Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-06-22
EEaRIsG A CLOSE.

The Testimony for the Defense in the
Troai Examination al in-The Case viii
be Submitted TO the Court this After
noon.
DR.. S. A. Deuel., sworn Am a graduate Of
the Bellvue Hospital and Medical College,
and an prac.icing physician and surgeon.
Made post mortem examination Of police
man Scott, who was murdered on Seven
teenth street, in this city, few years since,
He was wounded in the left breast, and 81
caliber bullet passed through beta yeutricles
OF the hart. fSeott walked some fifty feet
after be was shot Also made post NOR
ten examination on the body Of Pockman,
who was shot few years ago up stairs in a
clearinghouse on K street. between Second
and Third. IL that case the ball passed
through the pulmonary veins. After being
shot be descended one pair OF stairs and
walked half a block. Witness explained
The flow Of blood to and from The heart, A
Rouad Of the aorta i5 not necessarily fatal.
The witness read OF an instance where 8
boys Eorts had been puGctured by PEN
knife, and he lived tEo and hall hOurz.
Several other cases we're read where
the patient had lived months and
years. One was that Of . person
1vhoze ascending aorta had been punctured
By foil, and who lived eight vears. He
thought il quite probable that Mrs. Troai
exclaimed, at least she could have done so,
! am not much hurt, and John, why did
you shoot me ?" He also thought it not IN.
ress1 nable 30 suppose thai che, after being
shot, walked z short distance.
Mrs. a. J. Budd sworn Said she knew
Mrs. Troai n her lifetime. she could not
talk any E1gl;sh. l conversed with her in
broken Spanish. In speaking Of her domestic
affairs she said that her husband was very
kiad to her.
Mrs. Frank Trosi recalled Mrs. Troai
could speak little if any English In the
family al their discourse was carried on ia
the italian language.
Samuel Stein said he had known the de-
feDdant for the past thirteen years. Six or
seven weeks before the homicide Sam was in
the city, and had the rheumatism 30 badly he
could not put on his coat without assistance.
About five weeks after the murder he was in
the city, visited Stein and WIS il the same
helpless condition. Mrs. Troai stayed with
STEMS family during fair week four years
age. She could speak no English at ell.
NJ Stein testified, corroborating the testi-
mony Of the last three witnesses regarding the
helplessness Of the defendant.
Frank Trosi. brother of the defendant,
sworn The deceased could not talk any
English, and all Of her conversation was
carried on in Italian. She could.not under
stand Eng.ish. Sam Troai is not able to
work much He had his shoulder dislocated
few years ago, aud since then his shoulder
has never been well. He was ruptured several
years ago wears a truss, and cannot lift
weight of any kind.
The testimony Of the last three witnesses
was given to show that the defendant could
not have carried the body of his wife, who,
it is said, weighed $50 pounds, the distance
and in the manner that Raffeiy says he did.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
DIR. H. w. Nelson, sworn wound from
No. shot passing through the aorta would
not cause instantaneous death, and a psrson
wounded in that manner would be able to
walk short distance and talk. The doctor
mentioned q number of post norton exsni-
nations that had come under his personal oh.
servation where the heart, aorta and peri
cariium were wounded and death did not re-
suit instantsneoUsly.
DIR. Gardner, recalled-Made the post NOR
tenn examination on the body of Mira. Troai
fifteen months after the homicide. The body
was 10 an advanced stage of decomposition.
examined the right side as | had been in
formed that on that side the wound had been
made The body was saponified. The outer
surface was pretty well preserved. Removed
the right arm at the shoulder joint, and cut
open the chest The lungs had been entirely
decomposed. The heart was in pretty fair
state Of preservation. The psricsrdium was
almost intact, and the walls of the heart were
well preserved. The aorts, vena cava and
pulmonary artery we're matted together, and
lay near the vertebra. The doctor said from
his examination he supposed the wounds were
made with shot,. but he could not of course
swear positively that they were so made. The
exterior of the body was so badly decomposed
that he could not tell the size Of the wound
Counsel for defense rested their case at 1920
pm.
The prosecution asked the Court to take
recess until 9:30A. NJ. to day, and stated that
they would in all probability get in all their
rebutting testimony before the Court adj
journed this afternoon.