New-York tribune., 1900-01-20

germs later II had made more cultures
Mr.. Osborne called for the report Dr. Smith
made to the Health Board on the Barnet case.
He showed 1t to DR.. Douglass and asked If it
was not DR.. Smiths report. DIR. Douglass read
the letter through and admitted that 1t was in
substance what DR.. Smith had told him he re-
ported. The letter was admitted in evidence
DR.. Douglasss own letter to the Health Board
requesting permission to remove the body or
Barnet on the night he died was read. In 1t he
said that Barnet had not had diphtheria for five
days. Mr. Osborne asked IL that was true. He
replied that he was mistaken as to the number
of days. He should have said three days
Did you tell any member of the Health Board
that Barnet received through the mails pack
age of Kutnow powder containing cyanide of
MERCURY? e.yS
Barnet had told you that fact?"
This objected to by Mr.. Weeks. but was
MIR. Barnet told me he had received box of
Kutnow powder, and that he didn't know where
it came from.
PART OF THE ANSWER CUT OUT.
Again Mr. Weeks objected. and was sustained
as to the latter portion of the answer of Dr.
Douglass.
Off it were not the fact that the box had been
poison why did you have the powder analysed?
Alt was because 1 found evidences of mercury
Q.-Because you had found symptoms of mercuric
Q.NWhy. then, did you not order a search made
for the in which the box * nroSbg bg
been found When the cyanide OF mercury was
found in the analysis asked that search for the
wrapper be made
Q.-And you knew Barnet had received an anony-
NOUS Package through the mail? AmYss' Yes rsnort
to you that there was cyanide of mercury in the
Q.-You knew the symptoms of diphtheria dsap-
peared on & MoveWner si Z? {e ere set in twenty
four hours before death? A.-Yes.
Q-And yet you did not report TO- the Board o3
A.-Thats not a fair question. It's statement
o,EBut fe You didn't? A-No.
Q.-Yop believe that Barnet died of the real gen
Q.-Did you not say that he was likely to lose his
om S ay Ha enough poi
son in him to kill fifty people? "a Al did not
Odd you not say to Barnets brother that Bar
net suffering from To ms5aS 9saeS
that. 1 can tell you what did say If you will let
Q-Didnt you say it prac .ically? Al said he
liberia.
why did you not put in the death certificate"
Mr.. Osborne finally asked, the fact that you
found evidence of cyanide of mercury"
DIES NOT BELIEVE POISON THEORY.
Because" the witness replied, slowly and en-
phatically, "I do not believe that Barnet died
from cyanide of mercury. I have followed this
case from the sick room to the grave. l was
present at the exhumation. 1 have read the
testimony of your expert chemists, but am
forced to-day to say that my belief as to the
cause of Barnet's death remains unshaken."
Dr. Andrew H Smith next called. Mr.
Osborne put to him a hypothetical question COW
ering Barnet's symptoms. and asked hlm TO
state what was the cause of death. MY opin-
ion," the witness replied, would be that the
mercuriaI substance whatever 1t was, caused
death" Mr.. Weeks also put a long hypothetical
question to the witness, based upon symptoms
which Mr.. Osborne had not mentioned, and in
his reply Dr. Smith said in effect that if the
symptoms were such as Mr. Weeks described
he might not be justified in saying death was
due to mercuria1 poisoning.
1920 a. M