The daily gazette., 1882-05-04
THE NEW HAvEN MYsrERY.
Expert Testimony in the BIalIey Trial
Testimony that Causes Blanche Douglass
I'd Smile.

~ estimony that Causes Blanche Douglass
I'd Smile.
NEW HAVEN, Conn, May 3.-In the
Malley trial, to-day, DIR. Prudden said that
he had placed cotton in the body of Jennie
CraIner to take the place of internal organs
removed, and he was as positive as he could
be That nothing else was introduced in the
body after death. After removing part of
the brain for examination he left the rest on
the table at the undertaker's where the
autopsy was made. "Do you mean to say
here to this jury" said Mr.. Jones with
an appearance of horror, ''that you saved
ond-third Of the brain and left the rest to be
thrown away or fed TO the chickens Z" DR..
Prndden said that he had left on the under
takers table parts of the brain, heart, lungs
anN spleen, because he did not need them
for his examination and he did not have
time to return them to the body, as it was
needed to be prepared for the funeral SER
vices, which were to be held that after
nobn.
The chemist, Professor Chittenden, was
recalled to state that over three grains OF
arsenic were found in the body of Jennie
Crhmer; he actually only took from the body
anil weighed l.O07 of grain of white oxide
of arsenic, or as his analysis first gave ii
him, 494 ,S77 grammes. Then the professor
produced the millograme of white arsenic
Which he promised to bring into court yester-
day. 1t was in a glass tube about the
thickness of a knitting needle, and the
minute quantity seemed to astonish the jury.
Blanche Douglass smiled when one of the
lawyers showed It to her,
Professor Moses G. White, who played such
prominent part in the Hayden trial, was
the next witness called. He is Yale Col
lege Professor of Pathology, Microscopy and
(lIstptring .Innqs at ln1 Ia
Hayden case and asked the witness If he
did not testify in it that on stone alleged
to have been used to strike Mary Stannartl
there was blood, when it was afterwards dis
covered and admitted by the professor that
it was but a species of plant or weed. Dr.
White explained how he made the mistake,
and claimed that ii was natural one under
the circumstances.
DR.. White, on his direct examination, said
that assuming that the statement of Drs
Shepard and Painter relating to their post
nortem examination of the body of Jennie
Cramer to be true, she had been virgin
until within one TO three days before her
death. The witness read half dozen
Authorities to support his opinion and
refused on the cross-eXamination to allow
| that he was in error.
Next the State called DIR. Painter and
| that gentleman surprised everyone by say
ing that he forgot to testify when on the
| subject before that on the morning he ant
| Dr. Shepard made the first post mortem il
the morgue the windows were down, whicl
| greatly increased the volume of light.
| Reporter VIM. A. Countryman was thu
last witness of the day, his testimony being
that on the afternoon of the finding Of Jenni
| Cramer's body he was sent to Edward Nal
| ley's store to Interview James Malley, Jr
| The young man said that he had heard o
the finding Of the body and asked if it wa
found off Humans Hotel, an eighth of
mile from the place where the body was dis
| covered. When asked if he knew the girl h
said "No." He denied writing letters +
her, even those which the reporter said ha
been found with his name signed to them
He also denied visiting at the girls houst
and closed by requesting the reporter I
keep his name out of print in connection
| with the case.