The evening world., 1894-05-08
BY ANALYSIS ALONE.
How the Poison in Brandt's Body
Was Discovered.
Decomposition Too Far Advanced
for Pathology to Be Of Use.
Nothing Learned OF Witness Burke,
DIR. Meyers Old "Pard."

Witness Frank BURKE. whose courage
gave out at the last minute, and who
ran away rather thar appear as n
witness against his old partner. DIR.
Meyer, and tell his connection with the
early stages OF the astounding conspi-
racy ito make money fast" by insuring
the lives OF people and poisoning them
to death. had not been found by the
detectives when the trial of Or. Meyer
was resumed this morning before Re.
Cordcr SInyth. IN Fart ii. of the Court
OF General Sessions.
The day began with DR.. OHare. the
Coroner's physician, who made the au-
topsy on Brandt'S body hfty-ire days
after death, in the witness chair Tor
cross-eSatnination.
DR.. O'Sul.ivan tried to show by the
witness that he fnund the body OF
Brandt in such a state OF decomposition
thatit Mas not only impossible for pathol-
dead man in life. as to the health OF the
various parts OF his v%iscera, but that
the body was SO much deconposed as to
make IT impossible that the %riscera was
in a condition In which the chemists
could learn anything by analysis.
pr. O'ilare. described a very much
emsciated and badly decomposed body
40 much |dccomposed hat II Was value
less for the purposes of pathology. rh"
brain was almost fluid: the intestines
We're so bad that II was impossible to
determine. anything about them, ana
the organs were in "A very bad state
of preservation
Portions OF the organs and muscular
tissue. when taken from the body July
glass Jars oy Prof. Doremu;. the Jars
sealed and taken to Carnegie Labora-
tory in East Twenty-sixth street. for
DR.. David ii. McAlpin, who Ia con
nected with the Carnegie Laboratory as
Professor OF. Pathological Anatomy
dealing with the gross and microscopic
condition OF the organs OF the human
body. came next to the witness stand.
DR.. McAlpin said that he and Prof.
Doremus began the microscopical exam
%T !nn.,'n we4 1ni Sec i2i %..h hut ,n 1naes''a ani
Il careful examination under the micro
scope failed to find any alterations OF
the kind invariably found where The
Minden certified as the cause OF the
death Of his patient, Baum. alias
Brandt.
This result, DIR. McAlpin admitted,
badly ~deComposhd; the results In exam
lining the spleen were also negative; the
liver seemed to be normal. Indicating nc
cirrhosis of the liver; the heart, when
resting on the table, hattened out, a
condition that indicated acute disease,
with high temperature; the kidn"ys
were fairly normal. the capsules, how.
ever, adhcring; there were no LESSONS:
In c"rosS-eXamining DIR. McAlpin. Dr
O'Sullivan sought 10 obtain admissions
that the various conditions OF the heart
liver. kidneys, spleen, intestines Hnt
other organs were such as were com
monty found whore the subject had suf
fered with malaria, typhoid fever q
roubles such as certified to by DIR. Min
den as the cause OF death in Brandt
Baum's case. He was indinerently sue
cessful. 49,.
DR.. McAlpin did admit that Brandt
liver was so far decomposed that II wa
useless to examine 1t microscopicilly 70
anything but tumor. abscess and cirrhosi'
whereas there were more than invent
diseases affecting the liver, The organ
would be softened and made fabby in
case OF death by acute infectious dise1s
like typhus or typhoid fever or dysen
terry.
confined after ecess. After much purel
technical testimony Dr. O'Sullivai
asked:
tract any evidence Of accute arsenicu
%poison?'
WHAT"
"A considerable quantity Of mucous
This IL the first time YOU have mad
that statement, Is II not!'
IF the man had died OF dysenter,
what would YOU have found
Much mucous
"Just as you found in this case"
YES"
WAS there any characteristic lesio,
OF aFStHlCal poison III lNlS 'tSt
After considerable lodging DIR. Nc
A!inNipo answered;
Dr. O'Sullivnn read from Taylor
Medical Jurisprudence the Charncto
l OF a%rsenical poison. and then asked:
"Do you infer that this was n case o
arsenical poison"
The witness hitched around %nervousl
in his hair before he answered:
1T was impossible to draw such a
. Inference
{ Tina satisfied the blonde interrogation
I PROT. Ogden Doremus. the chemist. 70
} lowed pr. McAlpin on the tand.
He first told how many medical soc
cites no belonged to and how many pc
1 soning cases he had testified In as an eN
pert.
Prof. Doremus then told how he a
. fCiatei at the autopsy On Rranlt's bod
at Kip's undertaking establishment, l.
I pacing the different organs in the pc
fcctly Glen Jars and sealing them up.
l The witness repeat"i his. tcStimon
D given at the previous trial. Nearl
four grains OF arsenic and over Il
grains of antimony we're found. Pro
Doremus said, as Il result Of the analS
sis o fthe organs.
Then Prof DOr"mus brought out HI
walnut case containing. in little glas
tubes, tn" results of his tests f.
arsenic and anthony, and gave n
jury a very intsrosting lecture in cher
!stry.