The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-04-18
STUDIES IN T%oxICoLoGY.
DIR woJHF ASNIHIIATEs TIE PEo-
PIES EXPERTS.

He Doesn't Think Dr. Loorts Knows now
TO Perform an A~utopsy-ProG vsuebn
Tells How Lueretia Borris Made Poisors.
The defendant in the Buchanan murder trial
fs In Recorder Smyth's court every day be-
cause the law requires his presence. Other.
wise he might as we'll be left in tho Tombs. or
taken out to the Park for an airing. No one
thinks OF him. speaks OF him. notices him. and
few sec him. He is q little. Neutrality-suspicious.
Ing person. and was conspicuous in the fret
days OF the trial only because he occupied q
conspicuous seat between his counsel at thpir
table. Now he has been showed back into the
third tier OF those who sit at the table and to
one end OF the row. where he sits, watched
only by the officer from the Tombs.
Mr.. O'Sullivan. for the defence. concluded
yesterday his direct examination OF DR.. Wolff
Of Hartford. q specialist In toxicology. and MIR.
Wsllman cross-sxamined the witness. A be-
ginning was also made with the direct exami-
nation Of the second witness for the defence.
Prot. Vaughn. who promises to be the most
interesting witness OF the case.
Mr.. Woln had very positive opinions. He
disapproved all the methods OF oil the medical
witnesses for the people. and disagreed with
all their conclusions. 1t 10 possible that the
Impression he made upon the jury might have
been better II he had admitted. even by chance.
that tho best known specialists in New York.
who have been associated for years with the
greatest hospitals In AM rlca know anything
about the sciences In which New York has
named them leaders. But he did not: Drs.
Witthaus. Doremus. LOOMS. Robinson. were
all condemned as ignorant, INEXPERIENCED. or
old-fashioned.
The conclusions they drew we're not war
rsnted by the reports OF their Investigations.
and he was ready with fifty reasons to show
that Mrs. Buchanan might have died from any
Of nifty causes. but could not possibly have
died from narcotic poisoning. DR.. Loomis.
pathological OF Bellevue. who has performed
1000 autopsiss. who sat by Mr.. Wellnan's
side. seemed to want to smile more than he
did whom the young man from Hartford OK
planned to the jury that DR.. LOOMS did not
know how to begin to perform an autopsy.
Mr.. wellman Axsd his best baby stare in posi-
tion. and led the witness to condemn the
opinions and conclusions Of not only medical
exports for the people. but Of some Of the
medical authorities introduced by the defence.
and the witness took all OF the long rope which
In his direct examination be was told to, cut
nm the brain which expert;, for the people had
Of a brain" The witness produced u scalrel
from a case Of instrume nts. aud sliced the brain.
tion. Then Mr. O'suilivan told him to ex-
In the cross.eIamination Mr.. Wellman sud
denly lifted 2 piece OF brown pape. on his desk
him II he Knew what it was. II was q fresh
Now. compared to that. is not that prepared
81 oFa,n BRAIN TeR,y y" p asked Gus ~. TWssllmmssIne. ef n. Wite
ness thought not. and after holding tho plate
iTieeytd Of it. Dr.. LOOMS stopped forward and
tGok t q nlate with the air OF a man taking
The next witness wR Prot. Victor Clarence
ETspghn Of i the S,. %HsfdiS1 dspaFtmsnt ." ,r the
made a special stuLy Q, the products OF putre,
kinds II ptomaines. which is the name given
to various products. OF animal, putrofaction
which can be isolated from the tissues Of the
Prof. Vaughn is a serious. dicniGsd man., and
with positive convictions but no ,pre,udicos.
He will. II. permitted. make chemical expert
%sn.s es.or wh ihe he bsFf has to i Gs% a f1om s tRs
human body viii give reaction: identical with
tho thos sa G'se she sn i%"T eeonai.i ans a'r0''ne under
Prof: Vaughn showed to tho jury a cnse ri
81 s%. .,n bottles co ssS a do q hiasre s9s kind7
k a.1sG GO, ,s9 Is. H. i9tsFss5,d every one , a, he
te ! lseslr ret as n'i Mr. GiF o'su iifistn,ndn id not s% %%ns.aiSa
him, and he made use OF many illustrations.
. You have all read" he enid. "of the poison
ing n.sd dG bas P EsI ape ssIl.a B s5 : ro T h pO'' Il x shs
once to have been a solution Of
arsenic. 1t was. in fact. a. product produced
by planting arsenic In the tissues OF a putrety-
fg. and the LIQUID produced thereafter by
the progress OF putrsfaction was the poison
used. A similar poison can be isolated
from n human BODY. one OF the ptomaines pro-
duced after death"
The witness had. only fairly begun his test,-
mony when Adjournment was taken.
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