O.D.

Hammond treating a minister who was injured — presumably the minister who suffered the broken ribs — is the specific evidentiary anchor for this detail.

Dr.

Hammond, as a physician who actually treated the injured minister, would have known the nature and extent of the injury.

Three broken ribs is a specific medical finding, the kind of thing that would be remembered by the physician who treated it.

But forty years had elapsed between the alleged injury and Hammond’s account to the Chronicle reporter.