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iv) mb wne anu Kepi me second himself. When Mrs. Johnson asked why he hadn’t given Carter a glass, her husband explained that the lemonade in the glasses contained aloes bitters and that since their guest didn't drink spirits, he could help himself from the pitcher and glasses on the table behind her, Carter said.
Bitter Drink
Carte/ recalled that Mrs. Johnson complained about the bitterness of her lemonade only to have her husband remind her that Dr. Kinsey had said it would do her good to drink it.
Johnson asked for her empty glass to rinse out, saying that there may be a few aloes left in it, according to the witness.
Immediately after finishing the lemonade, the two men left. About a quarter of a mile outside of Washington, Johnson's hired man Franklin Gearing caught up to them with the message that Mrs. Johnson would “die very soon if not relieved." According to Carter, Johnson sent the man after a doctor and turned for home himself.
Accused Husband
Gearing told the jury that he was cleaning up wheat when he heard Mrs. Johnson scream and ran to the house to find her in convulsions, crying that she’d been poisoned. She told the hired man that her husband wanted her out of the way and that if she recovered, she would never drink anything from his hands as long as she lived.
According to Gearing’s testimony, her littfc five-yearold daughter asked, “Ma, are you going to die?” and Mrs. Johnson answered, “Yes, my child, and your father has poisoned me.”
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