The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1886-05-27

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coat with a dressing gown. Immediately there
after we began to make preparations for the
| operation Mr. Prellcr removed his trousers
and drawers, and lay down upon the bed
| placed fourounce bottle of chloroform on the
washstand and poured out fluid gramme of
the liquid on piece of lint. which folded three
times. then walked to the bed and held the
lint about six inches from my patients face, so
that the vapor from the chloroform might be-
| come mixed with the air and produce not too
| violent effect. It all evaporated in a few min
| utes, and l turned around to get more and
found that the bottle, which had placed OF the
washstand, had fallen into the basin and large
| portion of the contents had flowed out, and not
enough was left to produce an@sthea then
| went to Fernows drug store to get more, telling
Mr.. Fernow that I had spilled what had first
| bought from him. | wanted four ounces, but
| the druggist only had two, and took that"
'Were you excited in your mannerl" asked
Dir. Fauntleroy, OF the defense.
mot at ALL"
| "Did you feel any excitement
mo, none whatever; but was certainly il a
hurry to get away, and told Mr.. Fernow so.
| think remarked to him. too, that it was unnec
essary to place label on the bottle, for in
| tended to place its contents in the empty bottle
| in my room. ] then returned to my room, whore
had left Mr.. Preller IL an undressed condition.
| lying upon my bed placed about gramme
| of the fluid on the lint second time, and aga in
| held it about six inches from his face. contin-
ued this some time, until thought unconscious
|
reached. then took UP the catheter and pro-
ceeded to insert it. Mr.. Preller made peculiar
| noise, 1incing as il he felt pain. came to the
| conclusion that had not administered suff-
| Gent amount of chloroform."
The witness here described the formation of
| tie genital organs their constituencies, and ex-
| planned that in performing any operation upon
| them it was necessary that the patient should
| be rendered wholly unconscious Of the resulting
| pain.
st was evident to me that Mr.. Preller was
still conscious of pain. and l poured out
| gramme or gramme and half moro of the
chloroform upon the lint. which | again placed
| before his face Almost before / know it Mr.
| Preller's breathing became very labored, and
at once suspended the administration of chloro-
| form, for knew that his condition was serious.
| l seized pair of my surgeons scissors and at
once cut his shirt and undershirt from his body,
and tried all means of resuscitation with which
was familiar slapped him with wet towels
on the Ghost and neck. dashed cold water on his
chest and attempted to restore respiration by
moving his arms up and down."
The witness proceeded with voice impress
| lively husky:
81 continued those effort to revive my friend
for over half an hour, but it useless entire
| ly useless. Shortly after my friend ceased to
breathe, ard his heart stopped beating. There
was no breath on mirror when held 1t to
his lips Even after was satisfied he was dead
l COP tinued my efforts with him. did not leave
and call assistance All my efforts were to re-
of-a man and he sinks, in few seconds the man
is dead. The time, thought, had better be
cupied in efforts to restore him. l was con-
vinced he was dead, but continued to dash
was dead and past all hope. Then hardly knew
what to do My first impulse was to notify the
authorities. Imagine my feelings did not
know what to do. / was in strange land, a
stranger. l did not know man could make
statement in his own behalf. thought the same
rule obtained here in England, and that
would not be allowed to make my statement. and
thought would get away. had that large
trunk, the only one had up to that time
emptied it out It would be impossible gentle
men, to describe to you my feelings. my horror,
when l knew my friend was dead"
The prisoner paused and brushed away the
tears from his yes. and proceeded.
II drew the empty trunk up to the side of the
bed, and, after drawing out my drawers, the
first that came to my hand, I put them on the
body for common decencys sake, put Mr. Prel-
Ter in It, There was some difficulty in putting
the body into the trunk. but succeeded and
after covering it up went down to the bar
was in dreadful state of mind, and tried to
drown thought by drinking / wandered about
the streets of the city until about o'clock
visited some shooting gallery, and came back to
the hotel. l went up to the dininR-room /
can't very well give an account of what took
place In the dining-room. then went up to the
room-my room-and stayed there ali night I
can't be of anything that happened after
stayed in my room. To say that slept would
be untrue. l waited for the morning then
thought that the only thing to be done was to
get away took Mr. Preller's pants and looked
through them. found quantity Of money in
bills-I can't say how much. There was prob
ably $500 or 5000. / took it and went to the
ticket Office and bought ticket for San Fran
cisco. On the same morning l made several
other purchases, flute and q diamond ring at
pawn-brokers, pair of field glasses and spec
tacles at Aloe's the optician. two trunks and a
vase. The trunks l ordered carried to my
room, and / placed In one of them the clothing
and loose things lying around the room which
had been removed from the trunk in which had
placed my friends dead body"
s'Whet do you know about the piece of paper
reading so perish all traitors to the great causeT
II wrote 1t. My idea was that the authorities
would find it, and that it would puzzle them until
an autopsy should be held"
'Was it your idea to delay them while you
were ere getting awayP
"Did you do anything else with the same OBJ
Yes, shaved off the mustache."
"Can you tell how that cut came upon his
breasts"
''Yes; did 1t with q scapel, but can assign
no reason for 1t"
"You did this all on Monday mornngl'
''Yes, on Monday morning"
What else did you do9'
In the course of the morning went to the
Union Depot with the canvas. covered trunk.
which checked to San Francisco. remember
going to the dinngroom Sunday morning, but
don't remember ordering the wine. / don't remem-
Der asking about killing a man. nor exhibiting a
revolver. What did on the Sunday evening
and Monday morning are so confused that
l wouldn't like to say when anything occurred.
Had you. when you administered that chloro-
form, any intention of killing MIR. Prelleri"
II had not SIR"
The witness spoke loudly aud emphatcally.
Hal you any intention of njuring him9"
81 had not, SIR"
''Of doing him any bodily harmf"
II had not SIR"
The rest OF the testimony was taken up with
his trip to San Francisco some of the events
which occurred there, and his explanation of
some of the big stories which he told about him.