Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1916-05-14
TESTIMONY AT
 CORONER'S INQUEST

what you fond about the wounds OH him and any bruises or aDrasions or powder burns you found on him?
 A. This man had punctured wound that entered in his neck on the left side and about two and hal, inches below the angle of the jaw and about one and a half inches this side of the center of the neck, and then there was an orific where the instru- ment-bullet or otherwise-left the skull. We laid the scalp back from the top down. and the usual effect was very apparent. All the pieces of bone, the edges of the fracture in the bone, had come outward. The human skull. when a bullet goes through 1t, shows the same effect as you have when you shoot a bullet through an orange or can of toma- toes. It has a kind of explosive ef- feet from hydrostatic pressure. Then there was a fractur9 that extended from it over this way tindicating) and down to the base of the skull Another one that ex ended down to the back of the ear--what we know as the mastoid process-and to the base of the skull We didn't find any evidence of violence to the skull ex- ternally whatever. However, there was a peculiar condition of the scalp that would deceive a physician, ordi- narily, that after we laid 1t back proved to be an old scar It was very plain. Sometime this man had had an injury to his scalp, and when it healed in the center, instead of get ting all the tissues together, he got practically only the skin healed over The skull beneath it was not involved at all. However, the hole was here (indicating) and the old scar was something like an inch and a half above it; yet the fracture of the skull from the violence that had occurred inside was still up above that, so that ordinarily, when physician might have examined it. he would have thought that was depression. and he could have felt the line of fracture above it. Then on the mans chest and on the middle of his breast bone there were three little scares-very minor wounds. The upper and lowe, looked like they were healing and the one in the center was no doubt burn from powder and it had sev- eral grains of powder around it.
 O. How about his eyes?
 A. This bullet, in going from the neck into the back of the skull. nee esscrily would pass through the base of the brain, and almost without eX- xr,h4 orr frun nf,vvs or break in the skull which involves the brain, you have that result: ec' chymosis. we call it--black eyes ol hemmorrhage from the ea:s, one ol the other, almost without execution Of course, we could not say positive ly that the condition was due to this but we could not detect any reason tr suspect that the eye had suffered internal violence. We could not tel that the hemmorrhaee was not due tt the injury in the base Of the brain.
 o. Did you see an abrasion hert (indicating) along his nose?
 A. There was a very slight one yes, sir. That was a very minor af far. You could hardly call it a' aabrasion. but there was a sligh mark there. very small.
 Gross. Examination.
 By MT. Nixon:
 o. That abrasion there would no have caused a blood-clo;ted condition in the eye, would it. Doctor?
 A. No. sir. not at all
 Q. Ard an injury to the eve hardl, could have caused that condition yo, found there?
 A. No. sir; not at all. From al injury to the eye. the black woul have been in the lower lid and no in the upper.
 0. Where was this black in thi mans eye?
 A. In the upper
 Q. And the condition there wa due. no doutt to that injury to tn base. of the brain?
 A. Ecchymos!s, or hemmorrhag from an injured blood-vessel in tn ekull.
 Witness excused.
 Dr. Furbish. being first duly sworl was examined as witness. and testi fled as follows:
 Direct Examination.
 By MT. Pa-ham:
 q. Where do you liya Doctor?
 McGehee, Arkansas