San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-08-01

ceived reply in the affirmative.
''Will you 60 up to the room at cnce?
May accompany you?"
Eyes," said the doctor, II meant TO
come earlier, for / am anxious to make
this examination as soon rs possible,
but ! had to make a call OH very i'll
patient some miles away. As to your
being present, it is what wished. 1t
is always best that more than one should
witness such an investigation, in case
anything of an unexpected nature
should be discovered"
Very well, let us go at once, for
you cannot be more anxious than myself
to begin In fact, there is another rea-
son why 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 see if we find any cor
roboration of it in the appearance of the
place"
II doubt very much that we shall,
for have the key in my pocket, and 60
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, DR.. Snow produced
his instruments and Immediately began
his work. First he stripped the body
and found q considerable quantity of
blood clotted about the parts, 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. -
"As 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 it into one wound,
he worked in silence for some time,
Burrows endeavoring 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: J ,--
81 think, /" said he, "that you are cor
rect in your surmise and that two bull
let's have entered here. One I can feel
with my probe; the other passed ont, as
you see this second track indicates
Both wounds are close together"
win you extract the bullet?' asked
Burrows
''Of course. It will give us q 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 she'll had been picked up
in virginia's room he concluded that
that weapon also had been fred only
once. The tracks in the snow seemed to
indicate that Virginia had met Harry
Lucas (whose name was ON one of the
pistols) 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 sup
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 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 alivei
This seems more probable, because Lew