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30. _Ibid., p. 216._—Wife of the celebrated painter Gurneray; found

dead in bed, where a fire had been placed and slowly burnt and charred her lower limbs, belly, chest, and right hand. A running noose around her neck. Injuries of head; face livid; tongue between teeth; brain normal; mark of cord slight; subcutaneous tissue infiltrated with blood. Marks of pressure on chest; bloody froth in trachea; lungs congested; heart contained fluid blood. Opinion given that she had been struck on head, causing unconsciousness; then partly stranded and partly suffocated by pressure on neck and chest. Body afterward burnt to cover up the crime.