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X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

tion and venture an opinion as
to how long it had been in 2 wom~
an’s stomach, The human tongue
could not produce any signs of
violence in the vagina.

Ds. J.C. Olmstead. Practie-
ing physician for 36 years. Giv-
en the facts on this ease it wonld
not be possible for a physician
to determine whether or not that
wound produced unconsciousness
before death, Such a wound
eould have been made within a
short while after death. Cab
page like that is liable to ob-
atract the opening of the pyloris
and to delay digestion. That a
microscope shows on parts of the
vagina removed from the body
that the blood vessels are con-
gested may be due to menstrua-
tion or the natural gravitation
of blood to those parts and is not
necessarily indicative of violence.
The use of embalming fluid
would make a diagnosis of vic-
ience utterly unreliable. It would
be impossible for a doctor finding
those conditions in the vagina by
means of @ microscope 9 or 10
days after death to tell that vio-
lenea had been inflicted from 5
to 15 minutes before death.

Dr. W. 8. Kendrick. Have
deen a practicing physician for
35 years, Don't think that the
finding of the epithelium strip-
ped from the wall would indicate
anything unusual; don’t think
that would indicate any act of
violence. A female’s menstrual
periods brings about songestion
and hemorrhages of the blood ves-
sels every time. The body describ-
ed nine or ten days after death
one could have no way of telling
whether that wound would pro-
duce unconsciousness or not;
would be a pure conjecture.
Skulls are eometimes fractured

without unconsciousness. Some
stomachs will digest different
substances quicker that others;
don’t think there is an expert in
the world who could form any
definite idea by either chemical
analysis of the liquids of the
stomach or by the condition of
the eabbage Jodged in the stom-
‘ach as to how long it had been
in the stomach,

Jokn Ashlay Jones. Have
known Mr. Frank a year; his
general character is good; am
resident agent for the New York
Life Insarance Company; have
never heard any talk of Mr.
Frank’s practices and relations
with the girls down there. Mr.
Frank has a policy of insurance
with us, Tt is our custom to seek
a very thorough report on the
moral hazard on all riske. The
report on him showed up first
lass, physically as well as mor-
ally; have never seen any nude
pictures hanging in his office, al-
though I have been there a num-
ber of times; have never heard
that he smiled and winked at
young girls,

Dr. Leroy Childs. Am a sur-
geon; eabbage is the hardest food
to digest among earbohydrates,
because it has so much cellulose
which is a woody fibre. Cabbage
gets ite digestion in the mouth.
That cabbage has not been masti-
cated thoroughly. They have heen
swallowed elmost whole. Raw
eabbage is casier digested than
cooked cabbage. The shortest
time for boiled cabbage to pass
into the small intestines is 4 and
a half hours after it is eaten. The
stomach does not digest the eab-
bage. Physic influences will re-
tard digestion 2s excitement,
fear, anger, also physical or men-
tal exercise, If a human body ie

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