Omaha daily bee., 1891-12-13
ARSENIC CAUSED HER DEATH.
Medical Experts Testify in the Graves Mur-
der Case.
JNANiMlTY OF ALL THE WITNESSES.
Every Evidence of ArSen!cal Poison.
ing Was Present in Mrs. Barnaby's
Hiness-Facts Brought Forth
Yesterday at the Trial.

DENVER, Colo, Dec. l2.-Dr. Bonesteele was
called to the witness stand again this morn
ing in the Graves trial, and Judge Macon
began the cross examination. Tho doctor
said he was called to attend the sick ladies
on the night of Wednesday, the 18th of
April. He visited them about twice a day
until Mrs. Barnaby died. Mrs. Barnnby
besides having every symptom of arsenical
poisoning, suffered from difficulty with her
lungs. Her heart sympathized with tho
lungs and both were affected. A person
usually dies from Il fatal dose of arsenic in
twenty-four hours, but sometimes a longer
period of lime enSues. About two grain MS
was q fatal dose. When Mrs. Barnaby be-
gan to grow worse on Friday, the symptoms
with which she was affected wore the symp-
toms of an overwhelming influence which
aimed at the vital powers. Ii he had not
known that she was poisoned at thus time he
would not have suspected poisoning. The
passive congestion was not attended with in
tiammation, but pneumonia was not
always attended with From
tho history OF the case the witness came to
the conclusion that congestion of the lungs
was the cause of her death aud this cJnges-
ton was caused by poison.
"Now DOCTOR" said Judge Macon, "if a
man RECEIVERS from an awful beating and Is
I NphNAS utN INV v iiO IlpDo
and dies from II, do you say that the cause
the beating-is the same as the pc son In
Mrs. Barnaby's case, the real cause of
death ~
Might Have Died from Other Causes.
sit is bard to tell no may succurno to tho
beating after ALL" replied the doctor.
"rhen Mrs. Barnaby may have died from
tho disease which she was predisposed to,
and not from the other causef'
That is true.h
He stated that he had been present at the
autopsy and saw nothing 10 convince him
that death was not tho result of congestion
of the lungs. And it was after tins examlna-
tion mac been made that he gave II certificate
to this effect.
MIR. Stevens asked the witness, on redirect
examination, 'If a man died from the shock
of five or six bullets fired into his body would
no give the cause of his death as the shockii
The witness answered, Mo-
DIR. Griffith, the third physician who had
attended Mrs. Barnaby, was now called. He
was of the opinion that the ladies were suf-
fering from irritanu poison and treated them
for such, The remainder of his testimony
was much the same as DIR. Bonesteele's.
DIR. H.. II. Buchanan now took the stand.
He said he had been u physician nine years.
lie performed the autopsy on Mrs. Barnaby's
body. From what he had heard about tho
case, aud from his examination, he thought
the cause OF her death was arsenical poison
ing. The Immediate cause was congestion of
the lungs.
Poison tho Primary Cause OF Death.
On cross-examination he said the poison
was the primary cause OF her death. There
were other causes which would produce the
condition in which Mrs. Barnaby's lungs and
heart wero found. If he had not known Of
poison having been taken he would have
been at a l1ss TO assign n cause for these con-
ditions. He admitted that the Lungs became
passiyely congested in typl Oil fever aud also
in old age. He had found a clot In
the heart. The congestion of tho
lungs might have caused the eliot
TO be formed in " or three
days, With this on the heart Mrs. Barnaby
could not nave lived very long. The only