Morning journal and courier., 1882-05-04
,5OurnaI an0 Oourier.
Thursday Morning. May f, 1852
The Malley Trial.


 tenden were recalled again yesterday, and l Drs Sanford and White gave expert testi- mony, Dr. Chittenden brought Mr. Case a milligram of arser ic, an ipfnitesimal quantity | enough, its production and examination pro- ducing ripple of interest and amusement. | Dr. O'Malley, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, brother of young James, and Charles Higgins, a cousin of Walters from New York, were in town and sat with the prisoners during most of the days proceedings. Young James Nal ley has a somewhat wearied appearance, and Walter looks rather tired and nervous. Blanche looks on the other hand free from worry and placid as June morning, and | holds no communication with the prisoners however near she may chance to be to them. Morning Session. l Court opened at 10 o'clock. 1 On the opening of the court Dr. Prudden l took the stand and was questioned by Mr. Doc little.
 The attorney read from the books on symp. toms of death by arsenic and asked witness 1 if he concurred in that rule Witness said he did. l MT. Doolittle-Now as to the time of death. l The authors say that death is generally rap. l i'd, yet persons poisoned with arsenic have | lived sixteen and twenty-four hours, and in one case two years elapsed before death One author gives nine hours as the average Witness-I think the nine hours average is I nearly correct.
 Mir. Doolittle read f, om Taylor on poisons l in regard to the taste of Fowler's solution and it's effect and the symptoms which fol low after it is taken into the system. | Witness concurred in the views of the author, and added in reply to question by | the attorney that arsenic was soluble in wa | ter. 1 Mir. Doolittle farther read from the authors l as regards the alliaceous odor that proceeds | from bodies that have been poisoned whi ch | Mir D. said was like that of garlic. He said the l authors had never been able to account for the odor. He also read from the book to | show that two grains of arsenic in solution | may often prove fatal Witness said he assented to the statements | of these authors. l At the request of Mir. Doolttle, Dr. Prud den read from German work in regard to l the general appearance of people poisoned by arsenic.
 Cross examination by MT. Jones' Do you mean to say as a rule doctor that in person dying from arsenious acid the mem- brane of the stomach does not show infam- nation?
 Witness-Perhaps so, as rule, although | it is frequently the case that inflammation does not appear. Mir. Jones-Do you not understand that arsenious acid taken into the stomach causes inflammation, would you not expect to find inflammation of membrane of the stom ach and intestinal track? Witness-No, sir; because it does not always act that way Mir. Jones-WhatCio do you understand by the term characteristic as used by the author from which you have read? Witness-I understand it to mean things as they may occur.
 MT. Jones-Does he not mean by the term characteristic the changes as they occur from the use of arsenic?
 Witness-Yes, 1 think he does
 MT. Jones-From these cases you have read in the books or cited, doctor, are they not exceptions to the ordinary rule?
 Wltness-Yes, SIT, they are.
 MT. Jones-Doctor, did you ever know of case in your extended experience where death occurred from Fowler's solution
 Witness-No, sir, I have no personal knowledge.
  sons to show that there was only one instance on record where Fowler's solution had caused death
 Witness assented to the truth of the state ment
 Witness continued-The first organ that I would examine after poison had been taken would be the brain. That is the rule of my profession.
 MT. Jones-For what is Fowler's solution given?
 Witness-For ague and malarial diseases, and diseases of the skin.
 Mir. Jones-Has arsenious acid any parti- cular chemical action on the blood
 Witness-I don't know, sir.
 Mir. Jones-Do you not know that it is stated in the books that arsenic is sometimes taken by females to improve the complexion?
 Witness-I presume so, sir.
 MT. Jones-Did you discover any alliaceous odor in the examination of Jennie Cramer's body?
 Witness-No, sir have never detected such an odor in arsenical poisoning.
 Mir. Jones-Would you infer that arsenic taken into the stomach sufficient to cause vomiting would create inflammation /?
 Witness-No, sir, would not infer that. It would not necessarily cause inflammation.
 Witness, in reply to Mir. Jones, said he put sufficient cotton and excelsior into the body to preserve the form of the abdomen and he was positive that nothing else was put in the body.
 Mir Jones-What did you do with two thirds of the brain you took out of the six ul?
 Witness-I left it on the table and did not give any directions in regard to it. I also left portion of the heart and the lung on the undertaker's table.
 To Mir. Jones-Yes, sewed up the body and went away, leaving the organs I have mentioned on the table. The body was not at the undertaker's when left. I left about two,thirds of the brain, about three fourths of the heart about one-t third of the lungs and about one, half of the spleen.
 A recess of five minutes was ordered at this point.
 After recess witness continued-I first cut the heart out of the body, opened and exam ined it, then took such part of 1t as I wanted. It was pretty well cut up in the examination. Don't think left any directions about the disposal of the parts of the body left. | cannot say positively how long it was after | the body was removed that I left Don't l think any ybody was at the undertaker's when | [ left. Possibly Mir. Stahl, the undertaken, l might have been there. 1
 Mir. Jones-Why did you not keep the l stomach and it's contents by itself?
 Witness-I did not think 1t necessary.
 Redirect by Mir. Doolittle-Doctor, is it I the custom to leave the parts of body dis ! sected and not used on the table?
 Witness-That depends upon circumstan- ces. In places where autopsies are usually | made the. operator almost always leaves the | parts for the disposal of the attendant.
 To Mr. Jones-I did not leave any instruc- | tions with Mr Stahl or his attendant in re- gard to the removal or disposition of the | parts of the body left
 pr. Leonard J. Sanford was next called by l the State. In reply to Mir. Doolttle he said he had been in practice about twenty-seven years.
 Mir. Doolittle-Did you hear the testimony of Dr. Shepard in regard to the rupture of the hymen and the appearance of the sexual organs?
 MT. Jones objected on the ground that Dr. Sanford did not hear all of Dr. Shepard's 1 testimony.
 Witness-I don't know that I heard the | cross examination, but am sure that did not hear all of it.
 Mr. Doolittle said there was no cross-ex- on the rupture of the hymen and the court sustained him. | Mr. Doolittle--If you were called upon to make post mortem examination of a wo- man about twenty years of age, and should | find that the hymen was ruptured and some l folds of the membrane were attached to the side with ragged edges, and more of them than in cases of longer standing, and that the fourchette was ruptured, the rupture ex