The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-08

with imagination, he might-rise TO great
heights in his profession. On his ar
rival he promptly found and arrested
the man upon whom suspicion naturally
rested. There was little difficulty in
finding him, for lie Inhabited one of
those villas which I have mentioned.
His name, il appears, was FitzrOy
Simpson. He Was.a man of excellent
birth and education, who had squan-
dered a fortune upon the turf and who
lived now by doing a little quiet and
genteel bool6making III the sporting
clubs of London An examination of
his betting book shows that bets TO the
amount of I'VE thousand pounds had
been registered by him against the
favoTite. On being arrested he vOlun-
teered the statement that he had come
down TO DaTtmOr in in the hope of get
ting some information about the king $
Pyland horses, and also about Des-
borough, the second faVOrfte. which was
in charge of Siias Brown at the Maple
ton stables. He did not attempt TO
deny that he had acted as described
upon the evening before but declared
that he had no sinister designs. and
had simply wished to obtain first-hand
information. When confronted with
his craVat he turned very pale and was
utterly unable TO account for its pres
ence in the hand of the murdered man.
His wet clothing showed that he had
been out in the storm of the night be-
fore, and his stick, which was a Pen
ang-lawyer, weighted with lead, was
just such weapon as might. by re-
peated blows, have inflicted the terri
bic injuries 10 which the trainer had
succumbed. ON the other hand, there
was no wound upon his person, while
the state of StrakcT's knife would show
that one at least of his ASSISTANTS must
bear his mark upon him. There You
have il all i'm a nutshell, Watson, and
if YOU can give ne amy light / shall be
infinitely Obliged to you"
I had listened with the greatest in
terest TO the statement which Holmes.
with characteristic clearness, had laid
before me- Though most of the facts
were familiar to me, ! had not sufi-
GENTLY appreciated their relative inn
portance, nor their connection to each
other.
rs it not possible. - ! suggested, that
the ncised wound upon Straker may
have been caused by his own knife in
the convulsive struggles which follow
any brain injury"
1T is more than possible it is prob
able said Holmes. IN that case one
of the main points i'm favor of the ac-
cused disappears.
And yet" said ]. even now l fail
10 understand what The theory of the
police can be. -
Il am afraid that whatever theory We
state has very grave objections TO it,"
returned my companion. The police
imagine, l take H. that this Fitzrov
Simpson, having drugged The lad and
having in some way obtained dupli-
cate key, opened the stable door and
took out the horse, with the intention.
apparently, of kidnapping him alto
gether. His bride is missing so that
Simpson must have put this on Then
having left the door open behind him,
he was leading the horse away over the
moor when he was either met or over
taken by the trainer. A row naturally
ensued. Simpson beat out the trainers
brains with his heavy stick. without
receiving any injury from the small
knife which Sraker used in self de-
Tense, and then, the thief either led the
horse on to some secret hiding place,
or else it may have bolted during the
struggle and he is now wanderir- out
on the mOOrs. That is the case as il
appears TO the police and improba bic
as il is, all other explanations are
more improbable still. However.
shall very quickly lest the matter when
am once upon the spot, and until
then / cannot really see how we can get
much further than our present posi-
ton"
It was evening before We reached the
little town of TaVistOCk, which lies, like
the boss of shield. in the middle of
the huge circle OF DartmOOr Two
gentlemen were awaiting US IN the
station-the one a tall fair man with
lion-like hair and beard, and curiously
penetrating light blue eyes; The other
a small, alert person, very neat and