Esq. Procurator Fiscal we this day examined the body of Mary McPhee an aged woman and pauper. The body was shewn to us in the house of the deceased Angus Mcphee. It was laid out on a stretcher and covered with the grave clothes.
The face was much discoloured and covered with blood in a hardened state.
On the left side of the head and face there were five deep lacerated wounds which penetrated through the soft parts.
The bones of the skull of that side and those of the face were completely shattered and the broken pieces of the skull were forced in upon the brain.
On the right temple there was also a small circular wound penetrating through the soft parts only.
On the back of the left hand there was a large lacerated wound of the integuments and there was also on the outside of right knee an intensive abrasion of the cuticle.
On no other part of the body was to be seen any appearance of injury.
The wounds on left side of head and face also that on the hand seemed to have been produced by a blow from a blunt pointed weapon inflicted with great force and the comminuted fractures of the skull were evidently caused by a blow from a heavy flat weapon different from that which occasioned the lacerated wounds on face
We are decidedly of opinion that the above lesions were sufficient to cause instantaneous death and were the cause of death.
Attested upon soul and conscience.
(Signed) Rod[erick] McLean M.D.
I Macdonald Surgeon
