The New York herald., 1871-12-27
Several Distinct Tests and All with About
the Same Result.

Christmas service TO the state. The prisoner AM
daughter had already arrived and both SCENE,
pore sosroxs !haA eyer before Their heavy blac
qrab6ry brought 10 them an air OF deep mes nchol
not heretofore noticeable. heightened to our imagi
nation. perhaps, by the bright and happy surround
ings OF the few preceding hours. Mrs. anu Miss
Nelson, tue constant and devoted friends OF tn
prisoner aud daughter, wero called home TO spent
their Christmas, but came down on III,
train with the Court and Joined then
In the court room, but Mrs. Nugent, Mrs
WhartOns brothers. wife, remained win her a
Annapolis, and was. as usual, present In the cOur
room. When the Court was opened the room wa.
men, among whom were several gentlemen or lega
and political prominence showing that interest II
ms important ~ 1 case IN nad no, diminlsned as PRO
had been entrusted the re-examlnatiOn OF the re
%ans con.sSs Ss as ss o1 g2is Ksn Nss
81 Thursday Ssi as he lad declared S'Sa his H ndns q
suphlde OF antmony In the liver OF General Ketch
um. There was great interest manllesteJ! by ths
over ro aaa S %G 90 %s4
the conclusion OF his testimony.
PROFESSOR roNEY CONTINUING rHs srcoNr
Attwenty-fve minutes OF two. all tho attoraeys
being m.,-,n!; m.,-cy!;; Ghef Justice M!eE directed the
prosecution o IIocesa and Mr. ReyeII .,s directed
stepped forward t9 give ne results 81 ms foui
days labor upon the STOMACH OF ue.."ral ketcnum
every eye was liked upon him and tue mos Eager
Beginning where he let on on last Thursday, he
satd:-
Taking the dark spots the porcelain cover object was
TO determine whether they arsenic anmony
two OF the larger their soubity in SUI
nmosy scaSy ss' TSa ,Ss inr
he solution % drvncss giving on Ss outer
snmony The centre Of the spo. was OF sh yellow coo
part Of being inclined to white this Indicate sui
pSds s%SonaS s%s sd%;ns @ %s now 4sl To-
ss rs AND am
atns evolving hydrogen squeezed the delivery
pase spot DOING sSaon
s S % n: ps Of
the SPOT with the around the edges Of .s
quantities small 70 be readily with Tue naked
Tax sror ON rHa roxoRLAIs OF ANTHONY AND
ARsENiO.
yery probsSs trace arsenic some Of the spots retained
on the cover ha satisfied me as 70 the nature OF the deposit
:S e s Y sss1: ss ss
ob!slned 5eiaasl lha. finished he examination he
es sna.
were making The ana|yss '"0'' "'' = ''e 'e 20"
WIrsEss-Ycs, sir; while tho experiments were In
Mr. srrrLr- well. We have no objections to your
wITSrss took par. Of the see II could OBJ
hydrogen got prccp,tse Of suphde washing this with
ws'ss 70 Wa:
nss ss'a an :ssas :'S's9 S what p0;.:s .::
dissolved Of the precpa,e aniimony BY suphuret.ed
.ssss .re .ss % ss s: u = .
"S a. and savs o. nS ns
again WITH S took %
put piece Of clean charcoal before used, and
% s..s,
spots but putting under the microscope
@ %ss, e s 1" @ os
ne saarco. and some paris M Of the a used SEQ would xys
different from those BY either q hsss two
@''''"' y ''' 'a sSxisaa XsoraEs TKsr. q
s Il. aa
sssa
;%ssi$s A. S:.. sss
pseps @s 81 Dsai'a 'naa ss
mes ps1 from % att me TO INFER that The auansy Of
on S The
taking snose part q the Sna solution ~ %hss % had
could gc, rid q the color Of the solution and obtained
a sssd ] sa% :a SssS
the slowly through for hour or more and . the
Ing 81 s q ss qS
dish cvapoated to drvness OF the evaporated
eOluton contained OTshnic oi
STILL THE sAxE nEsuLr-roIsos.
II was deposit something other than salt dissoving
all this evaporated residue with strong muriatc acid and
smn c'S what o% @
not the bright emetic which you would
from the pure ss gel
my mind ths, was snmony; ali The produced
ss a &
20 &
shown 20 Professor Wilson who did not hesitate -
'ISi'of Mr. RrvKILmsa,e no conversation with anybody
Professor TosEYAfter decanting the liquid from this
preciptate drying weighed 10 broken glass de-
y he sa'.sI -h @
weigh, va: . roo Of n,ssr.mne ihs quantity cr :o
that would give oSr q sph,ds Of
the so,uiio" ! had 70 operate with; that would
Of s. .s OF I.
equal to about three or fourtenths OF grain OF metallic
THR QUANTITY TARTAR EnETIc DIscoyrRED.
A. took ,,le than half Of the contents OF the .ss
iO'. amonn. Or snpS1y would have been n 10
sGsnr sPsn % another '1s nigh. modify weight
somewha. sad that . that any colenS matter
found nigh, . s1psesd g increase the wsrhs :lsh'y
present say msy coDsldered the q the
son,. %ors % this s '
% o ro:e .re acid after :as around Ss nitric
with sis:s rod ooainea a. : result white aspos.;
rusui Of other metal but this and aati
that would give the result; arsenic would nos; this
white nsoubo soluble tArAric acid " 10 anti
and not soluble Il s his nrsl before
solton artaric acid added 10 tha white
deposit which Il dissolved wthont much difficulty now,
rot solution OF white solution tartarc acid. and
passed this souton through hs paper into clean
taking waAh the filter paper ess the
water might carry away something III TO prove
that something dissolved, and 70 show that that some
thing anttmo added few drope oil nvdrochlorc
acid to the hfred solution, passed washed suphneted
hydrogen again through the solution and gos the
Of suphde antimQhys having obtained the dark
spot on poresla Aud Tvs reacsions y ,nuhid
hydrogen krom ths acfed original solution and tue color
OF that preoate the white precptate obtained by strong
Actd ia solution tartaro acd and SUBSEQUENT gre
cpitaae by suphaesei hydrogen and the scbny os hs
W bo&Ash leaves doubt In my mind OF tho presencs
""'"''"' WHAT rHs orHRw sAa oorpArs.D
conpecs my examination Of the par. OF e content
from tho larger jer In taking toe content
"f Inc round lar the smalcr of e wo which said
contain tha kaey Ao OF 0enSya kcschWn treated the.
the ssan0er aAA dd the vArt ~ he o0sS