Med School's Ford Testifies For Sander Defense Today

Dr. Richard F. Ford '36, assistant professor of Legal Medicine, will definitely appear as a witness for the defense today at the trial of Doctor Hermann N. Sander. The University pathologist is expected to refute state evidence that Mrs. Borroto died from air injected into her veins by Sander.

Ford was called into the case last January when the defense asked him to perform an autopsy on the exhumed body of the 59 year old Mrs. Borroto. His recent study of German torture methods qualifies him as an expert on death from intravenous air injections.

Chief attorney for the defense, Louis E. Wyman '00, said that only Ford and Mrs. Sander will appear tomorrow. Ford is expected to take the stand at 10 a.m., when the morning session begins.

"Dead Before Injection"

At yesterday's hearing Dr. Sander insisted that Mrs. Borroto was dead before he injected air into her arm; he also said his mind "snapped" and he could not explain why he did it.

Yesterday, Dr. Sander, in a two hour and 40 minute cross-examination told his own story of what happened last, December 4, when the state charges he murdered the cancer-ridden Mrs. Abbie Borroto by air embolism. Dr. Ford arrived at the trial late in the afternoon.