The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-28

doctor saw her, when we were at mis-
house week since, she said 30 him,
laughingly, that he never had treated
her since she was a baby
All, what made her say that?'
She slipped when she was playing
tennis sand bruised her arm badly on
the iron support of the net. DIR. Bes-
wick tied it up for her.
Oh he bandaged her arm, did hep
Yes, it wasn't a serious thing, tut
he went in the house and brought out
a bandage at once He told her 20
keep it on a week and her arm would
be all right
Now, you are quite sure that he
gave her no medicine as well p
"'Quite. I asked her as we were
coming away, for / mistrusted the
man. She laughed at the idea of TAX
ing medicine for a bruise. Besides,
if he had given her poison then the
symptoms would have shown them
selves at once, not some days after
wards
We'll, Mr. Travis, I will have
everything suspicious about the case
investigated. Only I promise moth
ing. 1 feel the doctor is too clever to
have left any evidence behind him that
would convince a jury of his guilt
Don't trouble about juries. Get
II
deal with BesWick'
Il watched his set face as he said
this and felt sure that If the doctor
were guilty he mad more reason to
dread Leonard Travis than any Judge
and jury. 1 made every inquiry, but
the only suspicious fact was that Bes-
wick needed money badly. On the
Monday the young people left bis
house the doctor had gone to New
York. 1 traced his movements there
with ease. In fact. it seemed as If
he must have wished to be traced. He
could not possibly have slipped back
to Chicago and seen his niece on the
sly. My suppOsitiOn that he might
have met her, given her medicine, and
cOntrived to keep her from talking
about it by saying it might alarm her
sick mother, therefore fell to the
ground. Nor could I find that any sus-
picious parcel or letter had been sent
Miss Treville. 1 made a few medical
inquiries. Every doctor / consulted
scoffed at the idea of poison being alb
sorbed into the system from band
age. The bandage itself was not to
be found in any case. &c. reluctantly
1 reported to my client that there as
not a shadow OF a case against Bes-
wick.
only a week since I got at the Sc
Cret of the crime. Don't expect a SEN
sational trial-the doctor is too clever
for that. Just listen to this extract
from a French medical journal:
Professor Stephane Leduc has
been demonstrating in Paris a method
for administering drugs by electricity
He shaved the head of a rabbit and
put a compress Of sulphite of strych
nine on it. The violent poison did the
animal no harm, but Immediately after
the passing of a current of electricity
the rabbit died-the electricity having
introduced the poison into its sys-
tenn
Can you see now what the diaboli-
cal doctor did? He had discovered be-
fore this French professor that sui
phite Of strychnine was harmless
when applied externally unless an cleo
trio current was passed through the
patient He jumped at the opportunity
of bandagirg Miss Treville's arm.
Then he went to New York to prove
an alibi and on plausible excuse sent
an electric battery to Mrs. Treville-
trusting that feminine curiosity would
induce the girl to try it. The electric
shock introduced the violent poison
into her system and she died immedi-
ately. There can be no proof-this is
mere speculation. No policeman can
lay hand on that ornament of the
medical profession. BUT I'll tell you
this. Young Travis is now lin the
northwest hunting big game. 1 have
sent him duplicate of that cutting I
read you. Mark my words. when he
comes back he'll hunt bigger game"
1t was six months after my CONVEX
sation with the great detective that
| read a startling paragraph in my
evening newspaper. It ran:
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