The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1903-07-02

harrington nau an acCOnpHre II ne muir
dered McCann.' says Doctor William
Smith of No. $3.50 Washington boulevard. a
schoolmate of Doctor A. Conan Doyle. au-
thor OF the Sherlock Holmes tales.
Doctor Smith and Doyle were favorite
pupils OF Professor Joseph Bell. the man
who is said to have trained Doyles Won
derful power for deduction. Bell was taken
by the novelist for his hero: he was the
original Sherlock Holmes.
Doctor Smith was in his junior year at
Edinburgh University when Doyle was a
senior. but they met in class frequently
during lectures. and became quite intimate.
They were fellow admirers of Professor
Bell, who was a profound student of all
things pertaining TO criminoiogy, and often
after class hours the three would sit to-
gether and discuss leading criminal acts Of
the day.
From newspaper accounts Professor Bell
would unravel knotty points for the benefit
eff his students. and his theories many times
turned out to be precisely correct. SO en-
Unused did Doyle become in the study that
he nodded his tutor into the person Of
Sherlock Holmes" and won himself fame
and fortune.
HARRINGTON A COWARD.
patient, J. w l.. Gillespie. From what
Doctor Smith learned of the character Of
harrington prior to the Mccain murder he
feels safe in saying that the lord would
not tackle a man of McCanns size alone.
His effeminancy alone would forbid
that he declared. land. besides. he is an
abject coward.
He does not squeal On comrade in the
hoe IN hiring another
into the case would not suit his purpose.
1t would virtually be a confession Of com
plicity in the one act-the kiiling-which is
the only thing he has not confessed he was
| a party TO.
harrington knows that he can contro
his own mouth to suit his own ends. 50
| long as he Is the only one suspected. and
as long as the chain of circumstantial evil
dence is SO strong against him II IS the
| wisest thing to do.
harrington has said that he will spring
a sensation. / believe he will, but not un-
til he gets to the last ditch. When the sen
sation does come 1t will be the accomplish
and harrington will loom up in the char
acter of decoy, which / firmly believe he
| was.
| From what / have read OF the case.
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begun with a razor. Any one that knows
| harrington knows that he would be th,
| last man to start a fight in that manner
| for the reason that it permits of too mucf
chance TO retaliate before the fatal moment
| arrives, and In a struggle the attackci
would. in all probability. il his Antagonist
were powerful man like Mccain. be
/! worsted.
Doctor Smith. while he has not become
| famous as deducer. remembers the day:
he spent with Doctors Doyle and Bell. ant
every murder case that puzzles the Police
Department recalls his college experience.
The Mccain murder especially has inter
ested him from the fact that he knew Bar
| rington well. He took special delight II
| proving the bogus lord Il prevaricator or
| every occasion.
"A man TO kill another quickly witt
| a blade must know how TO use one
That the party that used the razor on Nc
| Cam did not know how to use it is shown
| by two things First, because a revolver
had to be resorted to. and. second, because
J IL they had used the knife in proper man
ner after the victim had been dispatched
| the corpse would not have come to the sur
face of the water. and the murderer would
| now be walking about the streets free
man.
THEORY OF THE CRIME.
my theory Is this continued Doctor
Smith. Mccain was met by a man. razoi
in hand. who began a quarrel. That mar
| perhaps went out on a car ahead. He fig
| ured that Mccain would be under the iH!iu
| cree of liquor and he could easily cut his
| throat.
He had not reckoned that Mccain wOult
| put up such 4 terrible defense. In the strug
| gle the razor was drawn through Mccain
hands many times. Mccain finally graspet
his opponent and together they rolled oil
the ground. At that period the third party
the shivering. quaking being, came closer
He was terrified because he feared Nc
! Cam would eventually get the best Of hi
| opponent. He feared that he would thei
turn upon him ami soundly thrash him 70
standing idly by. Then, there were othe
things to consider. II Mccain got the hes
Of his opponent all chance to get mercenar.
| benefit out of the nights work was over
1t was easy to run up with pistol and en-
| the agony.
Mccain could not have harmed tn
party with the revolver because he was to-
busy with the other man. The second mai
did this. He shot Mccain first in the jaw
With that all hope was gone and tn
doomed man called out My God. don
shoot He had put up manly fight. bu