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X. AMERICAN STATE TRIALS.

the first floor was cleaned up af-
ter the murder,

W. H. Gheesling., Am a fu-
neral director and embalmer;
moved the hody of Mary Pha-
gan at four o'clock, April 27th,
im the morning; the cord was
around the neck; the rag was
around her hair and over her
face; think she had been dead ten
‘or fifteen hours, or longer; thera
were some dry blood splotches on
her underelothes; the right leg
of the drawers was split with a
knife or torn right up the seam;
her right eye looked like it was
hit befors death, it was very.
mneh swollen; ¥ found a wound
two and a quarter inches on the
back of the head; it was made
before death, becanse it bled
great deal: the hair was mat
with blood, and very dry; the
skull wasn’t crushed; the scalp
was broken; can’t state whether
the defendant eret looked at the
body or not.

Cross-examined. Mr. Rogers

and Mr. Black came with Mr.
Frank and askel me to take

him baek to where the girl-

was, I took them baek there,
and pulled a light, pulled
the sheet back, and moved the
revolving table and walked out
between them, Mr. Frank was
near the right-hand going in.
Mr, Black was at the left. I pre-
pared the little girl properly for
burial; there was no mutilation
at all on the body; judged ebe
died of strangulation because the
rope was tight enough to choke
her to death, and her tongue be-
ing an inch and a quarter ont of
the mouth, showed she died from
stranguation.

Dr. Claude Smith. Am physi-
cian and City Bacteriologist and

Chemist; these chipa the detes-
tives brought to my offices I ex-
amined; they had considerable
rt on them and some coloring
stain; on one of them I found
some blood eorpuseles; do not
Imow whether it waa human
blood; this shirt I examined and
it showed blood stain; the blood
on the ehips was only four or
five corp’

Dr. J. W. Hurt, Am County
Physician; saw the body of Mary
Phagan on 27th of April; this
eord was imbedded into the skin
and in my opinion she died from
strangulation; in my opinion the
cord was put on before death;
the wound on the back of the
head seamed to have been mede
with a bluntedged instrument,
and the blow from down
ward; the scalp wound was male
before death; think the seratchea
on the face were made after
desth; examined the hymen; it
was not intact; diseovered no vio-~
lence to the parts; the vagina
was a little larger than the nor-
mal size of a girl of that age; it
could have been produced by
Penetration immediately preced-
ing death; she was not pregnant.

Cross-ezamined, The body
looked as if it had been dragged
through dirt and cinders; think
she was dragged face downward.
When I saw the body on April
27th I gave it as my opinion
that she had been dead from 16
to 20 howre at 9 o’clock Sunday
morning; have formed no opin-
ion whether this little girl was
raped or had ever had inter-
eourse with anybody.

Dr. H. F. Horvis, Am a
practicing physician; made an
Eamination of the boy of Mery
Phagan on May 5th; there was
no actual break of the ekull, the

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