Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1889-06-05


flowers and play on the organ ior ner ,Sl ON
Friday evening Witness bad known III
7. V. Cox for several years and had al-
ways considered him man OF good repu-
tation.
MRS. wHoRToS's MEMORY.
The next witness was something Of
Tartar for both State and defense, and
while her evidence WAS given with great
freedom, it was considerably shaken be-
fore she stepped down from the witness
stand. Mrs. Lucinda Whorton, a semi
professional midwife, according 10 her own
declaration, WAS the yoluble parsonage.
She testified that she was at Walter
M0ore's place at Proctor, on May 7, and
saw Lizzie Taggsrt and her father there.
About 9 O'Clock Wednesday night she saw
Mics Tsggart lying in bed in Walter
Moore's house. The two Doctors
Cox were there at the time. When she
first went into the room they were sitting
down, soon afterwards they be-
gan to use their instruments on
her, and the child's arm and head were
cut of. The girl WAS then delivered Of a
boy baby.
The young doctor used the Instruments
first, and then the old doctor took them in
hand. She heard the young doctor say
that the d-n thing stuck. Witness had
attended great many places where chill
dren were born.
Mr.. Wylie was proceeding 10 ask Mrs.
Whort0n If she considered the treatment OF
the doctors rough, when Captain Doyener
objected. The point WAS argued at some
length by Captain Dovener and Colonel
Arnett, and the question was admitted
with the reservation that the witness
could speak only Of the manner OF hand.
| ling the instruments.
Witness said she had frequently deliv.
cred children herself and had seen many
Others delivered. The treatment of the girl
she considered the roughest she had ever seen
in her life. This answer provoked another
wrangie, and finally His Honor put the
question direct, How was the patient
treatedH' The answer 20 this was no
more satisfactory and counsel again pro-
ceeded to discuss it at length without ar
irving at any conclusion. Judge Jacobs
again said that the witness could tell what
she saw, but was not competent to give
testimony as an expert.
Odd you examine the lady after you
came in? A-No, sir; held her during
the operation at the direction OF the doe
/ tors.
Odd You think il was necessary to
Use instrumental Objected 10 and obiec-
tiOn sustained.
Witness continued and said she saw the
child, and pronounced it a healthy child,
six months in CESSATION. She thought that
the parts OF the mother were large enough
TO give birth without the use OF instru-
ments. The child might have been de-
/ livered without the use of instruments il
It had been given time, but the woman
bad no labor, and the child could not have
been delivered then without an operation.
Of it had been given time and there
were labor pains, could the child have
been delivered without Instruments A.
Yes
A SEVERE CROss-RXAMISATION.
The cross.eKamination was exceedingly
sharp and searching. Mrs Whorton had
testified that she had attended many births
and assisted in them. but under Cspt Do
yener's fire OF questions did not remember
more than one case Of birth which che bad
attended alone.
Witness saw the doctors cut the head
and arm of, hut could not describe the
operation or the number or shape or form
or purpose of the instruments that we're
used. She had seen instruments used in
child birth in old Virginia, about thirty
| years ago, but had not seen them since
She had made no examination Of the Wo-
man either by nand or instrument and
did not know Of any malfoumation or false
presentation. She saw the arm come out.
bat did not think that was the proper way
for a child TO be born. The crOss-exami-
nation on these points was continued at
some length, and the witness became very
much confused.
On redirect examination, Mrs. Whort0n
again testified that there were no labor
pains apparent and thus brought out an
other searching vOlley OF questions from
/ Captain Dovener, which Left her IN about
the same unsatisfactory condition a. be
| fore.
The witness story completed the States
evidence no far AS the facts of the operation
were concerned, and DR.. F. =. Lowther,
]
mortem examination on the body Of Lizzie
| Taggsrt, was called. He testified that
his examination revealed that the lower
border of the omentum was slightly in
famed; the neck, down 10 the mouth Of
the womb, was gangrenous and the walls
of the womb were nerotio. The vagina
was also gangrenous, aud the peritone-
um slightly lacerated. The uterus was in
a Gabby condition, and intestinal imprints
were found on it, Small portions Of the
placenta adhered TO the walls Of the
womb. These conditions were due 20 the
Inflammation.
The anterior posterior diameter Of tho
womb Was 5. inches. and the transverse
diameter WIS ~ inches. Thee sizes he
considered fully normal.
WAS THE EoPERATIoS NECESSARY
Witness had assisted IN the examination
OF the child Its weight was two pounds
He found that the skull had been opened
part of the brain removed and the head
decapitaied. The left arm had also been
severed at the shoulder joint In his
opinion the child was seven months in
CESSATION, but it was below the ordinary
sized seven-months' child 10 weight 40
natural malformation was visible on the
body.
Returning 10 a description Of the wo-
mans body the witness declared empbau-
cally that there was no maliormation.
The child did not look like Ii bad been
dead long. From what be saw 10 his
opinion ~ an expert. the operation OF
delivery Of the child was performed un-
skillfully. The size Of the cold and the
size Of the pelvic cavity lead him TO believe
that delivery could have been secured
without diversion, II no other oomplica-
tions bad arisen. II there was inertia or
no pain, there would have been no neces-
sity for the immediate delivery Of the
child, and delivery at the time, would
have been premsture.
Captain DOvener began bis cross-exam-
instion OF Or. LOWther, bot had developed
no important fact when the court adionrn-
cd. Dr. Lowtber's cT0ss-examination will
be continued tomorrow afternoon.
The evening train brought In several
new witnesses for the defense and amOag
them were Dr.. MoLain and Mr. and Mrs.
J. Z Bggs, Of Wheeling. The aunt Of
DR.. T. A. Cox, Mrs Heryey, OF Woods
/ field, Ohio, also arrived.
CIsrksburE Briefs.
Special Ttieoram % ~ Regiis,.
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