The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1905-09-03

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ally won as much as f420 in sitting
some weeks before from Godfrey Nil
ner and Lord BalmoraL So much for
his recent history as it came out at the
inquest.
On the evening Of the crime he re-
turned from the club exactly at 10.
his mother and sister were out spend
ing the evening with a relative. The
servant deposed thar she heard him en-
ter the front room on the second floor,
generally used as his sitting room.
She had lit a FIRE, and as it smoked she
had opened the window. No sound was
heard from the room until 11:2O, the
hour Of the return Of Lady MaynOoth
and her daughter Desiring to say
good night, she attempted to enter her
sons room. The door was locked on
the inside, and no answer could be got
TO their cries and knocking. Help was
obtained and the door forced. The IN
fortunate young man was found lying
near the table. BIS head had been hor-
rfblV mutilated by an expanding re-
volTer bullet, but no weapon Of any
sort was to be found in the room. On
the table lay two bank notes for E10
each and Ell los. IN silver and gold. the
money arranged IN little piles OF vary
tng amount. There were some figures
also upon a sheet Of paper, with the
names Of some club friends opposite to
them, from which ii was coniecured
( that before his death he was endeavOr-
ing to make ont his losses or winnings
az cards.
A minute examination of the circum-
stances served Oaly to make the case
more complex. In the first place, no
reason could be given why the young
man should have fastened the door
upon the inside. There was the posi-
bility that the murderer had done this
and had afterwari escaped by the win
dow. The drop was at least twenty
/ feet, however, and bed Of cTOcuses in
full bloom lay beneath. Neither the
/ flowers nor the earth showed any sign
of having been disturbed, nor were
there any marks upon the narrow strip
Of grass which separated the house
from The road.
Apparently therefore il was the
young man himself who had fastened
the door. But how did he come by his
death. No one could have climbed
up to the 3-indow without leaving
4 traces. Suppose a man had fred
I through the window, be would indeed
/ be a remarkable shot who could with
a revolver infict so deadly a wound.
I Again. Park lane is a freQucnted thor
( Oughfare- There is cab stand within
a hundred yards OF the house. No one
/ had heard q shot And vet there was
the dead man and there the revolver
/ bullet. which had mushrOomed out,
Z as soft nosed bullets viii. and so in
! ficted a wound which must have caus-
ed instantaneous death Such were
/ the circumstances OF the Park lane
mystery. which were further cOmpli-
/ Gated by entire absence Of motive,
since, as I have said. young Adair was
not known to have any enemy, and no
/ attempt had been made 10 remove the
/ money OF valuables in the room.
All day / turned these facts over In
my mind, endeavoring to hit upon
some theory which could reconcile
f them all and 10 find that line of least
/ resistance which my poor friend had
I declared TO be the starting point Of
/ every investigation. / confess that
made little progress. In the evening
/ 7 srolled across the park and found
I myself about O'Clock at the Oxford
/ street end Of Park lane. A group Of
J l0afers upon the p0vements. all staring
up at a particular window, directed NE