The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1908-08-14

uAOoo, PCA CudHcS, Inc INJURY wa
self-inf1icted and the price paid i
the life of the victim.
(From Mondays Daily.)
The court convened this morninl
at ten o'clock and the hypothe
tical question prepared by the pros
ecution to be put to DR.. Howard Oh
which to base an expert opinion wa
presented, covering two typewriter
pages OF paper, and was a REPETITION
OF the history Of Miss Robb's tril
from st. Anthony to the time SHE
reached the cot In the hospital, and
the question was as to whether she
could make this trip In this way, ode.
scribing her appearance at different
stages of the trip after the criminal
operation, and he said 1t was posi-
Bile but not probable
Asked as to whether, in view Of
the slight hemorhage of the patient
on Tuesday afternoon and Wednes-
day, the criminal operation could
nave been done as recently as Tues
day afternoon, he said it was not
probable--hardly possible. That the
conditions as to hemorhage would
indicate that 1t had been done several
days prior to Tuesday.
Asked as to whether or not
puncture as in this case, Is ever
made by q good practitioner, he said
that operators Of national reputation
had made such mistakes. That they
are of frequent occurrence fre-
quent with any one eminent operator
but many cases have been reported
that were done among the many emf
nent men of the profession.
The examination was very tedious
and was review of what had been
gone over before. Some of the
points brought out were:
Rising temperature is a symptom
OF sepsis. Hemorhage is likely to
diminish as sepsis developes.
A puncture made with blunt in
strument is not likely to bleed much.
The larger the puncture the greater
the hemorhage is likely to be.
Any operator is liable to make
puncture and surgeons of national
reputation sometimes have such ac-
Court adjourned at IL O'Clock to
convene at 2 p. m.
DIR. Hoover, 2:25 D. m.
Dr. Hoover being sworn and quail
led to testify as an expert, and de-
'cribed the conditions attending the
abdominal operation made by four
physicians on Thursday afternoon.
md the only new matters brought I
'ut We're that they were adhesions
n the abdominal cavity that gave a
hem some trouble and that the clots
i blood found scattered about were \
mall but numerous, with but little n
luid, indicating that this matter had d
cen there at least four or five DAVIS. II
peaking of the examination made e
hen the puncture, he said there was b
oreness Of the internal organs indi- /,
ating a fevered condition such as n
'ould be due to shock or 70 foreign Il
latter in the abdomen. n
Asked to explain the adhesions. he
I'D: The peritoneum is double q,
&c lining the inner surface of the t
Ddomen and the outer surface Of
le viscera dnternal organs) and
lese were sticking together. There
rs bloody serum, lymph and the like :,
the cavity and the surfaces were J,
ihering. remarked then that
Is was trouble of no recent be- ~
ming. A number of days. :,
Asked whether adhesions likeI
csc might not have been OF years
he said there are such
SEES, but this was not one OF them. he
Question. WHAT was ner condi- W,
N when you saw her on Friday W,
ening between 5 and 9 o'clock?" ed
Answer: "Excitable, incoherent, tn
d depressed" bu
Was It such as might have come
suddenly" Me-
,lt was not. Knowing what me
q the history Of the case,
'uld say it had come on gradual thu
from the time Of the abdominal far
'ration or even three or four hours me
ore that. In fact she was some wa
a. incoherent, excitable and de-