The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1906-11-27
AWFUL EXHIBIT.
Body OF Grace Browns Unborn
Child Put i'm Evidence
In the Trial of Gillette for the
Girls Murder.
MANY TURNED AWAY.
MANY TURNED AWAY.
Eager Crowd Can't Be Accom-
mOdated at the Trial.
Testimony Of Physician Tends
to Prove Murder by Blow.

Herkimer. N. Y, Nov. 27-With in
terest heightened by the declaration of
the medical experts that Grace Brown
was clubbed before she fell into the
waters of Big Moose lake, there was a
larger crowd than ever at the Gillette
murder trial today. More than thou
sand persons were turned away and
those who got seats were on hand as
early as seven O'Clock to secure them.
Only two of the six doctors employed
by the district attorney to perform the
autopsy on Grace Browns body have
been on the stand. The prosecution
probably will conclude the questioning
of two more of them today The pros
ecutioa cannot complete its case before {
Thanksgiving and the case will not go
to the jury before Wednesday Of next
week
Coached by DR.. Suitors, of Herkimer
the defending counsel are doing every
thing in their power to shatter the con-
tentions Of the district attorney as ad-
vanced to the jury through the med
ical experts called to the stand.
A sensation was created in the court
room when the prosecution offered as
evidence the unborn child taken from
the body of Grace Brown at the
autopsy. District Attorney Ward offer
ed the exliblt and met Immediately OBJ
lection from the defense.
1T has no bearing on the case and
is only offered as a means of making
the peoples case spectacular" said Mr.
Thomas of counsel for Gillette.
If 1 were sure that there was to be
no denial from the defense that such
condition existed 1 would exclude it, ="
said the court Mr. Thomas assured
not be disputed. Mr.. Ward, the district
attorney insisted that the exhibit be in
troduced. Il would like to exhibit the
girls entire body here" said Mr. Ward.
rio ~ %r,lr
grave If / want to, and bring it here" !"
The exhibit was admitted, DR.. z. H.
Douglas, who occupied the witness
stand, swearing he assisted in its re-
moval from the body found in Big
Moore lake. DR.. Douglas today gave
several comparisons between the con-
ditions usually found in drowned bodies
and the conditions found in the body
of Grace Brown. He said:
The liver in cases Of drowning Is
liyid; in this case it was pale. In cases
of drowning the hands become muddy
and the finger nails dirty. They were
clean in this case. There is water in
the pleura cavity in cases of drowning;
there was no such water In this case.
No watery fluid flowed from the lungs
in this case, as is customary in drown
ing cases. The liver in this case was
normal In cases of drowning 1t is con-
tracted. There was but little water in
Grace Browns stomach; there is con-
siderable where person is drowned" p"
The diaphragm in this case was ele-
waited three inches; when the lungs are
filed with water it has a tendency to
depress the diaphragm.
On recross examination, DR.. Douglas
was asked if the three days that Grace
Browns body lay before the autopsy,
were not sufficient to allow the water
that would naturally collect in the lungs
of a drowned person to escape. He said
there were means by which the water
might leave the lungs.
DIR. George III. Smith corrob0rated the
testimony Of DR. K. H. Douglas and A.
@. Douglas who preceded him today by
testifying that Grace Brown came to her
death from blows. The defense scored a.
point when Rev. Cuthbert Frost of Low
vile qualified his statement that Gillette
was the first to speak OF the drowning
Of Grace Brown after his arrival at
Arrowhead. Rev Frost refused to swear
to that statement again today.