The Dublin Murder; Medical Evidence at the Inquest

Mr. George H. Porter, Sargeon-in-Ordinary to the Queen in Ireland, deposed, in reply to the Coroner.?'By direction of the Coroner I made a post mortem examination of the remains at the Chief Secretary's Lodge yesterday, assisted by Mr. Hamilton, surgeon to the hospital, Mr. Ormsby, Mr. Myles, and Dr. Tweedy. I first examined the body of Mr. Burke, and found his clothes were removed. I found several wounds. There was a deep wound on the front side of his neck. There was a wound about an inch above the nipple of his left breast. There was a wound over the cartilage of the second rib on the same side, another wonnd over the breast bone, two slight wounds oil the index fiDger of the left hand, splitting the nail and the finger for half an inch, a deep wound over the inferior angle of the shoulder blade (scapula) at the