Catoctin clarion., 1897-10-21

to take the stand, and he testified to the
discovery of the crime, and the position
and condition Of the corpse as first seen
by himself, when he accompanied the
squire to the house OH Monday morning,
and to other facts which have been al
ready told.
The next witness was DR.. Snow. The
squire interrogated him.
"Dr. Snow" he asked, "have you
prepared report Of the autopsy made
by you yesterday upon the body OF the
deceased?''
II made a thorough examination and
have notes of all that I discovered
which could, in my opinion, be OF the
least assistance.
"Very we'll. What then do you find
to have been the cause of death?"
1.-THE man was shot. The ball Is OF
large size. am not expert enough to
give the exact caliber, but think it is
No. 3d."
Ibid you succeed in finding the ball?'
eyes, hero it is" He passed it to the
squire, who in turn handed it to MIR.
Tupper. =
'Dr. Snow" said the latter. "can
you tell how long the deceased lived
after the shooting3"
II found the bullet lodged in the
heart; therefore death must have been
instantaneous.
Ibid you find any other marks OF
violence?"
"In addition to the wound which
proved fatal I found another, which
was only superficial"
Ibid you find that ball also?'
mo: it only passed short distance
through the body and emerged again."
"Can you describe the direction
which it took3"
From the front toward the back"
"How was the body dressed?'
I'm nightdress, and it is a notice.
able fact that though there are two
wounds there is but one hole through
the garment.
Ibid the fatal bullet pass through
that hole3'
1T would seem that it did, but as
the nightdress is loosely fitting gar
ment it is impossi h|e to say, as the two
wounds are SO close together"
Mr.. Barnes whispered to Mr.. Tupper,
who then continues:
"Was this last wound above or below
the other? What wish to know is, was
it high enough for the bullet to have
come from pistol fired from the lawn
and through the Window
eyes. I thought Of that point, and
therefore measured the height OF the
window sill from the ground and from
the floor inside. found by these meas
urements that the sill is about five
feet from the lawn outside and only two
feet above the floor within. The wound
which we are now considering is above
the fatal one. though only slightly so,
and is so located that if the deceased
had been standing it would have been
about four feet above the floor, and 80
two feet higher than the window sill. "
"Then, in your opinion, that wound
may have been made by some one on the
lawn?"
II am sure that it would have been
possible Of course it might depend on
how near Mr.. Lewis stood to the win
dow"
As the doctor was about to withdraw
Mr.. Tupper stopped him by asking:
"Will you please tell us if you found
any marks, scars you know, or birth
marks, by which the identity of the
corpse might be established"
Nothing whatever. The face and
head have been burned beyond all pos
sibility of recognition.
Were these burns of such a nature
that they may have been the cause of
death?"
II should say not, but of course if a
man were burned as badly as that he
might subsequently die, though not SO
quickly"
Mr.. Tupper, addressing the squire,
said:
II suppose there is no doubt as to the
identity of the body, but in the face Of
the fact that the features are so much
disfgured it would perhaps be as well
to seek some evidence in this direction"
II have no doubt" said the squire,
THAT Miss Lewis may be able to help
us better than any one, though l will
say this much myself: When first saw
the body lying by the chimney and
leaned over it, I noticed that there was
name on the nightdress i'll large let
ters.
II saw that also," said DR.. Snow.
"It is in indelible ink and done with a
stencil plate. AS might be expected,
the name is John Lewis -
''That in itself seems almost conclu-
sive," observed the squire, "but we can
ask Miss Lewis about the matter when
she is called"
DIR. Snow was then allowed to leave
the stand.
"Now," said Mr.. Tupper, "if we
can we must try to discover the time OF
the crime. I believe, squire, you are
the one who last saw Mr.. Lewis alive.
Can you tell at what hour that was, as
near as possible?'
II went to see Mr.. Lewis on the
night Of the murder and was in the
parlor with him nearly an hour. must
have gone about o'clock, for it was
but half past when l reached my own
home"
"Then, Of course, he was alive at
that hour. The detective, Mr.. Barnes,
has described to us the tracks which he
found in the snow and also the discov-
cry Of the two pistols. These, he thinks,
were fred at the time when or immedi
ately after the snow had ceased falling
last night. Whether either of these shots
caused the death of Mr.. Lewis or not, at
:east it is possible that one of them made
tho flesh wound which DR.. Snow has
described. 1t will be we'll, therefore, to