The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1873-02-28


In the Alley murder trial, lust
closed in Boston, DIR. Charles E.
Jackson t,stifed:
Have examined blood frequently
in reference 10 trials and examine
tiOns; it is not very difficult 10 as
certain whether u stain is blood when
1t Is done by microscope and chemic-
al examination # blood is spattered
IN an atmosphere like this, il would
dry In three or four hours its dry
ing depends on the quality and state
OF the weather; could not tell by
scraping blood stain off how long
1t bad been there; blood Is liquid,
the fiuld part of which is yellow, con-
taiDing fbrine and red corpuscles; ;
some seventy nine per cent. Of blood
and NHter; corpuscles are circular
disco, having 8 central point; these
are arranged in layers, and look ike
pancakes ; are slightly swollen in the
centre, and become more so in
water; they are Of the same form in
all animals that suckle their yOung
excepss the dromedary. 1 have been
speaking &-the shape in freshly
drawn blood or in InsesZstem; il
they are thrown on o board the ycfEt
low serum sinks into the wood and
Is absorbed, leaving the corpuscles !
shrunk up and wrinkled in ali man
ner OF shapes; the corpuseles Of q I
mans blood are larger than those OF :
4 horses biooi there are different .
'ized corpuscles in the same blood !
here are also colorless corpuscl6s in :
the same blood which are irregular
L dried spots CT something assumed
20 be human blood are brought to ,
ne, there is no method known TO- !;
science by which the shrunken cor
Duscles can he swollen back to such =
'ize as To Iender it possible TO know I
the blood was horses or +
mans blood; l know of no means OF :
determining whether dried blood is /,
hat Of an animal or man the best \
Iuthorities-in fact, all authorities a
leny there Is such = means; William q
4 Gays work, in London, is the \
tandard authority on the subject, a
md Dumas and Provost the French !,
authorities, and the works =
# all these state that in the case Of :,
lried tlOOd it is impossible TO deter :
nine by the cOrpuse,es to what mem. q
'er of the family OF the mammalIa n
be blood belonged. There is q mesn h
Inference of third between the size !,
i a particle Of horses blood; there !.
8 no certainty that by means of an =.
.rtificial screen shrunken corpuscles Z
an be brought back to their normal =
ize; if you had freshly drawn hu- I
nan and horses blood you would .
AVE good specimens OF normal size a
lOn't think that man could tell, 4
With fresh eorpuscle of blood as q
tsndard, whether he had brought a /;
drunken corpuscle back to its nor =
nal shape; the operation would be }
10 delicate and the subject upon :
which his work was done would be :
10 small that / consider the opera-
ion almost impossible. One, or per !
laps q dozen particles might be re
stored To their normal size and con ,
litIon, but the operation, while not, 1
perhaps, totally impracticsble, would
,e not in the slightest degree proba- n
lie, since there exists such a Difficult n
y in comparing objects that cannot =
,e seen at all save by means OF the n
most powerful microscope. The 7
,lobules Of birds or reptiles blood are r
wal or elliptcal in shape, and can be .
more easily than human
Hood; il q sharp pencil point was
3uched to the paper it would leave q
mark which would IbOut represent q
,lobule of blood magniied 800 times Q
,now that q dromcdary's blood is c
Iifferent from the blood OF other G
nammslia by authority; think 8 '
,oOd observer with a good instru-
nent might be able to compare two 7
resh globulee OF blood In their nor {
nal condition and perceive differences '
Without measurement; dogs blood i
nd mans blood would about tally Z
n size, snd sleeps blood and hOrse's
Hood would appear about the same. b