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Show DOCTOR UNDER FIRE IH HOTED MURDER CASE Alleged Poisoner of His Wife Tries Hard to Prove Innocence In-nocence of Crime. TOMS RIVER, N. J., Oct. 15. Dr.' Frank Brouwcr, who has been on trial here for a week on a charge that ho poisoned his wife, will know his fate late Wednesdaj' or Thursda3'. The trial is nearing completion and it is expected the jury will get the case for decision on one of the da3s mentioned. Dr. Brouwor testified that at dinner the night before Mrs. Brouwcr was taken tak-en ill she ate cannod soup and corn, meat and potatoes, cottage cheeso, bread and butter ami watermelon, and drank some beer. Lato that night, ho said, Mrs. Brouwcr also ate throo onions and sandwiches and drank a cold bottle of beer, and just before sho went to bed she also ate a largo piece of cold watermelon. Dr. Brouwcr defended his diagnosis j of his wife's illness as Bright 's dis- j ease by saying that Dr. Forman and a firm oil New York chemists, after analyzing an-alyzing fluid from Mrs. Brouwcr 's body, also reported that she suffered from Bright's disease. '"Wh3r did 3'ou saj' to tho nurses that 3'our wifemight not get well?" "Bocauso I didn't think she would. Her heart motion was irregular all "through her sickness." Did Give Strychnine. Dr.' Brouwer said that he administered adminis-tered lo his wifo a hypodermic injection injec-tion prepared by a Philadelphia firm. It contained strychnine and nitro-gl3'eerinc. nitro-gl3'eerinc. Ho said that his wife immediately im-mediately becamo calmer and her heart became more regular and stronger. Dr. Brouwor said that on tho last night of his wife's illness he gave her brandy and one-twentieth of a grain of Htrych"-nino. Htrych"-nino. He testified that he never gave arsenic to his wife; that he never gave strrchninc to his wife except in the ono instance, the night beforo she died; that he never put powdered glass in his wife's food; that he never did anything to cause his wife's death. Dn Brouwcr denied that his wife was ever jealous, although sho sometimes some-times spoke about women who visited his office, and after U103' had gone sho would ask who thc3 wero and what they wanted. He denied that ho over told an3' ono that he would get a divorce, di-vorce, or that he ever heard his wife say she would app.13- for a divorce. Dr. Brouwcr said he did not belicvo that his wife was dying when at 1 o'clock on the morning of her death ho called Miss Horlockcr, the nurse,- to his assistance, otherwise' ho would havo summouen another pr'siciarj.. He administered ad-ministered morphino to relieve her sufferings suf-ferings and she became unconscious. It was not until two hours later that he began to think sho was dying. The witness said that his wife's sickness, In his oniuion, was the result of over-eating and was not caused by impurc food. He thought that a too heart3" meal had produced cholera morbus. Dr. Brouwcr said the insurance on his wife's life had. not been collected. On re-direct examination, Dr. Brouwor Brou-wor testified that he never said anything any-thing improper to Miss MeClenahan and had never had .'1113- appointment with her previous to tho time he had engaged her and afterward, lie said ho had not 011I3- consented to tho exhumation ex-humation of his wife's body,, but had even urged that it be taken up and an autopsy performed. |