Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1891-04-02

her. went over to the stable with Carl
| Piit2enmaier to get my horse in order tc
| allow him to drive Mrs. Walthers home.
came back about 1.33 and met Mrs
| Schmidt at the bottom of the stairs. She
| asked me where Emma was. | said she
must be upstairs, and went up but could
not find her, when | came down as far
as the second-story to tell Mrs. Schmidt
she had left. Emma was not as lively as
usual that evening. Shortly before 2
o'clock Carl Pfitzenmaier came running to
ME with a statement that Emma was
| cold Cold p | thought he meant she
had fit.
| A couple of stenographers were called in
| to testify to the accuracy of their reports.
This ended the commemorative case, and
Lawyer Dickinson began to outline the
| proposed defence.
MEDIA, Pa, March 26-To-day was a
red letter day for the defence in the
famous trial of Caroline Schmidt for the
murder of her sister. Emma Pfitzenmaier,
in the early morning of December 4th.
The Chester doctors and Professor Formal
had sworn that the carotid artery on the
right side of Emma's neck had been cut
through by the murderous knife, and DR..
Forwood had gone so far as to make dia-
gram showing the exact point of sever
ance, this picture in cipia and carmine
being placed in evidence by the district
attorney. True to the promise in the
opening that there would be produced
before the jury testimony that would dis
prove this assertion on the part of the
commonwealth, the counsel for defence
brought into court this morning the neck
Of the girl, with the carotid intact from
top to bottom.
The examination of DIR. w w. Keen of
Jefferson Medical College who exhibited
the murdered girls neck to the jury, was
highly sensational.
The doctor showed specimen which he
and Mr.. Broomail produced from glass
jar and said: "This is Emma's neck" It
showed the whole of the wound on the
right side, about which there has been so
much controversy.
His honor the Judge directed him to
show the specimen to the jury two by two
and with this the medical man passed
along the front row Of chairs and heads
were craned to see the preserved neck and
to hear the explanation of the features 1t
presented. Mr.. Broomall and the district
attorney accompanied the doctor and the
lecture on anatomy occupied full quarter
of an hour.
''It has been stated by Dr. Bullock, the
coroner said Mr.. Broomall, "that if it
had not been for shadow the photograph
of the wound in the neck would show u
nick in the vertebrH. Is this true ?"
Mr.. Hannum here interposed an obec-
ton and stated that DIR. Bullock had not
so testified, but the cold notes of the stem
ographer were read, showing that the dis
trict attorney was mistaken and Judge
Waddell requested the doctor to reply TO
the question.
"fhc camera could not have show this if
it existed, but no such nick is there. In
fact, there is a quarter of an inch to spare
between the base of the wound and the
yertebre, as the specimen shows" was the
doctors answer.
"One physician" Mr.. Broomall said,
"has stated that the right carotid is severed
and another that it is partially cut. Have
you this artery in the specimen and il so
what do you say ~
ut is not severed or cut in any way"
said Doctor Keen.
Mr.. Broomall requested him to demon
strate this fact to the jury, and the doctor
was about to do so when the district at
torney interposed an objection, which
Judge Waddel overruled promptly With
the remark that it was important for the
jury to know all the facts. Then the doc
tor took the AZouX model in papier mache
in one hand and the neck of Emma in the
other and showed the jury the right carotid
intact.
WAS there anything in that wound in
the back of the neck that would produce
NO. an incised wound there would have
no such effcct.n
could all of the wounds in the neck be
made by the drawing of the knife across
it@' ~ =
''Yes, all that have seen. cannot saw
as to those whose indications have been
removed by cutting away of the larynx
by the doctors who made the post-lnor-
tem."
1T has been said that the deep wound in
front entered between the esecund and third
ceryical vertebr@. Is this true?''
NO, the specimen here shows that it is
between the fourth and fifth.n
How many of all these wounds that
yon have seen and that have been de-
scrbed are necessarily fatal within short
timer
zone only. That on the left side sever
ing the carotid and jrguar. Death from
this might occur within minute or two
or it might not for considerable time all
demanding on the amount of blood LOST
'lt has been said that the cutting
through of the larynX, trachea and
@sophagus must necessarily be fatal i'm
mediately. is this sop
No. ] knew man to live week
under such circumstances"
I'm your Judgment, could these wounds
all have been self-intlieted?"
Il think they could have been, from a
medical standpoint"
Mr., Bronmall handed the doctor the
larnyx as removed by DIR. Forwood and
asked him how this conformed to the case
he had stated,
He answered: Exactly like my case,
except there are but two cuts and in mine
there were seven. All of these could be
self-inilicted,
THE BUTCHER KNIFE.
"Could all of these wounds on Emma's
body be self-inilicted by this knife?n said
Mr.. Broomall, brandishing overhead the
monstrous weapon.
Undoubtedly So" was the answer.
In reply to Judge Waddell the doctor
said
AS to to the wound in the back of the
neck, it shows no sign of blow, and
hence conclude it is drawn wound par
ticularly as it is shelving at both ends. If
a thrust these would be almost straight.n
When cross-examined there were no new
points brought out except the DOCTORS
views on the radical question as to whether
this was homicide or suicide. He was
positive that any one of the wounds could
have been self-inflicted and all others
made afterward. A heavy knife would be
better and surer than light one if the
person were determined to die.
DR.. j. William White, professor of clini-
cal surgery in the University of Pennsyl-
vania was called He had examined the
specimen of the neck of Emma Pfitzen-
maier prepared by DR.. Keen on three occa-
sions-on one with the doctor himself, |