Morning journal and courier., 1881-09-07
lions would be in regard to the quantity oi


 arsenic in the body.
 The Professor said that 1.O75 of grain of white arsenic would be the entire amount amined, of which he had only part. This is on a basis that the parts of the organs as stated by Dr. Prudden were correct. The diaphragm, windpipe and. tongue would naturally contain some arsenic. The quantity of arsenic in the brain is usually taken as 8 basis of the amount of distribu- tion the amount in bones and brain would be nearly equal; the amount of arsenic found in the brain is as large and larger than | the amounts found in the brain of Mrs. Rid dle and Mary Stannard combined. That would indicate the general distribution. We usually find more in the muscle tissues than | in the brain. The amount of arsenic found in Mrs. Riddles body was 5.260 grains ; 1 the amount in Mrs. Riddles brain was too | small to be weighed. My deductions are where we found 2.84 grains in 55 pounds of muscle tissue and bone my opinion is that | the entire body of the Cramer girl must have contained from two to three grains; the quantity necessary to kill 8 person varies | in the opinion of authorities from what I have read I should judge that from two to three grains under | ordinary circumstances would produce death. l I should infer from my examination that the arsenic was administered in a soluble form. l The only soluble form that know of is that called Fowler's solution. It is understood that the amount of arsenic or irritant poisons not absorbed by the body remains in the stomach. The quantity found in the intes tines was large, which might indicate that it had been recently taken. The small quanti- ty found in the kidneys would also seem to indicate that the arsenic had been recently taken. The quantity found in the lungs and spleen was quite large, as they were both ex- amined together. If the face had been wash ed with arsenic it could not have reached the brain or the stomach and intestines in very l short period.
 On the cross examination witness gave list of the different preparations of arsenic My opinion would be in this case that the arsenic 1 was taken in the form of solution there IS nothing in my examination that would be positive evidence that the arsenic was all taken at one time in empty condition Of the stomach I should think that Fowler s solution would be absorbed very rapidly :; l the first course of the arsenic as 8 rule IS to the liver indications of arsenlcal poisoning with arsenic are usually found in the aiment- ary canal have used all the various tests for the purpose of obtaining arsenic; it would be impossible to say how long before ! death the arsenic was taken; could not say | that death resulted from taking arsenic, or whether it was taken in ono or five doses or whether it was taken two or three days be- fore death.
 S. N. Marsdeu was called and testified as follows I live in West Haven; I know | where the body of Jennie Cramer was found. About twenty minutes past on the morning of Saturday, August 6. was on the balcony l at the rear of my house and saw Mir. Curtlss ! baling water out os his boat; saw some thing white floating in the water; I then went in the house and took my breakfast. and coming out again saw Mir. Curtiss pulling a white substance that had seen before to- ward the shore; he then went towards Howes' | restaurant, and in few moments I saw peo- ple begin to collect around what he had brought from the water I then went and saw it was the body of young lady.
 To MT. Bush-The appearance of the young lady was that of one very beautiful, though in death her eyes and mouth were closed !; her arms were crossed on her bosom; when | the body was taken out of the water 1t was one hundred and ten feet from the center of the railroad track; when I first saw it l should judge it was 130 feet from this point. When I first observed the body it was about 10 feet from the edge of the water; the body appeared to be floating from the southwest parallel with the shore the body appeared to be in 8 sort of lagoon, although there was channel leading to it, and this was the only means of ingress to this lagoon, which was perhaps seven or eight feet wide. The body might have passed into this depression between the sand bars, but l could not have got there in any other way at that time of the tide. You can safely say that at low tide thera Is six inches of water in the basin; it was about three quarters tide when the body was discovered; the body was | in the channel when saw it, but within the basin it was about twenty feet to the west and south of where the flag the body; have seen 8 number of bodies taken out of the water. twelve in Paris, ! three or four in New York, and two in Will | ton near Fort Morris. All bodies that I have ! seen before this were bloated when taken from the water, and in large number whom I have seen quantity of mucus has come from the mouth from what I have seen am of the decided opinion that this person was not drowned
 Cross-examined by Mir. Fox-I think the wind was blowing from the west or south west when first saw it the water was very calm that morning; I noticed that the head | was in toward the shore when I discovered that it was body; the body was lying on it's l back when I saw 1t; the mouth was closed.
 Mir Fox: Did you never know of a per son drowned while alive9 Witness thought not when alive, Gaughter Counsel while alive and drowning afterward. Wit ness had known of that. He had not read the account of how Schneider, the drowned man, was found. The reason gave for her not having been long in the water was that she was so limp, nothing rigid about her body.
 l You spoke of drowned persons you saw in Paris and New York. Did you know how long the bodies had been in the water? A. I knew of a case in New York in 194S. The body had been in the water or 10 minutes. It was found on the East river side. He fell from the wheel house of the steamer Wash ington. In falling he struck upon an iron protection on the wheel house. The blood shot out of the wound in his head two or three inches.
 Redirect by Mir Bollman-W Witness had not measured the distance from Kelsey's wharf to where the body wasfound.
 l There was some talk of calling Dr. Shep- ard again, who had retired owing to the heat It was finally decided to adjourn till this morning at 10 o'clock. Judge Blydenburgh attested to the remark of reporter concern ing the heat by hopping his face with his handkerchief. With groan of relief the re- porters gathered up their notes, put on their | coats and started out for fresh air. Mir. and Mrs Cramer were requested to attend again | to-day The crowd had left. Mir. Bush | and Mir. BolIman had a consultation. The prisoners stood up, smoking cigarettes, wait ing the sher1ff's summons to go with him. | IMPORTANT TESTIMONY FOR THE DEFENSE.
 Counsel for the defense have three import ant witnesses to go upon the stand, who will
 
 ! with man at II o'clock at night at the shore on the night of her death, and that the man was neither James nor Walter Malley. They are said to be most positive as they were ac- qusinted with James and Walter Malley.
 QUEER LETTER.
 Coroner Bollman yesterday received "a very strange letter, which he says is only one of several of similarly queer and strange charac- ter he has received in this Cramer case. This one is signed A. C., and came from Providence. The writer claims that he met Jennie Cramer on the night of her death and attempted to outrage her, but without suc- cess. He did not believe her and attempted liberties which she resisted. He then ad- ministered some Spanish fly (cantharides) l in some cream candy and then ac- complished his purpose. He acknowl- edges that he could not bring. the girl to, and became frightened. After leaving her where found, he started for Providence, walking nearly half the way.