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ROBERT McCONAGHY.

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ing elose beneath the skull; his
‘wound presented about the same
appearance as Elizabeth's, if
anything, the worms in her
wounds were a little the largest;
that might have been caused by
her hair creating more heat; the
‘wound was larger in the front
part of the bead; I could put
my two or three fingera in the
wound; it would have eansed in-
stant death; the next was John;
his wound was through the body;
I think it entered near the spine
and came out in his right breast,
passing through the right eape
of the lungs; the wound was suf-
ficient to cause instant death; the
next was Mrs. Brown; she was
on the bed; above the right eye
there was a wound, three or four
inches in length, running ob-
iquely across the extreme corner
of the eye, the depth of it I could
not tell; the bone was fractured
the whole length, but the skull
‘was not separated in the conter;
this wag sufficient to came death;
found her throat eut; the wound
above the eye seemed to have
been done by 6 dull axe, at one
blow; the eut on the throat was
evidently done with a sharp in-
strument, it was a clean cut; all
the important blood vessels were
ent; her throat must have been
cut’ after she received the blow;
the next was David; he presented
the appearance of a person hav-
ing ‘been strangled; his face
Black, his tongue swollen and
hanging out; there was a small
mark on him, and the appear-
ance of x ball through his panta-
loons, between his legu, it just
circumcised him, as it were,
slightly; the next was George;
there was a slight fracture on the
back part of his skull; I also
found his right arm broken; part

of the lower jaw was broken; but
cannot say whether it was done
by a ball or by some anima] that
had evidently been feasting upon
the body; should think that his
throat had been cut; all the flesh
about the neck and head was en-
tirely eaten off; the fracture of
bia ekull and jaw would have
produced death; I am satisfied
that he came to his death by vio-
lence committed by some person;
from the appearanee of the bod-
ies, I think Jacob and Elizabeth
were first killed; none of the
others showed signs of putrefac-
tion; the general appearance of
the others were similar; there
could not have been much differ-
ence in the time of their death;
it would, in warm weather, I
think, take two hours after
death, before a body would he-
come stiff; saw Robert MeCona-
gby on Sunday, when he was
brought forward for examina-
tion; his nervous system seemed
considerably affected; examined
his hands; found something at
the corner end of his nails, some
dark gubstance that looked like
bicod; at the edge of the little
finger of the right hand there
was blood remaining there dis-
tinetly; I said, “Robert, is your
finger sore?” he said not; Me-
Conaghy said, if it waa, be did
not know how it came; Monday
following, I examined hia per-
son; saw nothing like blood
then; the blood that was around
the little finger was gone; the
dark appearance about the other
fingers and nails was theres
found » dark mark on his left
shoulder; I asked him how it
came there; he said he did not
know; on the firat day I exam-
ined his hands, they presented
the appearance of being zome-

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