The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1918-01-24
DEFENSE JOLTED
IN BRANDON CASE
BY PHYSICIAN
CONTINUED from First PaEe.)

head?" asked Attorney Brady, leading
counsel for the defense.
NO" said the doctor, at would
have been necessary to leave blood
elsewhere"
Mr.. Brady sought to have the doc
tor admit that Mrs. Brandon could
have fallen on an iron bed or a chair
and produced the wound up in her
forehead.
"she could have, yes. but not in that
case" was the reply of DR.. Joyce.
Unshaken BY Queries.
When asked II she could have fallen
against a chair DIR. Joyce said: III she
had done so, she would have been ly-
ing where she fell"
DR.. Joyce stated positively that Mrs.
Brandon could not have moved after
receiving the wound on her forehead.
In his opinion, the wound was caused
by the use of q blunt instrument OF
some kind.
On cross-examination he admitted
that he was unable to find any such
instrument in the Brandon home
Asked to explain his connection
with the case, he said that he went
to the Brandon home shortly after 5
o'clock and found Mrs. Bro ndon dead.
He remained thirty minutes, during
which he examined the body. found
bruises and scratches on the neck.
cheek, forehead. and knees.
At this point the photographs OF
the dead woman showing the marks
and bruises, were Identified by DR..
Joyce, and offered in the evidence
over objections of the defense, who
noted exceptions.
DR.. Joyce said the print of finger
nails showed she was attacked and
choked from behind.
On cross-eXamination, DR.. Joyce
said he made the autopsy at the direc.
ton of States Attorney Nicholas
Green.
Defense shows Hand.
Attorney Brady put DR.. Joyce
through q Erilling examination in an
effort to gain from him an admission
that Mrs. Brandon could have come
to her death from eclampsia, which,
IL a medical term for . convulsion oc.
curing in women during the period
just before childbirth. While ad-
hitting that Mrs. Brandon was soon
to become a mother, DR.. Joyce de-
clared that her death could not have
been caused by other than violence
at the hands of some other person.
+ 1t is intimated that the defense
will cling to this theory and produce
expert testimony along that line.
Other witnesses put on the stand
today by the State were Mrs. Ida
Burch. q neighbor and the second per-
son to see Mrs. Brandon after her
death. and Mrs. Grace Sarles, another
neighbor who went to the Brandon
home in response to a call for help
by young Brandon. Mrs Sarles con-
irmed the testimony OF Mrs. Burch
that no blood was found, further than
that on the bed which flowed from
the wound In the dead voman's fore
head.
NeiEhbor TestiAes.
Thomas A. King. of the Department
Of Languages at the Naval Academy
in Annapolis, testified that when he
returned to his home on Second
street next door to that of the Bran
dons, he saw several people in front
of the Brandons' front door. On in
quiry he learned Of the murder of
Mrs. Brandon, but did not go into the
Brandon house.
On cross-examination, King said he
had known the Brandons only slightly
and had been to their homo but once.
He went to Annapolis from Washing
ton three weeks before the death Of
Mrs. Brandon. His wife followed
later.
Since the court yesterday ruled out
questions by the defense regarding
King having been a suspect. no effort
was made today by the defense to con-
meet him with 1t.