The Wadsworth dispatch. [volume] (Wadsworth, Nev.) 1892-1899, 1894-12-01
MARKED IN BLOOD.

the Remington Road police station was
preparing to go home. it being 8 a.. m.
and his night duty over, when he was
stopped by an elderly woman, who rush.
ed into the room and cried:
"Oh. do send some one, sir, to fIs
Wernham road. My poor old mastSfss
been cruelty murdered. He's lying In
his room in pool Of blood like q river.
1t must have been done In the night.
Do come at once, sir. /"
On the way to Wernham road the In
spector questioned the housekeeper.
"Who sleeps in the house besides
yourself and the old gentleman?' he
asked.
Not blessed soul, sir, Z" cried Mrs
Masters "Only me and my poor old
master. Sich nice, regular man az he
was. comm 'ome every night to lis tea
and always in bed by 10 o'clock. Oh,
It's cruel thingl"
did any one visit him last night
that you know OFF" asked the inspector.
Not that l know of. sir, but to tell
you the truth l was in bed myself early
last night 'avin q bad attack Of 'ead-
ache. The old gentleman always let
imself In with is latchkey, as be
nat rally would He come to bed after
! was asleep. for'T never card i'm come
in. au-I. n
"His supper was always laid ont
ready for i'm in the dinin room, and he
wouldn't want no waitin ON. 90 there
was nothin wrong in my bein OF TO bed
as did, 'avin, as | said, bad 'ead-
ache and bein very subject to sick cad
aches, which, as you may know, SIR,
are very unpleasant, to say the least Of
them, and"-
WAS the supper eaten?" said the in
spector. interrupting the womsn's elo-
quence ...
"Well, sir, to say the truth, I've not
thought Of l0okin. Directly see i'm
allyin there of 70 the station % 'Ard
as can 60 can't sleep in the place
tonight That I can't" Z.
By this time they had reached the
house and went up stairs. The inspector
and his man went in and locked the
door behind them. A knock was heard
at the door
"Can come imp said MrA Mastera
Certainly" replied the inspector
'Open the door. Jenkins We shall
want her no doubt.
Poor, dear mani cried the lady
again when she saw, the body Of the
old man. 1.-The monstersr' She burst
into tears.
You had better go for surgeon,
said Mr.. Bevis to the constable. He
ought to see the body as soon as possi-
BILE, as we shall want his report on It,
. While the man was gone the in
spector. accompanied by Mrs. Masters
visited every room In the house. Every.
thing was orderly and untouched.
(, The assassin must have left the
place by the ordinary means of egress,
for all the windows were locked. The
front door. Mrs. Masters told the In
spector. would no doubt. have been un-
bolted in any case. for Mr.. Mayne lher
master, the man who lay dead never
: bolted it II he let himself In. leaving
her to do So
They reached the dining room and
found that the supper had been eaten.
The bottle Of ale was finished. there re-
manning only small portion in the
tumbler. The old man had evidently
made hearty meal and gone to his
room.
The constable returned In half an
hour with divisional surgeon. Mr.
Brooks That gentleman made minute
examination Of the corpse and said that
she cause Of death was q knife wound
In one Of tho veins of the thigh.
The old man must have bled to death,
and the process of dying must have been
prolonged. He should have had an op-
portunity Of calling for help. Mrs. Mas.
ters was certain. however, that he had
not done 70.
"I'm a light sleeper. gentlemen,
she said. addressing the three men,
'and the slightest thing wakes me- II
he d called out ut the door. Unjust have
card i'm. It's q certainty.
.Quite 30, +" said tho surgeon. IL
have no doubt, my good woman. that
you are not at all to blame, but we
shall, of course. 30 further into the
thing at the inquest. At present there
seems nothing to show by whose hand
the old man died. "
Whats that book doing there?" said
the Inspector abruptly, pointing TO .
dictionary which lay close to the old
man. 1t was not beside him, but on
CHAIR lust above his head.
"A dictionary apparently, " said the
surgeon, glancing at it, by JoveF
he cried suddenly as he turned over the
| l,ayes. What this? Every now and