Word: inquest
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...that Mrs. Hullett was going to die that weekend." Furthermore, the doctor had requested a post-mortem on his patient even before she died. The postmortem, when it was made, established the fact that Mrs. Hullett died of an overdose of barbiturates, but even though a coroner's inquest called it suicide, the Crown insisted last week that "the circumstances amount to murder by Dr. Adams, whether [Mrs. Hullett] administered the fatal dose herself or whether...
...some relatives of the doctor's late patients complained that they left him too much money when they died. The police received notes, sometimes anonymous, even suggesting-without any facts-that he had hastened their deaths. They ordered an inquest on one of the patients (verdict: suicide) and, as the buzz of gossip rose, called in Scotland Yard...
Whispers. Other papers were bolder. One dovetailed a story about "startling" but undisclosed evidence in the case of "25 deaths" at Eastbourne with another dispatch covering the doctor's testimony at the inquest where one of his patients was found to have taken an overdose of sleeping tablets. The boldest paper managed to tell much of the story-and even run a picture of the doctor-by a slick trick: it got the doctor's lawyers to approve a sympathetic story that named him as the victim of a malign whispering campaign-and managed to print many...
...innocence to the last. The next Sunday the paper was able to settle readers' bets as to his guilt by publishing the note-a full confession. Scotland Yard has also had reason to respect the paper's passion for finicky detail. The full published report on the inquest of a bride drowned in her bath produced letters from readers in remote spots who knew of other bathtub drownings of young women linked to the same man, George Joseph Smith. The story helped to hang...
Pierre Poujade, the election's only real victor, has already predicted that the moribund new assembly "will not last." Even if he is right, no inquest into its demise will be able to pin the ultimate blame on him. The feud between Mendes-France and Edgar Faure split the Radical Socialist Party, rent the Assembly's alliance of moderates, and paved the way for the extremists' victory. As a result, any constructive legislation by the new assembly will require that the center groups, already almost hopelessly divided among themselves, vote nearly unanimously together. The French battle has gone...