GEORGE B. CORTELYOU.
Immediately upon receipt of the official dispatch the following was sent
to Secretary Cortelyou:
Members of the executive staff in Washington are deeply affected, and
beg to tender their profound sympathy to Mrs. McKinley.
O.F. PRUDEN,
_Assistant Secretary._
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT OF DEATH BY THE PHYSICIANS.
MILBURN HOUSE, _Buffalo, N.Y., Sept. 14._
The following report of the autopsy upon the remains of President
McKinley was issued at 5 o'clock:
The bullet which struck over the breastbone did not pass through the
skin, and did little harm. The other bullet passed through both walls of
the stomach near its lower border. Both holes were found to be perfectly
closed by the stitches, but the tissue around each hole had become
gangrenous. After passing through the stomach the bullet passed into
the back walls of the abdomen, hitting and tearing the upper end of
the kidney. This portion of the bullet track was also gangrenous, the
gangrene involving the pancreas.
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