Grand Rapids morning telegram., 1884-12-16
TESTIMONY CONTINUED.
PROGRESS or The MllLARD CASE
More Witnesses of Mrs. MilIard's Last
Sickness-Evidence OF a Detroit
Physician and Chemist.

The Millard trial was resumed at O'Clock
yesterday afternoon. The court room, as
has been usual throughout the whole pro-
cseding. was crowded. Most of the after
noon was occupied in calling TO the stand
witnesses who had already testified. Mr..
Mitchell, of the prosecution, who had been
i'll Friday aud Saturday, loomed mp in
normal condition. his rest at home on Sun
day evidently having been beneficial. The
first witness called, Bette FanNleck. cor
roborated in her testimony what had been
sworn 10 by the other witnesses who were
acquainted with Mrs. Millard's illness, par
ticuiarly In regard TO the symptoms.
DIR. Hollister was then recalled and festi-
fed that he noticed no particular coloring of
the spleen and liver.
MRS. VAN yLEcK.
Mrs. Peter Van Week testified that she
was an aunt of the deceased by marriage;
knew respondents wife for fifteen years:
saw her during her last sickness four or five
times was there first on the 23d of April:
Mrs. Millard said her head and back felt
very bad and that she felt bad all over; was
there again on the 25th of April for an hour:
Mrs. Miilard complained of her head and
the back of her neck; was in the room If
teen minutes; was there the Goth and re-
manned about an hour; she seemed very
weak and prostrate; she did not yomit: was
there the Saturday previous TO her death;
she was setting on the bed and said she was
very much distressed in her head and
stomach; she said the distress was in her
stomach; this was the last call made
Cross s-examined-She said there was no
soreness in the stomach only noticed her
being thirsty once; gave her a glass of
water.
he-direct-Do not remember the day she
was thirsty; think it was Wednesday the 26th:
some one else had charge or care of her; /
did not have any care Of her.
ADELIA BEACH.
Adelia Beach: Knew Sarah Millard; re-
member her last sickness: was in TO see her
four times during her last sickness; called
first, April 16; was with her half an hour: she
was not feeling very we'll; complained of her
head and back; she was sitting by the win
dow: saw her the following Sunday: rem ain
ed there ten or fifteen minutes: she was worse
than she was the Sunday before: she said she
| was feeling worse; do not recoIlect that she
made other complaints Two or three other
ladies were present; called again on April
| 30; found her In bed and very weak and pale.
| She did not say anything particularly about
| her symptoms. only that she was feeling
worse; was there the day she died between
and 6: DIR. Hollister and others were pres
| ent; she was very feeble arrived there be-
died: Mrs. Workman held her hand on Mrs
| Millard's stomach: DR.. Hollister 7 think.
put something into her hand her husband
| held her hand, she was breathing like one
breathing their last; she laid her head partly
| in her husbands arms: Millard stood there
with the tears running down his cheeks;
| they said she was dying.
WITNESSES RECALLED.
DR.. Gundrum recalled: The spleen was
normal in size and color: the liver was nat
ural or little lighter than usual.
| Susan Bell recalled: Examined by defense:
Before going into spasm Mrs. Millard said
she was cold. BY prosecution: Do not re-.
member OF seeing any one press on her
stomach.
Mrs. Helen Workman. recalled: Mrs
Millard made no complaint about her throat
Millard did not make any complaint about
| her throat.
| DETROIT PHYSICIAN.
DR.. Duffield. of Detroit, was called and
| testified as follows: Reside at Dearborn: am
| practicing physician and consulting chem
| list; the first portion of my life was in the
| drug business, manufacturing chemicals:
have practiced medicine Ii years: assuming
there was no vomiting, two grains of arsenic
would kill: with vomiting. two grains or
! more would cause death; upon an empty
stomach, without vomiting, four to six grains;
death would ensue after the administration
| of arsenic in from three hours 10 several
| days; a dose of one ounce would
kill quickly, with dose of ten grains the
| patient might drag through several days. 1t
causes death by rendering the blood unfit TO
support life. it is taken up by the veins and
taken to the heart and pumped into the
| arterial blood. As soon as il gets into the
| arterial blood it begins to poison: the arsenic
| in fatal cases that have lives some length of
time il would be found disseminated through
| the body, that Is white arsenic; the greatest
1 quantity would be found in the liver, next in
the kidneys, then in the spleen and also
traces in the muscles and the brain
Here Mr.. Mitchell asked two OF three
| questions which were objected 20 by Mr.
Marston, and the time consumed in arguing
as TO whether they should be asked or not
until adiourning hour. The examination of
DIR. Duffield will be resumed this morning