Sacramento daily record-union., 1881-09-22
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Eesuit or the Post M.rtem Examination
Report OF the Surgeons.

Eesuis or the Post M.rienl Examination
Report OF ;iie Surgeons.
ELBERoN IN. J J, Septsmber 21st-The fol-
lowing official bulletin was prepared last
night by the surgeons who have been in at
tendance upon the late President:
By. previous arrangement post mortem
examination OF the body Of President Gar
field was made this afternoon, IN the presence
and with the assistance Of Drs Hamilton,
Agnew, Bliss, Barnes, Woodward. Reyburn,
Andrew I'll. Smith, Of Elheron, and Acting
Assistant Surgeon ID. S. Lamb, of the Army
Medical Museum, Washington. The opera
ton was performed by Dr. Lamb. 1t was
found that the ball, after fracturing the
right eleventh rib, had passed through the
spinal column in front OF the spiAal
canal, fractqring the body of the first lumbar
VertebIse, Striving rumber of small frag-
ments Of bone into the adjacent soft parts,
and lodging Just below the pancreas, about
two inches and balf to the left of the spine
and behind the peritoneum, where it had be-
come completely encysted. The ic.mediate
cause OF death was secondary hemorrhage
from one OF the meseratic arteries adjoining
the track OF the ball, the blood rupturing the
peritoneum, and nearly pint escaping into
the abdominal cavity. This hemorrhage is
believed to have been the cause of the severe
pain in the lower part Of the chest complained
OF just before death. An abscess cavity, six
inches by four In dimensions, was found in
the vicinity OF the gall bladder, between the
liver and the transverse colon which were
strongly interadherent. 1t did not involve
the substance of the liver, snd no
communication, was found between it
and the wound A long suppuratine
through the lein muscles and right
kidney, almost to the right groin. This
channel is now known to be due to the bur-
rowing CT pus from the wound, and was sup
posed during life to have been the track of
the ball. On examination of the organs Of
the chest evidences Of severe bronchitis were
found OF both aides. with broncho-pr eumonia
OF the lower portions of the right lung. and
though much extent of the left lung contained
no abscesses and the heart no clots, the liver
nlargedand fatty, but free from abscesses.
Nor wers any found in any other organ ex-
cept the left kidney, which contained near
Its surface snall abscess, about one third Of
an Inch In diameter. ln reviewing the his
tory Of the case, in connection with the
autopsy, it is quite evident that different sup
puratipg surfaces, especially the fractured
spongy tissue ofthe vertebre, furnish sufficient
explanation of the septic condition which ex-
listed. Signed by Bliss, Barnes, Woodward,
Rey yburn, Hamilton, Aanew and Smith.
Terrible Trasedy-5uvder OF Wife an
MOiaer.in.Law.
OMAHA (Neb.) September 21st.-A terri.
BILE tragedy occurred yesterday ten miles
north Of Schuyler, in Colfax county, Ne
braska. A man named Joseph Heraiatzky
murdered his wife, young woman, by chok-
ing her 10 death. Next he attacked his
mother-in-law with an AK, splitting her head
open and killing her. He buried his wife in
wheat stack and his mother.in- law in corn
stalks, and then rode to Schuyler and surren-
dered himself to the authorities, to whom be
related what he had dore. He was lodged in
Jail. and officers went to his farm to inyesti-
gate the matter, and there, sure enough, they
found the murdered bodies as he had testi.
fed. The man evidently is crazy Heral-
atzky had been married but two months.
Some time ago he received quite a sum of
money, which has proved bone of oonten-
ton, the parents of the wife desiring to get
hold of it. A quarrel over this matter cul
minated in the above tragedy.
Destruction by Fire.
GAINEsyILLE, CTex.). September 21st-The
business section OF this place was burned TO-
day. Less, S35, ,000