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...angry mobs occasionally barred a medical examiner from entering the mortuary where he was to perform an autopsy, the attitude of the general public toward the examination of the dead has undergone a complete change, and exhumations and careful post-mortems are now often demanded, Professor George Burgess Magrath '94, incumbent elect of the chair of Legal Medicine, declared in an interview yesterday...
Religious cults which opposed any tampering with corpses, and the belief that such examinations cast a reflection upon the relatives of the deceased, constituted a semi-superstitious sentiment against exhumation. Present-day accident insurance and double-indemnity clauses, however, together with the decreased expense of autopsies, says Dr. Magrath, are responsible for the change in sentiment...
Attempts to conceal suicides are quite frequent in a medical examiner's experience. In one case when entering the bed-room of a youth said by his sister to have died of heart trouble, Dr. Magrath noted the peculiar color of his ear. Although the room was free from odor, turning down the bed-clothes brought forth the smell of illuminating gas. An examination of the blood showed it to be of the bright magenta color peculiar to victims of gas asphyxia. The ordinary color of blood encountered in autopsies is a grayish blue. Dr. Magrath went out into...
...piece of detective work, carried along the deductive methods used by the great fiction hero Sherlock Holmes, that perhaps saved the life of an innocent woman, were described by Dr. Magrath. During a drinking party in the town of Mansfield, a man by the name of Cobb was found mortally wounded from the discharge of a shot-gun in his cellar. Cobb did not die at once, but lived to write in a legible hand "Emily did it," on the back of an envelop which he had taken from his pocket. His wife, Emily Cobb, was found unconscious...
Queried as to how murder victims were able to put up such strenuous resistance to their attackers on some occasions, Dr. Magrath revealed that it is difficult to kill a person instantly by a blow on the head unless administered with a weapon capable of actually damaging the brain. A carpenters hammer, he pointed out, could not be classed as a "dangerous weapon" although a stonecutter's maul is "a different matter...