New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-09-09
PROBLEM OF THE MOTOR BOAT
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artery Inc poison on the court plaster and
that YOU took from Osaka are Identical
The. scientist uucorked the bottle and per
united a single drop of green liquid To fan
ON hls handkerchief. He allowed q minute or
more for evaporation, then handed 10 o.
Detective Mallory who shifted 40 II from a
respectful. distance Then The Thinking
A-.al-e produced the Int of court plaster he
had taken from the dead mans arm. and gain
the detective shifted.
The same, the scientist resumed as he
touched "a lighted match % the handkerchief
and watched II c-uuhle 10 ashes and so
powerful that m It's pure state mere inhalation
-- fatal | permitted DR.. Clnuch 70 make
public ms opinion. heart failure. after the
a-f I1E for obvious reasons. Il would re-
a- ure the murderer for instance. If he saw
II printed, and beside, Dudley did die from
heart tatlure-the poison caused H.
' Next came Identification M Hatch
learned that no French war ship had been
within hundreds Of miles of Boston In months
lae one seen by Captain Barber might have
been one of our own. This man was suppo-ed
O. ac French naval officer and had been
dead less than eight hours. Obviously he did
not come from ship Of his own country.
Then what There We're several posi-
blitles, a fancy dress bail seemed probable.
Absolute accuracy would not be essential
there. " here had there been fancy dress
ball, I trusted 10 the newspapers 10 tell me
that They did y short despatch from a place
on the north shore showed that the night Lee
fore the man was found dead there had been
fancy dre IS ball ~ he Laugham Dudley estate.
Now u Il as necessary TO remember every
fact IN solving a problem as It Is 10 consider
every figure IN arithmetic. Dudley! Here was
the ID tatt1oed on the dead mans hand Al
Americans showed that Langham Dudlev
married Edith Marstou Bedding. Here was the
I. VI. B. on the handkerchief in the boat.
Langharu Dudley was a ship owner, had been
q sailor was a millionaire. Possibly this was
ms own boat, built In France"
We went 10 the Dudley place. The Japan
ese opened the door Japanese poison Tw1
and Two were still making four. Mr.. Dudley
told me frankly that she placed the court
plaster on her husbands arm. From her
manner was convinced that She was innocent.
And them The japanese Osaka here.
/ could see the door Of the boat hoU-e from the
-1nn where we were. Mrs.. Dudley asked
sand he didn't know Then she sent HIM 20
see He returned and sand the boat was not
there. Vet he had u.t gone 10 the boat house
III ALE Ergo. he knew the boat was not there.
trlcked Osaka INTO coming here tva luli-
crous.v simple eNpe.tleut,' The Thinking
Machine went on steadily. "On the tram I
asked 4 he knew iu-r how Nh Dudley got
the body ~ her husband into the boat. Re
mem .er, AT tins point he Vas not supposed o.
know that the body had been II q boat III al
lie said he didn't know, and by that very
answer admitted that he knew the body had
been placed IN the boat He knew because he
pun z there himself, lust as he put the poison
on the court plaster when he Went To- get 1t.
After the ~lgEt injury Dudley evidently
wan lerel out toward the boat house. The
poison was working, and perhaps he fell. Then
Tins man, removing al identifying marks even
Z. tle name III the shoes. put thc body in the
u.-t. and turned On t-I power. He had a. right
L. assume that the boat would te lost .r that
tide and "a loose rulle- brought II into Boston
II--.r- ] DO not attempt To- account for the