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

ssThen how do you explain Mr.. Langley = a.
demanded Harrington. ' Ny, theory Of spark 4
cigar may be true, after all. ~
rI am coming to that in moment AM
Kennedy quietly. "My first suspicion was aroS
what not even Dr. Putnam seems to have noticed
skull OF Mr. Langley, charred and consumed as
seemed to show marks Of violence. 1t might bsc.
from fracture of tho skull or it might have H.
accident to his rcnaius as they were being remn,
the aDteroom. Again his tongue seemed as tbor
Was protruding. That might have been natural
cation, or it might have been from forcible strs,
tion. So far had nothing 9 but conjecture to wpi
table on tho hardwood floor, spot-iust ous /
round spot Now, deductions from spots, even (,
know them to be blood, must be made very cas,S
| did not know this TO be bloodspot, and so wasX
careful ut first.
''Let us assume it was d blood. spot howeycr
@ auitc thick, Now, drops of blood falling onIy iya
inches usually make POUND spot with smo6h
der Still the surface on which tho drop falls is
as much factor as the helgnt from which it fs4|
this was a smooth surface and not absorbcut \
thickness of dried blood spot on pon'absorbiul
fallen This was a thick spot. Now if il had
say six feet, the height of Mr., Langley the spot
have been thin-some secondary spatters might
been seen, or at least an irregular edge around
spot. Therefore If it was blood spot, it had +
only one or two feet. ! ascertained next thu
lower part of the body showed no wounds or br
whatever.
s'Tracks OF blood such as are left by dragaI
bleeding body differ very greatly from tracks cI
toral blood which are left when the victim has str
to move himself, Continuing my speculations, mn
ing it to be blood spot, what did it indicated QS
that Mr. Langley was struck by somebody on ths +
with heavy instrument, perhaps in another part 81
room, that he choked, that as the drops OF b
oozed from the wound on his bead, he was ds
across the floor III the direction Of tho fireplace
But, Professor Kennedy interrupted d. \
nam. ''have you proved that the spot was a blood
Might it not have been a paint spot or somcta
that sort9"
Kennedy had apparently been waiting for JUL 4
"Ordinariiy, water has no effect paint !"
swered. Il found that the spot could be wash
with water. That is not all have a test for u
that is so dellcately sensitive that the blood q
Egyptian mummy thousands of years old will ra1
10 it. 1t was discovered by German scentH'
Uhlenhuth, and was no longer ago than last wlnts1
piled in England in connection with the Clapham|
der The suspected murderer declared that star
his clothes were only spatters OF paint, but tAe
proved them TO be spatters, of blood Walter, IN
the cage with tho rabbits
I opened the door and took the cage from
groom, who had brought it up from the stable and
waiting i19 with it some distance i away y,
Craig, as placed the cage on the table aud ia.
unwrappcd the sterlized testtubes. GA rabbit
oculated with human blood, and after time the 4
that is taken from the rabbit supplies the mateIlt
the test.
81 will insert this needle in one Of these a
which has been so InocuIated and will draw off s
the serum, which [ place in this test-tube to tbei
The other rabbit has not been inoculated. dnl
some of its serum and place that tube here on III
we will call that our control tube 1t will
the results of our tests.
Wrapped up in this paper | have the scrana|
the spot which ! found on the foor-just few ID
Of dark, dried powder To shoW how sensitive u;
is, will take ouly of the smallest of these ID
scrapiDgs. | dissolve it in this third tube witt
titled water. will even di vide il in half, and
the other half in this fourth tube,
''NeXt I add some Of the serum of the uniuocl|
rabbit to the half in this tube. You observe, rd
happens. I add little of the serum of the inoNI
rabbit 10 the other half in this other tube Oh
how delicate the test IS
Kennedy was leaning forward, almost obliviaa
the rest of us in the room talking almost il o|
self. We, too, had riveted our eyes on the tube.
AS he added the serum from the inoculatsd q
cloudy milky RUG formed almost Immediately ID
hthezto e4; colorless very dilute blood solution
tube aloft, that conclusively proves that tlsu
round spot on the hardwood door was not pslb
not anything in this wide world but blood
No one in the room said word, but kne13
must have been some one there who thought voN
IN the few minutes that elapsed
Having found one blood spot, began to]
about for more, but able 10 6pd only two OF \
traces where spots seemed to have been The ~
that the blood spots had been apparently csfeF
wiped up That is an easy matter Hot water and
or hot water alone or even cold water, will make
short work of fresh blood spotsat least TO all ou
appearances, But nothing but most thorough q
when they are apparently wiped out. It is a css
Lady Macbeth over again, crying In the face Of mo
science, Out out. damned spot
was able with sufficient defniteness TO
roughly a course of blood spots from the hreplar
point near the door Of the living room. But bs>
the door, in the ball, nothing
'sStill, - interrupted Harm gton, "to get hsrl
the facts in the They perfectly IN "a
either with my theory of tho cigar or the Record
spontaneous combustion. How do you account for
facts2''
II suppose you refer TO tho charred head
burned neck, the upper chest cavity, while the
aud legs were uutouched3'
Yes, and then the body was found in tho mid
combustiblc furniture that not touched. IL
10 me that even The spontaneous combustion theol1
considerable support in spite of this very inter-
clrcumstantial evidence about blood spots NeI
own theory. the combustion theory seems most ~
mony with tho facts. ="
''If you will go in your mind all tho Z
proved to have been discovered-not the added
in the Record story-I think you will agree w'1
that mine Is a moro logical interpretation than
taneous combustion reasoned Craig. 'HeaE ~
and you Will sec that the facts moro IN hssH
with my less fanciful explanation. No, someone Z,
Lewis Langley down either in passion or IN coia Y
and then. seeing what he had douc, mado q des3E<
effort to destroy tho evidence of violence, Conso'
next discovery
Kennedy placed the five glasses which aao
fully sealed and labeled The table before us
''rho next step he said, ''was TO find ou1 "
er any articles of clothing iii the house showed Il
that might be suspected of being blood spots Ano
must beg the pardon of all in the room Tor in'I n
in their private wardrobes, But in this crlsls ~
absolutely necessary and under such clrcumStac''