OCR Text |
Show DR. MAYO TELLS STORY - OFMISS HILL'S DEATH the Jury District Attorney Elchnor briefly reviewed the circumstances attending at-tending Miss Hill's death and said that the State expected to show her sudden demise resulted from a criminal operation oper-ation performed by Dr. Payne. Mr. Elchnor was about to show to the jurors jur-ors the cheesecloth which Miss Hill had purchased when an objection by the attorney for the defendant was sustained. The first witness called was Prof. McKay, who testified that he had known Miss Hill for twenty-three I years, and that he first met her in i Missouri. He said that on the morning morn-ing of December 20, 1902, she had eaten a light breakfast and left the house I before he did and that the next time he saw her she was lying dead In Dr. Payne's office. The fact that Miss Hill had been a married mar-ried woman was elicited from the next witness, Mrs. McKay by Attorney W. F. Wanless for the defense. Mrs. McKay said that Miss Hill and a young man by the name of John Wright were married In San Francisco about l&M. They had been engaged In Missouri when quite young and when Miss Hill came out here Mr. Wright went to California. 8he then went to San Francisco and they were married. mar-ried. Their married life, however, was of short duration. They seemed to be Incompatible In-compatible and she could not leve her husband as she thought she ought to. Six or eight weeks after their marriage Mrs. Wright left her husband to go back to her mother In Mlssourk He then secured a divorce on the grounl of desertion and the, girl again assumed her maiden name of Hill. Very few people in Salt Lake kirew that Miss Hill hai ever been otherwise other-wise than a single woman. Mrs. McKay testified that she had found a box of pills In a letter case that had been overlooked by the police in their search of the room occupied by Miss Hill in the McKay home. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Bond, the third witness called, testined to having seen Miss Hill crossing the street from the Deseret National bank on First South street to the opposite comer. She saw the deceased woman about 10:30 o'clock on the morning of her death. Miss Hill was walking briskly and there was nothing about her appearance unusual or different , than at other times. Charles E. L. Jack3on said that he was employed as a clerk In Auerbach's store on December lth last and that about 11:15 on that morning a youn woman purchased pur-chased four yards of cheese cloth from him. He next saw her at the undertaking parlors of S. D. Evans on State street, where he was taken by an ofiicer. Ha Identlnod her as the same, woman who had made the purcnase and learned at that time that her name was Anna D. Hill. On cross-examination he said that he had asked her if she wanted that kind of cloth that Is usd for surgical purposes and -that Miss Hill had answered liv thx affirmative. He noticed nothing unusual about her except that she seemed to be In a hum Says' Her Life Was Destroyed De-stroyed by Criminal Operation, Not Self-Performed. Self-Performed. . No new evidence was brought out during the morning session of the Payne case. Nearly all the time was taken up by the testimony of County Physician Mayo. During the giving of his testimony tes-timony Dr. and Mrs. Payne conversed together many times and frequently smiled as though the evidence amused them. Dr. Payne entered the courtroom appearing ap-pearing pale and wan and was quickly joined by his wife and little daughter. Notwithstanding her fainting attack yesterday, Mrs. Payne appeared less nervous thau formerly, although botti she and her husband begin to show the effects of the steady strain. Their little daughter seems the only one who does not realise the seriousness serious-ness of the offense charged. She played around her parents and spent a large amount of time talking and playing with Attorney Schulder. Office Neighbor Testifies. William H. Tremayne, an assayer, was the first witness called. He occupies oc-cupies a suite of rooms directly across the hall from the office of Dr. Payne. He testified that he was in his office on December 20th and that the first he knew of Miss Hill's death was when persons began filing in. The defendants defend-ants objected to this testimony, but the objection was overruled and the witness wit-ness was excused. Detective Chase then testified, Identifying Iden-tifying a number of articles of wearing wear-ing apparel belonging to Miss HUL Attorney At-torney Elchnor asked him what the distance dis-tance was between the Payne office and the police station and he was allowed al-lowed to answer over the objection of the defense. Mayo Had Examined Body. Dr. Mayo, county physician, was then called. He testified as to having seen the body of Miss Hill about 3 o'clock in the afternoon of December, 20th at the office of Dr. Payne and made a partial examination. At 4 o'clock of the same afternoon he made a more careful examination of the corpse at Evans' undertaking parlors. A cloth was produced in court and Dr. Mayo said that it was on the body of Miss Hill and contained fresh blood when he made the examination. He said that the body was stripped that night, and further investigations made. Nearly all the organs were found to be normal, and the stomach contained about a pint of food. This examination also indicated that Miss Hill had been In a delicate condition for a period of three months. Numerous conditions, said Dr. Mayo, indicated that an operation had been performed within two hours of Miss Hill's death. The satchel of Dr. Payne containing surgical Instruments was next examined by Dr. Mayo and the instrument which Is supposed to have been used pointed out. : The witness said that. In his Judgment, Miss Hill could not have performed the operation herself, because the acute pain which would be caused by such an operation op-eration would be more than she would be able to bear. In Dr. Mayo's Judgment, there was no necessity for an operation in order to keep the patient in health. At this Juncture Dr. Mayo went through all the instruments In the satchel and described each minutely and told their uses. A number of anaesthetics anaesthet-ics and their effects were next described by witness. The death of Miss Anna D. Hill, in his Judgment, was caused by paralysis of the pneumogastrlc nerve, which supplies the liver, heart and stomach with nerve force. The box of pills found In Miss Hill's room was next Introduced. They were found to contain one grain pulverized aloes, one grain sulphate of iron, one grain cottonwood bark, one grain extract ex-tract of ergot, one-quarter grain oil of Bavin, one-quarter grain extracted oil of savin. In the opinion of the doctor, it would be fatal for anyone to take more than twenty of these pills at one dose. ANNA D. HILL HAD BEEN MARRIED AND DIVORCED FROM JOHN WRIGHT. The first sensational testimony In the trial of Dr. E. S. Payne was brought out late yesterday afternoon, when Mrs. G. N. McKay declared under cross-examination by the defendant's attorney, that Anna D. Hill, with whose death Dr. Payne is charged, had been married and divorced. Miss Hill had kept the fact of her marriage a close secret, and the many friends here had no suspicion that she had ever been a wife. " In making his opening statement to ' . i |