Year: 1879

Lawyer TerThit was q very shrewd
man and clever criminal expert. The
authorities were duly notified Of the
dreadful crime which had been porpetra-
ted, and measures were taken to find q
clue to the guilty person or persons.
The motive was clearly plumber. The
perpetrator or perpetrators knew that
the doctor kept .valuables in his apart
ments. It would also seem as though
| they knew where there was a defective
window. The points presented in the
case were numerous and pregnant:
/. There was no possible means OF
access to the appointments of the doctor
except by the window already spoken Of.
That this had been used was evil
dent. It was twelve feet from the ground.
There were marks of feet on the coping
Just below, as though some one had
walked along it from the corner, clinGing
to the windows, Oh purpose to avoid
leaving traces. Immediately below in
the soil there were no marks of feet, and
no impression Of any sort other than
those already mentioned, namely : the
marks of the knees the toes and the left
hand. These, it was very clear, had
been made by a person in falling, and
were turned away from the window, the
toe-marks being nearest and the hand
marks furthest OFF. These impressions
were evidently made by the murderer in
his descent from the window. The bot
tom of the window sash showed on it
stains Of blood, with pieces of skin adj
herring. How had the blood and skin
come there?


2. The throat of the doctor had been
cut as the murderer stood at his left side.


The knife was clearly drawn from
right to left, and hence the cash III the
bolster on the left side. The position of
the knife on the left side Of the bed,
where the assassin had dropped it, also
proved that he stood on that side when
IG tiC- t6lItttttI Tic oCtu.


8. On the soil outside the window
there were impressions of his knees, two
toes, and left hand only. The person
forcing the lock of the desk had leaned
against the right wall, and evidently
worked with his left hand. The person
who welded the fatal knife had used the
left hand, for the wound slanted upward
from the edge, and was made from the
left side. If made from the left side
with the right hand It would either have
been straight or inclined from the en-
trance of the knife downward. A mo-
ment's thought will show the justress Of
this reasoning.


4. Was the perpetrator left handed :?
He might have been; but in that case
why did he not fall on the right hand as
well as the left in descending, or rather
falling from the window?


). Had the murderer only one hand,
and that the left? That seemed to be
the fact, and then the remarkable coinci-
dence presented itself of man with
only the left arm being murdered by a
man with only the left arm.


6. Were the dog and the murderer old
friends. If they were the savage beasts
quietness was accounted for.


Wisobeach is on the Wash, a small
arm Of the sea, and does a small coast
trade. Seafaring men live there. Half
a mile from DIR. Hunston's resided one
Joseph Harell, an old man-of-war's man.
He had lost the right arm by the explo-
sion Of gun when firing a salute, and
had received his discharge. He was in
middle life and the head of gang of
smugglers who frequented the Norfolk
coast. He was pretty hard character.
Suspicion Of having killed DR.. Hunston
fell on this man from the fact of his hav-
ing only the left arm. He was actually
arrested and examined as to his wherea-
bouts on the night of the murder. 1t
was SC clearly proved that he was else
where that all suspicion faded away.


Lawyer Terwhit found himself execu-
tor of the dead mans will. and went to
work to settle the estate. All the pro-
perty, with the exception of few trifiing
legacies, was bequcathed to James Hun
ston.


This young man was notified of his
fathers sudden end, and he hastened
down to Wisbeach. He had recently
had fall from q horse and sprained his
| right hand, which he carried In a sling.
He did not stay at his late uncle's resi-
dence but at hotel, and as soon posi-
bic settled all tie affairs of the estate
which needed his presence, and returned
TO London. He listened to all the theo-
ries as to the preparation OF the crime
with deep attention, and only made one
remark. When the circumstance oi
| there having been found the marks OF
two knees and ten toes, and of only one
hand, was mentioned, young Hunston
said:


"Is it not just possible that those
marks were made by my father himself
He might have fallen, for you know he
was fond of going among the flower beds
and examining leaves and beetles an6
worms and such Ike.


This set Lawyer Terwhit to thinking
The doctor was proyerbially carelessly
man in his attire, and if he had fallen OF


the damp soil, as suggested, his clothe.


would show it. They were examined


but there was nothing to indicate tha


such an accident had happened. Blu


the lawyer had suddenly acquired a the


ory of his own, and he resolved to Sc,


whittier it led.


When Young Hunston quilted Wis


beach he went to peterboro to await til