[Concord, Massachusetts]
[April 7, 1913]

that of rigor mortis. The viscera had been removed and 
all the flesh cleanly stripped from both hind legs and along
the spine as far as could be reached from the inside of
the abdominal cavity. This had evidently been done 
several hours before for these parts were washed quite
clean & white by the melting snow that had been falling
all day. We thought the crows might have done it
and also that they had probably removed one of the 
eyes the socket of which was similarly washed out.
To the Marsh Hawk we attributed obviously fresh
work on one of the fore legs from which all the 
flesh had been stripped to the bone as far up as
the body while some more was missing from
contiguous parts of the breast. Both these parts
were bloody & seemed to have been operated
on only a very short time before. The work