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A. I certainly did.
Q. And would you go so far as to say that your opinion as that her death was caused by poisoning due to strychnia?
A. I would. Had I been called without any one telling me anything else than that she had
been taken sick twenty minutes before, which was about what it was before I went there,
and they didn't know what she taken with, had they said nothing and I found her in that
condition, just dying, or in the spasm, or dead, I would have suspected strychnia at once.
Q. In your opinion, from the condition of the organs of the body as observed by you,
death was not due to natural causes?
A. Yes, that is correct.
Q. And in your opinion from the observance of the organs during the post mortem
autopsy and the symptoms revealed at the time you are of the opinion, and were of the
opinion, and formed the opinion at that time, Doctor, that Mrs. Stanford came to her
death by poisoning?
A. Mind, you, the evidence given us by the examination of the organs was negative, the
would not indicate strychnia or anything else, and showed that there were no natural
causes; but the sympmtoms, the condition that I found immediately on coming in, the
condition that I found her body in, the condition that the body was in at the time of the
post mortem would indicate strychnia.
Q. Were all the contents of the stomach and intestines and those organs that were
removed from the body handed over to Mr. Duncan?
A. They were handed over to Mr. Duncan.
Q. And placed in perfectly clean vessels?
A. And placed in perfectly clean vessels.
Q. And corked and sealed right there at the time and place?
A. Yes, right away, corked.
(Signed) H.V. Murray.

Dr. H.V. Murray, recalled and sworn.
Mrs. Rawlins. Doctor, do you know, in your own practice, or have you read the
approved, the standard text books in your study of medicine, of any cases where it has
been established that persons have taken into their system strychnia, dieing therefrom,
and yet upon examination of the contents of the stomach of that person no strychnia has
been found?
A. Personally I don't know, but I have read of cases in approved medical works,
authorities on medical jurisprudence.
Q. And is it not a fact, Doctor, that according to the standard medical works that such
cases are not uncommon?
A. Not uncommon.
A Juror. Q. What do you consider a fatal dose, Doctor?
A. Well, one-sixteenth of a grain had killed a child, from that up.
Q. Mr. Rawlins. In Administering strychnine as medicine to patients would the age of the
patient control you or govern you in regard tothe size or the amount that you would give
to the patient?
A. Yes, certainly.

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