The Birmingham age-herald., 1913-08-01

road building, and declared that if Other
counties of the state respond to his ap-
peal for an observance of Good Roads
days as loyalty and heartily as Talladega
county, that hundreds of thousands worth
of improvements will be made to the high
ways of the state
Shaw's ambulance. Later another am
bulance appeared and l sent Gustins
body to the hospital. 1 cannot give an
explanation for the death of Kenny
and Gustin I guess il must have been
due to paralysis of the heart or ex-
element"
Sent Bodies to Hospital
DR.. Neill admitted that Kenny and
Gustin were given an electric shock
and identified the small generator used
He said he did not know who instruct
ed embalmers to prepare the bodies
He said that he had sent the bodies ii
the hospital in the hope that they
would be able to resuscitate life.
The witness said that during the ini-
tiation there We're at least three cleo
trical instruments in use-the boxing
mat, shaving and the branding test
He averred that it was not customary
to use razor in branding test He said
that razor used in shaving test was a
large wooden affair wrapped about
with copper wires. In the branding
test the doctor was strong in his be-
lief that there was not enough elec-
tricity to produce death. The witness
told of blank cartridge duels before
candidates in order to produce GER
tain amount OF terror. He admitted
when pressed by Solicitor Locke that
David L. Williams, secretary of ths
Moose order. was turning the crank
at the time Kenny was killed.
DR.. Neill, under the examination OF
the jurymen, admitted that the electric
apparatus used in Moose hall came
from the Elks' lodge, where he said
1t had been bought or borrowed by
John Abbott, dictator of the Moose
when the E1ks discontinued the use
of electrical devices in their initia-
tions. He finished his statement by
saying:
There has been newspaper publiea-
ton that Gustin was alive, but I say
they We're both dead when | came on
the scene and that they were given all
due attention"
Spangler Is Next Witness
Earle A. Spangler, embalmer for
Shaw & Son, was the next witness. He
said that he had embalmed Kenny al
the request of members of the chauf-
feurs' union and that the body of Ken
ny, was embalmed at IL o'clock Thurs
day night. He said that he received d
call at 1855 o'clock to go to Fourth
avenue and Eighteenth street, that twc
men had been electrocuted
1T took me about two minutes to gel
there" said Mr.. Spangler, ''and a man
met me and said: Go upstairs in
Moose hall; there's two men dead ur
there My assistant and l went ur
with a cot and as we passed by the
door / saw Gustin lying on the floor
with men working with his tongue
DR.. Neill directed me to the body oi
Kenny and he was removed to the am
bulance below. During all this time
there was a great clamor in Moose
hall and men kept calling me to come
back and get Gustin, as there was a
chance for him. / went back, or start
ed to go back, when DR.. Neill stopped
me and told me that another ambulance
would take care of Gustin Again the
men from within the hall kept calling
me to come after Gustin and I again
made move to go up but Dr. Neill
insisted strongly that l go on and, hes
itating no longer, | set out for the
Hillman hospital, where the man was
pronounced dead
Later / found out that Johns am
bulance. which was called. could not
make the run so they turned the call
over to us and Clyde Vaughn, one OF
my assistants, made the call for Johns,
and was directed by DIR. Neill to take
Gustin to the South Highland infirnary
Arriving at the South Highland in
firmary Vaughn was met by a nurse
who informed him that DIR. Neill had
telephoned that Gustin be taken to the
Hillman. where he was taken. / know
nothing else about the case except that
that night the general topic was tina,
Gustin and Kenny had been killed by
electrocution | was under that impress
sion myself"
Asked About Authority
Coroner Spain asked Mr.. Spangle,
some pointed questions by what au-
thority he had embalmed the body OF
Kenny. He said that DR.. L. C. Neil
had written out death certificate and
given 1t to one of his assistants He
had forgotten how it read but said that
it was not used. The witness further
stated that he found Kenny full OF
perspiration even to his socks and un-
defclothes. He said that as he passed
Gustin he saw men working over his
tongue which seemed to get away from
them. He said that he could say thai
Gustin was alive at the time
Mr.. Spangler closed his testimony
with long discourse on the technique
cases of e1ectrocution. He said all
signs in Kenny's body pointed strong
ly to death by electrocution.
DIR. Cowan Testifies
DR.. A. Il. Cowan of the Cunningham
infirmary was the next witness. He tes-
titled to the post morten of Kenny. He
said that he had examined the heart
very carefully and found nothing abnor-
NAL about either the heart or the lungs
of young Kenny. DR.. Cowan said that
he could not state the cause of death
and had no idea on the subject.
The witness stated that electrocution
produces paralysis of the heart cells but
that he could not state positively that