TESTIMONY OF JOHN BLAKE WHITE. 23 



No, sir ; I do not ; I procured that from Dr. Chandler, I think, or 

 from one of his assistants from the Board of Health. 



Q. Have yon tested this thermometer ? A. I have not, sir. 



Q. Then you do not know it to be accurate ? A. I think it is 

 accurate. 



Q. Do you know it to be ? A. No ; I cannot sw r ear it is. 



Q. Then from this thermometer, the accuracy of which you do 

 not swear to, the milk was at a temperature of 60? A. Yes, sir : 

 excuse me one moment, that thermometer was used in the country 

 with other specimens of pure genuine milk when the lactometer was 

 tested. 



Q. And this is the same lactometer with which you made 147 

 tests ? A. No, sir ; part of them. 



Q. What proportion? A. Fully 40 there may have been over 

 40. 



Q. You cannot swear to the correctness of the temperature in 

 40 cases? A. I did not make the thermometer ; that has been 

 tested, but I did not test it. 



Q. Did you notice ? A. I did not notice. 



Q. Why did you say so ? A. Because those instruments are 

 always tested by others before they are handed to me. 



Q. Now, doctor, I would like you to take some of this and pour 

 it into this tube, and show the jury how you make the tests. 



(A bottle of milk was handed to the witness.) 



COUNSEL FOB THE PEOPLE Before this is made, if this is an 

 experiment to be made with milk, we desire to know if this is milk. 



COUNSEL FOR DEFENDANT I propose to ask this gentleman to 

 tasta that stuff, be it what it may, benzine or anything else, and see 

 if he knows the difference. I propose to ask him what it is. 



WITNESS I do not propose to taste anything. 



COUNSEL FOB DEFENDANT I assure him that it is not poisoned. 



COUNSEL FOR PEOPLE If this examination be directed to the 

 point whether this witness be an expert or not, I presume he has 

 been admitted as an expert ; if it be directed to the point whether 

 this instrument will determine milk, we must be assured that the 

 article is milk. When a bottle labeled from a chemical laboratory 

 is presented, we are not sure from past experience what it is we 

 are inclined to doubt it. 



