The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-09-10
Does Not Think Mrs. Hinshaw Could
ceiving the Bullet I'm Her Head.
SILENT EVIDENCE TAKEN
MRS. HIysHAw's NIGHT ROBE Ex-
HIBITED TO THE JURY.
DIR. A. VI. Strong Overcome on the
Stand and Cries-Thought of the
Tragedy Too Much for Him.
special to the indianapolis Journal.


| tfon in the Hinshaw murder trial has care
fully mapped out its case and intends to
bring out it's evidence in every detail and
thoroughly no matter how long it may
| take to present its side TO the jury. The
| attorneys for the State think it will take
about ten days at least to examine their
witnesses. 1t is an open secret that the
prosecution does not expect to obtain a
verdict with capital punishment. DR.. w. b.
Fletcher, of Indianapolis. was on the stand
all morning as an expert on cerebral locali-
zation. BY him the State sought to show
that ii would have been impossible for
Mrs. Hinshaw to have moved or to have
talked after she was shot, as her hus-
band alleges. The physician was a good
witness, although Mr.. Smith. of the de-
fense succeeded In showing on cross-ex-
animation that cerebral localization was by
no means dogma in the medical profess
sion. In the afternoon the principal wit
nesses were Mr.. and Mrs. Elisha Marker,
neighbors of the minister On trial for his
life. They were evidently friends of the
defendant. but gave their stories in a
straightforward manner, making no res
ervations.
There were gruesome evidences in front
of the jury In both morning and afternoon
brain around which the flies hoyered
resting on a table directly in front of
the twelve merF all morning. This brain
was that of Nathan Donahue, the insane
man who was killed by Richards. fellow
patient at the Central Hospital for the
Insane, last week. DIR. Fletcher used it to
illustrate effectively the various parts of
the brain. Occasionally he would run a
lead pencil through it and at one time
bod 70. bon he
matter more gingerly as the attorney had
fears of the strength of his own stomach.
AT another time the night robe which
Mrs. Hinshaw wore the last time she was
alive and the pillow on which she rested
her head, with the gunpowder stains still
In sight, were exhibited. A feature OF the
evidence was that of Mrs. Markell, who told
how the body of the poor woman had rested
on the bed on which she died. Mrs. Marker
herself had taken the pillow out into the
dining room Of the ill-fated home, ready to
receive the head of the unfortunate womS
an, as she was brougst into the house in a
dying condition. There were no blood stains
on the pillow when Mrs. Marker got it from
the sleeping apartment, where the fray first
began, yet there were bloody clots on this
pillow as it was submitted to the jury. 1nis
blood dripped on to the pillow after Mrs.
Hinshaw was carried into the house by her
kind neighbors.
A bit of evidence on which the defense
will probably lay stress is the remark made
by Miss Worrell to Mrs. Marker when the
latter rushed to the front door to see from
whence came the cries of murder on the
night of the tragedy. Miss Worrell ex-
claimed: "Just listen to those awful oaths;
there must be fight" The defendant
who had been downcast most Of the day,
frightened up perceptibly when this state
ment OF Miss worreN was repeated.
Discrepancies were shown in the state
ments made by Hinshaw after the murder.
DR.. A. NJ. Strong, who called at the house
Immediately after the tragedy. was the last
witness on the stand during the day, and
he became somewhat embarrassed in telling
his story. His statement to-day and that
told the coroner did not jibe in detail. The
witness vas so affected that he cried.
NEW STATES EVIDENCE.
The State is believed to have received
valuable information to-day, one accredited
report being that the State will be able to
prove that Hinshaw and his wife had quar-
reied the night of the murder the alleged
source of the information being a man
whom Hinshaw had told in a sudden burst
of confidence. The first witness tomorrow
will be DR.. Morrison, of indianapolis.
The juror who took his first barber-shop
shave last Sunday came into the court
room yesterday morning wearing a ma
genta petunia, and his associates were not
far behind him in this little matter of per-
sonal adornment. The attorneys for the
State lugged In a basket carefully covered,
papers about the tables were arranged,
Judge Hadley beat his customary tattoo
with his stuO pen and the youthful court
court is now in session pursuant to ad-
journment." Presently the massive head
OF DR.; w. b. Fletcher ioomed up through
row of faces in the audience and Prosecutor
Spaan caught sight of his first witness OF
the day. 1t was decided to give the In
dianapolis expert on cerebral surgery the
precedence over DR.. Dryden.
DR.. Fletcher went through the prelim-
mary of explaining that he had been a
physician for thrty-seyen years, having
devoted the last twelve years to brain sur
gerry. For five years he was superintendent
of the Central Hospital for the Insane. In
his career he had laid bare as many as
seventy-three brains in live subjects. Gen.
orally when a patient was brought him
for operations on the brain. the part of the
brain affected could be determined by the
movements of particular limbs or parts
of the body. Two-thirds of his cases had
been successfully treated. A skilled physi-
clan always had in mind the topography
Of the brain.
Mr.. Spaan took from the basket skull
and a plate containing brain, which was
yet apparently soggy These articles were
placed before the jury and the expert wit
ness was called upon TO describe in an OBJ
jective way the functions of the important.
organ of man. The meningeal vessels in
the hard matter do not furnish blood to
the brain; this is the function of the cere-
bral artery which lies within the brain
itself. Blood from the cerebral artery
would coagulate more slowly than blood
from another artery, and blood inside the
brain would coagulate more slowly than
on the outside. Where a bullet passes
through the brain, severing an artery. If
death does not Immediately ensue the
heart and lungs will continue to pump blood
into the passageway caused by the bullet
until the artery contracts. The State was
theory that after Hinshaw shot his wife
she lay on her face in bed till the blood
clot formed inside the pia mater near the
frontal bore.
Cerebral oscillations were defined by the
witness. who proceeded to show the locality
OF the motor area. which controls all vol.
pntary motion. The cerebellum. he said.
has a narmonizing effect the brain in
general II the cerebelum were injured a
man might make an attempt 10 step for
ward and yet step in a directly opposite
direction This was given by way OF Illus
tration. Stopping the blood in an artery
of the brain destroys the function of the
convoiution in which that artery is located.
After these statements. Mr.. Spaan put a
hypothetical question TO the witness The
hypothesis was that blood was found under
the frontal bone bullet had gone di-
rectly through the brain. making an irres-