The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1905-09-08
Autopsy Showed ClOts On
Brain.
Continued from Page Five.)

II made a hypodermic injection in the
tumor. that was at the corner of the
left eye.
Q. Tell the jury what was your pur-
pose in doing that? A. / did it to re-
move the bruised looking blood that
was there.
c. In embalming any SUBJECT, where
there is any discoIeration, you inject
certain preparations to clear up the
skin as you did in ihls tumor? Did
it clear il up? A. Not exactly.
O. Is that the only thing you did
inject the fluid? A Yes. ct.
O. Is there any other point in which
you made any injection or openings
at all? A. No. only stomach and bow
els and arm.
@. Positive you made $40 other in
jections? A. Yes. sir.
@. Did you notice a wound any,
where? A. On left side of the head.
@. Did you examine it carefully ?
A. No. sir. / did not know about it
until | went to comb his head. II
was in the night time.
| @. Did you notice carefully and see
on this mans back and hips any dis
| coloration whatever? A. No. sir.
Q. Did you pay much attention to
the back? A. | never bothered the
| back at all.
q. You just cleared up the face
and hands? A. Yes, sir.
.. What instructions did you re-
ceive from DR.. Mckee about en-
balming this particular subject? A,
l received message on the telephone
myself. He said there was a gentle
| man over there that had died from
| exhaustion from running and he had
to communicate with his people. We
| took the body over until he could
hear from them.
q. Did DR.. Mckee authorize the
embalming of this body? He told me
20 'emhaln. 'theHbody, and he would
have to wait to hear from his people.
| He said the body could not be kept
unless it was embalmed.
%. Did you receive sthe message
yourself? A. Yes. sir.
Q. Was there anything said about
paying for the embalming, coffin and
etc. by DR.. Mckee? A He said he
would have to hear from the family
before he could do anything. I got
a message from DR. Mckee the fol-
lowing evening to prepare the body
and furnish a coffin for something like
to fix up casket and ship 1t.
c. That was the following evening
after you had embalmed the body?
A. Yes. we were to furnish casket
and ship the body for about $4,000
or $4,000.
@. Did you hold DR.. Mckee respon-
sible for that work? A. I could not
tell you that. l don't know what ar
engagements he made.
O. You had embalmed the body be-
fore you got the message? A. Yes.
@. You got the message over the
telephone? A. Yes.
Q. You are not the proprietor? A.
No. / reported 1t and the body was
embalmed.
@. You shipped that corpse? A.
Yes.
Q. Did you send the bill? A. sup
pose Mr.. Brown sent II. l did not
have anything to do with 1t.
q. Do you know fine amount Of the
bils that was sent? A. l heard Mr..
Brown say the whole thing was $500.
q. Do lyou know whether. in other
cases where bodies had been en-
balmed by you from the State Hospi-
tai the institution paid for the work
or whether ait was paid for by the
family Of the deceased? A. | do not
know. think it was already paid
for. We shipped the body Of c. O. D.
If they make the arrangements we
ship the body any time.
@. Did the burial robe that you
put on this man open in the back?
A. Yes. SIT.
Fab T. Brown. being sworn. testi-
fled as follows:
q. You are an embalmer? A. Yes.
@. What is your given name? A.
q. Did yun receive a subject from
he State Hospital on the oath of
august? A. / do not remember the
date.
u. Do you remember the name of
the party? A. Yes sir.
q. What was ~ A. n. Fl Nall
q. The jury want to know your
procedure in embalming a body? A.
The method of embalming? Tn this
case, we raised the brachal artery
ana yasilic vein. We extracted the
blonG from the Vasilic vein and in
1ecied the fluid in the brachial ar
rerv
u. Did YOU strike blood in the ar
Tery? A. Yes That constitutes what
we call arteriai embalming Then
We do cavity work. We make an
ouen1ng between the sternum and
navel and from that point we pune
ture the stomach and the intestines
ana different points. and also the two
pIeural cavities in the cardiac sac. We
Extract from those points the fluids,
and then inject our fluid in these
pldteS 10 preserve those parts.
u Explain what the pleural cavity
Is? A. The cavity around the lungs.
q. You spoke of the cardiac sac ?
A. That IS around the heart
o. That IS the usual procedure? In
entering this sac, 90 you enter the
heart? A. No; not necessarily?
e. Can you tell whether you en-
tered the heart? A. Yes.
u. Did you enter the heart of this
particular subject? A, I do not re-
memSer whether we did or not, I am
not sure. l am under the impression
that we did.
O. Did you do anything else to the
body that you have not described
4. Not anything more than after we
finished emba&sning him we shrouded
hIr:
9. Did you make any other open
ings? a. No. sir. There was a place
over the left eye that had a bruised
appearance I understand that the
bruised place was there when he was
received at the State Hospital
g. Yon understood that since the
embalming was done? A. Yes.
q. Wl.<n you did the embalming.
did YOU know that that had been
there since he was received at the
asylum A. No.