Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1883-03-20

k-Rear gate.
S-Gate to rear corral.
of Maltby's will saw Maltby alive last on
Saturday, 25th of March I; talked the matter
of Maltby's absence over with Rahm several
times; Rahm would ask me If 1 had heard
anything of John; asked him the same
question Rahm inquired of different parties
for Maltby I have seen Maltby wear
glasses he generally wore o pair of gold
trimmed eyeglasses and pair of rubber
trimmed; cannot identify these glasses was
very anxious about Malthy Rshm appeared
to be as much interested in Maltby as l did.
Ed. Clark: Live in Woodland. Knew
Maltby: saw him q short time before his
death went into his office; he wanted to
loan me some money; said he would lend
| me 81 900; I was with him about three
! quarters of an hour; he said he had been
loaning monsy in small quantities, and would
rather loan it in one parcel, and take o mort
gage on my property; told him I did not
want to borrow that much money; told
Maltby that I had already closed 3 bargain
with the bank before l had this talk with
Maltby.
j. 3. Fitzgerald, clerk in the District At
torney's Office, testified Live in Woodland !;
received from P. Krellenberg a bottle said
to contain the intestines Ct John E. Maltby !;
L ivered the bottle to Johnston, chemist
id7SRn Francisco the bottle was sealed
got them on Tuesday evening last, and gave
them to Johnston on Wednesday.
Rosa Lse: Knew Maltby in his lifetime !;
he came t., my house on Saturday at II, and
stayed till Sunday evening about half-past z /;
his eyes were blsckened and his face was
scratched he got pair of blue eyeglasses
at my house he was sober when he left; he
wore an overcoat-a dark one-when he left
my house; he complained of his eyes; he
was in bed all the time he was embarrassed
about his eye; don't think he was the same
said he never had a black eye before he only
took two drinks while there he had been
drinking wine when he came there.
Here the Court took recess until 1:30 P.
NJ, but it lacked but few minutes of 2
o'clock when it re-assemblsd.
William d. Johnston testified Reside in
San Francisco; am o chemist examined il.
testines of John E. Maltby; examined intes-
tines for meconic acid, morphine, strychnine,
and found none; found no food, and only sef.
6cient moisture to moisten them examined
intestineF, found no traces of strychnine
time would have no effect on strychnine, as it
does notidecompose; examined bottle Of liquid
sent nee by District Attorney Garoutte; found
it to contain strychnine in this case poison
ought to have been very readily absorbed
usually persons dying from strychnine traces
of it will be found in the stomach, but
if just the quantity 10 produce death had
been taken, and patient had lived
several hours, you might not find it;
If man died almost instantly from strych.
nine there would be no evidence Of strug.
gle, but usually there would be such evidence,
and in such case you might not find traces OF
strychnine; the condition of the lungs and
heart are not safe guides to determine the
presencs OF strychnine, as their conditions
vary very much would not expect to find
person who had been dead several days from
strYchnins, in the position that deceased was
found /; it is possible that person might die
from strychnine and no traces of it be found
in the stomach or intestines il person had
been drinking steadily for week, and then
taking poison, he would die without such
great struggles as he would otherwise;
strychnine will kill if taken and
held in the mouth and not swallowed
the fact that deceased laid in an essy position
is not conclusive that he did not die from
strychnine if he died on his back, and wss
on a sloping piece of ground, he would not be
turned over by the gases generated in the
body by decomposition one-sixth grain of
strychnine will produce death; in cases of
strychnine poison the muscles twitch, the pa
tient has his Senses and it would be possible
for him to roll on his side in an interval of
quiet, and he might die while there from ex-
haustion. Witness read some authorities TO
sustain his theories concerning failures in
finding the presence of strychnine, he claim.
ing that it is almost always capable of being
found when it had been the cause of death.
G. G. Tyrrell, of Sacramento, testified
Am a physician and surgeon; have had
twenty seven years prsctics; graduated in
Ireland. There are no effects that you will
fnd in body which died from ssrychnine
which would be conclusive that it had died
from such cause. The position in which de-
ceased was found would not indicate that he
died from such cause. l would expect to find
the heart fabby and empty. if the rigor
gorged, buff putrefaction hadsetin they might
not be. If the body had not been disturbed
the tissues in contact with the ground should
be white but if the body had been removed
after death, it would be Of darker
color. A blow upon the head need
not necessarily fracture the skull, and
still it might produce death, as for instance,
blow from sandbag; you could receive .
blow upon the neck that would kill you;
should expect to find evidences of a struggle
in case of strychnine, unless death had re-
suited instantly, and would also expect to
find straw attached to the coat, if one was on
the body and it laid upon straw. A person
killed by blow from a sand-bag would have
the heart full of blood, il examined soon
after death, but if examined long time after
death this would not be true. After hearing
the statement Of the physician who held the
post mortem, cannot say that it is impossi-
bic for deceased to have died from steychniHe.
DIR. Deuel., Of Sacramento, testified: Am
physician and surgeon, practicing eleven
years have had q moderate experiences with
strychnine poison; would expect to find a
body rigid and muscles contracted imme-
diately after death six or eight days after
the muscles are relaxed If the bodyis not dis
turbed would not expect to find body as
deceased was found, but it might bs in that
position; as rule, there should be evidences
Of, struggle depending on the extent of COZ
sand-bag, would expect to find one or both
sides Of the heart filed with blood it would
be so, to some extent, eight or ten days after
death the color of body on the side next
to the grsund would not be as dark IS other
PORTIONS Of the body, had life departed in the
position found; man can die from ezhaus-
ton during relaxation between spasms il il
possible for man to get into the position in
which deceased was found after paroxysms,
and die in that position.
L. D. Stotenburg testified: Have lived in
Woodland twenty-four years; used to work
at the livery business knew deceased and
know Frank Rshm saw deceased Monday
morning, March 81, 1882, at o'clock; was
coming down Court street saw Maltby go.
iag towards the Courthouse, and about the
third or fourth tree from the gate Of the
Court house yard, and at the southwest cor
ner, heard dull tbud and Maitby said 81
am done for or words TO that effect. Frank
Rahsn was there, and one other man whom