, i ' MRS. BLISS SUSPICION Efiort to Introduce. the Woman’s Last Words at the Fleming Trial. THE MEDIGO-LEGAL BATTLE. The Desired Statement Subtly Brought Out and Then Overruled by the Re- corder—Dr. Bullman’s Testi- mony For the Prosecution. NEW YORK, May r28.—The first day of the trial of Mary Alice Almont Livingston Fleming, for poisoning her mother, Mrs. Evelina M. Bliss, on Aug. 30, 1895, ended with' the defense in the better strategic position, so to speak. Mr. Brooke had suc- ceeded for the time being in shutting out the dying declarations of Mrs. Bliss which are so necessary to the prosecution’s case. It is said that Mrs. Bliss made certain statements just before sinking into un-' consciousness which led to the arrest of the defendant. It is believed that these statements are not in such form as to be admissible as evidence. If the substance _ of them got in, it would be owing to the ingenuity of Dr. O’Sullivan. He asked Dr. Bullman certain questions, the an- swers to which involve a diagnosis of Mrs. Bliss’ illness. A diagnosis is made up of both subjec- tive and objective symptoms. Under the head of subjective symptoms, Dr. O’Sulli- van demanded the right to ask Dr. Bull- man to tell every word of What Mrs. Bliss said to him relative to her illness. In this the substance of her dying declarations would be introduced into the case. When Mrs. Fleming came into court to- day she was self possessed as ever. The ordeal thus far has made no impression on her except to keep a slight flush in her cheeks... ' Her carriage is graceful and dignified. She holds her hands. clasped in front of her. She bows to an attendant as she comes in and then shakes hands with one of her counesl. In her glances round the court- room she misses nothing, yet nothing seems to catch her eye. The recorder, Mr. Brooke and his assist- ants, re—enforced by Professor Witthaus were all in their chairs before 10:30 o’clock. Professor Witthaus is the celebrated expert inchemistry. They kept their heads to- gether for several minutes. Miss Florence Bliss, Mrs. Fleming’s half sister, Was sitting on one of the rear benches talking with Ferdinand Wilckes when. the defendant passed by her. She arose and followed her at the usual dis- tance of two feet. The fight was renewed with Dr. Bull- man on the witness stand. It was Dr. O’Sullivan versus Mr. Brooke, both re- freshed by a good night’s rest and eager for the conflict. The Objecting Begins. Dr. O’Sullivan started off by asking, “Did Mrs. Bliss tell you anything in rela- tion to her illness?” Mr. Brooks objected immediately. The recorder sustained him,and Dr. O’Sullivan tried again. “What was'the first question you asked Mrs. Bliss in regard to her illness?” he asked. “I asked her what she had eaten. ” “What reply did she make?” “She told me that she had eaten some clam chowder”— “Stop, stop!” cried Mr. Brooke. “I ob- ject. ” Then ensued another tilt between the two former law partners. Mr. Brooke, after stating his objections, remarked: “You are traveling too rapidly, Dr. ~ O'Siilllvan. ” “I have to to keep pace with you, ” re- torted Dr. O‘Suliivan. Mr. Brooke‘bowed. 'Mr. Brooke contended that the state- ment regarding the clam chowder was simply an apprehension on the part of the dying woman. It had no place in the evi- dence at this time. “The counsel for the profecution,” he said, ‘ ‘is trying to get in- directly at adying'declaratiop." Dr. O’Sullivan turned quickly, facing Mr. Brooke, and shouted in a loud tone: “I am not trying to do anything indirect- ly. I am simply trying to get a statement of facts—the diagnosis made by Dr. Bull- man and the way he made it.” Recorder Goff finally decided that he would not sustain Mr. Brooke’s objection at the present time. If it should turn out that the evidence was not directly con- nected with the matter properly before the court, he would ask the jury to pay no at- tention to it. ” Mr. Brooke took a formal exception. Mr. Brooke then asked that the witness’ answer that Mrs. Bliss had told him she had eaten clam chowder be stricken out. - The veteran fighter won his point. “I grant the motion,” said the record- erifwho had apparently reconsidered him- se . . Dr. O’Sullivan looked a little pained, but he returned bravely to the attack. Cunning O’Sullivau. “What inquiry did you make of the pa- tient as to the cause of her illness?” he asked Dr. Bullman. He got no further. Mr. Brooke objected. Recorder Goff made a speech, and the medico-legal expert had to try another tack. , He created a sensation right away. His point had been all along to get Mrs. Bliss’ statement accusing a relative, presumably Mrs. Fleming, before the jury. He did it. And he did in the very simple way of reading it aloud in .the form of a question to the witness. “In making your inquiries of Mrs. Bliss regarding her illness,” he said, “did Mrs. Bliss say to you: ‘Doctor, I know that I am going to die. I know it. I hays been poisoned. A relative of mine sent me some clam chowder. and after eating it I became deathly sick, vomited and purged, ’ and did you then ask who the relative was, and did she then say, ‘It is-cne who will benefit greatly by my death?’ ” Mr. Brooke was on his feet in a pas- sion, but before he could prevent it Dr. Bullman had answered, “Yes.” There was a dead silence in the court- room as Mr. Brooke, shaking his finger at the witness, roared in a voice trembling with rage: “You were distinctly ordered not to an- swer that question. Your conduct as a witness is on a par with that bf your ques- tioner as a prosecuting attorney. This is the most marvelous exhibition I have ever seen. ” , Then turning to Dr. O’Sulllvan, “If this is the way you seek to take a wom- an’s life-you will fail in the attempt.” Dr. O’Sullivan said nothing. He was well satisfied. ~ Recorder Golf mildly rebuked the angry Mr. Brooke. “If you object, Mr. Brooke, ” he said, “state your objection and confine your remarks thereto. ” ' , , “I object,” said Mr. Brooke in a very low and solemn voice. “The question and answer are stricken 'out as improper, ” ruled the recorder. -‘ Advertise in the GAznrrn. ' 7 ‘1 _ But ‘ the jury had heard the question and ansWer. The most dramatic and ex- citing episode of the trial so far was over for the time. After theexoitement caused by the “-dy- ing declaration” question and Mr. Brooke‘s angry protest had subsided, Dr. O'Sullivan began all over again by ques- tioning the witness in detail regarding his treatment of Mrs. Bliss and the symptoms shown by her. Dr. Bullman said that he was in Mrs. Bliss’ fiatthree-quartcrs of an hour on his first visit, and that he return- ed again soon after 8 o’clock. He said that on his second visit he found the patient extremely nervous, “owing to the suspicions she harbored that she was poisoned.” This, of course, brought out a protest from Mr. Brooke, and the answer was or. dered to be stricken out. Dr. Bullman testified that the prescrip- tions which he ordered upon his first visit had not been given to the patient when he returned the second time. He found the medicine intact in the package. “Did the symptoms you found on your second visit indicate anything?” asked Dr. O’Suliivan. Mr. Brooke objected. but Dr. Bullman was allowad to answer. “The symptoms indicated that the pa- tient had been poisoned," he said. Mr. Brooke then tangled the witness up considerably in his cross examination, practically the same ground being gone over again. TENNESSBB’S CENTENNIAL. Preparations For an Elaborate Celebra- tion on June 1 and 2. NASHVILLE, May 2-8.—-Great preparations are making for the centennial celebration of Tennessee, which will occur on June 1 and 2. The city is being decorated hand- sbmely, and everybody is looking forward to one of the most notable demonstrations in the history of the state. There will be a grand parade on June 1. the Tennessee centennial day, and the ceremonies at the exposition grounds will ‘be imposing and impressive. There will be a sunrise salute of 16 guns, Tennessee being the sixteenth state admitted to the Union, and after the parade a flag raising with a. salute of one gun for every state in the Union. The principal speaker for the occasion will be J. M. Dickinson, assistant United States solicitor general. The other speakers will be A. A. Taylor and E. W. Carmack. The president and cabinet, diplomatic’ corps, governors of states and many other dig- nitaries have been invited. There will be a military display of federal and state troops. An important feature of the exercises will be the formal opening of the Tennes- see Centennialgexposition, which will not be actually in progress until May 1, 1897. A Transvaal Jlidge suspended. LONDON, May 28.—A Pretoria dispatch to The Times says: “As an outcome of the revelations of Lionel Phllllps’ private letter book implicating influential men of the Kruger party in the Band for accept- ing bribes from the mining houses for ad- vancing the Rand interests in the mike- read the Transvaal government has sus- pended Judge Dekorte and has asked the Band to appoint a court of inquiry. The Transvaal government is trying to. sup- press the scandal, and the feeling is ‘very bitter. ” , A Brute’s Double Crime. PHILADELPHIA, May fail—Ira Sanborne, 68, attempted to murder his daughter-in- law, Bella Sanborne, by beating her head with a coupling pin and then setting fire to the bed upon which the woman and her babe were lying. Hethen tried to commit suicide by forcing a sailmaker’s needle into his body. The child was so badly burned that it died today, and there is no hope of Mrs. Sanborne’s recovery. Sanborne was arrested. Many Buildings Burned at Brillion, \Vis. BRILLION, Wis, May 28.-—The Brillion Manufacturing company’s factory was burned, together with the Northwestern hotel, the Barnes company’s lymber yard, Weigand’s brick block, C. Ellis’ general store and residence, the Union Opera House, several dwellings, the Chicago and Northwostern station and several barns. C. T. Tesch’s warehouse and several other buildings wore badly damaged. The loss is $150,000. The Disturbance In Crete. CONSTANTINOPLE, May 28.—The conflict between the troops and the people in the streets of Genoa, island of Crete, have, ceased, but the fighting continues in the country adjoining that port. LONDON, May 27.—A dispatch to The Times from Athens says that the Greek cabinet has decided not to send warships to the island of Crete unless it becomes absolutely necessary. ' Constantine De Bodisco Dead. NEW YORK, May 28,—A private dis- patch has been received here from St. Pe- tersburg announcing the death of Con- stantine de Bodisco, whose father was at one time Russian minister to the United States. He leaves awidow. who was Miss Charlotte Barton of Georgetown, D. C. Their daughter Olga was to have been one of the czarina‘s maids of honor at the cor- onation ceremonies. Lemonade For Seniors. SOUTH BETHLEHEM, Pa. May 28.—Pres- ident Drown of Lehigh university has for- hidden the drinking of punch by the sen- iors at the coming class day exercises. The smoking of long stemmed pipes and drinking of punch during the songs, toasts and presentation speeches on the campus have hitherto been a feature of the exer- cises. Lemonade is to be the drink. Big Blaze In Sherman, Tex. SHERMAN, Tex, May 28.—'I‘he restau- rant and candy factory of Williams &. Bower and several other buildings on the east side of.Court square were burned to- day. The loss is about $75,000. There was no insurance on the stock of Williams & Bower. Indiana Miners Violent. SULLIVAN, Ind., May 28.—The sheriff of Sullivan county is preparing for trou- ble with the striking'miners and will visit the principal mines. Many acts of vio- lence have been reported. dilanufacturlug Company In Trouble. NEW HAVEN, May 28.—The Barnes Manufacturing company, makers of locks and small hardware, went into the hands of a receiver today. Poor business is the cause of assignment. , Murderer Ford Sentenced. WASHINGTON. May 28.-—'-Irwin L. Ford, the negro convicted of the brutal murder of Elsie Kreglo near the Zoological park, was sentenced by Judge Cole today to be hanged J une 96. ' Earthquakes, In Costa 7 Rica. LIMON, Costa, Rica, May 98.-—_Earth- quakes-have occurred in‘this district for a week past. ' ~ Advertise in the Gamma. ‘ T7 E E7“ in via N ING G An Is 3 A Curious Woodplle. A unique kind of “woodpile” is de- scribed as having been resorted to in one of the Lead City-gold mines. It is composed of timbers about the size of railroad ties, which are used in sup- porting the walls and roofs of the drifts and tunnels of the mines. A narrow gauge railroad brings the logs, which have been sawed flat on two sides, to a. point on the mountain slope about six hundred feet above the val- ley, and they are then thrown into a. wooden chute about four feet wide and two feet deep, the inside surface being kept smooth and slippery by a small stream of water. The point con- sidered is that if the logs were al- lowed to run directly to the ground they would speedily excavate an enor- mous hole, besides. damaging them- selves, so the lower end of the chute is curved upward, and the logs leave it at an angle of about s1xty degrees from the horizontal, and rise from one hun- dred and fifty to two hundred feet in the air, turning over and over and finally landing on the enormous pile already there. A useful outcome also accompanies this. method, namely, the logs sort themselves in the pile ac- cording to their size—that is, the heavier ones, having greater momen- tum, are all found at the side furthest away from the chute. — Philadelphia Record. An lceberg Every Six Minutes. The number of bergs given OH in Glacier bay, Alaska, varies somewhat with the weather and the tides, the av- erage being about one every five or six minutes, counting only those large enough to thunder loudly, andmake themselves heard at a. distance of two or three miles. The very largest, how- ever, may, under favorable conditions, be heard ten miles, or even farther. When a large mass sinks from the up- per fissured portion of the wall, there is first a. keen, piercing crash, then a deep, deliberate, prolonged, thunder- ing roar, which slowly subsides into a low, muttering growl, followed by nu- merous smaller, grating, clashing sounds from the agitated bergs that dance in the waves about the newcomer as if in welcome; and these again are followed by the swash and roar of the waves that are raised and hurled against the moraines. But the largest and most beautiful of the bei'gs, in- stead of thus falling from the upper weathered portion of the wall, rise 'from the submerged portion with a. still grander commotion, springing with tremendous v rice and gestures nearly to the top of the wall, tons of water streaming like hair down their sides, plunging and rising again and again before they finally settle in per- fect poise, free at last, after having formed part of a slow-crawling glacier for centuries—Century. . Luminous Mushrooms. A men traveling in Australia found a. lar mushroom of this .- genus weighrzg five pounds. He .took‘ it to the ho: .e where he was stopping, and ‘ hung it. up to dry in the sitting-room. Entering at her dark, he was amazed to see a beautiful, soft light emanating from the fungus. He called in the na- tives to. examine it, and at the first glance they cried out in great fear that it was a spirit. It continued to give out light for many nights, gradually decreasing until it was wholly dry. Dr. _Gardner, While walking through the streets of a Brazilian town, 'saw some boys playing- with a. luminous object, which he at first thought was a. large firefly; but he found on inspection it was a. brilliant mush- room (Agaric) which now bears his name. Itgavc out a. light of a greenish hue, and was called by the natives “flor de coco,” as it grew on a species of palm. The young plants emit a brilliant light, and the older ones a pale greenish light. Many kinds of fungi are phosphorescent. Humboldt describes some exquisitely beautiful ones he saw in the mines. The glow in rotten wood is caused by its containing the threads of light- giving fungi—Margaretw. Leighton, in St. Nicholas. - f7" Eloquent Rags. “Eloquence is speaking out * * * out of the abundance of the heart,” say the authors of “Guesses at Truth.” An incident related by Dr. Bernardo, the English philanthropist who cares for friendless children, illustrates this characteristic of eloquence. “I was standing,” he says, "at my front door one bitter day in winter, when a little ragged chap came up to me and asked me for an order of admis- sion. To test him, I pretended to be rather rough with him. “‘HOW do I know,’ I said, ‘if what you tell me is true? Have you any friends to speak for you?’ “‘Friends!’ he shouted. ‘No, I ain’t got no friends; but if these ’ere rags’— and he waved his arm about as he spoke—‘won’t speak for me, nothin. else will.’ ”—Youth’s Companion. A 5 0 Bottle of CUTICURA RESOL- VENT, greatest of humor cures, is often sufficient to complete a permanent cure of the most tartar-lug and disfiguring of skin, scalp, and blood humors. , Snsnr Guns Tamruur ron An. Bum Am) » Bacon Bunions. -—Warm baths with CUTICURA Boar, gentle applications of CUTICDRA (oint. ment), the great skin cure, and mild doses of Concern Basonvsur. greatest of humor cures. Bold thmu tout the world. Price Cur Ion 2.5m scorn". 50c. and 0'. rofiii‘bfga' .- " How to Cure Every Humor,” Iheiled free. '7 an Clan. Conn. Sole Props, Boston Piano 11835011755 7 .enonen w. BRADLEY. “NEH" '7 of the late Wm. B. Nash.) gives ‘e cent and satisfactory instructions on the Piano at . her home No. its Main street.» -‘ » \ CLOSED , . Honor to 7. MEMORIAL DAY. Bus unS u_l_e_.NnIWalk. ; NEW YORK OFFIGE, 442 BROADWAY... allALFLPRICE ? SALEt? FRIDAY, MAY ~29,. 1896. “ A Day Lost in the Dry Goods Business is Never ‘Made Up." uncommon DAY -- '- We shall not open our Store, for we feel that it is our duty to close business in honor of the men who lie in the “ Bivouac of the Dead,” that their memory, as well as their graves, may be kept green in the minds of the generations that have sprung up since the great conflict. Therefore, that the day may not be lost to us in a business way, we shall have a HALF PRICE SALE on something in every Department. Commencing PRI— DAY MORNING, May 27, and continuing all day until 10 P. M. And to make this sale doubly interesting, We Shall Give Away a Ladies? Waverly Bicycle, 28-inch. Price $85.00 Purchased from W. S. Smith, South Main Street, South Norwalk, who guarantees. it_ in every particular. If the winner wishes, they may exchange it for a Gentleman’s Wheel. Every purchaser of 25 Cents Worth will receive a Coupon. The lucky number will be drawn 9.30 on Friday‘ Evening. 4 NOW FOR A0 SENSA'I‘IONI Any of our immense Variety of Shirl Waisls That we sell at 50c and others sell at 7 5c, we shall sell at HALF PRICE, 25 Cents Each, Laundered Collars and Cuffs, Large Sleeves. Remember, this is only for Friday’s Half. Price Sale, You7will never get TH Busmlswl . # on Main and W“ Si- 4*: .- A POINTER... Buy four for $1.00 and get four chances on the Bicycle. Is your plate glass or safe insured? If not, call on me and -I will write you a. policy in the Mutual Plate Glass and Safe Insur- \ ance Company. Glass will break and burglars use dynamite. In case of Fire You should be insured. A policy in-- the Reliance of Philadelphia. Phoenix of Hartford; Scotland Union of Scotland; New Hampshire of Manchester; Rochester German of Rochester; United States and Pacific of New York; Security of New Hampshire or Granite State of Ports. mouth will protect you against the fire fiend. W. H. T BYINGTQN, Real Estate and General I usurance, noun 1, GAZETTE BUILDING I LOANS NEGOTIATED AND INVESTMENTS MADE. _ - . a ' _ : ‘ " ' ‘ ——————-—. . '- CORRESPONDENCE.SOLIQI'TEG, the Dead. .~ 7 Heroes. 7‘ .gl
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