Crawfordsville Weekly Journal, Crawfordsville, Montgomery County, 4 August 1859 — Page 1

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size of a quailer of a dollar. Made a crucial incision, and dissected the scalp from the bones of the head examined the soft part and the bones externally the wound seemed to be in a healing condition the bones were uninjured—no fracture. The •wound was immediately over the junction of the.two bones called the occipital and temporal bones. We then removed the entire sc^lp from the hones of the head removed the bones from the brain by sawirg .theni in a., circular direction: we wash: ed the bones and-' cxnnriiied the inside of the wound found no injury o'fthc bones on tho inside on the out. side of the bone just under the wound, where the temporal bone terminates there seemed at first to be a slight abiasion of the bone, this upon ilo^e inspection proved not be a fracture there was no portion of the bono, not a particle removed wound was in a healthy

condition- the scalp had been injured to

the bone we exr.mined trie duramater first, which is the lining membrane ol the bones of the head found it in a healthy condition •wo then examined arachnoid membrane, that was also in a healthy condition we examined next the piameter which covers the brain: we covld only remove portions of.it as it was very tender we separated the hemispheres of the brain and looked into the ventiicles found -nothing unusual there wt cut through the substance of the brain in several directions, tho substanoo as far as we could learn, was perfectly healthy and natural I wish to state here that iu all ases I have heretofore examined of persons so long dead, there was settling of the blood in the membranes of the brain, which makes it difficult to determine whether it is the result of disease or death we examined the brain under the wound and on the conesponding. opposite bide found a little more teuden'cy towards decay under the wound than under the correspond ing- op Ciiito siJe, tlie. inference was very slight ,-we laid the chest open by removing a lar^VcClion of the ribs including the breast-bone we removed the lunge and trachea, separated the lobes of the lungs cut through them in

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inflammation on the peritonroura

The kidneys both externally and internally were healthy. The bladder was healthy and natural. We examined the uterus, cut into its cavity and I found it full of what we supposed BO be the menstiual fluid. We could discover no disease about the organs of generation. We examined a poritionof .the spinal column, embracing a part of the cervical and a part of the dorsal" vertcbrai, {'mind-,the membranes which are the same as those of tho brain, and the medillary matter iu 1 the same condition as the membranes and matter. vf the brain. There is'no morbid appearance iu QQ the membranes or matter of 'the Sjiineto which 1 could swear in any ease as the result'of conyui9 00 sions or poiso::. These inflammatory conditions 10 (10 sometimes exist after the person has died oftet11 *00

and sometimes they do not- tliey sometimes

15 OO ekipt after the person has been poisoned with strychnia, and sometimes they do not. The mor-

j0 00 bid appearances differ on different eases. 12^00 head was still drawn to one side and backward, 13 00 «'hich tfas spoken of by some of the witnesses 15 00 Rigid and rather clawed condition of the fingers •25 jift I

Manners, senior. While 1 was writing the testimony at the house of Willis Clark, at the request of the Coroner, I was sitting in the corner of the room had tlie jar on tke sugar chest under my control. The Coroner asked me to let him take it out of doors, as it snielled badly, which I refused to do, and 1 then set the jar down between inv feet.

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rections and found them perlectly healthy in every part don't khow that I, looked into lungs in which the cella. were so perfect and so few of them obstructed We took out the heart, foimd it healthy cxr. tcmally cut open bojLb ventriclcs and auricles— found all enspty and natural, llie. pleura, the. lining meinbrcne'Of thb-chest natural. 0 examined the diaphragm, found no disease upon*!. Wo opened the abdomen Ly a cruaal incision, we looked upon the external part ol the stomach

found it healthy, so far as we could judge. We thcri cOnimcnced with the uppc. bowel. traced litem through by a process understood In

the stomach or bowel to let the

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Fi'e dollars rer thousand will be eharired for ,v Tickets-,'AosJe vaid for invariably inad- sinaU quantity of the conients escaped upon the tabic. I then tied it up again, got

Horse nnd ark Bills,--te-j 'some cloths and enveloped the jar in theui, Bill 2—for f-aeh additional ... JFKE. KKKNKY,

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L)R. Tno.1. W. FHY.—1 live in this by my self at Manners' 1 think I took the enmity am a phvsieian: hive hi-'n practic- jar out of my pocket 1 didn't let any one in-- about 20 years. (Alfred Owen \va« 'jenovv where 1 was going that night, and iu°e lc-ealled was present at the post did not leave until the crowd had dispersiiiorfcin—the body examined hv Di. F».V. led, when I got home 1 took three glass was the lo'y of my siter.) On Thursday bwtiles, washed them with alcohol, then the 2d of December, 1S58, I went to the itli water, dried them with a silk handtrrnveyaid on ihe farm of Willis Claik kerchief I took out all the contents of-the the uodv was Uikon fiorii the grave about stomach and put it in one bottle, contents 12 o'clock, and laid upon a pin

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and put tlie jar in my overcoat bide pocket, I got the jar from Dr. Wilson. The jar 1 ileansed n.ysolt. I went that night to Ja. Mannerb' .lames Manneis Sr., and 'James Manners Jr., and some one else, whose name I do not know were with tno I staid tlie balance of the time at

Manners'. I led my horse and walked, I as it was dark and the roads bad came home next morning I staid in a room

Di's. another bowel in another bottle, left the

Knglish and Wilson, of Ladoga, were bowel and stomach in the original jar I present and assisted in the post-mortem washed and dried some other bottles in the examination. We first made an exami-1 same way cut off a part of the stomach nation of a wound-on the left and back.I and a part ol the bowel, put it into one jar part of the head the wound was about the

labeled it 1 put in a part of the con-

tents of the stomach into another bottle, and a pait of the contents of the bowels in a tbiid bottle, labeled them properly,corked and sealed them all this latter division 1 took to Pro'essor John S. Hougham, of Franklin College, for chemical analysis I kept the bottles in my carpet bag, under lock and hey until 1 reached his house, which I think'was on the 20th day of Dec., 1858. Made an analysis myself, but was unwilling to go into court without the analysis of some better chemist either to confirm or disprove mine and so informed the friends of the deceased I made a great many experiments on the contents of this stomach and these bowels. Th6 first plan I pursued was that of Merck, adopted by Taylor in the Palmer case we failed to get any reaction or colored tests by that, process. I next adopted Prof. Trail's formula .! commenced this process by digest-

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portion of the stomach in alcohol.-

This fluid I filtered through paper. These experiments are for the detection of strychnine. This filtered fluid I concentrated in a sand bath, with a gentle heat there was a currant of air passing over it of about 80 deg. Fah. I then dissolved the residuum in acetic acid boiled this fluid, suffered it to cool, and again filtered through paper. This fluid I sat a sana bath and evaporated to dryness this renidunm 1 treated according to the plan of Dr Llodgers, ot Ijor.lon. 1 took a portion of this residuum, washed it with distilled water, to which was added a few drops of the spirits of hydrocloric acid to this mixture I add few drops of the spirits of ammonia to this 1 added an equal quantify of chloroform if there is '.trychnino present it is taken up by chloroform which settles to tho bottom of the vessel.

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After the line of demarcation is formed between the chloroform & the other fluids,X introduce a pipit, diaw off the chloroform & place it in a porcelain dish for spont»eous evaporation, or by the aid of genUe heat this evaporation left minute chiytftals in. almost every capsule that I.used ,,I .t}ien applied to theso chrystals the coloringtests, which is now regarded almost an ab-: solute and1 certain test,' Taylor, ddubtea

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regarded as high authority as a color test' 1 used the bichromato of potash and pure sulfuric acia whlch Wfc^eff W^ test iu the detection of1 strychnia, when united with the chrystals obtained from the contents of the stomach and tho stomach itFclf, produce the deep beautiful pur-

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very much distended with. gas. We examined tals and put it in a frogs mouth, it oied- in the liver in all its parts, and found it a healthy organ. The secretions had a natural appearnnce'. 'The spleen lnid more mniks of congestion tiian any other organ. We supposed that I might be produced by gravitation. There were

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adequate cause of the death. After eom-

16 00 plating the examination of the body, we tied the Jg 00 upper and lower orifices of the stomach, remov20[00 Itl'it and placed it in a glass jar, the contents 25 00 remaining in tlie stomach. Tied the upper 45*00 I

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°f tlie first small bowel, and about a yard or a vrd and a half below applied another ligature and then placed it in the jar. I kept the jar in my immediate possession, put it in aside pocket of my overcoat, end in that way carried it to the house of Mr. Clark, where tlie jury tat.' No one

had hold of the jar, nor did it jjass out ot my possession after we put the stomach in, tliat night. Something has been said about my taking supper that night—I took no supper. late I dinner about 12 o'clock the examination lasted about five hour', from about 12 o'clock until sundown. I next took something to eat, about 2 o'clock next morning, at the residence of Jas.

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(aimers «s ridding the bowels we went through I pie which is regarded a characteristic. of bHris0sbri, aii8 Ti£lowfc Asswttiht were not .as from, tbe beginning of tlie bowels to the rectum, strychnine I also-used what Hall calls certoin

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the course of half an hour of opistha tonos in making these experiments1 I kept the bottles sepefate I got what I regahled to be strichnine brith from the contents of the stomach and bowels ..'! took a'-por-tion' of the stomach and bowels to T. KfJenkins of Louisville, by direction uf counsel for the State in strychnia tetanus there is a peculiar clawing of the fingers sind toes in tetanus proper that clawing of the fingers and toes does not exist *^411' tiiy knowlecge of both these diseases ift derived from readirig authors on the subject the symptoms of tetanus proper come on more gradually than those of strychnia tetanus in tetanus iproper the symptoms eve lope' themselves uutil death occurs, or the patient recovers in stryehLia tetanifs there are short intermissions in the paroxifems the lock-jaw is one of the first symptoms in' tetanus proper, and the last in^ strychnia^ tetanus in stiyehnia tetanus the attack begins with a sudden scream not fio in .tet*' anus proper in strychnia tetanus this rigidiiy of miiscls continues dnriug -life -arid after death the rigidity of muscles does not continue after death in tetanus proper- so far as 1 know this drawn condition of the fingers and toes-does.not attend any other class of poisons these are the principal .-characteristics of the two diseases,. Authors say pomething about the effect, of the touch, which often produces convulsions. The affection of the throat and the difficulty of swallowing I believe is common to both., I did not hear the testimony of Jas. Owen I heard the testimony of the other witnesses who assisted in laying, deseased out after death. What the witnesses saicl about the stiffness of her hands and the position of her head, indicated the presence of strychnia. My opinion was that the strychnia caused the death. I talked w.ith the three brothers at the post mortem examination could not say how long deceased had been dead some bodies decay sooner than others could'nt have been dead a great while decay had scarcely commenced, -t

CKQSS-EXAMINED,—The jar held, a qurtrt^that the stomach was placed in was twps tbirdd filled perhaps: the contents were not sealed up until after I got home it was covered with cloths Dr. Wilson-took the jar out to the'gi'ouadr' we washed tlie jar on the ground with brook water don't recollect whether I wiped it once or not, perhaps didn't wipe it: I had tlie jar by niy Side it was not 'sittingUnder the hoard at any time took the jar to the house and placed it on the table to mv left: was not under tho table at the house Dr. English was sitting so he could not see where the jar was: the lid was the only thing that covered the jar no portion of the contents run out on the floor of this room, that occurred in the other loom: am certain that James Manners did not carry the jar to his father's: I slept in a room alone don't think there was a stairway in that room the jar was placed in a Btairway or closet in the corner of the room I slept in it was placed in a recess between my room and the front room: did not examine whether there was a way up stairs from this recess in the corner of the room got up early next morning about ordinary time, was unwell and d'd not sleep soundly: I heard no stirring about the house before I got up: strychnia was the only poison I looked tor: brucine is a milder nature than strychnine, has probably one twelfth the strength: never saw a case reported of poison bv b'rucia: stramonium produces spasms but not the clawed condition of the hands and toes white hellebore taken iu large doses produces symptoms similar to stramonium. 1 put the bottle under lock and key- Put no particular mark on the scaling: bottled it the same day after 1 got home: the jai. was kept in the store room of my residence. I kept the jar in my coat pocket until 1 got into my office I commenced operations immediately that day at the

tin's tncf fpw VMM aon but has :8iucei °f\P0iB0n than others., It has Us.#^t«,.iu a«

College Labratory. I never left the jar unsealed while making experiments—sealed the bottles with wax and placed a piecc of white paper on the tops—if the sealing wax had been broken and other wax put on would not have detected it bj its appearance—I could not have detected the the chrystals by the naked eye—I carried one key of the labratory and Prof. Hovey another.— Stass' plan at Brussels was the one I pursued some experiments—I took two Bcruplcs of the contents of the stomach, put it into a glass testtube to which I added some four or five scruples of alcohol—to this mixture I added a few grains of tartaric acid—heated this mixture to about 170 or 180 deg. Fah.! after it had cooled I filtered it through piper—this fluid I placed under a glass receiver and evapoiatcd it to dryness by means of an air pump—this residuum 1 washed with distilled water—put thnt in a test tube—added the bicarbonate of soda by degrees until enervescence ceased, this liquor I set aside for spontaneous evaporation—the residuum was washed in a little alcohol, to which about an equal amount of sulphuric ether was added and'well shaken up— after the ether had risen to the top, clear and limpid, it was decanted into glass capsules and set aside for spontaneous evaporation--the evaporation of this fluid left minute chrystals, which witli the ordinary coSea produced the, usual result —this is Stas' plan, I followed it implicitly—I didn't suc-eed with Mercks plan. I used Trails' plau which I detailed before dinner—the portions I was experimenting with remained open in the back room in the labratory—1 tested nil the materials I used—I tested the alcohol and bicarbonate of soda by the color test.—the chrystals that I used with the frog was obtained by Trails plan modified by Rogers-r-the frog -is the most, susceptible to the effect of strychnia of all animals —the 33d part of a grain as asserted by- Hall will produce the death of a frog—strychnia taken into the stomach is readily taken up by tlie absorbants a na tben into the tissues of the body and tlie heart acts on the nerves and produces death. I applied the tests to strychnine taken from a bottle I brought from tho drug store and compared with that taken from the stomach, they we re so much alike tlmt was clearly cotvvxaaed. I have experimented A good dc&L but do not self a thorough analytical chemist.' I do regard my analysis as conclusive—I.examine^ the.whole to-day, all, the spinal column-r-I examined a foot or inorc of the interior of the spinal column—the traces of strychnine are not alWays left on the the brain or, spinal marrow. It makes no diner-, encp to. the .quantity. Sometimes the corpse is livid and sometimes is not when killed by strychnineStrychnine was discovered in 1 Si8, used more' generally,since about 1845. be pawing of .the fingers and toes. is a common effect of poi^ son by strychnine.. ,1 think there was but verj.

Tittle said about the toe's by the "witnesses. observed the toes when I examined the foody:A*person might-milk aftet t&king -str-yebtfia Some persons are more susceptible ito the effects

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modified lus opinions lay lor works. ^trvbhni'a Md^ftorsoning^d'ogscs, generally doti !U WdJ'k in about 6hetJiilf huPi .I'ddii*# suppose a j^crson co^ld walk after the convulsions have, commenced.' The color, tests, arj to my miiid reliable. The color tests, the physiological tiest taste* atid clirystaiizatlon are, to my nnnd ,l lieufectly reliable as* to the presence Qf strvc^ nine. The weight of cbcshical testimony is no^v in favor of the color tests. Taylor and

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lor has, since thef Palmer trial,- modified his views. I found the heart enipty^and. in a healthy state. Those perspns poisoned with strychnia generally seVeani tfhen th? atfc&ck commences. I do not know that I'can tell of* case in which the brain:is not affected when poisoned by strychnine, Jjut I do not think, it is always the case. Strychnia is said by chemists to be readily obtained', mbre:so than most vegetable poisons. The analysis should be made with pbre materials. I tip ilk that the strychnia IboUght was pure. I think I icould detect aj£ grainJq a dead body. Modern authors, I think a mnjorily of them agree in color tests, together5 with thS bitter taste and the chrystalinc form, I could* detect the 50,000 part, of a grain if it were pluced in' organic matter, grain will spmetiqies pvoduce death, so Dr." 'Taylor.. says. The patients I suppose are diffe'reiftly affected by strychnia, SOmenave^ acidity of stoftiach and some haVe iiot. Brucia has the same bitter taste: but not,'sonntonse a bitter as strychnine. I dou)t kuow whether there are any other vegetable poisons which take the same clirystaline torn! as. stryc/lmia.

It being Saturday everilnw'/and the counsel for the State and defence having agreed to allow the Jury to go home with sustt instructions as the court might administer to Uifim,. an adjourn-

ment.wastaken

until Monday morning 10 o'clock,

with the"under.stahdirig that the cross examination of Dr. Frv would then be continued.

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SIXTH DAYJJ I". i-.'i: MOXIAV. July 25.

Court opened at 10 o'clock, bnt? as Mr. GBEOOUY had not yet arrived, counsellor the defence agreed that the Court might wait fbr him until 2 o'clock, 1'. M.

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Dr. Tuos.W. Far re-called. A patient might take a dose of poisou that would prove fatal and still walk before spasms comment^, but c,Ould not walk after convulsions began. [Dr. Fry then explained from' a draft of the house of Mr. Manners, in which he slept on the night of the post mortem examination, showing the position of the jar and the bed in which he slept, &c

Am not now certain that I could get to the jar from where I slept, Sunless I passed through the room in which old Mr. Manners! arid his wife, slept. I drew up the plan of the house from my owh recollections

John S. Hougham called.—T am Prof, of Agridultural Chemistry and kindred sciences in Franklin College my department includos General and Aualytical Chemistry have been experimenting more or less for thirteen- years nave been a Trof. eleven years. Dr. Thos. W. Fry delivered to me these three bottles between the 20th and the 25th of December, 1858. Prof. H. here exhibited to the court and Jury two quite small bottles and'one. holding a half pint) When delivered to ihc by Dr. Fry, these' hottles were closelv corked and well sealed with wax. so as to be not only-water-tight butalso impervious to air and othergasses: they were well secured. When I received these bottles one was labeled, as you no-* ei* it, "part of the contents oT the stpmach of Kezziah Owen, of Montgomery county," another was labeled, "part of the contents of the upper bowels of Kezziah Owen ot Montgomery county," and the third was marked, "part of the stomach and upper intestines of Kezziah Owen, of Montgomery county." This half pint bottle was about two-thirds lull, its contents being part of the stomach and upper intestines, with alcohol to preserve them the two little bottles had only a small amount of substance in them. In the first place, I took some of the stomarh and bowels and having cut into small pieces placed one part in a porcelain capsule to be treated for detection of strychnine the other and lesser portion was placed in a glass retort, and the organic mat tor separated from the inorganic by a plan recommended by Regnault this process consists treating the matter in the retort with concentrated sulphuric*acid and evaporating at a moderate boat to dryness, then treating the residuum with strong nitric acid, by which means most of the mineral poisons would be rendered soluble. Then I treated the contents of the retort with water, separated the soluble from the insoluble parts by filtering and employed Marsh's test to determine whether antimony or arsenic was present found neither of these nor did I find, by further experiments, any mineral poison.

The part placed in the porcelain capsule to be examined for strychnine and other organic poisons, was treated according to the process given by Frescnius from Merck. This is the process pursued by Di's. Taylor and Rees in their analysis of Cook's stomach, in tlie celebrated trial of Dr- Palmer in England, as shown by Taylor on poisous, Ed. 1859, page 700,—and by which proccss Drs. Taylor and Rees failed to find strychnia. In this experiment I found no strychnia or morphia. Did not apply thc-tests for the other alkaloids.

I nexttook the "contents of the stomach'' and a portion of the "contents of the upper intestines'' and carried these through Merck's process and did not find any strychnia or other vegetable poison.

I then took the remaining part of the "contents of the upper intestines," also the remaining part of the "upper intestines and stomach," placed them in a glass flash and treated according to the process given by Drs, Rogers ta Girdmore in the late edition of the U. S. Dispensatory under "Strychnia." (Prof. H. being asked to detail the process proceeded to do so.) Treated with quite dilute chlorohydiic acid and digested with the heat of the water both for several hours. This converts strychnia into a salt which is much more soluble than the alkaloid itself. After aigestingv I strained twice through a cloth to remove the larger pieces of animal matter, also such glutino.ua substance as would, if placed at first on the filter, obstruct the passage of the fluid through pap^r, apd thus protract tlie process sevr era! hours. After straining. I filtered the'fluid that passed through: the cloth strainer, and evaporated the fiIterate to dryness. The residue was digested with alcohol and again filtered and the filterate again evaporated to dryness. This last residuum was treftted with water, after which ammonia and chloroform-were added" .(Ammonia precipitates strychnia aud other alkaloids, and chloroform re-dissolves strychnia, itnd the chloroform solution of strychnia subsides to the bottom, baing hearieT than the other substances.) The chiodoform and what it'contained in solution were drained off with a pipette placed in a porcelain caps tile and evaporated to dryness.— This residue was treated with a small atnount of strong sulphuric acid, heated over the niter both and after the addition of water, ammonia, chloroforro, the chloroform solution was again drained off -witu a pipeite and evaporated to dryness., In this last reBirtiiutn I found crystals which were distinctly visible to tws naked eye, and which were intensely bitter also on being{dissolved ina drop of strong sulphuric acid and bichromate of potash being added, these crystals gayc what appeared to nie to be thesame shades of color given strychnia nrider'the samecircurastances. These shades^ of color are/'dcep blueiipagsing through violet piyple and red tintsi—Taylor on poisons, page 690- (Prof H.« then jMenS^d. experiments upon the result t'f-hifi anatjsia of the stomach! 3tippo^ t^b^4^chnitf,fHbeiE&re the Jtityf ctfob) -iilffis-my. opinion

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can rorm.^o accprateife^^f the amount I found, bui think tli*ere mu£t hiVebieen' a prett'large quantity fit lfeast tried t'number of experiments aEl'I have used up oay a emallportioa of what was attained'. There is no doubt 4n my jpind in regaid to the accuracjjof the analysis audits jiual rcsuU

OSS-EXAMIXED am not- 8.ware that any othji* poison, 'UUder t&e circumstances detailed befre, will give the sfcrne succession of colors.—

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degrees of oxydation of the strvchnia the change in color produced in tempering steel, guides the blacksmith in his work, and is the result of different degrees of- oxvdatibn of the metal.—— These two eases seem iii some respects to be analogous. This is the first case in which I have attempted to find strychnia in-a human body after death. I know not how the stomach or its contents were treated before I received them there was alcohol in one bottle (the largest one) when delivered to me. Have never found strychnia in the alcohol of the drug-stores, nor in wine— have tested for it often. The process by which I found the strychnia is called Rogars and Girdmore's plan. I am not aware that this plan differs essentially from the process Of Stass. Stass evaporates at a lower temperature and in a vacuuoi, which enables him to retain these volatile alkaloids which escape at the temperature ol boiling water and he takes up the precipitated strychnia with ether, while Rogers and Girdmore use chloroform. The ethereal solution rises to the top and tho chloroform solution sinks to the bottom, when in connection with water Or quite dilute acids. Taylor gives several processes for the detection of strychnia, but I do not remember the number.

I do not know how small a quantity could detect when mixed with organic matter. The principal difficulty presented to the Chemist in making analysises to detcct poisons, consists in separating the poisons from .the matter of the stomach or other parts of the body The tests have not changed very materially since 1845. I think Chemists are not very much divided on the subject of the

strychnia/tests.

There was a great

diversity of medical opinion in the Palmer trial. Strjchnia was not gehetally so well understood as poison prior to the -year 1^54-5. Brucia & strychnia are both produced, from the same vegetable. I cannot say how great the diversity of opinion among Physician« may be ae to chemical analysis and color tests, but ray opinion is thnt there is no reputable Gfeewtfi in either England, France, Germany or. the United States who wo not. consider the color test for strychnia unmistakable, when taken in conncetion with the crystaline form, its taste aud its physiological effects as produced upon a frog.

I did not test forhrucia brucia with nitric acid gives a crimson or bright red color if a small amount of brucia were present, I presume itwo'd not interfere with. the tests for strychnia most of the strychnia'of the drug stores is said to contain a trace of brucia. I -saw an allusion to the trial of Greene, in'Chicago but do not remera ber the particulars in that case. There may be ag many salts of strychnia as there are acids to unite with it acetate, muriate and nitrate of strychnia:are some of its more common salts.

The reagents used by me were tested and found to.be pure before proceeding with the analysis.

Prof. Tlios. E. Jenkins, of Louisville,

was next called. His testimony was given in last week'b issue.

Dr. John B. Wilson called. I reside in Ladoga. I practice medicine—have been practicing about six years was acquainted with ICizxiuh Owen in her lifetime. Iam acquainted with the Coroner of the county, JameB Vanarsdal!. I was at an inquest over the body of Kizziah Owen, oil the premisos of Willis Clark. Dr. Fry con

ducted the examination. Dr. English and I assisted hira. There was a wound above and behind the left ear. We examined that and found the wound superficial, and tho skull was found sound beneath the injury. There was a circular incision made around the scalp, and after the scalp was removed the skull was removed by sawing, and the covering of the brain and the brain itself were examined these organs were all found in a healthy condition.— The hemispheres of the brain weie separated and incisions made. I think that just beneath the injury there were some evidences of congestion. The cavity of the chest was then laid open by removing the ribs, including the breast bone. The pleura was first exanrned and found in a normal state. The lungs and treachea were next examined and found natural.— The heart was examined, and the cavities of it were empty and natural. The abdomen was then opened by making a crucial incision, the stomach and intestines were examined to the best of my knowledge, there was a red patch at the upper extremity of the stomach, with that exception they were in a healthy state, the liver was also examined, found healthy the kidneys were also examined and no evidence of disease discovered, the itlerns also was examined and contained fluid which was thought to be the menstrual fluid it was in a healthy state spinal column was also examined by removing a portion of the crusical and upper dorsal vertebra1, no evidence of disease found there there were ligatures applied just above and below the stomach and it was put ir. ajar, I furnished the jar, it was a glass jar, it was cleansed with water from the branch there was a portion of the upper intestines put in jar with the stomach the spleen was examined, incisions were made in it, some little evidences of congestion were found iu it but 1 think they wero caused .by gravitation were about four or five hours making the examination, commenced about twelve o'clock, or between twelve and one o'clock, the jar was put at the head of the corpse which was on a plank put on some rails the jars were taken to Willis Clark's by Dr. Pry and placed on a table or chest. I cannot say, how long it remained there, the last I saw of it was on the table. Dr. Fry was sitting at the end of the table upon which the jar stood, left about 10 or 11 o'clock I left Dr. Fry at Willis Clark's. 1 noticed the hands of the deceased, tho fingers were drawn into the palm of the hand 1 cannot state the day of the week I think on Thursday or Friday. 1, know defendant, knew him at that time, do not ieui..atuber wlien I last saw hira before the postmortem examination defendant was not present.

CROSS FOU5TTE».--I got the jar at my office I do not Kieep all. the medicines that are used I. got the jann 'Chioianati I had used the jar it had capsicunvin itv it had a tincaver. I think the

bones so as to depress the brain, I think sudden death may occur from depression there was no injury of the skull bone there might hate been an abrasion, but I think not, I did not observe any the injury was just above the junction on the occipital and temporal bones, the parietal bone joins all three of the bones occipital, temporal and parietal, we took off the skull, there were no evidences of disease except those spoken of under the wound we removed a portion of the vertebra) just between the shouldej below the neck, we took out four sections, we examined a portion of the cervical verteoraj or vertebras of the neck, there was a red patch on the upper portion of the stomach the jar stood at the head of the corpse when the stomach and bowels were put with it. I did hot keep my eye upon it all the time, I never assisted in making a post mortem examination before this was the body of Kizziah Owen.

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It being five o'clock Court adjourned until 8 o'clock to-morrow morning.

SEVENTH DAY.

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jar but holds over three pints tbe^branch is about, twenty-steps from the place of examination the waten was from the branch'iu a wooden bucket I re it 6 member to have seen William Harris at the examination. I could pass my fingers around in the creases iii .the bottom of the jar if it was necessary we examined on the opposite of the head, from the wound, there were no evidence of congestion on that side, external injury I suppose have been known to producc convulsions, do

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TUESDAY, July 26.

Court openod at 8 o'clock, hut James Vanartdi il called. I was Coroner of Montgomery county in December last. I held an inquest over the body of Kizziah Owen on the 2d of December.— There was a jury empanneled, The jar containing the contents of the stomach I gave into the charge of Dr. Fry. The first I saw of the jar was in Ladoga Dr. Wilson carried it down to the graveyard.^ I saw Dr. Fry put the stomach into the jar he kept the jar part of the time in his pockets-part of the time on the table at which he was writing down the evidence (which he did at my request.) and part of the time on tho floor between his feet. I came awBy about 12 o'clock in tho night. I was present at the dissection of the body. Dr. Fry, assisted by Drs- English and Wilson, performed the operation. t.

evinence for the State here closed.

TESTIMONY FOR THE DEFENCE.

James Manners called.-—I was present at the post mortem, a portion of the time, (am acquainted with the defendant and his wife,) went home and came back & little after dark, the house was well filled, Dr. Fry sat at the west end of the chest, tolerably close to the south west corner of the* table I recollect of the jar sitting on the flo?r a portion of the time, don remember of Beeing it on the table, eithei under the table or by the south side of it, I was present at the grave gard the jar must have been sitting about the middle way of the table and Dr. Fry was at the end there was a crowd around the east end of the table, it was near midnight when we left Clark's Dr. Fry staid at our house that 1

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the house 1 am acquainted with William Harris known him some time, I know his moral character, it is bad, I am acquainted with bis character for truth and veracity, it is bad.

CROSS-EXAMINED—There is a girl at father's but do not know where tdie slept I once thought I slept with Dr. Fry that uight I do not remember of eating supper that night I have been thinking a^ good deal about the jar I can't 6ay positively when I got possession of it, but think it was when I got into the woods, that's about three hundred yards from Clark's I stopped at the wood-pile and took Dr. Fry's horse and they took the jar there was no intermedling wt were all walking in company I don't remember about tbe darkness of the night, but know we had a lantern the chest was up to the wall on the north side Dr. Fry sat at the weBt end, the jar sat down about where his feet would reach to Gardner Clark is a neighbor who lives about one forth of a mile from oar house he went to the road that turned off to his hou*e and terned off in the directions of his house he did not go to our house I don't recollect of seeing William Harris tho day of the post mortem examination.

James Manners Sr. called. I have been sworn am father of James Manners Jr. was present at the postmortem and at Willis Clark's, it is about three forths of a mile from Clark's to my house the way we went, Dr. Fry, Gardner Clark, my son and myself, went together, noticed the jar about tbe time we started from Clarks, my son carried it part of the way my house fronts south, runs east and west, the house is a two story house, the jar was placed in the stairway that night, I thiuk Di*. Fry placed it there, there is no communication between tb&t stsir-way and the room where Dr. Fry slept in, there is no connection bet wen the closet in tho room where Dr. Fry slept in and the stairway there are no locks on any of the doors, they were latched, there are two rooms up stairs it was quite late when we went to bed it was tolerably late when Dr. Fry got up, it wgs after the rest of the family got Up, I cannot slwifiTW-kt")?I am acquainted with WiUfam HarrisT^now 1riS: general morald charcter, it is Dot good I am acquainted with his general reputation for troth and verasity, it is not good: we eat supper, I don't remember who sat down at the table ,I slept in th©: big. room tho bed is in the north we&t corner of the room there was nothing between .day -bed and the stairway no ou^cls«rffipt-in the house besides those above named cxccj.il

81 60 PER YEAR IN ADVAKCE 2 OO WITHIN THE YEAR.

Joanna Johnson Ntf perfioU slept iti thd room with myself and wife I was up? among the first in the moining I know of no intermedling with the jar while there I told Dr. Fry to put it there and I opened the door for him to put it in we understood each other about the contents of the., jar there was something said about it and we all had thesame opifrfbti I ktftftv of ho' intermedling with tho jar at any timfe Dn Fry went to bed first in tho rooin he sleptin, it was some little time before* dn^body. else went into the room the contents of the jar had a very offensive odor, that .was,' one of tbe reasons we put it in the stairttfay the door was shut after the jar was put in.-

Esq. Thos. McDaniel called. I have? lived in the neighborhood some four yearSi I am acquainted with the general moral character of Wm. Harris it is not good I am acquainted with his general character for truth and veracity it is not good.

Joseph Staten called. I have known de4 fendant over 20 years lived within about two miles from him for near 2d yeSrfi. I have oJten been at his house, as frequently, as neighbors usnally do. I never knew him to treat this wife unkindly. I am acquainted with Wm. Harris have known him from boyhood. I know his mofdly character it is not good. 1 know his general reputation for truth and veracity it, is not good. I knew defendant before ho was married.

Cross-Examined.—-I know nothing toortf about his treatment of his wifs than what I have seen in vioiting the house. I never saw anything tinusnal about his treatment of his wife while I was there.

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night I carried the jar from Clark's to our house, we had it wrapped up in a white cloth, the contents had been a running over, so as to make it very udpleasaat to can)',' 1 had to hold it off from me, and used great care in earring it my father, myself aud Gardner Clark Manners had discribed the plan of his fathers house, condition and relation of rooms aud the place of the closet Dr. Fry, my wile and myself slept in the same room that night, the stairway leads up out of tho big room, it was late when we got homo, between midnight and day the jar was. placed on the stairway, 1 think the third or fourth step 1 dont remember who placed it there: there was good deal of talk about where it should be kept there was no communication between where Dr. Fry slept and where the jar was placed

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Deposition of Matilda, Oitien.

The deposition of Matilda Owen, takert by and before me the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace in and for tbe County of Montgomery, State of Indiana, at thjf, house of John Owen, in Clark Township, in said County, on this the 20th day of July, 1859, to be read in evidence on th&' part of the defendant in a certain case pending in the Montgomery Circuit Court of said CJonnty, wherein the State of Indiana is plaintiff and Jonathan S. Owen is defendant. The said Matilda Owen being first duly sworn to testify the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth, as she should answer to God, deposes as follows, to-wit:

Question Is/, (by defendant's attorney) —State whether you ever had any conversation with Kizziah Owen, the deceased, wife of the said Jouathau S. Owen. If •yes, when and where wa„ it, and wbbtwas the conversation?

Answer—I bad a conversation akout September last. She said she wished the hurt on her head would kill her, because Jonathan and William Owen almost deviled the life out of her. Tbe two above named are sons of Jonathan S. Owen.— The conversation was called out by my ask-'' ing her if 6he was not afraid the hurt on her head would kill ber.

Q—Had you any conversation with her before that? A—I heard ber say last April a year ago, that she would poison Jonathan (her step son) if she was not afraid her own children would get it too, and heard her' say the same at another time.

Q—was you intimate at the houso of Jonathan S. Owen? A—I was.

Q—What was the treatment of Jonathan S. Owen to wife? A—I nevor saw him mistreat her, or speak an unkind word to her.

Q—How long have you lived by him? A—1 have lived within Otie quarter of a mile of him for seven years, and havo known them intimately ever feiuce they were married.

Q—What was Mrs. Kizziah Owen's treatment towards William and Jonothasr, her step children 1 (This question was objected to.)

A—It was very unkind she always hni a quarrel with them and diivingthem from home.

Q—Are yon able at, this time to, attend Court? A—I am not, being near my confinement.

Cross-questioned by plaintiff's counsel: Question ls£—What relation are you tor Jonathan S. Owen, the accused, whose case for murder of his wife, ie now ini" pending in this county?

Anjwer—I am a sister-in-law, fire wife of bis brother John. Q—Are you anxious to have the accused acquitted, and don't you take a deep interest in his behalf

A—1 think tho guilty ought to bo condemnod and tbe innocent acquitted, and I think so of him.

Q—Did you know a Mrs. Huffman wba was about Jonathon S.Owen house? A—I did.

Q—Where is she living flow?. A—I don't know. Q—Did she not cause disturbance in tho family of Owen?

A—If she did I know nothing of it never heard of it had as good a chance to* know of it as any one else.

Q—Were James Owen, or Horatio or Alfred Owen here about a week after the burial of Mrs. Kizziah Owen, to talk with' you about her death?

A—No 6ir, nevc-r. to the best of ray recollection.' Q—Did you not drive them frtim your" house?

A—No sir, I did not. Q—Was Jonathan S. Owen a man tha'6 staid about home most of the time?

A-^Yes, Bir, Id'thie best of my knowledge he did. Q—How did William and Jonathan, step sons of deceased, treat her?

A—I think they treated her better tk«n she did them. Q—How did she mistreat tham1?

A—She would not give them sufficient to oat, would not wash their clethea nor lot [COXCXUI^D ON 2i PACE."]