Connecticut western news., 1895-01-10


 contained therein would have been l tectives who were running the suspect ed man to death.
 It ran as follows:
 On the morning of Sept. IF of this | year I was called to 118 Wernham road, Remington lane, at which house Rich ard Mayne, the deceased, resided. After making all the necessary ar engagements MT. Brookes, the surgeon called my attention to a large diction- ary which was on a chair within reach of the deceased. Throughout the book certain words were marked in blood.
 Thinking this strange, I made an fn- vestigation of the book, which was an ordinary dictionary, evidently used by the deceased in connection with his literary work.
 I determined on 8 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 I discovered them, going systematically through the dio- tionary:
 Masters goodby to my I invention oldest communicated for cannot diction- ary is plans friend to the move has him dynamo from in murdered the I 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 I house has stone Jas per blood to my r.
 On going over this for some time 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. ..... .. I next picked on the word "dull, 1" which as an ordinary adjective seemed out of place in such dying speech, | and I 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, bor. 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: | 'Jasper 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 T."
 On going over this again I 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 I submit for the consid- eration of the authorities:
 My oldest friend has murdered me tonight. Foolishly I communicated to him the details and plans of my new invention for the dynamo I intended to patent next month. I 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. I 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 mem oranda I made to assist mo in the search. JOHN 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 the very act of filing his applicatiol.-fo the pat ent of the new dynamo machine.
 At his lodgings in Dull street the pa pers and plans belonging to Mayne were found. Finding himself surrounded by testimony which seemed to come from the grave he made a full confession.
 It seemed that he had met his friend, MT. Mayne, on the evening in 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 o1 his invention.
 Carried away as he was by the excite ment produced by the liquor, he tolt all to the man, whom he trusted implic ity. But Whitelaw, seeing the prospec of a mighty fortune in the use of tht patent, had stabbed the old man witt his large pocketknife and left him o1 the floor bleeding to death, making hi! escape easily and without hindrance b, the front door