Show k t I l 1 J i L rA q ya I w wI wl wi j 1 I J 1 flANGE i i l Armstrong Permits th the Proofs t to te Lie With THree e Counts EVIDENCE EVIDENCE r ALL ACt t TECHNICAL cAL cALr Cl lLo o Delved Deeply Into luto by y to 10 Ascertain Effects is or of Poison liaf neither trio beating alleged lo to administered to Mrs Mr Irs Thom BB us im c nor nOI alleged all to havo bout h r afterwards s jy bar hor husband hus hua band was alone alono responsible for her hor death de th but that thit these two causes oper operating operating operating conjointly or 01 either of them pro pre produced tho Is what the tho prosecution prosecution tion In tho the Vance case will seek neck to This Tails point p Is the one ono bro cout t at this tl ls mornings session of the Third district court In which Judge Jt dg George G ol G Armstrong opened trio the W session by liy ruling on n the notion motion of the tho defense tl made Wednesday afternoon that this the prosecution bo be compelled to elect one oJ the three throe county counts alleged In the tho complaint One of t these counts alleged death deaU from fr beating another from poisoning and a CL of both bolh poisoning Judge Arm Ann which was teas given at tim the op court was Wa that the motion of time defense defonso would bo be overruled thus lIms I allowing aJl the tho prosecution to 10 prove provo its case oh eu on any one of three counts Contrary to t the tho general expectation I i the th defense defonso made mado no extended state slate Its case caso In opening this morn mornIng mut n nj j Ing The Th impassioned l plea to the tho Jury j ry 1 u mt familiar Ill u at such times I 1 iho more Impassioned effort lif In the summing up lIl arguments was WU 1 The j move of the defense on ob obtaining obtaining tho the case ease through h the tho resting of j the tho prosecution pro Wednesday afternoon l I r m was to put pu on on witnesses through ough whom i J they hope to prove provo that Mrs Vance Vanco herself h took another nother i poison polson mm as medi mod medicine medicine cine due was the tho real cause of her has l C I death and that t lt this other thor poison polson could have produced PIo the symptoms recorded as easily as os it Is s alleged Vance Vanco Vall co put in n her drink drinking big ing In water l t Time The witnesses were wore J Vance Vallee through whom wh tn it II was sought to prove severity of the beating auntie admin Isle it ed d had been overdrawn overdrawn by tho the prosecution John Kelly lelly nil In expert pharmacist from Ogden who was wan ask asked asked asked ed as n to tei tho the effect of mercuric n hi bl chloride tablets on oil water and tho the length j of t time it would w uld take a tablet dissolved to poison n a glass 1 of water State Chemist Horman mai 1 y Harms II who had already appeared appe red for f forthe r the prosecution and Dr DI J if If F Monahan introduced as a medical expert cally Bally equipped to t judge jud o tho effect of essential oil of of f taken internal internally Jy ly I Tit It had been beon stated slated slat d by a Ii present pr sent while whilo Mrs Mr Vance was WI i ill III at Lt her h l that she had hall smelled d oil all of In the tho of the tho patient l ll l 1 f lUSS E s Tho first witness called eu Jed to to t the rho stand standby standby by tho the defense defonso was I Lona yance daugh ter of Mary Vance Tho Jho The defense attempted to provo If tar beating baiting administered to Mrs Vaco Vace by her h r husband had been very severe she sho could not have carried hor her small child down town 1 Immediately after afterwards afterwards afterwards wards JUdge Maginnis attorney for the do de defonse fonse asked tho the witness how howald old tho thu baby was when her hel mother went up uptown uptown J town mind and o her hel mother had in intended intended tended tend d going The Tho witness replied that thal tho the baby was wal two years old and und that her hol mother went Crept to Lo a blacksmith shop tho the location of which slie she did not know 4 Tho witness was then dismissed and Dr John T Kelley ana an Ogden pharmacist I cist was called to tho the stand and gave expert testimony concerning the tho U e nature and length le of time timo necessary to the of mercuric The Tho defense sought Bought to prove that un an under antler del der the tho conditions of the Vance Vanco pole poU po owing oiling case that mercuric If It f administered red in u n glass of o of mater could not have gone Into solution in l sufficient quantity to cause causo death Dr DI Kelley testified that he lie had hael made mado madof f many tests and experiments upon the tho solubility of mercuric under various and anel diverse conditions conell Ho He r r said mild f o ld that if a mercuric tab tablet tablet 4 let were dropped croppe Into a glass glus of wa tva water ter tel mid and was seas not shaped or 01 stirred It a would take tako five IIvo hours for fOI tho the tablet talet to tl dissolve If the solution was stirred or I shaken however solution could take place In 10 and If the th tablet t solution s would take place In a very short time Dr DI Kelley was 1 united by the defense If ho Inc filled tho thu thoi jj prescription in hl question and replied that he ho had no recollection of lIf so do doIng doIng i Ing Irma and that he did not nut believe that It was filled jat at at his drug store In III re ro reply I ply to to t a ll technical hp replied that he ho had tested the tho water In ln tho the II ups up 7 s per part of a n lass two tw o liours after at ter dropping dr mercuric a 11 bl m In n It and I had found f und n no trace of the mercury lIe He testified d that mercuric me cu to could readily be b recognized le m hI solution by Its strong metallic taste in conclusion ho he tI toa to a quo t cl the tablet ablo wore ore crushed clu hed and scattered Ivel the tho thos surface s of Qt the th hater It would take tak four or five live minutes for tOI S solution to take place piece Herman Hrman Harms city elty chemist was us called to the stand l d next nex and testified test I fled to 1 the th pame I Kelley ice n lug Ing the th solubility s of mercuric mercuric Ido ide Ho IC l nominal ot person In III normal physical condition would o ld not Immediately In perceive that lout poison was In The rite defense defonso objected to the questioned m n the ground id that the thu witness ss t competent to Judge Of f the physical condition of Mrs 1116 Vance ranee at the time the tho alleged poison pr was administered The objection was over oel overruled ruled Armstrong find and the tie wit witness witness ness nose answered n person in normal no 1111 1 Physical condition could detect an ap amount of mercuric ide In a C drinking potion Mr Harms further slid that were cro the tho water containing Ol the th poison p lson drank Imme after atter the poison polson was WILS added onia only oni a 11 small quantity of tho the poison polson would be bo blIn In solution DR ON STAND Dr DI T 1 F of Salt Lake Lalo was US the th next witness for fOI the II defense and und his Ills testimony te was calculated to show ho that the symptoms of oC oil of poisoning were ere similar to those tho of mer mercuric curl curic poisoning The Tho essen oil nil of ot Is IB a thug drug used In iii criminal operations and earlier In tho the I trial testimony tE had luul been Introduced to show that vomit omitted ted by IJ Mrs Irs Vance Vanco had smelled of the llio o savino sa vine oil Tho The defense Is trying to prove that Mrs DAs Vance ance might have hao died from the tho effects of pf oil of oC or sonic song jom other drug Tho prosecution however fol forced eed an as admission slon from Cl m Dr that th l tire tiro symptoms were exactly those of tho the poisonous oil and that the oil takes much longer to act net than does the mercuric All poisoning H symptoms were ac e by IJ both the defense e and amid the tiro prosecution The doctor was asked by the thc defense defonso that after considering all the symptoms of liC the lire death of gf f Mrs Ils Vance Yance and und the fact that Mrs Vance Vanco laud hud carried the child down d wn town Im hn Immediately mediately after the boating beating did he ha the tho witness consider that the death of Mrs 1111 Vance VancO Was duo due lo to the kicking admin administered stored by Vance ancl He Ho replied that he le did not bello so 80 o A discussion then began between the th witness and prose prosecution prosecution prosecution cution concerning poisoning Medical authorities were quoted With tho the symptoms named and suddenness of vomiting taken as a IL hypothesis Dr Dt admitted that the tho Indica Indications Indications indications were that death deuth was not caused by oil of c DEFENDANT CHUGS CHES GUM GUI Tile The defendant Vance sits quietly quiet by tl and amid seems to take only a casual Inter Interest interest est cist in hi the trill trial Ho chews gum gnu con continually con COI continually Two 10 small red spots around his temples make ke It I apparent how lew however ever that he laboring Is under a rL nerv nervous lI nervous rv ous strain k |