Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1906-11-27
Prosecution Offers in Evidence
Unborn Child Secured at
The Autopsy.
DEFENSE OBJECTED STRONGLY
Counsel Declared Purpose Was to
Make the Peoples Case Spec
tacuIar as Possible.
DR.. Douglas Infinitely Described Condi-
ton Usually Found In BODIES OF
Those Drowned.

Herkmer n. Y, Nov s7--With inter-
est heightened by the declaration Of
medical experts that Grace Brown was
dubbed 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 a thousand per-
SONS were turned away and those who
got seats were on hand as early as Z
o'clock to secure them.
The prosecution cannot complete Its
case before Thanksgiving and the case
VIII not go to the jury before Wednesday
Of next week. The defending counsel
are doing everything In their power to
SKATER the contentious on the district
attorney as advanced To the jury
through the medical experts called 10
the stand
A sensation was created In the court
room when the prosecution offered ss
evidence the unborn child taken from
the body OF Grace Brown at the autop-
sy. Dist Atty. Ward offered the exhibit
and met immediate objection from the
defense.
ut has no bearing on the case and
Is only offered as q means Of making
the peoples case spectacular said
Mr.. Thomas, Of counsel for Gillette.
IF were sure that there was to he
no denial from the defense that such
a condition existed | would exclude IT,"
said the court.
Mr.. Thomas assured him the girls
pregnant condition would not be dis
puted.
Mr.. Ward, the district attorney. IN
sisted that the exhibit be identified.
# would like TO exhibit the girls
| entire body here said Mr.. Ward. II
| have a right 20 take Il from It's grave
| IL ! want TO and bring it here
The exhibit was admitted. Dr. T.. n.
| Douglas, who occupied the witness
stand. swearing he assisted in its re-
| moval from the body found in Big
Moose lake
Or Douglas today gave several conf
parsons between the conditions usual
ly found in drowned bodies and the
conditions found IN the body OF Grace
Brown. He said.
THE liver IN eases of drowning Is
livid, In this cage Il was pale. In
cases OF drowning. ;he hands become
muddy and the finger nails dirty. They
were clean In this case There ~ water
In the pleura cavity in cases OF drown
ing; there was no such water in this
case No watery fluid flowed from
the lungs IA this case, as Is customary
III ufoNHlNg cases. Inc liver IN fnis
case was normal. In case OF drown
ing II is contracted. There was but
little water IN Grace Browns stomach;
there Is considerable ia case where a
person is drowned The diaphragm
In this case was elevated three Inches
when the lungs are filed with water
II has a tendency 10 depress the dia-
phragm."
on re-cross examination, pr Douglas
was asked II the three days that Grace
Browns body lay before Tie autopsy.
were not sufficient to allow the water
that naturally eoleoJs IN the lungs OF
drowned persons, TO escape. He said
wore were means BY which the water
.dI.ht leave tho lungs.
IN. George II. Smith corroporated the
testimony OF IN +. II Douglas and
a O. Douglas WHO preceded him today
by tes;lfying that Grace Brown came
60 her death from blows. The de-
Tense scored 4 point when Rev. Cuth-
bert Frost OF Lowyillc repeated his
statement that Gillette was the first
10 speak of the drowning OF Grace
Brown. after his arrival Mt Arrowhead.
Rev. Frost refused 70 swear to thst
statement again today.