Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1877-03-30
The court adjourned until Thursday

| CHAs. POMERoY.-1 reside In Mortified,
Mass. Was there when an examination
was made OF the body. The remains were
examined externally. No particular marks
! of injury were discovered. Went to ia
maica the next Tuesday. Saw Lewis told
| him he ought to have come with the re-
MAINS He said he should, but was anx-
ious to work upon the logs. [Cross Exam
ination.l Airing was present and testified
| at the examination made in Mortified,
| The jurors at examination did not know
the cause Of death, and so reported Wait
| ed two weeks to have an examination of
the stomach, but as it would cost 500 to
have an analysis made, and there was no
one to advance money, it was not done.
HENRY YoUNo.-I resided with Harry
White in Gill, Mass. 1 saw a bottle there
that looked like that do not know as that
is the one. [Cross Examination.l Never
| saw poison but once; never heard White
| speak of II. Worked five weeks for him.
There were dozen bottles in the pantry,
castor oil bottles, whiskey bottles, and 9TH
ers. Saw powders in that bottle.
JOHN MURPHY.-I worked for White.
Have seen that bottle on pantry shelf at
Whites. [Cross EXAMINED l first saw
bottle about month after went there;
| could not tell where saw 1t. Remember
when Lewis and White came into the house
|
about what White had done. Young was
with me. Lewis remained in room about
| half an hour. Whites horse had warts on
his head. Use TO do many things for horse.
| Lewis said Troot had been stabbed In the
side.
Mrs. MARY WHITE.-I reside in Turn
er's Falls. Left my husband in The fall of
1875. Was married % years ago. Never
saw such bottle in the house when lived
with him. Never knew that my husband
used morphine after being iutox icated.
| [Cross Examined.] Mr.. White became In
toxicated quite frequently.
| DIR. WARD.-Reside in Mortified. Have
been physician. Made post norton exam
ination of Demming May p 1875. First ex-
amined body for marks of external vio-
lence, next day examined brain; found
| vessels of brain loaded with blood. On
removing brain four or five ounces of Sc
| rum were found. Lungs and heart were
| healthy; valves were perfect; weight of
| heart, ll3 uz.-average weight. In cutting
veins near heart, blood run very thin, like
| water. Stomach was removed; showed
| nothing in particular externally. Did not
| examine inside. l took stomach TO DIR.
| Hayes OF Boston for analysis was to make
| analysis within two weeks If l wrote him.
Did not write to him. Narcotic poison
would cause the condition of covering of
|
| opium, belladonua, hemlock. Morphine is
| a preparation Of opium. l couldn't say
| whether the same symptoms would be
| found in case ofdeath by Exposure. Should
not suppose body would he found in pos
| ture that this was if death had resulted
from exposure. The position the body was
found in and tie condition of covering of
brain would indicate that death resulted
from some narcotic morphine. [CroSs EX-
amination.l Morphine will begin to act
| upon the system in 10 or 20 minutes. A
person might drop down from the effect OF
morphine in from one TO five hours. Use
| of whisky and exposure would produce
some of the above symptoms. Opium most
| always affects the pupil OF the eye before
death. 1t is no test, however, after death.
Dr. Hayes said opium would be more like
| ly TO be discovered in the liver than stom-
ach, and discovered nothing wrong in liver
| Do not think condition OF lungs is an in
fallible test of death from opimu.
DIR. GEO. +. GALE.-Have practiced over
% years. think condition of covering OF
brain as assumed in question and colec-
| ton OF serum, with position of body, would
indicate poisoning by some narcotic poison.
Ordinarily person would become drowsy
in from half an hour TO an hour by use of
| opium. Most OF the organs remain the
same after death as before. The almost
invariablo test of opium is the rulluess of
the vessels of the brain with dark blood,
/ sometimes illusions of serum. There
would be no symptoms externally to clear
| ly indicate death by opium. Evidence of
opium would remain until decomposition
removed it. The time would vary accord
ing to the circumstances, such as tempera-
lure in which the body was kept after
death, etc. Time would vary from fort
night to few days. Mineral posons can
be detected long time amer death. [Cross
Examlnaion.l Excessive drinking would
cause vessels of the brain to be loaded (;
more likely stomach and liver. Brain
would not be so likely to be loaded with
blood as internal organs where death re-
suited from exposure. Before death the
pupil of tho eye would be a valuable test.
l do not consider it test after death in re-
spect to opium as a cause.
DIR. ii. d. HoLToN.-Have practiced
medicine and surgery for IL years. Symp-
toms of over dose of morphine are drowsi-
ness, stupor /; from half an hour to an hour
| before this effect. Death has been known
to eusue from this cause in two hours
sometime II hours. Death caused by NOR
phine would be evidenced by surplus of
blood in vessels Of brain; sometimes Sc
rum or efiuson of water. Amer death it
would DO doubtful ii you could find traces
| of il in the stomach. Might be absorbed
before death. Morphine would more like
| ly be discovered in stomach than any
where else. If l knew the deceased had
/
morphine, should say the posture of the
body. condition of covering of braiu, and
| other symptoms, were the natural result OF
morphine. [Cross Examinatiou.l Alcohol
| might produce overlooking of blood YES
| sells OF brain. 1t would he difficult to tell
| from covering of brain whether death re-
| suited from morphine or alcohol unless
| fluids of brain were examined.
Mr.. CHAPPEL.-I reside in Mortified.
boarded with Lewis in Mortified for some
time since 1875. The night Lewis was GO
ing off he said he knew what Demming
| was going for. / said Demming was mol
worth anything to drive logs. Lewis said
he was not taking him for that purpose but
for another. Lewis said he could clear Arl-
ing, for if anybody killed Demming he did
tCross Examination.l l knew Demming
was out of work. / told Philbrook last
| summer about il.
C. p. SToNE.-I was keeper of Jail in
1875 and 1876. Coombs came 10 Inc one day
and we went AFTER a man that went down
river. We wanted to arrest him on writ
l arrested Lewis in Dummerston. He was
in a boat when he saw me. He rowed boat
from me. put my hand in my pocket to
frigbten him aud said, take your chances
He then came ashore. Learned he was
arrested for debt. Wanted to know if tina
was all.
VIM HALL reside in Northfeld. Saw
Lewis at John Barretps in Mortified. Said
he guessed if any one killed Demming tina
Bill Airing did not know anything abou
it.
ALBERT w. DEMMING.-Am a son OF AL
bert w. Demming. Deceased was at homt
, when Lewis engaged father TO go to Jamai
! ca. Father did not want to go, and mother
urged him not to, but he finally decided 4
go. [Cross Examinedl VIM. Arling't
| father first asked me about what have les
titled about. First told it last fall.