Evening journal., 1892-06-06
DR.. FORMAD DEAD.
The Blood Expert Died
Yesterday Morning.
HIS LAST CASE WAS HERE
His Evidence Convicted Hutt,
Johnson and Miller.

Cholera NIorbus Carries Him On-His
system Eneryated Hy Frequent Blood
Poisoning lie Figured as an Expert In
Many of the Leading Murder Trials la
This Country Once Arrested I'm Russia
as a Nihilist but Escaped Some of the
Famous Cases In which His Testimony
Convicted the Accused.
The most startling thing connected
with the ending of the Hutt case is prob
ably the verdict itself. but another start
ling feature is the sudden death of Dr.
Henry Il. FOrmad. eX Coroner's Physician
and remonstrator of Pathology at the
University of Pennsylvania, the expert
upon whose evidence George Henry Hutt,
Jim johnson and Daniel Miller were con
victed.
DR. Formad was on the stand at the
Court House all of Thursday afternoon,
testifying TO the character of the blood
stains ON the garments found in Hutt's
house His evidence was that the stains
were made by human blood and not pig
blood. He looked hale and hearty, and
seemed TO be in the best of spirits.
The doctor had been sick only about
| twenty four hours. He was at the uni
versity ON Friday and expected to join
! his wife at the Traymore Hotel, Atlantic
! City. on Saturday. During Friday night
ho was suddenly taken IN aud was
treated by his sister and another physi.
clan, but he continued TO grow worse.
AT , o'clock yesterday morning DR.
| Horatio c. Wood, also of the University
was called i'm. On his arrival he found
Dr. Formal cold, without pulse and in
absolute collapse, but conscious. he did
not react TO treatment and died about
o'clock Dr. Wood said last night thai
he had been told that his patient haJ
had similar attacks before.
Mrs. Formal was at the Traymore
Atlantic City, and knew nothing of he
husbands illness until death occurred.
DR. FOrmad's Career.
DR.. Formad was about 4S years of ag
and was well known i'm medical circles il
Philadelphia and alsoin other parts of tn
country. He graduated from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania in 1878 and ha
been connected with that institution
ever since.
He was coroners physician for sewers
years and probably made more post
mortem examinations than amy othe
: doctor In the country He was frcQuentl
called TO other cities for this purpose am
= was an expert ON microscopic eXamini
: tions.
a Famous Blood Expert.
Dr. Formad became famous as an e1
l pert in matters pertaining to huma
, blood and its characteristics. In
, number OF murder trials i'm various part
/ of the country he was called as an eXpcI
witness. notably i'm the case of Pen Al
or "Frenchy, who was convicted in Ne'
7 York of numbering Anna Brown, know
/ in the slums of that city as "Old Shakes
peare. On the stand he swore ths
, specimens of dried dirt taken from BE
( Ais finger nails contained blood corpus
cles exactly similar to those from tl
, woman's dead body. and he also elaine
to be able TO identify the intestinal flui,
continuing a part of what she had cate
during the day On DR. Formad's ev
dence, more than anything else. Ben A
was convicted of murder, despite the po
g ular belief I'm his innocence and a wild
spread suspicion that he was a victim
Inspector Byrness ambition. Physician
who graduated with Dr. Formal we
called in rebuttal to no purpose, III
doctor was also one of the principal wi
nesses for the prosecution in the Linz
case. in Camden, which is about to
tried over again, and the equally famo
Leconey case and many other importa
murder trials.
The Pfitzenmay er Case.
Among these was the famous Chest
murder case, wien Emma Pfitzenmay
was killed i'm her sisters house abo
t,vo vaers aoo Next to the last ca.
that he testified i'm was that of Hen