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Show I Witness in Murd er Case at Ogd en Missing IDAHO DRUGGIST SOED ARSENIC 'mm- I C. F. McDonald, After Giv- ing Testimony at Prelimi-: nary Hearing, Now Fails j to Appear in Court OGDKX. Feb. 4. It developed; today at the trial of Mrs.; Laura Harker, charged with first degree murder in connection with j the death of her husband, Charles ( !, Itarker, from arsenic, poisoning, . that the state's star witness, C. F. McDonald, a drupgist of Bancroft, j Ida., was missing. McDonald testified , til. the preliminary hearing that Mrs: Itarker had purchased a quantity of arsenic from him several days prior, lu the .eath of Harker. j Assistant Attorney Joseph B. Kvans j said that McDonald was in the Kaat on a purchasing tour and could not l'nrtr7iTeflT HehertMtcrTnrfnrtgp: t.porge W. Harker, who in hearing the trial, permission to read the transcript of the testimony offered by McDonald :it the preliminary hearing in view of hi absence. MAKES PROTEST. To this George Halvorsen, attorney for the defense, stoutly protested on the ground that at the preliminary hearing he was not given sufficient opportunity in whirl, to cross examine , McDonald. The Jury was dismiss! and the question taken up by the court. At the trial yesterday afternoon. William Fields, a fellow worker of Harker, told of visiting Harker at the skw hospitul. The question tame up while thf-r concerning some night clothes for Barker, which had been ordered. Barker had no money. Field declared that ho asked Barker if Mrs. Barker would not come up and pay for them to which Barker answered. lod, no, she'll never come up.' CHEMIST TESTIFIES. Herman Harms, state chemist, te- tified that he examined the content uf Barker's stomach sent to him hy Dr. H. W. Nelson and K. K. Worrell and found heavy traces of arsenic poisoning. pois-oning. Dr. Worrell, on the stand, said that he Judged from the actions of Barker that he had at last two grain.- of arsenic ar-senic in his stomach. He said that one-half one-half a grain was sufficient to kill and that only one-twentieth of a grain is ever administered in medicine. He further testified that from Barker's action, he had been given the arsenic six or wven days prior to his death. |