The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1889-11-14


of School street and Ashland avenue.
They walked on up Ashland avenue and
entered the Carlson cottage by the 'front.'
door.
Describe those men, - said Mr.. Mills.
zone was a large man about feet IL
inches l should suppose. The other was
about 5 feet inches high. They walked
straight on till they came to the Carlson
cottage Then they wentup the steps anG
went in"
''You saw them go IT.
''Oh, sure; saw them go in"
''What else did you see?''
81 saw light in the cottage through one
of the Stats in shutter on the window. l
saw the lightly plainly
''You diG0not know whom those men
whom you saw were?"
81 did not'
Ibid you pass tie cottage again the
next day"
81 did with my wife. We were going
south on Ashland avenue When we came
to the Carlson cottage I saw blood the
steps and on the plank walk over the
ditch in front of the house."
''Where was this blood?''
It was right in front of the steps, and
there was more blood on the sidewalk,
about fifteen feet south of the cottage
steps.
Judge Wing objected on the ground
that the witness could not swear that it
was blood he saw on the steps. The most
that could be proven by the witness was
that he saw what he thought to be blood.
Mr.. Mills said that the witness opinion
was of course all that could be offered in
evidence. Mr.. Wordell spoiled this play
by Judge Wing to certain extent by tell
ing the jury in half confidential way
''that he had seen blood before and knew
what it was because he had once cut his
finger.
The cross examination by Judge Wing
was very brief ana nothing new or inter
esting was brought out
Michael John Cameron, a saloon keeper,
testified that Coughlin and Kunze had
been together at his saloon and Coughlin
introduced Kunze as his friend.
| DR.. Egbert was recalled and testified
that ne had cut lock of hair from the
head of DR.. Cronin's dead body at the
| time he made the autopsy. Part of this
hair he placed in glass jar, which he
sealed, and part he gave to Capt. Schuet-
tier. This was the Introduction to the
bringing out of the expert testimony.
| This was begun directly when Waiter S.
! Haines. professor of chemistry at Rush
! medical college, went on the stand. Mr.
! Haines testified that he had made a special
study during eighteen years past of med
ical chemistry.
''Did you receive any articles from Prof
Belfeld2''
SIN the afternoon of Sept. 81 of this
! year | was handed an envelope, which
now hold in my hand. [ subsequently
opened this envelope and found there, in a
note from Dr. Belfeld a small chip of
| FOL
cotton also stained, and some blush paper,
having also red stains, and a small guam
tity of hair
The professor held up to view a couple
of square bits of the paper found in the
| trunk along with the cotton batting.
''What instructions did you receive
from Prof. Belfeld"
F<Prof. Belfield asked me to examine the
stains on tue articles with a view to de-
termine whether they were blood"
t'You examined them only to wheth-
er they were blood, and not as to any par
ticular kind of blOOd?'
Yes
''What was the character of these tests
chemical or microscopic?''
| Manly chemical"
Tell the jury how you made these
tests. "
II made a solution in water of portion
! of these stains. With this | combined a
! quantity of solution of gum guiacem
! and to this ADDED some peroxide of hydro
gen. In this test, if blood be not present,
there results but little change in the ap-
! pearance of the solution. Should blood
be present very fine, intense blue color
appears Immediately. In this particular
test this blue color appeared. Then l
mixed a solution of the stains with some
very strong acetic acid, and allowed the
| mixture to evaporate slowly. In the
residuum [ found the haemin crystals which
are characteristic of blood. I then made a
combination test, macerating these crys-
tails in glycerine, and l found under the
| microscope the corpuscles characteristic of
| blood. +"
| '"In your judgment what was the nature
| of those stains>''
THE stains on each of the articles, the
paper, cotton, and wood, were blood"
"Cam chemical science distinguish be-
tween different kind of blood?'
mo. These tests can only show that
blood was pre- ent, but can not indicate
that it is from man or animal. -"
''Did you examine the hair given you
by DR.. Belfield''
Yes l took three hairs from the bunch
given me and let them remain on a piece
of soap SO arranged as to have only one
end of the hair touch the soap l left
them there two weeks That bleached
them somewhat. I placed other hairs in a
strong solution of alkali, which took out
the color more aDidly.''
Judge Wing objected to the introduction
of this testimony as improper and illegal,
being in the nature of an experiment.
There had been no connection made, Judge
Wing said by the state between the arti-
cles here introduced and any material is
sue in the case. The court said he would
take the objection under consideration,
and meanwhile the direct testimony of
Prof. Haines was discon tinued and the
blood stained articles were committed to
the care of the clerk of the court. The
States attorney promised to make the
necessary connection. He will do so by
bringing DR.. Belield to testify to having
given the articles to Prof Haines
The significance of Prof. Haines' testi-
mony regal ding the bleaching OF the hairs
by the soap will be made apparent when
DR.. Beifeld will testify regarding the
color of the hair found sticking to the
piece of soap found on the washstand in
the Carlson cottage. This hair found on
fha SoaD bore a diSco10ra +ion or b1oa chino