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"The technique of a medico-legal investigation" by George B. Magrath. Page 20-28.
George B. Magrath presented this lecture describing a typical investigation to the members of the Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society on its meeting on February 1, 1922.
Photograph of George Burgess Magrath
Photograph of George Burgess Magrath, July 1933
Bookplate of the George Burgess Magrath Library of Legal Medicine
In the 1920s, New England heiress Frances Glessner Lee (d. 1962) became fascinated with the colorful crime-solving career of George Burgess Magrath (1870-1938), the medical examiner for Suffolk County and an instructor in legal medicine at Harvard…
Photograph of the aftermath of the Summer Street Bridge disaster, November 8, 1916.
On the evening of November 7, 1916, a streetcar plunged 20 feet off an open drawbridge into the Fort Point Channel, sinking some 30 feet below the surface. There were 47 fatalities and only a handful of survivors. George Burgess Magrath and Timothy…
Photograph of pocket watch with bullet hole, 1920.
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…
Letter : Charlestown, Mass., to George B. Magrath,
Boston, Mass., August 18, 1927.
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…
"Jake Magrath," 1939.
This parody of Rudyard Kipling’s poem “Mandalay” was distributed to the members of the St. Botolph’s Club, where Magrath lived for many years—“Number Four” was the club’s address on Newbury Street at that time.