The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-16
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and were turned away from the win
dow, the toe-marks being nearest, and
the landmarks furthest off These i'm
pressions were evidently made by the
murderer In his descent from the win
dow. The bottom of the window sash
showed on 1t stains of blood, with
pieces of skin adhering. How had the
blood and skin come thereY
2. The throat of the doctor had been
cut as the murder stood at his left side.
The knife was clearly drawn from right
to left, and hence the cash in the boil
ster on the left side. The position of
the knife on the left side of the bed,
where the assassin had dropped it, also
proved that he stood on that side when
he perpetrated the deed
8. On the soil outside the window
there were impressions of his knees,
two toes, and the left hand only. The
person forcing the lock of the desk had
leaned against the right wall, and evil
IDENTIFY worked with his left hand. The
person who welded the fatal knife had
used the left hand, for the wound
slanted upward from the edge, and was
made from the left side. If made from
the left side with the right hand it
would either have been straight down
or inclined from the entrance of the
knife downward. A moments thought
will show the justness of this rea-
soning.
4. Was the perpetrator left-handed ?
He might have been but in that case
why did he not fall on his right hand as
well as the left in descending, or rather
falling, from the Window
5. Had the murderer only one hand,
and that the left y That seemed to be
the fact, and the remarkable coinci-
dence presented itself of man with
only the left arm being murdered by
man with only the left arm.
6. Were the dog and the murderer
old friends If they were the savage
beasts quietness was accounted for
Wisbeach is on the Wash, small
arm of the sea, and does a small coast
trade. Seafaring men live there. Half
mile from DR.. Hunston resided one
Joseph Harell, an old man-of-war's
man. He had lost the right arm by the
explosion of gun when firing salute
and had received his discharge. He
was in middle life, and the head of
gang of smugglers who frequented the
Norfolk coast. He was pretty hard
character. Suspicion of having killed
DIR. Hunston fell on this man from the
fact of his having only the left ARM
He was actually arrested and examined
as to his whereabouts on the night of the
murder. 1t was so clearly proven that
he was elsewhere that all suspicion
faded away.
Lawyer Terwhit found himself exec
utor of the dead mans will, and went
to work to settle the estate. All the
property, with the exception of a few
trifling legacies,was bequeathed to James
Hunston.
This young man was notified of his
fathers sudden end, and he hastened
down to Wisbeach. He had recently
had fall from horse and had sprained
his right hand, which he carried in a
sling. He did not stay at his uncle's
residence, but at hotel, and as
soon as possible settled all the affairs of
the estate and returned to London. He
listened to all the theories as to the per-
petration of the crime with deep atten-
ton, and only made one remark. When
the circumstance of there having been
found the marks of two knees and ten
toes, and of only one hand, was men,
toned, young Hunston said:
'Is it not just possible that those
marks were made by my father him
self ? He might have fallen, for you
know he was fond of going among the
flower-beds and examining leaves and
beetles and worms and such like ?"
This set Lawyer Terwhit thinking
The doctor was proverbially careless
man in his attire, and if he had fallen on
the damp soil, his clothes would show
it. They were examined, but there was
nothing to indicate that such an acci-
dent had happened. But the lawyer
had suddenly acquired theory of his
own, and he resolved to see whittier it
led.
When young Hunston Quilted Wis
beach he went to Peterboro to await the
London coach, for the time, be 1t re-
membered, was before railroads. The
morning following the coach started,