The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-08-04


those particulars of the crime which out in the po
lice investigation, but good deal was suppressed
upon that occasiou since the case for the pFosecu-
tion was Overwhelmingly strong that it was not
necessary bring forward all the facts Only now,
at the end of nearly years, allowed to supply
those missing links which make up the whole of that
remarkable chain. The crime of interest IN itself
but that interest nothing to compared to the
nconcevable sequel, which afforded the greatest
shock and surprise OF any event IN my adventurous
life. Even now, after this long interval / find my
self thrilling think of it, and feeling once more
that sudden flood OF JOY amazemcnt and lncredul
ity which utterly submerged my mind Let me say
that public. which has shown some interest in those
glimpses which have occasionally given them of the
thoughts and actions of very remarkable man, that
they not to blame if have not shared my knowl-
edge with them, for should have considered 1t my
first duty have done so, had not been barred by
a positive prohibition from bis lips which
only withdrawn upon the third of last month.
It be gined that my close intimacy with
Sherlock Holmes had interested me deeply in crime,
and that after his disappearance | failed to
read with the various problems which came
before the public. And ] even attempted more than
once, for my private satisfaction to employ his
methods their solution, though with indifferent
success. There none however. which appealed
to like this tragedy of Ronald Adar AS / read
the evidence at the inquest, which led up to
dict of wilful murder against person per
unknown, ! realized more clearly than [ had
tanned by the death of Sherlock Holmes. There
points about this strange business which would. L
was sure, have specially appealed to him, and the
efforts of the police would have been supplemented,
or more probably anticipated, by the trained observ
alton and the alert mind of the first criminal agent
in Europe. All day, | drove upon my round
/ turned over the III my mind and found no
explanation which appeared to to be adequate
At the risk Of telling twice told tale will recaptu
late the facts they known to the public at the
conclusion of the inquest
The Honorable Ronald Adair was the second son
of the Earl of Maynooth at that time governor of
of the Australian colonies Adair's mother had
returned from Australia 10 undergo the operation
for cataract, and She her Ronald and her daugh
ter Hlda, were living together at 427 Park Lane
The youth moved III the best society-had far as
known, enemies and particular vices He had
been engaged to Miss Edith Woodley, of Carstairs,
but the engagement had been broken off by mutual
consent some months before, and there was sign
that it had left any very profound feeling behind
it. For the rest the man s life moved in narrow
and conventional circle, for his habits were quiet
and his nature Unconditional Yet it was upon this
going young arstocrat that death came in most
strange and unexpected FORM between the hours of
10 and 1l:2o on the night of March 30, 1894
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HIM He was member Of the Baldwin, the Caven-
after dinner the day of his death, he had played
rubber OF whist at the latter club. He had also
Hardy and Colonel Moran-showed that the game game
the cards might haye lost e ePon pounds but ut
not more. HIS fortune was considerable one, and
played nearly every day al the club or other but he
was cautious player. and usually a winner II
Moran he had actually won as much as four hundred
ara ard fTenty pounds IN sitting some weeks before
for his recent history it came out at the inquest
t On Gn the ss sre1ng Of Of the e. crime he returned from
ant deposed that she heard him enter the front room
She had lit fire there and as Il smoked sbe Sad
opened the window. No sound was heard from the
Maynooth and her daughter. Desiring to say good
night, she attempted to enter her son S room The
be got to their cries and knocking Help was OBJ.
tanned, aud the door forced The Unfortunate young
been horribly mutilated by expanding revolver
bullet but no Weapon Of any, sort was to be found
ten pounds each and seventeen pounds ten in silver
and gold. the money arranged in little piles of vary
Of paper, with the of club friends oppo.
site them; from which it couiectured that be,
losses winnings cards.
minute examination of the circumstances served
place no reason could be given why the young man
should have fastened the door upon the inside There
and had afterwards escaped by the window. The
drop was at least twenty feet, however, and a bed
flowers the earth showed any sign OF having been
disturbed nor were there any marks upon the mar.
strip of grass which separated the house from
the road Apparently. therefore it the Young
man himself who had fastened the door But how did
he come by his deathl No could have climbed mn
10 the window without leaving traces. Suppose a
man had fired through the window, he would indeed
be remarkable shot who could with revolver infIict
SO deadly wound Again Park Lane is a frequented
thorouahfare; there is cabstand within hundred
wards of the house No had heard shot And
vet there was the dead man, and there the revolver
bullet which had mushroomed soft nosed hui.
lets will and inflicted wound which must have
caused instantaneous death. Such the circum.
stances Of the Park Lane mystery which further
complicated by entire absence of motive. since as !
have said young Adsir not known 10 have anv
enemy, and no attempt had been made to remove the
money valuables in the
All day turned these facts in my mind en-
deavoring 10 hit upon theory which could recon
cile them ALL and to find that line of least resistance