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Silently the physicians gathered around the operating table, eyeing the deformed body curiously, and listening intently as Dr. Reinhardt told them what he had done at the first post-mortem.

Then, with an occasional quiet suggestion from one or another of the jurors, the coroner's physician probed and cut farther into the little form. Little was said, but every move was noted carefully. And there was a murmur of interest when a hemorrhage of the spinal cord -- hitherto undiscovered -- was revealed.

This, according to the physicians, would have caused complete paralysis of the child's body and would have resulted in death even if there had been no other causes.

Only a few questions were put to Dr. Haiselden. One, which seemed to interest the jury particularly, was as to whether the confinement of the child's mother had been normal. He said it had been completely so.

The autopsy took slightly more than an hour. When it was completed the jury, after a conference, decided the best time to continue the inquest would be at 2 o'clock this afternoon.

This session will be held at the coroner's office for the taking of testimony from Dr. Haiselden, Allen Bollinger, the baby's father; Dr. Reinhardt, Dr. Koehler of the German-American hospital staff, who was present when the child was born, and the head nurse and several others of the hospital staff.

Sitting in his comfortable home at 819 Diversey parkway last night, while his two adopted daughters played in an adjoining room, Dr. Harry Haiselden told why he never has married.

"My mother," he said, "lived until she was 80 years old, and during her life she ruled. I never could bear to muss up the arrangements of the home and bring some one between us -- as I considered I owed too much to her. In this way, by remaining at her side I thought to repay her.

"Then, I never wished to disappoint a girl by marrying her. In high school I had several affairs of the heart -- not serious. But I have never asked any one to marry me. I promised my school friend, Attorney Albert N. Charles, if I received any proposals I should pass some of them on to him."