A Baltimore doctor, whose testimony helped convict a man in a recent celebrated murder case, is in New Orleans to study heart disease.
Dr. Russell S. Fisher, chief medical examiner of Maryland, will spend a week here studying heart disease in young people in collaboration with Dr. Stanley Durlacher, assistant Orleans Parish coroner.
Dr. Fisher won nationwide fame when his medical findings helped convict G. Edward Gram-mer, New York businessman, of the murder of his wife, Dorothy May, last fall.
At Grammer's trial the state contended that the New Yorker had beaten his wife to death, then placed her in a car and sent the car roaring down a hill and off a road to make her death appear accidental.
POLICE SAW WRECK
By coincidence a group of Maryland State Police were conducting a road block nearby in connection with another case and
saw the auto crash and turn over.
They rushed to the scene, arriving less than a minute after the wreck, and found Mrs. Gram-mer dead.
Dr. Fisher's medical report showed that Mrs. Fisher had been dead before the crash since blood from her wounds had already clotted. The position of blood stains in the car also showed that they had been made while the car was upright.
Grammer is currently appealing his conviction.
