The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1876-12-23
JyiTIsRED MILK.
A Trial that l. Intended to Give the City
Better Breakfast Tables.

The prosecution in the trial Of DaFcl
schrumtf on the charge Of selling watered
milk. closed their testimony IN the General ses-
stons YESTERDAY with an Illustration Of the prac-
tical use of the iactomcter. MIX that had been
drawn from COW IN a fiiyird street stable was
put on Judge Suthcrllnd's desk In tin pail.
John Il. Yale testified that the COW was appar-
emily healthy, that he MIXED her himself. ana
that the sample fairly represented the quality
Of an entire milking. Then DIR. Joseph 4.
O'Connor, an Inspector for the Board Of Health,
poured tall glass jar fun Of the milk and by
imnersipe a thermometer In 1t, showed that tho
temperature was sixty-nve degrees-a little
warmer than that at which the inspectors test
milk. Next he loated the lactometer In 1t.
That Dubbed instrument. looking like some OF
the toys made by glassblowers, sank in the milk
until the figure los on Its scale was even with the
line of submcrgence. This indicated that the
milk was eight degrees dcnser. or better, than
IL required hV the Board of Health Dr. OCOn-
nor poured one fourth OF the nilk out OF the jar
and added tue same quantity OF water. Inc
lactometer. used ~ before, marked ". Inc
pure milk showed It's greater density by cling
Ing longer to glass than the watered MIX.
There was no perccptble difference in TIE color
of the two KINDS Of milk. rne prisoners Law
ycr4 desired the witness to say whether tho
iiud in several glass bottles. which they hhd
kept in court since the beginning OF the thai.
WIS milk. The Judge, excluded the Test
aud said. III 1t was MILK there would nave
teen cream on 1t by this time-yes, 1t would DO
ClAbhered.'
LAWYER Waehner, I'm the opening speech Tor
the defence. thoroughly reviewed the testimony
for the prosecution, In spite OF the Judge s re-
/ pcitcd admonittons that he ought TO CONNIE
himself to telling what his own evidence was TO
/ be- MIR. Wachner argued that analvsis was a
! better way Of testing milk than the use OF the
] Iac:ometer, and the Judge snidi rhe issue -
/ not whether the lactometer provides the best
| test. aud | shall not submit any such question
| t. this jury. The sole point 70 be decided -
/ whether the tests applied to tie milk sold ~
/ the prisoner prove. beyond reasonable DOUBT
| that 1t mad been aduterttsd with wot,r. ne
/ LAWYER talked on, however, until near the closc
/ Of the session.
/ Thomas Il Doremus, Young son OF Prot.
DOreuius, WAS the first witness for the detehC' =.
/ lie produced four totlles OF mix that ne te,tl,
nei was from healthy cows, aud had been scul'
/ since being tested. by the lactOmeter a. used
10y him soon after the milking. these SAMPLES
STOOD at *. o.. SO, and llj-tne lowest staudH
| that the Board OF Heaith will pass. On cross
J examination, he SAID that lac did not know now
/ tht cows had been fed.
Lawyer Prentice. the cross.examiner. re-
Quc-tcd the wltut- to use the lactuincier III tue
/ milk that had fceistctcl *. \ coik-crew was
| needed wlth which to Ouen tue bottle. when
! had uccn closely sealed. Nobody Offered one.
There Is a COrksctew ia my private room,
! s. id the Judge.
There was loud laughter. and then a juror
! handed out cork screw.
| Under tile new test the milk stood at 81 The
witness was closely questioned a. to whether
/ this n.tk iuid have been Wattrcd, and lie re-
| pncd 100 tine negative.
The tiAl is to be continued ON ruesday next.