Barbour County index., 1910-08-10

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 Sunnyside.
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 coroners
question-no, the body had not been
moved save to turn it over. 1t lay
at the foot of the circular staircase
Yes, he believed death had been in
stantaneous. 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-inf1icted, but with difficulty, and
there had been no weapon found.
The doctors examination was over,
but he hesitated and cleared his
throat
Mr. Coroner" he said, "at the risk
of taking up valuable time, l 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-
|
| 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 permit to admit the
youngster to the Children's hospital
in town here, where 1 am member
of the staff, and I gave her one. The
incident would have escaped me, but
for curious thing. Two days before
Mr.. Armstrong was shot, I 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
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. Ogde1
Fitghugh sat up very straight jamie
son was looking slightly skeptical
and the coroner made a note.
The Children's hospital, you say
doctor?" he asked.
Yes. But the child, who was en-
tered as Lucien Wallace, was takeI
away by his mother two weeks ago
: 1 have tried to trace them and failed
All at once / remembered the tele
: gram sent to Louise by some ont
signed F. L. W--presumably DR.
Walker. Could the yelled woman b,
, the Nina Darlington of the message
But it was only idle speculation. 1 hat
| no way of finding out, and the inques
was proceeding.
The report of the coroner's physi
clan came next The post-mortem ex
animation showed that the bullet hat
entered the chest in the fourth lef
} intercostal space and had taken al
oblique course downward and back
!. ward, piercing both the heart ant
lungs. The left lung was collapsed
t and the exit point of the bali had beel
!. found in the muscles of the back tt
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improbable that such a wound hat
) been self-inflicted. and its obliqu
: downward course pointed to the fac
3 that the shot had been fired from
3 above. In other words, as the mur
2 dered man had been found dead a
D the foot of staircase, it was prob
: able that the shot had been fired b,