New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-06-14
MEDICAL EXPERTS TESTIFY.
PROFESSOR WOODS MINUTE ANALYSES.
NO POISON FOUND IN THE sTOMACHs AND no
BLOOD on THE CLAw-HEADED HATCuET
PROBABLE TINE BETWEEN
THE TWO MURDERS.

PROBABLE TINE BETWEEN
THE TWO MURDERS.
New Bedford, Mass, June 13-There has been
change In the examining attorneys on both sides
since what may be called the medical part OF the
case was reached. Mr.. Moody. the Assistant Dis
trct-Attorney. on whom the whole burden Of the
prosecution has rested IS taking we'll Learned season
Of leisure AMI the District-Attorncy himself. Mr.
Knowlton. Is asking the questions. Ex-Governor
Robinson. too, has retired for the time. and Mr..
Adams Is conducting the cross-examnatlons Mr..
Adams has been in the case almost from the begin
ming and is perfectly familiar with IL. lie Is young
man. but has been for dozen years in active prac
tee In Boston. lie possesses valuable quai'y OF
natural ease he does not gel excited or disturbed ;
be speaks deliberately and in smooth. quiet tones,
with IN appearance OF harmlcsencss not always real
ise1. The art OF lullng ~iincss Into comfort
able feeling OF security while leading him upon shoals
and rocks Is possessed by Mr. Adams, and was ef-
fectively pracsei to-day, not Ony upon the medical
examiner Of Fall River, but upon the medical ex-
aminer from Boston.
Dr. Dolan had introduced the plaster casts In his
direct examination the day before. and It was mat
ter Of curiosity to Mr. Adams 10 know at what time
and By whom the marks had been made upon them
representing the wounds DR.. Dclan said II had been
done last Friday by DR.. Draper from the original
measurements Of D0an One Of The cuts had b'sccteu
the eye The witness said 1t clean cut, ndicat'
thought It might have been done with n Ratchet.
NOT Notwithstanding that the blow was q glancing blow
and so well accomplished that 1t had shaved OIL "a
piece Of the eycball. The witness testified that Oh
the Wallpaper near the head Of Mr. Borden there
were no less than eighty-slx blood spots within u
radius OF a foot-testimony 81 value IN considering
how remote was the possibility OF Miss Borden being
the murderer and escaping. no matter how well she
dismissed of her clothing, without bloody evidences
~ v,lt where they were exposed and not easily
washed out
DR. DOLAN CHANGES HIS MIND.
Dr Dolan was repeatedly compelled to admit that
IN had at the previous hearings expressed expert
ona,on which he now In view he said Of later in
formation but really in view OF DIR. Woods chem
cal test desired TO rctract or modify. He had seen
marks on places which he thought were blood marks.
ana said that the assallan must have stood In GER
tain postion In order 10 make them. But the marks
having turned out to be paint or rust OF something
else than blood he inclines TO think That the
sal,ant did not stand there He thinks the blows
were swung from left to right ana might have been
twohapdcd ones. II was impossible TO persuade DIR.
Dolan however, that the assalant was ever In any
great danger OF becoming spotted with blood. lie
found spots everywhere around the bodies, bat some
how he thought few Of them fell on the assail,nt
In the case OF Mrs. Borden. who was found lying
on her face and stomach on the floor he thought
when the fatal blows struck the assaant must
have been Standing astride Of her. This was incon
sistent with testimony he gave yesterday. when
he was Of the opinion that the assailant stood be-
hind ana faced the back Of Mrs. Borden. The nature
Of Dr. Dolan's difhculty a medical expert is 20
radical that he should hereafter stick to theory
Nesaing can Be more uncomfortable than to testify