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Dr. J. S. Browning testified that he was called to the Johnson house with Dr. A. W. Read of Washington to perform a post mortem examination.
Finding all the woman’s organs healthy, they removed her stomach and its contents and placed them in the hands of Dr. R. E. Rogers of the University of Pennsylvania for analysis. Rogers told the jury he found evidence of strychnine in both.
Other witnesses swore that Johnson had argued against a post mortem, complaining that “the necessary mutilation of his wife's body would be repulsive to his feelings.”
Miss Lucinda Hoff, who arrived at the Johnson house about a half hour after Alice’s death, recalled Johnson saying he had no doubt his wife was poispned but maintaining that he was not the guilty party. She also testified that Johnson asked her to swear that his wife was “subject to fits” and in ill health.
Witness after witness told the jury that Mrs. Alice Johnson had been a healthy woman with no physical complaints.
Several neighbors called to testify by the defense said that they had never seen any bad treatment on the part of ■Johnson toward his wife; that the couple appeared to live together affectionately.
But according to Miss Susan Elliott, she heard Johnson tell Alice that he "married her for riches, not for love.”
Two witnesses testified that Johnson had strychnine in his possession. One had purchased some a few months earlier from the accused to poison sheep killing dogs and the second recalled Johnson telling him he bought it to protect his sheep. B. F. Kinsey, the physician who had attended both the Johnsons and Miss Mollie
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