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WOUNDS AND OTHER POST MORTEM FINDINGS:
As far as one can judge, without the benefit of photographs and
a full post mortem report
i)
ii)
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MacLennan's body showed no natural disease which could
have caused or contributed to his death and no recent
mark of violence apart from the under-mentioned gunshot
wounds.
Five gunshot wounds of the body were found, all of the
same .38 calibre.
Two bullets were found lodged within the body.
Three bullets were found to have exited from the
body one of these was removed from the clothing and
two were recovered from the room itself.
All of the bullets were of a calibre and type which
could have been fired from the Smith & Wesson double
action service revolver found close to MacLennan's
body and allegedly drawn by him from the armoury at
about 6.10 a m that day. Three of them, according to
the ballistics expert were tested and it was shown that
they had been fired from that particular revolver -
the other two were too deformed for valid testing. All
five spent cases taken from the revolver were tested and
found to have been detonated in the breach of that
particular weapon.
One unfired cartridge was removed from the sixth
chamber of the revolver.
The number of the revolver recorded as having been drawn
by MacLennal from the armoury is the same as the number
of the revolver found in his bedroom and the number of