Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1882-07-13
NUMBER 10.
urther that it would have been physi-

further that it would have been physi-
cal impossibility for any one to have in
filcted all four of these wounds, or to
have inflicted No. after having receiv-
ed No ). Doubtful if third shot could
have been fired after having received
any of shots Nos /, 3, and 4 excluding
No. ,. but combination of all four shots
would be a physical impossibility.
Dissemination Opinion based on
study and reading of words or surgery
and medical Jurisprudence. Witness
here gave names of some works All
penetrating wounds of cavities are al
ways attended by extreme shock and the
rule is given that the shock of an injury
increases with the square of the velocity
OF the projectile, or in other words the
faster the bullet goes the greater the
shock. Not numerous cases but a num-
Der of cases where persons have surviv-
ed for days after receiving wounds pene-
trating the cavity of the heart In 40l
cases of wounds of the heart there were
az cases of recovery with thirty-tmee
autopsy'S showing the heart to have
been wounded. In one class of cases
the muscles had only been wounded
but not penetrated. During course OF
the autopsy found point of leaf in the
track of ball No. 4, down on rib
The remainder of the eross-eNamina-
ton which was quite lengthy aid not
shake the previous opinions or testimony
OF the witness as given on direct exam
ination.
MRS. SARAH GALLOWAY
tuas lo1
while a number of the ladies were sit
ting near the body on the morning it
was found Mrs. Pegg said she thought
Mrs. Sisley had been afraid that the boys
would come back and that Lew would
shoot into them. That She took the re-
volver and went to hide it when it went
of and killed her. That Lew had been
talking to Mr.. kamm, and Just rs Mrs
Pegg said that he came back and was
standing near the group. That he then
went up TO the house, and Mrs. Stout
said afterwards that he felt better after
hearing what Mrs. Pegg said. Witness
with Mrs. Martell went to call on Ham
ilton's folks the Saturday afterward.
and while there, Mrs. Martell, when
they were talking about the affair, said
she had hardly had wink of sleep
since. Mrs. Stout said no wonder, and
she hoped the guilty ones would be
found, and some one was surely guilty.
Witness asked Hamilton if any steps
had been taken to get the guilty ones,
and he said man answering Ribbey's
description had been seen in Enloc' 5
barn Monday night, and another at
Funk's. Mrs. Hamilton SAYS, Il should
not wonder if those were the ones that
did it, and Hamilton answered, ''who-
ever has done it | hope to God they will
get them" Witness said, $50 do /"
and that ended the conversation.
Cross examination. Had given the
conversations just as they occurred. Did
not remember any more being said
MIR. THOMAS GALLOWAY
was then called. Was up To the place
where dead body was found on June If.
Got there about eight o'clock. Body
was covered with sheet. Witness did
not see the body until it was uncovered
by Mrs. Jeardoe. His description only
differed from majority of witnesses in
the height of dress above shoes. which
he thought eight or ten inches. Nearest
tree was small ironwood three or four
feet away, and its lowest branches were
from four to four and half feet above
the ground and pointing ward-were
high enough SO that witness, who is five
feet ten in height, could walk around
beneath them by STOPPING little. Wo-
men said body ought to be shaded more
and witness and Mr. Lester made shade
Soon men got around and then they cut
the ironwood partly through and bent it
over.
Cross eXamination.-Saw other trees
on different sides, but none so near as
this one. Did not notice any hawthorn
bush. Might have been there but did
not see it.
DIR. F. w. MITCHELL.
was called Assisted at the autopsy on
the 2Sth of June and kept the notes.
| Testimony of witness cOrroborated that
of DIR. Barber. The only new point
| brought out was in answer to question
1 from Mr.. Carter as TO what would be
the appearance of wounds if they had
/ been self inflicted and pistol held in
/ both hands in accordance with theory
advanced by some. Witness thought
they would have been elongated and
course of ball not continuous when arms
were dropped by side.
DIR. EDWARD CRONIN.
was next placed on the stand. Mr..
Carter then put the following hypotheti-
ca question to witness. Assuming that
a young girl, twenty-four years old, Of
medium size and weight, in perfectly
fair health TO be found dead and upon
her body four pistol shot wounds made
/ by pistol bullets of 22-l00 calibre, which
bullets struck the body. As follows:
4 No. / about one inch and half to the
left of the stcrnum in the third inter
costa space. No. in third inter c0stal
space, nearly on line with No. !, and
about three liz hes to the left of the
sternum. Surprising further that it is
found that ball No. passed downwards
and slightly to the left and outwards so
as to strike the fifth rib little 10 the
left of its point of greatest convexity,
that it broke that rib and then passed
around the body in the muscles to u
point over the eight rib and there lodg-
ed; that balls one, two and three passed
! entirely through the thorasic cavity and
/ its contents, striking the rear wall of
that cavity so as TO cut piece Of under
side of eighth rib about three inches TO
the left of the certer of spine, after
cutting out portion of the upper edge
Of the tenth lib something less THAI two
inches from the center of the spine. The
other passing into eleventh interco. Cal
space less than three inches TO Ii left
of the center of the spine substantially
As the diagram ! show you, at least two
such balls being known to have passed
through the left lung making four holes
in it, one OF which is supposed to have
passed through the pericardium and en-
tirely through the left yentricle Of the
heart little below its center substanti-
ally as shown you in plate as presented.
The path Of the remaining bullet through
the thoracic cavity not being positively
known; under those circumstances what
is your opinion as to its being possible
that all four of those shots were fired by
deceased herself
Alt is an impossibility.
Or the previous question / ought to
have stated there was little or no exter-
nal bleeding. What little blood did APP
pear externally being confined, SO far a.
known, to little blood exuding from
the nostrils and running a short distance
down on the lips towards the corners OF
the mouth andto small amount OF
blood, 50 far as | can Judge probably
oozing from wounds IN the breast and
appears to have somewhat discolored
the cheInise lying upon it. What effect
upon your previous opinionif any, would
this fact have had. Would it or would