Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1909 — DR. CLEMINSON IN COURT [ARTICLE]

DR. CLEMINSON IN COURT

Case of Suspected Uxoricide Goes Over Pending Chemists' Report. Chicago, June 4. —Dr. Haldane Cleminson was in court, but the hearing went over pending reports by chemists on the contents of the stomach of the slain wife of the physician. While it will take two weeks to make a thorough examination of what had been received in the woman's stomach, it is stated by Police Captain Kane that traces of morphine have been found already. Dr. Cleminson was found in an apparently semi-conscuous condition in his cell by Lockup Keeper William Jackson. According to Dr. William Hanlon of the ambulance at the Sheffield avenue station he is shamming illness in the hope of being removed to a hospital. Cleminson said he had eaten several bananas his father had purchased for him and two sandwiches given him by another friend. Dr. Hanlon at first suspected these might have contained poison, but Dr. Cleminson refused to allow him to use the stomach pump to verify this theory.