The daily critic., 1890-12-04

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selves away in a thousand different
ways Why. I have known young
man 10 register and FORGET 90 add his
wiie's name he is so nervous and
scared. But thar Is only one way Of the
many.
Dr. Tindall, secretary 10 the Board
Of Commissioner think there ought
TO be a District building erected worthy
Of the city. The accommodations of the
present building are entirely Inadequate
TO the amount of business transacted
DIR. Hunter-The reason so many peo.
pie complain Of their feet hurting them
is because the leather in their shoes has
been tanned with salt and soda. The
matter has become so important that /
think this practice should be prohibited
by Congressional legislation.
Senator Vance of North Carolina
think that my reelection is certain |
cannot speak So confidently for General
Hampton, but ] am all right
G. Hill, chief Publication Bureau.
Agricultural Deplrtment-On of the
features Of American life which slrik
the foreigner most fOrciblv Is th
tendency displayed by the people
spread out, instead Of TO cOuceatrat
For instance, a farmer desiring TO [
crease the products Of his farm, will
seek 70 do so by acquiring more
ground, instead Of endeavoriug to i'm
prove the condition of whathe already
has, and thus increasing its Yield The
same peculiarly Is presented by
Americans in all classes Of life, and
seems very peculiar to a stranger.
A Texas lawyer-I don't suppose
there is lawyer in the United States
who can show such a record on murder
cases as Congressman ID II. Culberson.
Phenomenal hardly expresses the sue
cess he has had Judge Culbersou has
defended ia men charged with mur.
der. He has never had a client hung.
Only three of ia were convited. They
were tried by a military court and sent
to the penitentiary. Judge Culberson
subsequently secured their release. If
you were TO ask Judge Culbersou which
he regards as the most remarkable OF
this array Of cases he would probably
saw at once The Rothschild 4"
That was n strange illustration of
the unreliability of expert medical testi
mony. Roihschild was cleared on medi.
col testimony, which was subsequently
proved 10 have been utterly at variance
with the facts. A dissolute woman,
who went by the name Of Diamond
Bessie, because of the profusion Of
jewels she wore, was found murdered
in a field near Jefferson, Texas. IL
was found that she had been travelling
about the country with young Roths
child, who belonged 10 q good family
In Cincinnati The pair had been to
getbcr In Jefferson. They went out for
a walk together on a certain day
Diamond Bessie was not seen alive
afterward, and Rothschild took a train
out Of town that evening. Several days
elapsed between his departure and the
discovery Of the body.
Rothschild was arrested In Cinciu.
natl. When the officer entered the
room to arrest him the young man drew
pistol and shot himself In the heId.
The aim was bad, and the bullet
knocked ont an eye instead OF the
brains. RothsChlld was taken back 10
Texas. He was put on trial. Ii was
proved that he left jefferson on the
evening he claimed The sole defense
was that Diamond Bessie could not pos.
sibly have been shot on the day Rlths.
child left Jefferson, because II she had
been decomposition would have been
further advanced on the day the body
was discovered
Doctor after doctor went on the stand
and sustained the theory of the defense.
The medical men swore with much
positiveness that Diamond Bessie could
not have been dead so long as the pro
seculion tried to make out. Only one
physician testified that II was barely
possible for decomposition to have been
50 slow as TO leave the body In the con
dition II was found II the murderer was
Rothschlld. The doctor who set up his
opinion against the others was so dis
credited that he had 10 move away from
town. Rothschild was cleared. Some
time afterward II came out that the
doctors were entirely at fault with their
expert testimony. The woman had
been dead the length Of time that they
said was impossible
How TO account for the doctors blum.
der, / don't know The theory of some,
when the truth came out, was that the
woman, like many Of her class, might
have been a confirmed arsenic eater.
she might have absorbed so much arsenic
into her system as to have greatly re-
tarded decomposition But the doctors
didn't think Of that on the trial. Judge
Culberson was as much surprised as
anybody when he learned the real his
tory of the murder.