Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1898-12-22
SOME BITS OF THE TESTIMONY,


an HVftEuCt vi tud SSH frunNiNe1 Isxdmi
nrr's Reports OF the ljotkin Triri.
The San Francisco Examiner Of De
cefbber 18th, in lis rapport Fdf tho pro,
Of Mrs, Cordelia Hotlsin, charged s WITH VIII
the murder Of Mrs, john p punnint
Of Dover, said;
1t was evident from the Testimony o.
DIR, I.emuel II. Bishop, the famil,
physician, that he did not get around
10 the arsenic theory till late in the
vase. AZ M W~tE
DIV. j, s.. Downes, who had been
called in to consult with DR.. Bishop,
was far more positive than tho latter.
He declared that he detected symptoms
q arsenical poisoning In Mrs. Dun
ning's case as soon as he had APP
preached q diagnosis, and that he 10
informed pr. Bishop. Knight didn't
mako much Of Downes, and tho
DOCTORS declaration that arsenic caused
Mrs. punning's death was not broken.
pr. i. r, Wolff told Of receiving the
five Jumps Of chocolate from DIR.
bishop, OF picking pieces OF arsenic
from the candy and az making chomi-
cal analyses Of the pieces and OF the
candy itself. He explained his tosts
vt great length 8nd with much par,
ticularity, and put on view his porco-
lain tubes and mirrors on which tho
arsenic hnd made its characteristic
deposits. ~
10 Judge Cook he eaid he had found
half grain Of powdered arsenic In
three pieces Of cnndy after he had
picked out 1l1s grains in the form Of
Jumps. As from two to three grains is
tho deadly ''lethal'' dose, II win be
seen that the poisoncr had provided
for II certain killing. lilo produced u
viRi in which were the Jumps Of
arsenic he had picked from the candy,
ono or two Jumps being, as he had
described them, ms large as peas
against knights objection. The, pro-
and snid it was the shape of arsenic
crystals. The test mirrors were also
pissed around, and the jury tried 10
look wise as each In turn gazed at tho
card on which were strung the porce-
lain disks and strips.
Mrs. Botliin stretched up some to
watch this. All the other women
stretched In just the same way. Evil
IDENTIFY the prisoner is quite as normal
as the usual murder trinl female.
Knight shut OIL an inquiry as to ex,
aminations Of the candy made by tho
professor since he came to San Fran
cisco, and on russqexaminntion asked
did you find where the chocolates
had been cut and then pasted together
after the arsenic was introducedyb
MOI \,
"Then SO far as you know, the poison
was put in whom the candy was made
and before the chocolate coating was
put on?'' e- 'e n
There was nothing to show that
the chocolate had been broken. 1t was
ordinary chocolate candy, slightly
After this there was a long exami-
nation to get at just what kind Of
arsenic was IN the candy. The pro-
lessor said it was amorphous and not
crystalline. and that. the powdered
arsenic he found was from tho attrition
of the larger pieces.
In how large pieces does arsenic
comeY' asked knight.
AS large rs your head
Well, my head is pretty large soma
times, retorred the attorney, perhaps
lhinking OF the nights spent In tho
eeague CHASING of a United States
senatorial bubble and the harsh
awaKenings Of the following mornings
- attorney-General r.. q. White Of
delaware was the next witness
hosmer started TO prove by him that
tne Delaware law Furnishes murder BY
nolso9 with death, but Knight OBJ.
lected, and Judge Cook said that The
NY Jaw presunins that th6 laws Of other
states are the same as those OF Cali
Taornia in such. cases. Moreover, our
supreme Court had held that where a
partor crime Sis. committed here and
part 10 another State it is not neces-