SUPREME COURT OF THE CANAL ZONE. Apr. Term,

dying, and described to them her condition and her feeling. It became apparent to the physician that she was suffering from poison administered into, her stomach. When the doctor gave the deceased a powder for the purpose of alleviating her pains and to check vomitingr, the deceased stated that the powder administered by the doctor was bitter, while the two powders administered by her husband were tasteless. From these statements and from the symptoms manifested by the deceased during the day of the 9th and the morning of the 10th of January, the physician refused to grant the defendant a death certificate after the death of the said Mrs. Coulson and refused to allow the body to be buried.
The evidence further shows that at the post mortem examination there was a careful examination which showed all the indications of an irritant poison. The stomach of the deceased, a portion of the liquid contents of the stomach, and portions of the liver, kidney, spleen and part of the pancreas were carefully removed. These were sealed in a glass jar and carefully kept in the possession of Dr. Smith who took them personally to the laboratory at Ancon, where a complete chemical analysis wag made of the contents of the organs above mentioned. As a result of this chemical analysis of the contents of the stomach, there were found twelve and one-half grains of arsenic. The doctors who were called to testify were thoroughly agreed that the indications and symptoms manifested by. the deceased during her last sickness, coupled with the fact that twelve and one-half grains of arsenic were found in her stomach after her death, showed that she came to her death' by reason of arsenical poisoning. The evidence further showed that three grains of arsenic is sufficient, absorbed in the -human body, to prod uce death; that after death, there was enough arsenic found in the stomach of the said Marian Coulson unabsorbed to have killed four people, and the -evidence further showed that there was no way of telling the number of grains which had been absorbed before her death. Sergeant Dooley testified that the defendant voluntarily confessed to him that he had, at various times between January 8th and 9th, endeavored to administer poison to his wife for the purpose of producing death; that on January 8th and 9th he, the defendant,

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