The Daily Alaska empire., 1946-11-14
NO TRACE FOUND OF MISSING HUNTERS
ANDREWS DEATH WAS SURPRISE, IS
 TESTIMONY GIVEN

ItSIlMOMY OWEN Witnesse Give Details of
 Trdgedy-Mrs. Andrews
 Displays Bruises
 Testimony that Ralph Andrews, alleged killed here Nov. by a blow from his wife, was not thought to be seriously injured" when taken from his home to St. Anns Hospital and that his subse- quent death was a definite sur prise" to attending physician Dr. William P. Blanton, was entered yesterday afternoon at prelimin- ary hearing before U. s. Commis sioner Felix Gray in the case of An drew's wife, Clara Z Andrews, now at liberty on S14,000 property bond under charge of alleged man. slaughter.
 Dr. Blanton said that when he reached the Andrews home at 513 Geld Street right at am" in response to a call from Mrs. An drews, he found the victim sitting up in bed smiling sheepishly' and, although bleeding profusely from a two-inch long irregular cut along the left temple, apparently not critically injured According to the doctors testimony, Andrews pulse was good" and continued to be so up until shortly before his death at $40 o'clock in St. Ann's Hos pital.
 Asked by defense counsel R. E.. Robertson what Andrews was do- ing in connection with stopping the blood from his injury, Dr. Blanton said: Absolutely nothing; he didn't appear to be paying the least attention to it."
 
 He added that Mrs. Andrews had -a~ ssssSabeI Of watef- soaked and blood-spotted towels in the kitch- en sink and was using several mere in an obvious attempt to ad- minister to Andrews.
 Tried to stop Flow
 Then you would say that Mrs. Andrews was apparently trying to stem the flow of blood, and nurse the wound" Mir Robertson asked.
 Dr. Blanton answered in the affirmative.
 He further testified that after making a cursory examination of Andrews he immediately called the police and the St. Ann's ambulance, and was taking Andrews out of the house on a stretcher when police arrived A roomer, who came down from the upstairs part of the rouse, assisted Dr. Blanton and the two ambulance drivers in getting An drews on the stretcher and out to the ambulance, Blanton said.
 At the hospital, he said, he told Assistant Police Chief Milo Clouse and Patrolman John Homme that he did not believe Andrews injury to be really serious
 Dr. Blanton said no anesthesia was administered in sewing up the cut because Andrews was thor oughly intoxicated at the time" and needed no pain-reducing agent.
 Morphine Addict '.
 Under questioning from District Attorney Pat Gilmore as to the exact cause of Andrews death, Blanton said the official cause was set at shock from loss of blood" and that an autopsy per- formed at pm. Nov. 5 sustained this.
 He further testified that An- drews, a known morphine addict, had used up all his veins for morphine injections and that when plasma was ordered after the vic- tim's pulse began to sink rapidly Gust as sewing up the injury was being completed there were no veins into which the life-saving fluid could be injected.
 Following the hearing, it was ex- plained unofficially that Andrews veins had become sclerosed, or had formed scar tissue from repeat ed morphine injections which pre- vented the medicinal injection in- to his veins. Andrews died with out receiving plasma or adrenalin.
 In answer to District Attorney Gilmore's request that he describe the wound, Blanton said it was an irregular cut apparently made by sharp instrument. Asked if this might have been knife, Blanton answered mo"
 The doctor described Andrews as tall man weighing about 200 pounds" and as "heavy drinker. J He said he had known him for about two years.
 In reply to Gilmore's interroga- tion concerning whether or not shock from loss of blood" might be condition of relative signifi-