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LEO M.

FRANK, 221

engaged in hospital work six or
seven years; have treated about
14,000 cases of surgery ; have ex-
amined the private parts of Leo
Mo Frank and found nothing
abnormal; he is 9 normel man,
sexually. ‘Neither I nor anybody
else eonld give an intelligent
opinion of how long that eab-
age and wheat bread had been
in the stomach before death.
Finding the epithelinm missing
im several places or separated
from the wall of the vagina
would not indieste any violence
done to the subject in life. The
condition of the blood vessels as
deseribed I would expect to re-
soit from other eanses than vio-
Jenee, Even if violence caused
them, you could not tell how
Jong before death that violence
had been inflicted, or that it had
been inflieted within from five
to fifteen minutes before death.
Dr, Willis F. Westmoreland.
Am a practicing physician for
twenty-eight years, general prac-
tice and surgery. A professor of
surgery for twenty years, and
formerly president of the State
Board of Health, From the evi-
dence I have heard it would be
impossible to tell whether or not
that would have produced un-
conseiousness before death; skull
may be fractured without pro-
ducing unconsciousnesa; death
may be produced by a blow on
the head that leaves very little
outward signs. From looking at
such a wound without any knowl-
edga of the amount of blood lost,
one could vot tell whether it was
inflicted before or after death;
one eould not tel! from looking
at a wound of that sort from
Fhiek direction it was inflicted.
lave no peraonal feeling against
Dr. Harris; preferred charges

with State Board of Health
charging Dr, Harris with pro-
fessional dishonsety. It would
be impossible to form a reliable
opinion that eabbage and bread
‘had been in that etomach before
death, on that data or any other
data, that eould be found by
looking at the stomach nine or
ten days after death, Man:
things retard digestion. Mucl
depends upon the particular
stomach and its affinity for par-
ticular foods, Food that is not
thoroughly emulsified will re-
main in the stomach indefinitely.
Cabbage like that, and wheat
bread, might remain in the stom-
ach until the process of digestion
is complete, which ordinarily
would be from three and a half
to four hours, Any epithelium
ean be very easily stripped after
death. The digital examination
could have stripped it. So eould
the removal for purposes of post
mortem examination, If the sub-
ject had had a menstrual period
a day or two before death and
she was found in the act of men-
struating at the time of death,
this would account for the con-
gested blood vessels, and it would
also make the epithelium much
easier to strip. Even if an
opinion could be expressed as to
violence before death, it would
he impossible to say that it oc
curred from five to fifteen min-
utes before death. From an ex-
amination of the private parts
of Leo M. Frank he appears to
be a perfectly normal man. A
black eye eonld be inflicted after
death, © ~

Grovs-examined. There are
sexual inverts who are absolutely
normal in physieal appearance,
A doctor could not look at eab-
bage in various stages of diges-

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