The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1864-11-18

was passing south on the east side of
Main street, and =. !, band of men
on horseback, armed with pistols, COM
ing north on said Main street | heard |
and saw said horsemen firing pistols,
| saw armed men taking horses that
were hitched in front of the stores and !
leading and riding horses from my
stable on the opposite side of said
Main street. / saw Elinus j. Morri-
son, standing in front of Miss Beat
ties millinery shop. stood within
/ five or six feet of said Morrison,
/ little northwest of him, near n large
elm tree, / saw one of the horsemen
point q pistol towards myself and
said Morrison and fire three times.
Directly after this firing heard said
Morrison exclaim che or they have
shot me through the body l turned
and saw said Morrison lean against
the corner of the millinery shop in u
crouching position. I fastened to his
side and assisted in taking him to the
drug store of t. Il. butcher & Son,
and in placing him on the bed in the
back ROOM / assisted in undressing
said Morrison to find the wound. |
saw awound little above and anterior
to the left hip bone, and apparently
penetrating the abdomen. The wound
was then bleeding. l left said Morri-
son there
Sworn to this Dist October, 1864,
before me LEONARD GILMAN,
Justice of the Peace.
MINUTES of post norton examination
made of the body of Elinus j. Nor
rison, Friday, o'clock P. NJ, Oct.
DIST, A. d. 1864 Present, Drs
John Branch, r. C. NJ. Woodward,
s. r. Day and IL F. Stevens. Six
hours after death
External appearances:-Rigor NOR
It's in moderate degree. Abdomen
moderately distended. Blood oozing
from nostrils on moving the body.
A wound, apparently bullet wound,
through the left hand, entering the up
per and dorsal portion between the sec
ond and third metacarpal bones, and
making its exit between the lower and
palmar portion of the same bones. In
troduced bullet probe into the wound
which gave the direction indicated.
Another wound in the left umbilical
region six and one fourth inches from
the center of umbilicus to centre of
said wound, and three and one half
inches from the left anterior, superior
spinous process of the left ilium to the
centre of said wound Diameter of
J said wound one half to three-fourths
of ali inch of oval form. Circumfer-
, ence of body at point of wound, thir-
/ ty-six inches.
, Proceeded to make incision from en-
/ siforme cartilage to the pubs, and
transversely one and one half inch
above the umbilicus and down on each
side of the abdomen, in order to ex-
pose its cavity.
} On laying open the cavity of the alb
domen, about six ounces of serum cs-
capped. The peritoneal covering of the
walls of the abdomen and of the
| intestines, presented evidences of
J recent Inflammation A quantity of CO.
: agulable lymph thrown out, united the
r small intestines to considerable extent
| Applied ligatures around the duodenum
near the pylorus and upon the rectum
: and removed the included portions Of
the intestines.
Found leaden Navy revolver bull
let lying Immediately internal to the
l point of the last floating rib of the
right side, and within the cavity of the
l abdomen.
l Examination of the removed portion
g of the intestines.
, Found bullet wound through the
descending portion of the colon and
also number of perforations through
7 the convolutions of the smaller intes-
tines. And we severally declare that
! in our opinion the wounds hereinbe-
fore described, were the cause and on
: ly cause of the death of tho said Eli
! nus j. Morrison.
JOHN BRANCH, M. ID.
|, r.. G. Nj. WOODWARD, Nj. d.
Q S. X. DAY, NJ. ID.
g III. +. STEVENS, M. ID.
| Subscribed and sworn to this 21st Of
2 Oct. 1864. Before me
. L. GILMAN,