The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1896-06-05
THE MRS. FLEMING TRIAL.

Must Have Taken over Fifteen Grains of
Arsenic and Anthony Besides-Nirs.
Fleming Affected by Some of the Testi-
mony.
New York. June 4-The fourth day
of the fourth week of the trial of Mary
Alice Almont Livingston Fleming for
the alleged killing of her mother, Mrs.
Eyelina M. Bliss, on the night of Aug
ust 80, 1895, found DR. Henry A, Mott,
analytical and consulting chemist, pro-
fessor in Rutgers college and witness
for the prosecution, beginning his third
days work on the witness stand. He
was still in the hands of DR.. William
j. O'SulliVan, medico-legal expert and
special assistant to the district attor-
ney.
DR.. O'Sullivan did not exchange COM
pliments and quips with his former
law partner, Mr., Brooke, yesterday.
Mr.. Brooke was ready enough to in
dulge in personalities, but the peoples
representative would take no notice of
him, maintaining at ali times and I'M
der all provocation a dignifed manner.
There was introduced yesterday,
through the medium of DR.. Motifs tes-
timony, some twenty-six little bottles
out of forty-two that he had with him.
The first section of these contained, ac-
cording to DR.. Mott, precipitates of ar
senic obtained from the arsenic taken
from the contents of a stomach. This
stomach was alleged and presumed to
be the stomach of the late Mrs. Eve
lima M. Bliss.
The reasons for SO many precipitates
was through the desire to identity the
arsenic under every possible condition.
There would have been even more of
them, but DR.. Mott desired to retain
some of the arsenic so as to show it as
it was in the stomach.
The second section contained anti
mony precipitates, also obtained from
the contents of Mrs. Bliss stomach.
The amount of anthony found, while
large in itself, was small in comparison
to the quantity of arsenic discovered.
The amount of arsenic disclosed was
large.
Almost the first man in the court
room this morning was Mr.. Brooke. He
arrived shortly after 10 o'clock. He
wore pair of spectacles with co1ored
glasses in them. He said that he was
tired out by his labors, and that his
doctor had prescribed rest for him,
which, of course, it was impossible for
him to take. But still Mr.. Brooke look
ed well and ready for the fray.
An Exhibition of Curiosity.
An unknown woman, or at least one
new to this trial, had secured a seat
inside the railing and next to the gate,
where she was seated when Mrs. Elem
ing made her entrance This woman,
as she saw the defendant come, turned
around in her chair so that Mrs. Flem-
ing had to pass her at right angles.
AS Mrs. Fleming walked past her she
looked up in the face of the little wo-
man in black with a stare of vulgar
curiosity. Mrs. Fleming never looked
in any other direction than in front of
her until she reached this woman.
Then she gave her a look that will give
the unknown woman a bit to talk about
for some time to come 1t was naughty
and dignifed, too. 1t said as plainly
as possible: You are an intruder.
You are drawn here by vulgar curl
OSlly. LOU dTt DeUedtn me.
Mrs. Fleming bowed to one reporter
and to one juryman. She shook hands
with Mr.. Brooke and Professor Witt
haus and sat down. She had color in
her cheeks She appeared confident
Before DR.. O'Sullivan asked DR.. Mott
any questions Recorder Golf, who as
usual was on the bench exactly on the
minute, said to the attorneys on both
sides: This case has been on trial
now for nearly four weeks. I want to
say, and do say, that unless greater
expedition is used in tie Introduction
of testimony, l will noid night sessions
after this week"
did you examine the organic con-
tents of the stomach under micro
scope?" asked DIR. O'Snllivan
Il did" answered DR.. Mott
What did you find?"
II found pieces of potato and a piece
of clam
| DR.. Mott had photographed these, but
under Mr. Brooke's objection these
| photographs were not admitted in evil
| dence.
Some Grim Photographs.
DR.. O'Sullivan made his point in
another way, however. He showed the
| photographs to DR.. Mott asked him If
| he made them and if they were photo
| graphs of the contents Of Mrs. Bliss
stomach. yes" answered the witness.
Or. Mott said that in the contents of
| this stomach the only poisonous sub
| stances he had found was arsenic and
anthony.
| did you find any tartaric acid
| there?" continued DR.. O'Sullivan.
| II did" returned DR.. Mott.
| DR.. Mott received decanter from DR..
| O'Sullivan. The contents of it, he said,
were portion of the stomach of Mrs.
E. M. Bliss-or, at least, it was SO
| it.
| In this bottle was a white dried skin
apparently. 1t wasn't pleasant sight
when one was told what it was. Mrs
Fleming naturally did not like to look al
| it. Her eyes sought a chair in front OF
her She spoke to her sister. She swal-
\ lowed a number of times, as if her
| throat was dry.
| Dr. Mott had cut off a portion of the
tissue of the stomach.
"Have you any doubt that it was the
stomach tissue that you cut?"
mo; I have here with me a piece OF
the in1amed stomach tissue"
DR.. Mott handed a little bottle to DR.
O'Sullivan. 1t was marked as an eX-
hibit.
Several portions of the stomach tissue