The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1917-06-27
BODY SATURATED
With ARSENIC,
COURT IS TOLD
DR.. Wolff Tells of Five
Autopsies In Gilligan
Poison Case.

Hartford June 27-That he had
performed five autopsies or inyestiga-
tons in poison cases in connection
with the death of Franklin r. An
drews, for whose death Mrs. Amy E.
Archer illigan is on trial here, was
testified to by DR.. Arthur J. Wolff,
toxiocologist, today. when he resumed
the stand for cross examination at
the hands of Benedict Holden of
counsel for the defense. Furthermore,
he said, he had received from the
state $3.50 for his work Of investiga-
ton, covering a period Of year.
DR.. Wolff made a correction in his
direct evidence, given yesterday, as to
the amount of arsenic in Andrews
body, by saying it was pretty well
saturated" This correction was on
his statement that he had found about
40 grains of poison in Andrews
and this amount was sufficient to
have killed five or six men,"
DR.. Wolff went into technical
description of the effect the poison
mentioned has on a human. He said
that the symptoms were marked in
Andrews case. He went to the cene-
terry at the direction of the state at
torney on a matter Sin which the
state of Connecticut was very much
interested - When the autopsy had
shown him what he wanted to find he
stopped as the autopsy was complete.
He told Mr. Holden that he did not
examine the brain as its condition
would have given him no additional
information.
Clashes between the witness and MIR.
Holden were frequent. The witness
explained the process of arsenic, using
the terms organs of choice" or the
organs in which poison is most likely
to SETTLE. It was in this connection
that the witness said the body of An
drews was pretty we'll saturated with
arsenic
Mr. Holden: 'You found quantities
of arsenic?"
DR. Wolff: Large quantities Of ar
senic.''
Mr.. Holden: 'ewhy put in the
large ?"
DR. Wolff: ct want to impress it on
you
Mr.. Holden: ''Wel1, to thoroughly
impress you I will say you found very,
very large quantities.
AT another time Mr.. Holden asserted
the witness had said abdomen with in
Election on the second syllable.
Mr.. Holden haidl said the word with
out this infection, and the witness had
repeated the word. Mr.. Holden asked
the witness whether he corrected the
pronunciation.
II do said Dr. Wolff
MIR. Holden said he understood his
own pronunciation was the English
way while the other was the German,
and that the German was not popular
with him now.
DR.. Wolff: I'm not a German, am
am Englishman."
MIR. Holden continued to ask os1es-
tions about the autopsy. He told the
witness to be fair in his replies and
DR.. Wolff said: ct endeavor to be as
fair with you as you will be with me"
Step by step Mr.. Holden led the doc
tor over his direct testimony of yester-
day. The witness said he looked for
gastric ulcers in Andrews stomach or
signs of an ulcerOus condition, and had
failed to find them. The presence OF
poison in the stomach would cause
ulcers possibly once in 20 times.
DR.. Wolff had given the defense a
list Of authorities on the effect of ar
senic. Mr.. Holden asked whether
there were no modern books. sDr.
Wolff replied: There are no modern
books. Arsenical poison has been
used for centuries and centuries to get
people out of the way"
The witness said that a general
practitioner can usually diagnose a
case. of gastric ulcers.
Just before recess DR.. Vincent c..
Waugh, dean of, the medical. depart
ment of the University of Michigan,
who will be associated with the de-
tense, came in. During recess he
greeted DR.. Wolff, whom he knew, and
was introduced to the experts for the