The Indianapolis journal., 1890-10-28
THE AUTOPSY.

Report of Dr. Bowles as to the Condition I'm
Which the Body Was Found.
The next step was to notify the prose-
cutting attorney of Wayne county, Richard
A. Jackson, who obtained from Judge Com
stock, of the Circuit Court. the assurance
that he would summon special grand jury
in order that the matter might be placed
before them without delay. The next step
was to exhume the body. which was done
last Saturday. Poor Blount's remains had
been followed to the grave nearly four
weeks previous by large conconrse of
friends, the bar of Delaware county
dong him special honor, never dream
ing that in the coffin before them
lay the mute viciim of an attendants bru-
tality. travesty on our Wanted system OF
mons story. revealing the CRIME
in all it's hideousness. 1t is not
necessary to make further comment
upon what the autopsy developed. The
would be possible for any one except the
silent victim himself. to speak. 1t is as
follows:
The body is we'll preserved. The face is
covered nearly all over with green mold;
the eye-balls have collapsed; the hair on
readily removable. After removing the
mold from the face it is not much changed
in appearance from that which it would
present q few hours after death, excepting
the eyes; there is still decided post-mortem
rigidity or rigor mortis; the anterior sur-
face OF the body is thickly covered in
patches with green and white mold;
the abdomen is but little distended with
gas; numerous yellowish post-mortem
stains are found on the body. and several
very dark stains are also seen on the left
chest wall and on the right chest wall: the
mates are fiattened out and the skin Is be-
ginning to slip from the flesh. On the pos
terror aspect of the body postmortem
hypustasis is well marked; on the left lat
eral aspect of the chest wall seven or eight
dark circular, almost black spots are seen;
on the left chest wall, ID inch to the left OF
the nipple, is the upper end of what is be-
iieved to be an adhesive plaster. 2i2 inches
square, which, on being removed. dlscloses
deep ecchymosis which bleeds when in
cised; below this last-named eccbymosis
is a spot four inches square that Is less dis
tinctly ecchymotic, and bleeds slightly
when incsed on dissecting the integument
of the right anterior surface Of the chest
layer of fat is found, and nothing abnormal;
on removing tissues from the left side OF
the chest down to the ribs was found deep
ecchymoss from the third 20 the seventh
on removing the sternum the right
lung looks normal and fills the
s1i the left o lung does nos Rs't the left sas oi
the chest cavity, ana the lower lobe Is nrfn-
ly hepatized. On opening the pericardium
no water is found in il, and the heart looks
healthy. The third rib is broken five
inches from the center of the sternum. and
the fracture is diagonal; the fourth rib is
broken four inches. and also five and one
half inches from the center of the sternum;
both fractures are transverse; the fifth rib
is broken five inches from the center of the
sternum; the fracture is transverse; the
sixth rib is broken transversely five inches
from the sternum; the seventh Ribs broken
transversely six inches from the sterDum.
The surfaces corresponding with the broken
ribs on the inner aspect of the chest wall
are deeply ecchymosed. and the pleural
surface of the left chest wall Is deeply in
jected.
There were present at the above named
autopsy: T. j. Bowles. ID. III. Yockey,
George Robinson. j. ". Davis, ID. :. Lake,
Ben Hamilton. Homer Bowlcs. C. Is. Tenn
pier and = NJ Drake and the autopsy was
made by myself, with the assistance of DIR.
ID. IL. Yockey. Il. j. BowLEs.