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Show oo HEARINGS RESUMED Witnesses Testify at Beach Trial Courtroom Court-room Crowded i Aiken. S. C. Feb 4. The prosecution prosecu-tion in the trial of Frederick O Reach of New York accused of attacking at-tacking his wife with murderous in-itent,' in-itent,' rested today. Dr. Partridge or Augusta, Ga.. was I the first witness called by the defense de-fense Reach's diamot'd studded knife was shown to him a:'d he iden-tlfled iden-tlfled It as one which was submitted ; to him last spring to be tested for the presence of blood. Dr Partridge I said his examination showed no trace !of blood corpuscles I Mavor H E Gvles of Aiken, testifying testi-fying for the state, said Beach zr. e the knife to him on request about three weeks after the assault, and later he turned it over to Dr. D Hastines Wyman. Jr.. for microscopic i examination. Blood Stains Eam;ncd. Dr Wyman testified that he had discovered on the knife what he believed be-lieved to be blood stains This view was sustained, he said, by Dr Boyden Mims of Columbia, to whom he sub- imitte,! the knife The prosecution offered in evidence a report from Dr. Mims declaring his opinion that stains on the steel were blood cells. It was admitted, however, how-ever, that the tests made were microscopic and not chemical On cross-examination, Dr. Wyman 'admitted that he had taken the knife to an Augusta expert. Dr. Partridge, before submitting it to Dr. Mims. H 1 said that Dr. Partridge examined the krnff. but declined to express an opinion. "Didn't Dr Partridge tell you that ( he couldn't find any trace of blood?", demanded Colonel Henderson "It I remembered that he had I'd say so ' replied Dr Wvmnn ludn't Dr Partridge cut his finger fin-ger and put it on a blade of the knife in order to make comparative! tests'" "I didn't know it If he did Lawyers for the defense announced that they would call about elcht wit-ne wit-ne s(s making it certain tht the ; case would continue until tomorrow |