The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1903-06-02

| he was walking on the sidewalk on tbe
front of the Tucker building, but would
not be able to identify the perscn.
Mr.. A. T. Mann was examined by FIR.
Woodard for the character OF George Will.
| hams. George, some days after the af-
fair, had told him he was here near John
sons drug store. / had seen two men
come out of the post office, and heard the
pistol fire. Had seen no fight.
i On cross-examination as to Williams
character, witness said he knew he had
gotten into trouble for messing with
whiskey
Then Senator Woodland introduced the
bill of Indictment and the affidavit OF Mr..
Haywood at the July term of court.
/ These were admitted by consent without
reading, and considered in
MEDICAL TESTIMONY.
! Here the prosecution rested. and the
| defense called first DR.. W. +. Roysfer.
OF this city. Had been practicing modi-
cine since 1868. Capt. Day examined DR..
Royster, who said that death was caused
by internal hemorrhaGes, produced by the
piercing of the aorta.
Most obvious external expression would
be gradual increasing pallor and gradual
decreasing muscular power 1t would
take a man at least about one minute
to bleed to death, possibly m9re. With
such would man could live long
enough to walk from the curb to the
east rail OF the car track. A man dying
from shock would fall almost suddenly
and from all medical experience would
probably fall backward. man dying
from loss of blood would go slower and
slower as his muscular power left him
and sink down gradually
Cross-examined by Mr.. Woodard DIR.
Royster said a person would not die
quicker from a wound in the aorta than
from puncturing of the muscular tissue
of the heart. Under some conditions
death would result quicker from a wound
through the aorta. Unconsciousness would
not begin until enough blood had run out
Death could not be instantaneous. as the
authorities hold that one-quarter of the
blood Of the body must go out in order
to produce death. certain amount Of
shock is produced by all wounds. Such
wound as this would not produce any
great amount of shock, except the shock
resulting from loss OF blood.
The tension of the aorta regulates the
flow of blood through it and the quicker
the pulsations Of the heart, the more
the aorta contracts.
DR.. A. W. Goodwin was examined also
by Capt. Day. He said Mr.. Skinner died
from internal hemorrhage. man wound
ed as Mr.. Skinner was would live about
minute, not less. Would not lose con
sciousness till loss of blood caused
anaemia of the brain. He thought
man could hive long enough to walk from
the curb to the car track. People dying
from hemorrhage sink down gradually
DR.. Hubert A. Royster was then exam
ined by Capt. Day. Death was from
hemorrhage. A man would live 60 Sec
onds or perhaps more. In death from
hemoEIhage the man would die more
gradually. Death from shock would be
more sudden and there would be no time
for any observations. A man wounded in
this way could get from the sidewalk to
the street car track
Cross examined by Mr. WoodarI DR..
Royster said that death would not occur
from shock in a case of this kind, al
though some surgeons held that there was
shock caused by anammia.
Asked if he had ever had actual ex-
perience of wounds of this kind, nr. |
Royster said that in Pittsburg, Pa, man |
shot through the aorta, and also through /
the left ventricle of the heart. ran 100
yards before he. died. DR.. Royster did |
not know the exact circumstances Of this
case, whether the man was standing still |
or moving when shot.
DR.. j. R. Rogers, also examin@l by |
Capt Day, said that death was from in
ternal hemorrhage. man shot as Mr..
Skinner was could live long en- ugh to
go from the sidewalk to the car track
Mr.. Woodard cross examined Dr.. Rogers
as to the amount of blood that would
flow from wound in the aorta in about
a minute. DR.. Rogers SAID that shock,
as of being shot, would increase the speed
Of the pulsations of the heart. The heart
beats Y times to the minute, and each
beat would drive out from the heart
ounces of blood.
On redirect by Capt. Day. Or. Rogers
said that all the blood discharged from
the heart after the wound would not go
out through the hole in the aorta Some
would go to the upper limbs.
Dr. T. M. Jordan, the Coroner, who was
present at the autopsy: Hemorrhage in
ternaly was the cause of death Impos-
sible to say how long it would take to
bleed to death, but approximately about
q minute. A man dying OF shock is dead
Dying of hemorrhage. he
dies slowly Of course there is some
shock in deaths from hemorrnage, but II
comes slowly. Wounded like Mr.. Skinner
a man could walk probably so or so or
Is feet; would walk until he got so weak
he could walk no further.
On cross-examination DR. Jordan show
I'd the bullet taken rom Mr.. SINNERS
body. AS to the time which would elapse
before a man would die or lose conscious
ness it would be conjecture to say, and
hen DR.. Jordan went to explain just how
le calculated that man would bleed to
leath in about minute. He would con-
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