Devils Lake inter-ocean and Devils Lake free press. (Devils Lake, Ramsey County, N.D.) 1905-1909, 1908-09-04
takers bill, and she still figured on
shipping the body back east. told

net SHe &cOu1uI fIlQg get away next \
morning as the. officers were coming
over to make a further examination
and investigation and she became sui
len and had little to say. She told me
she adopted the girl until she was is
years old. She. told me she 5Wantedto
send some money back east to pay for
insurance. When left the house only
Mrs. Wright and the dead girl were
there. She told me about the girls
goitre coming back. never noticed
anything wrong with her neck. I
heard one OF, the quarrels and the Girl
told Mrs. Wright that she had abused
her and Mrs, Wright did not deny it.
On cross examination Mr.. King'sstesti-
mony was Unchanged a particle. .
DIR cox testified as follows: #tS
l. My name is r. M. Cox. SO years old;
live at Edmore; physician and sur
geon; graduated from Minneapolis
College Of Physicians and Surgeons;
did not know Beulah Cox; know Gil
!bertson, the coroner; visited King
farm with him on Aug. IL; found dead
body; had no talk with Mrs. Wright,
but did talk in evening; she called
dead girl Babe; did not speak of re.
lation between them; found marks on
nose and couple of patches on face
brown spots; one on left side In angle
Of mouth over, Jaw, other one an inch
from mouth on right side; three
marks on right side of nose, one on
left; froth coming from mouth and
nose; some discoloration pretty well
back on neck; examined abdomen,
which seemed normal; examined low
er limb and back; Mrs. Wright was
not present at examinations called her
in afterward; called her attention&to
finger marks and she suggested they
were finger marks; told of girl being
out till four; said she called her at
eight to go to cellar; examined
blotches, which looked like carbolic
acid burns; odor was of camphor; no
acid had been poured from a bottle
which stood on shelf, on back part
of shelf over girls head, with other
bottles in front Of 1t; shelf was six
feet high and ten feet away; 7 took
part in postmortem at Gilbertson's
parlors: DR.. Sihler had charge; body
opened up from chin clear down; re
moved stomach, aesophagus and tom
que and examined them; found no
trace of carbolic burning; found heart
congested, more on right than left;
valves normal, blood in heart most on
right side. little in left; examined
womb, which was normal. Mrs. Cox,
the girls mother, was here overcome
by this testimony and an adjournment
was taken until p. m.
In the afternoon session DR.. Cox
was again called to the stand and said:
My attention was called to the bottle,
on the shelf theft night was there.
The bottle had cork in it and was
about half full. After it was taken
down and examined it was put back
on the shelf and the last time I saw
the bottle the coroner had it. The
body was embalmed the next day.
There was marks on the body where
blood had been drawn by the under.
taker. The stomach was removed and
contents put into glass Jar. was
present when the contents were re-
moved and put into the jar. The COR
tents of the stomach was put into a
wash basin and the examination was
made OF the contents; nothing foreign
was discovered. There was nothing
that arrested my attention from the
contents of stomach. The exam
ination of the stomach took about five
minutes We then took cut the aeso-
phagus and examined it and found it .
normal. The tongue was examined
and found in a normal condition. The
heart was detached and taken out and
two fncfsions made in it; a clot OF
blood found In the apex, the ventricle /
OF the heart was full OF CONCEALED
blood. In the left ventriele a small
amount Of blood was found. examin-
ed the valves Of the heart and found b
them all right. The left lung was de-
tached and taken out to allow the
heart to be removed and It was exam I
ined and found. normal The right
lung was not examined. It. took an /
hour to make the examination. After
the examination the stomach ana con-
tents were put into a eontainer and
the tongue was also put into it and
was taken from the undertaking
rooms by DR.: Mcintosh and afterwards
saw 1t at his office and it was wrapped
up and sealed and took it to- Grand
Forks and took it to Professor Bah
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