The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1882-06-23
A STARTLING AUTOPSY
The Theory OF The Mnllry Prosecutor
$50. Answered Oil 80, x,

st5a Answered
E PAILADELnlIIA. June .o--An autopsy
Of a drowning case just made by the mcm-s
bers Of the medical staff connected with
Coroner Janney's Office, explodes the the
ory Of the Malley prosecution in reference =
to Jennie Cramer's death, md is likely 5toE
lead toa revolution in that branci, Of .ncd-S
ico-lcgal testimony which bears upon DEATH
from drowning The theory advanced bys
the medical experts on behalf OF thes Conn
monwcalili in the celebrated New llaye,, 4
trial, that the dead girl was not drowned,
because there was no evidence Of water
in the lungs, is Z one that 3 hasg
never been disputed, although, frequently
members OF the medical fraternity have
been found doubling the soundness OF (
the proposition. Since the AIallev prosecu-f
ton promulgated the old theory, Professor
John J. Reese, the Coroner's alalvtical 4
chemist, and Professor Of !Toxicology insi
the University OF Pennsylvania, has giyefl4
tue subject considerable thought and at-s I
tention. Professor Reese was sought iorS
by one OF the attorneys for the %MaIleyss
boys rs an expert in arsenical poisoning,
but preferred 10 remain at home. 1T Isl
this perhaps, that augmented ythe Prro.5S
ifssor's interest in thG; nletlicll tes,in,onv.h
However tilat may bc he has been watcil-S
ing drowning eases very closely 4 Of latc,i9
and at last found what he expected to. i,S9sS3
On the evening OF June IL, whici, was
Monday night Of Inst week, while pairoll.g
ing his beat Mt Delaware avenue and Queen y
street about, half past 0 o'clock, n Second 4
district policeman observed an old and tle.: i
creplt woman in rags wandering aimcsslyJ,
along Delaware avenue, She Was cIatl n n I!
q iIlapislated calico dress aud scarcely any-.3
thing more. Her feet were bare, her grny&
hairs were unprotected, and, 10 the SURF
prise OF the officer, he found when lie ap. 4:
proached the woman that she WAS sober, n
She told the policeman that she wanted to II
90 out South street, and he took her to thatsI
ihorongbfare, turned her head in the right
direction and she started of westward. The
next morning very early her body was II
found floating in the Queen street lock.;S
The verdict OF the Coroner's inryjSwas: 81
IAN unknown woman found drowned. t,5Sii
It was impossible 10 ascertain the old wo.. I: x
mans identify, but the evidence OF Drown
ing was un1isputed. ljt Nh "A f$!
1t being an opinion entertained by tbesy
Coroner's physicians that the length tOf n
time the body will remain under the sur13
lace depends to certain extent upon tho IN
quantity OF water taken internally, it5was N
apparent that tlis case was an excellcnttl
Dne to establish or SLATER TINT belief. On "
Friday last Professor; Reese, accompanied $
by Or. D. Willis Cad walnder, who Is mi s5
lttachc OF the Coroner's oilice, and who IA N
leeply interested in the subject, went 10 S,s
1hc Aloryue and made q athoroush examina. Ri
ion OF the drowned woman. Upon omen. N
ng tue body there was no wafer whatever III
onnd III the lungs, nor the slightest cyi-s
ience o! any having becns there. Neither SS
was there any III, the stomach. $ There was IA
! very slight congestion found in the lungs. M ME
but from natural causes, and the liver was 81:
cirrhosed, presumably caused 81
BY drinking The other organs of iIie body n
were comparatively healthy. There were; *
no marks oil abuse upon the BODY in5anvlt;
way, and no evidence whatever of drown VA
my. There was not even ANYTHING io;n,, ~
n the gullct to- indicate that water hnl n
passed the womail's liIs.
Q The ,physirjaps believe they have dis n
covered u demonstration Of the ialsity of@SSs;
hetheory sctnp by the Nal . prosecuffion.s
md, what is more important to them, they 4;
eel that they are in n position TO ;renIler;g ri
,one valuable aid TO science. Il This9 one IA
; lse conyinces Dr. Reese beyond a. doubtss
lint persons in jumping overheard, espee.
ally from an eninencc, can come 10 tIeaths&
from sulioraton or shock, and without lnk.| ia
ing drop OF water inwardy.4 Tins imcdis@ q
cal experts at New llaren on hull oi the
prosecution testified Z ilatly&thmt Jenna
Cramcr could not ssllave sjumne,l Ssi,;i1S y
the water from Savin Isock%an,l been Y Y
drowned, becanse no water WIS fGnnd3 d3s
in her lnnass:3 The discovery mule w. DrS,
Reese and: Cadwalailer Is q co,nolss, 4 \ Z "
sw swer to this proposition, aud may g0 far$ &
toward moulding public opinion, Az i1ns f ~
against tho Mallty boys The work ljccun1t IN IN
by the Coroner's pl,yxicians will suci, re-.
matkatle Developments wilt i.ba con,inred:SS
50 that repeated autorscs OF knowing cascs;
may confirm or ll;sprorc, The medical points
raised by; them. DR.. Reese s:,ii thatijflisS
conclusions as 10 Tile cause 81 ,lca,l6in tth0S
case ol The woman found in Queen tstrGefS
dock Ind been drawn from ihGFautonsyS
alone, without any other! sotitse Gfsinfor.8
nation, li1s would have pronounced IitE
death from cirrhosis of! the llyer,: there beS
Ing no evidence Of drowning about Tho in
tcrnal crglns.