Daily Kennebec journal., 1899-03-28

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spectators.
| Dr.. Rosenbluth, the dentist of
| Southington. who was on the witness
stand for II hours Friday, was the
first witness at this mornings session
| and when his cross-examination was
finished, at 11.35 O'Clock, the court took
| a brief recess.
| During the morning, the defence fire.
quently consulted with DR.. j. c. Lynch,
| one of the medical advisers for the de-
| fence.
| Dr. RoSenbluth submitted in evidence
his office record book which showed
| work he had performed on the teeth of
| Emma Gin, the entries in all the cases
| being made, he claimed, on the day
| he did the work. The books show
| that one tooth was extracted on July
| !. 1897, and that same tooth was filled
some months later. That was due to
| a clerical error, Mr. Rosenbluth said
| The state on the redirect, filed in evil
dence three sample teeth, illustrating
| the filling in the teeth of Emma Gill
that Rosenbluth had operated on.
| The defence objected to permitting
| the evidence to be aired but afterward
| withdrew their objection. DIR. Rosen-
| hluth said that notwithstanding the
clerical error in his books he was posi-
| tive that the teeth he saw in the ceme-
| terry were those of Emma Gill and the
ones that he had filed. The defence
attempted in their cross-eXaminatfon
| to question the responsibilities OF the
| fitness of the testimony from the DIS
| crepances which they alleged had ap-
peared in the original testimony.
| After q 5-minute recess Deputy
Sheriff Thomas r. Eagan of Southing-
| ton who had known Emma Gill for
number of years and lived in the next
house to her family for some time, tes-
| tilted that he had identified the head
at the morgue in Bridgeport as that, of
| Emma Gill.
The next witness was T. Horace An
drews of Southington. He also stated
that he had identified the head at the
| Bridgeport morgue
l.. r. Ives. a Southington grocer,
gave similar testimony and the state
| then called Frederick Gill. brother OF
| the victim. His testimony was identi-
| tai in the line of that given by the
other members of the Gill family, who
have testified.
At the afternoon session. John r.
| Campbell of Southington, and DR.
Maurice Z. Sullivan of Southington
testified as to the identification of the
remains of the murdered girl as those
; of Emma Gill. Medical examiner
Downes was the only other witness
during the afternoon and he was still
on the stand when the court adjourned,
at O'Clock until 10 A. M. tomorrow.
DR.. Downes. as medical examiner.
was notified when the dismembered
portions of the body We're taken out OF
the yellow Mill pond and according to
his instructions they were taken to the
morgue and photographed. His tesu-
mony was in the main technical. The
Witness said that with one exception
the generative organs had been re-
moved from the victim. condition due
to septicemia, or the result of crimi-
nal operation; both were contemporary.
Attorney Fessenden asked the witness
to describe the work performed on the
body. DR.. Downes said that sharp
knife and sharp saw with small teeth
had been used, and that the person
who cut the body up had some know
ledge of surgery was quite apparent.
On cross s-eXamination he stated he
had taken the brain, heart. lungs and
other organs and examined them, on
the afternoon of Sept. 13. The brain
was found to be congested, condition
always found in diseases producing
high temperature. Both lungs were
also found congested in the lower 1obes
and during very close cross-exami-
nation said that no other cause than
septicemia could have produced such
congection. In order to hepathize so
the lungs must have been filled with
poisoned blood. In this particular case
he was uncertain whether a criminal
operation had caused septicemia. He
admitted not having examined the
mouth for traces of poison.
A hearing in the case of Langdon
| Smith, the representative of the New
York Evening Journal, who it is al
legged, wrote matter in connection with
the trial of DR.. Nancy A. Gulford
considered Objectionable by Judge
Wheeler, took place when the jury was
excused. this afternoon, but after
few preliminaries was continued, until
5 p. NJ. tomorrow.