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

consume the body in small pieces than )
enfire; think a human body could not
De consumed IN that time, even in asteveE
or furnace | think should want at
least q day to consume a body lit would T
! purn soonest 1t kept abote the fire -
thInklt would be impossible to cons,,,n,.
oody lying upon the ground by pilpz
fuel upon 1t; should think there wonl1
be good deal of difficulty in co5nsamira
one in a brush, heap; it will consume -
most readily if kept so that the fame
would play around it body placed In -
| log heap would net be consumed vithon, sss
Eattentlon; more than three fourths of the 5
oouy ID water On an average; in some,
more perhaps IN hardly any one, less : -.
the ends and spongy portions of bone are
most readily consumed; it struck me
| thata large portion of these consist Of 's'
spongy ones; those IN the paper Eutro,
duced to-day] are quite rs much 50; the
bones of the leg, except the ends, are
more dense; the greater part of the long IS
bones are difficult of consumption T-ss
should consider it strange to find bone
with the dense part consumed and the -
porous ones remaining have seen the -
mails and buttons the same amount f
-heat required to burn up q body aud bone
would me Il all these metals except iron 80 3
ID consuming body the water must be
Incorporated; the tendance of FIRE upon the
flesh is to dry the surface, While the faids
remain inside; some evaporation, would
occur through the crust, but the result
would be relatively larger proportion Of
fluids internally; the tendency Of body
thrown into the fire is toaextinguishsit =
the body, to be readily consumed, should mr.
+ have attention there are. jaw bones of
animals resembling in part the human
the toe-bones look like human ones Of an
the Jaw, am not certain. 10 a,=t-,.., -
Cross-eeonpned bar lt', Thorw-Ques- :,
Ption-Could a body be burned in fire
set at 5 7. NJ. and still burning at IL -
M As<izs a o
F.. Answered. should think it impossible,
except with close attention; / think |
| could reduce a body to that conditions Ia
| twenty-four hours | should want sat- e.
6eient fuel TO keep up a goodsdegree OF
| heat, so that it would not be diminshedsii
| by the presence Of the body;a body ex,-.
hausted OF blood would burn more readily
than one containing it : in a lean, spare
man, weighing l5o pounds, / should think e
not more than 20 pounds would be blood; 4
a fat man would probably burn more
readily than lean one buckles, but
tons, &c, on the clothing might drop p
down and be covered by ashes; my i'm
preston is, that this bone is asItortion OF
1.-THE humerus.L - ~ - w II
+ Edegard johnson, sgorn for Sjte esforcsrg
FL am a druggist live In Watertown 80
was in California in 1852 and 1881 1v
/ Question-Haye you seen human bod I.
Hes burned there? sfeal3 r-sss.vz - -
7 Objection by state.a a of.lss,rs-,sv,
/ Objection oyerruled. -
I Answer-I noticed an en- campmcnt of
Indians; they had a. sick nlans; tl,efia-
! lowing day l. was Informed he~bad died.
and they prepared a funeral pile in the
afternoon, the body was laid upes a pile
! of wood with cross sticks 10 keep the
body from falling down; I saw the Ere
/ burning IN the afternoon of the first day
and also of the second day, but. almost
without human shape one~of the female
mourners thrust stick Into thesabdonlenk
and drew out some of the intestines xls
| think the fire was not an intense one
there was a drizzilng rain a portion of the
! time /; they continued burning for nearfy
| a week. the odor in the air was apparent
to me at the distance of So rods. it
made a good deal Of smoke: 2 T150H~f.S
:. Gross e.ranaipeR by 1Mr Tsor,,-Thes
pile was built BY a layer of logs on the
ground and upon them the wood was
placed beneath the body; the pile was.
longer than the body; should judge the
object was. to burn the body slowly.
Resdisect by Judge 0rto,s-I should
think that fire made of old stuff collect
ed in the forest, with HUMAN BODY
placed upon the top Of it, would require
four daysstoa consume st with fire Of
good hard wood, and The body inlthe cen
teF of it, it might be consumed in thirty;
SIX hours: or perhaps less 216,s 9d|
All the bones were here weighed.
The weight including several papers in
which they were contained, was three
pounds and one ounce.--REpoRTER I
Plus fNeeHe,. recqlJsd--Joe, in answer
to whatl said to him, said he would go
aud see or -tellhis mother ;,sthat was as
far as otlrbconversatio W Mt th en- at the
brush pile, when the bones were found
some one said it. looked as though he hads@
a pistol, and he ought to be arrested;1
walked up to him, and felt of his pockets,
and asked him if he had pistol; he said
no he first refused to give up the knife,
but soon did so !; some of them said he
ought to be hung; / said that must not
be done. aeitessa-sE -.szs - ez-s,--
- Cross-enon''He0s t9 .tadye Ortom--On