Dr. Bullock Smith sat down and then, after some whispering with the Norwich Superintendent of Police, Dr. Hetherington got up and said that, in the light of the testimony Dr. Smith had just given, he would like to add something to his own evidence. Given permission to speak, he stated that when he had examined deceased he had seen no sign of any scar upon the abdomen. Certainly deceased had not had his appendix removed.
Thereupon the Coroner, looking round the Court, inquired if Dr. Clover, the police surgeon who had performed the post mortem, were present, and finding he was, asked him to step on to the witness stand. Dr. Clover then corroborated what the Norwich expert had said. Deceased had not had his appendix out. No abdominal operation had ever been performed upon him.
The Superint
