The Charleston daily news. [volume] (Charleston, S.C.) 1865-1873, 1872-11-07

EMBER Z, 1917.
result from unnatural causes; half grain
of arsenic was sufficient TO kill 9 child
| three or four years oid; was present at
| the post-mortem examinations; the jar with the
stomach In it was given 10 Mr.. Bentley 10 give
to Professor Tonry; Mrs. Lloyd then told him
of Annie In February AID that of Maud In
March; was present when Maud's body was
exhumed In May, when Professor Tiffany re-
moved certain Of the viseera; 1t was the same
body on which he had made an examination.
Mrs. Green was then called, and swore that in
January last Mrs. Lloyd had bought arsenic
and offered to give her some OF 1t. j. A.
Hatehinson, chemist, swore that In April,
1870, he had sold arsenic to the prisoner.
Here followed some immsterial testimony, and
then Matthew Hall, druggists clerk, swore
that on the 18th of March last he sold the prls-
oner half an ounce Of arsenic. j. w. HAM
merly, undertaken, swore that he buried and
followed testimony to show that the bottle
produced In court was that Into which the
child's stomach and lltestines had been
placed, and the next witness was Professor
Tiffany, demonstrator of anatomy at The Mary
land University, and surgeon Of the Baltimore
Hospital. In May last he had examined GER
tain bodies In the presence OF Professor Tonry
and others; had seen them exhnmed; one OF
them was la coffin, marked maud Lloyd"
Body was much decomposed, and before max
Ing an incision iRto 1t hs sprinkled carboate
of lime-a dlslnfectant-on the face and neck;
from q cut in the abdomen he took the liver,
spleen and kidneys, portion OF the duoden-
um and some fluid, put Them into q jar which
he sealed and gave to Professor TOnry.
secuton could prove that the child's stomach
had been kept safe BY M. Bentley, no analysis
of 1t could be introduced as evidence. Mr..
Bentley was dead, and, as no such evidence
was to be had, the prosecution had to conane
itself to the analysis OF those parts OF the body
which had been taken care OF by Professor
Tiffany, and 80 most Important link in the
evidence had to be dropEed, for 1t could not
be shown that MIR. Bentley hLd kept the
stomach carefully and untouched before 1t
came into Professor Tonry's hands. Profess
sor Tonry was then called to testify as to the
results of his analysis OF the liver, spleen, kid
neys, &C., and was 30 minute In the details
that one of the jurors got sick. and the court
had to adjourn for while, after which the
professor swore that in the parls of the body
taken from the coffin marked maud Lloyd"
he had taken eghth-teuths of grain of arse
mic. On his cross-examlnatlon IL was admit
ted by him that arsenic was sometimes found
in bismuth, although in most minute quantities.
DR.. Mott, recalled, stated that he had used bis
muth from the same jar from which that given
to Maud was taken, bat had never heard of any
III effects from Its use. Professor Womley and
Professor Mallett, analytic chemist at the
methods and processes used hy Professor
Tonry to discover poison were, In their judg-
ment, entirely proper, and such as would oe
used by good analytical chemists. This prac-
tically closed The case for the prosecution,
although some testimony was taken 10 show
that the property OF Hrs. Lloyd's children
amounted TO about fifteen hundred dollars,
and the estate Of her husband to about twenty
three hundred dollars.
calling first Dr.. Graham G. Elizey, graduate
of New York University, who believed That
though Professor Tonry'a method Of analysis
was correct 80 far as IL went, 1t did not go far
enough. a hypothetical case was put to him
Ia the defence, In which Its view of Maud's
symptoms was portrayed, and he was asked
whether, in his judgment, a.person who died
with such symptoms died Of arsenloal poison
Ing. He replied that he should not think 80,
because the same symptoms were sometimes
found In ordinary diseases; had not, however,
seen or heard of case In which the symptoms
were precisely like those OF the hypothetical
one spoken of. DR.. Taylor, coroner Ot the city
and analytical chemist, then Testified to the
same effect as DIR. Elisey, but thought the hypo-
thetical case had some superficial slgns OF
poisoning with arsenic; the symptoms OF such
poisoning given by the writer's on medicine ara
so various that almost anything might be ex-
pected. DR.. Pierce B. Wilson sworn: Had been
an analytical chemist for fourteen years, aud
had studied under Bunson and Lie6ig, his eX-
perlence in determining the weight or quan-
tlty of arsenic in substance precluded the
possibility of Professor Tonry being correct In
the quantity he found; believed the Professor
had found more terchloride OF arsenic Than
was present. would not have permitted
the use of carbolale of lime about the body
unless he knew 1t to be absolutely pure; COM
merclal carbolate OF lime was not really u
chemical, being crude In lib preparations; the
knives used In the post-mortem examination
should have been new, for If small portion
of arsenious acid had dropped from them on
The liver or kidneys examined by Professor
Tonry 1t would have given him his results;
did not think 1t was possible TO weigh accu-
rately in Baltimore during daytime. Here the
defence Wlshed to show elght-tenths Of q
grain of arsenic to the Jury, but the Judge Said
the quantity had nothing 10 do with The case,
nor would he require the State to show
fatal quantity; the question was OF the pres
ence aud not the quantity OF arsenic IL me
remains examined. Mr.. Matthew then testi-
fed that he had been living In DR.. MOTIFS shop
for over eight months, and that stranger
might have tampered With articles kept there.
Dr.. Ellzey recalled: Had got blsmuth from
DR.. Motifs store, ald had on examination
found arsenic in 1t. There were hundreds
of diseases In which the symptoms are those
OF poisoning by arsenic. Would not express
an opinion in the hypothetical case until he
found how arsenic got Into the patients body,
but II he suspected nothing; should not regard
the case as one of poisoning, but If arsenic was
found after death and shown to have got In
the body before death, should say the person
in whom 1t was found had been poisoned.
More hut unlmportsns testimony of similar
drift was then taken. An attempt was
then made by the defence to crimi-
nate Delphi Lazerbury as one who
had had much to do with the children,
but the Judge promptly excluded all tes-
timony to this effect. Testimony of Fenelon
Slack and Joel L. Nlckson was then taken as
to the character of the prisoner, and was to
the effect that she was kind and loving mo-
ther. Then followed llnimportant testimony,
with which the defence closed. Rebuttipg
testimony was to the effect that DR.. Motifs bis
muth had never been known to produce dele
terious effects, and that very minute trace
of arsenic could readily be discovered. The
Judge informed the jury that the charge
the clerk had given them at the opening
of the trial was erroneous, and gave them
another to this effect: "If you find the
prisoner guilty, you are then to find whether
it be murder In the 1rgt degree or In the Sec