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described above, it would bleed and if the body lay in one place
30 or 40 minutes, there would be bleeding and if the body is
picked up and carried about 40 feet and dropped at another place
I would expect to find blood there. All wounds bleed very freely,
and there would be blood wherever the body was.

Dr. J. C. OLSTEAD, Sworn for the defendant,
Practicing Physician for 36 years. Given the facts that a young
lady 13 or 14 years old died and 8 or 10 hours after death the
body was embalmed with a preparation containing 8% Formaldehyde,
and the body is exhumed at the end of 9 or 10 days, and a post-
mortem examination shows a wound on the left side of the back of
the head about an inch and a half long, with outs through to the
skull, but no actual fracture to the skull, but a hemorrhage under
the skull corresponding to the point where the blow was delivered,
with no injury to the brain, it would not be possible
for a physician to determine whether or not that wound produced
unconsciousness before death. Such a wound could have been made
within a short while after death. It is impossible to tell from
the mere fact of discoloration whether an eye was blackened before
or after death. If the post-mortem made on the same subject 9 or
10 days after death showed upon an examination of the contents of
the stomach a mixture of wheat bread and cabbage like this (States
Exhibit G), it being possible to distinguish a cabbage leaf, and 32
degrees of acidity, it would not be possible to determine from
these facts or any other chemical facts that might be found there
how long that had been in the stomach with any degree of accuracy.
It is impossible to tell when hydro-chloric acid begins to be
secreted in a given case. The hydro-chloric acid follows a curve;
as a rule it ordinarily begins slowly until it reaches a certain
point and then gradually goes off according to the character of
the food and the amount in the stomach. After death free hydro-
chloric acid and pepsin do not remain in such a state in the
stomach that you could tell 9 days afterward the exact time of
death. The hydro-chloric acid disappears after death, and neither

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