Show I POISON isoN AND NOT REA BEATING CAUSED MRS VANCES VANCE'S DrA DEATH IH t SAYS WITNESS fOR HUSBAND 1 Starts Stas Its Side Si of Case Any An r Opening t and T Trial for the theto AGGus d Man Promises Priss to toto Co Come 1 to an Early Conclusion t That Mrs l Mary Iary Vance died of irritant poisoning and L not Jot as a result of the beating received at the hands of her hei husband Thomas Vance now on trial for murder before Judge George G. G Armstrong in the district court was vas the thc t testimony produced by the defense today through its medical med mcd- rL iC ical 11 expert Dr Thomas H. H of this city l 1 Dr Monahan has been the medical adviser of Attorney Attorney 1 ney W. W L. L Maginnis through the trial and in answer to tc long questions gave his view of the resl results ts which caused p Mrs Vances Vance's death and for which her husband is o on trial g for his l life e. e Attorney Maginnis dispensed with his opening address address ad ad- adI I dress to the jury and began presenting his evidence im- im mediately r What arc aro you yon driving at nt Mr Mawn Ma- Ma wn is' is ho o was asked niter after he had bad Mid iid that he didn't intend to outline his bis to the jury iury and after statin stating that Uie he didn't know whether he would put putte te prisoner on the stand or not We We are not doing tho driving at ill sll 11 JJ he be exclaimed with a smile Well lea e that for tho other follow t This would seem SE-em to indicate that he be is is ery confident of settin setting his bis man at li lib lib- I erty in in short order The Thc case will pro a ry go o to tho the jury before tomorrow Bably night i Stand Stand on Third Count ft t. t When the morning session of court t l opened Judge Armstrong overruled the thet i t motion of tho the defense defonse objecting to the i. i announcement of the state that it would S' S fight ht out the case on the third count of the tho indictment This count alleges murder mur- mur der er by beating boating and poi poison on while whilo tho the t ret only nUe alleges beating and th the second cond M poisoning POT objected to the state 1111 up upon n the third count sly sayi saying Dg bere W was ivas no DO evidence e that Vanco Vance ha had bad bis his wife nor that she sho died from the effects of any beating He wanted the tho state to choose aa between II r beating and poisoning i After awaiting the comin coming of some of tho bo witnesses the attorney call called d Lena 5 Vance kVance the year old dau daughter of the to the stand i He asked her if her mother bad taken I the year two baby Albert downtown down- down town with her on the tho afternoon of the day aay she was beaten by her husband Tho The I girl giri said that sh she had bad iV t She took tho the car said the daughter daugh- daugh ter if John Juhn C. C Culley a ch chemist mist from Ogden Ogdon graduate of ot the Philadelphia College of Bl was then called and testified las to the he solubility of the tablets brought up in the trial He said slid that even after five hours some Bome sediment ie- ie re- re when tho the water was not stirred When stirred it jt would di dissolve olve in four hot or five minutes Tests ests ests of or Solubility 7 In answer to questions he be said Mid that after tafter a tablet bad been dissolved in in a laes of water the upper part of the tho water gave ave no iio test for or mercury He said aid that it would b be possible to to drink ll Home Isome me of the water without getting any of the poison I District Attorney Loofbourow brou brought ht out ut that the poison polson could ba bs scattered through the water by the motion of the glass glas towards the mouth I State Chemist Chemist- Herman Harms Hanns on the stand tand said aid that a normal normaJ person drinking drink- drink i ing ng some of the water into a tablet tablet tab tab- let lct had been dropped would immediate- immediate pl 1 detect ete t tho the peculiar metallic taste given given iven to the liquid There would be some iome fOme of the poison poi in the n upper portion of et It the water after five minutes even it if the tablet had not riot been boen crushed said Mr Harms II There would also be if the tablet had been crushed to a pow pow- der bout Cause of or Death r I would think she died of some seine irritant j tant tint poisoning poisoning X answered Dr Monahan of I-of of this city who woo was next called to a n loag question by Attorney Ma Maginnis tating the tho facts of the case from the time since Mrs rs Vance is supposed to have ave taken t the e poison until death I shouldn't think she could uld die of that he auF to another long Jong stating Mrs Van Vances Vance's es e's physical Ob C-Ob condition nHUon from the time she was beaten thy by y he her huab husband nd November ember 20 to her ber and asking if such a beating could have hac beu fatal County Attorney Willard Hanson then took up the questioning and the witness hId that Mrs Vance might have bave como come to o her death through the agency l oncy of sev- sev veral v- v iral ral drugs drags s oil ol of ot savine sll for tor instance T A A tu or about sixty drops f tle oil of savine savino will cause death fd d the witness after a minute discus discus- lion ion on as to the tho properties of the drug in I the sums gum of the person ta- ta ung it Ire fe ic said eaid that a n bleeding and tion won lon of ot the tho gums might have ha resulted from rom thu fact of excessive vomiting and purging 4 Will Will it not tako take two or three days if f 1 vomiting to cause a bleeding of the asked Mr Hanson About A bout that time answered the witness Watch atch Clock Closely They were fighting it out along this Inc ino at two minutes to 12 when Mr an n asked the court i if it it wasn't to adjourn for tho the noon recess J Judge Armstrong looked over at atthe the flock OCr ock on o the tho wall wan and intimated that hero o st ll remained two minutes antI ami r. r Hanson went ahead 3 again in question question- S S in ing the witness as to the properties of other irritant poisons until it was two minutes S after 1 12 when a halt was called With the tho monotonous medical testimony testimony testimony mony the tho trial is dra dragging int somewhat It seems that the duel between the tho attorneys attorneys at at- will finally narrow v down to the question of the manner in which tho the dru drug whatever it was got ot into tho the glass out of which Mrs Vance is said to have taken a drink of ot water causing her ber condition condition condition con con- to become worse until she died |