The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1912-12-01

ting off in the motor boat with his uncle and cousin
Craig waved TO him, and he walked up TO meet us
|sWhile you re in Sarapac,' said Craig "buy me
dozen tubes. Only, don = let any one mere %
at the house know you arc buying them. They mgnt
While they wcro gone Kennedy stole into James
Langey's room and after few minutes returned to
room with the buntng-lacket. He carefully exam
ined it With his pocket lens Then he filed drinking
glass with warm boiled water and added few pnches
Of Of table salt VIII Piece of of sterHe4 gsT@s JTm m
few portions Of tho and set the glass aud the sauze
soaking in it aside. Then BIC returned tho coat to tno
closet where he had found it. Next, as silently, be
stole into Junior s room and repeated the process with
his hunting jacket using another glass and piece OF
''Wme / am out of the room, Walter he said,
81 want you TO take these two glasses, cover them ana
tain place the names Of tho owners Of the respective
coats don like this part of it--i hate to play SPY
is nothing else to do, and it is much better for all
Gerned that should play the game secretly Just now
case I'd never forgive myself for starting a family
row, And then again-but We shall SEQ
uedy returned and We went down Stairs again,
Curious about the will, ism t it1' remarked
Eyes . he sn1 replied IT may be Necessary to 60
back to New York to delve that part Of It before
this SG0ah pdn pG bo hSns vs. TO- say that
he had caught the rabbits Kennedy at once hurried
Vein ne IL s his arm and IL Injected small quany 9th Of his
own blood into one of the rabbits. The other he did
1t was late in the afternoon when Tom returned
from town with his uncle and cousin He seemed even
up from the landing and sought US out.
f'What do you think of that!'' he cried, opening
table bHp' u inc '''0'0 'O4 ''H Aa' On TIC 0'''
There the front page was Lewis Langlcy's pic.
ture with huge scarehead:
MYsTERIoUS CASE OF SPONTANEOUS CoMBUS.
TION.
ro,s all out gToS5ned Toni as We bent over to
Under the date Of the day previous, Sarauac dis
patch
Lewis Langley we'll known as sporting man and
Lewis Langley, the banker discovered dead under
the most mysterious circumstances this morning at
The daa Of od tf' IN 'G peRen. Bleak
House" or of the victim in of Marryats most
fact IT is without donbt case of spontaneous human
combustion, such is recorded beyond dispute in med
ical and medcolegal books of the past cen
turies Scientists In this city consulted for the Record
agree that while rare, spontaneous human combustion
IS an established fact and that everything this curl
goes TO show that another has been added 10
the already weauthonticatcd list of recorded in
viewed which seems to Indicate that the rnmors in
medical circles in Saranac have solid basis of fact
Then followed ercumstantial account of the life
of Langley and the events leading TO the discovery
of the body-fairly accurate in itself, but highly col
time here, commented, l finished reading the dis
Ra6 IN Ns yOy they hey mus must have done some hard
sec, after the dispatch follow a lot of interviews
and here is short article spontaneous combustion
Harrington and the of the family had Just come
in.
whats this hear about the Record having an
artices' Harrington asked. Read il aloud profes-
sor, all hear it"
AS Craig finished reading we looked blankly horri.
fed, at one another. 1t was too dreadful to reaze
''What do you think of it, professor,' asked James
Langley, at length. y We read somewhere of such
cases, but to think Of its actually happenng-apd TO
my own brother. Do you really think Lewis could have
met his death in this terrible manner7"
Kennedy made reply. Harrington seemed abb
sorbed IN thought. shudder passed over us as we
thought about it. But gruesome it was, it cvi.
dent that the publication of the story tho Record
had relieved the feelings of the family group in one
respectit at least seemed TO offer explanation 1t
noticeable that tho suspicious air with which every
had regarded every else considerably dis
PEELED.