children. August 1: Anita Green; child of eleven; parents in moderate circumstances and well educated.
August 15: Steve Standish; acrobat; thirty; wife and three children. August 30: John J. Marshall; banker;
sixty interested in child welfare. September 10: Phineas Dimott; thirty-five; trapeze performer; wife and
small child. October 12: Hortense Darnley; about thirty; no occupation.
Their addresses, except two, were widely scattered throughout the city.
Each of the letters noted the sudden onset of rigor mortis and its rapid passing. Each of them gave the
time of death following the initial seizure as approximately five hours. Five of them referred to the
changing expressions which had so troubled me; in the guarded way they did it I read the bewilderment
of the writers.
"Patient's eyes remained open," recorded the physician in charge of the spinster Bailey. "Staring, but gave