The Benham Murder Trial
Item
- Title
- The Benham Murder Trial
- Source
- The sun (NY)
- Date
- 1900-06-14
- page
- 2
- Identifier
- https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83030272/1900-06-14/ed-1/?sp=2&q=murder&r=0.6,0.344,0.32,0.153,0
- Crime
- Murder
- Subject
- murder; possible poisoning
- Gender of alleged offender
- male alleged offender
- Gender of alleged victim
- female alleged victim
- Stage of the Legal System
- trial
- Location
- In-State; canandaigua, NY
- Length of story
- 558
- Description
- TttK tiEMIAM MURDER TRIAL TRIALMedical TRIALMedical Medical TMtlmonj at to the U Vie e of Pr Prsii PrsiiAcid d dAcid Acid and II Iti EffectCANASDAIOUA Effect EffectCANANIUIOUA CANANIUIOUA N V June is I8There There I Ionly I Ionly only on one thin thing which can prevent the defenc defencIn defenoin In the Denham murder trial cloning Its com to tomorrow tomorrow morrow and that U ii the ponslbllltr of Benhnttaking Benhnt Denhantaking taking the stand In hi own behalf This state statementwasrnadebyArthurC Ut Utmsnt msnt mentwasrnadebyArthurC was mttdejbr Arthur C Wade chief counat counatfor counsefor for Ikmham at the close of todays session I Ilooks Ilooks looks now as though Benhamfl counsel would no nopermit nopemnnit permit him to testily Most of the day wa waspent Waspent spent In examining medical witnesses wh whtestified whotestified testified as to the use of prussia acid for th thorganic ho hoorganic organic trouble which ilr Mrs Denham had The Theall The3all all declared that It was a remedy and cited man manInstance mnn3 mnn3Instances Instance both from their own experience experienceand experiencearid and from medical booksDr books booksDr Dr John A Miller recalled raid In all th threading hi hireading reading he had done he found no authorlt authorltthat authuoritthat that would assert Ahat the blood was pin plnlhalf pinhalf half an hour after death when death occurred occurredfrom oceurrecfrom from hydrocyanic ncld poisoning polwmlnsrOn On crossexamination he reiterated formeKtatenwnU forme formenstatements statements that he knew no cases where Ugh Ughblood Ilghnlblood blood existed xlt d In n viscera K half hour alto altodeath chumdentIn death from prusule acid In all his rendlni rendlnih hit h had found no authoritative assertions to that thneffect thateffect effect and his experiments had confirmed hi hiopinion liiiopinion opinion that there were no such conditions conditionsHo Ho was asked by Judge RIce If ho lit conslderei consldereihi his hi knowledge greater nn the subject than tin tinauthorities hi hiauthorities authorities quoted He sold a1d ho to did on th thsubject the thesubject subject on which ho had made experiment experimentnnd and In which the authorities had not given their theliexperlencp theirexperience experience hut merely theories theorleKIr theoriesIr Ir H M Hill professor or chemIstry In theCollpRO the thisCollege College of 1harmacy and the University ol olHuddle 01hltntTnie Huddle gave evidence largely corroboratIve corrobonitjvfhimself corroboratIveOf Of duit given by Dr Miller having assisted assistednim nim itt lila experiments lie said he considered consideredhituuself himself as competent authority M most of th thauthors the theauthors authors n qooted noted because of experiments nn nnthn mud mudthin thin fact net that they did not tell In detail in their theibooks theirbooki books what they learned by practical pmacticnieoxpsrl pmacticnieoxpsrlmeats expert expertments meats He had heard Prof Wltthaus Um ail ailtliorlty nilthiority tliorlty so far quoted ns to the hyniptoms o ohydrocyanloacldpotsonliietestlfyonce of ofhydrocyanlcacld hydrocyanloacldpotsonliietestlfyonce hydrocyanlcacld poisonirn testityonco that hi hinev he henever nev never r sawn sawacasewberehydroeyanio cose where hydrocyanic acid cauvi cauvideath canned canneddentin death deathAlbert dentinAlbert Albert n Hamilton of Auburn druggist admgeliand a druggistantI and chemist of fifteen yearsexperience yearn esperlence cavi cavitestimony gave gaveteetitnony testimony tending to prove that Mrs Renhnn Renhnnhad flenhininhoot had an organic dLwase and that Denham was WRIuslnc wasusitic uslnc pnisslo acid to cure It ItDr itlr Dr henry Fell or Buffalo was on the stand a aadjournment at atadjotnmnniertt
