The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1907-1917, 1915-02-11

wound and to the fact that it was so violent
as to have produced little hemorrhage I'M
der the skull, (which shows that the blow
was hard enough to have made the person
unconscious. This wound was inches above
the left ear. The bruise around the eve was
produced by soft instrument, because the
outside cutlcle of the skin wasn't broken"
DR.. Harris testified to minute examina-
ton Of the private parts of the dead girl.
The inner tissues had been ruptured, 'and
there was great deal of hemorrhage in the
surrounding tissues. The distension of the
blood vessels indicated to me that the injury
had been made IN the vagina some little time
before death. There was evidence of violence
in the neighborhood of the hymen. The evil
dence of violence In the vagina had evidently
been done just before death DR.. Harris on
cross-eXamination said that the violence
might have been produced by the finger, or
other means, bat the ee5dence Of UioEence acas
there"
From a microscopic examination of the
uterus and vagina, DR. Harris was of the
opinion that natural menses would not have
caused the conditions he found. He found
no spermatozOa.
DR.. j. W. Hurt testified that the scalp
wound was calculated to cause unconscious
ness, that the wound on the eve was made by
same soft Instrument 'in that the skin was
not broken. thiqh the scratches on her face
ecere made utter DEATH [ examined the
hymen: it was not intact There was blood
on the drawers. There was blood on the pri-
vate parts. The vagina was little larger
than normal size, for a girl of that age: it
is my opinion that this enlargement of the
vagina could have been produced by penetra-
ton Immediately before death. She had
normal virgin uterus.
In all candor, let me say that Doctors VIII
lis Westmoreland, Thomas Hancock, j. G..
Olmstead and other experts testified at con-
siderable length over the disputed points as
to whether it could be told, for certain,
whether the food in the stomach had been re-
Gently eaten, whether the flow of blood from
the wounds took place before death or after
wards, and whether it was possible by such
an examination as DR.. Harris made to tell
whether the privates of the girl had been in
jured.
All this mass of misunderstanding that
Of the States own witnesses on that point
we will get out of our way, by simply confn-
ing ourselves to the one great, essential, I'M
disputed fact, to-wit--
The corpse qcas rigid qchen found: and ac-
cordng to the experienced embalmer, Mr.
Gheesling, death had ensued many hours pre-
viously, when he took possession of the girl,
at 10 minutes before o'clock, on the ve1y
n1Qht OF the dag OF her disappearance.
It is the immemorial and prescriptive right
Of scientists doctors, experts &C., to differ, and
to swear against one another. In this case, we
will ignore the savants, with their learned diff
ferences about the action of intestinal acids,
fluids solids, &C., and we will confne our at
tention to the clodhoppers, who swear that
Mary Phagan's body qoas stayh and Stiff at
three o'clock Saturday night, after we saw
her last aoith Frank, at few minutes past
the noon hour Of the same dag.
THAT'S ENOUGH!