The woman was found with a wound in
the vagina, through which the intestines, with clean-cut ends,
protruded. Over 7 1/2 feet of the intestines had been cut off in
three pieces. The cuts were all clean and carefully separated
from the mesentery. The woman survived her injuries a whole week,
finally succumbing to loss of blood and peritonitis. Her husband
was tried for murder, but was acquitted by a Glasgow jury. Taylor
mentions similar cases of two women murdered in Edinburgh some
years since, the wounds having been produced by razor slashes in
the vagina. Taylor remarks that this crime seems to be quite
common in Scotland. Starkey reports an instance in which the body
of an old colored woman was found, with evidences of vomiting,
and her clothing stained with blood that had evidently come from
her vagina. A postmortem showed the abdominal cavity to be full
of blood; at Douglas' culdesac there was a tear large enough to
admit a man's hand, through which protruded a portion of the
omentum; this was at first taken for the membranes of an
abortion. There were distinct signs of acute peritonitis. After
investigation it was proved that a drunken glass-blower had been
seen leaving her house with his hand and arm stained with blood.
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