Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-01-19
TUCKER TRIAL.
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| Witness said the material 1T ms oiS-
poSaI was small and exhaustive tests
were impossible.
DR.. Leary said the blood spots on the
| knife We're of such a nature that theH
might have been caused by the Diood
| from any one of n number OF ANIMALS
| including rabbits, rats and SquirreiS.
| The blood on the button Of the over
! cont undoubtedly came from witness
said n human being. The spot on the
| lapel had been so thoroughly scraped
by Prof. Wood that tests to which DIR.
| cary subjected it gave no result.
Witness stated that he also had en-
| perienced difficulty in examining the
| stains on the trousers because tn"S
| had been so thoroughly scraped by the
| experts for the commonwealth Inc
witness also stated that it was prac-
| tically impossible to tell the age OF
| blood stains within six months after
| they were ten days old. He was thei
asked by Mr.. Valley to give his opinioi'
as 70 the manner and order in which
| Mabel Pages Wounds were inflicted.
Mr. Parker interrupted to ask wheth-
or witness considered himself compe-
tent to discuss the question as an eX-
had not had actual experience in con-
nection with the wounds mentioned ne
did consider himself competent to eT-
| press an opinion. He then stated that
| he thought the WOunI III the back was
first inflicted. then the wounds IN the
neck and the wound in the heart was
| the last He thought that i:fe remained
| in the body for a period OF about zen
| minutes.
| At the beginning of the Cross-eXami-
| nation Attorney Gen. Parker brought
out the information that 'f all me au-
topsies which witness had performed IN
not more than six cases was death
| caused by knife wounds.
| Are your conclusions as arrived ut
| in this case. asked thu attorney -sener-
al, materially inconsistent with thos"
of Pref. Wood?'
"They are not
| "Do You consider DR.. Wood most
eminent in this line of investigation
| Il do
| and was it not from him that you
received your information while at col
lege."
| 1T was. Bat since thai time I hay"
|
| pcricnce.
Mr.. Parker then asked number Of
| hypothetical questions relative To tn"
| flow Of blood from wounds and the APP
| proxin3at" time of le nth after the in
Fiction Of stab wounds.
The attorney general IN his cross-eX-
animation of D:. L"ary entirely aban-
doncd the sarcastic manner in which
| he had treated previous witnesses.
| Many in the audience showed disap-
| pointmcnt at this. having come in eX-
| pcctntion of h.1Tilg more word battles
between Attorney Parker and the ex-
| pcrtS.
After a few technical questions the
cross-examnltion WAS concluded and
after Mr. Valley had asked one trchni-
cal question in redirect examination
the witness was excused A ten min
| uteS recess followed.
Or. Arthur r. Austin OF Newton,
physician and chemist and professor of
medical chemistry At Tufts College.
next took the stand. He said he had
made a speciality to blood examination.
With Dr. L.cary ne had examined par
ticlcs of clothing and the knife tnt"r-
ed as evidence in this case. The blood
stains on the knife he bad examined
scparntely. His Investigations showed
| that the spots on the knife We're inron-
eistrnt with hunlan blood and consis-
tent with animal blood. This blood
might nave como. witness said. from
horse, red or gray squirrel an OK or
Il pig The .'orpuScleS Were normal, 50
| far as he could observe.
| Witness said the spots en- the lower
| part Of the )V"rCOat responded 20 tests
| Of human blood. TIL" spots ON the iapei
| were in such a condition that witness
| could reach no conclusion as to their
cause.
| DR.. Austin said he had examined
portion of the contents of the stomach
of Miss Page ard ma l formed the opin-
| ion that digestion had been going on
for 80 or 20 minutes. Il third of that
time being after death.
could the blood on the overcoat have
come from drops from a cut finger"
asked Mr. Valley.
Dr. Austin said the condition in
which he found the contents of the
stomach when he received them might
have been more favorable. Witness
|
| impossible to tell the age of blood
| stains Sometimes it was difficult even
| within ten days.
Cross examined by Attorney General
| Parker DR.. Austin said this was the
first case in which he had given teSti-
| mony in court. He admitted that the
methods employed by DIR. Leary and
| himself were those of necessity and
| not the best in existence. He said he
| had only 6S blood vessels to examine
out of about 5,O00.000 ana that he
could have obtained more satisfactory
results with Il greater number.
| Witness said the digestion Of food
in Miss Pages stomach was too far
advanced to have been of only 10
minutes duration, as suggested by tho
attorney general. He admitted that
under certain circumstances digestion
| would continue even after the stomach
had been removed from the body.
unless arrested arrested by chemicals.
He would not admit, however. that the
conclusions he had arrived at in this
case We're radically wrong.
| On Redirect eXdmiul ion Mr., Nahev