The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1873-09-11
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BY Juror should Judge the bad smell OF the
tse s came ron It's being burned; should Judge
preston on the neck when took the rope on great
part OF the ace and hair were burned; there was
conslderaole loose straw round the room.
David Coe recalIed-On Tuesday night let Mr.
and Mrs. Merrigan In the house at haif.past ten;
night; was at home Tuesday Afternoon: heard
noise up stairs; Mr.. Kip woke me up, said there
think what heard was little sc1f,i~v Of eet IN
the big room, right over by the closet door; heard
no outcry or no noise IKE one In distress; went
to sleep soon after and heard nobody come down
the stairs; the SOUND was that Of more than one
person.
Ninth street on the night OF the fire; there had
been two nres-One In the bedroom and another in
clothes closet or the front room; on the table in
the front room was q piece or candle stuck In
broken Kerosene lamp; In the bedroom l found a
body, the head and back upon the noOr, the legs
legs were Straight, not at all contorted; the
lett arm was at right angle and thrown back
ward, the right stretched straight from the body
the face, neck and upper part or the BODY were
covered with ashes; the right arm hal on Il part
Of redngote; judged the body was dead before
body and loan about the mouth; saw Mr.. Parker
take the rope or; the loop was toward the back
and right side; there was . smell OF Kerosene in
dasDrsse 0U and i found traces Of kerosene
on the carpet and a clothes line
DIR. Joseph Dreamer sworn-On the morning Of
the 9th inst. made post-mOrtem OF body at
Parkers; the cause OF death, in my opinion. was
strangulation. The upper portion OF the body was
blackened as II burned. lower part not much; the
face and neck were very much swollen, and 1t APP
peared that the nose had been destroyed; hut on
clearing the parts found 1t had only been fiat
tened by purpose; the eyes protruded and were In
jected with blood. especially the right one, which
was nearly covered with blood examined the skull
and found no fracture but the scalp turgescent,
filled with blood also between the scalp and bone;
the tongue protruded between the front teeth;
took away portion OF the lower Jaw and found
the tongue prOtrudng at both sides its whole
length; the base OF the tongue was filled with
blood; the neck showed red line ex-
tending round IL; was deepest at the front; the
muscles covering the windppe ut front and sides
were filed and extravasated with bo0d the
appearances indicated considerable violence over
that part; the windpipe outside and within was
OF very dark purple color caused by injection OF
into the'bronchial tubes the lungs filed with
blood 80 as to look like liver rather than pale as
usual; both cavities OF the heart were empty OF
blood; the stomach was empty and had slight
patches Of congestion; could detect no smell OF
alcohol or beer in the stomach the hair on the
burned surface was not burned, nor the outside
skin; 1t had only been baked but the IRE had not
been long enough to destroy 1t; 1t must
have been dead body when the IRE occurred ;
should think from the decomposition Of that body
That 1t had been dead about three days and q half
the arm between the armpit and the elbow had
been eaten away as though by some animal; the
liver was COED healthy one; the indications did
not point to suicide At the conclusion OF Dr.
Creamers testimony the examination was ad-
j0urned till this evening at seven O'Clock.