A few words remain to be found
Henry Lathom, sworn saith I am on the Board
practicing at Peterborough. I was sent for at 7 yesterday
morning to 4 St John’s Street. When I got there, I saw the deceased
man. He was breathing heavily, quite unconscious and had
all the signs of severe haemorrhage with the brain,
which I put down to apoplexy. I told them there
was practically no chance of him getting out it alive.
2 hours afterwards, I was told by a
he had heard
the man had been hunted down the previous day. I went
again to see if there were any external marks of injury on
the head, and found none, except a slight mark on the
forehead and at the root of the nose. I enquired further
into the case. He died at midday. I have by the coroner
orders made a post mortem examination and found a very
intensive fracture of the skull from near the back of the
head along the right side, 6 inches in length. The fracture
running across an important blood vessel and cutting
it in two. I wonder how he got home but the
of
blood into the skull would go on causing pressure and ultimately
killing the man. He died from the
of the fractured
skull. No other marks of a violent death.
The injury I think must have been caused by the
fall of the side of the head against some hard
substance
as a pavement
