dead on some leaves in a fountain at bottom of staircase; skull and
spine fractured. The murderers stated that they had struck him on the
head with a crutch; then, believing him to be dead, carried him and
threw him into the fountain. When examined, his face was livid, tongue
between teeth and bitten nearly in two; and three parallel abrasions
on left side of neck and one on right; slight wounds about the face
in addition to the fractures mentioned. No report of examination of
lungs or larynx. Horteloup concluded that the man had been strangled to
death, and that when thrown into the fountain, alighting on his head,
the jaws were brought together and tongue bitten.