The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-06-13

did not think 1t was safe to venture an
opinion as 10 how long blood had
been exposed TO the action OF the atmos-
phere after it had been out OF the body
for fifteen minutes.
FIXING THE TINE.
The reliability of taxing the food found
10 the stomachs of the victims. the
extent of which digestion had progressed,
WIS gone into by Mr.. Adams. DT. Dolan
said ne did not know much about the
stomach except in a general sort OF way,
but when he based his estimate of the
time that had elapsed between the muir
ders he did SO on the contents of the stoIn-
ach and intestines ana the temperature
of the bodies.
He admitted to MIR. Adams that the
time that had passed between the MUIR
ders was matter of speculation.
When District Attorney Knowlton took
the witness in hand he wanted the doctor
to explain how much the wounds in The
heads differed from each other, aud il the
cuts 1-2 inches long could have been
made by q hatchet with 3 pinch blade.
The doctor said that such might easily
be the case. Ii all the blade did not en-
ter the head, it would made cut shorter
than the length of the hatchet, aud that
IL the blows were struck IN vertical di-
rection the cut would be larger than the
blade.
Squirting BLOOD.
The spot of blood on the wall OF the
guest chamber could not have gone in
direct line from Borden's body; the cor
ner of the dressing case would have Inter-
fered with it, The eighty six spots on
the wall behind the sofa came from
spurts from the body; they were of differ
ent sizes. The spots on the dressing case,
on the bottom. below the drawers, were
larger than those on the wall below. and
were spatters. not spurts.
Re cross examination-"Can you fix
the time when the spots were removed
from the parlor door,"
II cannot"
s'You don't think anybody intention
ally removed them to prevent 1nvestiga-
tion?"
Il don't know"
In regard to the cutting, an injury
made will not disclose correctly the ex-
act dime nsions of the weapon which
long may be IN ade by an instrument as
large, and much smaller cut may be
made by u same sized instrument. When
l saw Mr.. Borden first the blow through
the eye had pene trated through beyond
the cushion clean and portion of the
bone had been chopped out Indigestion
is not always apparent In the intestines."
CHEMICAL ANALYSIS.
EdwardS S. Wood, Professor of Chem
istry in the Harvard Medical School, tes-
titied:-, My medical education was as a
physician and surgeon. l have given
special attention to medical chemistry, or
physiological chemistry. have been
been called upon as TO that branch In the
trial of cases several hundred times. My
attention was first called to the matter
on the 5th of August. when I raceIved a
box in which were four preserve jars,
one of which was labelled milk of Au-
gust 8, another. milk OF the
4th, third. the stomach of
A. B. Borden, the fourth. the
them were intact when got them. Mrs
Borden's stomach was removed; it W as
natural and had been surgically opene d;
opened it and removed the contents and
thoroughly examined them.
There was no evidence of the sction Of
any irritant whatever. There were
about eleven ounces of food and small
quantity of water; partially digested
starch was there; also large quantity OF
partially digesred meat and oil; some of
the pieces of meat were quite large and
their nature were readily determined. In
addition there was number OF indica-
tf0ts OF vegetables. SO far as could be
determined by the appearance of the
food, ir was undergoing the natural
process of digestion.
"The stomach OF Mr.. Borden / exam
fned in precisely the same way. and there
was no evidence of any diseased condi-
Jion; there was but a small guam
tity OF solid fooi. there. however.
but what there was was of the same
kind as was found in the stomach of Mrs.
Borden. The total quantity was about
six ounces. The digestion here was much
further advanced. the stomach digestion
being almost completed. That stomach
had not Eeen open surgically.
NO POISON.
"Both were Immediately tested for
prussic acid, with negative result.
Afterwards they were anaIyzed in the
regular way for other poisonous sub
stances with negative result. There
was nothing abnormal or irregular in
In the condition of the stomacns. Assum-
ing that they both ate at the same time
and of the same kind of food,
the difference in the time of death
from the condition OF the stomachs,
would be about one and ons-half hours;
digestion stops at death. I have heard
ali the evidence thus far, and, taking all
these facts and the examination l made
myself the more important data to show
the time of death are the condition of
the blood and the condition of the food