The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-04-02

the whole place swimming in blood. H.
/ lay on his back, his knees drawn up.
I and his mouth horribly open ! shall
/ see him i'm my dreams. / had just time
I 10 blow on my police whistle, and then
must have tainted. for / knew nothing
moro until ] found the policeman
standing over me in the hall"
Well, who was the murdered man."
/ asked Holmes.
There's nothing to show who ne
was said Lestrade. You shall see the
hodN at the mOrtuaTy. but We. have
made nothing of IT up TO now He is
Il tall man. SUnbUrucd. very powerful.
not more than 80. He is poorly dressed,
and Yet does not appear 10 be a labor
CT y horn handled clasp knife was
| lying in a pool of blood beside him
! Whether it was the weapon which did
i the deed. or whether il belonged TO the
dead man. I do not know. There was
40 name on his clothing, and nothing
! in his pockets save an apple some
string. a. shilling map of London and q
photograph Here IT is.
II was evidently taken by o SNAPSHOT
! from small camera It represented
an alert. shaTp-fea turod Simian man.
with chick eyebrows and q very pecu-
/ liar projection Of tho lower part OF the
face. like the muzzle OF q. Eaboou.
And what became. of the bust "''
asked Holmes, after careful study of
this picture.
we had news of it Just before You
came It has been found in the front
garden Of an empty house in Campden
! House road It was broken into frag-
mcntS. 7 am going round now to see
/ it. VIII YOU Gomez
Certainly. I must Just he one look
around" He examined the carpet and
! the window. The fellow had either
very long legs or was a most active
man." said he With. an area beneath.
it WAS no mean feat to reach that win
low ledge and open that window. Get
! ting back was comparatively simple.
Are you coming with US to see the re-
/ mains of your bust, MI Harker?''
! The disconsolate journalist had seat
/ cd himself at a writing table.
! Il must try and make something of
l it, said he, though I have no doubt
! that the first editions or the evening
! papers are out already with full de
/ tails. It's like my lucki You reuem-
! her when the stand fell at DonCaetCr ,
/ Well. 1 was the only journalist IN the
! stand, and my journal the only one tina {
! had no account OF 81. for 7 was too
/ shaken TO write. And now III be
! too late with a murder done ON my
/ own doorstep
! As We left tho room We heard his
/ pen travelling shrilly over the fools
I cap.
( The spot where the fragments "a the
| bust had been found was ONLY a rcH-
! hundred yards away. For the first
! time our eyes rested upon this present
ment of the great emperor. which
/ seemed 10 raise such frantic and de-
Structive hatred in the mind of the
unknown. / was convinced, from his
intent face and his purpOscful man
ner. that at last he was upon a clue.
Weir asked Lestrade.
I'VE nave Il Ions Va y TO so Yet. So ID
! lie. And yet-and yct--rcll. We have
some suggestive facts 10 act uoon The
/ possession of this trifliug bust was
/ worth more, in the eyes Of this strange.
| criminal than human life. That is
| one point. Then there is the singular
! fact that he did not break it in the
! house, or Immediately outside the
I house, if to break it was his sole OBJ
/ Ject."
He was ratified and busted by meet
/ ing this other fellow. He hardly knew
/ what he was doing"
! We'll, that's likely enough. But L
wish to call your attention very par
ticulariy 10 the position of this house
/ i'm the garden OF which the bust was
1 destroyed"