The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1868-09-20

from MIR. and Mrs Hujus The, sale that she drank
herself TO death; they said she frank 81 worth OF
liquor: they did not mention the liquor; neither Mr..
nor Mrs. Hujus told me who took care Of Mrs. Gam
Bile when she was sick; neither did Mr.. Gamble.
TESTIMONY OF GEORGE sHUMAN.
George Shuman swOrn:-The witness was son or
the last witness. and cOrroborated the evidence OF
him seven dollars for his mother: he further testified
as to seeing Mrs. Gamble three times before her
death.
TESTIMONY OF NICHOLAS v. VAN HoUTEN.
am twenty-seven years Old and physician by oc-
cupation; have been engaged in the regular prac-
tce Of medicine for about twenty months; know
Mr.. Gamble and Mrs. Hujus now present: knew Mrs.
Gamble during her lifetime; attended Mrs. Gamble
during her last illness; commenced treating her
about the frst part OF last June; did not see her
again until the 25th Of July continued to visit her
on the two succeeding days; then saw her ON the
l9th ana every day until the 18th; then on the
27th and 2sth, and then again the 1st OF Au-
gust; the next time was on the I'd OF August, be-
tween SIX ana seven O'Clock In the morning;
she was dead and Land out; / made no examination
OF the corpse; when saw her the 1st OF June
sle was ON the bed complaining OF pain in her bow
els ner pulse was slightly increased in frequency,
and she said she had not slept Tor two or three nights
she was very laxative; prescribed for her by CIV
lhe her morphine; gave her about "a quarter OF a
grain, made up III two or three powders; left in
structions that one powder to be gwen once in
three OF four hours; Mr.. Gamble was present when
gave these Instructions saw Mrs. HUNS ana the
servant girl about the house: told Mr.. Gamble at
this time in answer to his question f she was dan
gerous, that did not think so; supposed that
there was some Inflammation OF The mucous lining OF
the membrane OF the bowels; the next time | WIS.,
lied her gave some quinine and some podophyn,
Ill powders with Instructions that TO be
taken in every four or five hours; also left NOR
phine powder, containing onesiXth Of a grain, TO
be taken at night these instructions given to
Mr.. Gamble AT this time Mrs Gamble was lying in
bed, feeling quite WELL only a little weak.
The witness then detailed that the third visit he
gave morphine powder, and columbia root for an
infusion; fourth time opium and podophylin; that
the nth time he found her complaining OF pain In
the bowels and OF fulnesS about the region OF The
liver, her pulse was increased her tongue was
coated and moist and she restless and could not
sleep; he prescribed this time half grain of pecac
and one grain of eptandrin; when he again visited
she was no better and the symptoms of disease fur
ther increased; he prescribed podophylin the next
time opium and leptandrn; the next time opium,
ipecac anu leptandrin; the next time morphine
pOwder the next time ipecac and bicarbonate OF
soda; the next time he did not prescribe but
the 9th OF July he gave her a grain of morphine
two grains of pOdophyln to be taken at night;
on the LIST OF August, and the last time, he
gra ms of podophylin; the Instructions were each
time given to Mr.. Gamble and each time he saw Mrs.
HuJus about the house. He then stated the symp,
toms ON each visit, which were the same as stated
above, but which varied either for the better or
worse. He also testified to having prescribed brandy
on two OCCASIONS and also to having met Mr.. Gam
BILE and Mrs. Hujus out riding.
II upon analysts traces Of mineral poison, in guam
titles sufficient produce death OF Mrs. Gamble
were found in ner stomach l could not tell how it
got there; no physician except myself to my know
2Sth of July until the LIST of August, for the
| that did not think her condition was such as TO
make 1t necessary: Mrs. Gamble called me on the
OF fulness In the stomach in june but about the
liver do not recOllect.
me crosse examination was suspended and the
animation adjourned.
Second Days Neutrality-suspicious. IS.
DR. NICHOLAS c. VAN HOUTEN RECALLED.
DR.. Nicholas 9. Van Houten was continued on the
stand.-On the LIST day OF August, when L saw Mrs.
Gamble there was lighted lamp in the room; | dd
not know that her eyes were sensitive to anyt thing
more than natural the lamp was at distance from
Mrs. Gamble of six or eight feet it her right
az u ia w a i'm hnd md Gfa an hurAn
ana was standing so that the lamp would place the
light on the right side OF Mrs. Gamble; removed
because wanted to her tongue; think she had
her eyes closed did not look them: Mrs. Gamble,
In the lower part of her bowels; she said that
had some pain pointing to the lower part Of her alb
domen; the location OF the pain, as Mrs. Gamble
pointed 1t out TO me, was pretty much about the
region OF the BLADDER this occasion 1.-THE LIST
OF AugusD made an examination OF her pulse
and eye, as well Of her tongue and abdomen,
as have before stated: I did not examine her
chest; also examined her hands, but not her feet;
did not discover that al any time she had pain other
than about the region of the bladder; ordered
mustard poultice to be placed on the abdomen; do
not know OF my own knowledge that it was SO
placed; on Sunday morning. when called and found
she was dead did not know that she had taken all
the medicine had LEFT on the Saturday previous,
do not now know; ! asked Mr.. Gamble and Mrs.
Hu1us whether my directions had been complied
with; they said they had not given her any medicine
asked why he had not given the medicine left;
think did ask him about the manner Of her death;
did; that she appeared to be awake about half an
hour before she died. and that she rolled over and
Immediately expired; do not recollect that he said
she spoke to any one before her death; did not say
how long Mrs. Gamble slept before she died; Mr.
Gamble said she had slept after she had taken the
opiate | prescribed did not ask who was present
when Mrs Gamble died: have not heard from Gamble
or Mrs. nujus who were present when Mrs. Gamble
died; before the LIST Of August never Mrs. Gam
BILE drink liquor; on the LIST day OF August last, when
you first called on her, did not notice any odor OF
liquor about her breath before gave her the brandy;
her bowels were not constipated any time during
my visits on Mrs. Gamble her bowels were not loose
at any time during my attendance the pain OF
which Mrs. Gamble complained was not one OF sore
ness and tenderness, and the pain seemed to resent
bic that OF cholc; administered the p0dOplyln to
operate chiefly on the liver; when Mr. Gamble came
to the LIST he said 1t was because his wife
Candles symptoms: when went into the room on
that day did not see any one attending her; Mrs.
Gamble did not, to my knowledge, die OF any
disease; do not, nor did not at that time, know OF
any disease sufficient to cause death; during the
twenty months have been in the practice Of medi-
cine have not seen case OF poison resulting in the
death OF the person; have called see one case
where poison has been given as treatment accident
ally; the poison was kerosene Oil; that is the only
case have been called upon professionally.
The cross-examination Of this witness developed
nothing but has already been stated by the witness
ct the previous examination, beyond that upon two
occasions when he visited the patient she was COM
planning Of nausea, which he attributed to irra-
Bile condition OF the mucous membrane OF the stom
ach; this visitation, he thought was induced by the
excessive use OF stimulants-liquor; he thought all
tDe symptoms Oh PAIN she cOmpalneu OF were IN
duced by this same excessive use OF liquor, and that
on one occasion that he called he had found her
under the influence OF liquor and that he was sensi
BILE OF the odor OF liquor about her breath three
occasions, and that he thought that death
caused by liquor. The purpose OF the crossexamna.
ton to show that she had been In the habit Of
using stinulants for some time, not only while she
was living In Rockland county, but while living in
New York
Re-drect-After the counsel for the defence had
concluded his crosseyamnation, Mr.. Daily, for the
prosecution again took up the witness This redirect
examination. developed the facts that the witness
not certain rs TO the odor about the breath OF
Mrs Gamble he had testified to, and that the certih
cate Of the cause OF the death Of Mrs. Gamble was
false and untrue and Was made out and delivered TO
Mr.. Gamble al his (Gamble's) special request The
certificate states that deceased died OF congestion of
the brain, liver and stomach, and he now testihes
that that certificate was untrue and made ont by
him to satisfy Mr.. Gamble. The redirect examina-