1198 Page – Leo Frank Georgia Supreme Court Appeals Records, 1913, 1914

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the body is disinterred nine days after death. I could not hazard a guess
within two days of the time. I think I might in two weeks.

CROSS EXAMINATION.

The amount of digestion in the stomach depends on the amount of mastica-
tion in the mouth. If the food is bolted there is no digestion. I am not famil-
iar with Dr. Crittendon's table. If he states that boiled cabbage is as easy to
digest as raw cabbage he is at issue with the generally accepted authorities.
Normal stomachs have certain idiosyncracies. Digestion in normal stomachs is
supposed to go along certain stipulated rules. You find free hydrochloric acid
in any stomach that has food at any stage of digestion. As to whether you
could ever find free hydrochloric acid in the stomach immediately after
taking Ewald's test breakfast, would depend entirely on the state of the
glands, and how long previous digestion had been in the stomach. As to the
total acidity in a stomach after such a test, that is for a laboratory man. If
you take cabbage out of a stomach like that (State's Exhibit G), the size of
the stomach is normal, no obstruction to the flow of the stomach, and you find
hydrochloric acid combined to about 32 degrees, no free hydrochloric acid,
that the starch of the wheat bread is slightly digested, and the state of the
starch corresponds exactly to the state of the cabbage, I don't think you
could tell inside of two hours or an hour and a half as to how long these things
have been in a normal stomach. I have taken cabbage from a stomach by
forced emesis twelve hours afterward and it did not show as much digestion
as this cabbage (State's Exhibit G). The patient had a normal stomach, but
the cabbage produced indigestion. That is the only experiment I have ever
made with cabbage. If the little girl was found 16 to 20 hours after she was
murdered, and there is a wound on the back of the head, with small blood
clot nine days after the thing happened, and 16 to 20 hours after her death
the blood underneath the hair is still moist, and there is a deep indentation in
the neck, showing where a cord had been put around the throat and the
tongue is out and the face livid and the hands blue and the lips blue and an
injury to the wind pipe, I would say that the blow on the head did not cause
death.

ALFRED LORING LANE, sworn for the Defendant.

I am a resident of Brooklyn, N. Y. I have known Leo Frank about
15 years. I knew him four years at Pratt Institute, which we both attended.
I also knew him after he returned from Cornell University. His general char-
acter is good.

PHILIP NASH, sworn for the Defendant.

I live in Ridgewood, N. J. I am connected with the New York Telephone
Company, in New York City. I knew Leo Frank four years at Pratt Institute.
I was in his class. His general character is good.