50. Strassmann: Viert. f. ger. Med., 1888, xlviii., pp. 379-381.—Three cases of suicidal hanging in men, ages 27, 37, and 40. The last was found kneeling.
51. Balta: Pest. Med. Chir. Presse, 1892, xxviii., p. 1244.—Man, age 45-50; hanging; suicide. Thyroid cartilage and hyoid bone broken.
Fig. 24.—Double Suicide
(see Case 55).
52. Hackel: Op. cit., p. 35.—Man, found hanging to a beam by a sheet. Had previously tried to choke himself with his hands.
53. Ibid.—Two cases of suicidal hanging where the cord made no mark. In the first the body hung free; in the second the body was partly supported. In the first there was no rubbing of the skin; in the second the body was soon cut down.
54. Freund: Wien. klin. Woch., 1893, vi., pp. 118-121.—Man, found hanging; cut down, but could not be resuscitated. Ligature between hyoid bone and larynx, then crossed over itself about middle line of neck, passed up along each side of face, knotted above the head, then thrown over a beam, and on the other side the loop was caught between his legs.
55. Hoffman: Op. cit., p. 525, illustrated.—Case communicated by Dr. Rosen, of Odessa. Man, age 21, and woman, age 17, hung themselves by same ligature thrown over an open door, one of them on each side. They had previously tried other means of suicide without success (see Fig. 24).
56. Ibid., p. 530.—Man found hanging by handkerchief to branch of tree but sitting on the ground. Mark of handkerchief superficial and pale. When the necroscopy was made the mark had disappeared. Also a similar suicide where there was no mark at all.
57. Ibid., p. 541.—Man found hanging to a window. Another man cut the cord and the suspended one fell into a cellar, fracturing his skull.