Photograph of pocket watch with bullet hole, 1920.
Dublin Core
Title
Photograph of pocket watch with bullet hole, 1920.
Subject
Magrath, George Burgess, 1870-1938.
Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927.
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927.
Medical jurisprudence.
Description
George B. Magrath’s reputation involved him in some of the most celebrated and notorious criminal trials of the early 20th century, and he performed an examination on Alessandro Berardelli, the guard at the Slater & Morrill Shoe Factory who, along with paymaster Frederick A. Parmenter, had been shot and killed in a robbery on April 15, 1920. Bullets, which Magrath had removed from Berardelli’s body, were identified as coming from the pistol of Nicola Sacco.
Abstract
Photograph of pocket watch with bullet hole, 1920.
Creator
Photographer unknown.
Source
Harvard Medical School. Department of Legal Medicine. Department of Legal Medicine Records, circa 1877-1967 (inclusive), 1909-1967 (bulk).
Date Created
1920
Format
image
Extent
1 glass lantern slide
Language
English
Type
image
Identifier
M-DE06, Ser. 517.
Provenance
From the Records of the Department of Legal Medicine of Harvard Medical School.
Files
Citation
Photographer unknown., “Photograph of pocket watch with bullet hole, 1920.,” OnView, accessed April 20, 2024, https://collections.countway.harvard.edu/onview/items/show/17784.