The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1894-03-21
SHOT ON THE RIGHT SIDE.
a NEW AUTOPSY UPssrs SHsoRrEs
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A mistaken conclusion Of Deputy Coroner
Conway. who made the original autopsy on
the body Of Miss Martha J. Fuller. has been
corrected, and the correction knocks over all
the theories built up By the police ana others
to show how that young woman was shot in
the Law ONCE Of her employer. William Mullen
at ia Nassau street. on Saturday afternoon
last DR.. CONWAY on Sunday. In contradiction
Of the testimony Of persons who had seen the
body on Saturday night. asserted that the
bullet which ended Miss Fuller's life entered
the left side OF the head. at the temple. took .
slightly upward course. and came out OF the
right side at the temple.
THE BUN had stated on Sunday morning
that the young woman had been shot In the
right side OF the head. and 90 did the other
newspapers; so did the police; but DR.. Conway
was very positive that the bullet had entered
the left side. and his official report stated 40
much. A disagreement Of opinion about his In
depreciation OF other notes made at the au-
| topsy led The Bun reporter to suggest to Cor
! onsr Fitzgerald that he order . second ex-
| amin alton OF the head.
| This examination was made yesterday By
| Deputy Coroner OHare. assisted By Dr.
| Charles Phelps. who 10 an expert In aunshot
| wounds. and the most I'm portant fset was dis
closed that the bullet had entered Miss Fuller's
| head on the right side just to the right OF the
temporal iossa. had passed through the head
and upward. coming out OF this left side at
point one-half inch higher, supposlnR the
head to have been held erect. than the point Of
entrance. The wound on the left side OF the
head was oval In shape. ope-half inch long
and three-eighths OF an inch wide. There
was no assure Of the skull at that point. but
about one inch above the point OF entrance and
back OF II fracture began that extended all
the way across the top OF the skull and down
to the wound on the left side. On the left side
many fractures radiated from the wound:
come were smalk some were large. The |
wound on the left side Was an inch and half |
wide at Its widest part The upper part OF the |
wound was three quarters OF an inch above |
the wound on the right side. The course OF |
tho bullet was straight across the head. except |
for the upward tendency. There were no |
powder marks whatever. and the flesh on |
neither side OF the head was burned. The ex-
animation Of Drs. O'Hare and Phelps was |
most thorough. and O diagram was made, |
showing the exact shape Of the wounds on |
saeh SIDE ana the extent and course OF each
The discoveries made at this second autopsy
hand that !. would have been nSx. to impossi:
gloved and the shot was from right to left
soana se TSe
right side; at the point OF entrance. beinstoval
entcred the head The Suet was Elsfs an ei e9
Of course. cave the rifsd barrel Of a pistol
head on, but the twist soon sets them whirling
The postor said that there must have been
some some l i 2, space between the head and the
Wound =. III. was Now, how u great m' ws e'P The
s hs Il re- s5s case EIpe5is asrse that
head. any, distance up to eighteen Inches
there would y, haze been powder marks and
marx. and Sasans the pPobssiity e t RSM aSs
pistol X, vas held more than sshtesn inehss %
having held the pistol eighteen inches away
shot, Br. Weston said Il would have been i'm i'm.
I've handled pistols q good many. years"
nerve. but 'f' Would tn agree g 81 hold fS0q pistol
SSssa 4 ~ sssa Ssi Ts sfS nj
II. The moment ! pull the trigger the gun
ys sg hat Z % f2$e n. .c%s
thing Of q mnrksman at that"
OF course he would not sum up on the discov- |
sTiss be had made further than thai 4 adht
Dr. who Win chars ssa.G Sreoi
counsel for LAWYER Magee. got an order from
sHinaiion q Mis-; Fuller. head. lie arrived
at the house too late to see the organization
me dead eIri thsy ,aiS they H sOaidns
and Sr% p.r 1nSs %uss
s,S The b soS They :sa shsy TSnd mot
ss rssS s:iIS9 efi1 s%
amin alton which lasted some little time. and
y. be came away 10 said he he'd made an
hs p%ond n Sssoei' IN the oraih' "hatn was
i :s%s e iiEhf ys...rdsy ,h., over tn. tyne.
spots. Some o ,Ssm itss S"i fhes
with the aid 81 sn. snd Rs toaE tGs u
have hay them analyzed, He told nobody about I
when the reporters were In the room on Mon a
.srhsd zee s IKE ssss had b sss
here and that Mr.. Byrnes had removed them.
Iound was about four feet from the front the g
room and nye feet up from the floor. They were
in sitting posture and fully i've feet rom 2
He big blood spot on the carpet to the right Of
The discovery. that the shot entered the
right side. OF. Miss Fu!ler's head makes il
probable that she had her back, not her I
lace. to the window looking out on Nassau
street The bullet 1t will be rsmem bsTed.
struck the steam pipe In the other Nassau "a
street corner opposite the corner In which. IL ls
'upp2sed. che stood The bullet struck the Z
pipe feet 4 inches from the floor. Miss Fuller =,
Sas feet inehe. tall. The bullet entered
Ter head two inches from the ton. Her head
vas tye inches across. III she was holdInE il .,
rect the bullet rose on half inch in those Ave .
nehsS, IL rose six inches altogether before i Is
neh every nve inches Miss Fuller would have d
zen standing i've feet away from the pipe;
hat 10. OF course. assuming that the bullet |
gent true; But you can't count on what
,uilet will do after L has struck AM, obstacle
n its path. and therefore the calculation | :"
snt Of very great value Five feet from the n,
,ips would have put Miss Fuller Within elk ~
nehee OF her typewrltinR desk and with not 10
pace enough between her and the dask Tor | ',