St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-12-14
ARSENIC AND ANTHONY.
BOTH FOUND IN BAUM. THE MSGR-
AAcE VICTIM
NEW YORK DOCTORS TALK.

interesting Testimony in the Mey.
er Murder Trial Professors
Doremus, of Bellevue, Chitten-
den, of Yale. and Peabody, of
New York City, Tell About the
Deadly Poisons.
NEW YORK, Dec. 13. - When the
Meyer murder trial was consumed to-
day. G. A. Doremus, professor of
chemistry at Bellevue medical college,
told of having examined the vital organs
OF Brandt's body for poisons. He
found, he said. both arsenic and anti
mony in the stomach. there being five
grains of the latter and small quantity
OF the former. DR.. Doremus said, re.
ferring to the discovery of copper in the
liver:
II have never yet examined liver in
which did not find 1t. 1t is always
there and seems to get through our
food. The analysis showed that the
greater portion of the arsenic was in
the intestines," the witness went
on. Il examined portions of the
muscles about the limbs, and
knew how much arsenic there was
there. The body had been lying prone
for three months, and there must have
been more arsenic III the muscles OF the
back than Iii the limbs. l did not ex-
anime the muscles of the back.''
The defense tried to have excluded
the testimony as to arsenic, but were
overruled.
Russell Fl. Chittenden, professor of
physiological chemistry at Yale, testl-
fed that he had appeared as an expert in
numerous cases since 1875, among them
the Jennie Cramer case. He made an
examination of the kidneys taken from
Baum. He described to the jury
how the examination was made.
and how tests are made. in cases
of death by poison. Concerning the
same ground covered by Prof. DUremuS,
The professor had not gone far. he said,
when he discovered traces of arsenic
and antimony. III making tests he
had eliminated all possible doubt and
resorted only TO certain and ln-
fallible methods to arrive at results.
The witness and Prof. Doremus made
an examination of the heart of Baum on
Oct. l3. and found therein 2 $40 milli-
grammes of anthony and $40 milli-
grammeS of arsenic. In the opinion of
Prof. Chittenden. it would have been al
most Impossible to have administered
antimony or arsenic after death for
the reason that these poiSons as found
in the organs OF the man Baum, were
settled and masSed, not distributed as
they would have been had The poison
been injected after death. The witness
did not think it possible for arsenic to
enter dead man and lodge in the diff
ferent organs without leaving some eX-
ternal signs.
Prof. George l.. Peabody, of 81 West
Thlrty-elghth street, New York city,
was asked to define the words "Materia
medical and Therapeutics" and he
having done so. the district attorney
read a detailed account of the illness
and death of Baum, and asked the
witness to assume the details as facts,
and give his opinion.
Mr.. Brooke objected. The court ruled
that certain parts of the statement be
stricken out. The question, in a modi-
fed form, was next put TO the wit
ness, and he SAID that he believed
that the death of the man Baum
had been caused by the poisons found
in mis- organs; that the symptoms dis
played during the mans illness were
such as would be caused by mineral
poisoning.
MIR. Nicoll was about to fire off some
hypothetical questions, when Judge
Barrett ordered all adjournment until l
O'Clock tomorrow.