Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-30

sharp, snappy voice. terse and to the
point.
In technical language he explained the
| disea Sc from which his patient had peen
suffering and then proceeded to describe
the result of the post-mortem, now the
wound inside was eight times larger tfan
tho exterior inclsion.
THAT seems very rerlarkable!" eS-
claimed the coroner himself a surgeon
Of no mean repute, laying down his pen
and regarding the physician with inter
est suddenly aroused Have you ever
| seen a similar wound in your expert
ence Sir Bernardo"
..Never." was the reply. My friends,
| Doctor Boyd and Doctor Farmer, were
with me- and we are agreed that 1t is
utterly impossible that the cardiac in
juries I have described could have been
caused by the external wound
":Then how were they caused?" asked
the coroner.
II cannot tell
There was no cross-e2a mination. / fol-
lowed. merely corroboratng what my
chief had said Then, after the police
! surgeon had given his evidence. DR.. Dip
lock turned to the twelve Kew trades
men. who had been summoned and sworn
as jurymen. and addressing them. said:
Il think, gentlemen. you have heard
sufficient to show that. this is more
than usually serious case. There are GER
tain elements. both extraordinary and
| mysterious, and that being SO would
suggest an adjournment. in order that the
police should be enabled to make further
inquiries into the matter. The deceased
was gentleman whose philanthropy was
probably well known 20 you all, and we
must al! therefore, regret that he should
end. You may. OF course. come to YER
dict to-day if you wish, but I would
strongly urge an adjou711r1 ent-until, say,
this day week
The jury conferred for a few moments,
and after some whispering the foreman,
a grocer at Kew Bridge. announced that
! his fellow-lCrymen acquiesced in the cor
oners suggestion. and the public rose
anu sI.w7y left, more puzzled til...l ever.
Amber Jevons had been present, sit
ting at the back of the room and in or
| Ger to avoid the others we lunched to-
sethcr at an opposite public-ht,lse in
I;rentford On the opposite side Of the
Thames to Kew Gardens. It was the
oily place we could discover, save the
hotel where the inquest had been held,
and we had no desire to be interrupted,
for during the inquiry he had passed me
a scrap of paper upon which he had writ
ten an earnest request to see me alone
AlCSTWdIuS.
Therefore. when I had seen Ethel
wynne into cab. and had babe fare
we'll to Sir Bernard and received certain
private instructions from him, we walked
together into the narrow, rather dirty
High street of Brentford. the county
town of Mi6dlesex.
The inn we entered was close to soap
works, the odor from which was not con-
ducive to a good appetite. but We OBJ
tanned room to ourselves IN silence
II was up early tbs morning.. AM
bier observed at last II was at Kew
at s clock.
"Why?''
TN the night ar idea struck NE, and
when such ideas occur I always seek
to put them promptly into action
What WAS the idea?'' asked
Il thought about that safe in the old
mans bedroom" he replied. laying down
T his knife end for.. and looking at me.
What about It? There's surely moth
ing extraordinary in a man having safe
in his room IT,
mo. But there's something extra ordi-
nary in the key Of the safe being miss
Ing he said. Thorpe has apparently
overlooked the point: therefore this morn
ing went down to Kew, and finding only
4 constable In charge. made thorough
search through the place. In the dead
mans room I NATURAL expected to ind