Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1909 — USE CLEMINSON REMARKS [ARTICLE]

USE CLEMINSON REMARKS

Doctor’s Statements to Police Evidence In Trial For Murder. Chicago, Nov. 9. —Admissions that the physician accused of uxoricide is declared to have made following his wife’s death were testified to in the trial of Dr. Haldane Cleminson. “If I’d known what I was up against I’d have told the truth,” Dr. Cleminson told Detective George McGowan, according to McGowan’s statement. “If It isn't burglars, then I suppose it’s up to me," he said to Detective Edward Strum, according to that officer’s testimony. “I thought I had nerve, but I guess I haven't,” he said to Sergeant Patrick J. O’Brien, when the latter stood watching him as he lay on a couch in the diningroom of the Cleminson house on the morning Mrs. Cleminson’s body was found.