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The People of the State of Michigan - - - (Complainants) VS William Shimmel - - - (Defendant) |
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DR. F R E D E R I C K D. S M I T H, having been produced as a witness for and in behalf of the people and having been first duly sworn, testified as follows:
DIRECT EXAMINATION BY MR. LILLIE. |
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Dr. Frederick D. Smith Direct Examination |
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Where abouts do you live? |
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Coopersville |
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In this county? |
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Yes, Sir. |
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How long have you lived there? |
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35 years |
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What is your business or profession? |
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Practicing medicine and surgery. |
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How long have you practiced it? |
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37 years. |
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How far is Coopersville from Denison? |
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About three miles. |
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Did you know Martin Golden in his life time? |
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I did. |
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Did he live in Denison |
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Yes, sir. |
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Were you called there on the evening of April 23rd, 1906? |
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I was. |
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Did you find him there? |
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Yes, sir. |
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Now I wish you would go on and describe just what condition you |
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found him in? |
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Well sir, I found him in the house, they had taken him into the house and he was lying on the couch with a wound in his forehead. |
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Describe the wound please. |
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It was a wound just to the right of the center of the forehead, looked as though it might be a gun shot hole. |
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Did you probe the wound to find out how severe it was? |
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I examined it and found that the wound was through the scalp. |
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What about the brain, if anything, ozzing? |
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Blood mostly, bleeding hemmorage. |
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Now was he alive at the time that you got there? |
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Yes, sir. |
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How long did he live after that? |
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Well, I wasn’t there when he died. I stayed there until something past one o’clock and then I went home and he died after that time. |
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Were you back the next day? |
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Yes, sir. |
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He died between the time you went home and the time you got back? |
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Yes, sir. |
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What can you say as to the cause of Martin Golden’s death? |
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Well there was no post mortem held, but from the appearances, it appeared that he died from the wounds. |
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From the wounds that you saw in examining his head? |
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Yes, sir. |
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There is no question but that was the cause of death, is there? |
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I think that was the case. |
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Now was there more that one wound? |
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There was only one wound through the skull. There was two wounds in the flesh. |
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Describe both of them. |
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Well the wound that penetrated the skull, as I say, was just a little to the right of the center of the forehead, and the other was just a little above that. |
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And the one above I understand you did not penetrate the skull? |
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Not unless it glanced or passed into the other bullet hole. |
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Now what was the course or direction of those bullets? |
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Well I didn’t probe into the brain far enough to just see its direction after it went in because I did not think it was safe to do it |
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What was the course or direction of the one that you say was above this hole in the skull |
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I think it was down. |
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And that would have a tendency then to lead into the other if it went into the skull? |
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Yes, sir |