The Archive · 1937

MEDICAL EVIDENCE

ping, Feb. 5.

The following is an unofficial summary of the medical evidence given at the inquest on Miss Pamela Wer-

Wang, medical superintendent of sie P.UMC., who testified that on Janu ary 8 he was requested by Dr. Aspland to have a post mortem done at the PLUMLC. He agreed to have it done and the body arrived at 6.15 Pam, in a coffin. It was the badly mutilated body of a foreign female. 'An autopsy was performed the following morning and the report on it was signed by the witness, Dr. Hu and Dr. Aspland, Dr. Cheng Hsiang Hu, Professor of Pathology at the P.UMC, who per formed the autopsy, said' there was an injury to the left eye which had Probably been inflicted after death. Injuries to the left upper and lower ight eyelids had caused haemorrhage which indicated that they were inleted before death. The head had been injured by some kind of blunt instrument. He could not say" do-finitely what Kind of instrument, but probably a blunt piece of wood or by A stone if the stone had a very smooth surface. The injury to the head could have been caused during a struggle.

reply to a question, witness said the injury was also consistent with a person falling on his head and sustaining a skull Injury.

The body had been mutilated and these mutilations could have. been done with a knife the blade of which was four inches long or longer. The nature of the wounds suggested that they were done with a pointed, flat, sharp Instrument, possibly with a double edge or at least with one which was sharp on one side and the other a thin but not a cutting edge.

Two Instruments There was an injury to the right shoulder, which had been done with tone or possibly (we instruments, one 'a knife, because the muscles were severed' cleanly, and, two, a blunt instrument because the fracture at the end of the humerus was done by a rather heavy instrument. This. injury, witness thought, was done after oath because there was no extensive haemorrhage round the wound in th tissue. Tu reply to questions, wine been done by physical force strument.

Referring to mutilations on the front part of the body, witness said the general nature of the cutting suggested that the flesh had been' taken away in a single piece, but he could not be positive. Six ribs on either side were broken and all were broken outwards. To. have done: this, pressure mirist have been applied from inside.

He could make no sug nas to how this had been done.

These mutilations could have been done by a surgeon's tealpel or by an amputation knife. The abdomen hi two clean slits made through. the diaphragm and. the internal organs were missing. He believed that. the missing organs had_ been removed through the slits, Dogs could not] have done this, "the cleanness "of the diaphragm and the abdominal cavity was not consistent with ha ting been interfered with by dogs. He thought it was done manually. There were no signs of animal teeth, The stomach was found complete but not allached. the Nature of the wounds found on the face suggested that they were: done by a flat, pointed instrument, possibly with a'double edge.

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