The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1896-04-30
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move to have that portion of the evidence
stricken out.
Colonel Nelson objected
Crawford replied: For the benefit OF the
gentleman, / say this is joke"
Il want jokes and all, retorted Ne.son.
Juror John Boehmer asked what kind of
men were walking leisureiy. Walling had
black derby; Jackson wore a light cap.
Colonel Nelson dived towards the boxes
and bundles under his table.
rs the cap Colonel Nelson is going TO
show you" began Co.onel Crawford.
II am not going TO show anything" the
attorney for the prosecution retorted,
The cap however. was produced. and the
witness said it looked like the one Jackson
Wore.
Il told my husband was going to take
gun the next time went down the pike"
the witness concluded.
Mrs. Alice Steife took the stand. 81 live
on the Three-mile road. which leads from
the Alexandria pike TO the Licking road,
she said.
Tell the Jury what condition the road
was in on the night OF Jan. 81.
III was muddy. 1t had been raining"
What kind OF road is it?
ly travel it at night going to meeting or
The witness said she thought the moon
was dark on Jan. 81. AS matter of fact.
the moon was full at 2:55 O'Clock on the
morning of Jan. 80.
"On the night of the 31st our dogs were
very noisy thought II Was on =, account ,S nibs OF
after u o'clock, when heard a vehicle go
up our hill. II sounded like one--horse
vehicle could only hear the foot-oeats
of one horse. / heard the rattle Of the
vehicle. 1t was not peculiar: got up. /
took the vehicle for a Doctors buggy.
WAS the vehicle going fast or slow?"
Mrs. Steifel said that. although the hill
is long one. the horse she heard in the
night was trotting up the slope,
A SENSATIONAL QUESTION.
DR.. Edwin Freeman was placed on the
stand. He wore gold spectacles and told the
court that be is sixty-two. He stated that
he 10 the professor. of surgery in the Eclectic
Medical College of Cincinnati.
Weren't you surgeon in the WARP
''Yes, sir; was a surgeon in the Union
army"
what army corps?
ninth Army Corps. was in the hospitals
and in the field"
did you ever observe the decapitation of
dead bodies?"
Yes, sir. I have myself decapitated dead
bodies"
Then" read attorney Hays from sheet
OF paper, suppose the body of decapitated
organs healthy and drained Of blood. the
skin OF the neck stump retracted, fieshy tis-
sues OF the neck protruding. also the skin of
the body lying down, the heart healthy. the
right yentricle containing only little oozing
blood. the other none at all, the blood vessels
healthy and empty, no c0agulati0n In any or
the vessels except a small clot in the pull
monary artery an inch an inch and half
from the heart, all the tissues and arteries
ne 70 6y 50Sr ppose
quarts Of blood on the ground at the place
where the body lies; suppose the clothing is
bushes eighteen to twenty-fou inches above
the body are sprinkled with blood on the
under side; suppose the ground is loose and
spongy and blood found there at depth Of
six or eight inches, and there is no evidence
Of disease or sickness at all In the corpse;
suppose all this were. found to be the fact.
capitated in life and on the spoty'
Colonel Crawford objected TO the question
on the ground that some of the statements
in the question were not facts. Il tell your
Honor the testimony of this expert witness
is important. 1t will have an impression on
the jury"
Judge Helm said that the question was
merely hypothetical question. and Colonel
Crawford's objection was overruled. The
question was then repeated by stenographer
Brown.
tissues Of the flesh was made in life. The
blood could not drain cut after death. II
ust have BEEN Of p the o tissues saer
death, except some little muscular contrac-
ton. which takes place within very few
Judge Helm-Did you understand that the
body was found on an incline with the neck
| downward?"
HEART STILL ACTING.
Eyes, sir, but the blood could not have all
| been drained out after DEATH"
"Was the heart still acting when the blood
| left the body?"
Il think So"
What in your opinion was the cause of
| death of that person?"
Under those circumstances the cause of
] death could have been from hemorrhage, it
must have been by the severing of the spinal
| cord, when death occurs almost immedi-
..if the body had been decapitated after
death what. would have been the condition
..The vessels would have contained the
blood and there would have been no con-
| traction of the skim"
| es, covered with spots OF blood. indicator"
That the blood was spurted by the force
Gould the bushes have been covered with
blood that way had the head been cut from
the body after death?
No, sir: they could not.
1T couldn't have been put on the bushes
by the body being dragged over the bushes? %
No. sir: not In drops.
Attorney Hays then gave the witness a
| picture of the severed part of the murdered
| girls neck and asked him II he could tell by
| looking at the picture II the head was sew
cred after death or before death.
DIR. Freeman then studied the picture in
| tently and then said quietly and slowly: II
| see here that the skin about the neck is
contracted and from other indications
would say that the head was taken off in
| life"
| Are you satisfied that such is the case ?''
Yes, sir: most assuredly am. / am sat-
| istied in my own mind"
Defense then took the witness.
Wouldn't the operations on the body
| during the post mortem examination affect
| the tissues?'
1T might"
Wouldn't 1t in a measure have the same
| effect in bulging the tssues?
| Il would have to know what the operator
| did,"
NOW that you know that the body was
4 embalmed before these pictures were taken,
| when the skin about the reck of the BODY
ators, either accidentally or purposely, to
make the skin appear contracted, would you
4 state so positively as you have stated as
| TO the head being cut OF In life?''
| Possibly not so positively, but the other
| conditions show that such was the case"
Suppose a dead body was decapitated
would the arteries protrude?"
| NO; think not"
| IF un6ertakers were TO spend from two
| to three hours in getting out these arteries
| 1t would require much effort?"
1T mignt; they would have to pull out
the arteries in the neck.
Wouldn't the tying of a cord about the
base OF the neck, as was done in this case
draw down the skin away from the tis-
| sues?"
Eyes, sir: slightly and uniformly
might not some blood appear upon leaves
| in drops three or four feet away from where
| dead body was decapitatcd?'