New-York tribune., 1872-07-03
THE STOKES TRIAL.
CONTINUATION OF THE MEDICAL TEs-
TIMONY.


ELEVENTH DAY-sTATEMENTs OF THE CONSULT
ING PHYsICANs-EFFECT OF OPIUM AND
PROBING-DEATH THE RESULT OF SHOCK
TO THE NERVOUS SYSTEM.
The testimony in the Stokes trial, yesterday,
was as embarrassing 90 any that ia likely TO he intro
duced. 1t consisted mainly OF the statements OF med
cal experts In relation TO the condition OF COL Fisk after
the shooting and abuses Of choroform and Its
effect upon the deceased and as was necessarily inter
larded with technical terms, the meaning OF which few
in the audience comprchonded, there was much relief
when 1t brought to end. II was considered new
ertheless great importance by the prosecution and
the defense and particularly by the atter Tor II they
could have shown that the death OF FISK was caused IN
part accelerated by medical treatment the fact
would have had great weight in the determination or
the case Hence the struggle that ensued-the prosecu
ton striving 20 slow ,ha the treatment was entirely
proper and death the result the shooting, and the
defense attempting to derive opposite conclusions;
DIS. White and sayre examined in the morning,
but after long and searching crOssexaminaton IL eau
hardly he said the direct testimony 10 the effect that
Col Fisk died from the effects OF the wounds given by
Stokes was in any degree modified. Dr. Whites testi-
mony may be summed up IN few words. He proDed the
wound; the patient slightly under the influenced o,
chloroform; his pulse ~ aud respiration regular, but
weak and his pulse went up to 10 with respiration la'
at O'Clock the next morning; the wound in the abdo'
already described the causeoi death; the con
suaton of tho attending physicians after Fisks death
was only the purpose of TO king over the matter ana
learning all the details and not OF forming an agreement
In testimony wounds in the smaller ntestines are not
necessarily faala consong thought in THESE days OF
iudscrminste pistol pracuce-and the probing OF tho
wound had nothing TO do with Fsk's death.
Dr. sayre's testimony noteworthy for the direct
ness OF his explanations. lie said that Fisk ciad from
shock or blow to the nervous system; he never iary
allied from the shock TO the great sympathetic nerve
caused by the wound, aud the amount OF opium Given
| had nothing to do with the hnal result
DIR. Steele testified that he administered morphine 10
the patient who complained of pain IN his stomach d.
Trper testified that the treatment was the re oi the
consultation OF the attending physicians. FLks death
resulted from the shock, accelerated by pcronis Ihe
witness thought from the first that Fisk would de
Thus far the various incidents of the shooting nave
been laid before the july IN natural II not strictly
chronological, order, and have been fairly connected
with perhaps the single exception that Stokes pistol
OK xhibited to the witnesses very different from tie one
described by Henry DE Cariey the weapon given nl
by Miss Hall, who said she had found II on the sofa IN
the first parlor, time after the shooting Whether
! the weapon found by Miss Hail. and given to DE CueJ
is the pistol shown in court or really another one Oh
| whether the pistol by Stokes will be shown to
| have been thrust into the sofa by him remains
| 10 be seen, and this connecting link IS very I'M
portant one 1t is rumored that the defense expect I"
show that the Wory-handed syer-plated slA-shootef
described by De Carley really belonged TO Fisk ana Was
secreed after the shooting by some OF ms friends III
the sofa, where il was found by Miss Hall The cross
examination OF certain witnesses indicates that the
defense expect prove that many of the witnesses ana
particularly those connected with the Grand Cehta'
Hotel were prejudiced against Stokes, and desired 10
suppress everything that might be IN ms faVor ana 10
bring out every thing of an opposite tendency WI"
tbs view Mr. DAILY pressed the witness DeCariey' VINO
pave the pistol to Crockett, with the question "he
he had not been admonished by Crockett not To tel
what he knew, .
Additional interest was given to the trial ln TIE a''sr
noon by the presence of the prisoners mo'her an" '
! fer The testimony is as follows: