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SENSATIONALDevelopments in Taggart Case Con- j» tinue Scandalous—Testimony ofia Orrville Witnesses Interesting.nnSATURDAY.Perry Rope, Wooster lad, testified he had seen Mrs. Taggart buy and givefibeer to her children at Koch's saloon.'sMrs. Taggart later had him arrested for perjury. He was released on $300 bail furnished by Edd S. Wertz.tc1;fotfAccording to the deposition of a nurse in Christ hospital, Cincinnati, Mrs. Taggart said to her that she had received the attention of a prominent senator in Washington and others high in official life.trt1Cross examination of nurse. Said Mrs. Taggart was in hospital several months, was a bed patient for a few days. Nurse says cause was a mysterious one.The deposition of Caroline Schollen-berger taken at Cincinnati. Age 37 years and resides at Winton Place. I was a trained nurse. I was employed at Christ hospital. I know Grace Taggart. Saw her in 1900. I was attending her as a nurse. Her case was different from other cases. I did not know what the trouble was. Smyser asked why her case was different from Sterling's case or “any other female” who was there? This caused a ripple of laughter.\t]fAnna Pierce, a superintendent of Christ hospital, then deposed. She had charge of all hospital records. She read the hospital record of Grace Taggart. Date of admission, May 9, 1900. Name, Miss Grace Taggart. Case, private. Diagonsis, cysittis, vagimites, Bartholinutes. Treatment, poultices, sedatives, bitter tonic. Discharge, June 21, 1900.Clerk Esselburn then swore Mrs. Peter Everly, a very aged lady from Orrville, wife of the former proprietor of the National house. She knew Mr. and Mrs. Taggart, lived near Morrow Taggart's. Wm Taggart was about frequently “just as though he livedthere.”Saw Billy going away from the house, out the back door as early as 5 a. m. Always go in back door in evening. She saw Billy carry bottles in the house. Afterwards they were put under the back porch, about a barrel. My husband got four bottles from under the porch. She said whiskey.had been in bottles. Alex. Clark took a cane and pulled out a lot of bottles from under the porch. Billy took a lot of bottles down below the house to a drain and mashed them up as though he was mad at them.In an article in the Cleveland Press Friday night the name of Paul Stauffer, son of Rev. Stauffer of the Wooster Episcopal church, was mentioned and it
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Orrville Courier
Orrville, Ohio, US
Fri, Aug 11, 1905
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