Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1879-05-03
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the visitor was not seen again. He
seemed to have knocked At the door,
and Bacon, who had combed his hair
and was adjusting his necktie prepara-
tory TO going to DIR. Stones church, the
Congregational Church, in which he
was brought up in Boston, turned and
opened it. The bullet from the pistol,
which was probably derringer, struck
him below the navel, ranging down.
ward. The autopsy is not finished, and
it has not yet been found. He fell back
wards, his head striking against the
wall that divided his room from the cor
ridor, and his feet toward the folding
doors, which opened into his bed room.
Some of his hair adhered to the wall.
The room is at the end of the hall of
the third floor, and runs parallel with
the extreme end of the hall half looking
out on Ellis, and the door is the last on
the left side. Nothing in the room was
disturbed. DIR. Fox and family occupy
the room on one side and Mr.. Gillian the
room opposite, looking out on Ellis.
They were all at breakfast. 1t was DR..
McAllister in the room who heard the
faint report OF the pistol. The body
was taken to the Morgue about O'Clock.
The description of the man who had in
quired for Bacon was given to the pO-
lice, who at once began to work up the
affair diligently, under the special di-
rection Of Captain Lees and Captain
Stone. 1t was surmised at once that the
deed had been done by an aggrieved
dentist. There were other theories that
the deceased had met his death by the
hands of an enraged husband or lover,
but they were not needed. Inquiry
about the dentists offices showed that
all of them were at work as usual ex-
cept one, DIR. Samuel p Chalfant, of
the New York Dental Gallery, No. 10
Sixth Street. He could nowhere be
found. His assistant, Mr.. Richards,
said that Chalfant left his Office At 10
O'Clock Sunday morning, promising to
be back soon and keep an appointment
he had made with a friend. Since then
he had not been seen. Richards waited
in the Office ali day, and when he lett
he closed the door, which had spring
lock, expecting to find his employer
there when he came in the morning.
He came back yesterday morning, and
having no key. was obliged to enter by
the window. Upon investigation it APP
peared that Chalfant had had great
deal Of difficulty with Bacon as repre-
sentative of the Vulcanite Company.
His diploma showed that he graduated
at the Philadelphia Dental College in
1871. He practced his profession in
Philadelphia, Wilmington, Del, and st.
Louis, and in each of those places con-
te sted a suit brought by the company and
invariably lost it. 1t would appear,
from statements made to the police, that
he never paid the Judgment against him.
but before it could be enforced, sought
new fields OF labor He therefore came
to this city about four years ago. Ba-
cons business takes him to nearly every
city in the country. He came here in
due course of affairs, stopping first at
the Palace and then at the Baldwin.
Finding Chalfant still using the patent
and still refusing TO pay the royalty, he
brought suit against them in Justice
Sawyer's Court on the 18th inst. On
the examination he was cross-question-
ed by Bacon in q manner that CALLED
him bitterly. he regarded himself as
being unjustly pursued by vindictive
man representing a grasping corpora
ton, and he terribly resented a feeling,
perhaps, encouraged by Bacon's man
ner. As he used to say privately, if
God had given man set of teeth and
he had lost them, he thought that
dentist had right to put them in with
out asking permission of, or making
payment to, any body. The complain
ant in the case WAS represented by d. p.
The facts reluctantly extract
ed from him by the examination OF b.
Brown were that he began practice at
Wilmington, Delaware, in 1873. He re-
manned there one year, ard that he came
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