Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-03
.aonrual ar1o Oouriet
"Wednesday Aornins. May 5, 1882.
The Malley Trial.

At the Malley trial yesterday the sessions were again entirely occupied by expert evil dence and the battling of the lawyers to up set or counteract the same, and some vigor- ous work was done on both sides Many prominent citizens and strangers dropped in during the day The court room is quickly filled tho minute the doors are open, and many go away to try it again next time.
 Morning Session.
 Court opened promptly at 10 o'clock.
 After the jury were called Professor Chit
 tenden took the stand and his cross -examina-
 tlon by Mir. Case was resumed.
 Mir. Case-What was the date of that arti
 cle that you translated from the French the other day?
 Witness-The article itself has no date, but the bulletin in which it is published is dated
 August ,, 1875. MT. Case-Is there anything in the German
 article to show how the arsenic was given? Professor Chittenden read from the work to show the distribution of arsenic through the system
 MT. Case called attention of witness to a | recent article written by Professors Johnson and Chittenden published in 1880. Witness said he was in part the author of the article referred to- MT. Case then read from Professor Chitten- den's opinion as published, in relation to the theory of the Russian and German chemists,
 in which the opinion IS given that conclusions
 of these authors are valu eless. Witness continued-I have examined or analysed number of bodies for the purpose of ascertaining whether there was arsenic
 The last, previous to the body of Jennie Cramer, was that of Mrs. Riddle Of the 29 pounds of body analysed I actually found 1 grain and O965. I was led to my opinion in directly that the arsenic in Jennie Cramer's body was soluble in form While in Mrs. Riddles body we found much white oxide of arsenic, it found in large quantities in ! the kidney and 1iver and only 300 grams was found in the brain. All the indications pointed to chronic poisoning, by which ! mean the even distribution of the arsenic | through the muscle tissue and the bones and the finding of 8 large quantity in the kid | neys which throws out the arsenic from the l body and the large quantity in the liver lead l us to this opinion. MT. Case-When you speak of chronic l poisoning are we to understand from this as 1 to the form in which the arsenic is admins ] tered?
 l Witness-No, sir. l Mr. Case-Your opinion then as to the | form in which the arsenic was given to Jen- ! nie Cramer is based on that of the Russian | and German authors and that of your own | examination of Mrs. Riddles body I Witness-Not altogether, sir, It part 1 ly from experiments made by myself OH ani- mals.
 | MT. Case-What are the different forms of o1,,i,I Loc. T | There are several forms of salts of arsenic 1 which soluble, many of which are obtain | able, as potassium arsenite and arsenic acid ,; I I have also bought ammonium arsenite, but
 this is not common Mir. Case-As I understand you, you have | never previous to this examined 8 body
 when you thought arsenic was administered
 in a soluble form Witness-Yes, this is the first human body. | MT. Case-I refer, doctor to human bodies ! only.
 Witness continued-No, I did not refer in | my article ip the American Chemical Journal | to the form of arsenic found in Mrs. Riddles body.
 MT. Case-How do you accou unt for the | Jennie Cramer's body according to your l theory?
 l Witness-Because there had not been time 1 for the distribution before death. ! MT. Case-Did the absence of arsenic or l inflammation in the membrane of the stom-
 ach lead you to your conclusions about the
 arsenic being administered in a soluble form? | Witness-Not particularly. MT. Case-You did not examine the blood? Witness-There was no blood delivered to l me, and did not ask for any. I asked for the parts that wanted. I did not ask for the bladder or blood MT. Case-Did you think it uninportant to
 examine the bladder? Witness (hesitating )-I did not think it abso- lutely necessary. Mir. Case-Was the bladder delivered to you?
 Witness-I think it was with the genital organs.
 Mir. Case--Were you requested not to exam | inc the bladder Witness-I think I was so requested by Dr. Prudden, who desired to preserve it. l kept it until January 1, 1882, when deliv l cred it to Dr. Prudden and since then l know nothing whatever about it. | Witness continued-I did not weigh the | first mirror of arsenic, from the fact that l ! was very busy at the time. It would not 1 have taken very long; I fully identified it
 and did not think it necessary, as had plenty of other material to ascer- l tain the quantity of arsenic in the body In my examination of the liver I took 100
 grams and then calculated the whole amount 1 from the sample used. 1 Mir. Case-If Dr Prudden delivered to you | two-thirds of the liver, then on your pub
 lished statement your analysis and calcula- tion of arsenic in the liver is erroneous, is it not?
 Witness-I don't think so. 1 Mir. Case-Do not your figures show that ] you have based your calculations on the
 quantity of arsenic in one liver and @ third of | 8 liver
 | Witness-I think not, sir. l Mir. Case-As I understand you, you did | not analyze the whole of the lungs and | spleen?
 Witness-There was one lot of 100 grams of the lungs and spleen in which I did not
 weigh the arsenic because did not think it necessary
 Mir. Case-Now pass to the leg tissue. | You took 100 grams of the leg and what did l you find?
 Witness proceeded, giving the figures as given in his printed statement in regard to | the arsenic found in the tissue. | Mir. Case brought out the statement from | the witness that two different experiments
 with the same quantity brought different re- l suits as regards weight. At 11:3O recess of five minutes was taken. After recess Professor Chittenden's cross examination was continued. In reply to Mir. Case witness said that .O0445 milligrams of metall1c arsenic was equal to Oooo or gram The professor continued at length giving
 minute details of the plan he pursued to
 reach the results obtained by his analysis. One miligram is .Ol5 of grain. MT. Case-Win you, doctor, weigh out nilligram of arsenic and bring it in this af- ternoon if l furnish the arsenic? If you
 can do it, will. you do SO, that with my ig
 norant eyes can see and that the jury may see what milligram of arsenic is? l will
 ask you to weigh one grain and one milli-
 gram.
 Witness-It will take some time to do this,
 but can and will do it if you so desire. It
 will probably take two or three hours, be-
 cause the conditions must be right.
 MT. Case here produced some arsenic,
 which he presented to the witness.
 In reply to MT. Case, witness proceeded
 giving the weight of the lungs spleen, heart
 and brain, from which he made his analysis
 I calculated the proportion of the heart
 which I analysed because I did not see the
 whole of it.
 MT. Case-Then there was 8 good deal of guess work about it |?
 Witness-I don't so consider it.
 Witness by direction of MT. Case. then proceeded to give the minutest details of the dlslnterment of the body of Jennie Cramer, from the time he started in hack with Dr.
 Prudden from the Medical College, taking the jars in a sealed box to Everpreen ceme,