The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1893-12-14
CHEMICAL EXPERTS DAY.
POISON MJ0Hr MARE BEEN PUT IN
BRdSD1'S BODY SETER DEATH

ptoc Dorsnu- shows the Jury which IL
Trying Dr. Meyer How Co rerforw an
Annirsis-Six Grains OF Antimony aud
Two or Three or Arrebie Were Fonnd.
Yesterday was tho experts day in the Meyer
murder trial The big guns Of the army OF
medical experts gathered early. tho lawyers
came loaded. not with legal tones. but with
volumes on pathology and chemistry. The
| crowd which had fought through the various
barriers and entered the court room secured
eeats, for which they also fought. Justice
Barrett assembled tho bench exactly on time.
as he always docs. and the court was called to
order.
Then the tall scholatly form OF Pro-, Dore-
mus was developed from Il long coat. and that
famous chemical exert took the witness stand
and proceeded to ouen the battle which prom
ises to be the most famous OF any In which the
witness has engaged. Mr.. Ncoll first for tho
edincatlon OF the jury. led the Professor
through tho story Of his studies and practice
and experience which have specially equipped
him to make chemical analysis and to tell q
jury all about 1t. Having thus established his
chief expert presumably we'll up in the cstima-
tion OF the jury, Mr. Nicoll casually asked, az IL
he were recalling something he had previously
overlooked:
Did you examine the organs taken from the
body Of Joseph Baum2"
Hold on. object" interrupted Mr.. Brooke.
who can listen and seemingly doze at the same
time. That Is assuming that the witness
knows something which he cannot know"
Mr.. Nlcoll looked grieved at MIR. Brooke. but
ohigingly changed the form of his question.
30 that the witness could say that he examined
the organs from body said to he that OF
Joseph Baum.
This nice little point being adjusted to every
ones satisfaction. Prof Doremus was permit
ted to tell tho story Of the autopsy and the
analysis. After he had been ten minutes on the
stand he began what was practically a lecture
on tho methods employed in ascertaining the
presence Of poison In organic matter. and
which continued without interruption for
u ore than an hour.
The witness spoke In the slow dldactc man
ner Of classroom lecturer but the resem-
bance to tho class room did not extend be-
yond the witness stand. Jury. counsel. and
SPECTATORS showed that they were listening to
a story upon which human life largely de-
pended. Prof Doremus told OF the great care
taken in the removal and preservation OF the
organs taken from Granis body at the au
apparent Indifference. and sat leaning for
ward. his attention held by a ghastly
scription OF his experiments. The witness
proceeded to describe in elaborate detail every
reached this clinax: And in this Instance an
immediate precipltato was noticeable indica-
From that point the witnoss won't on to his
second climax which was AN account OF tests
able uusntit les of substances lie believed to lie
anthony and arsenic. Then he described tho
tests made to determine that these substances
were not any Other mineral and the specific
tests to determine thnt they were antimony
had been aided by Tro', Chittcnden OF Yale,
who had independently found anthony and
arsenic, Mr.. Nicoll here resumed his aues-
S,NSw postSr did you extract " any .n,ImO1y and
sWrsessd anttmony in Hsshnols SaaRttt,e. from
every organ We examined, and ss:sh'e IN VEGETABLE
Q."snd wGat is ne total wsgiI Of the two mineral
gram, Of sutulony and between two and three grsns
Q-navo you those substances N fOrms,OshOw to til.
Prot Doremus opened a leather case. the
suit case. and disclosed a number OF glass test
tubes and porcelain CAPSULES. The tubes and
was propped up on the table in front o; the
Jury. So that it's contents were displayed and
son. The jurymen craned forward Tor better
views. niessrs. Nicoll and Mclntyre hung over
ChSner were rec close Watchers at the other emu
and DIR. OSullivan stood close BY the side OF
the witness as he explained his demonstra-
This group remained In that position mo-
tion!eSs Tor neariy An hour, while the witness
talked in terms which could by no possibility |
convey any meaning to any one but u graduate |
in physiological chemistry had not the terms |
Leen explained, In some degree. by the illus
When the witness was again seated he said |
liver and volunteered the cheerful Informal
tion that he had never failed to, ind copper in
any liver he had ever examined,
The direct examination OF Prof, Doremus
was finished at 40 o'clock, and then Pr. |
had progressed only little way before lie had |
Involved the witness II "a discussion Of the
animal In this and ,'usttrR barrett -.-
minded Dr.. USullNan that tho witness had |
gnaIiilrd as a chemical expert. not pathol2- |
gist. TINS started the examiner OH ON u train |
OF pure chemistry.
I'm .siminnE for oIsanle ;ubsianc.s ron found
Q.-what' A.-PtomAnss
Have YOU any Of lhem' Ayes; some Of them |
Q-Do You recall lie names Of any OF the ptomAine.
you isolatedf A.-sO. not Iust now
Mr., o'Sullivan next began line OF questions |
body .strayed"" there BY imh i6ition.or a5sorp- !
clusion OF Orflla, quoted by Prot Witthaus, in |
an n, article on the host; Il, Imh,btiGn OF
ceiyed his approval:
wretch might Win ineT. 10 AseU.s an innocent
dlcs poisonous solution into dgsstNe canal Of
sseATsr Which Mould then psn.tTa.1 oE im6'h'ou 10
trAtrd BY the experts ~ho would 10 led to believe
Witness. said he agreed with this conclusion.
Then" said Mr.. O'SulliyAn. impressiyeiy
can You swear positively that the arsenic you
found In those organs was there before death Z"
cannot, replied the witness.
The cross exam nation was concluded at
4:3o O'Clock. the witness having been ON the
stand lye hours. ami the net result of his tes-
tmony being the fact that ha had found
arsenic aud artimony in certain human Or
gans.
The next witness was Russell II. Chittenden
Professor OF physiological Chemistry In lalr
His testimony was that he had fnRle n cheml-
cal analysis of tho kidneys and found therein
Hntmony ard arsenic. lie. too would not
swear that the poisons he found might not
have been introduced into the body or all
surbed by II after deatu
Then Prof George +. Peabody qualified "a a
Iath9logls', long hypothetical question |
which was statement Of the ease OF the
prosecution as concerns the physical con. !
ditiOns ~ Ludwig Brandt during his illness
and - his b"dV AFTER death, was read To him
and he was ASKED what. in his opinion, had |
been the rause oi death. His opinion was that
death had been caused b. tho Two poisous
found by the chemist.
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