The Key West citizen. [volume] (Key West, Fla.) 1879-current, 1934-05-31

Our stranger IS sitting very com.
fortahly at the table. drinking and
smoking. very much at home and at
ease. Everything Is in normal order.
The man is in formal dress and
bears a startling resemblance TO Mr..
Dufresne. So. IL Hamill recognized
him at all. he would mistake him
for the master Of the house. Ger
tainly there Is no reason why Hamill
should want to shoot Dufresne, but
nevertheless they killed each other
with a remarkable unity of purpose.
That's pretty stir dose Of theory
to swallow!"
1T sounds crazy to me-" Laiferty
agreed. AS you say. door could
hardly be banging away for nearly
two hours without some OF the
neighbors doing something about it.
On the other hand. doors don't open
Of themselves and set their locks
so that they can't shut again. II
Hamill had left the door unattached
behind him. 1t would have banged
shut just once and locked itself"
"Weli. like It or not. all our evi.
dence states that the door could not
have been touched after the shoot.
ing. since both men were dead. We
have only to examine the snow to
see that Connally and HiIleary were
the next TO enter the house. Con-
sidering the shooting asa separate
action, we get into another maze.
Our mystery man must have
shot HamiIl twice before Hamill
fred at him, for Doc Miller assured
me that death must have been in.
Simultaneous and his position IN that
chair confirms It. But there we have
the dilemma-either our intruder
shot HamiIl after he himself was
shot through the brain, which ID
surely impossible. or else Hamill
fired with extraordinary accuracy
after being shot in the breast twice.
once through the heart
IN low In q single exchange OF
shots there exists q bare nlathe-
matical chance for two men TO plug
each other 50 neattyE but that third
bullet throws. Il. INF confusion ~
has me- guessing ADD tslfss 6afiin
guessing. too" khesSgekak
They sat silent fof ! few ihkiAtdtk /
and both pairs Of eyes were tAeukht
fully focused on the little row Of
twisted bullets. The thin Iife1 that
held their tags glisteHdd 81 lily IN
the pheasant morning slA
Harper Strengthened ~ ilh de-
termination. Lets pass on B the
unknown mans movements" he
suggested. so far as We know. no
was not hiding here Ia the house al
the time. Assuming that he was the
writer Of the threatening letters to
Dufresne. It works out something
like this:
he somehow managed 70 tran
Dufresne when the latter LETT the
city. On the return trip. he must
have followed his intended victim
until be learned which route he was
taking. then passed him and hurried
ahead to pick out Q good spot for
the ambush. where he waited"
THAT means he had . car at his
disposal" Lafferty interiected.
''Yes. After he had fred at Du.
fresno and the latter made good his
escape, be returned to his car and
came back to the city by some other
road. That would be easy.
"The autopsy has shown that he
ate about ave o'clock. As this was q
cooked meal. he could not have
come directly here and foraged for
food. BY the time he got to this
house, say between tive-tllirty and
six. the snow was coming sinMn in
earnest. but the fall was still 81, hin
that his tracks we're completely rus
cred over later"
1T would not have been safe s,,f
him 10 come sOonrs. l.alfrrts said
Remember. there we're paill,,is
working on the third door rooms
until four o'clock and The Wilt.
mores did not lock up and 90 to
their rooms over the garage until
ave"
"We don't know how he got In"
Harper resumed. but there are no
marks Of forcibls entry anywhere
AMI there were neither keys nor bur.
glar tools found In his possession 10
fact. 30 little was found on his per.
son that rye come to the conclusion
his pockets were looted or else he Il
wearing some one else's clothing
that's an ideal II he put on
facial disguise to look like Dufresns
perhaps he put on one Of DuIreane's
suits
Exactly. There must be more
traces Of him IN this house than We
have found. For instance. & d al
most certain that he shaved himself
after he got hers.s
LaRerty whixtled. zone up On mo
there. StevA That one got past mes
-Ie ron had looked closely at hia
face. ycu'd have seen that Ne was
very freshly shaver. Here and there
Ne missed . hair. which No sslt-re-
spectinE barber would have doae.s
fCessrtsAt. 1881. ~ wolssv o. Brsum)