The herald., 1896-08-22
DR.. SHORB' 'SEXAN|NAI|0N
CHASTITY Details of Jennie
Snyder's Death
DIED FROM A CRIMINAL OPERATION
Expert Testimony Given for the
Prose cution
GREWSOME RELICS SHOWN
The Case for the People Concluded at
Adjournment
Senator Stephen NJ. White Appears for the
Defense
GREWSOME RELICS SHOWN
The Case for the People Concluded at
Adjournment
Senator Stephen NJ White Appears for the
Defense
An Entire Day Occupied In Hearing Physicians.
Evidence-Story of the Crime Retoid.
Probability That Or. Shorb VIII
Be Held For Trial

The preliminary examination of Dr. A.
S. Shorb, accused by DR.. F. w. Steddom,
the city health officer, of the murder of
Mrs Jennie Snyder, who died on Aug
ust 5th from the effects of a criminal
operation which had been performed up
on her, was begun yesterday morning
at 10 o'clock before Justice Owens in the
police court, sitting for and at the re-
quest of Justice Morrison, who is absent
from the city.
Senator stephen NJ. White appeared
as counsel for the defendant while Dep
uty District Attorney James conducted
the prosecution. The particulars of the
tragedy on the East Side are still fresh in
the minds of the public-the death of
Mrs. Snyder and the suicide of her par
amour, Relland, by blowing his brains
out when he had become convinced that
he was to be prosecuted in connection
with the death of the woman; the dis
covery of the foetus buried in the yard:
the coroner's inquest resulting in a ver-
dict of the jury duplicating DR.. Shorb,
and his subsequent arrest on a murder
cnarge. The accused physician is at
present out on $4,000 bonds, his sureties
-''o SNiiiS I'll tilC WtdltuleSL men IN the
city. N'0
Judge j. N. Phillips was the first wit
ness called to the stand and detailed the
circumstances of q conversation he had
had with Relland in a rear room of the
water street house on the morning of
the DAY he committed suicide. Relland
mad telegraphed to the husband of the
9ead woman at Cadott, Wisconsin, that
Mrs. snyder was dead and to either for
Ward funds to defray the expense of
burial or to send for the body. In repIv
TO this Mr. Snyder had sent a MESA ge to
Mrs. Phillips, who had known the dead
woman since childhood, asking that Mr.
fhIillps take charge of the remains and
look after Mrs. Snyders little girl. lem
ME, seeing to it that she got her rights %
~ conformity with this request Mr.
Phlllps hunted up the corpse and found
heiland IN the house claiming that ii
was his wife who had died. Relland
told Mr.. Phillips that the woman had
been suffering with a hemorrhare and
that they had tried to stop the now
from his manner Mr.. Phillips inferred
by Relland's remark that he had ref
erence to himself and Mrs. Snyder. AS
thelr attempt had failed they had called
IN physician. Relland did rot innli-
cate any one in the case and would
not say who was responsible for her
ueath. Mr. Phillips also reviewed his
~
quest and said that he had known the
dead woman back east, but had not seen
ner Tor twelve years until he looked unon
her dead face. Ni'Oi'
John r. Paul the Downey ayenue IN
GeftaEer. was next called and was asked
regardlng conversation he had had
win IRELAND, but his testimony was
not admitted. Mr.. Paul then detailed
the circumstances of his being called bv
Relland to care for the body of Mrs
snyder and of being with DR.. Campbell
the coroner and Deputy Sunmerfield
Wnen the foetus was found in the back
yard of Relland's house buried under
small orange tree.
DE- Steddom then took the stand and
stated that he had, with the assistance
OF Dr. Carson, performed the AUTOPSY
upon the body of Mrs. Snyder and found
that she had died from internal her
ofrhaSe and punctured wound in the
wall of the uterus A section of some
fifteen feet of the small intestine was
missing, having, as stated by DR.. Shorr,
been thrown off with the foetus. He
considered that Mrs. Snyder had died
as the result of criminal operation.
Three glass jars We're introduced in eyi-
oence which contained the gruescine
relices of the tragedy. One inclosed the
mangled uterus and the other two sec
tions of the intestines preserved in al
cohol.
Then DR.. J. A. Carson was sworn. tell
ing substantially the same story as that
or Or. Steddom and also giving it as his
belief that death Acsulted directly from
malpractice
The last witness at the morning ses-
sion was DR.. S. S. Salisbury, who had
been called in consultation by Dr. Shorb
after the removal of the foetus and to
whom the intestine was shown by DR.
Shorb. who asked his opinion as to what
it was. They decided to submit the
question to Dr. Forget, an anatomist
and microscopic. and get him to decide
what the membrane or tissue was. With
the testimony of DIR. Salisbury con-
cluded. the court adjourned for the noon
recess.
Upon geconvening at p m. DR.. For
get took the stand. He identified the
section of intestine as having been
brought to him to decide what it was.
He had made a careful investigation
and pronounced it a section of healthy
human bowel. which had been forcibly
removed from the body. The membrane
showed no signs of sloughng and could
not have been detached by that means
Coroner Campbell then told his expe-
rience with the case. DR.. Steddom had
notified him that there was something
wrong in the death of Mrs Snyder and
he had Immediately started to investi-
gate. He had unearthed the child's
body in the back yard of Relland's resi-
dence, and while so doing was confront
ed by that party, who seemed terribly
agitated. Then he recited the events
which rapidly followed, the suicide of
the half demented man and the inquest
upon the body of Mrs. Snyder. The ver-
dict of the jury stated that the woman
came to her death by the use of instru-
ments in the hands of Dr. Shorb.
DR.. J. T. Stewart and Deputy Coroner
Summerfield also testified. but their
statements were merely corroborative
of those formerly made. The statement
of DR.. Shorb. made at the coroner's in
quest was also read to the court, and the
case for the people was complete An
adjournment was then taken to II o'clock
this morning. when the defense may pre-
sent their side. Their line of testimony
will probably erdeavor to show that the
woman's death was caused by wounds
inflicted by either herself or her para
mour, and thatsDr Shorb merely acted
in the capacity any other physician
might have done in endeavoring to save
her life.
Deputy District Attorney James ex-