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Show 00 MRS. SCHENK A COLD BLOODED MURDERESS Wheeling, W. Va., Jan. 14. In tho Schenk case today, Eleanor Zockler, tho delectivo nurse put on tbe caso I by the prosecutor, on tho witness' stand, said she was instructed to leave 1 nothing undone to catch Mrs. Schenk administering poison to her husband The witness then said Mrs. Schenk asked her to Like John's keys if he died and, by all means, to prevent tho Schenks from getting them. The witness told Mrs. Schenk. that Albert Schenk had been at the hospital hos-pital with a bundlo or papers for John to sign. Then Mrs. Schenk said: "Every time "Miss Evans calls me up and Bays that the man Is worse, I am the happiest woman on earth and I wish he would die. I feel I could kill him." "Why don't you do It," asked the witness. -. ,, "Would you do it?" asked Mrs," Schenk A ' "That's another matter," I replied. "I need money pretty bad." "How much vould you take to do it?" asked -MrsSchenk. "I told her $5,000,"- continued tho witness, "but she said she did not have that much money, although she wanted mo to give John n pill and said she would gic $1,000 and get the stuff to bring to tho hospital tho next "Ifcin'li ini, , adJjIihiL. day. Sho said I could easily put tho poison In his medicine, place it beside be-side his bed and he would tako it him- "I asked Mrs Schenk how sho could ?mnd, ! ,, Jobn d,ed a"d wc had killed him," continued the, witness "I would wear a double veil s6 they could not see me laugh," sho replied |