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    Death and Evidence
    Death and Evidence
    Death and Evidence
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    Death and Evidence

    By FARY SJ OROH

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    Ken Wyman's death was no loss to anyone—except the company which had insured his life. In fact, Dr. Coffee discovered, there were a lot of people who considered it a blessing

     

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDaun Ilalang Publishing
    Release dateAug 14, 2022
    ISBN9798201660659
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      Death and Evidence - FARY SJ OROH

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      Ken Wyman’s death was no loss to anyone—except the company which had insured his life. In fact, Dr. Coffee discovered, there were a lot of people who considered it a blessing

      IF KENNETH WYMAN had been gathered to his fathers twenty-four hours sooner, he would have been quietly buried with few flowers, fewer tears and no suspicion that he had been murdered. The coroner had signed him out as a case of heart failure. Even the insurance company which had written a fifty-thousand-dollar policy on his life was not fussy about how Wyman had died; it was when that mattered.

      Kenneth Wyman had neglected to pay his last insurance premium. His policy had expired at midnight Wednesday, four hours after his wife Helen had last seen him alive. His body was not found until the early hours of Thursday morning. If Wyman had died after midnight, the company would refuse to pay the claim, even if the Widow Wyman cried her pretty little eyes out.

      However, the claims adjuster for the Northbank agency of the insurance company was a fair-minded man, and he consulted Dr. Daniel Webster Coffee, chief pathologist for Pasteur Hospital, who occasionally did an autopsy for the company. Was it possible, the claims adjuster wanted to know, to determine scientifically whether death had occurred before midnight?

      The tall, big-boned pathologist ran his fingers through his sandy hair. I can try, he said. It would have been easier to establish the post-mortem interval if I'd seen the body when it was found this morning. But there’s a pretty fair chance that an autopsy will fix the time of death.

      That’s just the trouble, the adjuster said. The widow refuses permission for an autopsy.

      Dr. Coffee set his jaw. Then I'll take the job, he said, including the job of getting permission.

      As a rule, Dr. Coffee had

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