Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1916-01-28

the floor. dead 'He lay upoa
But what | can't see" Doo.
dirk was saying-they were ~ w Hen
cred in Felix Hazards nrivsta al sath.
the doctor, Helen, Hazard = ou uace--
last-named's chief-''what 7 o ana ths|
is how you arrived at your coo oan see
ing!" dStound,
Really, it was all very s;r,n
deed one of the simplest nrnh p.s' IN
ever was called upon to soIva 9'S1 ~
ard returned modestly. AS nag
of fact, / knew the answer u,;t, ma.ler
minutes after you left me tbis 'n i've
Ing. All that Miss Bertel and IiO m
this afternoon was to conn., ua
rather, find a means of estohrs, ,0f'
the conclusions. ''Su'as'
Ihere were three factors v,h,.,
taken together, made the cono,~ "Iea
inevitable. These were the foot ' ~
you had administered stropbantbr .u a
Mrs. Forsythe the night baforo -
died, that her husband had o.r guy
ton of African weapons and that V tba'.
were three insurance noIio;ns
though he never suspected tba+ :,
largest, upon which she had hnan ,a
ing premiums, was doubly beyona V n
reach. His thoughts and sensations
must have been horrible when bo ~
allied that the murder Of hiO wiz,
had produced so paltry an amount
But before moving in the case
satisfied myself upon two asnecto n
the affair that strengthened nv nosi
ton: ! obtained the mans record and
obtained a full statement Of III
bankrupt condition. The resi- NO.
merely a matter of happening ia h
possessed of scrap of uncommon
knowledge"
Hazard fell silent, and sat musng
moment before taking up the thread
of his recital.
IT'S trite to repeat that Whenever
crime is committed, no matter how
shrewd or intelligent the criminal d
how carefully every factor that NIGH
leave a clue pointing toward detection
is provided against, some detail is I'M
variably overlooked; the one thin
Justice is sure to pounce upon ID
bring down retribution upon the pen
petrator.
"This case is a pointed ILLUSTRATION
OF the truism. It is probable that FOr
sythe had no idea that strophanthus
has an established place in materis
medica; it is possible that he ddn
even know the drug by that name
he did know, however, its deadly prop
critics and that under the variou
names of inee, Poison Of Polionias Of
Komba, it has from time immemOria
been used by many African tribes i
poison their spears and arrows. Is
| pecially in the region round abou
| Somaliland is to be found the dead
Hest of all the genus, the strophanthu
hispidus, from the seeds Of which
obtained a glucoside so fatal that al
elephant wounded by one of the litt
arrows impregnated with it will dro
dead before it can run ten miles,
But today I made one blunder
when let the maid carry to be
master information Of deputy corq
ner's surprising interest in his colleC
ton, while at the same time Their
was a strange woman with the dead
albeit she was an undertakers asSiSl
ant"
"How did you guess about the spin
ter?" asked the doctor.
"Well, that touches upon another
stance of the diabolical deliberatlO
with which he went about murderln
his wife. In the beginning he mao
a solution from several of the arrow
tips, but the poison doubtless has l09
| much of it's potency through age an
long exposure to the air. At any rat
it was not strong enough to produc
fatal results when administered i
ternally. But I found one arrow lrOl
which splinter had recently OsF
cut, and when Miss Bertel repof'S
that the body bore not the sllgn'sI
mark, /, by signs-for the maid va
watching us closely-conTeyea u
message to her that she look ulu1
the finger-nails. She found the SPIN
ter under the third nail OF the r5
hand-probably placed there WINE u
wife was in fainting or uncohSci0'
state"
By and by Helen Bertel and HaSa
were alone. They sat in silence cav
busy with his or her own taoug ~
The minutes licked away untll luI'
quarter of an hour had passed. W..
something caused Hazard TO saDY
up quickly at the girls sweet la w..
He was surprised to see her IO''
ewes suffused with tears. ,n
what, Helen-what IS ~
asked solicitously.
She met his look. ,oo
@Oh it's so sad, Felix. That p y.
poor woman. Even in death tns N h
ow of a great sorrow lies ap1@
face. And she was so Deautilui :. n