The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1888-04-13

witness called. The ground gone owe
before the coroner's jury was again gon,
over, and almost precisely the same evi
dence given. This included review o
the case as the witness, the attending
physician, had observed and treated it
When he called the morning after thu
death, Dawson told him that he "wal
glad 1t was all over with" The result o
the autopsy was also given. In the
opinion of the witness death was caused
by CASTRO interitis caused by some gas
tro irritant, which was some corrosive
poison, such 90 arsenic or some of IT'D
compounds. On cross examination he
stated that during his medical course he
had had considerable experience with
poison cases and post mortems of per-
sons poisoned. The general train OF
symptoms in the present case had led
him to his belief of poisoning, but he
could not be sure. Other causes would
produce some of the symptoms shown in
this case. He first became convinced
that poison had been used at the post
norton, although he had some suspicion
of 1t before. In his opinion the disobe-
dience of his orders in giving the patient
wine, beer, tea, coffee and water, did
not bring about the intense degree of in
famation. No man can tell the line of
demarkation. The symptoms of poison
ing from arsenic show themselves imme-
oiatsly and continually. Different per-
sons are affected in different lengths of
time. With such subject as Andrews,
death would not occur for several
days. Eating of diseased meat causes
symptoms of poisoning and death. There
is considerable difference in the symp-
toms from this cause and from arsenic.
There was nothing to indicate that dis
eased meat had been taken. Nothing at
the post mortem could be determined
to disprove Witnesses first presumption.
that the deceased had chronic gastritis.
Knew of nothing now that would have
changed his presumption the day An
drews was taken sick.
Adjourned until / 80 p. m.
The examination of witnesses was re.
sumed at two o'clock Wednesday after
noon. DR.. z. G. Harrington was the
first witness called. He described the
result of the autopsy as already given to
the coroner's jury. He thought that ar
senic would produce the effect found.
On cross examination he stated that
acute gastritis might be brought on by
saving wood hard during the forenoon
while deceased had bad cold. Diseased
meat is poisonous and might produce in
and thelsymptomp would be
the same as those of poison.
It Is impossible to tell what causes infla-
nation without chemical analysis. The
of arsenic usually show them
selves within two hours, and death usu-
ally occurs within fortY-eight hours, but
sometime it takes q number of days.
DR.. J. E. Andrews was next called
He, too, described the result of the au-
topsy over the remains of the deceased.
Andrews death was caused by castro
probably caused by an irritant.
Much of the testimony of DR.. Harring-
ton was corroborated. A patient should
die within a week of castro entr1tis. It
is possible for all of the existing circum-
stances to have existed without an irri-
tant poison. 1t ia true that the coats Of
the stomach are sometimes softened
from the action Of the gastric juices of
the stomach without poison. No pois-
onous substances were found in the
but only chemical examination
could decide whether there really were
any.
Jacob Andrews, Chief ]. W. Fowler,
Miss Mary Malloy, H. K. Lee, VIM.
Craver and James Scott were sworn, and
repeated their testimony given before
the Coroner's jury, bringing to light
new.
An adjournment was then taken until
nine o'clock Thursday morning.
The municipal court room was again
crowded Thursday morning when the
of the Andrews case was re.
sumed. The interest in this case is una
bated, and sympathy is divided. It can
not be denied that the evidence thus far
produced by the State is very frail, and
unless supported by the result of the
chemical analysis of the stomach and in
testines the case will hardly reach the
grand jury.
The first witness called this morning
was Mrs. Haskins, who repeated her tes-
timonY given before the coroner's jury.
E. v. FELTON, was the last witness
sworn, and testified that while Dawson
was saving wood for him last summer
Mrs. Andrews came and talked with him
(Dawson) two hours.
The State rested here, and County At
torney Smith moved for q continuance
of ten days, in order to allow time to Sc
cure chemical analysis of the stomach
and intestines.
Messrs. Buck and Pau both objected
to the case continuing longer on account
Of the slight evidence produced by the
State. Each presented lengthy appeals.
AS Mr.. T. B. Andrews, the father of
the deceased, could not easily be OBJ
tanned later, he was sworn on behalf of
the defendant, Mrs. Andrews, and his
testimony taken: My son was in the
army for three years; have seen him
very often since; read all the evidence
taken before the coroner's jury in the
FREE PREss; have seen him vomiting
and purging and complaining of pain In
the stomach about twenty times; one of
these spells lasted three or four days,
and he would faint away while vomiting
and begin to vomit again on coming to;
he had one such spell since Feb. LIST,
1887; these spells came on after he had
worked particularly hard; he was of
quite a respondent mind; have heard
him say anumber of times that he would
take poison, and was fearful that he
would do 30, and particularly last sum-
mer; come to him and stayed three
nights with him for fear that he would
make away with himself; he said knew
pothing about his troubles when tried
to laugh him out of his notion; he seem.
ed TO be broken down when he came
out of the army; / found bottle of
what took to be laudanum In his vest
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