawned a watch. I
had some change left after I went to the hotel. I had a return ticket.
The suicide question was not talked at Eggleston's. She had one-half
of the lunch and drink. We did not come down to commit suicide, but
she would have done it there if not here. I did not intend to commit
suicide. I simply said it was all up, to my father. I was going with
her since August. She had quit the hospital different times. When she
drew the razor across my throat I said "My God, what are you
doing?"
I remember getting up and putting a cloth to my neck. I had
pain. I could not breathe.
RAZOR IN HER HAND
When I got up the razor was in her left hand.
The head of the bed was toward the north. She slept on the east side.
I got __ Saturday afternoon. I put a towel next to her neck, I could
not realize anything. The blood fairly spurted right out. She did not
realize anything after she was cut. The blade lay in the palm of her
hand. After I got my neck fixed up she was dead then. I have been
married over three years. My wife is alive. She lives with me at 484
Fargo street. She knew nothing of me running around. I have one boy
two years in October. I had not been drinking in Buffalo for the last
two days. Miss DINGLE had quit the hospital two or three weeks
previous.
Leland Dorr KENT
484 Fargo avenue, Buffalo.
Rochester, Monroe, NY
Democrat & Chronicle
Wed Apr 29, 1903
BELIEVED TO HAVE FALLEN
SEVENTY-FIVE FEET, YET LIVES
Gustave Blohm Found at Foot
of River Bank, Near the Glen House.
Probably Tumbled Over the
Gorge.
Unable to tell how he was
injured, Gustave BLOHM, 32 years old, of No. 23 Conkey avenue, was
taken to St. Mary's Hospital at 7:15 o'clock last night, hovering
between life and death. Surgeons at the hospital, after making an
examination, said that his left shoulder was broken, his face cut,
his teeth knocked out, and it was feared that he may be internally
injured. He was found lying on the river bank, seventy-five feet
below the old Glen House, at 7 o'clock last night by a fisherman on
his way home.
The man who found him gave his name to the police of the Fifth
precinct as John GRIESSER, of No. 66 Avenue B. He had been fishing
along the west bank of the river and was about to go up the roadway
leading to Driving Park avenue bridge when he heard groans coming
from a slump of shrubbery, just above the Glen House. Investigating
he found BLOHM lying partly in a hole on the river bank, bleeding
and almost unconscious. Hurrying to the level of the street he found
Policeman SCHOLL, of the Fifth precinct, and notified him of the
accident.
The policeman called the ambulance and went down to the river bank
with the surgeon. BLOHM was found partly buried in a tangle of
shrubbery which covered a hole in the narrow pathway.
He
was carried up to the street level on a stretcher and hurried to the
hospital. He answered questions with difficulty and did not seem to
realize where he was. He could not intelligently state how he had
landed on the river bank. It is the theory of the police that BLOHM
attempted to get down to the river by following the roadway leading
from Driving Park avenue bridge. It is thought that he went too near
the edge of the embankment, the footing gave away beneath his weight
and he went tumbling down the embankment.
The condition of the shrubbery on the sides of the gorge, as far
as it could be seen last night by the police, bears out this theory.
At intervals on the side of the gorge there could be seen the
footprint of the heel of a shoe, such as BLOHM wore, that indicated
that he must have made a desperate effort to save himself from going
to the bottom. The torn bits of shrubbery and rocks loosened from
their foundation on the side of the embankment are mute witnesses of
the force with which BLOHM fell. The gorge is studded with
sharp-pointed rocks, and how he escaped instant death is a mystery.
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A PRIZE WINNER
Sherman D. RICHARDSON, of
this city, has again secured the second prize of $25 in "The
Lion's Mouth" criticism contest of Collier's Weekly, for the
month of March. Winning a prize for two months in succession also
entitled him to an additional prize of $40.
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DIED
LEAVENS - The funeral of
Sherman LEAVENS, who died suddenly at No. 398 State street Saturday,
April 25, 1903, was held from the undertaking parlors of C. E.
Strauchens, No. 253 North street, at 2:30 P. M. Monday, April 27,
1903. Interment made at Riverside cemetery. Deceased is survived by
his mother, Eustasia LEAVENS, of this city.
PEACHEY - At his residence
in Greece, at 12:30 Tuesday, April 28, 1903, Rufus PEACHEY, aged 44
years.
-Funeral from his
residence, Friday afternoon at 2 o'clock.
NAYLOR - In this city,
Tuesday, April 28, 1903, at No. 4 Swan street, Nina NAYLOR, aged 17
years.
-Funeral will be held
Wednesday afternoon at 1 o'clock from the residence. Interment at
Belleville, Ont., Canada.
REMINGTON - In this city,
Tuesday, April 28, 1903, at her home, No. 64 Gregory street, Miss
Sarah M. REMINGTON.
-Notice of funeral
hereafter.
CRIPPEN - At No. 369 South
Division street, Buffalo, Tuesday, April 28, 1903, Mary E., wife of
William S. CRIPPEN, of 85 Charlotte street, Rochester.
-Notice of funeral
hereafter.
BOWMAN - In this city, on
Monday, April 27, 1903, James E. BOWMAN, aged 68 years. He is
survived by his wife, one daughter and one son, Mrs. T. W. KNEELAND,
and Ephriam, both of this city.
-The funeral will take
place from his late residence, No. 26 Rainier street, on Thursday at
2 P. M. Burial at Riverside.
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MORTUARY RECORD
John L. FIEN,
vice-president of the Macauley, FIEN Milling Company, son of the
late Lewis and Margaret FIEN, died last evening at his residence,
No. 140 Weld street. The deceased leaves a wife and four children,
two brothers, George F. and Edward L., and one sister, Julia.
Matilda SAUERTEIG, daughter
of Joseph and Anna SAUERTEIG, died Monday night at her residence,
No. 75 Anderson avenue, aged 21 years. She leaves, besides her
parents, one sister, Miss Cora SAUERTEIG.
James E. BOWMAN died in
this city Monday, aged 68 years. He is survived by his wife, one
daughter, Mrs. T. W. KNEELAND, and one son, Ephraim BOWMAN, of this
city.
Mary E. CRIPPEN, wife of
William S. CRIPPEN, of No. 85 Charlotte street, died yesterday at
No. 369 South Division street, Buffalo.
Nina NAYLOR, died yesterday
at No. 4 Swan street, aged 17 years. Interment will be at
Belleville, Ont., Canada.
Miss Sarah M. REMINGTON
died yesterday at her home, No. 64 Gregory street.
Rufus PEACHEY died
yesterday at his residence in Greece, aged 44 years.
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AMONG THE MISSING
Mrs. L. S. WALZER, of
Irondequoit, and her three year old girl, are missing from their
home in Irondequoit and the police have been asked to look for them.
Mrs. WALZER started for this city from her home on Saturday and
nothing has since been heard from her. She is described as being 38
years old, 5 feet 2 inches in height, weighs 155 pounds, has
dark hair, wears glasses and wore a dark suit and a black straw hat.
Her husband says she is slightly demented.
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W. C. T. U. MANAGERS
Union Temperance Meetings
to be Resumed May 10th
The monthly meeting of the
city W. C. T. U. Board of Managers was held yesterday afternoon at
the headquarters, No. 73 Main street east, Mrs. R. JOHNSON,
president, presiding. Two representatives from the recently
organized union of the Fourteenth ward were introduced and welcomed.
The report of the treasurer gave receipts of the last month,
$108.83, expenditures $75.
The following committees were appointed: Finance, Mrs. B. ROGERS,
Miss Emma MILLER, Mrs. E. R. SEARLE; on erection of signs, Mrs. M.
H. BISHOP; to complete furnishing of headquarters, Mrs. E. J.
SANFORD, Mrs. A. J. L. VORHEES, Mrs. C. B. MAY, Miss L. ALLING.
Announcement was made that the union temperance meetings at the
headquarters will be resumed on Sunday afternoon next, at 3:30
o'clock, and that on Sunday, May 10th, the meeting will be in charge
of the Senior Loyal Temperance Legions, of the city.
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DISTURBED RELIGIOUS MEETING
Thomas MORGAN and William
EASTMAN, arrested Monday night on Exchange street for interfering
with the meeting of the Gospel Workers, pleaded not guilty yesterday
in police court, and will be given a hearing on May 5th. MORGAN is
the complainant against William and James O'GRADY, whom he accuses
of robbing him of $22.
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BISHOP BOWMAN IN CITY
Bishop T. BOWMAN, of
Chicago, Ill., one of the bishops of the Evangelical Association,
will preach this evening in the First Church, on Hudson avenue.
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CAMPBELL -- CHAPPEL
Harry A. CAMPBELL, of New
York, and Miss Minette CHAPPEL, of this city, were married Monday by
Rev. Alfred EVANS. Mr. and Mrs. CAMPBELL will reside at No. 634
Eleventh street, Brooklyn.
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SURPRISES BY HIS FRIENDS
Harvey PETERS was surprised
Monday night by a company of his friends at his home, No. 33 Scio
street. The evening was pleasantly spent in playing games.
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STERN -- REIS
A special dispatch to the
Democrat and Chronicle from Springfield, Ohio, last night,
states that Isaac STERN, of this city, was married yesterday to Miss
Lena REIS, of Cincinnati, O. Miss Fannie STERN, of this city, was
one of the bridesmaids and among the ushers were Ed ROSENALL, of
Buffalo and Herbert WILE, of this city. Mr. and Mrs. STERN will
spend their honeymoon in New England and on their return will reside
in this city.
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LARCENY CASE ADJOURNED
The case of William
O'GRADY, accused of grand larceny in the second degree, was called
yesterday in police court but the prosecution was not ready to
proceed and it was adjourned until to-day, when William's brother,
James, will be tried for complicity in the offense. The two men are
alleged to have held up Thomas MORGAN, a popgun peddler, in a South
avenue resort, and taken $22 from him.
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HELD FOR GRAND JURY
Tony ROGATA, an Italian,
drew a knife on Jerry McCARTHY early Sunday morning with the
intention of providing material for a wake. He was arrested, and in
police court yesterday was held for the action of the Grand Jury on
a charge of assault in the second degree.
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GREECE FARMER HURT
Fred HERMAN, a farmer
living in the town of Greece, was injured while spraying trees
Monday. His team started up, causing him to fall, breaking his
thumb, knocking out two teeth and inflicting several minor bruises.
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ROCHESTER BOYS' VENTURE
Two well known young men of
Rochester, Michael COLVIN, chemist, and William STAHLHUT, gardener,
have left for Los Angeles, Cal., to engage in the nursery business.
Their many friends will wish them success.
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MARY OVER THE HILL
Mary NOWACK, of No. 48
Caspar street, was arraigned in police court yesterday for annoying
her husband. She was fined $50 and in default of paying the fine,
took fifty days in the penitentiary.
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STRIKE AT CO-OPERATIVE
FOUNDRY
Fourteen sheet metal
workers employed at the Co-operative Foundry, at Lincoln Park,
struck for an increase of wages Monday noon. The men have been
receiving from $11 to $12 a week, and they are asking for an
increase of 2 1/2 cents an hour for a day of ten hours. They made
their demands in the morning and struck at noon, after they had been
told by Frank N. BRAYER, president of the company, that the increase
could not be given. Mr. BRAYER said last night that they would try
to fill the places left vacant, with other men.
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ACCUSED OF THEFT
George VETTER, who is
alleged to have stolen $20 worth of clothing from Solomon Brothers
& Lempert, wholesale clothiers, was arraigned in police court
yesterday on a charge of petit larceny. He pleaded not guilty, and
will be given a hearing to-morrow.
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CORONER GRANTS CERTIFICATE
Coroner KLEINDIENST
yesterday granted a certificate of apoplexy in the case of
Adelaide A. DEWEY, who died suddenly at Windsor Beach, Monday
morning. The woman was 73 years old and expired before medical
attendance could be summoned.
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SAYS HE WAS BRUTALLY BEATEN
Thomas GUERIN, in police
court yesterday, accused George SCHMIDL and Roger CLARK of giving
him a brutal beating on the night of March 6th. The two men, he
says, went to his home while he was at supper and called him
outside. He was knocked down and kicked. The trouble arose over a
liquor bill of $4, which GUERIN owes to SCHMIDL's brother John, who
runs a saloon on Wilder street. SCHMIDL was convicted of the assault
and was fined $15, which he paid.
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M'GRATH -- NOBLE
James W. McGRATH, of this
city, and Agnes Laura NOBLE, of Kendall, N. Y., were married
yesterday morning at the Church of the Blessed Sacrament, by Rev.
Thomas F. CONNORS. They will be at home after June 1st, at No.
23 Allmeroth street.
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AT SOCIAL SETTLEMENT
Mrs. Max LANDSBERG and Mrs.
Morley STERN will receive at the Social Settlement on Baden street from
3 o'clock to 5 this afternoon. All cordially invited. Take the
Joseph avenue car.
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KENT'S STATE WHEN TAKEN TO HOSPITAL
Main Object of Counsel at the Trial Yesterday
District-Attorney and Raines Fencing to Determine Whether
Defendant
Was Rational When Statement Was Made to Coroners and Whether
It Shall be Admitted in Evidence - His Manner Described by
Physicians
and a Reporter of the Democrat and Chronicle.
All of yesterday's session of the KENT trial was occupied in
taking the preliminary evidence as to KENT's condition when he
made the statement to the coroners at the Homeopathic Hospital
regarding the tragedy. This statement has been offered is evidence
by District-Attorney WARREN, but has not yet been received because
of the objections of Attorney RAINES for the defendant. There were
a number of witnesses examined as to KENT's condition, so as
to enable the Court to determine whether Mr. RAINE's objection
that the defendant was in a condition of mental irresponsibility
when the statement was made was a valid one, or whether the
statement should be given to the jury.
In the meantime the jury hears all the
evidence and pretty much all of the statements as they are
threshed over by the counsel and discussed by the witnesses. The
District-Attorney has succeeded in getting the declaration of KENT
to the ears of the jury, no matter what the Court's decision
may be as to its admissibility as evidence.
There seems to be little doubt among
attorneys but that the statement will be allowed to go to the jury
by order of the Court. Mr. RAINES will probably base an appeal on
the ground of its admission in case his client is convicted.
HAYDEN QUESTIONED KENT
The first-witness sworn yesterday
afternoon was Director of Detectives John C. HAYDEN. He said:
"I was present at the Homeopathic Hospital when KENT made his
statement to the coroners. They were taking the statement when I
entered the room. I observed the defendant. I was within a few
feet of the foot of the bed on which he lay and was looking at him
most of the time. I was there when Coroner KLEINDIENST asked KENT
if he wanted to make a statement. KENT said, 'Yes.' KENT answered
the questions. The answers were applicable to the questions. I
also asked him some questions and he answered them. When the
statement was read to him, KENT had his eyes closed part of
the time.
"The Coroner asked him if he heard
the reading and KENT answered that he did. I was in the room
nearly all of the time he was making the statement. He appeared to
be rational. I had no difficulty in understanding him."
Judge SUTHERLAND: "Did the
defendant say anything at the conclusion of the reading of the
statement?"
"I don't think he did. I asked him
why the woman did not commit suicide in Buffalo instead of coming
down here where we had all the trouble we wanted of our own. I
asked this after the statement had been read to KENT. He said that
he tried all the afternoon in Buffalo to prevent the girl from
committing suicide there.
"I also asked him about the
razor. He said it was his. He always carried one in his pocket. I
spoke in an ordinary tone of voice and he replied at once."
"How much time elapsed after the
reading of the statement to KENT, before you asked the
question?"
"It was probably within a
minute. There were several persons in the room talking at the
time. The coroners might have asked him a question after the
reading, and before I talked to him."
On cross-examination the witness said:
"KENT said in reply to my question about the razor, that she
must have got the razor out of his coat pocket."
"How did KENT appear?"
DEFENDANT ACTED DROWSY
"He was lying on the left side
with his head raised, as the nurse had fixed him. During the
questioning his eyes were open. A portion of the time he closed
his eyes and then opened them. He appeared drowsy. I did not
notice him start except when the question was asked him if he
heard the reading. Questions were asked him the second time
in some instances. On one occasion he did not seem to understand
the question and asked to have it repeated. The first time I saw
KENT that day was between 12 and 1 o'clock. The matter of the
tragedy was not put in my charge until that time. As soon as I was
notified I went to the hospital. Defendant was in bed. The doctors
and nurses were giving him an emetic. At that time he appeared to
be very drowsy.
"I did not see him again until about
6 o'clock. I went from the hospital to the Whitcomb House.
"When I got to the hotel I
found that there was nothing left in the room but the bed and the
springs. All the bedding had been removed. I reported that fact to
Chief CLEARY and told him to call up the coroner and find out what
had been done with them. Detective O'LAUGHLIN said he had some
letters that were taken from the room. I asked him why he had not
given them to the coroner. He said he had not had time. I did not
know the letters were in existence when KENT's statement was made.
TESTIMONY OF REPORTER
"The next witness was Clark H.
QUINN, a reporter for the Democrat and Chronicle. He testimony was
as follows: "I was at the hospital when KENT made a
statement to the coroners. It began about 5:30 and ended about 7
o'clock. I went in the room with the coroners. Coroner KLEINDIENST
sat at the head of the bed. Coroner KILLIP sat at the side, and
Chief HAYDEN was at the foot.
"There were several others in
the room. Dr. PERRIN, Dr. VILLIAUME and others. Detective NAGLE
was also present. The coroner asked KENT 'How are you feeling?'
The reply was to the effect that he was not feeling very good. He
smiled as he said it. The coroner asked him about making an
ante-mortem statement. He asked KENT if he realized that he was
going to die. KENT said that he did not think he was going to die.
The coroner said that he did not have to make a statement
unless he wanted to. KENT said he would just as soon. I heard
questions and answers. I did not take down the statement. KENT
seemed all right while he was making the statement. His answers
seemed applicable to the questions. I did not notice anything
unusual in the tone of his voice. I could hear him plainly.
"I heard the statement read to him.
KENT partly closed his eyes. Coroner KILLIP stopped reading and
asked if he was listening. He replied that he was.
Judge SUTHERLAND: "At what
point was this?"
"When Coroner KILLIP was about half
way through reading the statement. The writing had been completed.
During the reading KENT stopped Coroner KILLIP once to make a
correction. That was toward the end of the statement. It was
something about the strength of the morphine powders. The
defendant moved around in the bed some.
KENT HELPED CORONER
"Coroner KILLIP had some
difficulty in reading the writing. Defendant helped him once at
the beginning of the statement and once in the middle of it. I
never saw the defendant before that time at the hospital. His acts
and conduct appeared rational. The last thing said that I can
remember was when the Coroner asked HAYDEN if he wanted to ask any
questions. That was before the statement was read to KENT. Dr.
COLLINS, Dr. VILLAUME and Coroner KLEINDIENST were in the room
when I left. I did not hear Dr. VILLIAUME ask KENT any questions
or speak to him. I was on duty as a reporter."
On cross-examination, Mr. QUINN said:
"i noticed nothing peculiar in the appearance of KENT. I
could not tell whether he was paler than usual or not."
"Didn't you notice signs of
weakness?"
"I don't know what you mean by signs
of weakness in a man lying in bed. His eyes were open all of the
time questions were being put to him. Once or twice questions were
repeated. He asked what they said. I did not notice any dullness
about KENT. I did not notice any trembling of his eyelids. The
reason I did not take down the statement was that Coroner
KLEINDIENST told me he did not care to have me publish the
statement at that time. I paid close attention to the questions
and answers.
"I looked at the statement. I saw
that the sense of the statement made by KENT was there, but not
the exact questions and answers. I was run together in spots.
"Do you remember when HAYDEN asked
about the razor?'
"Yes, it was after the Coroner had
finished."
"Did KENT made the direct statement: '
When I went to bed the razor was in my overcoat pocket,' or did he
say: 'She must have got it out of my pocket?'
WOMAN GOT RAZOR
"I think he said: 'She
must have got up and got the razor after I went to sleep.' I paid
close attention to the reading of the statement. I was not
comparing it with what had been said. At the finish Coroner
KLEINDIENST asked: ' Is that all right?' KENT said it was.
Dr. KILLIP asked how strong the morphine tablets were. I cannot
say what strength was mentioned. He did not say how many he
took."
"Did he say anything about the
quantity he took except that he took one tablet?"
"I don't recall that he said how
many tablets he took. It was then that the one-fourth grain tablet
was mentioned. KENT did say: 'A man is a damn fool to commit
suicide.' I noticed during the reading that he appeared drowsy.
During the taking of the statement he appeared to be wide-awake.
He volunteered the statement about the man who committed suicide.
He said he got enough of suicide when he got the cut in the neck.
Some things were said there which were not written in the
statement. I heard him use the word gash. He said: 'She
gashed me.' I wrote an account of what KENT said for the
Democrat and Chronicle about two hours after he made the
statement."
The publican was admitted in evidence
without objection.
"That statement," continued Mr.
QUINN, "is in substance and effect close to the language of
KENT. I wrote what I remembered of the conversation. The article
in question was as follows:
THE NEWSPAPER VERSION
"We got here at pretty near 2
o'clock and had lunch at the Eggleston Hotel because the grill
here was closed. It must have been a quarter to 4 when we got to
the Whitcomb House again. We went right to bed. I went to sleep in
a few moments, as I felt thick from the wine and the dope she had
given me. I didn't care a damn what she did to me and I drank the
stuff she fixed up.
"those letters on the table I
want mailed and I left the money and a note for whoever found them
to mail them. I am all in and I thought it was about time to die.
"Yes we had both talked about dying
together but I tried to get the notion out of her head. She has
had a lot of trouble with a lover and her family and it made her
blue. She was more so yesterday than I ever saw her before. She
talked of nothing but suicide a good deal of the time and asked me
if I had nerve enough to die."
The next witness sworn was Dr. PERRIN, who had charge of the
defendant with Dr. COLLINS at the hospital. He said:
"I was present when the statement
was taken by the Coroners. I heard the questions and
answers."
The witness then related the substance
of the statement as he remembered it.
"KENT supplied words when
the coroner stopped reading. He said the statement as read was
all right. I don't remember that he said anything about the
quantity of morphine he had taken. I was watching KENT. He
appeared to be rather sleepy but listening to what was said.
"Did his conduct and conversation
appear to be rational or irrational?"
"it appeared to be rational."
On cross-examination he was asked,
"Have you ever had the care of a case of atropine poisoning
in your charge?"
"I knew that there was one case at
the hospital, but I did not have charge of it. I have had no
actual experience with such a case. I have had charge of a case
of morphine poisoning by an accidental dose. I have had a number
od cases of poisoning by morphine and laudanum. I never made a
special study of insanity. Atropine poisoning produces loss of
memory."
EFFECTS OF ATROPINE
Attorney RAINES examined the
witness on the symptoms of atropine poisoning at length. Dr.
PERRIN said:
"The action of the mind is
affected by the advance of the disease towards delirium and
coma, according to the size of the dose taken. When there is
delirium there is serious mental disturbance and profound sleep,
or a sleepy condition following the delirium, which indicates
disturbed mental conditions continued. I was aware that the
patient had been reported to have taken atropine and other
drugs. I did not see any insincere demonstrations on his part
that day."
"Assume that it were established
that KENT had no memory on the following day that he had made a
statement to the coroners, or had seen or talked with them,
would it affect your judgment or opinion as to his acts and talk
being rational?"
Objection sustained.
"I did not see KENT in a
state of coma or delirium. It was not difficult to arouse him at
any time. He had a natural heavy sleep. I did not think KENT's
condition was intensified by the dose of atropine."
"Do you mean to say the drugs
which produce delirium were not operating on him that day?"
"There were no manifestations of
it. If delirium is caused by a combination of drugs, you may get
a restless sleep."
CALLED BY DEFENSE
This ended Mr. WARREN's side of
the case regarding KENT's condition, and Dr. Frank T. BASCOM was
called by Mr. RAINES.
Dr. BASCOM said: "I was at the
Homeopathic Hospital when KENT was brought there. I was in his
room. At 11 o'clock Sunday morning KENT put his two fingers
together and brought them to his mouth. He stopped and then
laughed and said: 'I thought I had a cigarette in my fingers.'
At another time he looked in the air and then said quickly:
'What's that?' I thought these acts were hallucinations. I
don't think it was the result of a habit. I was in the room when
the latter part of KENT's statement was made."
Dr. Newton M. COLLINS was the called to
the stand. He has had twenty years' practice as a physician. He
said: "I went to the Whitcomb House about 8:30 o'clock on
the morning of the suicide. At the time I saw KENT he had a
peculiar expression of the eyes. The pupils were dilated. He
walked like a man who had been on a spree for a month. His knees
were weak and he wobbled in his walk. His shoulders were stooped
forward. I examined the wound in his throat. It had stopped
bleeding. I left the room with him and took him to the hospital
in the ambulance. He bought a newspaper on the way out of the
hotel. He was taken to the operating room immediately. The wound
was cleansed and an anaesthetic given to him. I gave him ether
first. His heart was beating at about 120. The anaesthetic did
not have any effect on him, so i changed it to chloroform. He
finally succumbed to it and the wound was sewed up. It took
thirteen interrupted stitches to close the cut. After the
stitches were taken he came to and was taken to a room and a
special nurse ordered.
KENT SLEPT MUCH
"About 12 o'clock I gave him
appamorphia as an emetic, after trying in vain to use a stomach
pump. I saw him again at night when the statement was taken. It
was much the same as that made at the hotel. Sometimes he would
answer immediately and at others he would stop and seem to
think. In the afternoon he slept most of the time."
"What was peculiar about his
sleep?"
"He slept more profoundly
than a person would sleep naturally in the daytime."
"Describe his appearance
when he made the statement?"
"He was lying on his side. The
pupils of his eyes were still markedly dilated. While reading
the statement they had to ask him if he heard them. He appeared
sleepy and didn't want to be disturbed. He had a dazed look
because of the pupils of his eyes being so large. His eyes were
staring. The coroners said: 'Is that right or correct?' KENT
said, 'Yes.' He was apparently not very attentive. I did not
notice the character of his sleep but I noticed that slight
things did not disturb him. I did not notice the eyelids
twitching particularly. He would often twitch his whole head. He
acted like a man preoccupied. I did not observe him pick the
bedclothes. That morning I had a conversation with him. It was
at about 10 o'clock. After I had sewed up the neck."
At this point the Court adjourned until
10 o'clock this morning when the examination of Dr. COLLINS will
be continued.
MANY WOMEN SPECTATORS
The court room yesterday contained a
varied exhibit of spring millinery worn by the many female
spectators, but there were no grewsome articles for the ladies
to shudder over, and, on the whole, they voted the day's
performance rather dull. During a portion of the afternoon Judge
CARTER, of Livingston county, sat on the bench with Judge
SUTHERLAND.
At the morning session Judge SUTHERLAND
said: 'First of all we will try the question of the
accountability of the defendant when he made the statement. If
the statement goes to you, the force of the admissions may be
impaired by the mental condition of KENT, who is said to have
been suffering from atropine poison."
Dr. Thomas A. KILLIP, the coroner
who received the statement from KENT, was called to the stand,
and said he and Coroner KLEINDIENST visited the hospital on the
day of the tragedy and that Mr. KLEINDIENST first spoke to the
defendant and asked him if he wishes to make a statement. The
prisoner was told that he was in no danger of death, said the
witness, KENT, nevertheless, said he wished to talk.
The witness was next asked as to the
mental and physical condition of KENT. He said the latter showed
no external symptoms of delirium. He could hear distinctly all
the answers given by KENT.
"He appeared, when we asked a
question, to give an answer related to the question. This was
the case all through the statement," said the witness.
The witness said that the defendant
related in detail his every movement on that night, both before
and after he entered ill-fated room 147. And all this without
divulging just what was said.
THOUGHT KENT RATIONAL
"Doctors, from his acts and
conversation at the time he made this statement, did he impress
you as rational or irrational?" asked Mr. WARREN.
"Rational."
"Did you read the statement
over to him?"
"Yes. He made a question.
Once I asked him if he was listening, as he had his eyes closed,
and he said: 'Yes,' in an indignant manner."
Mr. RAINES: "You have not had any
extended study of mental diseases, have you?"
"I have not made them a
specialty."
"You are aware of the fact that
men of defective intellect, in suffering from mental aberration,
sometimes talk intelligently?"
"On some subjects."
"Did you ever have a case of
atropine poisoning?"
"No, sir."
"At the time you were present with
this man, did you observe any symptoms of drugs in him?"
"Only that his eyes were
dilated."
"Did you regard him as under the
influence of some drug?"
"By the pupils I thought so."
"Did you discover what the drug
was?"
"No. He told me he took morphine."
"Morphine contracts the pupils,
doesn't it?"
MORPHINE AND ATROPINE
"Yes, sir."
"Where a man with a dilated pupil
tells you he has been taking morphine you would regard him as
inconsistent, wouldn't you?"
"Yes, but he might have been
taking atropine, too. I saw in his hypodermic case a bottle
containing atropine."
Mr. RAINES "The real cause
of his physical condition, when he was talking about drugs, was
not discussed at that time, was it?"
"No, sir."
"Yet he got to talking about
drugs?"
"Yes, sir."
"The questions were not asked by
any one of you alone?"
"No. We all asked questions."
"To fill in?"
"Well, yes."
The witness then said that several
times while making the statement KENT failed to hear the query
and that it had to be re-read to him before he would answer.
Even then he was slow in responding.
"Did you have to start him up some
times?"
"No," he went right
along."
The witness then took the statement and
was asked to indicate the words spoken by KENT. He found
one sentence written exactly as KENT spoke it. All else was the
witness's own interpretation of the questions and answers.
"Who asked the most
questions?"
"KLEINDIENST."
STATEMENT NOT SIGNED
"This statement was not
signed?"
"No, sir."
The Court: "It has
never been signed?"
Witness: "No, sir."
Mr. RAINES: "Why didn't you
ask him to sign it"
Witness: "Well, KLEINDIENST
had had more experience than I, and I supposed if he wanted it
signed he would say so. I couldn't think of everything at
once."
"Did you put together several
successive answers and make one answer of them?"
"No, I can't tell, only as
the statement reads, No. I can't tell at any point whether I did
or did not."
The witness said that atropine is an
antidote of morphine, and vice versa. A person, said the
witness, could take a large dose of morphine and a proportionate
amount of atropine and still be rational, as one poison
neutralizes the other.
"With a quarter of a grain of
atropine in a man wouldn't he be in a stuttering delirium and
stiffened out?"
"I should believe so."
"Morphine only
moderates the conditions?"
"That is so."
"You would expect a man to
be in the condition O'CONNOR found the defendant?"
"I don't know how O'CONNOR found
him."
Judge SUTHERLAND said the exact
conditions would have to be stated.
A VIVID ILLUSTRATION
"Then," continued Mr.
RAINES, "assume a man lying in bed and crouched in a heap,
with eyes staring and pupils dilated, continuing a loud noise
resembling the whirr of machinery as first heard and at last
resembling a human voice, is that the condition you would expect
an hour or so after the administering of a poisonous dose of
atropine?"
"It is."
"Assume that this is all
genuine, how long do the authorities say this condition will
last?"
"I couldn't say."
"Doesn't it continue for
twelve hours or so?"
"I don't know."
Coroner Henry KLEINDIEST was
recalled, and also told about the statement. He was the one who
asked most of the questions.
KLEINDIENST RE-CALLED
Much the same line of examination was
repeated as that which was used while Dr. KILLIP was on the
stand.
The effect of this examination was
practically to put the entire statement before the jury.
"Were KENT's eyes closed?"
asked Mr. WARREN.
"To the best of my
recollection they were closed most of the time."
"Did his acts or conversation
impress you as rational or irrational?"
"I thought he was
rational."
"What was the reason KENT wasn't
asked to sign this statement?"
"It wasn't an ante-mortem
statement. I didn't deem it necessary."
Coroner KLEINDIENST said KENT appeared
drowsy during a part of the reading. He said the statement
contained the exact answers, not the substance of what KENT
said.
Rochester, Monroe, NY
Democrat &
Chronicle
Thurs Apr 30, 1903
NIAGARA
Two Handsome Weddings
Celebrated at St. Patrick's Church. Lockport
The wedding of
Frederick J. EASTON and Miss Elizabeth MADDEN, prominent young
people of Lockport, was solemnized at St. Patrick's Church
yesterday at high noon, Monsignor Patrick CANNON officiating.
The bride is the daughter of Robert MADDEN, former chief of
the Fire Department and superintendent of streets. She was
attended by her sister, Miss A. Gertrude MADDEN, and E.
Charles EASTON, brother of the groom was best man. The bride
looked charming in gown of blue chiffon over silk, with
trimmings of Persian ornaments. The bridesmaid wore a gown of
green. Both bride and bridesmaid wore large white picture hats
and carried bride roses. A reception followed at the bride's
home on Lock street, where an elaborate wedding dinner was
served. The house was decorated with palms and spring flowers,
the prevailing colors being green and white. After an Eastern
trip Mr. and Mrs. EASTON will be home at No. 398 Walnut
street.
Michael KLEIN, of
Buffalo, formerly of Lockport, and Miss Mary McGREEVY, of
Lockport, were married at St. Patrick's Church by Rev.
Monsignor CANNON yesterday. After the ceremony a reception was
held at the home of the bride's mother in Lockport. Mr. and
Mrs. KLEIN will make their future home on West avenue,
Lockport.
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LITTLE LAD KICKED BY
HORSE
William SEIPLES, the
10-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. George SEIPLES, of East
Lockport, met with a frightful injury yesterday afternoon.
SEIPLES was on Market street, and approached a horse owned by
a man named FLANDERS. He was found a few moments later by some
passersby in an unconscious condition, bleeding from wounds on
the face and the head. The marks of the horse's hoof were on
his face. Nine teeth on the upper jaw were knocked out by the
blow, and two in the lower jaw were loosened and hung by the
skin merely. He is in bad condition, but it is believed he
will recover.
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VETERAN STRICKEN
WITH PARALYSIS
David WELCH, an
aged resident of Lyons, was stricken with paralysis on
Sunday and has since been in a precarious condition. He is
86 years of age and is a veteran of the Civil war, drawing a
pension of $30 per month.
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GENESEE
ELECTED TOO MANY
ASSESSORS
At the recent
election in Le Roy an error was made whereby three assessors
were elected instead of two as was required. The three
elected were: A. J. MORTIMER, for three years; T. B. TUTTLE,
for two years, and Manfred DUGUID, for one year. It was
afterwards learned that John L. COOK, who was one of the
assessors last year, had another year to serve. Upon
learning of this and being in poor health. Mr. COOK tendered
his resignation and the Village Board has appointed Mr.
DUGUID, who was elected to fill the vacancy.
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DARLING - SMITH
On Tuesday a quiet
but pretty wedding was solemnized at St. Peter's rectory in
Le Roy when Father VANDERPOOL united in marriage Miss Mary
SMITH and Loren DARLING, both of that village. The bride was
accompanied by her sister, Miss Margaret SMITH, and her
brother William acted as best man. Mr. and Mrs. DARLING left
after the ceremony for a short wedding trip and upon their
return they will reside in Le Roy.
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MRS. JULIA GROWNEY
Mrs. Julia GROWNEY,
wife of James GROWNEY, of West Bergen, died on Tuesday at
the age of 68 years. Besides her husband she is survived by
three sons, Jay, of South Byron, and E. P. and George
GROWNEY, of Bergen.
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ONTARIO
Red Jacket and
Clifton Springs Telephone Companies Elect Officers.
At the meeting of
the Board of Directors of the Red Jacket Telephone Company,
of Shortsville, held at the office of Willis C. ELLIS, on
Tuesday evening. Carlos P. OSGOOD was elected president and
general manager; Robert B. PECK, vice-president; Willis C.
ELLIS, secretary and treasurer; William H. BURKE and James
HOSEY, inspectors of election.
At a meeting of the Board of Directors of the Clifton
Springs Telephone Company, held at the office of W. H.
BURKE, in the village of Clifton Springs, yesterday
afternoon, the following officers were elected for the
ensuing year: President, W. H. BURKE; vice-president, John
H. STEPHENS; secretary, Henry L. WRIGHT; treasurer, Willis
C. ELLIS; general manager, Harry F. FLINT.
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DEATH OF MOSES
SWAIN
Moses SWAIN, aged
65 years, died yesterday morning at his residence, one mile
(didn't get the rest)
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MORTUARY RECORD
The funeral of
George HART was held yesterday morning at 8:30 o'clock from
the family home, No. 465 Clinton avenue north, and at 9
o'clock from St. Joseph's Church on Franklin street. A
solemn Mass of requiem was celebrated by the assistant
rector, the Rev. Joseph SCHNORR. The choir of the church
sang, assisted by Miss Caroline CRAMER, Miss Jessie MINGES
and Patrick KINNEY. There were many beautiful floral
offerings. Interment was in Holy Sepulchre Cemetery.
Magarith WINTERKORN,
widow of Louis WINTERKORN, died yesterday morning at the
residence of her daughter, Mrs. Casper STEUHLER, No. 12
Weider street. She was 81 years of age, and is survived by
three daughters, Mrs. Nicholas SCHUM, Mrs. Frederick
DOEPFINER and Casper STUEHLER; and three sons, Andrew, Alois
and John, of Chicago; twenty-eight grandchildren and two
great-grandchildren.
Henry D. SCHOVE
died at the family residence, No. 20 Martin street,
yesterday, aged 64 years. Besides his wife he is survived by
two daughters and two sons, Gertrude E., Grace W., Archie
D., of this city, and Harry C., of Albany.
Merwyn, son of
Aaron B. and Carrie M. FULLER, died yesterday at the family
residence, No. 238 Mt. Hope avenue, aged 1 year and 8
months.
Mrs. Catherine
HUNGERFORD, grandmother of Mrs. R. B. CONVERSE, died
yesterday morning at St. Luke's rectory. Burial will be in
Auburn, N. Y.
Mary E., wife of
William S. CRIPPEN, of No. 85 Charlotte street, died at No.
369 S. Division street, Buffalo, yesterday morning.
John J. HALEY, aged
50 years, died at the residence of the late John HOWE, No.
333 Alexander street, yesterday afternoon.
Albert Grant TRIPP,
infant son of Charles and Mattie TRIPP, died yesterday
morning at the family residence in Pittsford.
The death of Mrs.
Fannie ARNOLD, of 259 Mt. Hope avenue, occurred yesterday
morning at the Homeopathic Hospital.
Mary HEAVY, aged 54
years, died at No. 93 Savannah street yesterday.
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CONVICTED OF
DRUNKENNESS
Gottleib REINMANN
was convicted of drunkenness in police court yesterday
morning and sentenced to pay a fine of $10 or spend ten
days in the Monroe County Penitentiary. He was arrested at
the corner of Joseph avenue and Kelly street by Officer
SANDER.
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MARRIED
SPINNING - BEACH -
At the bride's residence, No. 162 Alexander street,
Wednesday afternoon, April 29, 1903, at 4 o'clock, Miss Emma
Eugenia BEACH and John Newton SPINNING, Rev. William S.
CARTER, of the Central Church, officiating.
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DIED
ACHILLES - In
this city, Sunday, April 26, 1903, at his residence, No. 497
Averill avenue, Henry L. ACHILLES, Sr., aged 69 years.
-Funeral from
residence Thursday at 2:30 P. M. Burial private.
STEAVEY - In this
city, on Wednesday morning, April 29, 1903, at St. Mary's
Hospital, Mrs. Mary STEAVEY. She is survived by one
daughter, Mrs. P. McCANN, and one son, John STEAVEY, both of
this city, and three sisters and one brother.
-Funeral will take
place from the residence of her daughter, No. 93 Savannah
street, on Saturday morning, and at 9 o'clock A. M., from
St. Mary's Church.
SAUERTEIG - In this
city, Monday night, April 27, 1903, at the family residence,
No. 75 Anderson avenue, Matilda SAUERTEIG, daughter of
Joseph and Anna SAUERTEIG, aged 21 years and 10 months. She
leaves, besides her parents, one sister, Miss Cora SAUERTEIG.
-Funeral will take
place Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock from the house and
2:30 from St. Paul's Episcopal Church.
ARNOLD - In this
city, Wednesday morning, April 29, 1903, at the Homeopathic
Hospital, Mrs. Fannie ARNOLD, of No. 359 Mount Hope avenue.
-Funeral Friday
afternoon at 3 o'clock from Free Methodist Church.
CRIPPEN - At
No. 369 South Division street, Buffalo, Tuesday, April 28,
1903, Mary E., wife of William S. CRIPPEN, aged 39 years.
-Funeral
from the residence, No. 85 Charlotte street, Thursday
afternoon at 4 o'clock.
REMINGTON - In this
city, on Tuesday, April 28, 1903, Miss Sarah M. REMINGTON.
-Funeral will take
place from her late residence, No. 64 Gregory street, on
Friday morning at 10:30 o'clock.
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UGLY WOUND IN GIRL'S BREAST
Ethel Wallace May Die From Its Effect
She Didn't Care To Live
Girl Had Lived With James Van De Linde, Who Says She
Wanted Him
to Marry Her and Shot Herself Because He Would Not.
Ethel WALLACE, 23 years old, was removed from Dennis VAN
DE LINDE's Hotel, corner of Allen and Kent streets, to the
City Hospital this morning with an ugly wound in her
breast. It was 2 1-2 inches below the top of the
breastbone and the bullet came out behind, four inches
below the left shoulder blade.
The girl was conscious when
removed in the ambulance. She walked down two flights of
stairs with the assistance of two officers.
She was in the room of James
VAN DE LINDE, on the second floor of the hotel and saloon
run by his brother, Dennis. The revolver, which was turned
over to Acting Sergeant McKEON, was a very large one, with
a long barrel. Dennis VAN De LINDE said the girl wanted to
marry his brother and shot herself because he would not.
The girl's mother had told her earlier in the evening it
"was time they got hitched up."
The girl refused for several minutes to
go to a hospital, and it was only upon the urging of the
ambulance surgeon, the officers and James and Dennis VAN
DE LINDE that she finally said that she would do
"just as Jim said." "Jim" said go to
the hospital and the doctor went for the stretcher. It was
found the stretcher could not be gotten up the stairs and
the girl said she would walk down. She asked James VAN DE
LINDE to take her right hand and help her up from the bed.
She lay across the bed, her feet hanging over the side.
"Don't touch that arm," she said to James
motioning to the left one. Nothing could be done for her
in the rooms. She said she was in no pain. Blood had run
freely from the wound and stained her waist and undervest.
As to the shooting, James VAN DE
LINDE said:
"She wanted me to marry her
and said if I did not that she would shoot herself. She
had worked for me at my place for the last two years. I
had her to California and we only just got back. I had
been married twice and wasn't ready to get married
again. But she could have anything I had. She's a good
girl.
"She got the revolver from
the bottom of my trunk up there in my room. I bought the
gun only a couple of weeks ago from George LONG, the
detective. I guess it's a 42 caliber.
"We had been over to her
mother's, No. 5 Center Park," continued James VAN De
LINDE, "and we came back here and she begun to talk
about wanting me to marry her. I went downstairs and she
got the gun from the trunk."
VAN DE LINDE said once that he
was not with her when she fired the shots and a
moment later said he was. He was intoxicated.
The girl smiled when asked how
she got the bullet wound. She would not say anything about
how she was shot. There was comparatively little blood on
the bed, but there was a large pool at the foot of the bed
and another at the side near the foot. A bloody towel lay
in the irregular pool at the foot.
The girl's dress was well soaked
with blood, showing she must have lost a large amount.
"I guess you've got over the
suicide idea, haven't you?" she was asked, and
she replied:
"I don't know"; and a
moment later;
"What the hell's the
use?" in a despondent tone.
Mrs. WALLACE was seen at her home
at 3 o'clock this morning and told that her daughter had
been badly hurt and was at the City Hospital. When
asked where VAN De LINDE had made her daughter's
acquaintance she said:
"Jim and my daughter have
been keeping company, I think, for the past three years. I
do not know where they got acquainted first. My daughter
left home on the second of last October and I do not know
where she went. I heard nothing from her until she
returned about three weeks ago. I do not know whether Jim
was with her or not while she was away. She did not tell
me where she had been. Jim began coming to the house about
a year ago, and since that time he and my daughter have
kept company. She came home about 11 o'clock last night
and I had her all ready for bed, when he came and coaxed
her away again. I heard earlier in the evening that she
had trouble with a woman in the saloon but I thought that
that was all settled. I don't know what the trouble
was. Ethel will be 25 years old in August."
Mrs. WALLACE seemed to be
under the impression that the quarrel had been renewed in
the saloon and her daughter injured.
At 3:30 o'clock this morning
it was reported from the City Hospital that the young
woman will probably recover. She was still conscious. She
told the doctors that she was accidentally shot while
fooling with VAN De LINDE's revolver; that she thought it
had only blank cartridges in it. Unless blood poisoning
sets in her recovery should be rapid, it was said.
However, pus may form in the wound and cause death.
Acting Sargeant McKEON placed
Officer APFEL on guard at the room where the shooting
occurred and left orders that nothing be disturbed or
anyone allowed inside. VAN De LINDE was taken to police
headquarters by McKEON and ISLER and questioned by
Lieutenant STEIN. The result of his interview was that the
girl will be charged with attempted suicide if she
recovers. VAN DE LINDE's story was accepted as correct.
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WOMAN DIED OF HEART DISEASE
Mrs. Esther De LANGEY, who lived in the block over No. 140
West avenue, was found dead in bed yesterday morning by a
neighbor. Coroner KLEINDIENST was called and granted a
certificate of death from heart disease, after
investigation.
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COUNTERFEITER CAUGHT
Secret Service Agent Gammon Captured Old Offender in
Pennsylvania
United States Secret Service Agent GAMMON, whose
headquarters are in this city, has just returned from
Northern Pennsylvania, where he has succeeded in capturing
an old hand in the illicit mint business, who has been
causing the government officials a deal of trouble since
1878. He also caught an accomplice of the veteran bad
money man, and it is believed that the gang is effectually
broken up.
The first man arrested was
Sylvester TERRILL, captured at Laneboro, Susquehanna
county, Pa. This man had been passing counterfeit money
and the case was clear against him. He, however, was not
the principal in the affair.
The man who has been at the
bottom of some of the most extensive counterfeiting of 25
and 50 cent pieces in the last twenty-five years is Edward
CLENDENING, who was captured by GAMMON at Stevens's Point.
Mr. GAMMON has been accorded much credit for bagging
CLENDENING, as he has long had the reputation of being a
bad man for an officer to tamper with.
CLENDENING was arrested in 1878,
ay Binghamton, on the charge of coming and passing bad
money, but was acquitted for lack of sufficient evidence.
He has been working a shrewd game. While it was pretty
well known that he was the coiner of the money found, he
has never passed any of it himself, and none of it could
be traced directly to him. He has been working on the same
plan ever since.
He has the reputation of being
a desperate character. He had threatened to kill at sight
any of his friends who have been passing the coin for him
and should happen to be indiscreet enough to give any
damaging evidence, and they all believe and feared him. He
had boasted that he would inflict the same fate on any
officer of the law who should attempt his arrest.
Consequently Mr. GAMMON may have
felt a little fearful of consequences when he started out
with a sheriff and the long-sought evidence. They found
CLENDENING in an old stone quarry, near Stevens's Point,
and, much to the surprise of the officers, he followed
them like a kitten. He has, during his career, done
up four different men who have tried to arrest him. His
willingness to submit to arrest finally was probably due
to the fact that the sheriff with GAMMON knew CLENDENING
of old, and had promised to shoot him on the spot if he
offered the least resistance.
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CANAL MAN'S CASE ADJOURNED
George KINGSTON and August KIMMEL were arraigned in police
court yesterday morning charged with annoying Frederick B.
HENDRICKS by disorderly acts and language. HENDRICKS is
the captain of the gallant craft "Crescent," on
the canal, which is now just beginning to feel the thrill
of life along her keel owing to the fact that the water is
just being let into the canal. HENDRICKS says that the two
boys under arrest have annoyed him repeatedly by throwing
stones at his boat. The defendants wanted the case
adjourned until May 8th, but, as the "Crescent"
sails away Saturday. Judge CHADSEY told the boys they
would have to be ready to-day. The arrests were made by
Officers WEIDMAN and McINERNEY on warrants.
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HOW FATTED CALF WAS KILLED
Superintendent LODGE yesterday gave young Daniel T. MORGAN
a lift as far as Canandaigua, on his way to Auburn. The
boy could find no work here after six weeks search for it,
and came under the notice of Shelter Agent KILLIP. When
Mr. LODGE wired Morgan PERE, he suggested that the boy be
placed in the Buffalo Protectory or the State Industrial
School, but that would cost Monroe something for his
maintenance and Mr. LODGE couldn't think of depriving
Cayuga of the pleasure of paying.
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ATTEMPTED SUICIDE
Thomas Shuman Tried to End His Life by Drinking Carbolic
Acid
An attempt was made by Thomas SHUMAN, of No. 157 Webster
avenue, to end his life yesterday afternoon by drinking
carbolic acid. He had been feeling despondent for some
time, and had talked suicide, but his friends took no
particular notice of it; thinking that he was only
temporarily melancholy. Yesterday afternoon he took a
glass containing carbolic acid, and pressed it to his
lips, but before any of the liquid had passed down his
throat a friend knocked the glass from his hand.
It was feared that he had
swallowed some of the acid, and a hurry call was sent to
the Homeopathic Hospital. The doctor made an examination
but failed to find any signs of acid poisoning. For fear
that such symptoms might develop, however, he was taken to
the hospital, where up to a late hour last night there had
been no change in his condition. The doctors do not think
that any of the acid passed down his throat; the timely
action of his friends saving his life.
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SPRINKLING CONTRACTOR ON CARPET
In line with Commissioner of Public Works NEVILLE's
efforts to have the streets properly sprinkled, he called
into his office yesterday Joseph BANTEL, a member of the
firm which has the contract for sprinkling the city
streets this year, and explained to him that he must put
every possible cart on the streets and see to it that the
work is properly done. Superintendent LITTLE was also
ordered to see that all the hydrants were put in shape for
use, so that the sprinkling men would have no excuse for
not doing their duty.
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RUNAWAY BOY SENT HOME
Daniel T. MORGAN, the 12-year-old boy who came to this
city from his home in Auburn some time ago in search of
work, was sent to Canandaigua yesterday by Humane
Agent W. A. KILLIP. The father of the boy, when telephoned
to, said that he was unable to do anything with the boy
and asked that he be sent to the penitentiary. This,
however, Humane Agent KILLIP refused to do. The boy
was sent to the overseer of the poor at Canandaigua, who
will pass him on his way to Auburn.
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ARRESTED FOR BIGAMY
Aloise Wirth Claims He Has a Dakota Divorce
Alois WIRTH, a French bonesetter, 63 years old, last
Monday married Caroline GEIER, of Gates, aged about 30
years. Last night he was arrested on the charge of bigamy.
He regained his liberty this morning on $500 bail. He
denies committing bigamy and says his side of the
case will show him all right. WIRTH and his first wife
could not agree and separated five years ago. He says he
went to South Dakota, in 1898, and secured a divorce
peculiar to that climate and a stipulated residence there.
Rev. BETZINGER, of the Evangelical Church on Allen street,
tied the new knot for him at the pastorate.
Mrs. WIRTH No. 1 heard of the
second marriage pretty quick and lost no time in
reporting the fact to Director HAYDEN, who detailed
Detective McDONALD on the case. He verified the facts of
the second marriage and then Mrs. WIRTH No. 1 swore out a
warrant for his arrest on the charge of bigamy. The
detective last night served the warrant at WIRTH's house,
corner of Central avenue and Scio street, where has out a
sign reading "Bonesetter."
Mrs. WIRTH No. 1 lives in her own
house on Central avenue, with one of the four children
born during her twenty-seven years of married life.
Existence of the South Dakota divorce is said to have been
unknown to Mrs. WIRTH No. 1. It was not heard of by
Director HAYDEN until the arrest of WIRTH.
Mrs. GEIER-WIRTH said that she
was told by WIRTH that he was divorced and she did not
suspect any thing irregular as alleged by the first wife.
The first wife says she was never notified of any
application for divorce or that one was granted.
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GIRL TERROR OF THE SHELTER
Over at the Shelter they have two of the toughest infants
ever sheltered there. They are Charlie and Gertie JOHNSON,
aged 10 and 8 years, respectively. Officer RAGAN arrested
them on vagrancy and truancy charges yesterday. When
Officer KILLIP went to their house some time ago the girl
climbed a tree an made faces at him. She wont's go to
school and when forced to, screams and yells till they are
glad to get rid of her. She tried that at the Shelter and
roused the whole neighborhood. She can slide
down a conductor pipe like a monkey.
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SAID TO HAVE IMPERSONATED OFFICER
James BRADY is under arrest on the charge of annoying
Albert STUART on Ely street, last night. It is said BRADY
went to STUART and represented that he was an officer from
police headquarters and was there to settle some trouble
STUART had with a man who wanted to rent his barn. BRADY
made threats and STUART arrested him and turned him over
to Officer KRON. STUART said he was afraid to go home from
headquarters as BRADY and one LIGHTHOUSE had threatened to
do him harm. Officer KRON went home with him.
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DOG KILLED BELGIAN HARES
Some time Tuesday night, a dog, ownership unknown, chewed
his way into August S. WINSTON's rabbitary at No. 519
Parsells avenue, and killed fifteen Belgian hares, valued
at $10. The carcasses of the hares were strewn all about
the yard the next morning. WINSTON reported the case to
Captain RUSS.
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BLOHM IN SERIOUS CONDITION
Gustave BLOHM, who fell over the river bank near the old
Glen House Tuesday night, is in a serious condition at St.
Mary's Hospital. His left shoulder is broken, his face
badly cut, many of his teeth knocked out, and he sustained
many bruises about his body. An examination to-day showed
that BLOHM was internally injured, which makes his
recovery very doubtful.
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LAMP IN CLOTHES PRESS CAUSES FIRE
Chief CREEGAN sent his men yesterday afternoon to No. 22
Oak street, where a woman set fire to the house by taking
a lamp into a clothes press. The damage amounted to $50.
William DEBUS owns the house. A can of oil in MABBETT's
bicycle store on Main street west, called Hose 11 last
night, and a hand chemical put out the blaze.
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BURIED WITH MILITARY HONORS
The funeral of John GLANTSCHNIG was held yesterday morning
at 8 o'clock from his residence, No. 10 Widman street, and
at 9 o'clock from the Holy Redeemer Church. The services
at the house were conducted by the L. Bordman Smith
Command, Spanish War Veterans, of which the deceased was a
member. The bearers were Captain T. S. PULVER, George EYER,
W. A. GEYER, J. P. McMANNIS, W. L. MORSE and Godfrey
ASHBECKER. E. B. HASS sounded taps over the grave at Holy
Sepulchre cemetery and a detail from the First Separate
Company furnished the firing squad. Suitable resolutions,
prepared by C. W. PEIFFER, Fred BETTIN and George LANG,
were adopted by the Unique Social Club, of which deceased
was a member.
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KENT UNLOADS ALL ON HIS DEAD COMPANION
Defendant Placed on The Witness Stand Yesterday
Says Dingle Girl Gave Him Glass Supposedly Containing
Dover's Powders--
Object of Defense is to Show She Drugged the Dose--
Kent Denied Being Drunk -- Said Girl Talked of Suicide--
Dr. Howard Called for Purpose of Showing That Kent Was
Not
Responsible When Statement Was Made to the Coroners.
Leland Dorr KENT was the central figure in his own
defense at the trial yesterday. Contrary to the general
expectation. Attorney RAINES called KENT to the witness
stand to testify in the preliminary examination, to
determine KENT's condition at the time of making the
statement to the coroners which District-Attorney
WARREN wishes to get on the records and before the jury.
KENT went through the
ordeal under the fire of the eyes of the usual crowd of
women spectators. He answered the questions put to him
by his attorney in an even voice and did not get excited
or lose his head. Under the crossfire from
District-Attorney WARREN, he was forced to make many
admissions which will have their weight with the jury in
determining the question: "Did he aid or assist
Ethel DINGLE to commit suicide?" even if it does
not directly bear on the question: "Did he kill the
girl?" Of course an affirmative answer to either of
these questions will place KENT behind prison bars for a
maximum period of twenty years.
KENT was called to the stand
about 11 o'clock yesterday morning. Mr. RAINES said:
"If the Court please I ask
leave to take the testimony of the defendant without the
presence of the jury. Also I claim that he has a right
to have his preliminary examination before the jury or
not as he chooses."
Judge SUTHERLAND said:
"I think I will not
have the jury retire."
EXAMINATION OF KENT
"Mr. KENT you are the
defendant?" asked Mr. RAINES.
"I am."
"You were in room 147 at
the Whitcomb House on the night of September 13th
last?"
"Yes, sir."
"Did you have there at
that time this case (handing the witness the small
pocket medicine case) in the room?"
"Yes, sir."
"What bottles were in
that case in that room?"
"The bottles that are in
here now."
"What drugs were in those
bottles, and what quantities in each?"
"Ten or twelve hyocine
tablets, morphine sulphate, quarter grains, eight
to twelve of them; aconite, 1-200ths, about twenty
tablets; atropine sulphate, strychnine sulphate, twenty
or twenty-five tablets; digitaline, 1-100 grains in
strength, twenty or twenty-five tablets; strychnine
sulphate, none in that; four empty bottles are here
which were empty then."
Mr. RAINES then took up the
syringe, and witness identified it.
"Was the syringe
empty when you went to the room?"
LAST HE REMEMBERED
"It was."
"What was the last thing
you remember?"
"The last thing I remember
in the room that night was sitting on the lower part of
the bed near the foot."
"Tell me what you were
trying to do."
"Attempting to put
something on my neck."
"Have you any recollection
of seeing anybody in that room after that time?"
"No, sir."
"Of anything that
transpired that day?"
"No, sir."
"Have you any recollection
of a conversation with DR. COLLINS that day?"
"No, sir."
"Do you recollect speaking with
KILLIP, KLEINDIENST or the others?"
"I do not."
"What was the first thing
you remember?"
"At 3 o'clock Monday
morning I asked the nurse what time it was, and she said
3 o'clock."
"What is the next thing
you recollect?"
"Talking with Dr.
COLLINS."
HAD NO RECOLLECTION
"Have you any recollection
of making any statement to Dr. COLLINS the previous
day?"
"I have not."
"During that day (Monday)
were you called on by RIPPEY and Dr. VILLAUME?"
"I was."
"Were you asked by RIPPEY
if you had made any statement to the coroner?"
"I was."
"Did you tell them
you had not?"
Objected to; sustained.
"At that time you had no
recollection of making any statement to the coroner on
the day previous?"
"No, sir."
"Have you any knowledge of
any event that transpired on the 14th from the time you
sat on the edge of the bed to the next morning at 3
o'clock?"
"No, sir."
"Previous to sitting on
the edge of the bed what had you been doing?"
"Trying to get to the edge
of the bed; sitting farther up on the edge of the
bed."
"Have you any recollection
whether you succeeded in getting anything while sitting
there?"
"I have an impression that
I got something but am not sure."
WOMAN GAVE HIM GLASS
"Have you an impression
that before this something was given to you?"
"Yes, sir."
"Who gave you the
glass?"
"Miss DINGLE."
"What did you do?"
"I drank the
contents."
"How did you come to take
it?"
"She roused me. I was
sleeping on top of the bed."
And you drank what she gave
you?"
"I did."
"You went to sleep
again?"
"I went to sleep."
"Do you know what roused
you?"
"I felt sort of a burning,
stinging sensation on my neck. I partly roused, felt on
my head, and my fingers seemed to be sticking into a
hole. I felt something warm, and when I drew my fingers
out I saw that I had been cut, for there was blood on
them. I felt pain. I tried to move, but my legs were
drawn up. I tried to move my jaws, but they were set. I
finally drew up, but couldn't stand. I leaned over and
saw the blood dropping on the carpet."
"At that time you see
anything of Miss DINGLE?"
"I don't know."
"Have you any impression
about it?"
"I simply remember, so I
think, of seeing her lying there in bed."
SHE WAS FULLY DRESSED
"How was Miss DINGLE
dressed at the time she gave you the glass?"
"She was fully
dressed."
"How came she to prepare
that glass for you to take?"
"Previous to this I
thought I would take some Dovers powder as I had a
heavy cold. She said she would fix them up for me. I
went over and laid down on the bed."
"Was that the last that
was said between you?"
"It was."
"How many did you
have?"
"I had five three-grain
Dover tablets."
"Was there an occurrence
with regard to a one-fourth grain morphine
tablet?" he queried.
"Yes."
"Did you at one time
take one of these out?"
"I did."
"What did you do with
it?"
"I laid it on the table
with the Dover's powders."
"Did you take any drug
except when Miss DINGLE gave you the drug?"
"I did not."
QUESTIONED BY MR. WARREN
Then District-Attorney WARREN
stepped to the railing immediately in front of the
prisoner and commenced the cross-examination. KENT did
not answer as glibly as he did the questions put by
Mr. RAINES, but carefully considered the effect of his
answers and would not give an unequivocal answer to
questions bearing on time.
"What is your
business?"
"At the present
nothing."
"On the 13th of last
September you were a medical student?"
"During the
vacation?"
"At the time had you
been graduated?"
"I had not."
"And when you are called
'Dr.' it is a misnomer?"
"It is."
"When previous to the
13th of September were you in Rochester?"
Mr. RAINES objected and the
objection was sustained.
Judge SUTHERLAND said Mr.
WARREN could cross-examine on anything bearing on the
defendant's responsibility.
"What time was it you
entered room 147 at the Whitcomb House?"
"I don't know."
"Was it after
midnight?"
"Yes."
"After 1:30?'
"Yes, I think so."
"How much after?"
"I don't know."
"Was it ten minutes
after 1:30?"
"I don't know.
DENIED BEING DRUNK
"Were you drink when you
entered the room?'
"I was not."
"Don't you know the time
you reached Rochester?"
"At this present moment
I don't know."
KENT said that after he and
Miss DINGLE arrived in Rochester they took a cab and
drove to the Whitcomb House.
"What did you do when
you got to the hotel?"
Objected to: overruled.
Answer: "I went to
the office and registered."
"Where did you go
then?"
"To the Hotel
Eggleston."
"How long were you
there?"
"A long time."
"What did you do at the
Eggleston?'
"We had lunch."
"What else?"
"Some drinks; claret
wine and Scotch highballs."
"How much claret, a
quart or a gallon?
"I won't say either."
"Did you have a
gallon?"
"No, but I don't know
how much."
Witness said he didn't know
how many highballs they drank.
"How many did Miss
DINGLE have?" asked Mr. WARREN.
HAZY AS TO HIGHBALLS
"I don't know the exact
number."
"Did she have as many as
you did?"
"She did not."
"Was she present when
you drank all of them?"
"She was when I drank
some of them."
"How many more Scotch
highballs did you drink than she did?"
"I can't say."
"Did you feel the
effects of the liquor you had drunk when you left the
Eggleston?"
"No special
effects."
"What effect did you
feel?"
"I can't say I felt any
effect."
"When you say it was
3:30 or 3:45 when you got back to the Whitcomb House
you were talking about something you knew nothing
about?"
"Yes, sir."
"Did you assist Miss
DINGLE to walk upstairs?"
"I had hold of her
arm."
"Did you assist her
coming down?"
"I think she walked
alone."
"You wouldn't say you
didn't assist her?"
"I didn't assist her all
the way."
"When did you assist
her?"
"Going down the first
flight I stepped on her dress and she stumbled, but
didn't fall."
"You say you didn't have
hold of her any of the time until you stepped on her
dress?"
"I did not."
"When did you have hold
of her arm?"
"I have no
recollection."
"Then you did have hold
of her once?'
"Just when I stepped on
her dress. I can't recall whether I just put my hand
on her back or took her arm."
"Was she a little
unsteady in her walking?"
"I didn't notice that
she was unsteady that night."
"Who entered the room
first?"
"The bellboy."
"Did you enter the room
before Miss DINGLE?"
"No, sir."
"Did she enter the room
first?"
"She did."
"How long had she been
in room 147 before you entered?"
"About two
minutes."
"Where was Miss DINGLE
when you entered the room?"
"Near the wall."
"What was the first
thing done?"
"Miss DINGLE removed her
jacket, and I took off my coat, collar, tie and outer
shirt."
HAD WRITTEN LETTERS
"Had you written any
letters at this time?"
"I had."
"How many?"
"Three that I know
of."
"All of the
three?"
"Yes, sir."
"All of the letters in
the room?"
"No, sir."
KENT then identified the
letters that were written by him.
"How soon after
entering the room did you commence to write the
letters?"
"About ten or fifteen
minutes."
"Which did you write
first?"
"None of the letters
shown to me so far. It was the one to McKAY, written
on blue paper."
"When did Miss DINGLE
commence to write, with reference to the time of
your writing the McKAY letter?"
"About the same time.
I wrote first. I had been writing only a moment
before she began."
"Was Miss DINGLE under
the influence of liquor then?"
Objected to and objection
sustained.
"How much discussion
over the writing did you have before commencing to
write?"
HAD A DISCUSSION
"About five minutes.
When I started I wrote all the letters. There was an
interval of a moment or so between each letter.
There was some talk between us about the letters
while we were writing. I cannot say that I had been
in the room an hour before I finished. After the
writing of the letters we had a discussion. The
letters were mentioned. The discussion lasted
fifteen minutes. We then rang for the bellboy."
"What did you call
for?"
"A teaspoon."
"What took place
then?"
"We got the Dovers'
powders and morphine. We had no talk about any drugs
while writing the letters. The powders and drugs
were a part of the discussion after writing. I refer
to the drugs in the leather medicine case as a
whole."
"Was anything said
about your taking any of those drugs?"
"Yes. No one in
particular though."
"What was said?"
ENOUGH TO KILL BOTH
"Miss DINGLE said:
'You have those hypodermic tablets in your case.
They are strong enough to kill both of us." I
said: 'They are not strong enough to kill one
person.' She insisted that they were. There
was nothing said about my taking anything for a
cold. I had other drugs besides those in the case. I
had three Dovers' powders besides. The tablets were
either cocaine or aconite. Those were the only drugs
I had that I recall."
"When was it the
Dovers' powders were spoken of?"
"After the bellboy
left and the 15 minute discussion. I suggested
sending for the spoon. I wanted to dissolve a
morphine tablet in it. I was taking a one-fourth
grain tablet of morphine for sleep."
"Had you been
troubled with insomnia?"
"Yes. I slept
part of the night before. I had made no attempt to
sleep that night. I have difficulty in sleeping when
I have a cold. I don't know what time it was when I
took the tablet. I did not take a Dovers' powder at
that time. There was another way I could dissolve
the tablet. I took out a one-fourth grain morphine
tablet and two five-grain Dovers' powders. Miss
DINGLE said: 'I will fix the dose.' I laid the
tablets on the table and went and laid down on the
bed after taking off my shoes. I saw what she was
doing at that time."
DIDN'T SEE DOSE FIXED
"How did she dissolve
the tablets?"
"I did not see
anything of it. I did not see her fix the dose. It
was not fixed while I was awake."
"Then you did not
require any drugs to put you to sleep?"
"I had taken no drugs
when I went to sleep. I don't know how quick I went
to sleep after lying down. A very short time. Not
five minutes. The last thing I saw Miss DINGLE do
was to put some letters in an envelope. The last I
remember Miss DINGLE was standing by the table. I
said before I laid down that she had better go to
bed. I have no recollection of her doings after
that. I was awakened by Miss DINGLE. I cannot say
how long afterwards. I did not get up. She brought
me a tumbler with something in it. I drank it."
"Do you know the taste
of Dovers' powders? Is there any odor to morphine
tablets?"
"I don't think there
is. There is a taste to morphine. I know what it is.
It was very bitter. I cannot say I tasted morphine
in the drink. It had a similar taste. It was the
bitter of a drug. I said nothing to her when I took
the drink."
HAD TALKED OF SUICIDE
"Previous to this time
had she been talking about suicide?"
"Yes, sir."
"Notwithstanding this
fact, you went to bed and left her there?'
"Yes, sir."
"What was the next
thing you realized?"
"The next thing was a
sharp pain and a hot, burning sensation in my neck.
I put my hand up to my neck. I recall that
distinctly. I do not recall seeing Miss DINGLE at
that time."
"Did you see any razor
at that time?"
"No."
"At any time after the
cut in your throat that night, did you see the
razor?'
"I have a faint
recollection of seeing someone on the bed and seeing
blood. I do not remember seeing the razor. I
realized that I was cut, after putting my hand to my
neck. I did not know how badly until the next
Monday."
"Did you get up and
try to fix your neck?"
"I tried to get up,
but my legs were drawn up and my jaws were set.
Finally I did move around and sat on the side of the
bed. Then I saw blood dropping on the floor."
"Did you try to get a
towel to stop the flow if blood?"
"I moved along to the
front of the bed to get a towel or something to put
on my neck. I did not think of drugs. There was a
towel or cloth on the table. I have no recollection
of getting the towel. I don't know what I did with
it. I was in great pain. I saw blood drop on the
floor in a pool when I first got up. That was the
large pool of blood described by the witnesses. I
was leaning over the edge of the bed. I was not down
on the floor. I did not leave the bed."
DENIED WRITING LETTER
The bloody letter
taken from the trousers pocket of the defendant, at
the hospital, was shown to him at this point and he
was asked if he recognized it.
He said: "It is not in
my handwriting."
"How did that letter
get in your pocket?"
"I don't remember
putting my hand in my pocket. I don't recall writing
any such letter. The last thing I realized was when
I was looking for a towel at the foot of the bed. My
legs were drawn up backward to the body. I could not
open my mouth at all. I have no recollection of
making any noise to bring assistance."
"Why didn't you
take the sheet to bandage your neck?"
"I don't know. I don't
recall any talk with any person in the ambulance or
of calling for a cigar or cigarette. I acknowledge
writing the order for the trunk to Mrs. HUTCHINSON.
I came to myself about 3 o'clock Monday
morning."
KENT'S NURSE CALLED
Clara Ada HILLICUS was the
next witness called. She is the nurse who had charge
of KENT at the Homeopathic Hospital. Her testimony
was to the effect that the defendant acted in the
usual manner that patients do who have been given
anaesthetics.
"I remember that he
picked at the bedclothes," she testified.
"He slept but little in fact all that morning.
He mumbled, but I could not understand what he said.
He asked for a cigarette. The patient took his
medicine all right and appeared to understand what
was wanted of him."
EXPERT ON DRUG EFFECTS
Immediately following this
testimony the defense scored its first strong point
in the struggle to exclude from the jury the
statement made by KENT to the coroners.
DR. E. H. HOWARD, who has
for seventeen years been in charge of the State
Hospital for the insane in this city, was called as
a witness. He said he had studied the effect of
different drugs on the mind in his practice at the
hospital. "I have made use of these drugs and
noted their action." said he, Mr. RAINES then
squared his shoulders, took a long breath and fired
off the following hypothetical question:
HYPOTHETICAL QUESTION
"Assume that a young
man of 22 years of age, in robust health who
receives a dose consisting of one-fourth to
one-fifth of a grain of atropine and at the same
time a grain or more of opium, one-eighth of a grain
of strychnine and at the same time one-fifth of a
grain of digitalis and one-tenth of a grain of
aconite in a mixed dose. Some time elapsed before he
is observed by anyone, say in the neighborhood of
two hours. When first observed it was by laymen who
found him in bed with the bedclothes over his head,
lying on the left side, uttering sounds something
like this there the attorney dramatically imitated
KENT's cries of Oh, Oh, my God, from the time when
first observed without cessation, for some minutes
left to himself during which time the sounds
continued although in lesser volume until half an
hour had expired; when further observed he has wild
staring eyes and is characterized as crazy or
insane; assume that he continues in bed with
strangers coming and going in the room and during
the time under observation, was lying beside a
corpse; that when effort were made to arouse him and
attract his attention, he says in tremulous voice,
'My God, I'm choking, get me some water; when the
water was brought and persons attempted to give it
to him he was unable to swallow; assume that when
sitting on the bed trying to tie his shoes he
commences to brush things away from his foot and
remarks; 'Have I got them? Assume that he dresses
with the assistance of physicians, but is not left
to stand alone; he is tremulous and weak and
staggering in his motions; assume that he is
described by laymen as one with delirium tremens;
all observers speak of him as apparently crazy or
irrational in conduct; assume that with the
assistance of attendants he is gotten to an
ambulance and taken to a hospital; there, four hours
after he has taken the dope, he is operated on for a
cut in the neck which required thirteen stitches to
close and the operation was performed under
anaesthetics changing from chloroform to ether and
back again as safety indicated; assume that he is
then moved to another room and observed by
physicians six hours after taking the dope as having
hallucinations which are not visual hallucinations,
looking in the air and seeing things which are not
there; assume that the nurse in charge of this
patient describes him as one under the influence of
anaesthetics, picking at the bedclothes and doing
other similar things; assume that thereafter, about
6 to 7 o'clock, twelve hours after the dope was
administered the patient makes a statement, question
and answer, in which he answers questions most of
the time with his eyes closed and sometimes asks to
have the questions repeated; regarded as drowsy by
the observers but making several corrections during
the taking and reading of the statement; assume that
after that transaction the patient is sleeping
soundly, is drowsy but easily awakened; assume the
pulse of the patient receded to 64 that night and
stayed all night at 64 to 68; assume that at the
time found in the room his pulse was 120 and
respiration 24; assume that at that time he had no
memory of any of the events transpiring from a short
time after taking the dope up to twenty-one hours
afterward; assume that when first found and at all
times afterward until after twenty-one hours had
elapsed, his eyes were widely dilated and remained
so, what do you say, doctor, with regard to those
facts whether you would expect a patient between 5
and 6 o'clock that afternoon to make a statement and
be in possession of his mental faculties and be
rational?"
WOULD NOT BE RATIONAL
The District-Attorney
objected to the question on technical grounds, but
the objection was overruled. Dr. HOWARD replied:
"A person would not
be in a rational or competent mental condition
during the day mentioned."
"With regard
to atropine, how would a dose of one-fifth of a
grain act on a person?"
The doctor
described symptoms of atropine poisoning and said:
"It would produce the overwhelming of the
nervous system and nerve centers so that the
patient would be on the point of paralysis, which
would first manifest itself in the legs. He would
be overcome mentally and probably delirious. The
mind of the patient would be in a dazed condition;
fancies would pass through the mind without the
patient being able to distinguish or arrange them
properly. The chances would be that he would go
into coma and possibly die.
"If he recovered, a
period of considerable time would have to elapse
before the patient would regain his mental
faculties. He would have no recollection of events
which occurred during the period the poison was
active. It takes a toxic dose of atropine from
eight to ten hours to kill."
DR. HOWARD was then
excused until this morning at 10 o'clock.
KENT NOT RESPONSIBLE
The first witness to take
the stand at yesterday morning's session was Dr.
Newton M. COLLINS, of the Homeopathic Hospital
staff. He was examined Tuesday by Mr. RAINES, and
Mr. WARREN cross-examined him yesterday morning.
Dr. COLLINS said that he did not think KENT was
entirely responsible between 5 and 6 o'clock
on the evening the statement was taken. He thought
there were inconsistencies in the statement. When
asked to point out the inconsistencies he said the
sentence, "I got my neck fixed up" was
one.
"Do you consider
that an irrational statement?" asked Mr.
WARREN.
"It is not exactly
elegant."
"Aren't many
inelegant remark's rational?"
"I thought that
was a peculiar thing for him to say."
"Are inconsistent
statements signs of irrational conduct?"
Judge SUTHERLAND --
"I think we will all concede that
inconsistent statements, without other things, are
not necessarily signs of irrational conduct."
"Didn't you say that KENT
could have got his staggering gait from loss of
blood?"
Witness asked Judge
SUTHERLAND if he was compelled to answer
"this kind of questions."
QUESTION A FAIR ONE
Judge SUTHERLAND -
"The question is fair, I think."
Dr. COLLINS then replied:
"On second thought I would
say that he couldn't have got this staggering gait
from the blood he lost."
DR. COLLINS said that the
way KENT talked going to the hospital was
irrational.
"Assuming,"
asked Mr. WARREN, "that he had had no sleep
the night before and that between 2 and 3 o'clock
in the morning he drank a pint of wine and two
highballs, would that have any effect upon his
gait at the time you saw him?"
"That would depend
upon whether he was used to drinking them."
"You know, doctor,
that he was found lying beside a dead girl who had
her throat cut?"
"I do."
Wouldn't a person suffer
from nervousness from that cause, sufficient to
cause him to stagger?"
"I should think
so."
Dr. COLLINS said he
attributed KENT's gait to liquor or drugs. He also
noticed the dilation of the eye.
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WITNESS WAS ABSENT
So Attorney Forsyth Asked for Another Adjournment
of Lyddon Case
The trial of George L. LYDDON, accused of an
offense against public morals, was delayed in
police court yesterday by the absence of one of
the important witnesses of the defense. LYDDON was
tried on April 9th before a jury, which disagreed.
The case was adjourned until yesterday, when
another panel of jurors was drawn.
Attorney George D.
FORSYTH appeared for the defendant. The witness
who can not be found is Mrs. Janet SCHLEGEL, of
Brewer's dock. Many warm words were passed between
Prosecutor CALLAHAN and Attorney FORSYTH over the
absence of this witness; CALLAHAN saying that he
did not believe very much effort had been put
forth to get the witness. Michael SCHLEGEL
was put on the stand, and stated that his wife had
gone to California to visit her sick mother.
The question then arose
who should stand the expense of subpoenaing the
lost witness. Attorney FORSYTH said he didn't
think he ought to, and Prosecutor CALLAHAN said he
would not, and the police upheld him in his stand.
FORSYTH said he could not be forced to a trial
without the witness, and he would not make any
further efforts to get her here. An appeal was
taken to the District-Attorney, who will have to
settle the matter. The case was adjourned to May
4th.