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Show WOMAN ON TRIAL , "EXPLAINS POISON 'T PURCHASE OGDKX, Feb. 5, Mrs. Laura Barker charged with finrt degree murder in connection with the death of ber husband, hus-band, Charles Lee Barker, a railroad man, today told the Jury in the district court why she had purchased artenic 'from an Idaho druggist. The state introduced in-troduced evidence that Barker came to I his death from arsenical iKirtonin (July 9. last. j Mrs. Barker said that she had been advised by a friend that if she made ia mixture, using arsenic as a base, she could escape contracting a serious disease with which her husband was afflicted. She procured a small box of i poison, she said, from a druggist ut 'Bancroft, Ida., while she was in Bancroft Ban-croft visiting a brother. r I The case will go to the Jury Mon- Iday. The state has only one more witness wit-ness to call in rebuttal. The evidence i against the woman In substance consists con-sists of the testimony of a physician and chemist that Barker's death was due to arsenic and the testimony that Mrs. Barker purchased arsenic a fi-ur days prior to Barker's death. The defense has introduced evidence that Barker was often despondent because be-cause of the disease with which he wan i afflicted. j' |