The times. (Owosso, Mich.) 1882-1897, 1894-10-05


upon my word" he cried, 1T be-
lieve you re right. There seems some
thing methodical in these occasional
marks Of blood against certain words.
This is going to be interesting.
At the coroner's inquest the following
report from Inspector Bevis was put in,
but read privately, as the information
contained therein would have been
harmful to the negotiations of the de-
tectives who were running the suspect
ed man to death.
1t ran as follows:
On the morning of Sept. II Of this
year was called to l1S Wernham road,
Remington lane, at which house Rich
ard Mayne, the deceased, resided.
After making all the necessary az
rangements Mr.. Brookes, the surgeon
called my attention to large diction-
airy which was on chair within reach
of the deceased. Throughout the book
certain words were marked in blood.
Thinking this strange, made an in
vestigation of the book, which was an
ordinary dictionary, evidently used by
the deceased in connection with his
| literary work.
/ determined on plan of setting
down on paper every word indicated by
| the crimson mark, Oh doing which l
| had the following list, which l give in
| the order in which discovered them,
| going systematically through the die
| tionary:
Masters goodby to my invention
oldest communicated for cannot diction-
airy is plans friend to the move has him
| dynamo from in murdered the / here
me details intended to tonight foolishly
plans of to getting my patent or indi-
cate next paper the dull new month SO
mark this murderer street dying bis
borough property name he drawings
Whitelaw stolen house has stone JAS
| per blood to my !. "
On going over this for some time l
began piece by piece to put it together.
| 1 picked out first of all two words
| which seemed conspicuous-namely,
| casper" and Borough" Evidently
| the first was the name Of the man con-
nected with the deed, and the second
was the district in London known by
| that name.
1 next picked on the word "dull,"
which as an ordinary adjective seemed
out of place in such dying speech,
| and / at once remembered the street
called Dull street." which was situat-
| ed in the borough. There seemed no
doubt that the address given was in
Dull street borough. So far so good
Finding no other use for the words
"stone" and "house, ventured to use
them as the name of residence in Dull
street, which made my information
read, "Stone house, Dull street, Dor
ough." On looking up the street surely
enough found the corner house called
| by that name.
After many hours toll, twisting and
turning, I at length got the words put
into some sort of shape, and this is how
they read
casper Whitelaw stone house Dull
street borough has murdered me tonight
| foolishly my oldest friend all my draw
ings he has, stolen plans property COM
| municated to him the details and plans
| Of my new invention for the dynamo to
patent next month intended to get ink
or paper cannot move from here and
mark this SO in dictionary my blood to
indicate the murderer his name is am
dying all Masters goodby I l."
On going over this again transposed
certain words, putting the first two
words, Jasper Whitelaw," after the
phrase, murderer is, which made the
lines read more clearly. In the end,
after great labor, arrived at the fol-
lowing, which l submit for the consid-
GRAFTON Of the authorities:
my oldest friend has murdered me
tonight. Foolishly communicated to
him the details and plans of my new
invention for the dynamo intended to
patent next month. cannot move from
here to get ink or paper and so mark
this dictionary in my blood to indicate
the murderer. His name is Jasper
Whitelaw, stone house, Dull street,
Borough. All my plans and drawings
he has stolen. am dying. All proper
| ty to Masters Goodby."
The above is my report. To this
have nothing further to add. Attached
hereto are the dictionary, my rough
drafts of the solution and all the men,
oranda ] made to assist mo in the
| search. JOIN DAVIS BEvIS.
This report was read privately, and
the detectives went to work at once
The man Whitelaw was captured at the
patent Office, where he was in tho very
act of filing his application for tho pat
ent CT the new dynamo machine.
At his lodgings in Dali street the pa
pers and p.aNs !oingiEg to Mayne were
found Finding himself surrounded by
testimony which 2cE.ed to come from
tho grave BE- riace II full confession.
Il seemed that nc had met his friend
NJ. Ml!ue, On the evening i'll question.
After sundry drinks together Mayne be-
came communicative and eventually
asked the other TO come to bis house.
Here he explained TO him the details Of
his invention.
Carried away as he was by tho excite
ment produced by the liquor, he told
all to tho man, whom he trusted implic-
ity. But Whitelaw, seeing the prospect