The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1885-09-03
Adjournment of the Inquest Until To
morrow Afternoon.
From Thursday's Daily.
The VVaIhun e..

ing tnls morning from nervousness. and
therefore. as her attorney, he requested
that she be excused from examination
until tomorrow. He Heightened his
remarks into quite an eloquent
speech in which he SAID that the ooun.
sci had not fully determined whether
Mrs. Walkup should consent to an ex.
animation or not He requested. how.
eyer, that her character and life previous
to her marriage to Mr.. Walkup be thor
oughly Investigated. He also asked that
investigations be made concerning Ger.
tain rumors about the deceased.
Colonel FeIGhan. the county attorney,
made objections to such Investigations.
DIR. JACOBS WAS RECALLED
and said; IL was present tthe post NOR
ten examination over the body of ]. r,
Walkup; 1t was In the afternoon of Aug.
ust I'D there was nothing peculiarly re-
markable about the appearance of the
Dody' which was In well nourished con-
dition; the eyes were closed, countenance
calm and the body rigid as we would ex.
Pect to find it at that time the liver, kid
neys, stomach, heart. bowels
anu the spleen were
inspected; also the lungs; small DOR.
ton OF the lett lung was removed, also a
small portion of the large intestine, the
transverse colon peritoneum normal: the
kidneys, heart, spleen, normal; the liver
we found to be rather paler than normal
on making an incisiOn. and apparently
somewhat fatty; we found the stoach red
and injected, particularly red in spots.
dark injected spots I'VE found the stomach
In very abnormal condition; the up-
per, the cardiac extremity of the stom-
ach, was particularly injected. As we
proceeded in our examination that dav
We examined the intestines and found
them abnormally red in places, and DOR
uons OF the intestines adjacent to the
stomach likewise; the duoJenum, also
the longer intestInes, the ilium.
were IN places red and the TRANSFERS
colon was red and at a
place one spot was eroded
which erosion extended through the
inner coats of this Intestine and was of
three quarters of an inch in diameter:
by erosion mean to convey the idea of
an aperture eaten into the bowel or of
an liberation; portion of the left lung
seemed to contain tuburcular deposits
In an unsoftened condition; the portion
so Affected is the extreme lower portion
OF the left lung; the bladder was empty;
from the appearance of the stomach and
other parts, and from the history of the
case, as witnessed 1t during my attend
ance, am now OF the opinion that Mr..
Walkup's
DEATH WAS THE RESULT OF ARsENrcAL
POISONING.
Arsenic Is eliminated from the system
comparatively rapidly, particularly by
the kidneys and the mucus membranes,
the skin, the bowels and lungs. Arsenic
may be removed from the stomach very
rapidly by vomiting and by
purging so that really their might not be
after . reasonable time any remaining In
either the stomach or the bowels al
though It might have been taken in large
quantities; 1 think that az a rule we
may not expect TO find arsenic in the
system after fifteen days after its admin
istration, possibly longer than that, if
teen or twenty days;
There are cases on record where in less
time than week after the administra-
ton of arsenic, it has been eliminated
so that 1t could not be declared In the
system and yet have produced death, and
still leave the effects described above.
Arsenic Is said not to be a corrosive
poison. l would not undertake to say
how 1t produces death; it is a local irri.
tant and an irritant 20 the nervous sys
tenn. There is no other
poison that would produce the
symptoms given in this case; the cor
rosive and other poisons would, 1 think,
have some typical lesion or condition
that was not present In this case; when
l was called to see Mr.. Walkup Saturday
night, August 10. the symptoms were
indicative of strychnine poison and still
further mean to say that on account OF
the nausea and distress and the subse
quent history of this case there might
have been also arsenic administered
IN conjunction with the strychnine:
l first particularly discovered symptoms
OF arsenical poison on Tuesday evening.
On Thursday night more marked than
at any previous time were the indica-
tons OF .arsenical poison. l at
that time suspected arsenic poison, be-
cause had all the typical symptoms
and because, for some reason which
did not understand but concerning
which l had some grave doubts, Mr..
Walkup did not want to take powders.
asking me to give my medicine IN LIQUID
form, and for the reason that Mrs. Walk.
up said to me that her husband COM
planned Of sensation of grittines in
the throat after taking the DOW
ders, and for the further reason
Of the repeated relapses. For all these
reasons there was something that made
me suspect the possibility of arsenical
poisoning. None of the medicines that
gave were gritty. I made no change
In his treatment as to powders None
OF the powders would have produced The
grituness Of the throat referred 70 I
mink the condition resulting from acute
indigestion or Inflammation of the atom.
ach could not be such "a we fopnd
In Mr.. Nalkup's stomach =,
our post norton examination. ns;,har
could the clinical history be srcb a.
found in Mr.. Walkup's case; I should
have found fever; the Inflammation Of
the stomach as revealed by the exami.
nation would have been MOI.
dihused and less injected. The no.
tons OF the body that were rauoved
were carefully deposited in a lar which
l obtained for the purpose and thia lar
with Its contents was placed In the cna-
tody OF DR.. Gardner; the tubn,cpI.,
condition found in lnng cor,d
not have produced any of the symo,o.ns
exhibited during Mr. Walkup's illness
oio not change the powders because I
thought It was the best form of med,c,n.
could give him under the c;rcDm
stances he having refused te Dern;, a.
hypodermic Injection of morphin.
The coroner's jury at the close of,h,s
tesnmony'a adjourned till 1 80 O'Clock this
afternoon. - '"'s
CONTINUATION OF THE INQUEST.
AT I'SO this afternoon DR.. Jacob.
again tooK the stand. and testified ths.