Identifier: americanxrayjour1418unse (find matches)
Title: American X-ray journal
Year: 1899 (1890s)
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Subjects: X-Rays Radiography
Publisher: St. Louis : American X-Ray Publishing Co.
Contributing Library: The College of Physicians of Philadelphia Historical Medical Library
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Dr. WILLIAM KONRAD ROENTGEN
(From a photograph of Haufstaengel, Frankfort-on-the-Main.)

The American X-Ray Journal.

Devoted to Practical X-Ray Work and Allied Arts and Sciences.

VOL.4. ST. LOUIS, MARCH, 1899. NO- 3.

THE ROENTGEN RAY IN THE ORME
MURDER TRIAL.

BY JOHN T. PITKIN, M. D. BUFFALO, N. Y.

The Tragedy.—It was in an old house
known as "the barracks," in the little
village of Horseheads, Chemung County,
N. Y., on the eighth day of July eigh-
teen hundred and ninety-seven, when
an elderly man with a long gray beard
and intelligent features upon returning
rather unexpectedly to his residence
found to his great surprise his conjugal
partner in the fond embrace of an Italian
boarder named James Punzo. In the
general melee which ensued Mrs. Orme
is said to have assaulted her husband
with a large tin dipper striking him sev-
eral times on the head, cutting a deep
gash with each blow from which the
blood gushed most profusely, covering
his head and face and blinding his eyes.
Whereupon Orme drew a revolver and

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