Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1901-10-17

when q man, VINO was evidently not
dude has his clothes made to order.
of imported material, and when his
linen. his hat and his shoes are of good
quality, it is fair to infer that the mans
income was comfortable.
81 proceed with the arrangement of
my data:
"Sccondly: the man in The cab died
of a wound caused by bullet fired at
very close quarters. Indeed, the weap-
on must have been held either against
the victims body. or, ut any rate, very
near to it; for the coat is badly burned
by the powder"
"On these points at least" asscntcd
DR.. ThurstOn. ii can agree with YOU.
The bullet probably penetrated the
upper lobe of the left lung"
YES" added Sturgis. "and it passed
ont at the back, far below where it
went in"
"What makes you think it passed
out? The wound in the back may
have been caused by another bullet
fired from the rear"
"That hypothesis might be tcnable
were it not for this"
With these words thc reporter pulled
ont his watch. opened the case, and
with the blade of pcnknifc took from
the surface of he crystal a minute OBJ
iect. which he handed TO the physician.
Look at it," said he. pushing over
n maFnifying glass.
DR.. Thurston examined the object
carefully.
"a splinter of bone" he said. at last.
Yes. found it on the surface of
!hc wound in the back. How did it. get
.hcre?"
You are right" admitted the phys-
clan; at must have come from with
in. Clipped from rib and carried out
by the bullet which entered from the
front"
II think there can be 70 doubt as to
| that. Now. the bullet does not seem
TO have been DETECTED in its course by
its contact with the rib. for, as far as
have been able to Judge by probing
the two wounds with my pencil. their
direction is the same. This is impor-
tant and brings me to point three,
which is illurtratod by these diagrams,
drawn to scale from the measurements
I took this afternoon."
As he said these words. the reporter
handed to his friend sheet of paper
upon which he had drawn some ge-
ometrical figures.
THE first of these diagrams shows
the angle which the course of the bull
let made with horizontal plane. the
second represents the inclination from
wight to left. The former of these an
giles is nearly and the latter not far
from forty-tyc degrees. The inclina-
ton from right TO left shows that the
shot was fired from the right side of
the dead man. Now then. one of two
things Either it was fired by the man
himself. the weapon being held in his
right hand: or else it was fired by an
assassin who stood close to the vic
TINS right side. The first of these ny
pothescs. considered by itself. is adj
missible; but il involves the assump-
ton of an extremely awkward and I'M
usual position of the suicides hand
while firing. On the other hand. the
dead man is tall-siX feet one inch
and to fire down, at an angle of sixty
degrees, upon a man Of his height, his
assailant would have to be Il colossus,
or else to sand upon n chair or in some
equally elevated position, unless the
victim happened to be seated when the
shot was fred
"Happencd to he seated" exclaimed
Thurston. nstounded. "why, of course
he was seated since he was in the
cab"
"That brings up point four which
is not the least pulling Of this in
tcresting case" said Sturgis, Impress
lively; the shooting was not done in
the cab"
Not Zone in the cab"
mo- otherwise the bullet would have
remained in the cushions; and it was
not there"
at might have fallen out into the
street at the time of the collision" sug-
gcstcd Thurston.
NO; | searched every inch Of space
in which it might have fallen. If it
had been there / should have found
it, for the spot was brilliantly lighted
by an electric light, as you rcmem-
Der"
The physician pondrrcd in silence for
a few minutes.
with all due respect for the accu-
racy of your observations, and for the
rigorous logic of your inductions,