The age-herald., 1902-03-12
DOCTORS HELP
 PATRICK'S CASE Testify That Ch|proforn Did Not Cause RICe's Death WOULD HAVE AWAKENED HIM pr. Gardner Says the Drug Has to Be Administered Slowly to Have
 Effect-saturated Towel
 Would Not Burn.
WOULD HAVE AWAKENED HIM

New York, March u.-Prof. James Ewing, of the medical department of Cornell University, who testified yester- day for the defense in the trial of Albert T. Patrick, who is accused of the mur- der of William M. Rice, was questioned again today. His cross-examination was continued by Assistant District Attorney Osborne, who put long hypothetical question that included all the history of MT Rices illness as related by Jones and by Dr, Walker Currey and asked Dr. Ewing if he could find anything be- tween Il o'clock on the morning of Sun- day and o'clock in the evening when Rice died which could have caused his death
 MT Moore objected on the ground that the question did not contain fair state ment of testimony in the case. Recorder Golf overruled the objection. Dr. Ewing said the question was so full of contradic- tions thaa he could not answer it. Asked to detail the contradictions he said MT. Rices lungs could not have been normal when the autopsy showed an area of congestion that indicated pneumonia; that he could not have been thoroughly examined by competent physician, if the person making the examination found no indication of lung trouble and attri- buted the difficulty in breathing to mental worry.
 Would Cause Death.
 MT. Osborne amended the question and Dr. Ewing said there was no need for anything to intervene to cause death be- yond the symptoms described and disre- garded by Dr. Curry.
 Dr. Ewing said that, taking into con sideration the consolidation or patch in Rioes lung shown by ,-le autopsy to- gether with the congestion and other conditions found. he thought there were sufficient signs to account for the death of a patient S4 years of age. The pneu- monia might have killed Rice in two hours or 1t might have taken longer.
 On redirect examination Dr. Ewing said he thought pneumonia, oedema and congestion of the lungs were present in Rices death.
 Dr. John Gardner was the next wit ness. He said he was the author of work on chloroform. MT. Moore de- scribed the administration of chloroform as Jones said he gave it to MT. Rice and asked Dr. Gardner if it could be done that way.
 Tn my opinion" Dr. Gardner replied, fit could not The shock of placing the chloroform in a cone. as described, over the face of patient would awaken the patient. Chloroform to be effective must be administered slowly
 ChIoroform Will Not Burn.
 Dr. Gardner said chloroform saturated, rag would not burn as Jones' described the burning of the towel he took from MT. Rice's face He said he had made a number of experiments and based his reply upon the results of those experi- ments. Recorder Golf would not let him describe those experiments.
 MT Moore put the same hypothetical question as to the cause of death that he had put to Dr. Ewing and Dr. Gard ner replied:
 ''I answer your question as physician not as a pathologist. From the picture you have drawn I form the opinion that the patient died of oedema or dropsy of the lungs and that a remote cause of death was nephryts.
 Did the patinet die of chloroform poi soning?"
 "There is no evidence of chloroform poisoning in anything you have said"