New-York tribune., 1881-09-28
THE LATE PRESIDENT.
NATURE OF THE FATAI. woJrNn

NATURE OF THE FATAL WOUND.
DR. BoYNroN On THE DISCOVERIES MADE DURING
THE AUToPsY-sUsPIcIoNs THAT WERE CON.
FIRMED.
lBr TELEGRAPH THE TRTBUxEI
CLEVELAND. Sept. 27.-There has been a constant
stream of visitors to-day both TO Lake View Gene
terry to see the tomb where the late Presidents re-
mans are temporarily deposited, and TO the cata-
ialque and funeral car. The latter has been drawn
oack 10 the public square in the city. The crowd
OF strangers was great yesterday that the
capacity of the railroads insufficient to carry all
in comfort who desired to depart and tonight
many strangers remain here for that reason
A rumor seems TO have gained currency
That DR. Boynton would make some for
maj public statement after the funeral cere-
monies were all over, criticisng the course
OF the late Presidents surgeons their state
ment and their autopsy. Dr. Boynton said to-dav
In effect, that he had no such purpose. All matters
which were of sufficient interest to the public to
Know would, he thought be brought out upon the
tr-iaf Guiteau. He seemed to think that in his
position Of intimacy with the family of the late
President and his connection with the case it
would be ndeiicate for him to become an accuser or
critic OF the physicians He reiterated the opinion
ne had ry expressed in regard TO the presence
OF OF pyemla, apd spoke with positiveness in regard
10 tne metastatic abscess and the lung affection lie
tnought that nearly all the threatening symptoms
alter about the lst Of Angus, due 70 blood
serious IN eharac er and due also to blood poisoning
developed before ieavmg Washington. Those facts
the physlcans 1t will be remembered did not admit
until few days before the late Presidents death
the cough being attributed by them to bronchial
cataTTh.
When the lung tissue was divided" SAID DR..
Boynton, Hus poured out in abundance mainly
from the minute bronchial tubes and there existed
IN marked degree that peculiar congestion of the
obules OF the lungs Which constitutes the rst stage
In meastatic assesses. This condition OF the lungs
constitutes one If the most common complications
IN pyenia and Us essentially different in its nature
from an ordinary case of bronchial pneumonia" DR.
BOynton was shown a statement published in
a newspaper 10 the effect that he lad said
the bullet was accidently fonnd loose and
rattling around in the bottom of the bowl in which
the Intestines had been placed. He said he had
made no such statement, but added that he might
nave sald IN private conversation. having had 10
idea that II would be published, that when the con-
tents OF the abdominal cavity were removed and
placed in wash-bowl the bullet was conveyed with
them into the bowl where il was afterward discov-
cred, after the failure TO find in the region OF the
pus cavity, which had been mistaken for the track
of the bullet. DIR. Boynton said that the statement
before the Presidents death that he had been re-
monstrated with by Drs. Hamilton and Agnew
for statements made not in accordance with theirs
entirely untrue and that lis personal relations
with the doctors were cordial.
Mrs. Garfield and her family departed this morn
for Mentor.