The daily gazette. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1874-1883, 1882-06-16
THE GREAT NEwHAvEN rKIAL.
Another Day of fExpert TestimOny-Was II
q Case Of Drowning I?

a Case of Drowning?
New HAVEN, June 15.-The MalIey de-
fense to-day called their first expert to con-
tradiet the theories of the States expert as
to how Jennie Cramer died. DIR. Pliny A.
Jewett, once professor of obstetrics in the
Yale Medical School, testified that he had
practiced 40 years and had examined a great
many bodies. On the occasion of railroad
disaster at Norwalk, in this State, he had
examined 81 bodies In Paris he examined
10 or ~ drowned bodies, taken from the
seine. lie had also examined books of
medical Jurisprudence. Mr.. Jones asked the
following questions, in which he reviewed.
with accuracy, the manner in which Jen.
ME Cramer's body was treated: "The body
oil female, 20 years old, is found in the
water early in the morning. 1t is taken
from the water and lies on the beach in the
hot sun for two hours. Then it is carted to
morgue, a distance of mile, where it Ia
turned over and examined. Then it is earted
iour miles, turned over, stripped and
washed. All this occurs on SATURDAY. It is
packed in ice and the following Monday is
removed. Then comes a post-mortem ex
animation and no water Is found in the
stomach Or lungs. Would that be any in
dlcation to you that the body was not
drowned ~ Mr.. Jones looked around tri-
umphantly as the expert said that It would
was calculated to remove the water from
both the stomach and the lungs. I..
The jolting of the cart would alone do
this, the witness said. He could not con-
ceive, however, that the sand found in Jennie
Cramer's gullet, 100 grains or more, could
have been washed in there by the action of
the waves, nor could he give any explana-
ton OF how sand could have reached there
II the body had remained in the water, with
closed mouth, eight or ten hours. In the
case OF the Norwalk victims he had men
TONED, where death must have been almost
instantaneous, the eyes were closed, as were |
Jenme's In the case of Jennie Cramer's |
body" said the doctor, "there was the |
absence OF many of the symptoms of drown |
ing, and while we can account for some of |
them being absent we cannot account for
them all ("
The witness said that he had not much |
experience with cases of arsenical poisoning.
athough he assisted at the post mortem Of |
Mary Stannard's remains. He believed that |
a person might die from shock or COLLAPSE a |
very short time after taking the poison. But |
in death from arsenic he would expect to |
nllu tine coating of the stomach infamed. |
Arsenic is an irritant and invariably infiamed |
the mucous membrane when brought In con |
tact with it. The witness found fault with |
what he termed the ''guess work" of DIR, |
ffndden, who conducted the post mortem
examination OF Jennie's remains Mr.. Jones |
next rose to introduce a novel theory as to |
how arsenic found its way into Jennie Cra-
mer's remains without the customary inflo-
nation ensuing. II DESIRE" he said, "to |
show the jury that in the basement of |
the undertaking establishment to which |
Jennie Cramer's body was taken Wash |
burns solution was used, which was SO i'm |
with arsenic that cloth saturated |
when partially dry was covered with arsenic |
crystal, In that place a bungler made a |
post-m mortem examination on the body of
Jennie Cramer and with his limited expert
ence It was not at all improbable that some
OF the poison got on the internal organs as
they were taken out by DIR. Prudden." He
said, furthermore, that the defense proposed |
TO show that four days before this post |
mortem the undertakers, Stahl 81 Hegel. |
had purchased five gallons of this solution. |
lour ounces of arsenic to the gallon, and
That 1t was the custom to inject this solu-
non into dead bodies to preserve them.
when Jennie Cramer's body was brought to
nat place, Mr. James said, it was supposed
'he had been drowned there was not a hint 4
)f poisoning.
MR.. CASSIDY wITHDRAws. +
Mrs. Lottie NJ. Brown was called for the
vowed purpose of disproving that there
vas conspiracy to make Jennie ride with |
he Malleys last July and it was only by
ccident that she was one of the party
originally. She testified that July 9 James
daley invited her and Mrs. Ketchum.
fhose real name is Mrs. Eager, to ride to
he shore with himself and friends from l
Jew York July II. On July IL Mrs. '
Aetchum found she could not go, and then I
ames wrote to ask the witness ii she had l
lot some friend who would. Later he sent '
'ord that he had found some one and c
'anted her to be one of the party. t
The defense claim to have nearly closed J.
leir case to-day, and Mr.. Fox says that a
robably only ten more witnesses will be +
allied and the defense may be all in to-mor-
wv. DIR. Malley, brother of James, who
lgaged Lewis @. Cassidy to defend James.
.ceiyed letter to-day from Mr.. Cassidy. =
he attorney announced that he had with y
rawn from the case. The reason given for
ithdrawing is that his business is injured
his absence from Philadelphia. 1t is re- Il
lrted however, that he has expressed him s.
III more foreibly, saying that each day h
ore 1laperils the boys, and that in any case
is unwise to try to get justification in a W
'urt in murder trial His letter con- O.
udes with the statement that he considers o.
at James Malley is illegally and justly in
danger.o A