The daily dispatch. [volume] (Richmond [Va.]) 1850-1884, 1877-02-01
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The McCorlnack Inquest. sssl,
STATEMENT OF THE DECEASED 10. SERGEANT
AEGLE-TEsTIM0NY OF, TIE DOCTORS
| DEATH PROBABLY PRoDUcEn ;BY THE BLOW
RECEIVED AT GIBLIN's BAR-ROOM---A VER-
DICT FROM TIE tc0R0NER'B JURY AGAINST.
GIBLE-TEsTIAONY. 81 4s7g .Jgts<E-
In the case of Frank McGormack, !, at the
adjourned session Of the CoFoneIes jury yes
terday the first witness examined was
sergeant EAngle.rl He testified that he swore
outthe warrant and arrested Mr.. Giblin.
While going up Main street on the way to
the station-house Giblin saidto Angle that
cCormack bad been verynoisy chad misbe-
haved, and that he could not get rid Of him.
He looked for policeman, and not finding
one put Me- Cormack out himself: Witness
asked the prisonerif he struck a1cC Cormack
Giblin saida.etNo; Mccormack fell and
struck his head against the stove" Upon
arriving at the station-house iGIblin said he
wanted to ogetawarranta against Nj Corniack.
h Angle further stated that while at the
he asked MeC Cormack who
struck him, and he replied that Jim Giblin
did it-that be was sure OF 1T, and that he
struck him with club. The two-Angle
and McCormack-walkedi into the office at
the station-house where Glbhn was. Upon
entering, Mccormack sala,G'' Yes, there's
the man that struck me" ssfaRd to Giblin,
!" You had no cause to streaf Ife.so." Giblin
made no reply. Shields followed Angle and
Giblin to the station-house. He had In his
hand short piece OF the limb of treeS a
part Of which had been skinned. After
Giblin had gotten out a warrant for McCor-
mack he turned to Shields and asked
him il he didn't intend to get out one,
too. That night Giblin and Shields
came up to the station-house and said they
wanted to withdraw the warrants; that his
friends wanted to take Mccormack home,
so that his friends could attend to him.,
Giblin never said or intinated to the wit
ness that he had struck Nice Cormack. While
in the station-house, Justice White, who
was there, asked Mccormack: il he knew
who struck him. He said no; he didn't
know who struck him; that Giblin did not
strike him; that he had no hard feelings
against Giblin. He was not then under
oath, but the next day ut the Police Court,
when he was under oath, he said that Glib
lin struck him. -! -. ~ :.
Captain Thomas B. White, OF the Second.
police-station, was next examined. His
testimony Of what transpired at the station
house was in substance the same as that
course, OF what occurred between Angle
and Giblin before they reached the station
house. 81.
49,. THE CAUSE OF DEATH.
DR.. James u. Moncure, superintendent Of
the Pinel Hospital, who assisted Dr.. Taylor
in making the post-m0rtena examination,
and under whose care Mccormack remained
from the 24th until his death, testified that
nj, n1y
disposed to yield to any authority, to eat,
or to take any medicine. There was q
wound in the scalp, but witness could not
tell what produced it. There was slight
bruise about the right knee, but no other
marks upon his body. Mccormack died
on Sunday. Up to Saturday night
he had been doing well; recognized
his brother, and! slept we'll during the
night. There was wound on the left
side Of the head an inch long on o line going
across the head to the tips OF the ears,
about an inch from the occipital protube-
rance. The wound extended down to the
bone, but there was no fracture OF the outer
table. of the skull. On the inner table there
were two small tissures about two inches in
the rear OF the external wound. The men,
branes Of the brain were very much con-
gested on both sides Of the head, the con-
sestion being much more on the left side.
The immediate cause Of death was conges-
tion Of the brain or meningitis, which might
have been attributable to the blow ne re-
ceived, but not necessarily so. 1t was pro-
badly produced by the blow.
DR.. Moncure further stated that fall
might produce the wound and death; or
that the excessive use OF ardent spirits
might have the same effect, and might have
produced it in this case.
DR.. Taylor, who kmade the post-mortem
examination, stated to the jury that he CO.
incided in the opinion expressed by DR..
brain nhe congestion) was probably trace
able to the blow.
| THE "HoRRoRs UPON DECEASED.
Dr.. James Beale, who saw the deceased
the next day after he was injured, having
been sent for by DR.. Brock, said the wound
| looked as ii "piece had been punched
out" On the 10Th ne was sent for agair,
and the messenger stxted that Mccormack
was out OF his head DR.. Beale went to the
Jail to see HIM, and asked him who hit him.
The man hadthe " horrors then, produced
by whiskey, and said nobody hit him. On
| the 18th, when asked the same question, he
said he didn't know who struck him; that
he hadn't done anybody any harm. DR..
Beale had no doubt, after hearing the result
of the poSt-mortean examination, that death
was produced from blow, or that ii he fell
and hit his head, the fall must have been
upon sharp instrument protruding six
inches above the floor.
IcoRllAE NAMES GIBLIN AGAIN.
DR.. Bryant, assistant physician at the aims
house, saw the deceased seon after he was
carried to the almshouse. He was in the
cell, and Captain Bigger said he was crazy.
When witness first saw him he looked lit
tie wild, but not at all like he had deliriuna
trenens. He said he felt very well, indeed,
and wanted to 60 away. He told DR.. Bry-
ant, in reply to a. question, that a
man who kept the bar-room at the cor
struck him; bat be did not mention
his name. Captain Bigger had already
told the witness the name OF the man who
was charged with having hit him; and DR..
Bryant asked Mccormack if Giblin was his
name. Mccormack said eyes; that was the
name." The witness examined and dressed
the wound, but could not tell what sort OF
an instrument had inflicted it. The wound
was oblong and gaping. Before he LETT the
almshouse it was very difficult matter to
dress the wound, as he was wildly delirious.
He seemed to be afraid Of anybody touching
him. .
THE VERDICT. !.
DR.. Bryant's testimony concluded the
evidence, and after very brief consulta-
tion the jury agreed upon the verdict that
in their opinion. the deceased came to his
death on the 2sth Of January, 1877, from
the effects Of blow on his head inflicted
by James Giblin on the 18th day, of Janu-