"You could not distinguish whether he said wife or life?" was asked.
"No. Thaw then asked where we were going and I replied, 'To the station house,' and he said 'All right.' After this I turned him over to another officer and went up stairs to get witnesses."
Coroner's Physician Timothy Lehane, who performed the autopsy on Stanford White's body, described the wounds made by three pistol shots.
The first bullet, he said, entered the right eye, passing downward and entering the brain; the second entered on the right side of the upper lip, and the third wound was on the right arm, the bullet ranging downward and passing out six inches from the point of entrance, making what is commonly called a flesh wound.
The witness then identified the various bullets and Mr. Garvan asked that they be formally received as evidence. The exhibits were passed across to the table of counsel for the defense. Thaw's eyes wandered about from right to left, but not even a fleeting glance was thrown in the direction where the deadly bullets were being left.
Dr. Lehane declared cerebral hemorrhage, caused by the bullet wounds, produced death.
Dr. Sylvester Pechner, who was with a party on the Madison Square Roof garden the night of the tragedy, next was introduced as a witness for the prosecution. Dr. Pechner examined White soon after he fell and
