The New York Herald Newspaper, January 1, 1872, Page 8

8 MRS. WHARTON,” et ae A Visit to the anapolis Jail ap% Sketch of the Cell. . PEN PICTURE OF THE “RISONER. ho Battle of the Cyemical Schcols—Dr. ~ Aikten’s AuteceOents—Professor fe- Cu}}och Interviewed. THE SAB STORY OF HARRY WHARTON, What the Girl Dedricks Thinks Upon Mrs. Wharton’s Guili—Mr. Van Ness Wants To Be Let Alone. The Excitement at Baltimore and Annapolis. ANNAPOLIS, M4., Dec. 81, 1871. ‘The New Year's morning, which will bring bright Wonghts and friends to many, brings nothing to Mrs, Wharton, the alleged poisoner, but enforced atendatice upom the Court, where she must sit from ten o'clock tll three, hearing the cross- examinations of chemists ana physicians, Let me @egcribe her jail and 1s surroundings on this tast day of the year:—A yellow hrickediios, sirated Spot « Viarrow suburban street of Annapolis, the gable pointing toward the persons who-approach it, and the eaves overhangiug the pavemeat— SUCH 18 THE JAIL. It is & gaunt, steep-roofed, three story building, ‘with an additional story and a half in the gable. ‘Mrs, Wharton’s cell is the corner room of the second mory, nearest the persons approaching it from the eentre of the city. All the windows of the jail are ‘’fom-barrea. At the side of the jail is a yellow wrick wall witha wooden wicket in it, on which is ‘the sign, ‘Prison Yard.” The door of the jal ts in ‘Me miagie of the building, and ringing a bell, a airty- ooking, low-bred warden appears in shirt sleeves, ‘With his breeches unbracea, so that two or three tmohes of nis dirty shirt protrudes below the vest. He ‘Wears hard common shoes, unblacked, no collar, and the exin on Bis face is of a greasy sallow, which in- @oates of inward and outward uncleaniiness, If you goto the jall at odd times you will find this @hap perched upon @ stool playing a cracked fiddle ‘00 the white and black whelps who squeeze their moses against the barrea doors of their cells to hear We supposed melodious sounds and thus while @wWay the monotony of incarcerauvion. If anything @ould be more mournful than prison solitade at ‘maust be the sound of such a fiddle as this, making eaptivity hideous, This dirty-haired, dirty-skinned, @irty-apparelied warden, who conveys the impres- ‘Wen that at some time or another he himself served ‘9 few months in thts jail under other than official ternts, is the being wno mast let out and let in day after day the MELANCHOLY, MIDDLE-AGED WOMAN, @f good virth, favorable education and happy Sect) associations, who now stands charged with @imes which, if she commited them, would give @erraak with the Borgias and Brinvilliers of the pest. To this old jail the former pet of society Comes every afternoon in alittle old cab drawn by two lean horses, driven by a dull-eyed negro, veantily avtired. She descends at the door of the ja, which is swinging open for her by Unis coarse. looking warden, and she passes down the broad ball of the jail until she reaches the middie, when, turning to the right, she passes up a fight of bare stairs, takes te middic hall of the second story aud enters the small door which admits her to her criminal home. Bere she can but vaguely hear the dancing, ob- seenity and fiegucnt quarrels of the low folka around Annapolis, black and white, who are put ‘$m this prison, several in a cell, for habitual drank- emesa, fighting and petty crimes, vagrancy not the teast frequent. These near assoclatcs the woman @ust apprebend; the ploated faces of the inebriates and the leer against the grated wickets of men veng lost to good social impulses or restrainte— Begresses and mean white women who bave Dever Known the sweets of guod companionship or family sulture. Maryland jatis are proverbially wretched, apa the jail at the State capital is, perhaps, as bad as any not directed on the agoiltary @ private principle. To horrors of incarceration Ahere are superadded the iow familiarity and strain- tug inquisitivencas of vagrants, thieves and peace- breakers, who never arose to the dignity of crime Or deacended tw the deception of decent pov- erty. To this squalid jail one of the most approved fayorites of Baltimore sociciy must repair every afternoon, and who can teil What sensations come w her refined spirit at the loathsome contact with these village paupers, whose gaping wonder 1s, If Possivte, even more disgusting than their palpabie MRS. WHARTON’S CELL is about twelve feet square, whitewashed, the floor covered with a red figured ingrain carpet; two Windows, opening upon a suburban street, down which she must ride every day 10 reach this home, and at tie end of the room, opposiie the door of entrance, 14 a small, varnisted mantel piece, sup- @ clock and confronted by a common,sucet- iron light stove. On the left of the room, opposite the windows, is a common pine wardrobe, stained, @ table, on which tue dauy meals are taken, and @ washstaud Of the cottage sort, decorated with a Porcelain basin aud pitcher, The bed stands @ corner opposite Lie wardrobe and behind the oor as it opens, and it 1s covered with @ cheap, white coverjid. Between the windows Is a cott: Durean, on which are some few articies placed by we daughter to iresien up the condition of the jail, and beneati the bureau is @ stand, whercon there Is an occasional uet a: ene of her daughter's worked pincushions, vesid & goblet and pitcher, and when your correspondent entered the room a jar of jeily stood upon this table, with plates and sii ver spoon and some of the appur- tenances of the prisoner. Suce these women are ‘out of the room it looks to be a rougn jailer’s apart- ment. The iron bars of tne windows predominate in the mind’s eye and darken the otherwise light aud cheerful appearance of the piace, but when the age herself enters the door and it 1s shat be- id her her visitors and atworneys assure me it becomes Invested with an atmosphere of taste and refinement, Then the dark veils which cover both the woman indicted and the daughter, who volan- tarily shares the indictuent, are withdrawn, and we appear to see two quiet nouschold creatures, endow- pA thelr tastes and dignifying by vheir grief tis reserved apartment which, in ail the history of She jail, has known its highest sociai commenda- ‘Won Within the past lonth. Sirong as the preju- @ice is against these prisoners, THAT NAMBLES6 SOCIAL POWER follows them to this retreat, and when the portly and mauly looking Sherif occasionally comes here, oF the women of the jaiior’s pousenoid appear on some @fraud, or when the waiter from the restau- rant Comes thrice every day with the meais pur Chased from the prisoner's pocket, or when, durin the times wheu the Court is discharged, the Ole Jashioned sterling luwyers revaincd by er cane hereto consult, alilough Mra, Wharton is witha bearing Of the cries of common vagrants and sinall Villains, this chamber resoives into, at tue worst, an womua’s refuge aud Lome. ‘WEW YORK BERALD, MONDAY, JANUARY 5 ng and to society in ite best aspects, until it may be gard that throughout the country, 1! the question of Mrs, Wharion’s guilt had bee polled »# fortnight ago, her friends could be counted on the two nands and her enemies by tie ceasus table.” THE PRISONER PROTOGRAPTED. If this woman, however, be observed as we have seen her—her veil removed, her small, Middle Stave face; large, hazel eyes, sunken with grie’, ana her- seit evidently approaching old age—sie will not be found by the ready reasuner to be thas wirror of guilt which might be rig erry phe has a deli but faded skin; good forehead, and sucha small face in the lower parts as @ scen in the current engraving of Beatrice C: ; and her weeds are those of an ordinary mother’s and widow's, HER DAUGHTER lacas that decided expression, and, while sorrowing and sympathetic, cannot be said to show the inex- pressible grief whieh never entirely quits the mother's face. Mrs, Wharton has not @ proud face; No signs of vanity or spirit dgure iit. It is simply & face sunken, worn, coloriess, and never crossed by the variable lights of alternate feelings, but sub- nitting to the destiny which has come, and quietly, but incisively analyzing what can be done point py point to meet the apparently staggering weight or circumstantial evidence preasil the test of human natu! appears to be bie of assuming any posl- uon which it either voluntarily takes or which it must assume without anticipation, and this woman shows it with all her grief. She upon her. From elastic human mind “Muminates cr keeps up attention. Life is still sweet, although the social beuefits are ruthlessly swept from its sur- roundings. In her cell, ag in the court room, she generally site bolt upright, thinking over the aay i roceedings, item by item, and her lawyers subject her to @ re-examination every day to deduce the impression which the evidence has made upon her, tosee what she has to say in answer. It 1s reg th Bee Po ee wore chase ue 2 passed generally seeking good opin! of her HralPte pS AGC how even mnity t} S Tel $0 ag a J fF bite pinion trol farther consid on jary an i op! eration i of these fmpatea crimes. can be said withou fear that before her tria! ane never betrayed her Paes 1¢ world; since it began she has deen equaily carefur-not to ‘nyoke ite fsoatnen | Not@ particle of the dei ue can be found in this Poaen, norin her daughter who supports her, nor to few friends she keeps, nor in the dig- nified attorneys who guard her case, They make a litile junta not larger than the tiniest isiand; but what they know, what they gntertain and what they purpose are pial ‘WRAPPED IN ben OWN BOSOMB. it spec: of our correspondent one Wharton's iriends if it would be. qi possible to be introduced to her, replied, “Yes, proviued you do not state thatyou are a newspal man.” Of course he could not appear there under false colors and the hospitable proposition was refused. Tne pic- ture outside the windows Ol the jatl at the time we visited her cell was a truly pitiable scene in nature— the outskirts of an old-fashioned town, without other business than comes /rom the United States Naval School and from the ture when oem sion, The streeson which the jail stands nol above twenty feet in with, and ‘irt round about by negro shanties, outhouses, wooden stables an uptiited carts, and by the depot of the hitte ol shackling raliroad, Which never paid its stockhold- ers and 1s now owned by two men When we were present at the jail rain was falling over this ex- panse of vacant lots and the vista of shackling rail- Toad, and the Peper at hand, gave an im. fexsion worse than melancholy. It was depress! fh the most extreme degree, And there lives th pet of Baitimore society in a jail chamber, furnish at her own expense, fed from che scarcely toleraul restaurant ol a town with five thonsand people, apari from society, constantly resolving over the thine when she was perioitted to ramble turough the pleasant streets of Baltumore and enter house after housd and now she ts the Rabvitué of @ jail, without sur- rounding or association, and neariy within hearin; of ne ne OF Worse than obscene gam of @ set of villagers, who, having no pursuit at home, go to jail for recreation and Sup rt. To the question propounded to Miss Nellie arton “You are better fixed here, I suppose, than at Baltl- more 1” she replied “Yes, we have gulet, and we have at least rest. The at Baltimore 18 constructed mainly of iron, with long corridors and galleries, and althouga mother had a@ comparatively retirea coil yet scat y an outery or noise cuuld be made in the prisoa thal was not heard by every occupant. We are well treated here, and when the excitement is aone we can lie down and sleep.” SUB FORLING AGAING? MES. WHARTON | 1s relaxing aiong average minds, buc opstina’ folks assort that, whatever the evidence, she is stilt @uity, Ao ofiicer at the Naval Academy said w your correspondent on Saturday, “Well, they will provably let that woman out to prey upon the com- munity again, ive the fact that there is Not suilicient testimony to convict her; but w turn is to come next for a dose of antimony?” An. Dapous is a town of peaaiy,. but not a joy forever, It consists of about Mity large, aristocratic brick, residences, whioh tower like old Roman palaces above compact clusters of quaint and small busi- a and enced = Hei “Have you ever distinga! criminals here?” we sald to the Warden, “we had Kasey, who killed the policeman, here, Aliour other prisoners are of the common run. We keep four policemen in Annapolis aud they don’t bave mach todo. Then,” added the Warden, showing the common prejudice against Mrs. Whar- ton, “they send us big Criminals from Baltimore who want to get off,” and he shragged nia shoulders. Annapolis is one of the pretuest ola towns in tue country, aud, as @ State capital, it probably has no equal iu point of interest. There are few rich men mit, aod some of the grand mansions sell for 20,000 to $7,000 which probably consumed $50,000 im thelr construction, A sieanpoat runs down trom. Baltimore and returna once every day, aud there are two trains datly to and from Baltimore and ee About half the people interested in the tia G0 TO BALTIMORE RVERY NIGHT, The Legislature meets next week, and then the wn wilt be full and the trial will be very fascinating to the political camp tol- lowers, There are two hotels in Annapoiis, the City and the Maryland, both moderately fall, {tis reputed to be the best place in the country for terrapin, and one of the town § restaurants enjoys the reputation of affor the very best ia Maryland. The Governor of the State, Odin Bowie, whose four years are just expiring, lives io an elegant brick mansion, Which cost $150,000, within & few rods of the Court House, and which was richly furnisued at the expense of the State, He and lis successor, W. Pinkney Whyte, appear frequently at tue trial. Governor Bowie is a red- faced, grey-hatred, chubby, agreeable man. Whyte is a quiet, lawyer-iike, student sort of a man, IN A SCIENTIFIC POINT OF VIEW this trial is not only remarkable for the conflicts of keen Wits among the doctors aud chemists, and for the monument of evidence which It seems likely to leave aud which will be ee im succeeding times in similar cases of attriouted poisoning, bul it also shows the power of human passions and vanity aniong learned men when their rivat institu- tions and theores clash, There 13 not only a woman on trial, Dut an institution—ine Mary- land “University of Baltimore—to which ts appended a school of fair aptiquil and former repute, but now somewhat decrepit ani not gaining mach in importance, It rallies around Dr, Aiken, ita chemist. Aiken Is either the most Uniortuaate, the most abused or the most ignorant chemist now in public life. Fle1s, to jook upon, a large-eyed, sieepy Old man, Witt a brown Wig, spec- tacies and long, fowing white beard, something be- tween Rip Van Winkie and Gideon Welles, if eituer Of these di nished sleepers could have weighed 250 pounds; on profoundly good terms with himself, looked up to for many years in the reverent atmos- phere of Baltimore as the greatest chemist since Davy or Brewster. This ola eae: been brougnt w the stand in many of the leading poisoning triais in the Middle States, The new school of pnysic! say he is A PRAUD AND AN IGNORAMUS, When Dr. Schappe was convicted of poisoning Miss Steinnecke the medical wits of Balumore were either aveciediy or earnestly indignant that such testimony as Aiken's should bave condemned @ Iman to death. ‘ey made no issue as to whether Schappe was good or bad, but decried Algen’s s0- called tests, and the scientific spirits of the country supporied them, #o that Schappe was never hanged, but sili Jangutsues in prison at Carlisle, The medi- cals of Baitimore cite against Alken the case of & man who, aboul two years ago, was accused of poisoning his uncle, having been concerned in an imtrigue with his nneies wile, This precocious Jover was known to have bought arsenic at several places, and tie feeling In his Own neighborhood was 80 strong against him that the case was transferred to whe adjounicur county of Cecil, Dr. Alken was called into the case lawyers Thomas aud Stump. Thomas burst a plood+ Vessel while the case was still pending, and died, umnappy Mrs. Wharton is unduly suaceptibie about her vis- itors. Some of her best friends aliege wat she has injured her case bY avowing the kindly disposed mewspaper pevpie, Who migit have been avle to state her side of the issue to the world, and have removed irom her shoulders much of that public dium which is weigling her down, avd which threatens to survive the verdict of the jury and in- an her when she bas veen deciared pot giulty by welve of her pecra, A friend of Lers said to meé.on ay :— “It is impossible to reason with Mrs. Wharton op ‘she question of newspaper fois, When the first fury Was aroused against her the newspapers of jumore printed whatever items were in the minds Of a few persons against her, and tuese sug. growing by the walevolence of supposed nds and gossip carriers, finally gave her such a verribie (right that the mention of a bewspaper mame in her presence filis ber with appreheusiou, One of she Baitiasore papers, wishiug to vie with ite neighvors im debaung the curreni topic, added to ihe startiiug character of reports concerning her, and wien scores oi other Sorccse cucale rushed ip, and the woman, by @ eerles of 3 Was surrounded by pre, udices, which, being imparted ‘o tue public wud, finaly the of discussion, aud when once Pere those who had said merely idle tings agaimst found ves put on the defeusive, and 1t of pride in them to assess her more. Then came Kip Van Winkle sed chemist, of Baltimore, who bas years the monopoly of scientivie autbority, whetl.. orc 4 key or gonrenisf cheering the articles of whis. A MURDERED y ays sromacH. rhe at & distance, taking \nis case from what bad sorted bie Uret im Stump put Aiken on the stand, who swore found arsenic positively iv tue dead Tan's seen ach, Stump, who 1s a cool, astute Maryland lawyer, first agked ‘Aiken if he considered ‘1 a Medical Jurisprudence” as competent Aiken conceded it to be amon, rump then asked him the amount of draenie found in the Ftoinach of the deceased man. Aiken replied, giving some infinitesimal fraction, ‘The lawyer told him to auswer in terms Which the Jury could appreciate, said :— “Mr, 4uken, how much does of those particies of dust biowing out there we! ae - Aiken i said to have réplieg that it would weigh about cope two-thoussodth part of a grain; that his balances coolt weight that fuall quantity, and that such corresponded to the amount in the stomach, Lawyer stump then uleuly turned to ‘Taylor's book, where it said thas four grains at least must be relied upon to produce dcath by poison, and then, without further argu- men, he rested his case. The juny acquitied. There are provably MO medical practivioners in worla with @ keener sense of professional de}; than in the South, and Balumore vas come to be the social Headquariers Of these dectors, They appear to have resolved to break up this farce of Aiken's ministering Lil¢e and death through bis suppositious medical skill, Dr. Aiken has, perhaps, earned the dislike Of his con/reres by inordinate pufllug of Whiskey, Canned tomatoes and apple ci jo the adverusing prints, Aixen is rather a hard joad to carry, Dut when be became an issue the ‘ylang University, either from chivalry or interost, suoul- dered his cause, Mr. P. E, Wiliams, Ketchum’s pre- geribing physician, is sald to be a graduate of thiy school. has, at any rate, construed the peonee RO Making An pitaK open | ellow mine, power. the: amperiied ile of Mrs ‘Wharton we see a scientific quarrel between tne sins”? the “‘outs”—the Aiken University and hoger r school of m« experts, eineh is of tect? @ fine stady in vs and human navure. Go to the Maryland Hotel now that the defence 1s - on its chemical ical vestim: in ant, you will see around @ tabie, led ow medical treatises, balances, vials and port cases of chemicals, a set of keep, earnest fevotoes of senna and mandragora, conironted by letters of applause from such men as Professor ormsley, of Ohio; Geuth, of mcr maid and overs, begging them to explode this old Baltimore chap, Who poisons his neighbors’ dogs for experl- ment’s sake, and thinks that every HANGING ACHIBVED BY ANALYSTS zauou. One of the doctors on the defence las been so much absorbed on this trisi that for forty hours he took no sleep and subsisted entirely on sop today and a straw. On the other hand, the devotees of the Mary- land University—voctors Chew, Mills and Don- aldgon—appear to be as much interested im the trial. If Alken be exploded there is an apprehen- sion that this school will suffer, 1 have no disposi- tion to take part in these quarrels, but may give the current report that Dr, Donalagon unduly prolonged hts tostimony with medical disquisition, while Chemist Toury was completing his examination, Tt ig alsosaid that vr, Williams has changed nis statement as to General Ketcham’s case, interpolat- ing extracts from the medical books to substantiate his trestment which did not originally appear, At 13 further said that these doctors for the prosecu. tion, contrary to decency, relused to rest their case upon Aiken’s analysis, bat expeditiously despawhed to Washington, under authority Jrom Knott, of bal- timore, state Attorney, and took up for tne second time parts of Ketcham’s stomach to submit them to A further test, thus showing undue zeal as prosecu- thon and evident want oi rellance upon Alken’s exper- iments, It is algo alleged that McChew, a professor in the university named above, appeared irom time, totime in @ fugitive manner before Tonry, while the latter was experimenting, and gave Sugpomicns, hints and directions which would have been mo! effective had they not been 80 wild. Cohoppily w doctors canaot be put on trial, and, wi re may be qpamaranls exception made to a1 ya lation of 28 feos it sett belong to h looal newspaper pres 1 far and to answer thei, hich originally Mndloted thls woman and which jould be glad to give her the tittle chance ap tly for the first-time dawning. The boidss spirit pang, We physicians sumatoties for che de- fence ly Dr. Edward Warren. 5" Baltimore, who was metigg) manector-in-ctitel of Lee's past! the ar, He not only does not betieve that General etchuim died of poisoning by antimony, but he {firms that, according to authorities and local con- ditions at the tim>, he (General Ketchum) died of MALIGNANT PURPURIO PEVBA, orepidemic memmgitie. Dr. Warren is much en- dorsed by other physicians of Baltimore, some of whom do not take as bign ground, bat all of them may be said to believe that the chemical testimony in this case is empirical ani the medical behavior ‘worse than indelicate. It was a startling thing on Friday to see the entering wedze into the Aiken University struck the first blow by Professer Mc- Culloch, of Lexington, Va. That ancient and tot- tering school resembles @ sinking hulk with the faces of its professors lividly revealed through the portholes, “One of our writers approached Dr. Aiken, who affected to be taking @ nap, and asked WHAT HE THOUGHT OF THE NEW TURN’ “On,” said Aiken, ‘that fellow is a [JUL All these fellows are fools. What do they know? I have testified at more murder trials than auy chemist in tne United States or Europe,”? Here the Doctor pulled down his wig, buttoned his overcoat and went out to look at the weather, It is fair to say that the young man Tonry, who had reviously shown @ better quality of nears than of iscretion in his marriage, is & quiet, affable, modest rout, infatuated with chemistry and bé- trayed into ‘risking his. future importavce by appearing on the stand and a the laboratory upon this poisoning case. One could scarcely helo noting the anomalous relation which he occupied in this case, where Miss Neilie Wharton stood faith- folly beside her mother, is @ case not entirely dis. similar to that where Miss Annie Surratt stood by her mother’s side on another issue for life. Mr. Tonry, who is @ good-hearted gentleman, is said tohave expressed his belief that Mrs. Wharton is not guilty. The soctal feeling in Baltimore Mrs, Wharton arises in great part from the accident of Van Ness’ connection wih the Carroll family, He arried Miss Sargent, whose mother was @ Carroll, d this put him into relations with the Howards, Riugelys and Carrolls, the most Powerful favalites 2 timore socie:y, Van Nesé’ sisters are Mrs, jutton and Mrs. Loney. Van Ness and Snowden married sisters. In transacting Mrs, Wharton's ‘puainess young Van Ness, who was in-a private capacity custodian of her bonds, never gave ner any receipts for Mie same, As the time approached for HER DEPARTURE TO RUROPE Mrs, Wharton gave orders from time to time upon Van Neuss for parcels of these bonds, and finally Mr. pent & lawyer, and Who appeared to be very ac- tive for Van Ness, went to arton-and asked for her receipt for about Layee) i_ bon lng uearly the aggregate of allhe held. Mrs. Wharton replied that sue had never asked Van Ness Te- ceipia, and that to give @ receipt for $14,000 upon the delivery of $4,000 worth of bonds would not be business like. She had already issued orders for the remainder of Van Neas’ charge and could not receipt in advance. The Van Ness jamily now assume that Mrs. Wharton wished to poison Van Ness in order to be able to bring suit against his estate and receive the money in the absence of any receipts from her, whereas investigation fails to sec any eétate belonging to Mr. Vun Ness. He lives ina very cheap hoase and upon @ clerical salary, and nothing could have been recovered from his rejatives on his estate, whatever his estate may mean, The sumptuous parlors and jopbies of the Maryland Club were beset bv little knots of callers on Saturday and Suniay, asking of those members and guests who had just returned from Annapolis what the indications of the verdict might be. A leading Baltimore ogee a@ mer. chant of the city and one of the few stanch aud re- spectable friends of Mra. Wharton, expressed him- self satiefed with the turn aifairs had taken, aad said he could understand how the public mind nad been misguided on (he subject, ‘and yet,” said-he, “there never Was ally case against Mrs. Wharton ex: cept public opinion and some APPARENTLY UGLY COINCIDENCES, With abvut tirty thousand dollars still in the hands of herself aud daughter why should this woman have put herself under the gallows to get rid of @ small obligation, no more, inveed, than $2,600, Her daughter has testified that she alone | seem iy $16,000. The two haa meditated goiny to Europe @ very long time, perhaps to reduce the ex. penses of their very good social import ance im Balttmore. Upon triding circum. stances, such as this reputea — flight and = = @ small monetary transaciion e~ tween @ widuw and her most iniimate friend and guardian, the human imagination has constraed @ poisoning case out of every death that ever happened in the household, and when we an- aiyze this pene opinion it will be found to have been begotten of the projessional pride of General Ketchum’s physician, Who would rather be vindl- cated than sce this woman saved, and, besides, of the tnoughtiess scandal of a {ew women and the ignorant resentment of some of General Ketchum’s Telatives and connections. “it is not enough,’ said this informant, ‘to see the jury acquit Mra. Wharton of poisoning; her social standing she has never forfeited. Not one act can be produced to show her unwomanly in any social transaction. Her very hospitality has re- dounded upon her head. Her money will be swept away to the last penny to de- fend herself upon this accusation. come out of the prison endeared to those who have never douvted her by these causeless mistortunes, and poor and afilicted enough to melt the hearts of ail in that society which, with cruei instability, de- serted her and swelled the tide of such unfounded accusation,” THE SCORY OF YOUNG HARRY WHARTON, At the St. Clair Hotel anotner citizen of high Tepute added this important fact, which he had already heard talked over at Annapous:— “Harry Wharton,’ said this gentieman, ‘the son, about whose sudden death so much 18 said, is really the cause of all his mouher's misforianes. He was # large, fine-looking, but dissolute young man, and it is © Bave the necessity of exposing his evil courses that Mre. Wharton 1s hampered for evideace in this trial Harry Wharton was on a continual spree, while disbursing odicer of an expedition appointed, I believe, to survey Supertor or one of the great Northwestern Jakes, He took to gambling and loose courses, and ger his money accounts in such @ soape that he was ilabie to be cashiered and sent to prison. Lo get him out of these straits Mrs, Wharton took her own money and paid his deficiencies up. ‘The amount of aid she thus gave him few peopie in the family circle know nitely. It was enough to embarrass her very much, When the young mau got out of trouble and caine honie he was full of grautude, and, like people in debt, he expressed many wild promises to pay up, Finally he avo' his intentfon of lasurng bis life for 000 in favor of his sister and $20,000 for his mot Mr, Neilson, father of Miss Rose Netlson, Netly Whartou’s fast friend, and haif a dozen others were present when Harry Wharton spoke Of insuring his life, and heard Mrs. Wharton oppose it, She said it would cost money, and the cost would come out of her own pocket. Harry, Dawever, said that he was going West in pursuit of fortune and that he miust insure, He aid 80, and yn afterwards getting On one of nis periodical of iyphola fever, brought on from at his mother's house, ‘Tnere was suspicion attached to the family at the not a particle the time; and anybody can see in the case of her Gaugtter Nelly that Wharton commands the affection of her Le ay om Harry Whart in the presence of Mr. Neilson and th were:—''| can never do enough to re; the money my fooltah conduct has cau My iniormant then resumed in the following terms:—The insurance companies, Josing this con- siderable sum put upon Harry Wharton’s lite, took advablage of the mckness of Van Ness and te death of Ketchum, and inflamed public opinion to try aud force Mrs. Wharton into acompromise. It 19 Bot certain that they have not retaiwed counsel to help On the case against her, and they undoobt- edly started the assumption in the journals that Harry Wharton's sickness resembied Ketchum’s. Being in Baltimore this Sunday aiternoon J went up to jook at Mrs, Wharton's house, 1 was told that it would command in the real estate market about mine thousand dollars, itis a peat Baltimore brick edifice, the door ui ie Hidde, ir story front room General Ketcham died, ‘The front part of ihe jot bad been reserved to )uild on, at some other time, & front to this part or a dwelling, .0F it te really at present only @ back buiding, The jot has @ front of pniy twenty-nine jeet, _ This part of Balligiore Cannot pe Calica the moet & y mother ner,’ 1: Me : mm vense interest as the moo’ Secret and horrible crimes, is Ww lio in the sotter shadow of great and undeser who was showing i ex: misfortunes. itleman it to me , “I have often opened the gate for Miss to come out and climb upon her saddie pony. She was a rider and delighuul compa! betoved oy everybody fur. her winning manner and affability. She was not as capable, intellectually, as her mother. whom she aaored,’ and it makes me melancholy to think how this unexpected misfortune has banished both the mother and chila irom the favor of society, which ‘Was once proud of them, THE GIRL ELLEN DEDRIOK came up from Baltimore to Annapolis Saturday after- noon, She is a tall, haudsome mulatto, of @ refined countenance, and large eyes of asoft expression. Her grace and good looks are thought by some to account for the fact that she would not wait upop General Ketchum in his bedroom, for she testi- fled in the trial that ‘was 80 queer, she would not go up there, but deputed instead the old African mammy, Sasan Jacobs. I asked her, “Do you believe Mrs, Wharton poisoned General Ketchum?’ “No, sig,” Me “ “thad never seen her wicked in any act while I lived with her, aud I can’t believe she would on her best friend, the General, She never did “What relation to tue /amily did the four si Mra. Van Ness, Mrs, Snowdon, Mrs. Hutton and Loney—bear ?”? “Well, sir, they were constant visitors and took their meals there very often, It used to be sald that they lived on Mra, Wharton.” bl one do you think they tarned go bitterly against “IT saphose they must have their talk, and may. be got to bolievo it when you gentlemen that write pre itim the newspapers. Then they couldn't take jt back and had to deiend it. Thavs the way people sometimes get rid of their ooligations.’” “Does Susan Jacobs believe Mra, Wharton guilty?” s Who mixed the punch that made Mr, Van Ness “Hs own wife and her sister.” id -be think Nrs, Wharton poisoned him” NO, sit... Long alter he was sick and well again his witers sister Came to the house, and even alter ‘ra. Wharton’s address wrote her letters of sym- ea, but they found how the tecling was going, I une, and got over on that side.” “What sort of man was General Ketchum ?” cerien think him a very goou Kind of a man, zg ‘This girl has removed to Philadelphia, She came on to testify av Mrs. Wharton's expense, und it 18 a curions instance of the fact that pubic charities are often perverted by mere prejudice to find that the State of Maryland refuses to meet this defendant of the ieee of whereas in the late McKaig trial all the expenses o! une prisoner’ for witnesses were met, aithough of his guilt of the act of murder there was no dispute. Some of these witnesses have been summoned from distant States, and ihe Eognuile men particularly have to be well entertained. TNR YOUNG MAN, VAN NESS, alleged to have been also poisoned at Mrs, Whar- ton’s, 18 going about his business as usual and may be seen daily at Alexander Brown’s bank, the same bank where Mrs. Whurton’s accounts were kept. ‘That lady’s fortune which she brought to Major Wharton is said to be exaggerated, aerobabl no more than thirty thousand dollars, Mr. Van Ness took the pains tu call upon the HERALD’S writer at "7 bog a ye 9f to e e It in this “ Make me conspicuous in qT ti toy atten and embareascing to me. ‘The matter has assumed such a shape now that I fwish.to: say nowning on esther Sug sone a a “Do yoo presume that you Were r isone at Mrs. Wharton's ?”? ia “How can I tell when Twas 80 verv sick? Ido not know what made me sick; it lasted buta few days My family at the time were alarmed; but tuere has been too much sald on this subject. They have ruled me out as & witness in this trial, and hope to appear in 1t no more.” “po you taink they will not try Mra, Wharton on the charge of administering poison to you?” “T am told not, sir.” Van Ness is & spare, rather effeminate young man, with @ mustache, blue eyes and brow: hair. His wife appears to be an excitable person, and she and Mrs, Hutton, who is a good-looking woman of thirty or more, figure as the mixers of HX CELEBRATED MILK PUNCH, in the settling of which Dr. Aiken professea to have found tartar emetic to the amount of fifteen grains by his so-called infalitble test. The mother of these. numerous married sisters Was @ very fre quent [oer at Mrs, Wharton’s, ‘The UERALD writer called at the room of PROFESSOR M’CULLOCH, at the Maryland Hotel, on Saturday. The Professor, who isa difident man, was engaged in couversa- tion with several other chemists upon tie scien- tri ufc evidence adduced in the case. He re- ceived as cordially and courteously anvived ot ot of ona cee upon suggesting the onject of our visit, said, ‘‘I stialt be very glad to give you any facts 1 can. as the HERALD has always ated ihis cage m a fair and impartial manner. “I see, Professor, that you have taken a stand that rather upsets the theory of Dr. Aiken and Pro- Jessor Tonry.”? “Yea, air; Ido not see how it would be possible for any expert wo agree with them.” Shee oe do not regard this analysis as proving anything “Certainly, Ido not. The analysis of Mr. Aiken was worth nothing whatever, and the results obtained by Professor Tonry were equally fat- Jacious.”” “Thea,” continucd the reporter, “from all the facts you have had in your possession, and the ex- periments you have tried, you are convinced that tue analysis of either Atken or Tonry does not de velop the presence of antimony or tartar emetic.” “T believe, sir, that the results obtained by Pro- fessor Aiken were given him by the agents he used to develop poison acting upon the medicines given General Ketchum by lis atvending physician—yel- low Jessamine and chloral—and that Pyofessor Toury’s evidences of Dolson were undoubtedly the results of the impurities of the chemicals he used, and were too insiguificant for any purpose,” “Professor, how came you to be summoned as a ‘Witness in tnis case r’ His answer was:—“Well, the Washington and Lee College contains a good many pupils from Baiti- more, and Mr. Thomas, one of the lawyers for the defence, thought that pubilc opinion woulda be appeased if among others he consulted the Pro- fessor of Chemistry. I received official copies of Mr. Alken’s analysis of the contents of Ketchum’s stomach and of the sediment in Van Ness’ and milk punch. I was assured that his tests were insufficient, and it occurred to me that, perhaps, the organic matter in Dr. Williams’ prescription might have responded to the tests Aikea em- ployed and produced matter similar to the combi. nations of antimony. J therefore experimented with yellow Jessamine and chlorat after the portion of Aiken’s tesis, and the results were what you saw in Court yesteraay. Communicating these results to Attorney Tuomas 1 was summoned here,’? “What is your estimate of Dr. Aiken 1” ANSWER— ‘He is an antiquated old chemist, gooa enough in his day perhaps, but he has been made very much out of in Baltimore, and has had his own way there many years. He has not kept him- self posied in the pew developmeats of chemistry, and thinks the old process tufailible. In the matter of @ human beimg’s Ife he is enarely un- worthy to be cited as the final authority, His conceit and pretending and pride of opimon make hi in fact, @ dangerous man in such imporant cases, The medical fraternity throughout the country were justly in- dignant to the Schoeppe case that a man’s life should be put in jeopardy by such evidence as this, aud Tapprenend that this case will make what mi be called a ‘new departure’ in chemicai testl- mony. Opinionated old fossils will no longer ve allowed to have the ‘right of a way’ in so many murder cases, and for murders this man appears to have a penchant.’ ““Whatis your estimate of this younger chemist, ps and his evidence as to the finding of anti- mon, Anewen—" 1 should judge by the looks of the young man that he ts a student, aud is undoubted! sincere in his belief ag to tne results he obtained, but from my extended experience in the Office ot Weights and Measures at Washington and as an analytical chemist, Lam certain that he could not have been correct in bis conclusions. His statements as tothe results he optained from the spots are simply Impossible, and no such minute calcniation ‘as he said he made could be made with any cer- tainty at all.” “rhen you don’t beleve that antimony poison was found tn the stomach of General Ketchum by either Aiken or Tonry /” Answen—Thelr avalysi3 proved nothing except experiments; the resulta they are said to have ol tained did not prove the presence of any poison,” “Am 1 right in supposing that your opinion is, both asa chemical expert and @ private citizen, ‘mat Mrs, Wharton is not guilty +” “Ido not believe that Mrs. Wharton or any one else poisoned General Ketchum, so far aa any chemical analysis goes to prove that fact, nor have 1 a doubt as to her entire innocence of the charge.” Aiter a littie further conversation upon the sub- with the Professor, Garing which 1 became ent that he was thoroughiy honest in his views, bade him good morning and left the room, \ Soon afier the conversation with Professor McCailoch the train for Baltimore found as aboard and on our way to that city; and while we were creeping along over the antiquated ratiway, brood. Ing over the events Of the past few months as con- nected with this important trial, an opportuni! was offered us to engage i conversation wil PROFESSOR TONRY, who was returning trom the Uapreasant scenes of the pastiew days, during which his chemical ability had been so severely criticised, We found him ®& pleasant youn man, ready in conversa- tion and on the whole very intelligent, He seomed to fee! quite sensitively the position m which he had been placed vy the veatimeouy of those eminent chemical expe: c who had deciared his experiments worthiess, and probably did not con- verse witv that fluency thas he woald otherwise have dove in answer to our quesiton. As to tHe results of Nis analysis Ne said :— bh ere ae Mea age aa were arte and no amount of evidence cas change my . yon you bejiere that General Keichum died of 180n Poitves, alt, Ido know that T found sutiraony in the abdominal organs of Geveral Kewhnnl.’’ ‘hen may J euppose that you believe Mra, Whar- ton guiity ?? “Not w any means, On the contrary, I think Jt hat it is sup. containea I shouid certainly bave my as the results of my analysis.’? caused considera! t bie stir among ofan ea on sini { % nope it will result in proancing a State of things witich I have long desired 10 woin connection with chemical analyses of dead bodies— chemist, employed, when such tn anaisns ienecee c sary, No one man’s opinion should be relied ‘upon. Leaving Professor Toury we sought Dr. Aiken, but he seemed to be drowsy, and we got but li AND STOMACHS, SCIENCE The Wharton Trial as Seen Through Professional Spectacles. Opinions of Metropolitan Chemists on the Maryland Professors. Aiken’s and Tonry’s Analyses of General Ketch- um’s Stomach a Disgrace to American Science— What Professors Draper and Doremus Have to Say—The Stephens Trial and How the Poison Was Discovered in'the Body of the Murdered Woman. ‘The very extrdordinary and in¢eieatiig triat’"tor murder by poison now in progress at Annapolis, M4., curious ag itis in many aspects, is of much importance to medical men, and particularly to those who have made the study of chemistry a specialty. That doctors should @ilsagree, and patients die in consequence, is not considered, even at this end of the enlightened nineteeatn century, & matter for special wonder; but that professional men, claiming tohave special Kuowledge of the properties of poisonous metals and poisonous sub- stances not metals, should mantfest so much igno- Trance as was shown {io the Wharton trial, seems perfectly amazing to ordinary people. And it 13 More wouderiul when we reflect that on the evi- dence of such chemists an accused person may be consigned to mfamy or the gallows or the law ropbed of its vengeance, Therefore the conflict of scientific opinion in the Wharton trial excites extraordinary interest and attention. With the view of ascertaining the opinions of some of our eminent metropolitan chemists as, to the proper manner of making. “AN ANALYSIS OF HUMAN REMAINS Bi suspected of belag impregnated with poison @ reporter of the HERALD was uespatched on an “interviewing” tour. He ret tned to find Professor John W. Draper, President of the Medical University, but that gentleman was out of town. He then visited the house of Professor John ©. Draper , in Lextagton avenue. The Professor was at homme and invited the reporter into nis office. In answer to @ question he said that he had read some of the evidence jn the Wharton trial as published in the Hexatp, but that be did not care to express any opinion upon it “But,” queried the reporter, ‘don’t you think the evidence of Professora Tonry aud Aiken extradrdi- nary, to say the least?” “TI have a somewhat similar caso on hand now, and, judging from my own expariments, I must say that I consider the analyses of Professors Tonry and Aiken quite Inadequate in a case of life and death.” “What 1s your estimate of the value of Professor McCullocn’s evidence ?” “Lagree with Professor McCulloch for the most part, thougn tt seems to me he never sawzino atu pure state filled with antimony aud arsenic. As for Professor Aiken, I consider his TESTS UTTRRLY WORTHLESS,” The reporter desired to ask whether the fact. of General Ketchum being dosed with chloral and Jessamine might, from the chemical action of the system itself, Give evidence of the presence of tartaric emetic or antimony; whether the tests appled by Professor = Alken demonstrated beyond any reasonable doubt the existence of tartaric emetic in the stomach, and whether hydrochloric acid, used a3 @ test, 18 ordl- narily so charged with impurities of the nature of antimony or arsenic as to require spectal analysis itseif before being used for that purpose; but the Proiessor contented himself witi the geueral re- plies above given. PROFESSOR DOREMUS! OPINIONS, ‘The reporier then took his leave, and about half au hour la:er called upon Professor Doremus, at his house, in Union piace. ‘The Professor received tne reporter with hig accustomed courtesy, bud a con- versation ensued as a matter of course. “Professor,” asked the reporter, ‘have you read the evidence in the Wharton trial as published in ‘| the HERALD?” “. have read 4 good deal of it; I have not read to- day's HERALD yet, but will soon.” “What do you think, sir, of the analyses of Pro- fessors Aiken and Tonry :? “] hardly taink it proper ina matter of so great importance to give au opinion on a newspaper re- port. You see it is difficuit for non-sctentitic men to report such evidence correctly, a letter added or omitted making the widest difference sometimes in the value of a scientific report. 1 was once made to say that I had used a China teacup in an impor. tant experiment vefore a public audience, when, in fact, the vessel used was something entirely differ- ent, And, indeed, even supposing that the report is entirely correct, and it no douvt 13, I doubt the propriety of my giving an opiaion in the case just now. This I may say, though, that—judging irom the reports in the HERALD—the analyses made by Professors Aiken and Tonry are A DISGRACE TO AMERICAN SCIENCE.” “Then, sir, you think that the threc tests made by Dr. Aiken were inadequate?” “Wait; what were tne tests ?"” The reporter produced a copy of the HsRALD and read {rom the evidence as follows: — First, that a liquid supposed to contain antimony shall with sulphuretted hydrogen, or with sulphide of ammo- Ted preeipitain; second, thet this orange:red itate be soluble in hydrochloric acid; third, that dropped ‘into water, shall nium, an orange: Foludon in nydrochiorie eld tf jo ive n white precipitate. “Most certainly they were insnMctent and ab- oh ams will also apply to Professor Tonry' a 8, ‘The tearned Professor then proceeded to explain the proper way of maki Gnalyses, and lati mated That in“ report the stephens case in 1858 his ideas on the matter would be found fully expressed, That was a case of sua- pected poisoning by arsenic, he said; but were the same method adopted in making an analysis of the remains of General Ketchum the same satisfactory sclentific results would be obtained, Professor Doremus, in reply to a question asked by the reporter, said:—‘‘ihe anatysis made by Pro- sessor Aiken ant Professor fony (us reported in the papers) of #0 simple a matter ag THE DISCOVERY OF ANTIMONY is anything but sctentific; for the pure metal, an- timony, may be easily obtained, not merely in slight stains upon porcelain, but all the metal could be procured by a process which was fully described in the celebrated Stephens case of this city, where the compound of ar- senic wilh hydrogen was passed through many feet of coiled giass tubing, heated red hot by as jets, and the metal procured on the coid part or the glass beyond the coils, The compound o: antl- mony and hydrogen can be treated in a similar manner, and caa be decomposed by heat in such coils, and thus all the metal can be procured ina pure’ condition and can be subjected to chemical analysis which would be beyond criticism. Profes- sor McCulloca has very justly stated that the color tests, where organic matters are present, are not to be depended upon IN COMMON CHEMICAL RESEARCH, “oon where character and Iife are involved,” ‘ne reporter then thanked the learned gentieman and took his leave, Professor Doremus’ Toews in Cc The following 18 an extract from the report of the Professor in the Stephens case, which bears particularly on the case of General Ketchum:— City and vounty of New York, 8s:—R. Ogden Doremus, being auly sworn, deposes and says, that he is Professor of Chewialry in. the New York Medical Vollege and in the New York Uollege, of Pharmacy that Pe ore of Coroner Connery > bond made as of toxological examinations remains of Mrs. Sophia Stephens, with the folowing the Strphess results:— a On Friday, September 24, 1868, «leponent was resent, with bis assistant, vr. Adi zenker, at the poseadrvem conducted by br, vamed ite Wood, Me the dead house, Bellevue tos; ‘As A Jul report of tuis exam mation has been pre- sented to the Voroner’s jury by Dr. Wood, @ repetl- tion Is, haps, unuecessary, in connection with the chemical testimony, The stomach was ted at the cardiac and pyloric extremities, and with the Ser and ei Boey Set ag wow anc caret neys, placed it ® vl jung and of the brain In clean glass ve: eels aa removed vo deponen’s private Javoratory, ‘The stomach, which was im aremarkahie state of QUitg AB OrovAble thakthe peison came from ai } Dronervation, Was found to compain a snail quanutr ee ehrmmhmhRha eee SOE 09.8 al cz¥B ENcd AGEDR,EU ELGAR GalEGi, FRETEEUSTETEEGEGL (UEC BAY ORUH BN TARETIONE RIMRALINL Biases toa] SulbGRE Rann ITT Sains aI AT 5 well ], Were neal ihn er ofa yellowish pasty I, ae tg Pecos — examined with paratus neral apd 22eie Sok apy (a modin n of tna, own as vy test), Although this was employed beyond the time: ‘usuall: iatforded only a faint stam ly of an orange tint, with a metallic lustre, jun gre of the suiphurets of arsenic. (See Nahe 's The large intestines were found slightly reddened Mutt Sal cal a oe Say ae quantity of a brown sul ‘whieh on examination by the drogen, app’ orange we pI ylelded an j (See sample 2. ronan Several lons of the liver, of the kidneys of the jun; ‘were * 0 gS. were prepared | ly ‘alters "Seemieat saine of yellow and vrownieh yellow were DFOr, As the deponent had never betore met with results by uns and was rae tee re unable to learn 4 that the presence of sulphuretted hyd: s pati materials dhder cxamioaite decomposing rodent ay a ~ ‘erat aca ae ecient led at deponent’s laboratory, 7 J lege, of passing these gases sane through @ glass tube heated to redness, Siains proampe ntical in appear thowe ‘om the viscera before res ‘ One of the yellow stal from sng contal n tl 4 55, Lt fi Was then tested vy passing a, and dry oxygen gas thr Lyy on Pac! po neat t yrs i , radually w) throng a coll of tuving afoot » Shao eit in jeagtn, heated 10 AS eid uss and the arsenic tute arwenious ‘scl ac s ¢ arsenic acl latter was denosited as afamt winte stain on cool glasé beyond the coll; it was dissolved im a few drops of warm distilled water, ana found to spond to the chemical tests for Ge areen "Phe tube marked Ii contains @ yellow stain trom Sheliver, similar to the oue examined’ ts jaa Te a M ‘Another portion of the liver was submitted to modification of the other chemical pecan a ing yellow stains. One of these was tested a 4, aud affored faint traces i marked Iv. ‘ a Eight ounces of themasular tissue was in hydrochiori¢ acid, with the addition of a amount of chlorate of poe then chloring. gee, and oe ae urous acid gas, when by the hyarogen the yellow stain with iridescent play of colors, a8 the tube marked V, Owing to the peculiar pas these stains and to their famtness, whicn per: only & i) proce of their arsenical character be exhibited, deponent deemed it essential to sub-- Tait the eptive body of the deceased to chemical exw amination, ‘The deponent would here state that had be called upon to decide at this stage of the vo the presence of a poison, he would unable 10 one T Donsteti the ropa and testimony of a positive character. With the assistance of Dra. Zenker and. B, 4 Budd, the soft tissues, which were in @ rent: state of preservation, were dissected from skeleton, and examined by several it che} rocesses, P To illustrate the methods employed, and to soe the Coroner and jury au opportunity to juuge o! their nature, ana of the time requisite for the -per~ formance of the operations, aeponent begs leave tay detail two cf the analvass;— wey meet ser a x0. 1 rer [rian About ten pounds of muscglar gnd adi; { from the remialnd of thé dedeased were pid in new, clean, and capacious porcelain crucivle, act upon by strong sulphuric acid and heat ior thirty: turee hours, the mass being stirred ever, moments with a porce.ain spatala. When assumed & peaty. condition, one-tuird was remoyi for a secoud chemical operation, The remain ‘Was heated to dryness. During the last twelve hour deponent and his assistants alternated in the im. Cessant stirring of the mass. The wiole | \. was most nauseating and Giegneting. The powder wae heated oyer a water bath, witn a nitric and hydrochloric acids vo dryue3s, then wit hot distilled water, and filtered, The filtered } thea fatrod into the bydrogen apparatus,’ and afforded the black, metalliclookiug stains eon, tamed in tubes markea VJ. and Vif, 4 PROCESS NO. 2 Four pounds four ounces muscular and adipose tissues irom tne body of the deceased, eut im fine pleces, were placed in a new and clean giass retort, and, to avoid @ loss, a receiver was adapted, with a bent tube passing ito a beaker giass oi pure water. Pare hydrochioric acid was added, and heat from furnace applied for fifteen hours, ’ bout eight ounces of a light pink colored lag distilled over into the receiver, Which was reserv for examination. One bait of the contents of the revort treated, witb cbtorine and suiphurous acid evapora- ted, and tested in the hydrogen apparatus for five hours—producing a lait dark wmetailic stam,’ marked VIII. ; The portion remaining in the retort was again, aud clorate 0! poiassa was gradually, small quantities, aaded, tilla clear orange col jiquid was obtained; tis was fitered, and wasned sulpharous acid gas passed turougu if for three hours, until it Was completely saturated, n it was warmed over a water oath to expel the xq cess of sulphurous acid. Pure washed suiphurretted hydrogen gas: wast passed through tne liquid for sixteen hours, ducing a yellow precipitace; this was anowed te subside during eighteen hours, 4 ‘The greater part of tue liquid was decanted, the precipitate poured on a sinall filker (of Swe paper), and repeatedly washed with warm distilled) water, ‘The precipitate and filter were dried in a wate! bath, placed in a porce.aim crucible, and with pure nitric acid. Tue acid was neutralized with pure carbonate of Soda, and evaporated to dryne-s ina water bath, | ‘Lhe contents of tue crucible were fused over a gag furnace till the organic matter was burotand@ clear, coloriess liquid obtuined, J ‘The nitric and nitrous acids were expelled by pure sulphuric actd, and the remaiming salts disv solved in & smiali quatity of distilied water, 8 An apparatus for generating pare and dry hydrow gen gas was prepared, and attached to a glass tube turee feet in length, 80 coiled that two icet of it! were heated hot over a gas furnace. } In other cases two or more of these coils wera’ united, thus enabling the operator to increase tq heated suriace ad vibitum, thereby insuring the complete decomposition of any compounds of drogen, } To test the purity of the hydrogen it was passed through the red hot coil for an hour and @ nalf, No stain was produced on the cool portion of the tape beyond wuere the heat was applied, Tue zinc and sulphuric acid employed were thud known to be pure (they had veen previously and re-! peated |y exaniumed ior several hours.) ’ ws Almost immed.ately alter the introduction of the Suspected liquia obtalued from the muscies as de-; scribed, and Which was reduced to baif an vunee, a! dark stain, with @ metadic lustre, resembung arsenic, appeared bevond the heated class coll; this, Wass allowed to accumulate lor two hours, ’ On introducing @ bubvie or tWo of air through the’ hydrogen apparatus, a slight oxidation of the metal occurred, Rha the characteristic garlic odor o: burning arsenic was distinctly recognized. 5 ‘The hydrogen apparatus Was removed, and the arrangement for passing pare and dry oxygen gag ‘was applied at the oppositeend of the glass tube, ‘The coiled portion was continued at @ red heat, lest un cooling it might fracture. ) A gentle stream ol oxygen was passed througiy the tube and the greater portion of tue dark ataly was gradually volauilized by the heat from a spirit, mp. i saat the eighth of the metallic stain was reserved, for exhibition, iu tube marked 1X, t ‘The Vaporized arsenic, mingling with the oxygen at a red heat as it was urged through the vol, was converted into arsenioas acid, whic! appeared asa white deposit on the cool tube beyond the heated. coll. The tube and stain were removed apd heated with a few drops Of distitied water in @ new aad clean t te. vere white deposit dissolved completely, One portion of the solution J ipad a yellow precip» late with ammonio-nitrate ofsilver, which dissolved in excess Of Ammonia; anotuer yielded a green pre- cipitate, with SE Ler ot copper, soluble on addition of ammonia; and the third and remains ing portion afforded a yellow precipitate with sul- prareyed hydrogen when acidulated with hydro. hiori¢ acid. r ‘A part of this precipitate was dissolved 11 ammo- nia and the rematader reserved for oxmib.uun im vude marked X, “Hen arsenic was present, because of its affora- ing the fo:lowing distinguisning tests, which, com- bined, cannot be imitated oy ay omer KUOWO sub- weet, Because of the black, metailic-looking stain, Wo Yoatiizea by heat, jal wit Oxidized into arséaious i ic Mtn, Say ita white appearance, Sth. 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