The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-02-09
STRONG EVIDENCE FOR The DEFENCE
A Horse Doctor Testifes That the Blood
in the Stable Was from Alleys
Horse, Bled by Him.
4 Chemical Expert Shows that the Difference
Between Human Blood and Horses Blood
Cannot Be Discovered-Probabls
Acquittal Of the Prisoner.

until Tuesday next AS matters look now the
prisoner stands Q fair chance OF acquttal The
evidence in his behalf to-day was quite strong
John George Wilkins veterinary surgeon, tes-
fined:-Have been In business for some Ave years;
have seen Leavltt Alley twice; the first time saw
him he came to my house in Dorchester; during
last September he wanted me to visit q sick
horse; an hour afterward went to his stables on
Zimmerman street; this was in the morning; saw
Mr.. Alley and no one else there; went into the
stable and stayed about IN hour; saw sick horse
that was lying down and was then in flesh;
the horse was in the second stall; examined him ;
he had bad cold that had settled through his sys
TEN; first bled him, then gave him physc;
he was loose on the floor OF the stable; bled him
In the jugular vein and in both fore legs; he may
have bled quart; he walked round while bleeding,
went into The third stall and lay down; got him
mp from there and he went on to the manure heap (;
the blood WAS flowing in steams all the while;
bled him on the left side OF the neck; he lay down
on one side ana then on the other; there were
some loose locks of hay on the floor; he ate them
and one or two scraps hanging that he reached up
and got; no one but Alley and were there; the
BLOOD SCATTERED ON THE OUTSIDE OF THE THIRD
STALL,
on the side OF the building, on the manure heap and
some boards; got some blood on my clothes aud
Alley hiss he got it on his pants, vest and shirt
he was holding the vein and 1t spurted on him; he
got blood on his vest while hunting for pin, While
ms hands were bloody; some blood was got on his
was hanging near the door; Mr.. Alley
knelt to fix some poulti9ps and knelt IN
some blood 90, on the Sori ssere was s post in
were also shavings on the floor which became
bloody and some in the stall; Mr.. Alley took some
shayings and wiped up some blood from the door
and threw them on the manure heap; have been
to the stable since the time OF which have been
q Ellis there haa 6een
IN the stable;a sort OF joice had been swung out
NO NEW BLOOD STAINS
Crosse xamination-Il live in the Sixteenth ward !;
I live with my father; have lived in Harrison
was born in South Boston; my father is a horse
doctor and follow his profession; the horse was
bled by being cut In the centre artery OF the fore
legs with lance; think there are some tour or
five arteries In each leg; put no bandagcs on the
backed the horse out Of the stall and headed him
toward the side OF the building, within some two
feet OF the door; cut the juguar vein; put
NO BANDAGE ON THE WOUNDS;
pinned them up some fifteen minutes before l left
the stable; don't remember what did after the
bleeding; did not charge Alley anything for my
services; he paid me nothing. and set no price
don't remember what DAY in September l went to
the stable keep no memorandum l.o OF my visits;
no one went alone; the other time went with my
father and found Mr.. Way and another man there;
appearance OF the stable; did not describe the
events OF my first visit since two or three weeks
Somerby in his ONCE the same day and told him
the same story as told Mr.. Way; have talked to
them three times about my story blood may
spurt from horses neck from thirty minutes to
an hour, II he was standing; If he was lying down
u would run in stream and not squirt since in
tying down he lies on the neck and steps the pres
sure Of the blood; the horse
BLEED SOME SIX QUARTS;
there are some eighty quarts or forty pounds OF
m q m haa xgal ftua foo
high and two feet deep in front; Mr. Alley got the
horse up; he was on the manure heap; he got upon
to the back part of the STABLE we got hin near
the door and In some fifteen minutes pinned him
up; got eieod on -, all my clothes and MIR;
there VINE mad come in when was about nalf
belonging to the south BOSTON Car Company the
day before yesterday; bled him in the neck with
pigeon; an Aostler helped me; he did not get
Mr.. Charles P-Jacksen testified Have lived in
Boston some forty years; am practising physician
the commonwealth of Massachusetts,; have exam.
lined blood frequently in reference to trials and cx.
A GRADUATE OF THE HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL;
It Is not very dificuit to ascertain whether stain
Is blood when 1t Is done BY microscopic and chemi
cal examination; II blood is spattered in an atmos-
phere ike this 1t would dry in three or four hours
Its drying depends the quantity and state OF the
on how long It had been there blood is
liquid, the duid part OF which is yellow,
containing brire and red corpuscles; some seventy
nine per cent or blood Is water; cOrpusCes
circle discs, having central point; these are
arranged in layers, and look like pancakes; are
.slightly swollen In the centre and become more
IN water; they are OF the same foim in all ami.
mails that suckle their young, except the drome-
.daryi have been speaking OF their shape in
freshly drawn blood or In the system; II they are
thrown on board the yellow serum sinks into the
wood and is absorbed, leaving the corpusees
sshrunk up and wrinkled In all manner Of shapes;
the corpucules OF
MANS BLOOD
are larger than those of horses blood there are
different sized cerpusclcs in the same blood there
are also colorless cOrpuscles in the blood which
are very irregular; II dried spots OF something
ermed TO be human blood are brought to me there
IL no method known to science by which the
6hrunken corpusces can he swollen back to such
blood was horses or mans blood; / know
OF no means OF Determining whether dried
blood rs , that OF an Animal or man;
deny there Is such means; William A. Gays
w0sS, In London, Is the standard authority on the
SUBJECTS, and Dumas and Provost the French
scientific authorities, and the works of all these
state that IN the OF dried blood II IL impossible
20 determine by the corpuscles to what member OF
the FAMILY of the mamnialia the blood belonged VI
Cr0ss-examined-Haye made a personal exam
ination OF the relative size OF corpuscles OF blood
never made an examination OF the corpuscles OF
CHE BLOOD OF VARIOUS MAMMALM;
lor sne purpose OF eopang rne various
Gle; all corpusclcs are raised IN the middle ike
biscuit that Is rounded and raised IN the centre;
Preyot, Dumas and BraziIns say that the cor
5,uscIes are raised in the centre; IN their natural
condition Corpuscles are not depressed In the
centre; | never saw them In such "a shape In
sheir normal state; the particles OF horses
blood are TO each other as q hundred and fftieth
OF mimeue is to q two hundrefth or milf
question OF blood; there is O mean difference OF
third hetween the size OF particle or human
blood and the size OF q particle OF horses blood;
there ~ no certainty that by means Of an arti-
ncial sore en- shrupken corpuseles can be brought
oack 70 their normal size; II you had
FKESbIf DRAWN HUMAN AND HORSES, BLOOD
you would have good specimens OF normal size;
don't thnk that man could tell with . fresh
Corpuscle o. .Diood as standard whether he had
shape the ope ration would be 80 delicate and the
subject upon which his work was done would DE
impossible; one or perhaps a dozen particles
might be restored TO their normal size and con
diton, but the opeA atlon while not. perhaps, to-
degree probable. since there exists such a din.