Show THE POST borten MORTEN jus JOST r when newspaper men were congratulating themselves over the settlement of guiteau bulteau and his affairs fa irs for good they aro arc stirred up again with disgust by the squabble over mortem the long details given by the doctors and the question onas onus as to the value of looking into a dead brain to find out the res ofa condemned meanwhile man while living we hali hail hall shall not devote a great deal of space apace in either of our columns to the technicalities of the surgeons nor to their conflicts over the remnants rem nauta of the corpe cor pee but we will say a word or two iu lu regard to the propriety ot of the post mortem of course it Is absurd to suppose that the grey pulp taken from the t kull kuil of the thu dead ap sassin assassin will cisse class any hing definite in creation rea tion to the living jiving soul once a part of the being now divid edThe spiritual substance that gave life to the brain and that received impressions through i its ita wonderful organism organ iam lam could not be reached by s surgical instruments or be discerned by the most powerful microscope even while present in the living body and now fled leaving nothing but the dead clay clays it la Is i till further if possible beyond the researches of the moat mott astute practitioner and yet jet it was quite right to dissect that cadaver and examine that brain for though the normal con dit dilious ioris of the organ would nut prove the man to have been sane eane yet if abnormal condition conditions shad had been found in durations or lesions or other derangements derange ments they would have been 8 iron g evidence to show that he was In farley Earies and it was desirable to dri termine determine that matter as oar for as possible ble bie the weight of the brain cuth cuts but a small figure in tha the question quality more than quantity lias has ben been repeatedly peat edly odly proven to determine the force activity and value of that cr or gan of the mind we do not think the post mortem examination will determine anything in regard to the moral and intellectual tel status of the assassin ase assin asbin but we concede that something might have been discovered which would have helped to hettle settle the controversy concerning liand therefore think it was quite right that the dis section anti and examination should have taken place but the booner sooner the subject is dropped the better betten we shall hall s be pleased |