THE THORNE CASE.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 17 March 1925, Page 9

THE THORNE CASE.

SUICIDE THEORY. •0. MEDICAL AUTHORITIES ' DISAGREE. EVIDENCE. FOR. THE DEFENCE, jBY CABLE—PRESS ASSOCIATION—COPYRIGHT. Received March 17, 11.15 a.m. LONDON, March 16. In the Thorne trial, the evidence for the defence was concluded. Dr. Nabarro, director of the Pathological Department of the Great Ormond Street Hospital, and Dr. Gait, Professor of Legal Medicine at Glasgow, deduced from the examination of microscopic slides that the marks on the neck were consistent nith hanging. Sir B. H. Spilshury, recalled, said that there would have been no puckering of the eyes or contraction such a.s Thorne described of Miss Cameron’s eyes when he saw the body hanging. He emphasised that the grooves in the neck could not have been caused by string as described by Thorne. Sir .B. FT.-. . Spilsbury produced microscopic slides prepared from samples of the skin handed to him by Dr. Bronte. Ho said that' post mortem changes were most marked, which was inevitable so long after death. Consequently the dexi is and structure had largely been destroyed. The slides contained no evidence of injury causable; by suspension. Sir 8.-H. Spilsbury said the injury to the cheek could not have been caused by the head striking a suitcase, as the prisoner suggested. Mere falling of the body could not have produced a crushing of the tissues. Dr. Galt, recalled, said that staring eyes were quite common with a person who had been hanged.-—Reuter.