The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-06-30
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no sooner had Or. Hopkins Informed
The sergeant Of police in charge at Bal
wash of his suspicious regarding the
death OF Richard COTE thar that officer
considered the news sufficiently serious
to warrant his transmitting it at once
10 the director Of criminal Investigation
of New Scotland Yard, who telegraphed
back hat Detectiye-1nspector Foundes
WOul be sent down Immediately 10
KuOWleSworth Hall.
When Foundes reached Balwash that
afternoon he called on DR.. Hopkins.
and without delay drove aim to the
Hall, where in the locked OF
the dead q second examination or the
deceased was made.
You will see that the body seems in
q perfectly healthy state said Dr.
Hopkins in low. rapid tones, and the
only speck or blemish it shows is found
on the neck, under the right ear. ana
near an important vein. Look at the
stain-it has spread and since
! saw 1t u few hours ago
The Inspector looked at the spot IN
dictated, and then at the eager face OF
the living man beside him.
What does It mean?" he inquired,
his sharp eyes fixed inQuiringly on the
speaker
1T means" the medical man an
swcred with grave elaboration. that,
small as it is, that little puncture was
big enough to let his life escape
THAT puncture caused his deathF
There can be little doubt OF 1t, as I
think the post mortem examination
! will show. A Virulcnt poison has oeen
Injected, and it TOO some skill to 90 II
neatly
III all his experience Foundes had not
| previously met such u case, and his In
! ,erest in the tragedy increased with the
mystery that promised to surround II.
SO far as you can Judge at present
| do you think II likely, sir, that the
deceased took his own LEe! lAe III
! spector asked.
IT don't think It probable. Setting
anart the want Of motive fer such an
! act T feel sure that in order 10 XIII
| himself In this way he would need to
! have some knowledge of anatomy, some
skill in he use of p%oisoMs. and he was
net "A medical student
.,Then YOU believe the man VINO Killed
Mr.. Goffe must have known the poison
to select, and the place 20 inject w
so long AS the poison was injected
,,,sar me skin al any part OF the body
the effect would be fatal. But It's IN
lection at this particular spot argues
some study OF anatomy. h deceased
merely felt q slight sting, probably IN
sufficient to wake him from a souno
sleep. when death gradually followed.
I'VE have IL murder Of no common
kind before. JUS
II think Il the work Of no common
m ordinary man the doctor replied.
When presently the latter left
T~oundes, aided by the BalWash con,
sta Ele, began a minute examination OF
the dead mans room.
After 81 careful search of the apart
nort and of the belongings Of the de-
ceased, he made three notes:
Thut although the dead mans watch
and chain We're left, not d shlillis ie'
manned in his pockets.
That he could find neither papers o.
,nv yalle nor letters referring to prl
vate matters.
mat the lower half Of his bedroom
window stood open, and that near 1t
on. fhe waxed floor, were scratches Ina
might possibly have been MADE o!
nailed boots, or Boots with iron heeis
Tnol,inr from his window, he saw
,hat tho roof OF a yeranda which skirt
al INIT side of the house was within {
Few feet of the sill. The hard, We'll
,ollnd torrance in front gave no trace
or Footsteps. wa,
q lad. NJ father and grandfather ahs
their f~orefathers have been IN lne serN
irn of his ilustrious family. we nav
always belonged to him. t'rpaao 'ois
him, a smile which puzz!eo tle ~.
speclor. playing about the VaieIs ~ ~,
liDs, which quite coTeleu oo+h
dCnnaic row Of his square yellow teeth
vs. ,S,,p}ish WAS excellent. but MS &C
cent foreign.