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Q. (Interrupting) Was'nt there some mobility in the neck ?

X. Mr. Gillan objected as leading. Witness:- That's not printed in my report. It's not in evidence.

A. You can take it this way (indicating) and get complete mobility. You can move it around from right to left, and left to right. Moreover, you can insert the finger through above the hyoid bone and make it go as far as you finger to the right.

Q. Could a fracture of the left hyoid bone be caused by falling out of bed ?

A. It would be very marvellous if it did.

Q. The chin would protect it ?

A. It would be awful hard to conceive of a man falling down and breaking the thyroid cartilage-that is, the left horn, off-- or the right, or any horn.

Q. What was the position in which you found the trychea, the whole Adam's Apple ?

A. It was in the position-sticking out about here (indicating) caused by pressure underneath. There was a transverse depression from below the thyroid in the neighborhood or adjacent to it.

Q. In your opinion, Doctor, could the deceased have inflicted this upon himself ?

A. No; he could not; that was impossible.

Q. That's all.

BC Archives GR-0419 Box 19 File 1903/18 BRITISH COLUMBIA. ATTORNEY GENERAL. Attorney General documents.