Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1895-10-25

examining Oh bluChb pOuy anu lhI ~
topsy performed. Df. Thompson sand
that he saw Blacks body IN u collin at
the medical department OF the Fort
worth university, and that IL was IN
charge OF Professor Chase
Following came DR.. W. w. Underhill,
who tesuned tc having been present
when the body Of a man SAID 10 have
been Black, Ws.s lue suuJee. Oh an nu-
topsy. He removed the stomach, the
liver, the heart, one lung and one KID
ney. These were put into Jars FOR that
purpose and turned over to Professor
Chase.
This testimony was followed by that
OF Professor Chase, young man OF q
years with bright face and manner
thar breathed confidence. He Is
graduate OF Oberlin college and has
been occupying the chair OF chemistry
In the Fort Worth university three
years. He testified that he exam q d
the body of Black and after Dr. unuer-
hill had taken out the organs mension-
Gu he mad taken them 10 his luZ RI
tory and made n chemical analysis for
the purpose OF determining whether or
not there were evidences OF poisoning
by belladonna. Professor Chase eXhi-
bited great deal OF common sense
with his learning, and in all cases
where II was possible, used plain Eng
lish Instead Of technical terms. He de-
tiled Ia answer tu questions the
NAolt lIpttSs OF performing ltt unhly-
SIS from the moment he took the parts
or the body TO his laboratory till he
had completed his work and becoml
convinced that there was atrDphinc
or atropine, the active principal of
b7liadonna, in the blood OF the body
delivered to him, He refused to say
positively that he believed tho man in
whose stomach he found this poison
had been poisoned for the poison might
nave been given in medicinal doses. ON
| the examination judge Holland
| gave him some very puZzl'ng questions
| but they We're answered readily and In
| manner that convinced those who
| heard thtt he understood what he was
| talking about In answer to questions
| he said that the poison found might
| have been another deadly poison from
| the same nightshade family as the
tests for the one were the tests for the
uied.
| Then came Or. Thompson again. this
| time 10 testify to facts and conditions
| In connection with the sickness and
death OF Black. He said that some
tlme during the year 1894 Black was
| sick for about q week and that his
| symptoms were much the same as
those OF June, but that these symp-
| toms suddenly disappeared and the pa
| tent recovered. lie was questioned
long and thoroughly, and as II seemed
to the laymeu, concerning the medicln-
| al and deadly qualities Of hellalOnnu
arsenic and crotou oil, and I'm all he
was interesting as well as exact and
| satisfactory from the standpoint of the
state, He said that throughout Black p
Illness he was greatly puzzled By the
strange fact that he could get no re-
suits from his medicines, although his
reading and experience told him that
he was applying the correct remedies.
He vainly tried to give Black some
sleep and to relieve the parchlng dry
ness in the throat. lie described the
course OF treatment he adopted, even
| producing the various prescriptions
written by him and telling the dlrec-
tons accompanying each. He said that
he had tried to get Black taken to
st. Jusephs hospital but that Mrs,
Black and Ware had assured him that
Black would not consent to 70 and
| that II would only irritntc him to men
tlon the matter. He said that while
he had no definite suspicious as to
Why he could not get his medicines ~
act as they should he could not quite
put out OF his mind the suggestion
that something was wrong, He even
talked the matter over 10 his part
uerg
on the cross examination he was
asked why, II he had these suspicious
he had signed a certificate Of death
declaring that Blac,, had died or dyson
| terry ana uIdlU tIONbltt lie Stld ina
as lie could not establish his suspicious
It was his duty TO name as most likely
the disease the man died OF.
At the night session OF the court DR.
w. \. Adams and Dr.. Bacon Suunder
I were introduced as experts on the sub
jects OF pathology. and pOisona in gen
cral and OF belladonnn, arsenic and Gro
ton oil in particular. Dr. Adams gav'
his professional pedigree, which wa
| a good one, after which Do WAS nelg"i
his opinion as well as what the state
ments or science said concerning Ger
tain conditions and certain medicines
lie described at length the symptom
of poisoning by helladonua. croton oi
and arsenic, giving his opinion an
the theories OF the books as to N
amount OF each OF these that may b
taken safely, and what quantitle
would, under ordinary circumstance
produce death. He showed, on IN
direct and cross examination, that h
was thoroughly conversant with hi
subject. and that he was not littl
shy of making positive statements a
to the result OF certain drugs In ever
case.
He considered from to I drops
|, dose OF belladonna, and from 10
: 10 drops n dangerous dose. though h
- had lnoyyn man to take 20 drops {
I, the fluid extract OF belindonnn and r
cover. He had visited Martin Black o
|
I pressed the belief that there was
chance for him to recover, Mr.. Dav
: put to Dr. Adams q h'0athetical cas-
= held by him to have been made out b
= the testimony In the Black case gi'
!. ing symptoms and conditions fro
which Or. Adams concluded that deaf
> resulted from poisoning nv hellNdonn
- Asked as to rough on rats he said !
q, did not positively know It's active prli
N cple, hut that he had soon the formu
:, for Il. and that II was arsenic.
=, then told the symptoms OF arisen
:. poisoning. He. az well Drs. Thorn
% son and Saunders, thought that 70
I, drops Of belladonna We're hdministe
~ cd every two hours for q whole dnv
n longer the patient would certainly
I. dead.
DR., Bacon Saunders partner
= Drs Thompson and Adams, was e
ar amined at length on the subject
'y poEons, always expressing himself
IL ono thorouuhlv conversant with n
= subject He also had visited Mart
\ Blsct, and he declared that he hf
Al never known a patient whose tonfi
v was SO totally parched and dry, =
III saw evidences OF belladonna in Il
h. eyes and face, but did not Mt IN
y time think much of r.,
I At the close OF DR., Saunders exami
- alton the state announced that "u
ie rest here. except for rcbnttal." TIL