Norwich bulletin., 1917-06-27
viruIent POiSOnin
 Andrews Body
ACCORDING TO TESTIMONY OF
 DIR. ARTHUR J. WOLFF.
HAD BODY EXHUMED
In Trial of Mrs GiIIisan Hartford Medical Expert Testified That There Was No Sign That the Death of An drews Was Caused by Disease.

Hartford, Conn.,, June 26.-Testi- mony that there was nothing about the exhumed body of Franklin R. Andrews to indicate that death was due to disease but that there was de- tected the presence of virulent pois- on which the prosecution claims was ministered to him by Mrs. Amy E.. Archer Gilligan at the Archer home in Windsor was offered by the state today in the trial of the woman for the alleged murder of Andrews. This testimony was given by Dr. Arthur J. Wolff, city bacteriologist of Hart ford, former member of the state obard of health and one of the chief wit nesses fo- tie state.
 Performed Autopsy.
 Dr. Wolff performed the autopsy on the body of Andrews in the tool house at the cemetery in Cheshire after it had been ,exhumed on the night of May ?, 1916. Reading from or refer ring frequently to well filled note book pr. Wolff during the several hours he was on the stand described in minute detail the various steps in connection with the autopsy, the oper- alton itself arc kIs exan7ination of the vital crga'.s Of th.' Geac man.
 No S.gn of Disease
 As rt.sul; of this autopsy he testi- fled that there was found absolutely no sign O. fbe deaih of that person
 
 body, he said vas in a perfect state of preservation, the absence of decon- position considering that it had been buried two years, being remarkable. The action on the human body of poison such as the state claims was be in the nature of preservative. He also spoke of a peculiar and pene- trating odor which diffused itself through the room" during the opera S@, [ | presence of this virile poison in the body
 Described Tests.
 The witness also described at length the tests and examinations he had later made of the vital organs of An dTc|s, during which he said he found tbss presence of this same po:Scn.
 4s iarge card to which was affixed a number of glass tubes classed as mirrors" and bearing a line to the acid" from the body of Franklin R. Andrews was offered in evidence by the state. One end of each tube was coated or the inside with a bluish black substance, the poison, and each was Ia bei1ed to show the particular or Wolff was permitted to make his long statement with little interruption.
 Mrs. GaIIiean Purchased Poison.
 Testimony was also introduced to the effect that on May 26, 1914, four days before Lndrew ws died Mrs. Gilli- gan purchased two ounces of the pois- on at a drug stcfa 1T Windsor.
 Earlier in the day Captain Robert T. Hurley of the state police had testi- fled to his part in the night trip from Hartford to the Ctesilire cemetery and of assisting at the autopsy. He also told of visits to the jail to see Mrs. Gilligan after her arrest and of an interview with her. His testi- mony was marked by a. heated ex- change between himself and Benedict M. Holden of consel for the defense. A new figure at the defences end of the counsel table today was Pro- lessor Stanley Benedict, a chemist of Cornell university. He sat with Dr. Otto F. Schu1tze, medical expert of New York, employed by the defense. Both followed the testimony of Dr. Wolff with close attention