Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 105, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 September 1901 — GANGRENE CAUSES DEATH. [ARTICLE]

GANGRENE CAUSES DEATH.

Autopsy Disclose* Startline Condition of Vckin'ey’a Stomach. The bullet which struck over the breastbone did not pass through the skin, and did little harm. The other bullet passed through both walls of the stomach near Its lower border. Both holes were found to be perfeqtly closed by the stitches, but the tissue around each hole had become gangrenous. After passing through the stomach the bullet passed iuto the back walls of the abdomen, hitting and tearing the tipper end of the kidney. This portion of the bullet track was also gangrenous, the gangrene Involving the pancreas. The bullet has not yet been found. There was no sign of peritonitis or disease of other organs. The heart walls were very thin. There was no evidence of any attempt at repair on the part of nature, and death resulted from the gangrene which affected the stomach around the bullet wounds, as well as the tissues around the further connc of the bullet. Death was unavoidable by any surgical or medical treatment, and was the direct result of the bullet wound. HARVEY D. GAYLORD, M. D. HERMAN G. MATZINGER, M. D. P. M. RIXJ2Y. M. D. , MATTHEW D. MANN. M. D. HERMAN MYNTEU, M. D. ROSWELL PARK. M. D. EUGENE WABDIN, M. D. CHARLES O. STOCKTON, M. D. EDWARD G. JANEWAY, M. D. W. W. JOHNSON, M. D. W. P. KENDALL, Surgeon U. 8. A. CHARLES CARY. M. V. EDWARD L. MUNSON. Asat. Surgeon U. 8. A. HERMANUS L. BAER, M. D. Thinks Bullets Were Poisoned. Dr. Mcßnrney Inclines to the belief that President McKinley was shot with poisoned bullets, as the action of the wonnds • waa most suspicious, strongly supporting this theory. 1 Theme of Sermons. The death of the President was the theme of sermons In mil parts of the counj try Sunday. Many congregations sang I “Nearer,. My God, to Thee" as a further mark of respect.