Salt Lake Herald-Republican | 1901-02-16 | Page 1 | Medical Experts Testify That Day Was Killed by a Blow From Behind

f MEDICAL EXPERTS JEST TESTIFY IF THAT DAY DY 1 I WAS KilLED BY A BLOW FROM BEHIND 1 Minneapolis Minn Feb 15 The medical experts continued their testimony mony nony today in the trial of Frank H Hamilton ton on the of or murdering Leonard Day Dr Erdmann professor prof r ro of o anatomy for fr the University of Mm Min Minnes nes net by the aid of an articulated skeleton and also using one of the tb states attorneys lot for Ot illustration showed shoved how in his opinion the te fatal knife thrust was delivered from behind Day and ad how with the sharp ed edg of ot the black I toward the back of the nur ur derai dere l mans body bod a piece of bone was wu chipped out of a rib The Thi states attorneys aided by other medical exports experts put him through a aigid algId aIgid but failed to shake him in his deductions Dr Dri i eorge rge Ericker testified as aa a to the on Hamiltons head after the affray alfray and said ald they might all aU have been aund by b one blow with some instrument I Paul O a reporter who cov rev covered ered cred the affair for tor the Times testified that during all aH the time he be was at the West Vest hotel botel Hamilton made no routes confes confession sion jon nor did he be say anything about the matter Dr J L TJ Stone who attended Ham HamI l I ton n at the Jail testified to the various contusions on the prisoners head and I said they probably were all made by a ane cane ne or stick of some kind R L Lewis recalled readIed could not re remember remember remember member whether he be had sent a pair of trousers trou era containing a bloody handkerchief handkerchief handkerchief chief to a cleaning and repairing es establishment establishment establishment If so they the were not the ones be he had bad on that night at the West Vest hotel boteL The defense rested in the afternoon I and court adjourned until tomorrow The principal evidence of the after afternoon afternoon noon had bad to do with Evans trousers II sent to a cleaning house the day after the murder H G Robinson an em employee emI plo of the house bouse testified to having I received the clothing and to having ha ing noticed a clot of blood on the one leg legand legand and something like Uke a cut about an inch long below the knee A G Gilbert another employee cor eec corroborated corroborated I the evidence as to the thor blood bloodstain stain and the cut and added that there therewa wa was waa also a tear tr r that had been bung hung bunglingly IY sewed up The defense decided not to call T M 11 I Hymn the Des Moines plumber who says ays Ii h saw the fight and that Hamil Hamilto Hamiltou to tou Is Innocent