post-mortem examination would prove his suspicions correct.
On 10 September 1929, the day after Norma’s death, having examined her body, Government Pathologist Dr Crawford Mollison reported: “there was a complete linear fracture of the frontal bone which ran downwards in front to the base passing across the right orbital plate of the frontal bone immediately above the right eye, behind, the fracture had passed into the suture between the two parietal bones, opening it up, and at the back of the head it passed out again into the bone on the right side, on the top of the skull were small linear fractures running across the main fracture transversely”.
In layman’s terms, if you were to draw a line from the middle of your right eyebrow up across the top of your skull and down to the ‘bump of knowledge’ at the base of your head, that would represent the extent of Norma’s skull fracture. The small fractures at the top of the skull indicate that this was the point of contact. Norma had been hit on the top of her head and hit hard.
Mollison’s conclusion? “Death was due to injuries to the head which could not have been due to any ordinary fall, and in my opinion were caused by a violent blow from a weapon with a broad flat surface”.
Mollison advised Detectives Lee and Simpson of his findings. Accident had been ruled out. A new theory had to be explored.
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