“Could so frail an article as a hat-pin penetrate through dress, corset and underclothes?” asked the coroner, incredulously.
“Mrs. Trevor wore no corsets. In place of them she had on an elastic girdle which fitted perfectly her slender, supple figure.”
The coroner asked a few more questions, then the doctor was dismissed. The next to take the stand was the deputy-coroner. His testimony simply corroborated that of Doctor Davis in every particular. As he left the witness chair, the clerk summoned Alfred Clark.
“Your name?” asked the coroner, after the usual preliminaries had been gone through with.
“Alfred Lindsay Clark.”
“Occupation?”
“Confidential secretary to the Attorney General.”
“How long have you been in his employ?”
“Eleven months.”
“And before that time?”