The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1906-04-02
SEVENTEEN new WI N IlESSES
BE SUMMONED IN MURDER CASE
WILL LIKELY
LAST ALL WEEK

There was>a larger audience n :ht,
court room this morning than IS usrsI
for the morning sessions of the Pay
ton Wright trial There is no telling
yet when the case viii 20 to the jr:---
1t assumed wider proportions yester-
day when seventeen new Witnesses
were summoned. attorney Ogden is
making a strong effort TO break dow
DR.. Kortright's testimony and It look
now that he viii accomplish this END
The testimony OF several physicians
to-day was anczSoniseic TO Dr. Kort-
rights evidence a1dueed at this pria::
stand this morning She said that
she saw Jake take alcohol and that
he went out on the streets afterward
and swore- She said thar Mcclellan
Rose was never in ch.e PAXTON ho21e
and that Mrs Payton and Ms Shu-
man never visited each other She
said that Jake had the heatachs and
the defendant gave him money 90 GET
powders to relieve the pain She said
that she held Payron's han.1 and e
was damp. She said thar PayJon was
In constant pain before his death She
saw Payton take something from
bottle which Mrs Paytor knocked
from Payron's hand She said that
the bottle contained caraoIfc acid
The acid burned Jakss hips so hard
that there were little white blisters
upon them This happened abour ST.
weeks before Jake's death
Dr. Mcdonald, OF the Miners Hos
pital, was then called He statei that.
IN post mortem examination the hrst
thing done IL TO examine the external
part OF the body. then the internal or
gans. as the brain the heart the
lungs. the stomach. the hvcr, kidneys.
inreSGr.S aad Spieen- He said THAI
it was the poison strychnIne
which was absorbed that killed anu
not by that found In lhe stomach
That alcohol and morohia are more
readily absorbed than strychnicc- Ho
said that Ihs lethal lose OF ctrEch-
MIN. was on. Srain Old authorities
cay,. q srnall-.r amount AZ tue .ethaf
dose. Counsel brought out the fact
that there are men who are addicted
TO the use OF scychninc in order TO
break up the morphine habit This IS
done because OF the antasonistic ef-
feet OF the two drugs Morphine low
ers the ambition Of the user and has 4
tendency to CAUSE dependency ano
self destruction in and by tho uscr.
He said that wood alcohol Is 3 posi-
tive. poison. The convulsFons OF the
patient who dies from wood alchot are
more violent than they would be were
1t grain alcohol he had taken IhaI
there is less coma in wood alcohol than
in grain alcohol. The witness said
that much cheap whiskey contains
wood alcohol. That there Is no way
OF different atiny some other alEaloids
from vegetable alicaloids. The witness
said that the old tests given by old
are no account since t.e
discovery OF these alialoids. he
said that In organic alkalotos there
is no chemical analysis that VII! show
what it is He took the tube that con-
tanned the substance found BY Or.
Kortrisht and said that he did not
think that any man could say what
1t was He said-t that II a grain OF
s,rychnine were found In mans
stomach and he died an hour after he
Ind taken It. 1t would be presumed
that the body had absorbed enough
OF the drug TO produce death He
said that a man used to ertn':ins wool
alcohol it would require q greater
quantity for lethal dose tnan 70 one
who has not formed the habit He
said that he would not take any one
chemists analysis about the stomach
and that a chemist finding one sub
stance In a stomach SUFFICIENT 10 pro.
duce death that It would not be enough
TO stop The examination there that
search should be continued. He said
Cco6tin1ed on 5th Pssej
Harry Robinson. manufacturer OF
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