The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1868-12-29

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anu '"'S' =" The Kill Murder Case.
Continued from second edition.
Question. Having experimental with pokers,
trying to fracture skulls, state whether it IS
possible, In your opinion, to do 1t Without bend.
Objected to, and objection sustained.
@. Have you experimented with stmil, ,r
poker upon human skull, with view of a.
certaining If 1t were possible to, fracture II
without bending the poker and in your an.
swer state the proportionate thickness of the
skull experimented upon with the aggregate
OBJECTED to. and objection sustained.
"a leaden dipsy was handed to the WiJuess.)
Witness-Having read d. Shapleigh's test
mony. L think the wounds could have been Ia
dicted on Mrs. Hills head with similar 10
Gross oss-examined-All the wounds might have
been inflicted by such such na weapon, but THIS t,,s
wound in the temple bone could not have been
inflicted without bending the instrument, oe.
cause the material is soft and would have shown
cuts from the contact with the sharp bones; IL
is possible TO have inflicted that wound with
the tongue of the poker into the temporal bone;
there is authority in Gross Book ofSurgery for
the temporal bone with a poker; but the tongue
would make clean hole; II, after the taole
OF the bone has been broken, and the blows are
would be comminuted IL after that the body
has been thrown out of q window and falls upon
comminuted fracturr but should rather think
it would run a fissure from this wound across
the skull; there Is no more reason that by re-
peated blows with dipsy wound extending
Into the brain could be made than That IL
eeula So not think Sas is would make maxi wound Whose
length and depth could be measured; If 1t were
to strike fragment of bone and drive 1t In,
cuts upon the scalp might have been made with
q dipsy; the more the dipsy was struck upon
1t could not make an incised would OF the skin
only, for 1t would crush the skull. nor could an
the temporal bone is the weakest point of
the skull; L cannot say that the skin at
parts; If that poker had been used upon the
skull 1t would not Of necessity have shown
blood; unless the branch Of large artery is
lncised wound; think 1T almost impossible
that these wounds could have been inflicted
BLOOD upon II; the woollen cap on her head
soaked blood.rspidly; SO think The question OF
pidity OF the blows and soaking; because a
skull is thick 1t Is not necessarily strong; an
there is more earihy material in 1t; there is in
the books authority for the fracture
of a skull with the fist and ordinary walking
| with a bottle would fracture skull; should
say this was death from shock and hemor-
when the brain is penetrated: when there has
been loss of blood, that which last flows will
rule coagulate in the human body until four or
i've hours after death; but 1t may com
mence within fifteen minutes; II cut
| is made in a body dead but fifteen
minutes 1t would bleed. unless all the blood in
the body was eoa@guated @ Yesterday ~. / say va a
death: 1t is rule that blood remains huid In
| the head longer than any other part OF the
body; on Christmas day saw body bleed
nineteen hours after death; IL Is not the rule
that blood coagulates fifteen minutes after
| death the rule is that it begins to coagulate
within five hours; blood will coagulate In the
open air In from one to thirty minutes; the
ooagulation of blood upon the surface OF the
| wound will retard the flow: twenty-one pounds
| or blood have been taken from decapitated
| body; II the blood Ia partly fluid and partly
| clotted, stepping into 1t might throw
| 1t up two feet; this of course denends upon the
degree OF coaguation, the weight OF the person
| stepping and the manner OF the stepping; do
| without getting blood upon the boots; found
| blood upon the shank OF the prisoners boot.
| and, perhaps, spot upon the sole; think 10
| possible blood might have been thrown per
pendicularly pp by stepping into IL there ret are re
| coagulated blood; there were hundred OF spots
of blood upon the sleeve; the spoys on Tue pants
upon the vest, and sprinkled Spots upon
the coat sleeve might nave gos tnSro py carIy,
/ whether these spots upon the shirt we're diluted
| with water: / do not think a microscope would
have enabled me to tell that; diluted blood does
| not leave well-defined, thick. glossy spots;
| there are well. defined spots upon this coat; I
| head into the blood. and by the trickiing OF
blood on the hair into that already on the
Here the Court took recess until o'clock
Two BOhOol-boys in Enghein, Belgium,