Ceredo advance. [volume] (Ceredo, W. Va.) 1885-1939, 1896-05-06

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whether reiracted cut IL made In life or after
death before the eontractibIlity OF the muscle,
has ceased
To cut head on eleanly. to do a nice lob.
Noui" take az least ten minutes. said the wit
ness \ voluntary muscle would not lose it<
contraetioility IN less than one and one half
hours hl;or mortis Is o Stircning OF the mus
Sics OF eody. That Is why VIC call dead
BODY "Stir
The delay OF riror norris the witness said.
mas little to do with eoarulation OF blooo. The
conoitlon OF the nervous system LARGELY con-
trols this. the doctor repeated
Doctor" said Attorney Crawford If a PER
son were deeGpitatcd after death by asphyxis-
ton anu the trunk placed at an angle OF - de-
grces' head downward would the blood be
drained outy''
Certainly" answered the doctor Now.
the hebrews have a Law about killing animals
Tor food They oblige the butcher to cut all
the large veins OF the neck. Then in order To
make complete depletion OF tho blood the
law provides that the animal shall be shaken
after the voluntary blood flow is stopped
III person In good health were decapitatcd
during life. the blood would squirt eight or ten
feet or more. The blood would make a bio
pool III live person behcadcd had first
taken some drug II would make little differ
encc.
The doctor was not cross-examiued
nr. j. A Davis testified that the cuts on the
hand OF the headlcss body OF Pearl Bryan
seemed to be old ones There was consider
, able retraction az the stump of the neck the
skin being rctractcd from one sixteenth to
| one quarter OF an inch
Thcre was great deal OF redncss about the
stump OF the neck. IL ives much rcddcr than
! the cuts on the hand thought the head had
occn very recently severed l remarked that
the head had been cut OF by someone who
knew something about surgery
The deposition OF DR. Ashton u Hcyi sta
| TONED ut Fl Thomas. followed DIT Davis tes-
timony The statement was made by Attor-
/ ney Crawford that Dr. Hcyl ~ captain and rs.
sistant surgeon In the United States army lie
Is 81 years old lie graduated IRON tho
medical department of the Cnivcr-
sity OF Pennsylvania In isss lie
has been IN the United States
army since $500 lie visited Lockc's farm at
the scene OF the finding of the headless body
at about ten a m. II was living at an angle of
about forty-nve degrees There were no evil
dcnccs OF n struggle. lie saw small pool OF
blood. apparently cxudcd from the cut ends of
I the vessels. There was n ciot OF blood ON tho
clothing There was another spot said to bc
| blood by some present He did not recognize
/ IL as such Near the body there seemed to
/ him 10 be signs OF sliding down the hill lie
4 also saw glove and IA hat pin there There
were blood stains and bloody finger marks on
| the corset The feet and hosiery were not
soiled or discolored The shoes and stockings
were not muddy except ut the point on tho
| ground They were unusually clean The
| doctors opinion was that the body had been
| dead ten or twelve hours
He saw about quart or a quart and one
/ half OF blood ut the neck He was anxious to
! sec how much blood was there AZ the ground
/ had thawed he probcd with a stick At two
/ inches he reached the bottom point TO which
the blood had soaked. II the person had bee
uecapitatcd ut or near the spot it
was not copious hemorrhage
Blood is about one thirteenth of the
| body's weight Tho hcadloss body weighed
| between ls5 and l3D pounds. There would be
about ten pounds of blood in the body six or
eight pounds Of blood would be the average
/ hemorrhaRc from such q wound.
| Tho wound was not noticed by him TO be
contracted The hemorrhage was too old to
distinguish from the blood ciots whether they
were venous or artcrial
| He did not notice the cuts on the hand.
! There was no blood on the hands lie was not
! attentive To the palms
| IL cut TO the bono was inflicted on
| the hand of live person there would
| be considerable hcmorrhuRe. unless the
| person we're weak or anaemc. In a
! healthy person cut like that would
! make considerable hemorrhago II person
| had received such cuts ia resisting decapita-
ton she would have had the ability TO strug-
| gle for her life.
This operation was very slyilfully done lie
| thought that the body had been decapitated
after death
The defense next sought 90 break down the
evidence Of George Jackson. the coachman.
who testified TO driving the coupe which no
said contained Jackson, Mailing and Pearl
| Bryan to Ft Thomas
Henry Motz. young farmer living four
miles from Newport on the Licking pike took
! the stand
! Il remember he said when sheriff Plum
! mer. Mr. Reniort. some newspaper men and a
colored man named Jackson went over tho
| Three-mile road IL was one o'clock sunday
| morning when the party reached the Three
mile road Sheriff Plummcr gave me % 20 show
! them across II took about an hour or more to
go across We stopped several times: once the
| cab went into the creek. They were an hour
goiog over the Three-mile road alone the wit
ness said.
sim. George Jackson insists that he started
| 10 drive Jackson and Nalling over that way TO
! Fort Thomas BY way OF that road at /: - a IN
| II Is also In evidence that Wniling went TO
| Holders hotel at about 3 a IN In other
| words, according To George Jnckson's story
the rockaway made the round trip in less than
three hours.
David Locke testified TO the effect that there
| were footprints in the vicinity of whore the
body was found There vas only one kind
| that Of shoes having broad toe From tho
| fact that tho prints were clean cut he Thought
they must have been made by new shoes or
shoes that had been recently soled The SHOES
OF scott Jackson were then handed 20 the Wit
ness He said no did not think they made tho
/ tracks nt IT Thomas. The heel would not
make the shape he saw. neither would the
toe The shoes were not as long o the track
| he examined
NEWPORT. Ky. May Tho defense in tho
! Jackson trial read several dispositions FriIar
afternoon rs % the whcrca bouts OF Coachman
Geo. Jackson Friday night January 81
! Crawford took up another document II was
/ the deposition OF Oliver Lawrence who ST. il
ne lived ia Cincinnati and was a barber O.
knew scott Jackson after Albion came TO 'vori.
| al the sixth street snop lie said Albion
made fun OF Jackson's whi4kers Friday. JAM
uary 81. and shaved them OF Frank B.caucr
| was there.
The deposition OF Henry Hamilton cIerI; OF
/ the Princeton hotel Cincinnati. was read as
! follows; ! remember that a country woman
called with man 20 the Princeton hotel Jan
uary - The man inquired about she prices
and got room for ncr reporting her 10 cc .
country girl. vitn no friends. and Vatte TO
| know ~ would be -afc place for her lie
registered Tor her Tho name Mary Barr"
| samuel T. Iw.rg'5 deposition WAS read
/ Knows Geo ~ jackson On E.iday MINT,
January 20. 1895 b. was 40 Ewing house from
nine y m. 10 between one and twoa ~ 10
| was nearer two than one clock Ic came 20
I ny house and stayed until tHU Ec
1 was 20 court-martial. ami cid court
martial. James Smith. There WIS a
| man at my house who was pilv-
+, Ing the part 81 q slck man in the h8.-
| p.tnl corps "a oMCcr came Co qualify fOr inc
/ inspection Tor February pgt. and that aI-o
Z served 10 impress DC dav or mis- mind Ic Is
I . mcmbc- o. the fa.dr Cd Guards The, DID
1 rot drill on Friday right January Si isy6
/ Thcy drilled SATURDAYS. February 2. 90 al o.
! t.O m They irft Smith C1ur; ana az in-
B sp"cton tfOn place Du tsf rrTncut -..lltc.