Waterbury evening Democrat., 1895-02-04

height, wore coarse, square toed boots and smoked Trichinopoly cigar. He eame here with his victim in four wheeled cab, which was drawn by horse with three old shoes and one new one on his off fore leg. In all probabil- ity the murderer had n fiorid face, and the finger nails of his right hand were remarkably long. These are only few indications. but they may assist you. ." Lestrade and Gregson glanced at each other with an incredulous smile.
 If this man was murdered, how was it done?" asked the former.
 "Poison, said Sherlock Holmes curt ly and strode of. One other thing, Lestradc, " he added. turning around at the door. "'Rache' is the German for revenge, 50 don't lose your time look ing for Miss Rachel. "
 With which Parthian shot he walked away, leaving the two rivals open mouthed behind him,
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 It was u'clocl. " M wc left 2 Lau- riston Gardens ;...2 cl Holmes led me to the aCareStt is B.. ph cf}icc, whence he dispatched lon" telegram He then | hailed cab HEd G,,n,d tno driver to take us to the a,i, ,s,< given us hy Le- stradr.
 There k nothing like first hand evi- dencc, he remarked As matter of fact. my mind iS entirely made up on the ease. but still W" may aS well learn all that is to he learned, ''
 'Yuu amaze inc, HulmeS, said l. 'Surely yuu arc not a$ sure as you pre- tend to be of all these particulars which you gave. ''
 s"There'S no room for mistake. he answered. The very first thing which observed on arriving there was that q cab had made two ruts with its wheels close to the curb Now up to last night we had no rain for week, so that those | wheels, which left such deep impres. sion, must have been there during the night. There We're the marks of the horses hoofs. ton. the outline of one of which was far more clearly cut than l that of the other three, showing that l that was new shoe, Since the Cah was there after the rain began and was not there at any time during the morning I have GregSou' We l for that-it fol- lows that It must have been there dur ing the night. and. therefore, that it brought tho>e two individuals to the house.
 That seems simple enough, " said l; "but how about the other mans height" Why. the height of a man in nine cases out of ten can be told from the length of lls stride. lt is simple cal culation enough. though there k no use I tsllow'S stride both on the clay uut<i,lv ,.nd on tine dust within Then I hal a way nf checking my calculation When man writes um wall, his instinct leads him tn write about tn" level nf his own eyes Now that writing Was int over six feet from the ground, It vv,l~ Child'> play.
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 "W,iL it | mAn ,'.'n >Ir. .in II. feet without tir slightest |. ',nt. l', can't hc quit,, III tE" Ia and y,llnw. That wa> the breadth oi q rus.di" on thr garden walk which Er had evidently wakc,l acrn>s Patent leather l.'",> had S,nir around and >quart' th> had hoppal over Thtry k nn mystery ahnnt il at all. ;vu simply api,lylm2 tn ordinary life A t'.w "t 9n>" prrt'tpts If nh-rrva- tior anal ,l,ri :.ti"n which adv,.,' ted i'll { that article. l> thrrr anything else that puI-t you:
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 "Tn' WtitnI ,m the wall wa~ 'l'ut, with d i.tLl tui, :iiI-tr dipped in Nlo,rl. My -!@~~ III rd me to obsel>v that thv plaster NA, ~li-htlv scratched iu doing it. which would not nave been tho ease if the mans nail had been trimmed. gathered up some scattered ash from the floor. It was dark in rolol and flaky, such an ash as is only made by a Trichinopoly. I have made study of cigar a>hcS-in fact, l have written a monographs upon the subject. flat ter myself that I can distinguish at : glance the ash uf any known brand either of cigar or 0f tobacco, It i> inst i'll such details that the skilled detective differs from thr Grcg>on and Le@tradt type,
 And tll>' tlnid face l asked
 "-Ah. that V..S Il m;0ru daring shot though have duuht that Was right You must not ask mo that at the pres Cut state of the affair
 l passed my hand over my brow My head is in whirl. remarked The moro one thinks of il the more mysterious 1t grows. How came thes, two mcn-if there were two men-intt an empty house: What has become ot tho Cahmau whn drove them: How could one man compel another to take poison Where did tho blood come from: Wha was the object of the murderer, sine, robbcly had no part in it: How cam, the woman's ring there: Above all why should the second man write np tn, German word 'Rache before decamp ing: l confess l cannot see any poSsihl, way of rccouviling all these facts.
 My companion smiled approvingiy.
 You sum up the difficulties ot th' situation succinctly and well, he said
 There is much that is still obscure though have quite made up my minC on the main facts As to poor Lestrade' discovery, il was simply a blind intend ed tn put the police upon n wrong tract lv suggesting socialism and secret so cictirs It was not done by a German The a. if yuu noticed, was printet somewhat after the German fashion Now, a real German invariably prints il the Latin character. So that we ma. safely say that this was not written b, one, but hy clumsy imitator. wh, ovcrdId his part, It was simply rus to divert inquiry into a wrong channel I'm not going to tell you much more o the case, doctor You know q coniurc gets nu credit when once he has explain ed his trick. and if show you too mucl of my method ot working you will com to the conclusion that am a very or dinary individual. after all
 II shall never do that, l answered You have brought detection IS nea an exact science as fl will ever b