Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-11-14

g
ing to my several duties as police SET
geon during the day.
AS Tom was passing out of the college
yard through the gate, his head turned,
bidding me good night, he brushed
against man standing with his back
to the college and his face to the prison.
The street lamp showed me that the
man was in police uniform.
Re-entering my laboratory, took
down a glass j. r from the shelf and sat
down before my desk to examine it.
The jar which contained Mrs. Johnson's
sto ach was covered by a cloth, duly
tied with string, and properly sealed
with my official eealin red wax. Break
ing through the cloth I lifted the
stomach out with dissecting hook and
laid it on a white platter before me !;
then became busily employed in apply
ing those tests to its contents by which
we detect the presence of injurious sub
stances.
An hour had passed since the depar-
tureof young Richards. I had carefully
emptied the contents of the stomach
into a number of basins. had labored
hard to discover traces of poison in all
this, but had been unsuccessful. Joe
johnson, the suspected man, had been
a student of mine a few years before. 1
thought him good hearted, intelligent
fellow, only little wild, and really be-
gan to think that he might prove inno-
cent; when among the macerated food
grain. By careful manipulation and the
use ofmy magnifying glass, l manged
to get this upon piece of smoked glass
and examine it.
was then certain / had discovered
arsenic, but to make assurance doubly
sure determined to apply we'll known
test for poison. Accordingly I placed
in the woman's stomach the usual acids,
and then turned on the blow-pipe flame,
and presently there appeared the bril-
liant metallic mark, worthy of Gains
brow, the sign and signet of poison
found.
eyes," exclaimed as saw the fatal
blazon, " Joe johnson is the murderer
of his wife With the evidence of that
mark to back me, no power can save
him from the rope"
"Do you really think so?' said calm
voice behind me.
1 turned quickly and discovered tall,
lank policeman, having red, weak and
watery eyes, standing at my Office door
it had been rolled out long between his
hands, like molasses candy stick. His
nose was merely an elongated heshy pug,
and his forehead was decorated with two
red streaks instead of eyebrows. He had
no expression at all in his face, and his
policeman's head was SO large that it
threatened to settle down on his should
ers. His uniform treasured me, and
addressed him with some impatience.
"My friend, l suppose am wanted
to attend an inquest, or what is your
purpose
"No, doctor, the man amt dead yet, -
said he.
Anything in the surgical way7"
was police surgeon as well as Coro-
ner.
"No."
"Well, then, why am sent for at this
time of night? 2"
"Don't bother, Professor; the man
amt dead yet, but they say he will be
before morning"
care doctors attending him ?'
Oh, he's in good hands ~
What's the matter with him 2"
"Well," said the official, "some folks
say he's got SO much knowledge into
him that he can't live under it."
"Cerebral disorder, eh f'
What?'
Brain disorder, mean, something
wrong here"
touched my forehead, and 80 did he,
as he said: "Aye, and 1 thought I'd drop
in and tell you, if you go to the station
tomorrow, to take look and see if it is
post mortem or not. Besides wanted
to see where could always find you in
case of need 2"
l bowed and attributed his visit to a
feeling of curiosity. He sat on the sink,
one rubber foot over the other, and
wiped his nose with dirty handker.
chief several times, while his eyes wan
dered about like Christopher Columbus
after his dicoveries. Finally he spoke
like one called upon to say something.
"Perfesser, there has been an accident
this afternoon terrible, too"
"Ah," said j.
"Awfulp p' said he.
Nitro-glycerine explosion up in the
iron mills-a hundred fellow mortals
busted 2"
"Sadr'
Affecting, very" Here he rubbed
his mouth with the back of his hand
Perfesser, what is that nitro -glycer-
ine?"
SIT Ii a very dangerous article"
answered, happy to display my Enowl,
edge. at has nearly twice the de
SIrucIlVenesS Oh SunpoWuer, puI unllke
it, does not explode on the application
of heat. A red hot coal dropped into
it will not explode it. 1t will freeze. II
is yellow and greasy. Its symbols in oul
nomenclature are CS.15 mo. 81 G 6.''
"You don't mean to say so?" said the
officer, interrupting me, in disagreeable
tones, in the very middle of a choice
extract from one of my lectures. " Why
but you haven't told me how it does gc
off. If fire won't bust it, what in-hem
| will? ?'
told him if it were pressed or any
thing fell upon it, it would explode inn
mediately.
Place it under the crusher of cidel
mill, strike it with hammer, let
weight fall on it from height
| eyes," said my man, " and that arous
es the volcaner, does it? How does i
come, Perfesser ?"
sin little cans-why like this" said
discovering that there was a can of it OF
the marble sink, which had carelessl,
neglected to replace in the cellar. thei
took little of the glycerine, spread il
on the anvil and then struck it will
hammer.
A slight explosion and fame burs