New-York tribune., 1900-11-03
DIR. BULL CORRECTs OSBORNE
SAYS HE IS MIXED ABOUT MEDICINES
AND DATES.

DR. William T. Bull somewhat surprised
last evening when he learned from a reporter at
his home. No. 50 West Thirty-ffth-st., that AS
sistant District Attorney Osborne had made a
statement about operation which DR.. Bull per-
formed the late William Marsh Rice. DR.. Bull
seemed at first unwilling 10 believe that the AS
sistant District Attorney had committed him
self
In the first place. he began TT is very evil
dent that the medical knowledge of Mr. Osborne
Is circumscribed, and narrowly circumsribed In
the second place. he Is not strong on dates since
I paid the professional visit Mr.. Rice last No
vember. and not six months ago. he said Last
November was called by Mr. Rice's physician, DIR.
]. Milton Mabbott Of No. 10 Fifth-ave., perform
operation upon Mr.. Rice's face. The operation
was the removal of an excrescence resembling a
large wart upon the lower end of This
removal was quickly accomplished and the task
was of such nsignifcance that do not remember
upon which ear l operated. The patient sat in a
chair and used no anesthetic
Il probably did order my assistant to wash the
wound in solution of bichloride of mercury 1t is
standard preparation a germicde. and a child
buy it in any drug store. 1t is the same thing
as corrosive sublmate. The statement that this
wash prescribed has any bearing on the fact that
Rice died from bichloride of mercury is ridiculous
year intervened between the use of the solution
and the death of Mr.. Rice. The solution used was
instantly destroyed after the operation. There
were tablets left in the house. and there was no
one to prevent either Jones Patrick from OBJ
tanning these tablets"
THINKS DIR. CURRY MAY BE MISTAKEN
In spite OF the denial by Dr. Walker Curry who
attended Mr. Rice during his last illness that there
was no trace OF ether or chloroform in the room
where he found the twenty minutes after
death, the prosecution is pursuing every possible
clew TO establish the fact that Patrick killed the
old man by the of anesthet!c. Assistant
District Attorney Osborne. on hearing what DR.
Curry eaid. at once answered that he had every
reasoT TO believe that DR.. Curry was sincere but
that doctors had not always discovered the real
situation in poison cases. He made mention of the
Buchanan case. where poison found In body
which had been exhumed il spite of the n
slrances of experienced practitioners.
THEORIES OF DEPUTY CORONERs
DR.. Philip F. O'Hanlon. Coroner's Physician in
charge OF the has found something to inter
est him in the coincidence OF Jones's confession
with mis- views He thinks IT proves that MI
Rice was tho victim of mercural poisoning has
tened the end by the application of a strong
antRsthetc. No anasthetic was found at II AL
topsy, but DR. o. 'Hanon explains that II wouit Je
impossible after the body had been embameo
At the autopsy which performed the
body of Mr.. Rice by Deputy Coroner Donlin On
September & three days after death which
witnessed by Coroner Hart. Professor Witthaus
and four Central Office detectives the lungs were
found congested. but the heart sound
when DR.. Donlin yesterday he told
again what had been the result OF the autopsy
The doctor said:
My report TO the Coroner did not show that
death was caused by sunocaton- nor did IL show