| Show examination ENDED THE AD ABORTION CASE CASK SUBMITTED TIM ACCUSED PARTIES TO ANSWER the preliminary examination in the irons yowl fowl er ivans abortion case which has occupied the time and attention of justice sp spiers 1 ers court for the past four or live days closed at twenty minutes to 12 this forenoon it had been resumed at 10 aln ain am from thursday evenin evening the first witness placed upon the 8 stand tand this morning was wag airs pratt this lady was wai recall reca tl d for purposes of additional examination by the krosec prosecution ution but was way ilou noi more than two or three ini minutes and was then excused dr hamilton was then sworn for the prosecution ills his testimony was of a dain damaging aging character to the defense lizzie lizzle eva evans as as has already been seen had admitted the use of certain instruments st upon her person by lr dr fowler shortly before the alleged abortion was consummated dr hamilton was called on to testify as to the nature of said instruments and the object of their use in the surgical profession the witness stated that the use of such instruments would be very dangerous in a case where there was any reason to believe tile the patient was pregnant and the use of any instruments at all ali in irk such a case would be considered bad practice ho ile was also asked is to the tho condition he found the patient in li buselt when he made an examination of her last tuesday this was objected to un on the ground of confidential communications between belvi een doctor and patient aird vird ick lck son claimed that there were exceptions to the rule referred to and that this was one of them but the court held that the qu question C stion wa was inadmissible as it would violate the confidence exist in ing lug between the physician and the patient ti ent under his examination this thia closed the I 1 investigation at lon ion the defense bense offering no evidence and the matter nuner was yas submitted without ar argument u judge spiers decided to irid hold hoid john W iron lions and dr alien allen fowler it il bonds of each to await the action of the grand jury sureties were f burnished urnis hed and the accused persons weno were uw 9 given ivon iven their liber ilber liberty tv whether Yh ether the present grand jury will take the matter up remains to be seen mr bir dickson in objecting to a continuance ot ol the examination gave as one reason that the gra grand jury was then in session and the prosecution wished the matter to be put right through so it could go before that body before they adjourned the testimony is now nov being bung transcribed b by the reporter A H winn vinn with th object presumably in view it will be several days before it Is completed however and it is doubtful that the matter will vill get before the jury before the middle middie of next week unless they take it il up independent of the testimony and subpoena the witnesses on their own account the latter is the usual mode of procedure with our grand juries |
