The New York herald. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1840-1920, 1878-05-28


TO occupy the same room with her.
For what reason A. with loud empnasisl In
1uenced her testimony, and that she might act with
perfect Independence.
O. About being out late at night-were you out late
at night Tor any improper purposesy A. No. sir; u
always for purposes OF consultation with elderly
male gentlemen-(ne strongly emphasized the word
O. In reference TO tho morphine taken by your
witedid II prevent you from attending 10 your pas
toral dutiesY A. No. sir; because DR.. Hill assured
me that she had taken any morphine; had come
home from church ana found her lying On the bed.
with an empty morphine bottle upon me table;
prchenslons by assuring me that sue had taken no
morphine.
besides the empty morphine bother A. Ycs, SIR; a
piece OF paper, on which something IKE TINS was
written in her hand "Ihal she had taken poison Gus
dose Of morphine and now oade me, as well as her
mother, goodbyn
produced abortion upon herself? A. Mrs. Vos-
burgh told that what she had sand TO me previously
about having committed abortioDs upon herself was
lrue, and that she had never produced any abor
tion upon herself rs matter OF fact.
q. How about the number Of abortions; did you tell
Mr. Spadone shc had produced them throe times.
A. | told him that attempt had been made oy
drugs another by Instruments; but hc must have
been mistaken when ne thought that had told him
there were three abortons; there were only two.
A HUSBANDS FIRM BELIEF.
Q. (Emphatically.) Now, Mr.. vosburgh, you may
she had produced abortion upon hersclfY A. res sr,
she did; and Twin intense ieelinel Deiewe wha'
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Governor bedie--lhat's all
All eyes turned expec,antly TO tho prosecution, who
were expected 10 Vigorously recloss-exai tnc
PASTOR but, everybodys surprise they did not ask
him single question IN rcbuItal, ana the pastor
stepped down with his usual meekly resigned mien,
IN which, however, II was not very difficult to discern
O syly sup, resscd air OF self-snlisncd triumph. He
seemed 10 DO well pleased with the manner IN which
he had gone through the ordeal-a comparatively
light one however tor the nation OF tho
pastor dsJ0lnted brio and by searching
Mr. Henry b. Mandcville, a portiy deacon In Dr..
Voe
February last Dr. Cornell stated at Vosburshs house,
in his presence, that Mrs. vosburgh could not live
moro than day.
Attorney General Stockton, on behalf Of the prose-
cu.ion, said II was admitted by them that AZ that
time she very III indeed
Governor Bedie replied that he was anxious to got
at that particular conversation.
DIR. CORNELL ovERHAULgD.
The defence offered III evidence the memo
randum book Of DR.. Cornell, and, after some legal
argument, Judge Knapp admitted IT. Elk
the memoranda after Ex-Governor Bedlc had
stumbled muny times over the technical
medical terms that he gave up the attempt,
dence the memorandum book was to show that It was
written especially with view to the trial. that the
memoranda OF symptoms were not taken at the time
oil the illness; and Dr. Cornell who refreshed
his memory largely from these memoranda, bad
"coachcd' himself tor this particular OCCASION.
Inc defence also offered In evidence one OF DR..
Corne's circulars printed on violetInted paper, on
'Utcrne Disease" The circular contains ''ten com
mandments" in bbii-medical style, aud the
offer oil the defence ~ prove that GER
tain language which sounded indecent and
shocking when coming from The lips OF husband,
and winch DR.. Cornell had attributed TO the accused
pastor, had In reality emanated from the doctor,
beng contained in ono OF these commandments
The offer rejected by the Court, ana the 'com-
mandment," which would have shocked tho refned
sensiblies OF every woman IN the court room was
not read.
Although tho usual time tor taking rcccss-haI
past tweive-nad not yet arrived, exGovernor Bedle
He had fully expected that the examination OF
the defendant would occupy lar moro time than
II did, and had therefore seen no necessity tor having
his last remaining witness here before one
O'Clock in the afternoon. An carrier recess was
taken, and whom the court rcassemb!cd al one ex-
Governor Bcae announced that tho expected witness
Tor the defence Dr. Flint, Of New YORK, and That
he very much surprised at the doctors failure TO
appear at inc proper tune An ANNOYING aeay OF nan m
Flint. answer TO the questions Of Ex-Governor Be-
die he Professor OF the Practice OF Medicine
at Bellevue HosDitaL
DIR. FLINT ON THE POISONING.
DR.. Flint testified that he mad examined Mrs. Vos-
burgh on Narcn 2; she appeared to him very ecble
but there was nothing abnormal In The appearance Of
her tongue.
O. Decor, did you see any indications in her that
sho had been poisoncdP A. with smile) ! saw
O. What did you think OF her constitution? A.
She looked like person OF rather foobio conslitu-
iIon
q. Lot rs put a hypothetical case, Doctor. Sup
pose there was q of chronic antm0nial poisoi-
ing IN which the poison was administered ior two or
three weeks ana the vomiting was caused ny the
poison would the patient 10 able TO suddcny cease
vomiting II no further poison were gwen her. retain
fooi mediateiy and get well? A. II would be I'M.
possible Tor the milan naton OF the stomach caused
by the poison subslde soon the recovery could
not be SO i'm mediate; II would have TO be gradual
O. Would the poison create perspira.iona A Yes
1t has long been regarded as one OF the surost remc
dies to induce perspiraton
q. In such case, wnere vomiting ceased tor GER
tam day and forty oIght hours later quantity OF nine
tentns Of gram Of antimony was found Ia tho urine
forty ounces, and three days thereafter
six-teutns, at the same rate what must have been
the. quantity OF tartar enetic taken by the paiicntY
A. There would DO far iuierence that the Quantity
taken must have been considerable.
GoUr OF THE sroNAcHs
q In case OF What IS commonly Understood as govt
OF the stomach could recovery take place so quickly
that vorniiing would suddenly Cease and the patient
would be able to retain food |? A. Yes; 1t might.
Ex-Governor B eulc now read the symptoms OF Mrs.
yosburrh as sworn 10 by DR.. Corneli-nausca vomit-
ing depression, emacation, dry, 'scaiy'' skin-and
asked DR.. Flint whether no would consider any Of
these indications OF antimonial poisoningy Smiling
lightly, DIR. Flint uniformly replied in the negative
Coming 10 Inc symptom OF mo perspralon," ex-
Governor Bedlc asked, 'Could that symptom show
itself IN case where Tho psuent had taken tartar
cmelics" aud tho Doctor, with smile, replied,
sHardy.n
q. "Expco,oration with difficulty" What do you
think OF that symphonic a. That would probably
come from the .hro.t Or the back nos.rils.
z "Burning thirst" lis there anything special in
thai symptom A. Nohns.
O. Are any OF these symptoms Inconsistent with
gout oil the stomachS A. they might occur
q. As TO tho Dtter taste IN the MOUTH A. with
the Same slight smile)-li's common enough.
q wuat length OF lime wound be required TO clint
7,
from the sy stem? A could not tell
U. II the bowels were extremely constipatcd, would
IL rciard the process OF nination OF notY A. ~
would be retarded, undoubtedly.
FLINT CROSS EXAMINED.
Cruss-examined Dy Attorney General stockton.
q VINO invited you 90 come over, DoctorY A. DR..
Carpenter.
q Did he give you a description OF Mrs Vosburgh's
cascg A. Yes sur; he told generally that II was
suspected that she was suffering from antimonial
poison.
The Attorney General questioned DR. Flint about
the tests applied discovcr the poison, aud drew
out tho admission that neither tho fccs matter nos
the urine had been examined by him He was asked
n "faylor Posons" WAS good authority, aud ro-
plying In the affirmative, be was asked 10 read some
passa lrom the work which pointed out the fmpot
lance tests lie said he would no doubt have
made them II lie would nlcrakc such limo oil inves-
tigation, out nc would not.
FORMED MS OPINION.
q. Havc you ever seen a case Ol aninonial poison
ing, chronic otherwisc2 A. No, SIR.
q You were asked TO form your opinion merely
upon the statements OF the p,tIcnf A. Entirely:
TO ascertain II her symptoms were consistent or
not with antimouiai poisoning.
q Was the examination satisfactory TO your mind,
Doctotf A. Blasting myself upon TITO patents state