Capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1893-1895, 1894-10-19

AHo Inspector TOOK the book from the
surgeon and glanced at it kocnly
Upon my word, " he c1&ed, IL be-
llevo you're right There seems some-
thing methodical in these occasional
marks OF blood against certain words.
This is going to be interesting. "
AT tho corOner's s inquest the following
report from Inspector Bevis was put in,
but read privately, rs 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 us follows
On the morning of Sept. II of this
year | was called to llS Wernham road,
Remington lane, at which house Rich
ard Mayne, the deceased, resided.
After making all the necessary ar
rangements Mr.. Brookes, the surgeon
called my attention to large diction-
airy which was on a 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.
L determined on plan Of setting
down ON paper every word indicated by
the crimson mark, on doing which l
had the following list, Which give in
the order in which discovered them,
going Systematically through the die.
tionary:
Masters goodby to my invention
eldest communicated for cannot diction-
ary 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 his
borough property name he drawings
Whitelaw stolen l house has stone Jas
per blood to my l. >"
On going over this for some time i
began piece by piece to put it together
| picked out first of all two words
which seemed conspicuous-namely,
Jasper" 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.
l next picked ON the word dull,
which as an ordinary adjective seemed
out of place in such dying speech,
and l 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 l found the corner house called
by that name
After many hours toll, twisting and
turning 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 | !. "
On going over this again transposed
certain words, putting the first two
words, casper Whitelaw, I" after the
phrase, murderer is, (which made the
lines read more clearly. In the end,
after great labor, | arrived at the fol-
lowing, which submit for the consi6-
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 10 get ink or paper and so mark
this dictionary in my blood 20 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 10 Masters Goodby" "
The above is my report To this ]
have nothing further 10 add Attached
hereto arc the dictionary, my rough
drafts Of the solution and all the mem
Oranda | made 10 assist ple Ia tho
search. JOHE DAVIS BEYis
This report was read privately, and
the detectives went % work at once
The man Whitelaw was captured AZ tho
patent office, where he was in Tho very
act u hling bis application for the pat
eut u the new dynamo machine
AZ his lodgings IA Dali street the pa
pora aud plans belonging ~ hayne we're
found, Finding himself surrounded by
testimony which soemed ~ come nom
ths grave he made foil confession
a SEEMED that ho bad met biz iFleha,
81 Mayne, on tho oyepiuR in question
/ Aftar snudiy drinks together Aa}ho D.
came communicative and oFeniually
ssktd the 0thu a. cnmo a. his hnp1'
/ Hae ho aplaiped 20 BIN che details o.
hit invention.
Csmod agay ~ hs Nas by ihs earl's
moDt pfoduoeA by the hquDr hs lNla