Butler citizen. [volume] (Butler, Pa.) 1877-1922, 1880-03-17

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Duffy,s statement in that, instead OF
drawing the body Immediately from
the stairs through the kitchen door, ne
drew her out into the hall near the
pantry door.
Smith Greer and James Wike were
called and corroborated Pugh.
Mary Elliott, daughter OF defendant,
Il washed the back skirt and part OF
polonaise of deceased on Friday, the
second day after the funeral the polo
naise was of dark calico and had strips
torn out of the front; burned her
chemise because / did not think it it
to wash. Witness modesty seemed
to prevent her telling the condition OF
the chemise.
Question by the Court-Had she
been unwell?
Ansrer-Yes, sir.
Amelia Koedel, Mollie Pugh, VIM.
Moser and Belle Sarver (another daugh-
ter of defendant) testified to Mrs. Le-
feyre fainting, some six or seven years
ago. while an evening party was in
progress at her house; this was before
She married Lefevre.
Mrs. Pugh, recalled-Last winter
year ago Mr.. and Mrs. Lefevre helped
us to butcher; Mrs. Lefevre said she
was sick, felt very bad and would have
to sit down; she did sit down; she
told me this sickness came on her
monthly, and that she was afraid it
would be the end of her vet.
Cross-ezdmined- Qnestion-On the
day Of John Lefevre's wedding, when
he married the deceased, did you not
sit down on John Lefevre's knee and
comb his whiskers?
Answer-No, sir; / sat down on
both their knees, as much on Mrs. Lee
fevre's as on Mr. Lefevre's, but L did
not comb the hair of either of them.
Ouestion-Haven't you been the
cause of all the trouble between Le-
fevre and wife
Ansrer-No, sir when he left his
wife he came to our house, not with
mine, but my husbands consent.
Little Harry Cooper, recalled-From
the time mother was buried up to the
time of the arrest of stepfather. which
was more than week, my brothers
Tommy, Willie and myself, slept and
ate in the house and attended school
John Lefevre was at home every
night; we cooked our own meals and
made our own beds.
F. NJ. Eastman, stenographer. sworn
Took notes at the bearing before the
Magistrate at preliminary hearing;
Harry Cooper said that his mother
said her eyes were getting weak, and
she felt like she was going to faint.
DR.. VIM. Irwin, sworn-l reside at
Evansburg, this county. on the Pitts
burgh & Northwestern Railroad am
an ex-member of the State Legisa-
ture; have been practising physician
for twenty-seven years in that locality
/ attended Cleveland College. and also
Jefferson College, Philadelphia; / be-
long to what we call regulars, but
others call it the allopath school of
physicians; external and internal symp-
toms of death from strangulation would
be face and neck swollen and discol-
ored, eyes open, pupils dilated, mouth
open, tongue swollen and protruding,
hands fexed, lungs congested, some of
the air cells ruptured, and the blood in
lungs highly colored because of having
been carbonized and oxydized; would
expect to find right oricle and right
ventricle of heart with blood in, but
none in the left side; would expect to
to find mucous membrane of stomach
congested; would expect to find blood
in pulmonary arteries, mucous men,
brane of windpipe congested, with
bloody mucous in pipe itself; persons
are liable to die from sudden shock oc-
casioned by grief, joy, &c, because the
contractiOns of the heart are arrested (;
sudden death NAV be produced by con-
cussion of the brain then the flow of
nervous fluid from the brain necessary
to keep the heart in active condition
would cease in case of sudden death
from either, the face and neck would
he pale and not swollen; in case of
death from asphyxia or strangulation,
the face and neck would be livid and
swollen
Cross-eramined- recognize Tay-
lor's Medical Jurisprudence as stand
ard authority, and would not like to
get into controversy with it.
Judge McCandless reads from Tay-
lor's Medical Jurisprudence "ln case
of strangulation the brain is sometimes
congested, but commonly in a natural
state" Is that good authority?
Witness-Does Taylor say that? !?
Col. Thompson objects to the coun-
sci reading from a note which is not
what Taylor says, but what he quotes
as M. Yardou's experience, and which
he condemns.
Book shown to witness, at page 425.
Witness says that is what Taylor
quotes from Yardou and affirms as cor
rect respect Taylor and don't want
to get into controversy with him;
on condition of brain when death is
caused by strangulation, Taylor is
good authority.
DIR, n M. Hoover, sworn-I reside
in North Washington, this county
have had fifteen years civil practice as
physician, and two years and half in
the y. s. Army. Witness corrobo-
rated DR.. Irwin in almost every par
ticular.
Judge Bredin recalled DR.. Irwin and
asked him this question: In case of
strangulation, while a person was in
an unconscious state from concussion,
what symptoms of strangulation would
you expect to find, if any
Defendants counsel objects because
there is no evidence or proof that this
woman was in an unconscious condi-
tion at the time referred to; that the
fact assumed in the question of the
Court, to-wit, the unconscious condi-
tion of the patient, is theory and in
ference, and, being only theory or
deduction, it cannot be the basis or
Urounda unon which To build another