The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-07-19

| ef the body through which the bullet pass
| ed. 50 that its impetus would have been
/ greatly diminished by the time It reached
| and passed through the rib
! Did you say that you noticed a brulse
/ on Mrs. FOsburgh, seHiu-?'' asked Mr.
! Joyner-
| Yes. tho left side Of her neck was dis
| coIored ana bruised. I said: So they hurt
you, too. She said. Did they2' Then she
/ put her hand to her neck and said. SO
/ they have. ! don't know anything about
/ it I remember only getting out OF bed
, MT. FosburEh 7nior, had a terrible bruise
/ on the side OF his head. I was called to
attend him few days later and found
( bruises on his body. a cracked rib, and
an injury to his knee. The defendant had
a bruise and discoIoration on his neck 1
did not look at it closely nor ask about it
1t did not amount TO anything He said
that he thought he had been hit with a
sandbag. What he called a sandbag
might have made such ar injury
When he entered the room where the
body was Dr. Paddock said Beatrice was
! lying on the bed with a young woman.
/ They were weeping Both were fully
dressed. They jumped up when he came
I. IL He cOuIG not say whether Beatrice :
companion was the defendants wife or
Miss Sheldon, of Providence, R J., who
was visitor in the house When he sa "
the defendants wife. about $50 o'clock in
the morning. when the autopsy was per-
formed. she was very nervous and ne
prescribed for her.
OBJECTED To An AUTOPSY.
The defan5ant" went On the witness
got VI from the breakfast table when 7
called in the morning to perform the au-
topSy and said that he did not want any
examination Of his sister / told him that
it was necessary. The father said that
the law must take its course and told his
son not to interfere.
The report on the autopsy which the
witness had filed on the evening Of Au-
gust 20. the day of the shooting was
shown to him Then there came a conf
Dental conference between judge and
counsel 1t is in these conferences that
the court makes its rulings Dr Pad
dock scanned the report and said that it
seemed TO be correct. Mr. Joyner gave
the witness back to the prosecution Then
Dr. Paddock was allowed TO say that in
his opinion a -32-caIibre bullet from the
pistol supposed 10 have been the one
young Fosburgh owned would not have
gone entirely through Miss Fosburgh's
body, no matter how short the range
Or Paddock was excused and Frank E
Pierson who keeps the hardware store il
Pi7tsfeld where the defendant bought his
revolver, was called. SIR. Pierson said:
He ordered revolver on June 26. 1893.
He said that he wanted one Of 90 calibTe,
blue steel. ! got for him Il 50 calibre.
centre-fre- hammerless revolver
Mr- Pierson Identified as au exactly sim
liar weapon the one with which DR. Pad
dock performed experiments. He looked
at a lot Of cartridges, some OF the kind
which Dr. Paddock used, and which were
supposed 10 be like those young Fos-
burgh bought, and said they contained
the same powder charges
NIr. Nicholson, the Chief Of Police, went
to the stand at-4o.57 o'cIoca- He identi-
fed some cartridges as those which the
defendant had given 20 him after the
shooting. saying that they were cart
ridges he had bought when ae got the re-
yOIver-
lTr. Nicholson said that DR. Paddock
had used some Of these and similar car
tridges TO make tests and experiments.
This was the limit of the direct exau1ina-
ton at this time, the court raving grant
Cd to the prosecution permission to can
him for the purpose of bT71 sIEg his tes-
tiTnoEy about the cartridges in the order
cf proof The cross examination was
brief and resulted in no change in testi-
muay.
The next witness was William Henry
Rose, Of Cambridseport. Mess, salesman
for = Boston fire arms company He said
that the bullet taken out Of Miss Fos=
buEhs Dody and the one from the comb
case on the bureau in the F0sbuTgh house
spare room were the same. as the bullets
in the cartridges which Afr Nicholson
said he had got from Young F0sburgh and
with the cartridges Identified by EaEg rs
having been told to the defendant The
powder charges behind the bullets Of the
calibre and from those cartridges were
uniform the witness said