Western Kansas world. [volume] (WaKeeney, Kan.) 1885-current, 1910-08-13

side, as there had been an accident
there, and Mr.. Arnold Armstrong had
been shot. He dressed hastily, gath
cred up some instruments, and drove
to Supnyside.
He was met by Mr.. Jarvis, who took
him at once to the east wing. There,
just as he had fallen, was the body of
Arnold Armstrong. There was no
need of the instruments; the man was
dead. In answer to the coroner's
question-no, the body had not been
moved, save to turn it over. It lay
at the foot of the circular staircase.
Yes he believed death had been in
Simultaneous. The body was still some
what warm and rigor mortis had not
set in. 1t occurred late in cases of
sudden death. No, he believed the
probability of suicide might be elm
mated; the wounds could have been
self-infiicted, but with difficulty, and
there had been no weapon found.
The doctors examination was over,
but he hesitated and cleared his
throat
MIR. Coroner" he said, eat the risk
of taking up valuable time, I would
like to speak of an incident that may
or may not throw some light on this
matter"
The audience was alert at once.
Kindly proceed, DOCTOR" the coro-
ner said.
My home is in Englewood, two
| miles from Casanova" the doctor be-
| gan. "In the absence of DIR. Walker,
a number of Casanova people have
| been consulting me. A month ago
five weeks, to be exact-a woman
whom 1 had never seen came to my
| Office She was in deep mourning and
kept her veil down, and she brought
for examination child, a boy of six.
| The little fellow was i'll; it looked like
| typhoid, and the mother was frantic.
| She wanted a permit to admit the
| youngster to the Children's hospital
| in town here, where I am a member
| of the staff, and 1 gave her one. The
incident would have escaped me, but
for curious thing Two days before
| Mr.. Armstrong was shot, 1 was sent
for to go to the Country club; some
one had been struck with a golf-ball
| that had gone wild. 1t was late when
| 1 left was on foot, and about mile
| from the club, on the Clayburg road
| 1 met two people They were disput
| ing violently, and had no difficulty in
| recognizing Mr.. Armstrong. The WON
an. beyond doubt, was the one who
had consulted me about the child"
At this hint of scandal, Mrs. Ogden
Fitghugh sat up very straight. Jamie
son was looking slightly skeptical
i and the coroner made a note.
THE Children's hospital, you say
i doctor2" he asked
Yes But the child, who was en-
tered as Lucien Wallace, was taker
away by his mother two weeks ago
1 have tried to trace them and failed
All at once 1 remembered the tele
gram sent to Louise by some one
signed F. L. W.-presumably DIR
Walker. Could the yelled woman be
the Nina Darlington of the message.
But 1t was only idle speculation. had
no way of finding out, and the inquest
was proceeding.
The report of the corouer's physi
clan came next The post=mortem ex
animation showed that the bullet had
entered the chest in the fourth LEFT
intercostal space and had taken ar
oblique course downward and back
ward, piercing both the heart and
lungs The left lung was collapsed
. and the exit point of the ball had beer
found in the muscles of the back &c
the left of the spinal column It was
improbable that such a wound had
been seif-indicted, and its obliqu<
downward course pointed to the fac
that the shot had been fred from
above In other words. as the muir
j dered man had been found dead Al
the foot of staircase. It was prob
able that the shot had been fred b