E J. M. WEAKLEYII J. M. WALLACE; JJ THCKIEHL MURDER TRIAL Continued from last Week VIIIDAY AFTERNOON DAVID S. WALfiii-cii, I live in Southampton township ; d am •a farmer ; I live + mile from Kiehl's ; am uncle of Mrs. Kiehl by marriage ; saw Mrs. Kiehl pretty often: when I passedtho door ; I saw her on Sunday before she took sick, when I was going to church; I didn't hear anything else but what she Was able to do Int work ; I saw her frequently - ; she appeared to be able to her work; I saw her again on Monday ; I was to haul hay for Mr. ' Fleury Myers •;--he is my brother-in-law ; • I started early in morning, got there;, very.early ; Kiehl came and helped to 'load hay, and while we were loading the hay ho toldme his wife had taken sick in evening ; had been vomiting ; said the'hogs had got in lot ; she had been after them, and that had caused it ;- when - I came back Mrs. Kiehl was sit ting on back porch reclining on her hands ; I knew that was not her habit of sitting, and 1 chlled back • whether she was sunning herself. I then passed on home ; I next saw her on Tuesday about 4 o'clock ; she was sick ; was kind of thrOwing up ; she complained of burning in throat and breast ; tallied to John Kiehl ; I told him iT it were niy case and my woman, in that 'situation, I would go for the doctor ; he said she did not want the doctor; just before that I asked her whether She wanted a doc tor ; she said silo could not get along that way _much longer ; I told Kiehl ; ho saidhe just came down, and she said she did not want a doctor ; I told him I would go if ho said so; he did not say that-I should, and then I wont home ; I. saw her again on Wednesday about the middle - of - the - day-;- she - was -very_ sick ; I did not see the color of the vomit ; her mother came, and I did not go up'; her expression when I saw her was wild like ; lier eyes were dim and glaring—about last April I had a con versation with Mr..K., when I was roll ing my oats ; John K., was fixing up fence between my farm and Myers' ; he came to me and we got into talking ; he told me there had been a talk about him ; I asked him if it was um, and he said not, but he said it was sonic person down the country ; he said he was three times' seven, paid his debts, and kept who he pleased ; he told me his wife was taken suddenly sick one evening at the table,"if - thade her throw up, he jumped up and stired up the applobutter to see if there might not be a poisonous bug in it ; he said to me several times, this one included, that bei' thought his wife would die suddenly - ; -. 1 -- know Kate Myers; I silty her and John Kiehl together at a hay stack ; i did not come out as early at dinner time a 5 usual ; I returned to the Mild about 2 o'clock ; I saw Kiehl's wagon beside the hay stack ; i saw no ono about, I started my horses, and hol lowed at my horses, then Kate got up on the wagon, and he commenced throw ing hay from the stack to the wagon. Cross examined by Mr. Miller. This was on his farm ; I did not see anything improper, only they were not at their woik ; after the load was full, they got on the hay and road closely together by my field, this was about' November, 1870 ; this stack was abott 500 yards from Kiehl's house, was second field above the barn ; I am related to - the Donors.,; John. „„was , ;, not_ penurious_ or stingy - with . * ; - hi was auihiltistriois . saving mail, was not cruel in his nature I was at Kiehl's house about 4 o'clock Tuesday ; my wife was there ; Kate Myers was there ; I was not there when Dr. Nevin Caine ; Kate asiiisted him in !miffing in the hay which was nothPag unusual ; I was on the East side of the stack ; I don't know that the West side was SWied; if lie was on that side cutting 'clown spoiled hay, I could not have seen him ; I don't know from what I saw of the stack which eithiof it would spoil ; I don't know, that I started the story about poisoning ; I did saythat wished I was out of this case, might have said .I would give $5O if I was out of ; Donors and I talked about lilting the body after • she died ; I did not arrange with Donor before Sarah died, to have her body taken up and have Kiehl arrested. Court adjourned at 7,1 o'clock. SATURDAY MORNING. Court Ina at 9 o'clock a. m. Dit W. W• Navin, sworn: I live in Shippensbm•g ; I am a prac ticing physician ; I have practiced over 20 years ; I know John Kiehl, the de fendant; knew his wife ; on Tuesday, May 9, about noon John Kiehl called on me ; he said my wife is sick again ; , 'She has that old palpitation of the heart, you can hear it beating all through the room and she had stain vomiting and purg ing ; she was taken sick on Sunday even ing •, that she had taken a powder. and went out to chase pigs out of genial!, or lot, and come in sick ; ho said the pow ders that she got were from Dr. Bixler ; they wore notlike the powders she re ceived from Dr. Zitzen' but he (Bixler) said they would have some effect ; I pro scribedfor her gave her tannic acid ; he did not ask me to come out to his house; said he wanted powders; I spoke about the inipropriety of prescribing without seeing the patient, 'but did not propose going out ; don't know that he made any answer ; he didn't ask mo to go out to see his wife ; there was nothing said about my going away or the impossi bility of my going to see her; I had not just returned from the country ;_hadn't. been away for several hours before ; on Tuesday afternoon about five o'clock Mehl called at my office and said the wo men want you to go out to•see his wife ; I visited Mrs. Kiehl ; got there soon afterwards ; went immediately ; I - found Mrs. Kiehl in bed ; a quick, irritable al most indhitinet pslso ; the tongue was coated and swollen ; great-tenderness iu region of stomach, with a burning sensa tion in stomach extending tip into her throat ; her extremities were cold, and covered with a domain) , perspiration ; she had a disposition to faint or swoon when her head was elevated ; she had violent-vomiting and Purging ; the mat ter vomited was - a yellowish brown fluid mixed with Mumma ; I gave lier pills of Calomel and opium, applied a blister on the stomach andmustard applications to the extremities ' • early on Wednes day morning Mr. Kiehl called at my house and said that his wife was no hot ter ; I visited her and found her in al most the situation she was the evening previous and renewed the blister and mustard applications • in the e afternoon about 3 o'clock Dr. Stewart 'vfisited,. her in connection with Myself and appeoVing of my treatment, it was continued with the addition of small pieces of ice hold . in month and . 'port wine; on Thursday we visited her twice ; -she had groat op; pression of breathing and an intense • burning in her throat with the 'greatest possible difficulty fui swallowing any thing ; there was almost a total suppres sion of secretion of urine, another symp torn which attracted my attention was contraction of pupils ; which were con tracted to a remarkable degree ; she died, I understood on Friday morning' about .3 o'clock ; I last visited Mt's, • Kiehl bo r tweett'4 and 6 o'clock Thursday after: noon ;. she throW up any liquid or any thing- taken Into the stomach ; during my presence she frequently asked for. water, and complained, of thirst ; she. said at ono time she cpal& not see; that . it was all dark before her oyes, Cross examined by Mr. Miller. "Kiehl came for - me Wedmisdak morn ing before I was up to go arid, see his wife ; gavelfri. Kiehl 1 graincalomel• and grain opium In each pill I I think' 1 loft about 6 pills, probably 8, to be taken .1 every 4 hours; I directed John as to the time they wore to be taken; the first time Jolth called I sent out tan nic acid and opium sent .no calomel at that timo ; I presume we proscribed froth 6 to 10 grains of ealomel.while I was at ,;tonding her; I treated her for ante, . .. ... . ... ..- - , . ...... , . .. . . - - - ... . . , .. . . . . . ' 1 . 4" . . ... ~. . ••• • , • ... . .. . „. . . -V -. .. , . ....-...-.. . 1 . • t: -,. -- ' - ' . , . • .., .-:. ~ .. .. .•. _., ~.,...„,,........„. . ~ . .... ..- .. ~. ..': ~.. ....:...., . .. . A' ' .• _ ---,1,--, Igastro enteritis ; Mr. Donor, father of deceased, visited use about Mrs. Kiehl on. Monday ; Mr. Donor called about o'clodk p. m. on Wednesday at my Oleo, in company with -Mr. Waltriek--the witness who was on - the stand last even ing ; ho said he wanted me to go out to see his daughter, and bring-some per son with me ; I - .asked him who hie daughter was, and he' said Mrs,. Kiehl ; ho said I was alr.right, but I want another doctor; I asked him why he. wanted another doctor ; ha said, "did, you see the powders she had been talc- , ing ?" I answered 'tno ;" ho then said " I wish to God you had. She must have another doctor right away ;" I asked him who he wanted ; lie said "it makes no difference, any person ; I sug gested my friend, Dr. Stewart ; I think Dr. Stewart Went out with hint ; Mr. Donor went down, to toll Dr. Stewart, Mr. WaltriCk -'reMaining a moment ; I said "the old gentleman thinks tis daughter is poisoned ;" he replied " yes; he does ;" he then said there were some powders in a box in the cupboard ; when the women went to look for them they had disappeared ; Steware,and I visited her;- I told Stewart of -Doher's auspi cions, and requested him to examine the case eardfully in re,gartl to her general, health previous to the attack, what medicine she has been taking; and what effect it had ; his examination was thor ough, and found she has been suffering with indigestion for some time, that she had been taking medicine from Dr. Zitzer, but the last medicine was froin Dr. Bixler ; this is what Mrs. Kiehl "that the powders she got front Bixlor always Made liar sick at the stomach ; I kept her' bowels loose ; she had been eat ing pie on Sunday for breakfast, and at diver •bread and—coffee and sausage ; after consultation we concluded the symp toms she was suffering from were such as.would.be produced hy irritant or cor rosive poisons, but_ they might 'be pro duced by other causes, and all that we could do was to ,treat the symptoms as they presented themselves. Cross examined by ,1!r. Miller. Mr. Kiehl said when he came to my house, his wife had taken a powder and theii went to chase the pigs from the garden and it made her sick ; Mrs. Kiehl said nothing about this to. me ; let the cause be what it may, the disease was nothing more or less than acute gastritis ; - at that stage of the disease, I would have treated her for gastritis ; of I had been satisfied it had been poison, 1 would not at that stage have administered an antidote, there was purging I supposed from the poison or other cause. Re in Chi,./'. A poisonous dose of arsenic adminis tered would cause death by gastro enter itis ; I think-the symptoms as manifested to me arc such as would be attending, poison by arsenic. Cross era i ned This gastritis might come front other causes than poison, but the symptoms are peculiar to arsenical poison. - Pe in Chief. ' When I - arrived at Kiehl's the beating of Mrs. Kiehl's heart was so feeble I could scarcely hear it when I applied my ear. ALEX.•STEWART, M. D., I reside in Shippensburg ; am a prac ticing physician ; have practiced for 40 years ; I knew -John Kiehl partially; never saw him but twice ; 1 never saw her before being called in ; I was called to visit her on the afternoon of the tenth of: May . ; I went otit in company with Nevin Ct found hlrs. .Kiehl ex tremely ill ; this was Wednesday ; she was suffering from what I conceived to be active intlainu.ation of the stomach and bowels; her prostration was extreme ; I had an intimation from Dr. Nevin that Mr. Donor Suspected imison. had been. administered; I asked her what had Veen the condition of her health previ: ous to this attack ; she said it had not .bcen good ; I asked her when the vomit ing commenced ; she told mom Sunday evening ; I asked her whei.e she was when ebb was attacked ; she replied that she had gone to the barn to do sonic work, that she saw the pigs in a lot. con venient to - the barn, she went into the lot to turn them oat, and there vomited ; she said nothing about running after the pigs ; 1 was anxious to know whether she had been suffering from indigestion ; I asked her how her stomach felt after she ate ; whether it felt heavy and full ; her reply was that it did ; I asked whether she' was troubled much with winff on her stomach ; whether she rifted much, she said she did ; asffed her what she cat for breakfast on Saturday morning ; her reply was sausage and pie ; I asked her what she ate for din ner ; she' said meameakes, and some thing else; asked her what condition her bowels were generally in prior to this attack ; her reply was that she thought ,the powders she. was taking kept them open ; I asked her how her stomach felt after she took'those pow• ders, she replied it felt bad ; I asked her if she ever had attacks of that kind be fore, her reply was twice, but not so bad • she articulated with great difficulty and effort ; complained of a great deal of thirst and. burning sensation from her stomach to her' mouth ; her stomach ro- tained cold water but a moment; Dr. Nevin had blistered her stomach the day before, it produced slight vesication but uo redness; • endorsed fully the course of mailagement pursued by Dr. Nevin, with the suggestion that pellets of ice be substituted for the cold water; in-our conference I agreed with Dr. Nevin filly that it was a well marked case of active inflammation of the stomach and bowels, that a..disease.of that kind would be produced by irritating poisons, and might be produced by other causes, such as a very hearty drink of cold wa ter after the system is heated, or in a stomach of impared tone by indigestion ; that our business 'was to treat the dis ease as we found it. Cross examined. I think I said to Dr. Nevin that what she had eaten on Sunday morning, in view of the impaired condition of her stomach, was adequate to produce in flammation of the stomach and bowel's, or tho_ symptoms in this case ; 1 may have said wo had no evidence that it was riot -a case of poisoning ; didn't say . I didn't think it was not ; was asked 6 3 i. Mr. Sadler for the history of the ease— l:Ole-they a post worteus examination would disclose anything ; I wrote - that I didn't din - licit would ; this is the letter I wrote to Mr. .Sadler. [Latter read to jury, as follows : 4.- CAntaux, May 16, 1871. MR. ALEX AN DER STEWART. Dear Sir—As a _personal favor would_ you please give_ ' by return mail, your impressions as to the cause of Mrs. Kiehl's death, who died on, last Thursday or Friday near your town (she was the daughter of Mr. Donor—a client and friend of mine) ? also the circum stances which gave rise .to your impres sions? And in case you think it *as probable that poison 'was'adibiulstered whether it would develop wilting to have a post mortein examination made: If you will give me your views in the, matter they shall .he confidential in so far as you may desire, and 'if over possi ble I shall reciprocate, W. F. SAO ThiB the, lottor.l,Nmlto in. roply to Kr. Sager Bnrr'rEnsnutto, May 16; 1871. W. F. Su)Lan, Mg, " D4,a1 0 . 6tr :-1n reply to yours I will statd :that, on Nednesday evening, the tenth instant, I was ,called upon by Mr. Doner, and ' reauosted 'to moat . his daughter, in company 'with her physi cian, Dr. Nevin. ! On the way to see her, I. learned . from the:: Doctor ,that the friends had some suspicions that 'Mrs. Kiehl, had been poisoned'; that she and her husband hannt been living pleas- . .. anti?' ttigether, 'and that he had maul- Tested great roluctanceand unwillingness to have a physician,calledi that she had been violently, attaekedon Sunday-Oven-, inn, and' thathe"(Nevin),' had not boon Sum:honed. tis Visit !her .untilltlie :follow imr Tuesidayr, :evening, finding, her - ex. tremely ill, suffering 'from' inflammation of the stomach: When I - saw her, she was 'almost in - "artioulo .mortiii," and incipient gangrene. (as a,consequence of the inflammation) had set in. Itnowing the suspicions' or her friends, ',made a rigid examination of her situation, and propounded- quite a number of pointed questions. The result of 'toy inquiries was that ber health had not boon good; having Suffered for some . time . from in digestion ; that she bad eaten is pretty hearty breakfast' and -dinner, of ' food difficult of digestion, the day on ' which she had boon attacked, which in . My opinion was adequate to produce in flammation of theetomach and ~bewels, and whilst her disease was such as might and. would 'ho produced• by irritant Poisons, it Might also bo by . food; difficult Of digestion, or even' by a-hearty drink , of cold water, when the system is heated. In my practice it has been frequently MY lotto meet With just such -cases, the result of imprudence in caking ; and, in the above case as it was presented to our notice, there was nothing to indicate the administration of poison- As regards. an autopsy, in my opinion, 'nothing could be developed but inortifloation of the stomach. She vomited very fre quently during Sunday night and Mon. day, and an analysis of what she then ejeeled would alone prove the pxistenco of poison, Wit did really exist. If any - was administered, it must have been either arsenic or corrosive sublimate - (bichlorate of mercury) or of this class, as the brain and nervous system were not involved. I saw Mrs. Kiehl again, its company with Dr. Nevin,. on Thursday morning and evening, and that night she - died. That her husband was censurable 'for the indifference he manifested by his unwillingness to summon medical aid, when not only his wife, but his neigh bors, also, urged it, will be admitted by all, and that there is a strong feeling - against him, in-his-immediate neighbor, hood, evidently produced by the above cause, in connection with the unicind trOatinent, which. chiefly leads to the suspicions. Yours, very truly, WfEWAUT In chief. I should think the person who had a weak toned stomach having on Sunday morning partaken of heavy food would have fat oppression the next day ; I CX amined the tongue ; preternaturally red; don't think it was swollen ; the face pre sent44l a pinched, contracted' ciliression —natural consequence of vomiting ; the vomit was a brown mucous fluid ; the burning in the throat was the only indi cation her case presented to my mind that I couldn't reconcile with the view that-the-disease-might-IvvelmempTo= - dnced by indigestible food or cold water -this in connection with liar difficulty in swallowing ;. the administration of morphine would produce the contraction of the pupil of the eye ; do not know if arsenic would produce it ; there was no .putliness under the eye ; there was noth ing unnatural about the eye that ticed. DAVID CRISWELL, sworn. I reside in Shippeusburg ; am an un dertaker and cabinet maker ; I prepared the wife of Mr. Kiehl for burial i she was buried at the Lutheran church, at Centrevilld ; did not use any arsenic to prepare her body for burial,idier body was in an excellent state. CrOR:4 examined by Mr. Graham. I never used arseniein preparing bodies for burial. 'Di. : A'. ' , 73: Kieffei.; a:ffirzna I reside in Carlisle ; have ~been a practicing physician for 20'years ; I was employed by Mr. Smith, the coroner of the county to make a post mertew ex amination of,Mrs. Sarah E. Kiehl, dp the twentieth of May, 1871, went to Centre ville to do it ; the body was identified by her father, John Dotter ; we first noted the general appearance of the body ; 1 was assisted by Dr. Liingsrlorf, of Centre ville, the body was full; the skin was of a purplish line, very much mottled with greenish tints hero and there at points ; the blood vessels immediately under the skin especially over the chest and arms were patuirms, fiat and irregular—very much discolored, the abdomen was some what distended, but not extensively; the eyes seemed protuberant ; there was con siderable purging of animus matter from the mouth and nose ; this of course we washed away ; the countenance then looked.,natnral, except the protrusion of the eyes ; the lips wore purple with a deep reddish tint ; there was swelling on each side of the neck, just below the ears, with softening indicating rapid de composition ;e then proceeded to a regular autopsy ; I made an incision from the breast bone to the tubes so ffeep that I reached peritonean sack ; I then carefully punctured the peritonean sack with a small knife and a very small quan tity of offensive gas escaped ; I then carried two incisions on either side, the one along the edge of the ribs, the other along the spine of illium ; the object of that was to expose the organs as they wore naturally ; the transverse colon (a large bowel above the stornaph passing over it) was distended with gas, turd was empty ; the external surface of the omenturc (a web over the bowels,) was dry, and looked as if it had been pressed dry by a soft towel ; the transverse colon also had a very congested appear ance ; the blood vessels of the stomach and bowels -were unusually large; the stomach and bowels were also unusually dry in theirappearance and; also, very much congested ; the blood vessels of the stomach and bowels--were, also, dis-- colored .or a purplish hue 'with ddep red -and-- yellowish - intervening' - spaces ; thd general appearance is to be understood as purplish ; the blood vessels of the peritoneum were natural ; we then pro. ceeded to an examination of the chest ; I removed the sternum with the cartil ages of the ribs, entire ; the external ap pearance of the organs of the chest were healthy ; we now opened tho pericardium (covering of the heart),; the heart seemed natural, but on handling, the nmscpar fibers were flaccid; not soft in the ordinary acceptation of the word, but destitute of the muscular (triunes's. The heart was now removed carefully and put in a clean vessel ; I inserted my lingers into the cavities of „the heart and found them empty did not peifform the hydrostatic test; I carefully examined the longs,; they wereNhoalthy, except slightly Con gested ; the stomach was next „tied at both extremities and carefully removed entire, and.pladed clean vessel ; section of the small bowels' renioved. in the same. way was placed in it; the liver was datnral iesize ; free from Or ganic les9ns,-4mt externally unusually dark ; the all-ladder seemed natural 4 partially empty and 'Presented - a Soft 'and' , shrivelled appearance. Having•. made. "several' sections, through the lobes of the, liver, this organ was also removed and, Placed in a clean vessel; we now pro ceeded td examine the bowels, and found marked inflammation, extending along, their entire course ; inflammation not uniform but in patches, from 'one-fourth- Inch square to seven.or eight inches in surfice. It, consisted of congestion of the blood yesselii of the internal' and external coats alilfe, and in color of a light pink, from that to 'a yellowish and purplish, gangrenous' hue ; ,, more. markell, however, on the mucous or side coat, or lining the bowels wore freer of. feculeht Matter ;:they were 'empty, except that they contained a'very• email quantity of fluid of a darkish, yellowish color; we carefully .examined the kid- neys, .pancreas, fed -spleen, and_found them healthy we. next proceeed to' cixamine the genital crane trad - the blad- Adjourned at el p, m., to ;meet at gi Court mot pursuant' to adjoirtnnient; Dn. S. B2Nti.l ottn, recalled. We first' removed the genital organs and bladder carefully, by first dissecting the fold bf the fierltoneum. which. covers the ovary, and then dissecting . oat the womb; the broad • ligament,' the vagina; the bladder and theJntanal urn" removed thorn .togothov4 ,Tho- CARLISLE, - PE NN'A., THIIR.SDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1871. and urinary organs were healthY, eicept that there was 'n'flaceidity of the Minion ! lar_ fibres of the bladder. I then de tached the bladder carefully and placed it in a clean vessel ; -there was an ens largement, however, of theloft fallopian tube, it being More than ten times its -natural diameter, but evidently*, con genital or natural as there wore no -indi chtions of disease •about it. We next proceeded to examine the head, having carefully removed theeraninm, the mem branes of the brain were healthy-,the blood vessels were. slightly turgid, but, no signs of inflammation ; carefully re, moving -the • membranes ,the surface of the brain:looked natural ; we made sev eral transverse. sections through the lobes, and finding no evidence of die ease,:the autopsy closed, The condition of. the blood. was dark and fluid —a-pe culiarity in this case besides the dryness of the. bowels and , peritoneal. folds was .the.absenee of sraellfrom the cavity of the abdomen.. The organs reawed were placed in the hands of the coroner,- David Smith, osq., and the autopsy cies ed ; the stomach and sectionof small intes tines,together With the liver, the heart and the bladder, were placed in - hands of coroner . ; I proemcd one self-Sealing glass jar ; the others mere ordinary cap jars; there were four in I carefully washed them myself; Dr:Longsdorf and I gait them 'in ; covered the jars with clean white paper, and then placed on the caps ; I located the seat of diseaSe which caused'death in the stomach ; the death was caused by acute gastro enter itis;, this is a very rare' ditiease, and seldom occurs as an idiopathic disease, but - isiti my experience, almost always by either some acrid, irritant or corro sive substance; but this case, especi ally, I did not believe to be idiopathic, because we had extensive inflammation of the stomach .and bowels; , the sur rounding circumstances would not war rant such a conclusion__. ' we, therefore, said that we believed it haveto hem induced by some acrid or poisMions sub stance, and we think so still, for the folloWing reasons The congestion of the blood vessels and the inflammation were confined exclusively to the coats of the bowels ; and although the bowels had this gangrenous appearance, they were not really gangrenous, and though this WaS - 111110 days after death, they re tained almost their original consistency and firmness which could not have been had there not been some modifying or preserving agency ; 'besides there was not the ordinary softening of decompo sition which would necessarily follow 'death from ordinary inflammation at that period, as would have beets evinced by the presence and escape of gas ; by mean Buell - as would have , been induced by cold or food ; 1 would regard arsenic as such an agent as would preserve the bowies from gangrene at that stage ; also chloride of zinc, corrosive sublimate in a poisondes dose, and there are a number other such' agents. Cross ciansined. I account for the gangrenous appear ance, in the absence of gangrene, partly as the result of the inflationation and capillary congestion kept up by the Capillary congestion a consid erable while, mainly by the• acrid secretions from the stomach and bowels themselves, caused_jiy reflex nervoek action.; and 010+phi-flyby the excessive' flow of bile carfs'ellf'hy excessive vomit ing and the discoloration thus caused by absorption .; there would be nothing spe cific in arsenic to cause a flow of bile, but bile would be elimimnited by repeated efforts at vomiting ; the disg,orgepient of the gall bladder—being. partly empty and shriveled—in the first place indicated excessive flop of bile ; the °peculiar dis coloration orthc duodenum and Annette, and the very green appearance of the peritoneum about the liver, and the,face of the liver itself all indicated an ex cessive flow of bile into the system • I think the bile in cminection with die" acrid secretions were what gave those peculiar discolorations to the stomach and bowels, that in, the gangrenous yel low cast; the left fallopian- tube was enlarged by nature ; I did not regard it as cau,Qp,l by disease ; I thong - 11'k it was congeln i tfil ; the fallopian tube at the extrenikty of the womb is the size of the bristle of a hog ; it enlarges to the size of a quill, then contracts and expands again like. the mouth of a trumpet ; this tube, like any other organ, has its owe peculiar anatomical structure ; it is lined with mucous membrane and which, under distension or enlargement by dis ease, would be changed in its character; I opened this fallopian tube from end to end, and finding the mucous membrane natural I could but believe it was con genital, and not from disease; it is proper to say that the stomach sym pathizes With the derangement of other organs ; vomiting may be produced by disarrangement of the other organs ; the fallopian tubes are very import ant part of organization. I would call this a congenital deformity ; I have no means ,of determining absolutely whether flaccidity wan ante mortem or post mortem ; it could not have been so -flaccid biffore death as we found it, but -there may have been'such a tendency-3 - a heart so soft could not have performed its functions, and death Must necessarily have ensued at once, and that suddenly, if it had been soft before death ; ante mortom flaccidity would have something to do with palpitation of the 'heart ; it would cause irregular action of the heitrt ; palpitation of the .heart is sometimes irregular action,; there . are not many deaths from palpitation of lbw - herirt ; therd'arenifirry fiem oig3iiic die eases of the heart ; palpitatmon does pot necessarily arino.from organic disease of the heart; palpitation very often ac: companies disease of heart ; palpitation may be a symptom of organic disease in heart, and it may not ; we didn't open the stonmach,; we did open some of the bowels ; time external appearance' of the stomach watt, the ,same. as external ap pearance of bowels ; there was no ap.- pearanco which would justify any one in. saying unconditionally that arsenical poison was the cause- of death ; nothing but the 'apparent gangrenous' appearance and yet do gangrene there would indicate that death was caused by arsenic more than -any other cause ; the' surroundings—the gangrenous . appear ance and yet no gangrene . ; the . dryness of the bowels and.Peritonenni, and the inflamination being MO, cepfltied en tirely to coats of bow;,18, were tamehNive to my mind .that arsenic was present ; had I not ,ICIIOWII whose, body tve ,tycre examining,. I would have been driven to the Conclusion' that ,gasteo. enteritis pro duced by arsenic had caused death, -and also 'that the person had lived a: long time alter , taking ,It ; I, to 'moved the - Benito urinary . ,'organ froth lady whO died' febni taking iirsonic - ; I disSected, allorse which- bad been • poisoned', with arsenic ;' I don't know, of, any anthor who, speaks dry ness of bowels and 'peritoneum;4lley,do speak of the "gangrenous' appilattaice, from- death from arsenic; but-I knoW of no, author Who - Jaya down' distinctions between gastre enteritis, catised ;by arsonfeal poised or any other' force as 'would be characteristic. ' The nate 'mai effect '.of long' -COhtinned vomiting'' 'would' be to'nbsorb the fluids the;bOdy, , provided there is .a, copious discharge ; purging, would have the same effect, : the' onlaygement or the fallopian tubes timid not have beet' caused bY'Obstruct ive 'menstruation ; it. Is true'-that the menstrual-fluid is seCroted ; by the 'piqn tube . (mucous membrane Of 'fallo pian tube) and df.it shoul& aceitlentally. beetime,elosed i at,hoth extremities Then, : the, increase, would 'distend it ;' the, fallo pian tube apparbetlY' retained': iti" tuna& order ; . 1 1 thruat my thumbl into the "small' part.?! The ^,weight an :thority upon,- this.. disputed, questien fs pretty well: diyM-ed,-,as to whi3ther the f a llopian tubes secrets the reenstriial fluid; my own opinion It that Ahoy do;' at least Part Of it cannot. imagine any .;other contingency . would ,influ once tbe secretion of Ildts ,Pave closing . the WWl', if - it were, closed ; at the-ex tremity. or its connection With the body Of the womb, the kediration r woad pass out ;at the other - extremity, by reverse . action, and . escape in the folds Of ,the broad ligament; it would then be necessary for both ends tote closed In order to account for this distention - ; if these tubes were closed at both endsthe.symptoms of distention of a fallopian .tubei,duringilfe • would be the result of a disturbed,, physical PhySiologiial action;; • first—there would be paingo the region of the fallo pian tube, possibly--mther places—in the back, moat likely in the .beek.of the bead, possibly between the &Ladders, may be on the top, of the holed 'or 'through the whole bead; sometimes pain hi the limbs, most freqiiently'On the one side, or pain through the• abdomen ; tbis all may be or may not be osometimes just wider the ribs ;,others besides the...physical or physiological, would be 'general impair ment of health, possibly' impaired diges timipmay be some distal:lama° of heart in - form of palpitation; Irregular and Inboribuslireathing, 'general feeling of lassitude,' and want of energy, irritability of the nervons syfitein.in the form of de pression of spirits, certain fei•mit of hys teria, constipation of the-bowels, and that general condition of the , system which indicates disturbed function; these might all be or might not ;L .- el this dis turbnce would produce vomiting—not very likely to produce purging ; inflam mation of the bowels and stoinaoluvould not be produced so long' as the fluid remained in the' tube ; it would ne cessarily produce• inflammation when it got out 'of .the tube ;.'would not produce inflammation of the throat; if you have inflammation of-peritoneal' membrane. the walls of .that membrane would adhere ; the patient suffers exeru elating pain in the region of the disease ; the abdonien becOmes enormously dis tended, and very sensitive to the touch ; severe chillinesalellowed-by-correspond ingly high fever; this continueealonger or shorter time as case may be ; gan grene or abscess occurs in the part dis sensed, and the patient dies of what is tailed pyetnia ; at this'stage, instead of having a strong or full pulse, we get •a quick and threadlike pulse-symptoms of nervousness, the temperature of body very high or low—Skin bathed with per spiration ; I have made 7 or.B post mor tem examinations since 1 have—been in practice ; the enlargement of falhipean tube would interfere with ,conception, but not with menstruation. MONDAY'S ricocgEnzmis. The Court convened on Monday morn ing at 9 o'clock. „ DR. KIEVFER tetTalled. The absence of ' gases was an addi tional reason in addition to absence of gangrene for my belief that there was some preservative agency of decomposi tion. In Order to determine whether the- fallopian Aube was distended we must explain first, - its meition, rela tions and its anatomioal structure : the broad ligament is llomposed of seven folds of peritoneum, entering on the sev eral sides from the body of the womb to the pelvis.; 'this fallopian tube is from 4 to 4i - incites in length, lies in the upper margin of this broad ligament, extends outward directly from 2 to 2} inches, then turns backwards and hangs over the ovaryl with its open mouth, making an angle on itself—almost a right angle; at the open end of the fallopian it varies a fimbriate structure ; the longest of the lingers attaches to the ovary ; now if there - had been any Considerable disten sion of the fallopian tube it must have changed its relations - to the other parts as well as its own structure, which we could not have failed to discrii - orin a post mortem-examination ; the fq4= i7 ln ( "he •ned with a mucous ma - m rano, and the arrangement of that, membrane is peculiar, being of valvular or laminated -St:nett:to these valves extending longi tudinally instead of tranversely ; now this fallopian tube, still' open from end to end, being unusually lt ge, presented this anatomical structd ; besides if there had been any consi ', ! rabbi .disten• slim at all recently there mist have beep some change in the walls of the tube it self, or discoloration as the case might be ; it had, therefore, never been dis turbed ; I might say here it was the most beautiful exhibition of that organ I ever saw ; if there had been a rupture and there had been any discharge i,t would have been manifest in the petit , neal folds ; if there had been any Open ing it could have been seen by holding it up to the eye ; we never look for what never can exist; with the extremity of the fallopian titbit in the condition we found it, the walls of the tube mind sur rounding parts in the condition in-which. they were it would have been foolisb'to ave. thought of discovering a hole ; the flaccid bladder I cannot account for ;.it is composed of the same cats as the other viscera, but it is so different to consistency and feel that I. cannot ac count for it ; different in consistency from other organs in the body ; it was so soft and pliable to the hands under t hat I could scarcely detect by feel from the other parts —that is, from the peritoneal mem ber around it; the gall bladder had a shriy eled appearance from exhaustion and not from disease ; the liver, lungs and kidneys had no appearance of disease; I • made several incisions. Du. Lotqnsomiy, morn. I assisted- Dr. Kiel 'Wt. with the post mortem. 'Practicing physician since 1856. I hoard the hotter part of Dr. Kieffer's testimony ; I heard description of post rnortom , exantimmi ; I concur with Dr. Kieffer as to the results of the Texaminittion ; I - have copy of .origiVal notes taken at time, which I know to his correct ; the notes to' whichl wish to refer. were taken' 'en the twentieth of May; • from the original notes math, by myself and Charles Smith ; the twaittietli of May with the day' the 'pest mortem examination 'NW:lll6de ; the notes I wish to refer to ate not the original itotes ; think I cannot give a full - detail of past mortem examination. without reference to thew notes; I could give some points of examination ; the origin's! wore taken' ail light paper, with lead pencil ; Charles Snail is son of DavidSniith, the coroner, and one , of the jurors at the , peat men. tem • I think he is a painter. in cad: . • 6,ll3reiyed to notes taken ily Mr. Sinith as we went along ; Dr. Kieffer and I saw every note he took down ; as sw went along we told him what. to put Own ; when engaged in examinatiett, it was impossible for tto one to make Mites ; of an hem aftei• examination I Made copy, and Dr Kieffer and I afterwards compared them, and found they corres ponded sufficiently to suit me ; may. ;bet ,have the same words, but they =ma'am same thing ; I don't tcnOw hat Lean state result. f post roortopi: it regular order ' without referring to nines I can probably givelhofaisfs. After hay- Ingtho ..body , removed .!from the: grave pird into shop . orwOoti l lionse of mine, havhig no other convenient place ;, 10.. - '6lpo ' removed the' lid' of the coillo, and after taking the. body Oat we • (I)r.'r Kieffer and I) . niado examination of the external, appe ar- ance ' the , body ; wo found &minima, bld :t\vidling under - either oar; 'very . 'much 'discolo'red, • dark,' greeniiih, • gan grenous appeafanco ; •the blood vessels over the Alma,. neck .anti, arms dark,, flat, ribbon-like, not round ;• at, the edgos, of. veins a ragged apkearane& of color ; the eyes prominentand foil ; iio much so that. I' afterward' inquired if 'it' 'Was 'nritural ; some. matter-of :blood and water , aboutl - the 'Mouth at, this point 1 stopped taking notes ; Dr. Ii ufforaLeq ,matio an, incision from the ateenurri tolLe" pubes, tWo' incisions on both sides; votie'at.edge of • the ribs, the other".at , tho,•3lllurn ;4.laid...hack these ilaps nod exposed, coptonts of the,,abdo , men ;, cao!t, glYo successive steps cifl dx .uminptlon without" referonee' to , fly 'notes 1 - can tell what we did ; exaer itied external' ;appearance of 'tho atom, nelf and fonud indications of inflamma tion ; in color,. from a deep red or pink; running . out 'into: a gangrenous appear- anae: ruid . yellowlith lingo ; some points Orr stomach being yellow without -any 'redness. The inflammation -was greater in the lower port of stomach ; the omen turn or covering of bowels dry, more so than ordinarily ' • the bowels we found inflamed, in patches df different sizes:/ , .some not More than. inch; others extend , .ing 6 dr.7 ; inches along course Of bowels the inflammation of bowels was similar to that of stomach in appearance ; I ; mean external appearances ; did not ox amino the Inside ofstomach ; the inflam mation of bowels run out into gangre nous appearance ;'the peritoneum looked as though it were healthy - and presented no:indioations of inflammation ; inflam mation of bowleg did not.extend to any of the attachments; we dissected out the kidneys; made a 'section of kidneys, and they presented a healthy appear ance we examined the liver ; found it larger than ordinary ; discolored darker thanit would be directly after death of 'healthy subject ;- the - gall bladder parti ally empty, apd pinched Up appearance, from being partially empty ; we re moved the stomach, after tieing it at both ends, find placed it inn vessel we had.prepared ; took section of- small in testines after tieing It aboutmid , vay of their length, and placed that in a vessel, think with stomach.; we dissected out the urinary • and, _genital organs; removed the ovaries, fallopian tube, broad ligaments and the womb and bladder ; we examined the womb and ovaries, and found them healthyexter tetnally ; the tight fallopian tube was na , tual size ; the left Was larger than the right=probably eight or ten times ; we dissected off. Gip blad der, and placed it in a vessel We removed the liver before this and placed it in a vessel ; we next removed the sternum and exposed the,cavity of the chest; we found the Plura congested slightly ; the lungs of a-healthy appear ante, the heart empty, the muscular fibres soft and-flaccid,-not-firm-;-after re-_ moving it and placing our fingers into orifices or in auricles and ventricles and finding no evidence of disease, we con sidered it healthy, except flabby con dition of the muscular fibre ; we placed it inn vessel ; we examined the brain by cutting sections into the mass ; the blood vessels of covering of brain were a little turged, not a - great deal more than usual ; the brain was healthy; we ex amined by opening the fallopian tube from end to end, at points of inflamma tion the gangrenous appearance was seep on stomach and bowels ; there was no gangrene ; them was at butt of ear, I think gangrene ; think decomposition, had set in there ; I account for gangren ous appearance, and yet absence of gan grene from excessive vomiting pouring out of bile, the muscles of the stomach pressing upon gall bladder, which would in a measure account for the emptiness and shriveled appearance of gall bladder; the gall, after passing over these points of inflammation, would be taken up more or less, on account of that inflamniatbry action, would 'got into smaller blood vessels and-produce the greenish tinge ; that would account for gangrenous appearance ; the gall bladder when pressed,. would not empty into stomach ; the opening is a couple inches below stomach and gets into stomach if it gets there at all, by seine other actidn ; it empties into _intestines directly - below the stomach ; we ex amined the mucous coat or intestines at place we took out the section ; the con tinued inflammation would produce gangrenous appearance ; it. was not gangrene, made effort, to run handle-of scalpel irough gangrenous matter and could not do it ; it was as firm as any other part; it may have been the length of time the patient had been dead, that caused the flaccidity of heart; no clot in the heart; I think that would not be a short time to effect that change, if it were post mortem ; never made any other post mortem examination ; I dis sected one. or two subjects and from that form my opinion ; don't know how long these.subjects had been dead ; don't remember the condition of heart in those cases ; the liver, at some pOilitS near the gall bladder- was very daili and .had gangrenous appearance ; never told any one the spots were gangrene ; did not tell • Mr. Graham ; think the out side, appearance was gangrene still ; we Inside several sections • into the liver ; not disease there ; it looked larger than natural ; seine% points of liver was usual color; generally a little darker than usual ; darker points about gall bladder ; don't remember whether liver had its usual solidity or not; filets was very little smell about the body ; a very small onantity of gas escaped when , peritonefim was opened ; there was smile; little mucous fluid in intes - - tines, yellowiSh, watery substances; don't know whether there was any Jon gustion of, blood vessels of external coats ; didn't examine the internal coat of stomach ; think decomposition had set in at carotid gland ; vomiting would be an exciting cause 'which might enlarge, the liver, and yet there might not be an organic, disease, and the .tissues being ! healthy we inferred that if it were un naturally large, it most,' have been so I produced ; inflammation of a mucous coat would cause absurbtion,of bile more easily; continued for a long time it would do se ; don't know that it would Are noticed more ; we tried the parts whore, there ttFas no appearance of gan grene with handle oT scalpel ; didn't re sist more than that whi,ch looked gun- W. 01101113. In chief. Wmfocated the Cli3easo_camsitivloach in stomach And bowels, ai the disease gastro enteritis. Questim by Mr. Muter. If neither you nor Dr. Kieffer can ac count for the flaccidity of the heart, how can you utflertake to say tha:t death was not from some cause in the heart? A.flcr making tho post -Morten. we found indications iiF~ th'b stomach and bowels sufficient to produce dolith, and in my opinion it would have 'been :in possible to ; no disease being de tected in the wo came to the con elusion that site died from gastro enteritis' acid not from.any -supposable• disease of the heart which we . could not, detect ; the heart was flabby, wanted conSisteney; didn't consider the examination of the heart .thorough. ' In chief: • • If there loud been disease of the heart in all probability there 'would have.been blood there, because if. those initSonlar fibres would. have -been so weak to produce deathr,the probabilities are that' they would have boon so ‘yeak as not to be able to throw Mit' the blood ; but in this case, .as thine . was no blood con tained in the heart, it was tin indication .that it performed its fithetions.'until death ; we did tun cut the heart open. DAVID Salmi, 'Esq., sworh. • 1,, live in' Carlisle ' ' - and 'ainCoroner of the county ; on the 111111 of May last I wits,calted on to hold an inquest on. the, body of. Mrs. Sarah Kiehl, at Cehtreville;,• on.the morning of the 20th I went Up to Centreville'; when I itiit there I Wail iu formed she had boon buried some 4or ti days'; wo had,-the body taken up r and held an inquest ;, a post mortem (mann- , nation was had by Die. Kieffer and Longsdorf ; after they were through with their examination, Dr. , ,Kiefforprotured some jars, and the parts.taken front the body. were-put into theso jars ; they were' closed, up mid handed to me; I took the jars home th'iny - oflleei . sealed them tip; and put thew in a case in the oillbat and they remained there until Monday morn:: ing - ; (this„tres Spturday) ; Rum took thorn and mit them in this little room in the' Cciett Reuse—now the lust library,; I looked tricidoOr and hail•thodtey in my possession : mita , the. Friday .following ; on rriday tuorhing,,l .left for l'hiladol 'phia ;,took the, jars N 94111 me and handed them to Prof. Ritud'rthey were never out Of My phssesslon until 1-handed them to Prof. Rand ; they remained sealed all the, time. ' • , Uroett examined by Mr. I Honied up tho Jo h with . a cement' I got at Mr: Baxtono stow; the mouth or the jar had a lid or stopper ; it was a tin cap under which was a piece of white paper put there by Drs. Longsdorf.and Kieffer ;'-I never removed the cap that 'was put on by the Doctors.; .the paper, was larger than the cap and 'stuck out, around the edges ; the sealing . wax I >afterwards used was on top the cement -and covered the entire cap; 1.-put on the soaling_wax-onSaturday-ovening-and , loft in my office until Monday ; I had it in my possesion all the way going to Philadelphia; we wont right from the cars to Dr. Rand's office and delivered the jars ; Mr. Maglaughlin was with me :3 jars we got at the store in Centreville wore taken from the store ; I don't know whether they were washed ,or not, the Dr. got them ; I was with the Doctor when-he got them and was 'with him from the time he, got them until he took them to where the body was ; did not see them washed. DR. W. LONGBDOnat, re-ealled. - I was along ,with Dr. Kieffer, at- the store when herprocuredthejars ; the,Dr. purchased them, they were brought down off the shelf, and after examining them, said they would do, and asked fur some water, they gave him a bucket or ,pan ; ; be washed them whilst the coroner was paying the bill; we tookthem down to my office, and placed the stomach, &c, as wo got them into the jars ; I think we had to drain them at my office. (Correction by Dr. Longsdorf.) Since giving my evident a and looking over my notes taken at the time ; I have the notes taken, " liver of natural size"; I now swear that that was the case. Gross examined. I did swear the other way, when trust ing to memory, but would rather trusty the notes ; no one called my attention to this ; I read over ray-notes ; Dr. Kieffer and I washed all the jars purchased at the store ; ono of these jars, I think they had been using for a candy jar ; this was about half gallon jar ; we washed with cold water think_the. Dr._use d _a_ rag ; -I am not positive, if he used a rag it was one they used about the store, vid put the stomach and liver in the largo jars, as would be natural ; wo wrenched out the jars from a pitcher of water that had been used in the store for drinking; I think the pitcher would hold about a gallon ' • I think it was about full of water, the pan wo used for washing jars was the store pan. Court mot at 2 p. in. Da. B. 11. RAND, at. n., MOM My residence is Philadelphia, aged 44 years, and profession physician, ate Pro lessor of Chemistry in Jefferson Medical College. I received a 1 - votalon — box willi the lid screwed on, on being opened it Nis found to contain four jars. -Three of whet are ordinarily known as specie jars, that is glass jars with loose fitting japanned tin lids,,and one small self-sealing jar. The lids of the specie jars were sealed with plas ter, one of the specie jars contained the Istotnaelt and piece of intestines about three inches long, the second the liver with the gall bladder attached, the third the lump ' ened heart, and the fourth jar the urinary bladder, which had been opened and lost its contents. t examined all-of theab jars, - and found arsenic in all, except the heart. I received that box containing jars from David Smith, coroner and C. E: Maglatigh lin, esq., District -Attorney. , The organs were all submitted separately to the action of pure diluted muriatic acid. The stom ach and liver were each divided into four parts, for fear of accident, to any one of the parts. The test used was Iteinsh's, and was used in every instance. This is very simple test and free from fallacy, if prop erly applied. To distilled water some pure 'miriade acid is added. A strip of bright copper foil immersed in muriatie acid does not tarnish but becomes brighter. If now solution; suspected to contain, arsenic. whether free from' organic midtePor not, be - added after the liquid has reached it bollix point, the copper acquires a steel gn coating. (Illestri4d with apparatus, copper immersed iu boiling diluted muri title acid, into which some suspected solu tion had been poured.) This coating is S. compound of arsenic with the copper, this coaling is also produced by other metals ; but arsenic is the only one, which, when heated in a tube at a gentle heat, say of a spirit lamp, will yield a ring of charac teristic crystals, which to the naked eye appears sparkling like diamonds, and which under the microscope present a character istic form. The steel gray color of the de posit on copper, is to the experienced eye characteristic. These aro the tests used. Upon treating the stomach I obtained sev eral deposits, of which these arc specimens, from'which I obtained sublimates, ono of which I submit. The mark . on those ob tained from stomach is two • on those from liver three; with' a brad awl which cannot be erased. In pieces-of paper handed to jury, are pieties of copper foil, coated by immersion in distilled water end dilute muriatic acid, a portion of the contents and stomach being present. The tube contains a ring of crystals obtained front a piece of copper euphony treated. I have also speci obtained from the liver treated in the same way. (Specimens handed to jury.) There are 14 different pieces of copper coated from the liver. These represent the whole liver, that i they arc taken from all the four quarters, some being • taken from each part, but they do not represent the total amount of arsenic in the liver. I have also a tube containiobicif , ring of crys tals, obtained froM a Wee of copper foil which had been seated as before stated. Here are deposits from the bladder, and here a deposit from a piece of intestine. Those from bladder are tnarked 6, from the intestines 6. I made a determination of quantity in the stomach. This was done by d . estroying-tha organic matter by moons et pure hydrochloric acid and chlorate of potassit, precipitating the arsenic by sul phureted hydrogen, and dissolving the pre % , eipitated sulphide of arsenic in cold, weak anunonia. The aingioniacal soldtion was evaporated to dryness, in -n light counter poised glass vessel. The amount of sul phide at' arsenic obtained wits 2 and seven -tenths grains, which assuming the sulphide to be the pinta-sulphide, would he equal to one and seven-tenths white arsenic. The quantity in the liver and bladder was not determined by the balance. Other organs which usually contain arsenic when it is .found in the liver, are the spleen, loWer bowel dud pancreas, three were net submit ted to me for examinati6n. Question . by Commoinvettith.—Does the quantity. of. arsenic found in the stomach and tissues have any direct relation to the swallowed?quuutity Objeuted- to by defendant's counsel, on 'the gsound that there are no sudloiont facts given to justify the witness in giving an opinion,m9 making an estimate of that kind, ,• 2. That it is not competent. evidence in' the ousq. Objeetions,,,oveiruled, defendant's counsel except and bill sealed, • , • ' Answer.—lt does not. Arsenio when taken into the,,,stutnach produces, in the greet majority L of Cases, violent vomiting and pttrging,' by which a large portion of that swellowoci4s thrown otit•of A portion is alSo absorbed into the system, and passes but through the natural elan riels for absorbed bodies. A man may die fi'em arsenic, and not a-trace be found in the body: • , • •Q`—What inference have yetUrawn from year examination of the retettins submitted to you and analyzed, no to the amount of ersenici'akun by, the person. whose remains they ate? • A....-Ananiount - suffieierit Cocoon death had been triken.' , It in impossible to say, the quantity, by weight. „I have boon: , a practicing physician. since 1848. In 'toy medical careen.l have paid Ad high ,us 40 visite a day. sou patients,•nt my house, and keep myself posted hi: the medical theta of the day. 'l'devote most-of my time to Chemistry. The'• nmalletit" fated dose of arsenic in considered as tivo'grnios. noes now contours question before pre.- pounded.) ~ 1 infer a fatal dose,. bad boon 'taken: It is ' nay ..I:4)iniOn it was' taken alibrtly before deathOhat le, I' eldiuld say, within - 5 or 0 days,Oi a .wook-rathoi a shorter than a longer period. I VUceived a box 'from' 31613adler. It was a•Wooden box, about limitable size-en this. (a,box et . hibited.) ,, On'openiag it it appearod to have „ . • been scraped out 'end a small quantity in trey on subject; I was not infortried that white powder slicking between - the bottoni any arsenic had, heen,adminiiitered ; I and: sides of box in the seams ; as I could began the process as any' other not detach enough powder to make Ott one visit from - .ls.le,Glaughlirt,_;_wd.he told :tests satisfactorily, I cut, the box to pieces, me of the supposed administration oftar-: huiledit up in pure dilute muriatic acid. senicufterl bad fouud its the matter was and obtained a deposit upon copper foil, offensive. t made me quik alloy froM which I obtained the sublimate as ex- working some. tittle at H.: 'Never; went hibited_in_this tube. 'The box is No. 4. 1 to the outside, butwogtto ttl:l6 . aobi` for submit,BlSo,llllotOgrilpllß—takert - linderlirr - air. flad a case of patiEfckyinkTroM microscope of sublimates. No. I is a test arsenic,. and Mono found in the ,stothaelt: piece, the rest as before described. No. 1 There was no food in_thenternaCh: , is a microphotograph ofsublimate, obtained rra. chitty' , . . from a deptAted solution of known arsenic. ” 'have remains of box., Tl,i6re was No. 2'14 from stomach. No. 3is from liv- writing on lid, and was to the ',porpiirt er. No 4is from box. These are meg- that dose was h.toits,pponftil or' half tea. nifirvl about 40 diamt.t , ..rs. lam not cor- ..I.oonful, I don't renunnber ".exactly. tain, but nearly 40 diameters. • I have nay- Think teaspoonful. ft wft's, I thoUght, see n a case of • arsenical -poiponing, but a strange direction for medicine iint'scifit ,derivemly information from authors into box. It was to be given, I think '.three what witnesses have said on the stand in times a day. Am not stun.. lii the oases' other then this. After symptoms amipation of liver made no .analYtical move fairly set there is n feeling as it determination. of :amount of arsenic) some one were grasping the throat, violent found. The reason ,that the liver retching. vomiting, purging- and. Straining is.stich a largo ..organ,.,weigliing. 3 or -4 to ,vomit. To this there ore exceptional pounds. The quantity of .arsemc found cases. The person ;cotnplains.of, a violent - in it does not generally'eieced 2 grains, burning sensation, compared with • having in destroying this immense mass the arse swallowed a furnace or hot iron, restlessness pic would be likely to lid entirelylosl, of extreme. The person does not vomit freely objection made to the.largei cfumitl,ty. of but - strains, purging does not, come extraneous material introdaced._,He at onecrbut—when—it- - does — 'ComeTrifirffctuiThereibre only-estimate roughly the id the same straining. In one quantity found in any case. This rough ease which came to my knowledge in estunate was made on the following aril: a trial, but in which did not see the pa• If I take a piece of copper foilof quaro tient during life it wile represented so hay- inches Surface and introdtice it into sus ing rushed from tale house and rolled in the peet n d solution and tind that it ism ed, g rass. The thirst is extreme, and the stole- and that after introducing three mo ach very intolerant of liquids: The eyes pieces, and the last fails to receive a sat are generally bright, watery and sometimes -isfactory coating, 'I -should eatimato bloodshot, voice hoarse, countenance con- that the amount of. arsenic in that. treated, showing evidences of extreme suf fering; the 'patient finally, becolllos axe Misted and-sinks, of sometimes' dies sud denly as in a faint., I speak merely no an expert; I have not been in court before to-day since this trial began ; ror .huve I rend or have read to inc any testimony in this case. • • Grace examined, The linage of the crystals wzihrown upon a collodion plate by Ma'. Minn, a photographer, in my presence, ns they were in the tubes I have shown this afternoon. I- have known over an ounce given where the patient - recovered ; an ounce is' 480 grains ; the recovery from those large doses is uncertain. There are many cases re ported, where. under appropriate treatment much larger doses than two grains -have been given and patient recovered. The two antidotes generally used for arsenic are the hydrated sesquioxide of iron and mag nesia. To these twe_added bland drinks, milk and water, flour and water, i‘ggs bent up-1 m--wa t er r &a. recei red-this—tux-In the middle of the day, while I was at-col lege, it was delivered to me in my eolle; , ,e office. 1 opened the hex next day in my lab oratory: where all my,:ohemleals are kept. I got two Men out of the dissecting ruout to cut up the material, as it was very offensive I emptied the material out into clean white dishes. It was cut up the same day I opened the.bo . x. The different parts of the vis ce •ts V, ere cut up separately, and kept sep arately..-It remained in the muriatic ccid three or four days. It stood in laboratot y .during that time. It was under lock and key; and no one was its laboratory but myself. I was present when it was cut up. I was standing - beside the two men during the whole operation. It was put muriatic acid to break down the struc tare of the animal matter. I got theinuriatle acid from, Mr. Jacoby, and tested it with copper slip, and found it altpure. I never saw arsenic in commercial muriatic acid. ft is Stated in the books that it is liable to contamination with arsenic. Then added muriatic acid and chlorate of potash, little by little, to burn uporganic matter in chem ical sense of the word. I tested everything I used. The chlorate of potash was some I had put away,: which had been tested by .31arsh , s les', It wns tested its 1810, and not since then. I kept up operation.with chlo rate of potash, until liquid became of a clear yellow color. Think this Was kept up more than a day. I noticed the effect but not the time; can't sayliow much ehlorate of potash I used. The liquid altogether was about a quitiq, pCrhaps more, perhaps less. I heated this then gently, until the smell of chlorine no longer appeared, and through one portion c.tf the fors passed a slow stream of sulphurous acid gas, but thefrest 1 slid no so treat. I generated the sub . phusous acid gas by nesi t on of sulphuricocid on copper foil by heating it. The sul phuric acid Was same lv had in office. It , was chemically, pure acid which I have used in Marsh's apparatus. I tested the acid at the last course of lectures—the winter before. Didn't measure or weigh amount of sulphuric acid ; I do not think I used more than ounce ; I used all three of Marsh's modifications in testing acid. Sulphureted hydrogen was now passed in slow stream through the fluid deprived of its organic acid, the purpose being to pre cipitate the acid in form of sulphide. The' sulpltureted hydrogen wet continued from day to day until precipitation - was com plete, which was ascertained tiY there being no further precipitate or passing the gas through liquid. The precipitate was col lected on a filter thoroughly washed in distilled water. The whole operation took nearly n month. Can't say how many days the gas was passing through the li quid it was a good while— .To the best of my recollection think it was it week,' and interruptedly. I generated the sulphurcted hydrogen by action ,of sulphuric acid on sulphuret of iron. Sulphureted hydrogen would test itself for arsenic-it would pre cipitate it. I suppose the four parts might have measured a quart. Nos. 1 find 2 were mixed together and submitted to this treatment; they were then treated wit a cold diluted ammonia. ;"We dissolved -out. the sulphuret of .arsenic; and' - left the' sulphur on the filter. The commercial varieties of agents - used in, testing aro all liable to Contamination with arsenic. It is not difficult', to get sulphuric, acid and zinc—free front arsenic. 4aili - f Superior copper 0011111i110 110 arsenic. Sulphureted hydrogen thrown down as a precipitate, cadmium, bismuth, anthnony, mercury, etc. ; also tin, after having been thrown down as /1 precipitate, and cadmium would have gone into Solution as r know:, The absence of these metals had been previously , determined by the olit e inary test—, Beinsch test,;, arsenic is' not the only substance' that would give a deposit on that coPper, antimony, mercury, plati num, gold, &c. ; of these only three are volatile by heart; antimony, - arsenic, mercury.,--arsenic only gives a sails- . -factory,. crystaline sublimate; antimony would not have been sublimated by the beat used; and copper was perfectly clear after sublimation ; small 'spirit lamp used ; stomach was very offensive, put it at once in vessel with- =vatic acid, covering it over with glass plates, after filtering the inal.ter, I found upon filter, after dry; a number or small, crys talMe, yellow shot-like , bodies ; these mug. have' Wow sulphide of arsenic. because the only. two other colors,, that give tho yollovir are cadmium, zinc and urtuditru. The ques tienjies then betweetittin ,and arsenic, which question is docidod ,by the notion of its hydrochloric acid, and chlorate of potassa, which •rendered soluble the yellow . globules which,- in this ease, could not have been tin. I had already taken out some o£ the arsenic in making a pre liminary test, and did not wish to weaken it. in making my quantity less. Reinsch's test was the only ono used to find the arsonio intim box; Mr. Shearer called upon mo to ask if would allow chemist -associated with -ma i ; I had no personal objection ; I Objectini to having a' stranger in' the inyestigation -..-ono unknown to me, because' after 'the Cipoyience in Palmer's case there was danger That an' interested person' might, by' apparent. accident, destroy an important portion of the material under operation. ',mentioned the names of gentlemen' with whom I would be Willing to be associated: Profs. 'Rod-. gors, Bridges, 'geese ; ' also , stated I would request the assent of District At torney before I would give Mine ; my roe ' ollebtion is Mr. Shearer returned.within ono or two days and stated that ho was 'satisfied to lot thd matter yprnaiu in my hand. To the hest of my recollootion I had ~'"no communication with Diotrfot Attor ' if Ell 'N11151E442.00 a Year In advance.: $2.60 If not paid' within the year.,, quid was much less than- if ,I could in troduce land Secure a coating ou: two square feet of surface, and yet . I. could not, tell the quantity in either case. I fiud,,bytrial in this :ease,. that of the liver would fairly coat 80 square inches Of copper foilthe. operation being stopped on this specimen' as not being suliicientty I think lady'say - 'that One - grain - Of arsenic was present in the liver, and probably more. My estimate At' first was 2 grains in the whole liver: Tarter wards made experiments by,contiv green -surface of copper foil in known solution. I was led to give Mr. Shearer, in my report, 3 'grains, but this plan is liable to so much variation from strength of solution, time of immersion, presence or absence of organic matters, that I an willing only to give a guess and place it that. I may be entirely ,within beupds —I fix it at I grain. This estimate is for the whole liver, and is formed on probabillifeii: - I - Placed a known-quan - fiTy of firifeific iiiselntion and immersed in itin succession slips of copper, keeping them in until they wore thoroughly coated ; we then measured amount of . surface coated ; left them as nearly as I could tell the same tuna as I had in the analy sis. Ido not place reliance on it as an estimate ; I used the corroborating tests -that are usually employed for the detec tion of arsenic—Marsh's. , I .left the copper foil in - liquid from the liver 'about 13 minutes. Arsenic deposits move .slowly in presence of organic matter, 'Urchin clear liquid. The results indi cated that a very-large dose of arfi6nie had been taken—over ten grains. This is...not a guess, but based upon well known facts. - Pent' sulphide of arsenic . contains 5 parts of arsenic. I might have calculated the amount as ter-sulphide, ac- , cording to best authorities, which would have given 2 and three-tenths grains as the amount of arsenic iu the stomach. ' It. is impossible to say how thick in any case the deposits on copper are., The standard authorities and latest in dis covery are Taylor, Worn:ll4 and' Dar win ; I accept them as Authority.' It is stated 'in Wormley's book that, accord , ing to Marsh's tekt, tho .5000 part-q£ a grain will give' distinct stain the glass used in the o s :§t was all nest. 'By Lassaigne's method there can be no pos sible doubt. I wrote a letter to Mr. Maglaughlin, telling him - I had found arsenic. A case in which I was called Into Court when a man was scraped and Put into bottles—lie was so putrid, and a quantity of arsenic found, sufficient to coat .two small slips of copper. In the case referred to,, the 'defendant.ad ,rnitted having give the deceased One ounce of arsenic. $ Cross examined. It was Fowler's solution I coated the copper foil with in this case in pres ence of jury. Fowler's solution is a medicinal substance. Court adjourned at 0.308. m., to meet at 9 o'clock a. m. TUESDAY •[OBRIRO. Court met at 9 o'clock a. m. Many DONEn, re-called. I heard MM. Kiehl say after that occurred with the coffee, John Kiehl came on the porch and said' he was • going to town to buy poison for the rats; . he said to Sarah, shall I go? she said I don't care ; then ho Went to' Shippens burg, said he was going there ;-he didn't say whether he got it or not when he , came-home, nor did we see anything of it; I think he had a hoe when he came back ; think that is all I saw him 'have ; My sister, Mrs. Kiehl, never had any 'children ; Ali-. Kiehl owned the property he lived on.; don't know how Many acres dhere wero x ,;, the coffee affair was in April I left there on the ninth of April, and this occurred about a week before J didn't ask him 'when he returned, from ' , Shipponsbuig, whether he had got the rat poison ; nor did he Say ; this was in ' the forenoon. SINIOII SNYDnn, sworn: . • I live near Mount Rock, in this county ; - conic --- into..Carlislo — ou Sunday; and went into the jail to see John Kiehl ; I called him at his cell ; he gave mo no 'answer ; Mr. Henry Waltrick called him , and came' to the door;called three times ; talked to um ; I asked him .what he tiniught of this ; asked ,him if he knew what he was in for; he said I didn't ; then I asked him, again ; said again he didn't knoW; unless they blamed him - for poisoning bis woman r.I Said then to him, did you get poison ; he said he did ; said he otitin Carlisle, for the rats LI said no, John, you didn't get poison — fin:lN •rats,.You got it fur your wife, didn't - you? he gave me no answer ' and commenced to cry ; I said then to -, him, (billet you get it fim your' woman ; he said yes; I said then, prepare yourself for the day that conies ; I told 'Mr. Waltrick to come and speak to hiin ; ou way' going home, I told Mr. Waltrick what John had : told me ; it was the day that he was arrested. ' Cross examfacd. Mr. Waltrick and I weal into Cut, jail together. .1_ told the gentleman on the other side what I heard, and' they took it, down in writing ; Mr., Shearer called upon' me and asked the what I knew about the case:. I, refused to 'tell him. • M r .' Donor sent nie down to pump- Mr: Kiehl ; Mr. Donee gave Me the horse to come down ;° I did pot get into the jail by lying ; I ant john Kield's cousin ; I don't think" I told the Sheriff that - I was his brother; I told him when I went in that 4 was his cousin:; - I dld'id tellhim that I was his brother 'or his step-brothel . ; I' did not tell the Deputy' Sheriff that I-was his brother _'or step brother ; I didn't toll Mr. Waltrick that I was his brother or his - step-brother; no one was at his cull except Mr. Waltrick and myself; don't think,l ;saw. any, one at the railing Mjail ; didn't tell. Sherif f. wanted to see John on religiOus sub jects ;- - I' didn't Waltrick that John was a thief-Onsta,'llar ;. didn't toll hinithat I lidheed pretty bad once but that I had reformed .new. Don't think I told any'end that the Sheriff and Mr. Waltrick wore at the , door When. 'John told'. me that, and ..that I didn't 'know what 'Would do if they would go back on -me— I didn't loll' Ony''botly ;that ; didn't toll the Sheriff,' Deputy Sheriff or Waltrick' or Mr.' Snyder anything of that kind ; any body that 1 was his'brother. I don't know Sam uel Skelly ; don't-think-I= related. to' the-Doziers.:. Liv cl of Plaiitlleld, before I came down hero. Mr.' Wnitriok and I wore together nearly the whole day. ciatcruido ON" Vintn;in racoLl 311 II OM 1711111
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