Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-04-20

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"And if he did not commit suicide
he did not kill his uncle, for that alone
was the only logically existing mo-
tive which could have driven him to
death at his own hands. Therefore
Gustav Conrad is entirely innocent!
Dual paused and looked about the
room and smiled.
"And so, gentlemen, as soon as
knew where the wound was / knew
equally that Conrad had been the vic
tim of dastardly plot. That alone
sufficed to, start me to searching for
the man who crept upon him last
night and shot him down with a re-
volver equipped with Maxim ST.
lencer."
The cigar fell from Mallet's fingers
l glanced at him and saw that his
jaw had dropped, and that surprised
horror sat upon his face.
"How," he began-"how do you
knew that a silencer was used?"
There was no shot heard, for one
thing" returned Dual. eve must re-
member that the uncle slept only a
little way off in connected suite.
He was old, and probably light
sleeper. Had he heard the shot he
would undoubtedly have risen and at
tempted to investigate, but the evil
dence shows that he was not disturb
ed, and that he was strangled in his
bed. Probably the assasin's hands
themselves reused him from Sleep"
Mallet had picked up his cigar and
now fumbled it into his mouth. He
nodded.
"Aside from that" continued Dual,
1--WE can learn the same fact from the
powder marks. DR.. Sommers describ-
ed these to me. l have in the past
made careful study of the actions of
firearms. l have been with armies in
the field, and have observed various
gunshot wounds inflicted in every
manner.
"a gun equipped with silencer
makes peculiar mark, different from
one not so provided. The marks on
Conrad's forehead and eyelid are
those which weapon so equipped
would produce. Yet there was no si-
lencer on Conrad's gun. Here again
the assassin's very precaution proves
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was there"
Granting that you have proved
that there was third party who did
all this, how does it help to show who
it may have been?" said Mallet as
Dual paused.
THAT will develope as we go along.
1t is the next step l shall consider,
Mr.. Mallet," responded Dual.
He reached out and picked up the
notebook containing the measure
ments of the footprints which we had
made.
Briefly" he began, 1--WE may de-
scribe the murderer as man slightly
uiiuel SiS iSSI, say 'poue NV iSSe
eleven inches in height, well built,
wearing probably number eight and
half OF nine glove, of medium
complexion, with brown hair and a
reddish brown mustache, and quite
muscular. | deduce this description
from several things.
In ha firSt r,la.a have tho
measurements of two of his foot
prints which indicate that he probably
wears number eight shoe. Figur-
ing from averages this would give us
his probable approximate height.
This is also supported by the fact that
he entered the house last night
through an open window some five
feet from the ground. He entered by
reaching over the sill, gripping the
inner ledge and raising himself by
his hands until he could throw leg
over the sill, which we must admit is
not the act of man muscularly
weak
"His height is also further shown
by the fact that the foot of the leg he
threw over the sill first struck the
floor inside on the heel of the shoe. A
smaller man would have reached for
the floor with his toe. This, then,
may be said to prove his being tall
man.
Furthermore, when he reached
through the window and seized the
sill he naturally left the marks of
his firmly gripping fingers on the
wood. Those marks were found, and
here'-he turned and picked up the
carbon tracing of the marks johnson
had hrought-"is their record taken
today by. the police"
"And the hairs prove his complex
ion!" fairly chortled Bryce. Cad
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