St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1916-01-26


revolver, introduced by the state as
the revolver with which Brown was
shot, in the presence of the attorneys
for both sides Of the case and some
other witnesses in the basement of
the court building the night before.
The tests were made with the revolver
at the same angle as it was when
Brown was shot.
On cross examination he said that
four tests were made the night pre-
vious, one with the revolver IL inches
another Is inches, third "a and a
fourth SO inches from the target. He
concluded his tests Tuesday morning
in the company of DR.. Stone. There
was no secrecy intended. His minutes
concerned the wounds at the time Of
the autopsy and that Doctors Allen
and Kicker were present when the
autopsy was made and when the flash
light picture of the corpse was taken.
He acknowledged that a flash light
would make a subject appear a little
whittier, but that in a flash light pic
ture, red shows up as black, and the
wounds were slightly red. and would
look a trif1e more pronounced in a
picture than it did on the subject, but
the picture was correct. He said the
bruises. This skin he should say is
less than 1-25 of an inch beneath the
superficial skin which was bruised.
He said that he could not account for
ali of the bruises being made in one
fall. He could not account for the
bruise outside of the right eye as he
thought the high cheek bone and the
forehead would not allow it to strike
Oh the sidewalk in fall. He was
then given a somewhat lengthy grill
ing regarding the notes he had taken.
On redirect examination he said
that he understood that he and DR..
Stone were using the same revolver
on. Tuesday morning as was used the
night before. The camera does not
reproduce colors, but would show the
outlines correctly.
DR.. B. H. Stone of Burlington, the
State Pathologist, said that he did not
perform the autopsy on the body Of
Mr.. Brown last summer. He has
made hundreds of tests with fire arms
and powder to determine the distance
Of the muzzle of the fire arm from the
wound. He had made these tests for
the last seven or eight years. The
tests made Tuesday morning when he
and DR.. Whitney were present were
Iud0C DIT Ills own NOllLAOA ne QlO not
use the same revolver as the one ex-
hibited by the state, but a revolver
practically like it, and with the same
kind of cartridges as those found in
the revolver that it is alleged Brown
was shot with. The cartridges used
were Winchester 3S calibre less smoke
cartridges. He found very few pow
der marks at a distance of four feet
and only one or two when the revolver
, was fired five feet from the target.
Powder marks practically disappear
at three feet. He made the tests the
night before to show how far away
powder marks would be made and the
radius they covered at different dis
tances. He used the same ammuni-
ton as was used in the revolver that
Brown was shot with. The tests were
made at an angle of So degrees from
right to left and downward at an
angle of So degrees. The cards on
winch the bullet was fired were shown
and introduced as evidence. He vol
uIteered to use the same cartridges
that were taken out of the revolver
that it is alleged Hatch used in shoot
ing Brown, but the attorneys for the
defence would not consent to it.
After the exhibit of the four targets
used the night before, he introduced
another set of cards that he had ex-
perimented witt last Sunday morning
to show the amount of powder marks
at the different distances. He was
then shown the union suit taken from
Browns body and said that there were
no powder marks on it. He was then
shown Browns shirt and said there
were powder marks on that, and he
should judge from the powder marks
that the revolver from which the bull
let came was held from IS to "a
inches from Browns body.
On cross examination he said that
it is impossible to tell from the pow
der stains what kind of powder is
used. He did not know what angles
were made for the holding of the re-
volver in the tests made the night be-
fore. He saw Browns shirt first last
summer, and made an examination
OF it at the time. He had examined it
again recently, and repeated that, in
his judgment, the revolver was from
1S to "a inches away from Browns
body.
DR.. Whitney was recalled and said
that he examined Browns pockets be-
fore making the autopsy, but found
nothing in his pockets that showed
any signs of blood stains.
THE DEFENCE.
At this point about fifteen witnesses
for the state were called and took the
oath. The first one called to the stand
was Ernest Brown. He has lived in
St. Johnsbury for about twenty-five
years and said that he had been pass
ing the pool room ten and twelve
times a day, and that he heard voices
and sounds inside the pool-room
while passing on the sidewalk very
frequently either in the summer or
winter.
On cross examination he said he
did not go by the place on the day that
Brown was shot.
I. G. Marshall, superintendent Of |
the city mission, said that he passed I
the Hatch pool room frequently. He /
could hear voices in ordinary CONVEX
sation within with the doors and win
dows shut. also could hear the click
OF the pool balls.
On cross examination said he had \
at tina lint