The New York herald., 1872-09-06

mortem examination Of Miss Steinecke q body as
made would not develop conclusive cause OF death.
Miss Steinecke's sickness and death, together
with the postmortem upon her body and
from natural causes Think, from the comb ination
OF symptoms mentioned and the negative character
Of the postmortem, that the symptoms pointed
disease, OF which uramic poisoning is jts most
constant and decided symptom; II in addition to
the symptoms pentE1ed the presence Of albume9
have -. sSt f aseas was vGgs Sfe
mic poisoning without the post-mortem examina-
tions according to authorities greater number
Dependent or contracted kidney, are not attended
with commissions. IThe tables Of Roberts were
The witness was next asked his opinion as re,
CARDS the allegation Of the prosecution that COM
pound poison Of prusslc acid and morphia was the
In reply he stated that he had made numerous
experiments IN regard to the antagonisms OF pol
sons especially between prussic acid anu morphia,
also OF mOrphla and artrOpea, strychnia and so
FORTH The results of his experiments with morphia
and prusslc acid are published IN the american
The witness here read several Of these expert.
ments from the journal. These experiments went
to show that there is no real antagonism between
given before OF after prussc acid, does not modify
the action OF the latter or prevent It's Characters
S Woess ~ ue m Rpheer the
the hypothetical case agreed more closely with
those Of morphia or with some OF the diseases
In reply he gave an elaborate description Of those
various disorders, and showed how the symptoms
Of these diseases were perfectly compatible with
the symptoms OF the deceased. He also explained
that congestion OF the lungs Is mentioned by the
authorities as being present in morphia poisoning,
case. As the result Of the whole examination he
gave his opinion that the cause OF death was TO be
ascribed to disease rather than to any poison.
DISCRIMINATION.
The DISCRIMINATION of Professor Reese deve-
oped the fact that he had been for sixteen years
professor OF chemistry, and also that one or two
minor points his information was q trife less eX-
tensive three years ago than 1t is now These facts
being established, the cross-examination suddenly
weakened una broke down after about fifteen
| minutes.
| Following DR.. Reese was DR.. Il. Lloyd Howard, o.
| Baltimore, who declared that the post -morteuh O.
Miss Steinecke's body was most bunglingly done
cause of her death than to develop 1t. He sus
| tanned Drs. Reese and Wood in every particular
and on cross-examinasion did not latter in TIN
least.
| ADJOURNED.
| After his evidence was given the Court adjourned
Tomorrow will probably end the evidence for the
! defence, and on Saturday morning the arguments
win be made: The Judge will charge the Jury i'm
| the Jury Saturday evening.
| The general opinion is that verdict Of acqaitta
PREPARING A FRESH CASE FOR TRIAL.
Az meeting of the bar of this city for the pur
| pose OF eulogizny the character OF Colonel Pen
rose, a member OF It, who died few days since
| several lawyers delivered addresses. The Carlisle
Herald gave an account of the meeting and con
cuded as follows:-"A. B. Sharpe, Esq, then arose
| and read from paper his prepared performance
which consisted mainly of well-ftted cuttings from
published obituary addresses" Mr.. Sharpe, who Is
prominent lawyer, took offence at the para
| graph and yesterday evening called upon j. NJ
Weakey, State Senator and the editor Of the paper
| and after few words both started to walk across
the street towards Sharpe's house. When in the
miqdle OF the street 1t Is claimed, Sharpe, who l!
twice the size Of Weakey, turned upon the latter
without warming knocked him down and beat him
leaving the impress OF his boot upon Weakley
| breast.
| Weakley was taken home and now lies in q criti
| cal condition, bleeding at the lungs.
Sharpe has not been arrested.