The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-10-13
SCIENCE AIDS DR.. BROUVER
DTSCOLORATION or MIXTURE NOT
DUE TO STRYCHNINE:H
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Tons RIvER. n. J., Oct. I2.-By evidences
that can only be seen under strong lenses
and by proof that lies In the division Of
particles did the counsel detsndinx DR..
Frank Brouwer build up at to-day's4session
Of the court the first wall OF defence. The
throng In attendance, the lawyers and jury
eat in strained attention while the laws of
chemistry worked out in a mixture made
IN . nsh globe corroboration Of the accused
Doctors innocence. Again IL was only the
lenses Of q powerful microscope tn~t Uvsia
bring to the eye OF justice proof that what
the accusation against the prisoner alleges
could not be.
The defence put DIR. John Marshall OF
Philadelphia on the stand after the noon
recess. II was upon the testimony Of this
witness, more than Of any other, even OF
the defendant himself. that the lawyers
for the defence depended for the clearing
OF their client from the charge ~ murder.
The Philadelphia specialist. . thin little
man with scientific eIactitude written In
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him a heavy yellow bag. From this hs
took a collection OF tin boxes, phiais and
powder papers; which he RANGED on the
corner OF the Judges desk beside him.
Then he sat with hands folded TO be inter.
roRated. Lawyer Wilson put beside him
on the counsel's table three tall bottles OF
emhalming fluid. specimens taken from
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the Lakewood undertaken who had prepared
the body OF Mrs. Brouwer for burial. Que
OF the bottled fluids was rose pink. one
was dirty brown, and the third wa water
white.
specimens Of ~embalming fluid, said Wilson.
What were the results Of your anslysis1'
This fluid sale the analyst, specifying
one Of them by name, contains no arsenic;
this second fluid contains sea grains OF
arsenic to the ounce and the third specimen
contains 7.43 grains to The ounce"
Now, DR.. Marshall, supposing the body
OF Mrs. Brouwer were embalmed with
the fluid containing no arsenic, but sup
posing that the pump or special instrument
used to inject this non-arsenica fluid into
the body OF Mrs. BroHwer had previously
often been used to inject the arsenicai
varieties Of embalming hnid into bodies
and tina the tubes. Through which this ar
senical duid had been passed had not been
cleaned between times. do you think il
possible that the residue Of arsenic remain
ing in the tubes from former usage could
be injected into the body OF Mrs. Brouwer
along with the non-arsenical huid7"
yes"
And do you think that this could very
probably account for the arsenic found
in Mrs. Brouwer's body after death?"
"Yas," again aid the witness, and the
cornerstone OF the defence OF DR.. Brouw er
was thus set in place.
The interrogation then continued to show
by this witness that 10 arsenic was thus in
jected into Mrs. Brouwer's BODY in the
manner supposed it would be distributed
to just those points where the prosecution
said they had found il. DR.. Marshall said
the dist ribution OF the poison would be 40
cOmplished by the natural agency Of in
hibition. Then it was that on further ques-
tioning DR.. Marshall produced some OF his
phials. He had made both a cumulative
and a qualit alive analysis OF the a~rsenious
fluids, he said, and the results were best
demons rated by comparison. He showed
one small bottle that contained about q
thimbleful Of white fluid and a second with
just a trace Of some white substance in
the bottom.
The defence had to meet the accusation
DIR. Brouwer had put ground glass in
his wife's food. which accusation was sup
ported by the tangible evidence OF a dozen
splinters OF glass found by DIR. Genth in
the viscera Of The dead woman. DIR Marshall
testified to a series OF experiments he had
made with bottles similar to those in which
the vital organs OF the eXhumed body Of
Mrs. BrOuwe had been placed for ship
ment to DR.. GeLth's PHILADELPHIA labora-
tory. In three new jars which had never
been used DIR. Marshall had found minute
chips Of glass. In one Jar which a been
washed he put in fifteen pieces of fine glass.
ONT the jar three times and vet
eleven pieces left adhering TO the
sides OF the vessel. In one OF the Mason
fruit jars used to convey the specimens
to DIR. Genth the witness said he had dis
some fragments Of glass similar
to those discovered in the vita ais Of the dead
woman by DR.. Genth.
The witness brought ont 81 a box some
microscopic slides and a high power micro
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in q mortar, he explained. The other had
mounted on il the glass splinters ne found
in the Mason Jar. Tho microscope would
the fact that the chips OF glass
In Mrs. Brouwer's intestines could
not have been pounded glass, for the shapes
Of crushed agass particles and OF the clipped
glass splinters taken from the fruit jars
were each characteristic and differing
the one from the other.
The final test of the afternoon and the
most dramatic was the mixing by Dr..
Marshall Of q nutritive compound such
as Miss Una Dudley. the nurse, had testified
Brouwer had administered TO hia wife
and In which she believed he had slipped
strychnine tablets. Under protest from
the prosecution that this was not admiesi-
BILE evidence Lawyer Wilson and his wit
ness proceeded to prepare something that
like eggnog.
First the doctor dissolved in a fat test
tube SIX grains Of s~trychnine. Then he
mixed in a graduating glass Ave ounces
81 milk, two ounces q whiskey and one
egg. The compound ran over the ton
Of the glass n the Sheriff was impressed
into providing a more spacious vessel,
returned from his honaa Nth . H.