The copper country evening news. [volume] (Calumet, Mich.) 18??-1907, 1897-08-06

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should be discovered"
Every well, let us 60 at once, foi
you cannot be more anxious than myself
to begin. In fact, there is another rea-
son why l would like to see the inside
of the room.
"What is it?" asked the doctor, with
some curiosity.
"Well the fact is" said Burrows,
"last night thought heard some one
in the room, and also that chair or
other piece of furniture was overturned.
/ am curious to sec if we find any cor
roboration of it in the appearance of the
place.
Il doubt very much that we shall,
for have the key in my pocket, and so
you see no one could have gained en-
trance. ~
The two men then proceeded to the
apartment where lay the dead body.
The doctor unlocked the door, allowing
the detective to enter ahead Of him.
Burrows gazed eagerly around, but
nothing seemed to indicate that any
one had been in the place since it had
been closed the day before.
"You see" said the doctor, nothing
has been disturbed. | am afraid your
imagination played some trick upon
you.
Opening satchel which he had
brought with him, DIR. Snow produced
his instruments and Immediately began
his work. First he stripped the body
and found considerable quantity of
blood clothed about tho Hlrts, which
with sponge he carefully cleansed.
He had scarcely done so when Burrows,
who had been following his actions with
eager interest, eXcitedly exclaimed:
Look, doctorl There seem to be two
wounds "
LAS you say, so it seems, said DR..
Snow phlegmatically, but before we
make positive assertion let us examine
farther" With these words he took up
his probe. Passing 1t into one wound,
he worked in silence for some time,
Burrows endeaYOring TO command his
impatience. Finally he removed the in
strument and inserted it into the second
opening. With little manipulation it
passed specifically through the flesh
and then emerged again about six inches
from the entrance and toward the back.
AT length the doctor spoke:
II think, said he, "that you are cor
rect in your surmise and that two bull
lets have entered here. One l can feel
with my probe; the other passed out, as
you see this second track indicates.
Both wounds are close together.
"Will you extract the bullet?" asked
Burrows.
"Of course. 1t will give us needed
clew as to the bore of the weapon used"
Thereupon he continued, determined to
complete the task before him. While he
was thus busily engaged Burrows stood
looking from the window and was deep
in thought over this last point in the
evidence.
In the talk between him and Mr..
Barnes both had thought that but one
bullet had found its mark in the dead
body. Now it was incontestably proved
that there were two wounds. How to
explain that in connection with what
they had already discovered was the
problem, and his astute mind quickly
evolved theory to fit the case. 1t will
be remembered that the pistols found
on the lawn had each one empty shell,
and as but one shell had been picked up
i'll Virginia's room he concluded that
that weapon also had been fired only
once. The tracks in the snow seemed to
indicate that Virginia had met Harry
Lucas (whose name was on one of the
pistolsl and then left him to go to the
woods Suppose, then, that Lucas had
fired his weapon at Lewis, and that the
ball had struck at the point where it
made but flesh wound, and then had
passed out? From this point Burrows
reasoned as follows: Lewis, finding
himself wounded, had taken the pre-
caution to write the name of his SUD-
posed assailant on the paper which Mr..
Barnes thought that Virginia had taken |
from the table. He had then retired to |
his bed, as was evident from his being |
In his nightdress. Then the man whom |
Virginia had met across the river, and |
who had unquestionably visited the |
house afterward, as was easily shown by |
his tracks, had entered and fired the |
shot which proved fatal" AS he reach
ed this point in the case which he was
constructing to fit the facts he started |
with a new idea. AS Virginia had |
been cleaning pistol. suppose that it
was her own weapon, and that it was
she who, having planned the deed with
Lucas, had finished it when she return-
ed home and found her uncle still alive?
This seems more probable, because Lew
Is might have left his own room to tell
her of his wound, when she came in.
whereas the man would have sought
HIM IN his bedroom and have killed him
there. " Two points occurred to him in
connection with his theory, and he ap-
preached the table where the doctor was
at work and asked:
Can you tell from what distance
these shots were fired:'
Il have just been looking into that
point. or one thing 1 am convinced. and
that IL that one was fired at very close
range, for the cloth of tho s,o,v,, =; |