Word: proescher
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Dates: during 1933-1933
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...case against him revolved around the discovery of a ten-inch pipe and pieces of charred clothing found in the fire he was tending that morning. County Pathologist Dr. Frederick Proescher testified that he found blood on the pipe and clothing, but could not say whether it was animal or human blood. To corroborate his evidence, a neighbor of the Lamsons testified that she had noticed heavy smoke coming from the fire, had smelled what she thought was burning flesh. The prosecutor alleged that Lamson had beaten his wife over the head with the pipe, then sought to destroy...
...purely circumstantial this point loomed important as the basis for "reasonable doubt." Desperately the prosecution sought to combat it. It called Dr. Arthur William Meyer, head of the Stanford anatomy department, who testified that Mrs. Lamson's scalp indicated that she had been seized and yanked forward. Pathologist Proescher claimed he had conducted a personal experiment to disprove the accident theory. He had undressed, got into the Lamson bathtub, deliberately permitted himself to slip and hit his head against the bathtub rim and faucets. "I was not even hurt," he testified...
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