Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-06

 I did not see her tongue and did not look in | her mouth; the blood that came from her | nose was dark, darker than ordinary blood. |
 Her hands were little water soaked; I looked at them to see her rings; her face was dark and looked as if she had had rush of blood to the head; and looked like a party would that was drowned; have seen similar appearances in the face of other parties that were drowned; did not examine the finger nails to ascertain whether there was any sand or grit under them; did not notice any change inE the color of the skin of the face after first found her. the other bruises noticed were the scratches her | forehead, as if made by the sand; l the weather was warm that night and was that morning; it was quite hot, and had been for | the position of the body, I should think it had foated in from the wharf; my opinion for this is the mode of it's drifting, the con. l dition of the clothes and the motion of the swell would bring it in from that way. Judge Blydenburgh asked the question: l From what position of the wharf in your | opinion did the body come?"
 | This question was objected to by MT. Boll- I man on the ground that witness was not an expert, and after talk on both sides the jus tice admitted it, and witness said:
 think as have always said, that it came from near the first landing on the wharf,
 about two-thirds of the way down.
 l Continuing the witness said if the body had been thrown or fallen of from the end | of the wharf, it would have drifted in up by Pres Hinman's. Suffocation, for aught he knew, might have produced the appearance of 1 the face he saw.
 l Mr. Cramer, father of the dead girl was l called to say that he identified the body as l his daughter. MT. and Mrs. Cramer and Ed l ward Cramer were present in the room. Ad- journed till 2 p. m.
 AFTERNOON SESSION.
 At 2:15 the hearing was resumed.
 The first called was Dr. Durell Shepard, of
 West Haven. He testified in substance as follows: I was foreman of the jury of in quest. First saw the body of Jennie Cramer lying on the beach in front of Hills about
 6:30 on the morning of Saturday, August
 9th. The body was removed to the morgue in West Haven and afterward to Stahl <
 Hegels, undertakers in Church street, New
 Haven. I employed Dr. Prudden as an ex-
 pert in the case and was present when the
 examination of the body was made.
 | On the cross-examination witness said he
 examined the body to some extent while it
 lay upon the beach The clothing was not
 removed then I did nothing with the body
 except to view it. A number of persons
 were there at the time (names of many which
 witness gave). I did not touch the body un-
 til it was removed to the morgue Witness
 continued, giving the general outward ap- pearance of the body as it lay upon the
 beach did not examine the nails of the fin
 gers to see if there was sand under them j;
 noticed some abrasions about the face; the
 skin of the face was little dark.
 To a question whether the witness discov- | oIo, ho1
 MT. Bush objected on the ground that the
 question was foreign to the direct examina-
 tion. He said he would give the defense
 ample opportunity to examine on these
 points at a future time
 1 MT. Blydenburgh insisted upon the ques-
 tion, but Justice Booth overru1ed it.
 | Witness proceeded and rehearsed the cir
 cumstances of the removal of the body to the
 morgue; said he did not notice anything pc
 culiar about the color of the skin on the
 chest; after we got to the morgue portion
 of the clothing was removed from the body ;
 several of the coroner's jury were present
 and assisted in the removal of some of the
 articles of dress saw blood coming from the mouth, or what appeared to be blood we
 delivered the body to the undertaken; the
 coroner's jury, think, were all present when
 the body was delivered to he1ndertaker, al-
 though it is possible that one or two of them
 might have been up stairs.
 Dr. T. Mitchell Prudden was next called. ! He said he lived in New York city
 Mir. Blydenburgh objected to going on l with the evidence of Dr. Prudden until the
 body, had been traced into Dr. Prudden's
 hands, which he claimed had not been done. D,,1I, .kolA Lo, A<o l duct the case for the State as he saw fit, with
 out any reference to Judge Blydenburgh's $
 desire to exhibit his wit and get it published l in the newspapers. He said he proposed in ! the future to trace the body every step of the
 way from the shore to Dr. Prudden's hands. 1 Justice Booth decided that Dr. Prudden's l testimony could be taken.
 | Witness proceeded. He said he was 8 teacher in the New York College of Surgeons l and Physicians had made speciality of post-mortem examinations; he-said he made 1 post-mortem of body said to be that of Jennie Cramer at Stahl & HegePs undertak- ing establishment on Monday, August 8th beside myself Dr. Shepard, Dr. Painter, Dr. | aotohkiss and, I believe, pr. Bellosa were present I first made an outward examina- 1 tion of the body and found no bruises; l there were evidences of decay; the bones and joints were sound the face and neck were of & darker color than other parts of ! the body; scattered over the face were nu- ! merous small scratches and bruises three of these were larger than the others, two on | the lower lip, the one on the right side being about half an inch in length and looked as | though some flesh was gone. There was | also wound at the tip of the nose where there was brown spot about half an inch ! across; the tip of the nose was slightly in- ] chned to the left; on the right ear, lower ! part, there small brownish spot proba- i ply the result of previous abrasion; other nf 1IoI1 frol on the surface of the body; the teeth were ! noticed for the purpose of Identification; the tongue was in the mouth, not swollen; there was slight stifening of the body; the eyes had changed so could not see the pupil; I then made an examination of the brain and found that the blood vessels of the mem- brane of the brain were somewhat overflled l with blood which was dark in color and near 1 ly fluid; the brain otherwise was healthy; I l then made an examination of the chest; the but little blood and rather more in the left than in the right side of the heart. The lungs were fairly well filled with l air and contained no water; they had a healthy appearance; there were two small quantities of reddish fluid in the pleural cav l ities of the chest in the upper part of the windpipe was found few scattered particles of sand, small amount of frothy mucous, it 1 laying against the sides of the windpipe and did not fill it. next examined the organs l in the abdomen. The stomach had a healthy | appearance and contained about two ounces I of grayish fluid and particles of undigested food there were fragments of whortleber- ries and particles of fat and lean meat and I fragments of mushrooms the intestines were healthy ln appearance and contained | considerable quantity of partly di- gssted food. The liver was healthy in | appearance. also the spleen, the kid l neys and the bladder The bladder contained no urine; the uterus was bent | forward and a little to the left the left ovary was healthy, while the right had on it ! cystic tumor about as large as an English walnut and contained reddish fluid the | esophagus was healthy, and the upper portion of it, extending down about three | inches, contained small particles of sand; an l examination wAs made of the external gener- 1 ative organs, but the decay was so far ad- vanced that nothing was determined. To MT. Bush-From this examination I was not able to detect the cause of death l the appearances vary in cases of drowning the more usual appearances when a struggle