| Show i 1 lj I 1 ti J A ij A alja U communicated the coroners inquest again dr daj 0 watts to fie k f G S L CITY oct ad m 1864 EDITOR vedelia VE DETia arl ii n your yom issue afi the 31 34 ault ilis tk lead head ot of tt was it homicide suicide or what 9 I 1 am made to say by an omission what I 1 did not bayl to hat caused the death of i one gala Will williams billianis ianis on friday last and as the public seeni seem to be in in regard aask the in lanc of your columns for this brief report aud and personal explanation between twelve and one on the morning of the ull lilt cinat ins fc I 1 was called to see this said williams by mr davis clerk of the mansion house who had just juet to the office from thy the streets T fo found U hd him lenning lehning or bending over a ch chair air apparently in in great distress interrogating him clevn learned d bibin ill In i coheen Hin that the pain was located in the region ot of tho the stomach ani and bowels Andi this V 01 AS ill illi alli I cou could lf g gather arthe r from what he be said at this time he did not seem to know where he be had 11 been where he was or whether he was hurt in any way or not seemed almost insensible to everything wery thing buttone butt lne pain helas sullo nering su bilig f 9 ang that I 1 had to rely almost entirely upon my own judgement jud gement as to the cause of his sufferings I 1 made imade an immediate examination ot his person as far as was possible under unde r the circumstances and found as evidence of violence on only y a slight abrasion of tile the skin at the bitof tile the F stomach torn I 1 immediate m e topical an and d general treatment was resorted to and continued until bi death deat 41 hours before bad ifield to his Irie friends Iri ends a desire it it was their wish that other physicians be called as counsel and sometime lifer alter dr ormsby was sent for but a dr sill 1 I think is his name came N dahis bis steade stead yand and after an ail examination orthe of the patient ip approved improved of that had bad been done when the deceR deceased sed first entered the house he was very much under the influence of liquor of same kind and knowing chatra diat I 1 p employed in in their manufacture in alil these ese isolated places from symptoms manifested 4 oil ing af B altfest es t impossible to retain anything olt oa his stomach and after a few hours entirely eit so this symptom wa was s accompanied by extreme restlessness greggors at a intervals a burning sens sensation qi tion in the s stomach t olbia auar tore taste almost continual hawking bo ho te fetid tid state of the mouth constriction of tile and also al so h urn ning ing pain at the and corres corres bonding pon ding symptoms of the lips tongue palate and throat lo in 1 1 P 0 ig b by ai senious arsenious acid thesle these facts 1 I frankly q y stated from the first fir stand and have learned nothing as yet to t cause me to change that opinion but I 1 will wili not say but what the exciting cause to these symptoms may botha not have ve been other than arsenious acid hence when asked by the coroners jury 11 if in my opinion the blow that he 4 j doroni df roni a gun in the hanas hanal s 0 of f a person cogeer with the amount of spirituous liquors he apparently had ij or could have been the means of his feath death my reply was yes under these and other associated circumstances and I 1 still repeat it not as I 1 am made to say in testifying before that jury 11 that the deceased presented every appearance of having been pois poisoned ened with arsenic subsequently that tile the were in my opinion sufficient to have caused death I 1 explained ali these ee points fully islip I 1 supposed to the jury and asked the coroner if a post mortem examination ought not to be mide made expecting of course it would be I 1 desired such an examination only for tile the public good As far as the acts Afe cifor poisons are concerned every physician ought to be familiar with and in possession of suitable apparatus for 1161 the same game and r I 1 ci expressed pressed myself as possessing all expecting that for what is known as aa marshes test which would arrive next day saturday satu being made to appear in in t t ake C VED as stultifying myself beare tho the coroners jury I 1 1 0 I 1 offer these few remarks hoping for no further publicity than this inthe in the affair I 1 remain very respectfully monra jat 0 jl AR |
