Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1867-12-18

blood, and urged that, where ample op.
portunities have existed to enable the pro.
secution to make these tests. they should
be held TO them, or that testimony of an
inferior character shond be excluded.
The objection was overruled.
Answer dom. know; there are two
kinds of d,scoloration on the axe; il re-
quires a very expert man to test it; am
unable to say whether or not it is blood:
it was less discolored when I got it than
now; it was brighter; it first increased, ;,
and then diminished; there was hair
stuck on to it when | received it; it was
stuck to the dark spot; it was about one
and half inches in length, of dark brown
color; it was fine hair; think this is the
beetle; I took it to the house and examin-
ed it; | discovered one hair an inch and
half long, of dark color; the beetle was
greener then than now.
Cross examined By Mr. Williams
There are hairs upon it now; some light,
some dark, some short, some long; ex.
amned it half an hour the first time | saw
it, thoroughly, and found none of these;
when We ran the ashes through the screen,
we saved all that were caught; the balance
are 10 my office,--about this box full e.
l0O-cigar box J; there are points of resem-
blance between the human skull and those
of animal; the connections of different
parts are similar. The bones claimed to
belong to the skull were very much bro
ken up -REpoRrER 1t is difficult
matter to consume the human body by
| fire, requiring An intense heat to do so
quickly; there are great many fluids in
the body; the tendency is to crust over,
instead of consuming; | think human
body could be consumed in single night,
provided the fire was large and well tend
ed; in the open air some heat is lost;
should judge that there were from two to
three bushels of ashes; | have no means
OF determining whether those are the bones
of male or female; the bones of an old
skeleton burned down to the same extent
would present like appearance; the bones
in the region of the joints, being more
porous, consume more readily than the
shafts; these portions have not brought
here, as they could not be identified as
human bones it requires greater degree
of heat to fuse iron than to destroy a hu-
man body; in human body weighing so
pounds, the proportion OF bone is about
10 per cent.
Redirect examination 6y Mr. Thorn
[ knew Schnepf; be Was brought to me by
a German doctor to be examined for Ium-
bago, for pension; he was not 1eshy; had
firm muscles; was of medium size, he
was lean, about the size of his son (the
prisoner); there are authorities for sponta-
| neous combustion: that certain classes of
aged intemperate persons burn more easi.
~ than others; there are about two gallons
of blood weighing 28 pounds, in body OF
average size; the fatty portions of the
body would furnish some fuel; in per.
son recently deceased, there is some fatty
matter 10 the bones.
difficult, If not impossible, to consume
body laid upon the ground, with fuel
placed upon i, than if suspended in the,pile.
DR.. James Cody s,oorn for the State
L reside in Watertown; have been
physician and surgeon over twenty three
years. [ have examined these bones with
DR.. Spsuldiog; these toe bones are human
bones; this recognize as portion of the
Jaw bone of human body. I should re-
cognize this as portion of the lower HUI
| morous of the left arm; give no opinion
AS to the skull bones or the vertebre; [
Judge the teeth 10 be human ones.
Cross esonined-I have never made
| desectons of animals with view TO the
| study of comparative anatomy; [ should
judge that it would require very intense
heat to consume human body.
| Dr. G.. p. !SoutheoeH sworu for the
Stats-l am a dentist; have prac.ised over
two years; have seen good many teeth;
[ should call some of these human teeth;
some are so far destroyed that [ cannot
determine. f:.# 81.
Cross erana;ned-I have examined the
teeth of animals; those of hog to-day;
these are not hogs teeth,
MILO Corey sscorr for the State-I re-
side in Milford, Jefferson county; knew
Charles Schnepf for seven or eight years;
on the night of April 10th, | went to
Schnepf's with Brooks Fuller, about 40
hour before sun down; Fuller wentin first;
Joe was eating, and asked if he had heard
anything of his father; Joe told about their
going to the field; be said they worked to
9 or 10 o'clock, when his father said he
must go to town to get some tobacco and
see about seed wheat; [ think he told
about burning log heap; he said he burn
ed brush heap, and he said he drew
some large wood and put on it,-some two
or three loads; be said he burned it after
S o'clock Wednesday aftsrnoon; he said
hard wood; he said his father told him to
burn that heap; be said his mother told
him it was little misty, and not to set it,