Show 1 r THAT AUTOPSY Ii Chicago 2SNew York special George F Schrody editor of the Medical Record and Dr Faneui1 i D AViesse returned late this evening t i A 1 from Washington where at the t t 1 ± instance of Dr Bliss they have made a thorough examination of the 44 l l viscera of the late president now i deposited in the Medical Museum Dr Weisse says Dr Bliss competency F compe-tency is fully shown by the examinations i l exami-nations and his treatment was 1 l judicious The yertebrea injured was t the first lumbar which was completely f s com-pletely perforated but not in such N i t a manner as injure the spinal marrow a iiiih s mar-row The ball entered a the right rand r-and passed out at the left producing i J w I a compound comminuted fracture 6 4i 1 of the body of the vertebrea A k l t portion of the viscera in the preparation l pre-paration includes that portion behind q t be-hind which the ball finally lodged and to the lower border of which it j 4 became encysted It has been stated 1 1 in the abstract of a paper about to be issued by Dr Boynton giving an account of the autopsy as he saw it 1 that the ball was finally found in the t bottom of the bowels in which the i ° viscera was placed thus conveying the impression that its position during i I dur-ing life was uncertain U Was this r so asked the reporter You may ill contradict that statement flatly sf 1 The ball was not found in the bottom bot-tom of the bowel but was contained t i + j con-tained in a cyst which was fixed to t the pancreas IThe cyst was 1 t a very strong one and had ti to be cut into with a knife in order t to remove the bullet it was removed re-moved from the body with a viscera I of course but it was not lying free in the bottom of the course by any + i mans It was not in the mesenteric mesen-teric but the spleenic artery whose rupture caused sudden death by internal in-ternal heir morrhyge Py mia did t j not exit Dr Shiody said he went E t r to Washington rather prejudiced 4 against Doctor Bliss but that he 4 E had been completely undeceived t bv his study of the Presidents case J 3 He had examined the case three t N I days and were he wounded in the t s same way he woulu send for Bliss a t whose treatment he fully endorsed Any attempt to probe the I original track of the bullet would have caused immediate death The nature r 1 1 f na-ture of the wound rendered death t I inevitable either by rupture of the t I k r1k cyst sloughing of the aneurismal 1 sac and consequent hemorihage i t or by septicemia The rupture of 1 a l the artery will not in the final report re-port be attributed to a splculare of i Lsono from the injured vertebrae + M I but to the injury of the walls of the artery by the ball |