ecchymoses size of beans in crico-thyroid muscles of each side; patch
of hepatization size of fist, in lung; injury of body. The examiner
declared that she had been strangled by compression of larynx with two
fingers, but he could not say how long the pressure had continued, that
is, whether she had died of the strangulation or of the pneumonia. The
assailant stated that he had choked her and when she seemed to be dead,
had left her. The woman lived alone.