Show FHE DEFENSES effects of decall in tho balun trial ac abati anati juno 9 when the wall t as resumed this the catian cati sn asked to leavo walling re athe that was with the sa been oed amplo time to coa bis yesterday after the state excepted to abia ruling w defenso bhea introduced david e ex chief ol 01 police of newport a witness who was among the first to the of the lage murder locke said what w kad first thought was blood pon the bushes he afterwards found b aas natural to the plant described tha trac baat the place fallinge Wa llinge shoes could not have made the tracks A number of depositions of greenfield ind people and of several officials of the indiana dental college at indianapolis were read to show that walling bore a rood character dr wey of the cincinnati denial college said walline was at the college thursday and saturday evenings but not on friday the night of the murder he was not le quiren to ba present on friday dr divis testified that the slight retraction oe the irus cles of the neck indicated that decapitation bad been done after death win abbott who embalmer embalmed ed the body was called he swore that ho took a quart of blood from the body and that he also found a puncture of a hypodermic needle under the left breast dr edwin lacy of cincinnati testified as to abo retraction of the about the neck ho had taken interest in the subject on account of the decision of the trial made several experiments peri ments on bodies soon after death these went to convince him that the decapitation of pearl bryan waa made when the muscles were beginning to lose their rigidity after death the witness said that it would be a difficult and tedious task to cut off A human head in the darkness unless the head were hacked off alie witness said he had killed a live sheep to determine how far blood would spurt when the bead was cut off with a sharp knife when lie be headed the animal the doctor stood on a sheet of paper perhaps six feet square to show how far the blood would spurt the winess unrolled the sheet of paper the paper was covered with blood he believed blood from a person be headed alive would spurt ten feet A number of depositions used in the jackson thial were read and court adjourned at n m |