The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-14

~strychnine and that ground glass had
been given her by her husband. II ac-
counted for the presence Of the arsenic
and glass In her bodyand offered an hypoth-
esls OF food poisoning as a cause Of death.
For two hours this morning the prosecu-
ton were trying TO shake this testimony Of
the expert.
DR.. Marshall's 'interrogator had much
difficulty at first in distin gushing bacilli
from ptomaines. His initial questions as
sunned the fact that a ptomaine was en-
dowed with life and a natural disposition to
do harm to the human system. The witness
had to advise the lawyer that a ptomaine
was only an inanimate substance, the result,
it might be, Of archaeological action on
soup, meat, watermelon, three onion sand
witches and two glasses Of beer, the constitu-
ents Of Mrs. Brouwer's last meal before her
fatal illness. On direct examination DR..
Marshall had said that as there was a trace
of arsenic found in the brain Of the dead
woman this fact helped to confirm the theory
that poison must have been injected into
the body after death. If il had been adj
ministered before death there was little like
lihood that any would reach the brain.
This part Of the testimony the lawyer at
tackled. He attempted 70 show that !! an
embalming fluid containing arsenic were in
jected in the brachial artery little Of it
would pass through the heart.
The attempts of he lawyer to trip the
witness up on questions of a technical char
acter finally nettled the witness and he
slapped back. The interrogation had asked
II arsenic could not pass through the body
by inhibition, a term DIR. Marshall had intro
duced. The witness SAID that it could, under
favorable circumstances.
What is inhibition, doctor?' asked the
lawyer.
"fnhibition,' replied the witness, lis the
transfer Of a fluid from one cellular tissue
TO another by the action Of the law Of os-
mosis, due to the difference In Osmotic
pressure between the adjacent pells. This
law OF osmosis is the application of the laws
of hydrostatic pressure to the ndh degree
Johnston looked staggered for a moment,
then gathered himself together.
We'll, il gets there just the same, doesn't
it?' he asked.
"Yes, it gets there, " replied DR.. Marshall
without the shadow Of a smile.
The rest Of the cross examination was OF
the same technical nature. The Phila-
delphia specialist was not compelled to
alter the testimony he gave yesterday in
his mother, Mrs. Caverley, will 90 on the
stand, and the defence will then rest its
case. IL is said by the lawyers that the case
may go to the jury Tuesday morning.
After court to-day two alarming rIrnors
spread through the town. One was to the
effect that one Of the jurors was very III.
1t developed later that juryman No. 2, John
U. Cobb Of Mayetta, had a s~tomachacha.
due, according TO Rose Murphy, for wenty-
eight years a waitress in the Ocean House.
to overlooking. She said she ' Lr saw q
juryman eat as No. 2 does. The ailinG jury-
man was taken to DR.. T.. r. Jones and bv
him a gentle sedative was administered.
No. ? recovered.
The other report was that the Sherif's
cat, Hiram, had dipped into the poisoned
eggnogg prepared as an exhibit 10 court
yesterday and left overnight on a window
ledge outside the Sherih's Office. Hiram
was said TO have been found with teeth set-
toes cu1ed under and all the other symp-
toms Of commissions manifested by VIC
tins Of strychnine poisoning. The sheriff
would neither confirm nor deny the rumor
to-day.