Show ENCE fREES HELD HELDI HELDI ELI I I FOR SLAVING Circumstantial Evidence Seemed Conclusive In InThis InThis InThis This Case BODY IS DUG UP II Careful Examination Re Reveals Re- Re Reveals Accident Caused His Death Bv By NE III NH t Service NEW EW YORK YOUK April- April 23 23 scientific detective e can do more than convict the gUilty says Dr Ii Otto B ti medical assistant assist assist- f i ant to the tho disI dis- dis district I attorney or o New York and SI i just discovered 1 to be the real realS S live lisa original ot of v Craig gy Kennedy Kennedy scientific detec- detec j the At Stamford Conn the un unconscious un- un unconscious Unconscious conscious body r found man nian was W on cl the sidewalk Ho Ito died from D DR fracture of ot the skull before Ie to- to gaining le-gaining gaining consciousness Police Pollee investigated and found bloody footprints in a nearby door door- doorway doorway way These rhese prints which were ere made by bare baro feet teet led to a 0 landing up the tho stairs where a tt large largo quantity t ty of ot blood was found then 1 hen they continued to an apartment on the floor door by a middle middle- middle aged age aged l woman oman IJ Sr SE Despite her protests the police seM died Ue tie thiC apartment HIdden away ay In a chest of ot drawers the straw hat and eve glasses of othe the smashed deceased deceased smashed and bloo blood blood- bloodstained stained blood stained The rho waist of ot the oman also stained blood-stained was as found Cound hid hidden hid hid- hidden den in a os c closet There Thue was as a 0 flat flat- flatiron iron flat Iron in the room When the police found that the theman theman man had been in her hel apartment end the base of ot the iron flat fitted In Into to the he dent in the straw hat they arrested her After Acter an autopsy J a local loca I physician reported that th ap a was due to fracture of th the thA skull an and that parallel marks on the forehead of ot the deceased corre corre- corresponded corresponded to creases In tho crown of oC the smashed stray hat The bloody prints of ot bare feet teet were sho shown shon n to be those of ot the suspected woman The TIme 1 woman oman was indicted for murder She protested her Inno moo Innocence Innocence cence but refused to make mahe any cx- cx ex explanations BODY DUG UP VP I entered the ue ca case at that point and had tho the body now burled three months exhumed and per performed per per- performed formed an autopsy Examination of ot the skull showed h 0 radiating fractures centering In a II common point be- be behind behind be behind hind the right ear over oser which the skin had not been broken TIlls This eliminated the tho forehead as the site of at Infliction of oC violence The parallel marks on the forehead fore forehead head hend described in the tho first autopsy were ere examined We found that they were ere on the right side The dent In n the straw hat was on the I left I then measured the tho marks carefully and found that they dId not correspond to the creases In the tho straw hat brim but did correspond I to the tho corrugations In the tho rubber I rout mat on tho the stair carpet I Now the hO he first tiNt autopsy had tad de- de de described scribed no wound which could ac account c count for tor the Ihl large quantity of I blood on tho landing landing and for tor the bloody footprints abe llio new ne frac trac- tracI frac- frac fracture fracture ture would account for tor the blood R 59 one of the radiating fractures I had passed through a large largo vein opening ening into the tho car ear 10 DEATh ACCIDENT T So we e wore able to draw ac accurate I curate conclusions from the new evidence The TIm man maim leaving her apartment In the dark had tall fallen en i striking Ills 11 head on the rubber carpet and then plunged head bead head foremost foremost down to the lending I striking tho the back of Ills his skull So I much the tho marks on the forehead tor and the presence of at the large I I quantity of blood on tho landing told us The 1 woman oman heard beard the tall fall rushed out of ot her apartment tn n n her hor bare feet teet and went l down to the landing With the mans man's head rest rest- restIng resting I ing log on her shoulder be he helped him hIm do down don n to the street Then hen she sho I went ent back taking the hat and glasses es 1 The iron flat had bad nothing to do with the tho th murder Death Dath wa was III due to 10 an a accident the tho Indictment against tb tb woman was dropped C I a womans woman's teeth h trapped murderer |