Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1882-07-03
AFTER DEATH EXAMINATION.
The Corpse OF Guiteau Upon the DiSsec
Ing Table.

who performed the autopsy were Drs. N.
L. Lamb, ]. F. Hartigan and q. L.
Cowsn. In addition to these physicians
there were present DIR. Bliss and son, Drs.
Noble. Young. Robert Reyburn. A. E.
Mcdonald. johnson, Elliott. A. H. Me-
kim, P. ]. Murphy, Chss. q. Nicholas.
Surgeon-General Barnes of the army,
Surgeon General Wales of the navy, Drs.
w. A. Goodys, A. H. Wilmer and Clark |
Patterson OF st. Elizabeth asylum; DR..
d. @. Patterson, coroner of the district;
@. A. Kleinschmidt. jr., Wagner and
Birdsall.
j. w. Guiteau aud Rev. DR.. Hicks
were present for short time, but left
the jail before the conclusion Of the au-
topsy, and returned to the city about 8
O'Clock. A close examination of the body
showed Guiteau's neck to be brokan, and
that the rope had cut into the flesh of
the neck. A reporter of the Associated
Press was the only newspaper admitted
to the chapel where the body was being
dissected. The chapel is a spacious
apartment, containing only a few benches
and table. The coffin was placed upon
q bench and the body removed, and after
having been stripped was laid upon the
table. Scales and other appliances for
determining the weight and other phe-
nomena of the different parts of the body
we're placed about on the tables. The
three surgeons engaged in the autopsy
were watched with the greatest interest
by the other medical gentlemen who
crowded about the table.
brain was removed and inspected. DIR.
Loring found the left eye completely
suffused with blood and both eyes we're
80 indistinct that no opinion could be
formed of their condition or expression.
Then the body was cut open and thor
ough and complete examination made
with view of determining all the ply
siological facts that could be of interest
in connection with the case. The brain
was found to be in o normal condition
and weighed forty-nine ounces. The
heart weighed little over nine ounces
and was in healthy condition as were
the other internal organs. DIR. MacWil-
llams, the first physician to leave the
room where the autopsy was held, said
there was nothing 80 far as he could see
about the brain that was abnormal.
Its weight, according to DIR. MacWil-
liams, was fortY-nine and half ounces.
The general viscera, he said, were in per-
feet condition.
At 3:l5 the autopsy was adjourned un-
til this evening, when the brain will be
taken to the medical museum on Tenth
street. where more minute and critical
examination will be made. The physi-
clans were disinclined to go into details
in regard to the result thus far reached.
DR.. Hartigan left the jail soon after
O'clock, taking with him Guiteau's brain.
DR.. Godding, who has maintained that
Guiteau was insane, said, when asked
what the result of the autopsy was, II
have nothing to say now" Another
physician remarked: 1--WE all know
nothing" A bystander replied: $50
the uneducated non-expert public
thought at the time of tho other au-
topsy."
All the physicians agreed that there
were lymphar in the brain and harden
ing OF the dura mattel. None OF them
care to express positive opinion until
after the examination shall be completed
DR.. Bliss said there were many points
showing good healthy. mental and phys
ical developments. DIR. Hartigan, who
had the custody of Guiteau's brain, tool
1t at half-psst four to the army medica
museum, where, IN room set apart TO-
photograph purposes, o number of sur
geons and doctors had asse embled to con
tinue the autopsy. Among those presen
} were Drs. Nichols and Macdonald, o
, New York, and Drs. Lamb, Loring, Pow
ers, Reyburn, Watt and Golding, o
Washington.
The direction of operations was by un
: animous consent given to DIR. Lamb. l
being the intention of the surgeons t,
l lhanpsv, vrskl ,obsr~ v,1no$or OF 0f 81,
brain, with view of permanent presel
: and external characteristics, but the OF
a. to render this impracticable. Resol
. was therefore had to photography. o
. account of the latenese of the hour an
/. the dull and overcast sky, the preparf
tions were necessarily hurried, but afte
3 placing the brain in q mass of curle
D hair such as is used in upholstry, an
i, disposing it in the form which it had dul
;. ing life, negatives of it were taken fror
various points of view with more or les
q successful results.
q The anatomical examination was the
n resumed. The examination, which wi
include q careful microscopical study {
: the tissues and structural characteristic
9 of the organs, will certainly not be iii
j. ished before tomorrow afternoon, IN
!. may occupy several days. The surgeon
:. and physicians who are participating
. the autopsy have pledged themselvt
l. not to make any individual conclusion
n OF which they may arrive at, in ord
4 that the official report, when made, ma
have full weight and value as represen
ing the conclusion of all the examinin
et physicians.
IA DR.. Beard of New York led those wi
believed that the brain of Gulteau, aft
his death, would prove beyond doubt Il
question of his sanity. He gave up til
d idea last night and left the city, havir
Il been convinced, after investigating I'll
=. subject thoroughly, that the mind d
"a pended entirely on the condition of Il
ia brain in life, and that it would not be r
r. flected with certainty by the brain aft
, death. Should this be the fact, much
"a what is expected of tho autopsy will ia
Il Full investigation cannot be conclud.
Ia for several days, for some portions wi
q have to be made by the aid Of Il
"a science Of the microscope. The bra
n was found to be in healty conditit
A but beyond that no final result h
"a been secured by the autopsy. III
= whole thing raised AN interesting que
Iv ton which cannot be settled for son
q time. even with the knowledge that
ID now had Of the delicate composition
y. the brain and the operation of the min
d. The ordinary man seems to be sat
iv fed by the exhibition made by Guite
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