TRIAL OF LOUIS CHEMIS.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8520, 10 July 1889, Page 2

TRIAL OF LOUIS CHEMIS.

MEDICAL EVIDENCE BROKEN DOWN

NO EVIDENCE ADDUCED TO THROW

LIGHT ON'THE MURDER. [PEE PEKBS ASSOCIATION.]

(Continued from yesterday). The Court resumed after lunch, when Dr Cahill'a examination was continued. Mr Bunny drew his attention to the torn part of deceased's trousers below the pocket, which counsel suggested looked like tbe result of a struggle, but witness considered it had been done by the bullet first fired, sending the contents of the waistcoat pocket flying. He reiterated his opinion that blood was not likely to have spurted from the woundß on to the assassin. No I large arterieß were cut, and the dagger itself would act more or less like a ping. From the fact that there were more cats in the coat than in the body, he deduced the inference that tha murderer had pursued the victim, stabbing at him, and some of the blows only reached the coat, and did not enter the flesh. The dagger found in Cbemis' house was here measured, and found to be s£inlong, which, Mr Bunny said, did not correspond with the account given by the witness of the wound in the heart. Dr Cahill said that, owing to the compressibility of the fleßh, the vronnd might be cctaally longer than the instrument. He could not say whether the shot in. the body was the same gize as that f oand in the accused's house. The latter was of two sizes, and the former only one. An animated and interesting discussion then took place between counsel and witness as to the paper found in the shot wound. Dr. Cahill said ho had wrapped the masß up in some folds of paper, in which it remained foi some days. He then removed it, and was ander the impression he had taken the whole away, until he saw Tasker's evidence in the Resident Magiatrate'a Court to the effect that pieces of paper of May 31st had been found in a mass taken from the wound, as well as pieces of March 23rd. It then struck him that despite all his care he might have left some of the wrapper adhering. Mr Bunny examined the witness closely on this matter, and finally Dr. Cahill said he was not prepared to swear that the fragments of May 31st did form a part of the original contents of the shot wound. He had voluntarily made known his suspicion as to these fragments, both to Messrs Bell and Bunny, without any prompting from anyone. William and Victor Dunock, bacon curers, two youths named Malcolm and Donald McCallum, J. A. Koch, ledgerkeeper in Bank of New Zealand, William Green, laborer, Charles Caplin, laborer, Robert McKay, storekeeper, and George Lee, carter, gave evidence, which was merely a repetition of that given in the lower Court. None of the evidence adduced threw any light on the murder, and at 6 p.m. the Court adjourned until 10 o'clock on Wednesday morning, the jury being removed in the custody of tbe police.