The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1896-05-07

letter saying she mas gone away" Detd
| didn't want to do that He toic ne. You'd
better: they kaow you're here "a II they fnd
the girl Is dead In this city thev'i fasten sus-
picion on YOU was PAM. -stricken and
complied
Col Nelson caused surprise by refusing to
| cross-examine the witness.
NEWPORT Ky. May o-Thc defense in the
jackson case Friday began an attack on the
| expert testimony offered by the prosecution.
Drs. Clark. Jeancon and Davis testified as to
| the possibility CT decapitation having taken
| place after death. The testimony Of Dr.. Heyl,
| Of the United States army, read from . depo-
| sition. was to the same effect. Testimony was
adduced to show that decapitation must have
been performed by some one who was skilled
| In, or at least had some knowledge Of, sur
| gerry
w. E Abbott was the first witness put on
the stand Ee is an embalmer and funeral di-
rector, and had been employed at Tippen-
| hauer's He was called to Whites undertake
ing establishment ro embalm Pearl Bryan's
| headless body. He incised the femoral artery
| First he flushed the arteries and then
| pulled out the arteries Of the neck 70
tie. them Flushing is clearing the arter-
les OF blood He flushed out nearly quart.
This statement was q great surprise, as the
various physicians who made the autopsy
testified that the blood vessels we're entirely
| empty
He saw where a hypodermic injection had
been made just under the left breast He has
seen the scars left by hypodermic injections
often. He could not be mistaken. Ahypo-
dermic syringe leaves little red and blue
scar He called DR.. Clarks attention TO the
| scar.
DR.. j. A. Jeancon. a practitioner for 4e years,
next testified Coagulation Of blood, the wit
ness seid, depends more on the nervous sys-
| TEN and condition Of the patient at the time
| OF death than on anything else. 1t Is quite
often the case that blood flows from dead
body When person dies suddenly from ap-
oplexy, there may be q great hemorrhage Of
| blood day or two after death, the blood flow-
ing as from sponge Asphyxiation by car
bonic acid gas tends to early coagulation; by
chloroform it tends to keep the blood in the
| liquid state.
The primary effect of cocaine, whether taken
into the stomach or by hypodermic injec-
tion. is to AFFECT the spinal column; the next
effect is to produce spasms. 1t is like strych-
nine and other spasmodic poisors. One.
twelfth Of o grain Of cocaine may be q fatal
dose for some people. Others have taken Is
or IS grains by mistake for another medicine
and have recovered Asphy xiation some-
times occurs Cocaine and chloroform to-
gether would kill Muscular elasticity might
remain six to eight hours in a dead body, but
usually from one and one-half to two hours
While this contractibility remains q cut made
| on the body will assume the same appearance
as made in life The skin has its own vital
| ity In death one set Of organs dies after an
| other The voluntary muscles keep their
lie some time. The heart may continue
to beat considerable time after death.
| The doctor said that the contract.
bility Of the skin and muscles in q healthy
young persons body is greater than In an older
| or diseased body He said that wrinkles are
the result Of diminution Of elasticity In the
muscles 1t Is impossible, he said, to tell
whether a retracted cut is made In life or after
death before the contrac tibility OF the muscles
has ceased
To cut head of cleanly, to do nice Job,
would take at least ten minutes, said the wit
ness A voluntary muscle would not lose its
contractibility in less than one and one-hsli
hours Rigor morts is q stiiening of the mus
cles Of body. That is why we call dead
body q "stin"
The delay of rigor mortis. the witness SAID
has little to do with coaeulation OF blood. The
condition Of the nervous system largely con.
trolls this, the doctor repeated
Doctor" said Attorney Crawford, "if per-
son were decapitated after death by asphy yxia-
tion and the trunk placed at an angle Of 4b de-
grees, head downward. would the blood be
drained out?'
DR.. J. A. Davis testified that the cuts on the
hand Of the headless body Of Pearl Bryan
seemed to be old ones. There was consider
able retraction at the stump Of the neck, the
skin being retracted from one-sixteeAth Il
one quarter Of an inch.
The deposition Of DR.. Ashton B. Heyl, sta
toned at Ft Thomas, followed DR.. Davis tes-
timony. The statement was made by Attor-
ney Crawford that DR.. Heyl Is captain and as
sistant surgeon in the United States army. He
is 81 years old. He graduated from the
medical department Of the Univer-
has been in the United States
army since 1890 He visited Locke's farm at
the scene Of the finding of the headless body
at about ten . m. It was lying at an angle of
sbout forty-five degrees There were no evi.
dences Of a struggle. He saw q small pool OF
blood, apparently exuded from the cut ends OF
the vessels There was clot of blood on the
clothing. There was another spot said to be
blood by some present He did not recognize
it as such Near the body there seemed to
him to be signs Of sliding down the hill He
also saw glove and 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 at the point the
ground They were unusually clean The
doctors opinion was that the body had been
dead ten or twelve hours.
He saw about quart or quart and one
half of blood at the neck He was anxious to
see how much blood was there As the ground
had thawed he probed with a stick. At two
inches he reached the bottom point to which
tho blood had soaked. II the person had been
decapitated at or near the spot II
was not copious hemorrhage.
Blood is about one-thirteenth Of the
body's weight The headless body weighed
about ten pounds OF blood in the body. Six OF
eight pounds Of blood would be the average
hemorrhage from such o wound.
The 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 arteriaL
This operation was very skillfully done. He
thought that the body had been decapitated
after death.
Henry Motz. q young farmer living -four
miles from Newport on the Licking pike. tool
the stand
Il remember" he said, when Sherin Plum.
mer. MT Renkert, some newspaper men and 9
colored man named Jackson went over the
Three-mtle road 1t was one o'clock Sunday
morning when the party reached the Three
mile road Sheriff Plummer gave me s2 to show
them across 1t took about on hour or more tc
60 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.
NEWPORT. KY, May 2-The defense in the
Jackson trial read several dispositions Friday
afternoon as to the whereabouts of Coachmar