The record-union. [volume] (Sacramento, Calif.) 1891-1903, 1899-12-21

hess SdlQ, rOOmeQ at 1ulTu anu 1u
streets. He had told witness month
before his death that he had had
trouble with a woman. Witness went
with PARENT and saw the woman and
when he left thought things were fixed
up, but PARENT told him the next morn
ing that things were as bad as ever.
PARENT, when he separated from the
woman, seemed to be glad he was rid
of her.
William F. Luebkeman was the next
witness. He is tailor and worked
with PARENT. When witness saw
PARENT shortly before s o'clock ne
seemed to be all right, but soon after
ward Giorgi called out that PARENT was
sick, and doctor was sent for. PARENT
only day or two before had bought
suit of clothes and seemed pleased with
them. He did not act like a man who
contemplated suicide.
DR.. G. M. Dixon was called, and said
he attended PARENT the morning of his
death. PARENT went into clonic spasms,
and grew worse He was rigid, the
rigidity extending to the heart. The
pupils of his eyes were widely dllated.
There is no question in my mind,
said DR.. Dixon, that PARENT died OF
strychnine poisoning. Morphine would
have had exactly an opposite effect
Morphine would cause relaxation;
strychnine contraction and rightly
He would, DR.. Dixon said, likely have
thrQSn five grains of morphine from
the stomach. Coffee was an antidote for
morphine poisoning. He felt that Pa
remit could not have walked from Pierrs
saloon to the tailor shop at Sixth ana
] streets after taking either morphine
or strychnine, but that he might nave
done SO had the poisons been mixed
L. S. Crackbon, the San Francisco
chemist who anaylzed the contents OF
PARENTS stomach, was next called. lie
described the mode Of analyses he had
employed. The analyses, he said. had
been conducted carefully, and showed
beyond all doubt that morphine crystals
were in the stomach. 1t was possible,
he said, that some other drug might
produce like crystals and colors, but
| if so he did not know what they were.
Questioned by DR.. Dixon, Mr.. Crack
bon said the presence of morphine
would interfere with a strychnine test.
but he thought the strychnine would
"A
strychnine might have been absorbed
and not been found at all. Morphine,
he said, would interfere with a strych-
nine test, but strychnine would not in
terfere with morphine test. Witness
said prominent doctors had told him
that slight spasms sometimes accom-
panied morphine poisoning.
DR.. Dixon asked if they had ever told
him that clonic spasms accompanied
such poisoning, and he said they had
not.
City Physician H. L. Nichols was
called, and testified that when called
to attend PARENT he found him prac-
tically dead. He felt certain from the
symptoms that PARENT died from
strychnine poisoning. The pupils OF the
eyes were distended, whereas, in NOR
phine poisoning they would have been
contracted, and he would have died
sooner. The further fact that the brain
was in a normal condition would fur
Their indicate strychnine poisoning, in
asmuch as congestion usually followed
morphine poisoning.
Tom Piec, a tailor who worked in the
shop with PARENT, was called, and cor
witnesses who were present when Pa
remit was taken i'll.
Peter Auer who also worked in the
same shop with PARENT, was called
His testimony was corroborative OF that
already brought out
Aria Corlini was next called. PARENT
was already sick when he got to the
shop at $40. He knew nothing about
the matter which had not already been
brought out
George K. Naghel, police officer, was
the next witness called. He was going
lup ] street and was called into Heit-
mans tailoring establishment, where
PARENT was sick. PARENT was in violent
spasms, and it took two men TO hold
him. The spasms continued until death
relieved him.
The jury brought in verdict as here
tofore stated.