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Evidence suggesting that Eugene E. Harmon '50 died of a self inflicted wound was released by City Medical Examiner William J. Brickley last night, three days after the ex-student's body was found in the Mystic River beneath the Chelsea north drawbridge...
...uncovered on Harmon's activities immediately after his sudden withdrawal from College last December 7 fixed the time of death very close to that date. Before he left Cambridge "he did those things a man would do who was going to alter, or to end, his life," said Dr. Brickley...
Three letters written to friends, now in police possession, Dr. Brickley declared, had a distinct "tone of melancholy." Harmon also sent many of his personal effects back to his family in Churchville, New York, and transferred "a large sum of money" from his Cambridge bank to another depository...
...great importance in determining the answer to this question, declared Brickley, is whether the deceased was right or left handed. If the angle of the slug's entry did not check with a conceivable position of a self held gun, murder will be the only logical conclusion...
Time of death presents another dilemma, Brickley continued. The dead man's waterproof wristwatch read 7:15 o'clock, but "I'm hanged if I can say whether that means A.M. or P.M.," the Examiner observed. Harmon's four associates from Leverett were also unable to assert whether he wound his watch in the morning or evening...