Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1893-09-20

and as he was coming away he met Wolff |
In front of Hauf brothers CONNECTION |
cry store. While he was talking |
With him q young lady and gen
tleman went by to whom Wolff bowed.
The young woman had on dark Elton
suit with white waist and sailor hat
He noticed that the girl was very pale and
hung back considerably. I asked Wolff
who they were. He said the fellow was
Cash but he didn't know the girl. He
watched them as far up "a F. N. Browns.
Witness when cross-examinsd by Attor-
ney Fox testified that he thought that the
girl acted peculiarly. DR.. Written, came
| to the place where he was employed the
following Saturday morning, and in talk
| ing the case over with him, he (Goldbaum)
remarked that he had seen the girl that
night. Cash did not assist the girl when
he saw her except in going over the curb.
Frank 8. Cameron Of 800 Orchard street,
| q clerk in the New York, New Haven and
Hartford railroad Offices testified that he
had known Wolff and Ruth for Eve years,
| and while walking down Chapel street on
/ the night In question in company with
| Farnam, he saw Wolff and Ruth on the
corner Of Church and Chapel streets about
$50 or 9:45.
| THE PILLS IDENTIFIED.
| Medical Examiner White was then
| called. He was asked If Mr.. Fox gave him
| a box of pills. mo-" answered DR.. White.
| When asked If Sergeant cowles gave them
to him, he acknowledged that he had re-
ceived from Sergeant Oowles box con-
tanning six capsules. He did not take out
any of them to keep. The pills he had
exhibited were the same pills, so far as he
knew. .
MICROSCOPIC EXPERT WOLFF TEsTIFIKs.
| DR.. Arthur j. Wolff, the medical and
microscopic expert of Hartford, was then
sworn. He said he was thirty-nine years
of age and had been q surgeon eighteen
years. he had studied medicine under his
father, later graduated at the Texas Med
ical college and hospital and afterward at
Bellevue hospital at New York. He was
| surgeon in the United States army on the
Rio Grande, afterward practiced in New
York, and has been located at Hartford for
| the past eleven years. he said that he had
scope for the past twenty-five years and
had been employed fifteen or twenty times
in the last eleven years for investigation in
criminal cases. He mentioned the Taylor
case at Hartford, the Daily and Trip cases
at Willimantic, the Kensington raps cages,
the Buchanan case in New York and the
Sham case recently in New Jersey. He
has a very complete apparatus for carrying
on such investigation and considered him
self skilled therefor. Attorney Case then
said:
| "Did you ever see Exhibit M beforsa'
| Clerk Pratt produced small package of
| portion of the unfortunate girls under
clothing.
Eyes, Sir" answered Dr.. Wolff 49,
"Was it placed in your hands for exam
ination; and If so tell us what results you
have obtainedf'
DR.. Wolff then said: "It was placed in
my hands on Wednesday for examination.
took it to my Office and from that time
until last night have been making the ex-
aminations. I find small greenish spots
from which lighter stains have spread
themselves in the fabric, showing that
whatever 1t was made the stain was fluid.
I made several scrapings of cotton fbres
from the stains with my scapula, and after
preserving In solution of sodium made
glass slides on which portions of the
stain were mounted. Under the microscope
} 1t was revealed that there was in the stain
focal matter, tissues from the interior of
the uterus and vagina, besides other fbrss
of undigested vegetable matter and blood
corpuscles, Some of the slides were pho
: tographed through especially prepared
lenses and on especially prepared plates, SO
that the slides are magni6ed about 1853
; diameters. Here are the negatives OBJ
tanned and the prints made from them.
Print No. shows oil globules of green
3 ish hue not unlike some of the essential
oils. No. shows portion Of undgested
9 vegetable matter, with blood corpuseles
and cotton fibres. No. shows some starch
with tissues from the interior of the vagina.
l The vegetable matter found to be a leek
and corresponds to the tansy, pennyroyal
or some of that class of plants
"By far the most important part of my
discovery, however, was certain tufts OF
small portions Of the afterbirth, through
which the mother gives nourishment t.
b the child before BIRTH. They were under
going disintegration and decomposition a
l the time they were deposited on the un
derclothing. This conclusion proves tina
r there was an abortion going on at the time
By examining further and making tn,
proper cultures it will be possible to throw
). much light on this matter"
:. Attorney Case then aeked If the BLOOD
could have come from any other part O.
t the body. DR.. Wolff said that. taken ii
:. | connection with what else he found, Their,
l.. | was no doubt whence 1t came.
o "What substance did you find the mos
o OFF, asked Attorney Case.
J. "The facial matter prsdominased, ani
: az 1t exists on the undertaking it indi
o oates that when it was deposited it was i,
, l w Ii
: had a diarrhoa, which had APPARENT,
4 been running for several days. The solid
' matter is deposited in the center of tn,
+ stain and contains green leaves resembling
the tansy leek. Tansy is used as an sbor
9 tive. It is prepared simply with boilin,
9 hot water, like tea A large amount O
Q this yellowish oil had apparently pssset
through the stomach and irritated tn
! bowels, which goes to show that she hat
o taken large amount of the herb. TIL,
9 oil resembles the essential OIL
"What do you mean by the essentia
K oils, doctori' said Attorney Case.
t "Those which have an odor, or from
which essence is made" answered Dr.
y Wolf.
9 "But you considered the tufts the mos
d important discovery you made" said MI
o Case.
eyes," answered DR.. Wolff. 9Th
: placentsl tufts and cells from the interio
It of the vagina were undergoing disintegrs
Q ton or destruction. The cells on the out
I side of the tufts have the characteristics o
the plscenta and the tuft itself is character
n istio of the placsnta."
y els 1t your positive opinion that whe,
q they were discharged an abortion wa
d going on" asked Mr.. Case.
|: eyes," answered Dr. Wolff
"Will you please explain your reasons t.
% us little more In detafll'
: "Well," said DR.. Wolff, "ths fosus wa
g dead In the uterus and was undergone
u disintegration. Therefore the abortion
must have been going on for several days
% The vitality of the ovum, or egg, had beel
10 destroyed for some days.
g "Nature, as Is her custom, had tried t
3 separate herself from the dead mass ant
Is so she had softened 1t down by maceration
:. These tufts had also broken loose and bsel
,. discharged. They emitted a foul odo,
j. ! which also goes to show they had bee
# dead several days, as the animal decompo
"a sition was exceedingly noticeable. Hal
10 the abortion proceeded successfully tn
dead mass would finally have been entirel
d expelled by nature by the contraction O
II the generative organs. 1t is very ofte,
n necessary to use instruments in sue
n cases."
d DR.. Wolff has been in attendance at tn
It trial since It's opening, at the request Q
n Attorney Case.
d After some little debate Attorney Fo
10 decided to postpone his CROSS examination
y and the court adjourned until 1890 o'cloc
this morning.
10 THE DKFENsE A STRONG ONE.
!, The defense has been relying in grea
!; measure on this expert medical testimony
10 and they are generally conceded to hav
/ strengthened their case. It is manifesto
proven that Cash bought pills for the gi,
g. before she ever came to New Haven, an
DR.. VOLTS testimony tended to show we