San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-11

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Inspector Briggs tapped him on the shout
der.
81 have no memory of meeting any
one whom / recognized. Twas too much
wrapped up in my own thoughts to trou-
BILE about the few people I did chance to
meet.
"You were in Felspar road about
O'Clock. How do you fix the timer"
81 remember lookig at MY watch
under the gas lamp which stands outside
49,"
Ibid you remaiS rtanding under the
gas lamp long?"
"Only few moments.
Gould you say if the windows were
all closed in front at the time you stood
there?'
81 should say they were glanced
at the house 1t would have struck me
with surprise and alarm if had noticed
an open window The light from the
lamp throws strong glare on the
house. :"
"You saw nobody in the neighborhood
Of Mrs Davorn's house at l o'clock in
the morning."
mo My memory is that the road
was then perfectly quiet and deserted. "
what, in your opinion, DR.. Leclerc,
would be the effects of chloroform adj
ministered to sleeping person."
The question startled every one in the
hcourt who had been following the in
quA-y attentively. 1t brought them back
quickly to the most interesting point
the discovery as to what had happened
to cause Mrs. Davorn's death.
"The effects won, ssayse4sderasly.
Much would depend on the oond n,>f
the person to whom the chlorof0
administered and much to his
general temperament
"At all events a sponge 81, Ated
with chloroform administered tai sleep
ing person would produce complete in
sensibility?"
If the treatment was persisted in for
a sufficiently lengthy period--yes.
"And might cause death?"
Possibly. Either cardiac syncope or
apnea might be produced The first
symptoms, however, would be complete
insensibility.
"And, repeat death might be the
result?"
YES +"
"Will you tell the jury what, in your
opinion, would be, generally speaking,
the symptoms and effects of chloroform
inhalation by sleeping person?"
1.-THE first symptom, as l have said,
would be complete insensibility. The
person to whom the drug was being adj
ministered might struggle in his sleep
or might awake and struggle In the be-
ginning inhalation of chloroform pro-
duces a sense of mental intoxication,
consciousness in the case of person
awake and in his ordinary senses re-
naming
but the probability is that if a
sponge saturated with chloroform was
employed a sleeping person would never
awaken"
The probability is quite the other
way. 1 have frequently chloroformed
patients-though perhaps not in such q
rough and ready way as by means of q
saturated sponge-and I have never but
once had an accident The exception
was an elderly man who was chloro-
formed at his own request for AN opera
ton. He died of apnea.
would you consider Mrs. Davorn an
elderly woman?"
"No."
"You did not examine the deceased
after death?"
mo. / understood Dr. Percival had
pronounced life to be extinct some time
before had reached the house"
THAT is all have to ask you.
81 beg your pardon" said one of the
jurymen as DIR. Leclerc, feeling faint
and sick at heart, was about to retire
How long would person-the de-
ceased lady, for instance-left to herself
after she was chloroformed thoroughly
how long would she take to regain
sensibihty?"
1t would depend largely ON the con-
dition of the person, ON her general
health, on her temperament. 1t would
be impossible to give any fixed rule. "
Ten minutes or a quarter of an hour
might elapse?" said the juryman, feel
ing secretly proud of his medical knowl-
edge.
''It might.
"Thank you, doctor
As Leclerc retired, With the intention
of seeking out his sweetheart, Inspector
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/ To be ContinuedNesN Sunday.
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