mortem showed beyond doubt that she had been violated, then strangled,
then hung. Her head showed many ecchymoses from either the fist or the
foot; blood flowing from left ear. Brain slightly congested. Tongue
between teeth, bitten and bloody. On front of neck were two marks: the
lower were impressions of fingers close together, nearly uninterrupted,
and which had bruised, flattened, and tanned the skin, which here was
dry, hard, and horny. This lesion was above the intraclavicular notch
and extended toward the sides of the neck with regularity of curve and
neatness of imprint, evidently made with the right hand. Above the
first furrow under the skin was a kind of track, less extended, more
regular, a bruising of the same nature as the preceding, but continued,
due to the pressure of the index finger and thumb of left hand. A
little below the jaw was a livid place on the skin, which was otherwise
unaffected by the ligature. There was nothing to indicate a circular
action of the ligature. Froth in larynx and bronchi. Lungs apparently
normal. Food had passed from stomach into Å“sophagus and air-passages.