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Show SAYS MRS, CODY GAVE LOVE POTION CHEVEXNB, Wyo.. Feb. l.-The trial of the divorce cass- of Col. William ii. Cody ("Buffalo Bill "), HK;iln:'t Ills wife, began in the? District court yesterday. Mrs. John W. E'yiv. whos? hiisukjid was for many years Cody's ranh foreman at North Platte. .if.. and who then lived on the t,'dy place, was 1'i.t oil the Hand by the plaintiff. She gave sensat'onal testimony to the effect that Mrs. ."jdv had administered to her husband on s-vera I occasions a drug known us ".Ir.ison y bloim." secured from a gypsy. :'d Mrs. 'ody need the drug to brui ta tJohmel under her Inlluence In order seeur? deeds and other papers from lilm, and th.it she heard Mrs. Codv say she did not care If the drug did kill Cody. Mrs. Boyer tcstiiWM tfiat Mrs. Cody was an habitual drinkci. was iuurrelP.onv and freiuen?!v ln3Uited Cody and his guests deliboratf ly. ti.i cnns-t-.v:imin:itio:l nho admfttr.l that Mr. Cody told hT the drug was a love Tpotion ai .l also that cue and Mrs. Cody had not b -ori on go-jd terms for a number of yearj-. |