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The Case of the
Fugitive Nurse
Erle Stanley Gardner
FOREWORD
Few people have any accurate understanding of the duties of a coroner. Unfortunately this lack of understanding is shared by many coroners.
It is for this reason that proponents of the “medical examiner system” wish to abolish the office of coroner and several states have passed the necessary legislation to bring this about.
There are, however, several examples of outstanding competency in the office of coroner. One of them is Dr. S. R. Gerber.
Dr. Gerber has been the coroner of Cuyahoga County, Ohio, since January, 1937. (Cuyahoga County includes the City of Cleveland and suburbs, and has a population of approximately one and a half million.)
Dr. Gerber was a physician and surgeon when he became coroner. Since that time, realizing the extent to which legal problems entered into a coroner’s duties, Dr. Gerber managed to work a complete night school law course into his crowded calendar, and, as a result, was admitted to the Ohio Bar in 1949.
This gives Dr. Gerber the distinction of being one of the relatively few individuals who are fully qualified both in the field of medicine and in the field of law.
A good coroner should be an expert in interpreting evidence. He should therefore know what evidence is, both from a legal and a practical standpoint. He should understand the problem of proof. He should be an expert medical man, and he should, in addition to his technical knowledge, use clear thinking and good, sound common sense.
One of Dr. Gerber’s cases is quite illustrative.
The body of a man was found at the foot of a flight of stairs. He had been carrying a loaded, cocked revolver, and the revolver had been discharged. There was a wound in the body from which the man had died.
The first hasty reconstruction of what had happened indicated suicide. Then there were those who suspected the possibility of an accident resulting from a fall down the stairs.
Dr. Gerber applied his knowledge of medicine, his scientific technique, his knowledge of proof, and his common sense.
The result was an outstanding illustration of what can be done under such circumstances by a trained man.
Dr. Gerber came to the conclusion that the man had not been killed by a bullet from the gun which had been discharged, but by a wound from another weapon. This opened up an entirely new chain of investigation, and it eventually appeared that the man had engaged in an altercation with an assailant, had received a wound which wa ............

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