The Forrest City times., 1894-09-28
made hearty meal and gone to his


 room.
 The constable returned in half an hour with the divisional surgeon, Mir. Brookes. That gentleman made . mi mute examination of the corpse, and said that the cause of death was a knife wound in one of the 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 opportunity of calling for help. Mrs. Masters was certain, however, that he had not done so. 'Tm light sleeper, gentlemen" she said, addressing the three men. and the slightest thing wakes me. If he'd called out at the door must have 'eard 'im-it's a certainty.
 Quite so," said the surgeon. II have no doubt, my good woman, that you are not at all to blame, but we shall, of course, go further into the thing at the inquest. At tpresent there seems nothing to show by whose hand the old man died"
 Whats that book doing there" said the inspector, abruptly, pointing to a dictionary which lay close to the old man. It was not beside him, but on a chair. just above his head.
 "A dictionary apparently" said the surgeon, glancing at it. By love-" he cried, suddenly, as he turned over the leaves-what's this-every now and then come to a word against which there is mark in blood. This is strange"
 .'Is it blood, or red ink, sir?r asked Mrs. Masters. II know my poor old master used to study good deal, and it is just possible he has been marking words down in that book which he might want to look up again"
 There's no mistaking, it's blood" said the surgeon holding the book to- ward the light, ''and fresh blood, too. If I'm not very much mistaken, this is some sort of clew to the mystery"
 The inspector took the book from the surgeon and glanced at it keenly
 "Upon my word" he cried, 1T be- lieve you're right. There seems something methodical in these oc- casional marks of blood against cer- tain words; this is going to be inter- esting." -
 At the coroner's inquest the follow ing report from Inspector Bevis was put in, but read privately, as the in- formation contained therein would have been harmful to the negotiations of the detectives who were running the suspected man to death.
 It ran as follows:
 On the morning of September F of this year was called to lls Wernham road Remington lane at which house Richard Mayne, the de- ceased resided
 After making all the necessary arrange ments, Mir Brookes, the surgeon. called my attention to a large dictionary which was on a chair within reach of the deceased Through out the book certain words were marked in blood
 Thinking this strange, made an investiga- tion Of the book, which was an ordinary dlc- tionary, evidently used by the deceased in connection with his literary work.
 determined on a plan of setting down on paper every word indicated by the crimson mark on doing which had the following list, which give in the order in which discovered them, going systematically through the dic- tionary.
 Masters goodby co my invention oldest communicated for cannot dictionary is plans friend to the move has him dynamo from in murdered the here me details intended to to- night foolishly plans of to getting my patent or indicate next paper the dull new month so mark this murderer street dying his Borough property name he drawings Whitelaw stolen house has stone Jasper blood to my L.
 On going over this for some time l began piece by piece to put it together. l picked out first of all two words which seemed con- spicuous. namely. Jasper" and Borough Evidently the first the name of the man connected with the deec. and the second was the district of London known by that nane
 Inext picked on the word dull" which ordinary adjective seemed out of place in such a dying speech. and ] at once remembered the street called Dull street.. which was situated in the borough. There seemed no doubt that the address given was in Dull street, borough. So far good.
 Finding no other use for the words stone" and house" yentured to use them as the name of the residence in Dull street. which made my information read; Stone house. Dull street borough" On looking up the street surely enough found the corner house 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;
 Jasper Whitelaw Stone House Dull street Borough has murdered me tonight foolishly my oldest friend all my drawings he has stolen plans property communicated to him the de- tails and plsns 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 I am dying all Masters goodby L"
 On going over this again transposed certain words, putting the first two words, Jasper Whiteiaw." after the phrase the murderer is" which made the lines read more clearly In the end after great labor, arrived at the following which I submit for the considera- ton Of the authorities: