Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1881 — A STARTLING CHARGE. [ARTICLE]

A STARTLING CHARGE.

Au Allegation that Gen. Garfield Wat Slain by the Surgeons. The Chieago Times correspondent telegraphs that journal from Washington, under date of Sept 23, as follows : “ Certain revelations made tdsiay to the Times correspondent by an unquestioned authority, of the inner history of the post-mortem examination of the the body of Gen. Garfield, will create a shock throughout, the country second only to the assassination of July 2. These revelations show that the President might have lived; at least they show that the report of the autopsy is faUe, and that, had it not been for Secretary MacVeagh, even a portion of the reluctant truth placed in the report would have been suppressed. What will the public think when it learns that Gen. Garfield did not die from any result of the wov/ad made by the ballet, but from a cause that probably could have been remedied in the early days of the oase ? The original track of the wound had fairly healed, and the baU itself had become completely encysted. If it had not been for the blood poisoning, tbe President would have been a well man to-day. The blood poisoning proceeded from imperfect drainage of the wound the second day. A clot of blood that might have been taken ont with an aspirator was the cause of the blood-poisoning and the huge abscess upon the kidney. The spine was reported as injured in the autopsy, so that this would appear to be a mortal hurt, but it is said upon high authority that the post mortem revealed nothing of this kind. The spinal column was not harmed, and if there was a slight injury of the vertebra it would not in itself have been serious. After the funeral is over, Gen. Swaim, an educated physician, and Dr. Boynton will reveal the inner secrets of the post mortem. One of the most startling features of the exposure will be the history of the search for the ball One hour was passed in cutting for it Then the bowels were removed and placed loose in a wash-bowL Another hour was spent, and then some one looked in the contents of the washbowl and discovered the encysted ball among the intestines. Yet the autopsy locates this ball in the muscles of the back. Gen. Swaim has been so indignant over the report of the autopsy that nothing will prevent him from telling the true story to the public after Gen. Garfield is buried.