The Placer herald., 1866-04-07
4o6. The body Of Lilly was found in the

400. The body OF Lilly WAS found IN the
grave marked No. 405. Either the bodies
or beadboards had been changed after bur-
isl aud before disinterment. The autopsy
revealed the fact that fifteen Of Lillys ribs
we're broken, nine on one side, six on the
other Some Of these ribs we're broken sew.
eral times, and we're found in short pieces.
There we're 10 all twenty.six fractures Of the
ribs, the sternum or breast bone was broken,
aud the right clavicle or collar bone disloca
ted. An examination Of the bones showed
that they certainly we're not friabe, and did
not appear to be particularly diseased, though
undoubtedly they would resist less force than
the corresponding bones in healthful and
athletic mao. When We consider the extent
Of these injuries, and remember that health,
ful bone will resist as much force ~ solid
oak Of twice ite sizs, the miod is appalled, at
the fiendisb, barbarous, and malignant spirit
which must have animated the guilty parties
in this transaction, and some conception is
attained Of the extent and degree Of abuse
which the body at some stage bad suffered.
The most powerful man could have survived
all these injuries only for few moments,
and 10 the most intense agony. A man 10
Lilly's physical condition never would have
breathed after them. 1t would have been
physically impossible for him to 6ll bis lungs
again. Yet the evidence shows that Lilly
did live several hours after the last injuries
known to have been afflicted in bis lifetime,
we're committed. Again, the external eviden
ces Of injury found on the body were very
slight, and the most critical examination
failed to detect either extravasatiou Of blood,
or any injury to the internal organs or soft
tissues adjacent to the fractured bones. The
character Of the fractures, too, was generally
transverse, and the bones but little shattered
or splintered. Each one of these circum
stances can be made to consist only with the
hypothesis that portion at least Of the in
juries we're inflicted after the circulation was
suspended-in other words, when life was ex
tinct. Still further: there was fonnd no ap
Proclamation to the degree Of swelling and
inflammation which must inevitably have ACT
companied such injuries bad they oil been
inflicted before death.
Science itself is somewhat staggered by
the many anomalies and apparent inconsist
encies which this extraordinary case presents.
But after svaiing ourselves of the best med
ica and professional opinions within our
reach, and after the most thorough and care.
ful consideration Of all the facts and sur
rounding circumstances, We say the conclu.
sion cannot be avoided, that some Of the
numerous injuries we're inflicted after death.
We have thus found two materials facts 10
this case:
F;rst-Tbat Lilly was crimiually killed
BY an employee 10 the Asylum;
Second-That the body was afterwards
brutalIy abused"
The Committs scout insinuations that had
been made, that the injuries to Lilly's body,
inflicted after death, we're a: the instance or
connivance Of either DR.. Tilden or the Board
Of Directors, but think It more probable they
we're committed BY Knapp, ian assistant OF
the Asylum) who first make the charge
against Drake Of killing Lilly, to more GER
taiuly sustain himself in making those
charges.