Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-17
BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS

which ism really worth considering he would have been
bleeding profusely that he must have left traces
Exactly. Keep the stand please, Mr.. Swart.
wish to interrupt your testimony briefly and informally
Professor Kent will you kindly tell the Jury of the
dition in which you found Miss Wayland's desk"
"The desk stands in Miss Waylands library"
planned Kent. Half an hour after the explosion when
Miss Wayland sat at it, it intact. Sometime within
the next hour and half the drawer in which she kept
certain belongings locked entered. This drawer is
large fiat above the open part of the desk beneath
which the knees of writing pass. The bottom
hastily and roughly cut and most OF the contents OF the
drawer removed. Letters and papers were found
just outside of the windows of the room. There
money in the drawer, according to the owners
best recollection But certain papers and accounts
now missing; also box containing headache powders"
"Thank YOU said the Coroner. "NoW, gentlemen
of the jury you will note the popularity of the powders
being kept, while of the papers abandoned
This have been accident; it may have been design
If the latter call your notice to the possibility of such
powders being retained for suicidal use in case of dis
covery.'
Had the jury and the witness the stand been less
absorbed by the turn of interest thus abruptly
given they might have perceived Geographic glance
from the Coroner to Kent, followed by nod of approx
ing satisfaction from the professor The smile broad
ened almost into a grin when Juryman, rising asked
Were these powders poisonous"
"That is matter that will inquire into replied
physician"
ayes, Sir. To limited extent, still am. Those
powders are of my prescribing"
"Dld they contain poisono"
"Why, yes in They contained very potent
drug, acetanilid'
"That is coal tar product, which relieves certain
forms of headache by depressing influence the heart
action thus decreasing the flow of blood to the head?"
ayes, Dr. Shurteff.'
"Please tell the jury whether it is dangerous to life"
"Not in the ordinary dosage that these powders
tanned two and half grains each
"How much would be certainly fatal dose?'
"Oh, ten times that with reasonable certainty for
normal person"
"Twenty five grains. Were there enough powders in
the box to make up, in total that amount of acetan
Hardly if my aunts recollections are correct
THAT is all, think, said the Coroner, and the wit
ness left the stand, patiently puzzled by the strange
diversion of the line of inquiry.
There followed an interim during which DIR. Shurtlef
conversed with Chester Kent in low tones and the jury
got their heads together in consultation Presently the
foreman rose.
"Mr Coroner said he without reference to the ex-
istence nonexstence of accompice, have
reached our decision in this case"
"1f the decision, began the Coroner, concerns
Dennis BOYLE
"Then Professor Kent requests that it be postponed
for the arrival of belated witness"
THE chug of a motorcar was heard outside Kent,
stepping to the window, beckoned. There entered
a small, wry plainly dressed man. with his head and
face swathed in bandages that only the mouth chin,
conner could speak Miss Celia Wayand was on her feet
and had him by the shoulder, which she proceeded to
shake vigorously.
"Dennv BOYLE" she cried, and from that moment the
examination became most informal and irregular
process, "s this you?"
"Yes'm," said the swathed figure.
"Where have you been?"
II dunno, Mum. Leastways, not till come to in
Baltimore, Num-"
"How you in such condition."
"Well, Mum, tuck drop or two of somethn'-"
Beast" said Miss Wayland.
"Yes'm," meekly assented the swathed figure. "An'
then got into fight, an got the worst of it"
"Rutfian!"
"Yes'm. So when l come to myself, an seen in the
papers that there dynamitin, an that they
for putin it an that Professor Kent didn't be-
lieye telenIoned him from Baltimore an he SAWS