"The technique of a medico-legal investigation" by George B. Magrath. Page 20-28.
Medical jurisprudence.
Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society.
Magrath, George Burgess, 1870-1938.
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.
Magrath, George Burgess, 1870-1938.
Massachusetts Medico-Legal Society
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Photograph of George Burgess Magrath
Magrath, George Burgess, 1870-1938.
Medical examiners (Law)
Pathologists.
Photograph of George Burgess Magrath, July 1933
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Portrait Collection.
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C-CL02, box 113, f. 36.
Bookplate of the George Burgess Magrath Library of Legal Medicine
Harvard Medical School. Department of Legal Medicine.
Medical jurisprudence.
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 Medical School. Mrs. Lee contributed funds to endow a professorship in legal medicine, a visiting lectureship, and a fellowship program and also crafted the Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death—a series of miniature crime scenes for student analysis. In 1933, she made an additional gift to establish the George Burgess Magrath Library of Legal Medicine and, as its honorary curator, continued to acquire and donate rare books and manuscripts in legal medicine and medical jurisprudence. By 1964, the Magrath Library held some 3,700 volumes, and when its holdings were transferred to the Countway Library, legal medicine and jurisprudence became significant subject strengths of the collection.
Highlights of the Magrath Library include rare trial accounts, works on criminology, toxicology, and poisoning, including a 15th century manuscript of Petrus de Abano’s De venenis, and a collection of unique material concerning Charles Guiteau, the assassin of President James A. Garfield, including poems written by Guiteau while in prison, his own copy of his autobiographical work The truth and the removal, and the diary of his spiritual counselor, William Watkin Hicks.
Doty, Edward L.
Harvard Medical School Library rare book collection. Alberti, Michael, 1682-1757. Systema jurisprudentiae medicae. Halae : Orphanotrophei, MDCCXXV [1725], v.1.
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34.A.1725.1.
Photograph of the aftermath of the Summer Street Bridge disaster, November 8, 1916.
Electric railroads--Cars.
Magrath, George Burgess, 1870-1938.
Lantern slides.
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 Leary, as medical examiners, were called to the scene to help identify the bodies of the victims. The photograph shows the raising of the streetcar once divers had cleared bodies from the wreckage.
Photographer unknown.
Harvard Medical School. Department of Legal Medicine. Department of Legal Medicine Records, circa 1877-1967 (inclusive), 1909-1967 (bulk).
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M-DE06, lantern slide box 2.
Photograph of pocket watch with bullet hole, 1920.
Magrath, George Burgess, 1870-1938.
Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927.
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927.
Medical jurisprudence.
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.
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Harvard Medical School. Department of Legal Medicine. Department of Legal Medicine Records, circa 1877-1967 (inclusive), 1909-1967 (bulk).
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M-DE06, Ser. 517.
Letter : Charlestown, Mass., to George B. Magrath,
Boston, Mass., August 18, 1927.
Magrath, George Burgess, 1870-1938.
Hendry, William.
Vanzetti, Bartolomeo, 1888-1927.
Sacco, Nicola, 1891-1927.
Madeiros, Celestino Frederick, 1902-1927.
Executions (Administrative law)
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.
As Medical Examiner for Suffolk County, Magrath’s presence was required at the executions of Bartolomeo Vanzetti, Nicola Sacco, and Celestino Madeiros. All three were electrocuted shortly after midnight on August 23, 1927.
Hendry, William.
Harvard Medical School. Department of Legal Medicine. Department of Legal Medicine Records, circa 1877-1967 (inclusive), 1909-1967 (bulk).
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M-DE06, Ser. 517, box 35, f. 3.
"Jake Magrath," 1939.
Magrath, George Burgess, 1870-1938.
McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-1997.
Poetry.
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.
McCord, David Thompson Watson, 1897-1997.
Harvard Medical Library Rare Books Collection.
St. Botolph Club
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