Extra- vasation of blood after death may be local; in such case the discoloration would be most likely co-extensive with the cause; there is sometimes extravasation during life.

Where the color is changed by gastric juice it might be gradually absorbed by surrounding parts; would expect to find it in lowest portion of the stomach; think solids in the stomach might depress the surface and make a differ- ence.

I could base a reliable opinion as to whether the changes in the stomach were before or after death; no post-mortem changes I know of would produce such effect; there was no mortification, erosion or corrosion that I could discover; no extravasation of blood*or other matter under the mucous membrane.

Arsenic is white; stomach if dipped into dilute arsenic would not be colored; laying it on solid, the membrane would be rendered more pale; it is not a coloring substance of itself; don't recollect of any chemical combination which would make the color Black I was able to see these smaller spots by naked eye; the elevations were simply small spots extending into the mucous membrane; there were traces of inflam- mation in the stomach; the inflammation in small intestines was in patches, not general; it was slight.

The rectum Avas perforated through the mucous membrane; gangrene is not usual in mucous membranes unless there is inflamma- tion; I think it very difficult to account for spots in the rectum from injury by the end of the syringe; if a part is wounded by hard substance it might produce inflamma- tion; I think salt and water injected might produce inflam- mation, and possibly gangrene, but I think it extremely improbable; the irritation would not be severe enough; independent of chemical analysis, did not see any sufficient cause for death; the minute spots in the rectum could be discovered by the naked eye.