Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1908-12-17
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said, addressing the magistrate:
''How did Mile Stangerson wear her
hair on that EVENING"
Il don't know replied NJ. de Mar
quet
CHATS a very important point" said
Rouletabille Her hair was done UP
in bands, wasn't it? ! feel sure that
on that evening, the evening Of the
crime, she had her hair arranged in
bands"
"Then you are mistaken, NJ Roule-
tabille.' replied the magistrate. Mile.
Stangerson that evening had her hair
drawn up in a knot on the top Of her
head. her usual way of arranging it,
her forehead completely uncovered. 1
can assure you, for we have carefully.
examined the wound There was no
blood on the hair, and the arrangement
of it has not been disturbed since the
crime was committed"
A>""You are sure? You are sure that
on the night of the crime she had not
her hair in bandsY
=, "Quite sure the magistrate contin-
ned, smiling, because | remember the
doctor saying to me while he was ex
amining the wound: 1t is a great pity
Mile. Stangerson was in the habit Of
drawing her hair back from her fore
head If she had worn it in bands
the blow she received on the temple
would have been weakened 1t seems
strange to me that you should attach
80 much Importance to this point
"Oh, if she had not her hair in bands
u give it up" said Rouletabille, with
despairing gesture.
'And was the wound on her temple
a bad one?" he asked presently.
Terrible"
with what weapon was it nader
"That is a secret of the investiga-
tlon."
"Have you found the weapon-what-
ever it wasY
The magistrate did not answer
"And the wound in the throat"
Here the examining magistrate read
lily confirmed the decision Of the doc
tor that. if the murderer had pressed
her throat few seconds longer, Mile.
Stangerson would have died Of stran-
gulation,
1.-THE affair as reported in the Matin,"
said Rouletabille eagerly, "seems to me
more and more iheXpicable. Can you
tell me, monsieur, how many openings
there are in the pavilion? l mean
doors and windows"
"There are FIVE" replied Monsieur
de Marquet, after having coughed once
or twice, but no longer resisting the
desire he felt to talk Of the whole Of
the incredible mystery of the affair he
was investigating. There are five, Of
which the door Of the vestibule is the
only entrance to TIE payHion-a door
always automatically closed, which
cannot be opened, either from the out
err or inside. except with the two spe-
cial keys which are never out Of the
Toesc eion Of either Daddy Jacques or
NJ Stangerson Mile St9n@ersOn had
no need Tor me, since Daddy Jacques
lodged in the pavilion and be-
cause, during the daytime, she never
left her father. When they, all four
rushed into the yellow room after
breaking open the door Of tho labora-
tory, the door in the vestibule re-
manned closed as usual and Of the two
keys for opening it Daddy Jacques had
one in his pocket and NJ StangersOn
the other. AS to the windows of the
pavilion, there are four. the one win
dow of the yellow room and those of
the laboratory looking out Oh to the
country, the window in the vestibule
looking into the park"
'It is by that window that he escap-
ed from the payilionw cried Rouleta-
bile.
"How do you know that?"
"How? Oh, the thing is simple
enough! AS soon as he found he could
not escape by the door Of the pavilion
his only way out was by the window
In the vestibule. unless he could pass
through grated window. The win
dow of the yellow room is secured by
iron bars. because 1t looks out upon
the open country; the two windows of
the laboratory have 10 he protected in
like maHre" for nc r91c Y,nson -
the mprd"rer gc- avta' Le9aselre rha-|
he found {, VIA lt .'.:s Nsf o. bar
red--fhat Of fhe vesflllle Mitch oucns