Salt Lake Tribune | 1905-05-11 | Page 1 | Arsenic in the Body

ARSENIC IN THE BODY. But No Trace Could Be Found in Embalming Em-balming Fluid. CFUCMp, May 10 At the trial of Bluebeard" Blue-beard" Johann Hoch. Dr. Oscar Lowk, who held the pout mortem examination over t'no body of Mrs Wakkor-Hoch described minutely mi-nutely the examination. On cross-examination ho admitted that at the time of tho first examination ho thought ho dotccted elsns of kldn.y trouble. Ijitor. however, ha was convinced con-vinced '.hat there were no Indication-) Of auch dlsisaaa Tho aftornoon session In the Hoch rase was tak.-n up by th., testimony of Dr. Walter S. Haines, professor In Rush Medical college, and Prof Da iJiFonuilne. Instructor of chemistry chem-istry In the. public achoola Both testified that th.-v had found uracnlc In tho lody of Mrs. Walckor-Hoch. Prof l)i IJtKontalne atated that he had BUD-Jected BUD-Jected the embalming to all tho testa known to science In the effort to find trace of ar-acnlc ar-acnlc and had failed.