National Republican., 1883-04-26
TIE pEACHAMP TRIAL.
Testimony OF the Doctors Relative TO
Poison Found In the stomach OF the Dee
ceased.

Testimony OF the Doctors Relative TO
Poison Found In the stomach OF the De-
ceased.
BALTIMORE, April 25--The SUMS special
report Of the Beachamp trial at Denton to-
day says DR.. J. w. Heguutt, who assisted in
the autopsy after the death of Beachamp,
testified that he arrived at Beachamp's
house on Sunday, the thirty.frst of Decem-
Der, the day Of his death, between and 3
o'clock in the afternoon. Mrs. Beachamp
was in great distress and said she was afraid
of being suspected Of foul play because of her
husbands sudden death. She said this with
| out anything being mentioned by witness 20
| lead her TO make such an admission. Wit
ness told her that even if she did give him
poison If she would keep her mouth shut 1t
would be hard to prove. On Monday, the
next day, he saw her again, and she
was more violently agitatod than
on Sunday, so much SO, indeed,
| that she raved continuously, and finally went
| into fits. The witness had been hortamily
! physician and had never known her to have
nervous fit before, nor had she had one
since. The subject of her ravng was her
fears Of being suspected of having caused her
| husbands death. DR.. Hegnutt testified
! further that Ahearn did not, as rumored, ask
bin to write q certificate stating that Bea-
| champ had died from natural causes. Rela-
! tive to the postmortem the witness said that
| the stomach was taken out and cut open out
of curiosity. He saw DIR. Downs put the
| fluid and stomach into glass fruit jar and
| place the lid on IT, Some of the Jurors were
| present at the beginning of the post-mortem,
! but they left the room before ii was com
! ploted. The stomach was not tampered with
by anybody.
! Dr. William II. Downs testified that he
went to Beachamp's house for the first time
| on Monday. The stomach of tho dead man.
he said, did not contain any indigested meat
| or bread, but did have in it n dark fluid, al
most odorcss, and resembling coffee. He got
a washbowl, wiped IL clean with a fresh towel
aud poured the fluid into IL. lie then empticd
| 1t into u quart jar which ho had brought from
! home. Tho stomach was also put into the
jar which thus became about hmf filed. He
fastened the top down, so as to make ii air.
| tight took the jar homo with him. locked
it up, put the key in his pocket,
and kept it there until next morn
ing, when he took the jar to Baltimore
and delivered IL to Prof Tonry. On Jan. Is
tho body of Beachamp was exhumed, and
the liver spleen, and kidneys removed. The
spleen and kidneys were put in jar similar
to that in which the stomach had been put
but Us he did not have a jar large enough TO
hold the liver unless he cut 1t in halt, he
wrapped it in paper put y in u basket, and
laid newspaper oyer the top. He locked
them up as ho had None the stomach, and
took them to Baltimore next morning.
A question embracing the symptoms of
strychuine poison was put to DR.. Downs by MI.
Gibson, and the witness said a person dying
in such n manner gave unmistakablo evidence
| of the cause of death.
Dr. Downs was cross-examined by Mr..
Mutchler, but the testimony was not mate.
rally shaken.
Miss Tamsey Andrew testified that rs soon
as she got inside the house Mrs. Beachamp
said to her that if Mart was poisoned she did
not do it, and did not know of it.. Mrs.
Beachamp had her first nervous attack on
Monday when the jury arrived. She talked a
great deal about poison, and said she believed
that there was some strychnine in the smoke
house, but she had never seen it.
Mr.. Russum intimated that the defense
would try to impeach Miss Andrew, claiming
that she had made statements to Mrs VIM. +,
Lidon and others radically different from the
testimony in court
1t is expected Prof. Tonry, who made the
analysis Of the stomach, will testify at the
night session of the court.