ing are thi H. Dawe, on his examin: the wounds from which Magistrate Chiang of Nanchang died on the Ist March last BIM. 8. Smirz, Nanchangfu, 3rd March, 1906, 8im,—I have the honour to report that I have this day examined the wounds in the neck of the deceased Chiang—late magistrate of thi which are alleged by the Eh have caused his death, The Chinese state that the wounds were inflicted on 22nd February about 7 p.m., and thet the man died as a result thereof on Ist March about 10 a.m.
At the time of examination (3 p.m.); he had been dead fifty-three hours. found him swathed in cotton wool and bandages fully dressed, and lying in a coffin.
'The bandages and wool wore removed, 0 that the front of the neck wns fally expose'. In the middle of the throne was a wide gaping wound. The of neck and that from any wound bruises, or other signs of violence. The Chinese stated that there re no wounds on any other part of the body—nds or wrists, The offi stated that Chiang was right-handed, The skin was cold, moist, and flaccid and quite clear except for a fow patches of yellow dried (post-mortem) skin. There was one oval patch three-quarters of an inch by inch—one-inch-and. half above the middle of the right collar-bone. Over both collar-bones the was dried and yellow, more the neck were the absence of rigor-morti+ eubstentia ting the alow and gradual death of deceased.
Srarmwent oF Caanacten or Wouxn.
In the middle of the throne wa eaninghoriz ta! wound—2-in, ally by 1f-in, vertically in median line. The wound exposed the whole of the tical arterier asped of the thyroid cartilage (Adam's apple and portion below) in the contre, and the nett parts laterally, thyroid cartilage was damaged mesiall The incision was at the level of the horder of the thyroid cartilage dividing the skin and superficial a'rnctures—small veins, nerves and cutaneous muscle fibres, The whole of the wound was discoloured—it was of a dirty grayish black which was most marked at the fosse anterior damaged edges of the thyroid cartilage and faded gradually off to a moderate discoloration in the lateral soft portions. The discoloration was least! marked at the upper left angle of the ound. The odees of the wound being finccid, overhang the upper and lower partof the wound—theoverlapping mort marked over the lower part. signa of bruising were present in t of the edge of the wound or around the wound. Just. external to the of the thyroid cartilage on the was a pit I-in. deep running backwards Sweon the soft par's and the cartilage.
discoloration in this was uniform with the remainder of the soft parts on the right alde.
The loft extremity of the wound was ightly higher lovel—f-in.—than the right extremity. The angle 4 the rounded-tapering—th }-in, from the incision here was
completely-divided skin to the whole skin, The upper edge of the wonnd was slightly concave with a length of 3.i, slong ite margin. It was cleanly throughout its whole extent a slight bevelling in the centro wound roughly formed a somicirolo.
Tt was 3f-in, along its margin, was angled down aul fairly foe. The sagging was most marked iiamediately to the right of median lin.
The lower edge of the wound was cleanly incised except that the contin was broken by two small incised wounds. One of these was a shirt distance to the left of the middle lino and was 3-in, in longth—its direction being horizontal and the angle of the incision pointing to th The other small half-way along the edge from the median line to the right extremity 0 the wound. It was y'y-in. long—ilireo" tion downwards and to loft, the ang! of the incision pointing in the same direction.
The extreme distance betwoon there 1 -in. In the apper part of the wound and partly under cover of the upper edge at ite left extremity was a small quadrilateral! flap of muscle hanging dowawanis and to the right. (Antenor belly of omohyoid). this flap waa about }-in, along its attached border—j', in. in breadth and,4-in thickness, It was a shaving off the convexity of muscle passing down from above (hyoid bone) downwards and to the left. (The thyro-hyoid membrane and base of epiglottis wore severed and necessarily emo-hyoid and thyro-hyoid aged thyroid cartilage otood irre of the wonnd. In the it was deficient in ite up) two-thirds and in the lower one-third it was cleanly split through }-in. to the right of the median line, Loft lateral portion of the thyroid cartilago,—At its upper anterior angle the rounded edge was whole anterior edge (upper two-thirds of cartilage) was fractured and ragged.
exposed aurfaco of the fracture in he up, third was directed to the right and slightly forwards The fracture in the lower part was at right angles to the cartilage surface. A slight distance about the centre of the free edge was an acute angle of deficient cartilage with partial fracture in cartilage running to left and slightly up indicated by a reddish line for 4-in.
Right lateral ite upper ant portion of cartilage completely fractured inwards and being held asa flap, only by the lining mem-bronc of cartilage.- The anterior edge runs down in a jagged fractured blackened line to the split om-right of median line below.
The fracture in the lower quarter of the cartilage was clean and concave towards
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