The Sunday morning news. [volume] (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1886-1891, 1890-01-12

! room, where found Miss PurseI sitting
/ III Chair, dressed in her night clothes,
| with a shawl thrown around her. / took
hoid OF her left arm. found her pulse was
| good and her complexion was natural.
| her lips of good color, and / ordered her
to-as she seemed cold--I ordered her to
be put to bed and kept quiet This is all
l know about this mysterious and sad af-
/ fair Then l left
| @. Did you take notice Of the room
what condition it was in? A. | merely
noticed as l went out that things were
/ scattered over the floor: | didn't stop to
investigate the things at all.
q. On examining the body did You see
any marks about the face and chin? A.
! did not. i did not examine it closely. /
noticed the lips were somewhat swollen
| and little cyanosed with dusky hue
The arms were outside Of the bedciothes,
along by her body, bent in this position:
the right one about there on the abdomen,
and the other one little further down.
q. By Juror Lawshe--Did you smell
any chloroform on entering the room? 4.
did not; or about the house.
q. By Juror Lawshe-If there had been
chtoroforn used, could you have been apt
to detect II in going inf A. don't know
that could; that would have depended
either upon how much had been used or
what time it had beeu used.
q. By Jurur Person Would you have
detected it if ether had been useds A.
That would have depended upon the
quantity
Q. How long would you Judge she had
been dead? A. l should Judge, from the
! condition | found her in. from four TO six
4 hours at least.
@. By Juror Walker-What was youe
impression, did you notice that there war
any indication OF there being a struQRls
before she died, from the way the bed
1 ri Inf ac a L n
ton and the position of the bed Clothes. [
should think she died without struggle.
q. By Juror Pierson-Did you notice
the bedclothes particularly A. noticed
them, yes.
Q. TO see whether they were rumpled
up or whether they laid smooth. as they
1 ordinarily wouldg A She was covered
over just as have described, up TO here.
| perhaps, with the execution of the left
leg; that was partially uncovered.
MISS PURsELis CONDITION.
The doctor then describes the condition
in which he found Miss Pursel, and this.
it viii be remembered was about half an
hour after she had been taken from the
floor. Here is his testimony
Q. Well, when you were called for Miss
| Pursel A. called TO see her: | Just
| passed through there and saw her.
@. You saw her in this room undressed
with shawl thrown around her A.
Yes SIR
Q. Her condition you say was normal?
A. Yes, sir, in good condition
O. Did you understand at that time that
she had been lying on the floor some time,
A. Yes, sir, understood she had.
Y, Would IL be natural for her lie on the
floor some length of time A. ] don't
know anything about it.
/ q. Under the influence of chloroform or
ether or any drug the length that it was
announced she had lain there A. don L
know; persons usually recover from
chloroforfn in half to three-quarters OF
an hour
Q. Then if she had been given chloro-
from at the same time with Mrs. Kniffin
she could have recovered long since
a She was out from the influence OF
ehloroform when | sawher If she had
chlorOform given her.
Q. She would not have lain on the floor
| that length of time? A. | don't know
how long she might have lain there.
Q. By Juror Lawshe-Did she make
any remarks to You at the time you were
with her? A. No. sir
Q. BY Juror Pierson-If ch1oroform
had been administered TO her at the time
it was to Mrs. KnifIin. supposing it was
five or six hours, would her condition
have been normal that length of time
after? A. Yes. sir.
q, Then she might have had chloroform
administered to her and you have not
been able to detect it, A. Yes. sir.
O. In six hours afterwards A. Yes
sir.
LINKS IN THE CHAIN.
One point more about Miss Pursel's con
dltion when found. Gus Reid speaks
now. Here is his testimony
@. She didn't try to get away from
him. A Yes, sir; she struggled. and
DIR. Shannon said, ut is me, Emma
@. BY Juror Sterling-Did she awake
right then when he said 1T is me, EN-
mar" a. She tried to get away; shs
didn't seem to realize it, to my mind.
@. In the meantime what became Of
| Miss Pursei? A. She was in the room
sitting on the chair with her head in her
hand.
@. BY Juror LARSON Her face showed
I where she laid on the rough carpet2 A.
down this cheek as though from pressing
on rough surface.
@. BY Juror Iarrison- Did Miss Pursel
| ask anything about Mrs. Knifiin while
you were there2 \. Ne; she heard DR.
| Shannon say that he believed Mrs. Kniffin
| was dead.
Q. How did she seem to be then? A,
1
Next in interest IS the account of the
condition of the rooms. Regarding the
operating room, Druggist Paterson says
| @. By the CoroneF-The room where
you saw the Ratchet and chisel what was
| the condition of that room? A. didn't
| notice; the room seemed to be all right
| except as TO the instrument case: every
| drawer seemed to be pulled out with the
4 exception of one thing, the money drawer
| it was not pulied
| O. Which was the money drawer A.
| A little drawer in the centre OF the instru-
ment case.
But we have already seen that DR..
Shannon examined that drawer when he
first came up. Next comes Gus" Reid
as follows
Q. Did yeH take notice on the second
| floor the condition of that fioors A Yes
| @. What condition was it ins A The
| drawers of the case were pulled cut, the
] tool chest standing directly through in
/ the second room was open and it looked
! disorderly generally.
| O. There is a small room at the right
| adjoining the steps. what condition was
| that in? A The drawers OF the case in
the room were pulled out, and bunch
| of keys lay there, and a Ratchet and
| chisel.
O. Was anything else disturbed A.
! NOT that noticed,
! O What condition was that room ins
| A. In disorder, the drawers pulled OuI