Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1893-05-11

Recorder Sinyth.
Buried in the casket with the yonng man
was the affidavit Of Juror Crawford Mason.
II will be remembered that Harris, w;liv
ing this affidavit during his speech before
the recorder, turned to his counsel and
cried.
"po not file this here, Mr.. Howe; file it
i'll my coffin"
The document was in Mrs Harris pos
session and was dropped into her sons
easket at the service.
PERFORMING THE AUTOPSY.
Harris body, lfeless but still warm.
WAS submitted to the disSectine lance ten
minutes after the electric shock had
avenged the murder OF Helen Potts.
While the pale faccd-men who had
viewed the execution were filing out of
the death chamber, glad to escape its
horrors, Harris limp form, freed from the
straps which had bound 1t to the fatal
chair, Was hastily prepared for the autopsy
A long table Was placed in the centre Of
the execution room, IN it was stretched
the body and in less time than il takes to
tell 1t the doctors were at work With seal
pei and saw.
Dr. Irvine, the prison physician super.
intended the autopsy. the actual work Of
which WAS performed by DR.. ls,E.sheehan
Of Sing Sing, DR.. b L. Merritt Of E!mlra,
\. y, and Or. Pryne Of Nonkers,
Warden Durston early in he day decided
that the autopsy should be viewed by any
one desiring 10 see il; consequently at least
30persOns stood around the disSecting table
when the operating physicians commenced
their CHASTITY work.
DR.. Merritt handled the knife dissccting
the body of the subject. DLs SheChan and
Pryne removed the brain.
NOTHING REMARKABLE.
It cannot be recorded that the autopsy
in this remarkable case was fraught with
any incident Of unusual interest As Il
matter of tact neither in attendant Incl
dents nor results did the autopsy depart
from commonplace lines Briefly outlined
and freed from scientific detail, the result
| OF il all was u unanimous report from the
! operating physicians that Harris on the
morning of his death was in fairly good
| physical condition with reasonably strong
| lungs and souEd heart. rhc brain was
| unusually large. When removed from
! the Skull il showed the fatal work Of the
! electric current.
Carlyle Harris il life had but one pliysi-
| cal defect, namely, an abnormal disparity
| in the size Of the right and left kindey, the
\ former being of only one,third normal de-
/ veioPinent This indicates disease the
4 nature Of which, however, can only be de-
! terlnined by microscopic Inspection.
As Harris body lay upon the dlssccting
table, before scalpel and saw had com
| inencel the work Of Disagreement, il
showed few external marks Of the electric
current, under which life had gone ont
/ like the snuff of a candle. There was n
slight ligzag scar on the inner calf Of the
right leg, a hardly discerniblG bruisc OH
| the inner side Of the right knee and 4
black and blue mark, not largcrin circum,
ference lhan tNe.cent piece, on the fore
head over the right eye. Externally that
was all the injury done By the Gurrent.
LITTLE pisFrauREMENr
A casual observer CHANGING at the body
would have seen in it only tile corpse ri d
| slim Young man. with features stGruly sci
in death The slight disbursement
wrought by the electricity would not have
been noticed
The autopsy was not finished until 20
O'Clock, al which hour the operating ply
sicians handed tile mutilated body over /,
a convict helper, who did what he cOulC
to etfaCe the marks uf scientific butchery
llr. Irvine makes the following brie
official report Of the autopsy "ENter
nAltN the body appears to be fairly wei
nOurished Its weight is about 49, pounds
slight marks OH inner calf OF right leg
also slight brlii3e on tuner side of RICH
knee; the right lang shows a slight adj
hesion to the upper part Of left lung tn,
left lung is collapsed; the heart is nearl,
normal, containing pcricardtal fluid il
slight volume the brain is large, contain
ing M excessive amount Of arachnoi,
fluid; there are no adhesions liver an,
spleen normal; right kidney only one
third normal size; left kidney normal"
cfGARETTEs LEFT 80 MARX.
Or, G. NJ Daniels Of Buffalo, was pres
ent during part Of the autopsy Know
ing Harris to have been an excessive cigar
cite smoker, he made a special investiga
ton of the lungs, expecting to find then
sadly demorali2ed. On the contrary. how
ever, they we're found to be in excelleu
condition.
The most interesting thing developed b.
the autopsy was the unusual size of Harri,
brain. Unfortunately it could not
weighed at the time, owing to the fact tina
set Of scales or weighing device Of an
kind could not be found in the prison.