The Wilmington daily Republican. (Wilmington, Del.) 1890-1902, 1892-06-03
MORE SCIENTIFIC TESTIMONY.
The Defense Produces an Expert who
TestiHes In Reference TO Blood Car.
puscIes in the Delaware City Case.

Tho Defense Produces an Expert who
Testifies In Reference TO Blood Car.
puscles in the Delaware City Case.
Yesterday afternoons session OF
court convened at $50 o'clock, and
Immediately after the opening the de
Tense resuped their testimony.
Dr. CULLEN G. Davis, medical and
microscopical expert from Phlladel-
phiA, was called, and testified that he
graduated from the University of
Pennsylvania in 1879. He then visited
foreign countries, and after consider
able study graduated from tho Uni
versity OF Gutenberg.
He has made microscopy an especial
study. and was satisfied that there was
no standard micrometer; he has
searched for one without success. II
is an extremely difficult matter to Sc
cure correct measurements of blood
corpuscleS from dry eliot. Water Ia
not good agent for dissolying blood
clots. as it Is apt to swell the corpus
cles and make them deceptive.
This opinion was the result of every
| body's experience. Several things
would have to be considered in deter
mining whether corpuscles were of
| the mamamlla species. 1t is an i'm
possibility to make the measurement
of eorpuscle absolutely correct. In
the opinion of the witness DIR. Worm
Icy. OF Philadelphia, stands at tho head
of the profession as an authority upon
blood and blood stains. Ii two men
/ were to examine the corpuscles, it is
not probable that they would reach
the same result.
The corpuscles In human blood vary
very much. II is not possible In every
instance to tell menstrual from veuous
blood, for ii there were a hemmorr
hage, the corpuscles would be thesamt
as the blood from any other part o.
the body. The witness was present al
discussion in Philadelphia and heart
DR.. Wormley tell DR.. Formal that tn,
testimony which he gave in the llnge
and smith cases, was unwa1ranteu ant
incorrect.
The attorney-genera objected t
this testimony, and after argument
Mr.. Cooper saiI that he WAS willing t,
drop the matter without this going II
as evidence. Dr. formad's yiews II
regard to blood corpuscleS differ il
some respects from those OF the wit
ness. He agrees with some OF his view
but differs from others.
on cross examination the wltnes
: navy museums were not cunSlderel
correct. A piece of paper wa6 hande
tho witness on which he figured on
the ditfereurc between the corpuscl
. measuring l.52uu OF an inch, and III
same VARYING coTpusrle measured o.
a micrumster varying Ito 90 OF al
n inch. Ina few minutes he said, til
!, variation wond be from 1920 t
/ l3jO0 of an inch. The average size o
Il human corpusclo IL hctween l'3@OO tn
h and 1880 Of an inch,
Ia Mr. Nicholson inquired II in the cas-
d OF tho Commonwealth, vs.. Willini
Keller in Pennsylvania, he had nc
testified that thirteen per cent. of tn
corpusces Of human blood were lie:
Il than .320D of an inch. He reptile
that he mad but explained his stat
lnents, by saving that in one thou5Nr
curpuacles ten or twenty might be {
- large as l.25Oo, while OF tho smallet
>. silo l.45UO there would be forty {
fifty. ...... ..
While he contendcd that water IL
= stroyed blood curpu5cleS, he ndmitt-
y. thtt he had not made any experiment
: to determine how long it would tai
: water TO penetrate blood clots. The
S have been great advances in micr
sCOpy in recent years, as the lens
- HEt utllcI now lldu W Hub LllSg VT
\. before. he witness said that
: graduated when ~ years Old, and Ii.
devoted % years to tie study of III
crosCopy.
Deborah Moody, colOrel, testiii
y that she lives on Fl. T.. Scott's plat
about a quarter Of mile from Re
II holds station. The pillow case eAAi
tied in court belongs to her and h
hog meat in 1t about ono We
If before Christmas, when she killt
hogs She put the meat in for MI
IL HUT, who took 1t home With her S
was certain That it was her pillow ga
because she had torn the top OF.
Maria Johnson, colorcd, u dhuGht
of the previoas witness, identified L
skirt MS her property. and said that
IA was given to her by Il white wOuu
- She was at HUT 5 when George Hen
l0 HUT was killing hogs, two on TIN
2 days before christmas, unl saw il
ST Johnson there She thought Johns
=, stuck the hog, as she saw MIN conf
III from the yard Will the bloody hi
N. She saw some blood on his sinrt, u
- shG was not positive thlt tho shirt
Or hhited in court was the ono he We
| that day
l. She was erOes-eXamined by
III Nicholson, and at , O'clock court to
~ II recess until 10 o'clock this mornll