The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1905-03-17

Q:-How much have you been paid
for your services in this case?
A:--One hundred dollars
Q:-How much more Will you get?
A:-That is all l expect OF will get
10 running fire of questions DR..
Leroy answered
L did not take the specimens when
| fist saw the clothes, because, as 1
understood 1t, the attorneys for the
defendant objected. No, l do not
REMEMBER that it was ''the clothes
you objected to my taxing. l did not
then know the name of the defendant,
ana do not now know the name of the
man who was killed. l perhaps did
say was probably the only man in
the State who had been doing such
work. or much of such work.
found blood in three CT the stains. /
did not use all the pieces containing
the stains. only cut away half and
left the other half. The odor l de-
tected was benzine or gasoline. 1t was
not coal oil. II was strong enough for
me to detect it without my attention
being called to it, The slow OF rapid
evaporation of benzine depends upon
how deep 1t is in the cloth, and how
absorbent the cloth is
E-CROSSED.
BY MI. VOORHEES, - You were asked
by Mr. Hatcher how much you were
paid tor your services. Did the result
of your work have anything to do with
your pay, or were you simply paid
according to contract to make the tests?
A:-Tne result had nothing to do
with 1t. | was paid for my work
simply.
DIR. W. A. BRYAN
of Nashville, said he graduated at
Wander bllt University in 1899 That
he practiced surgery. That DR.. Leroy
and hi mself had Offices in the same
building in Nashville. That he knew
DI. Leroy well. and that his standing
in his line of work was not only good
but very good,
DIR. Bryan SAID tina he had also made
some study. though not any special
study of blood. That he mad assisted
DIR. leroy recently in analyzlng some
stained pieces of clothes; the analysis
showed blood
CROSSED.
l saw only one test That was last
week; perhaps the latter part. The
scIaping was made in my presence,
Rnd my best recollection is that it was
made from only one piece of cloth.
DIR. LEROY RECALLED.
My last test was with Dr.. Bryan.
Some week or two ago. | discovered
the blood from same sample | had dis
covered il on before. | did this for cor
roDoratlon DR.. Bryan wanted to see
it. | did not care. l suppose the law
yers on the other side wanted him 10
see it to confederate my statement.
Yes, | have read D.. MallaId's testi-
mony. l do not know that the inter
rogatories were submitted to me- before
they were taken. l do not know how
that was.
DIR. W. E. COX.
live at Theta, in the second district
of this couny. Am practlclng ply
stefan. l knew Jno. W. Reaves in his |
life time. | also know the defendant, |
Lee RoundtIee. Have known him
intimately and well. We have / cen on |
good terms, and | have done some |
practice in his family. ! was called to
the Reaves house the ~ ming his
dead body was found to examine The
body. 1t was lying on boards In front
Of the house 1t was partly stripped
found wounds on the head. One
slight wound just above and tack of
the right ear; about three inches
long another slight abrasion a little
above that; and above that another
place where the skull was punctured.
and still another place where the skull /
was driven in. | ran my finger in this
hole an inch OF more. They were dan
geIous wounds and might have pre- /
1uced death, though / could not say
positively they would. think there
were five wounds in the head. but only
,wo dangerous ones Reaves' throat
was also cut, almost from ear to ear
It appeared as if his assailant had
aiken three or four ticks at him. On
he left side of the throat all the YES
,ols were severed.
CD you think these wounds
we're, OF could have been seIf-lnhicted?
A:-No, I do not think they were Oh
Gould have b.en
Q:-Did you see any blood about
here?
a Ayes, just inside the front lawn
gate, there was quite a pool of blood;
IS big around nearly as a mans hat.
And there was plain trail of blood
eading to the barn lot gate.
Off the body was carried, do YOU
hink it was carried from the lawn
rate to the barn lot gate. or carried
he other way? Il
Al thought it was carried from
he lawn gate to the lot gate.