Q. Did you pursue your search through the bowels?
A. No; I cannot say I did, nor did I think it in my power.
Q. How far did you pursue your search in the stomach?
A. We examined the contents of the stomach; we took the stomach out, but in taking it out a great part of the contents issued out of the bowels next to it; and the smell was so offensive I did not choose to enter into that matter.
Q. Whether a pursuit or enquiry, from an inspection through the bowels, was not as likely to have led to a discovery of the cause of the death, as any other part of the body which you did examine?
A. I do not believe a pursuit through the whole extent of the bowels could have led to any discovery in these circumstances.
Q. Are not the bowels the seat of poison?
A. When it passes in there, no doubt it affects the bowels.
Q. Then why did you not examine into the contents of the bowels?
A. I did not think it in the power of any one to examine into the contents of the bowels; their contents being so strong and disagreeable.