The San Francisco call., 1904-03-23

ton to his expenses for coming to the
fed the box Of candy in evidence as the
same as that he had seen in the PEN
nington home, and testified to taking
five pieces of the candy TO DR.. Wolfe
for analysis. He gave as a reason why
he did not perform autopsies on the
bodies of the dead women that the
family objected to such a course. He
admitted that he had made a mistake,
and said that he should have overruled
the objection. His testimony --ed the
morning session.
HAD NO DOUBTS.
DR.. PRESLEY S. Downs. a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania and a
medical practitioner for twenty five
years, proved an entirely different kind
of witness, and Attorney Knight
handled him gingerly and cautiously.
DR.. Downs was called to the bedside of
Mrs. Dunning the morning after the
death of Mrs. Deane. After an exam
ination he at once positively diagnosed
the case as one of arsenical poisoning.
and so informed DR.. Bishop. He said
he had not the slightest doubt of it and
did not need an autopsy to convince
him, but thought one should have been
made as a matter of corroboration. He
described the symptoms at length and
made intelligent differentiations be-
tween ptomaine and arsenical poison
ing and cholera morbus.
knight started to air some of his
recently acquired medical knowledge,
but he found DR.. Downs so thoroughly
intrenched at all points in medical mat
ters that the attorney quickly aban-
doned this line of attack. He finally
succeeded in bringing out that the doc
tor did not regard lump arsenic and
powdered arsenic as essentially differ
ent, both being chemically the same
and differing only mechanically. Much
stress was laid on this point by the
defense, as it is purposed to show that
the arsenic in the candy was lump ar
senic, which is not readily obtainable
at pharmacies. DIR. Downs also ad-
mitted that he had been promised $500
in addition to his expenses for his trip
westward and the consequent loss of
business.
Harry c. Pennington was recalled to
testify that as FAR as he knew the
only box of candy in the Pennington
home on August 9. 1898, was that which
was received by Mrs. Dunning and
which is an exhibit in the case.
DIR. Theodore r. Wolfe, State chem
ist for Delaware and professor of chem
istry at the Delaware State Univer-
sity, was the next witness. He it was
who made the analysis OF three pieces
of candy taken from the box by DIR.
Bishop and submitted to DR.. Wolfe.
The chemist testified that he broke the
three pieces and extracted from them
several Jumps of white, crystallized sub
stance. Then he treated the candy to
five recognized tests for the discovery
Of arsenic and succeeded in recovering
40 of a grain from it, Subsequently
he tested the Jumps removed from the
candy and found them to be arsenic,
weighing 11.56 grains. He stated that
fatal dose Of arsenic was from two
TO four grains, varying as regards the
condition of the system.
In making the analysis he used the
Marsh test; the Reinch test, a pecu-
liarly delicate one; the manganese test,
the charcoal reduction test and the
sulphuretted hydrogen test, and with
all of these arsenic was found in the
candy after the removal of the Jumps,
and the Jumps also were ascertained
to be arsenic. The results Of all Of his