SODEMAN HANGED
Post-Mortem Shows Congested Brain MELBOURNE, June 2 Arnold Sodeman was hanged for the murder of June Rushmere. He did not speak on the scaffold. He played a final game of draughts with Cornelius, another condemned man. A post-morftem examination on the body revealed that his brain was con gested and showed early lepto-meningi-tis. Medical opinion obtained to-day disclosed that lepto-meningitis had no specific cause and no specific effect, but it would lead to paralysis of the brain, causing mental trouble of various kinds.
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXVI, Issue 144, 3 June 1936, Page 1
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