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the skull and lodged just above the nose,
and a third was lying under the scalp just
over the vertex of the head. In his report,
Dr. Poole said “the pieces of the bone were
drawn into the membrane of the brain by
the bullet that penetrated over the nose.
One bullet, an inch farther back, had not
penetrated the brain. These two bullets
did not lacerate the brain substance. The
one that penetrated to above the nose no
doubt caused death.”

An inquest was held on April 25th and
Dr. Poole gave the additional evidence that
his examination of the rest of the body dis-
closed nothing else likely to have a bearing
on the death. He was positive that the
wounds could not have been self-inflicted.
And his reasoning seemed to be borne out
by the fact that there were no powder burns
and no weapon was found in the shack.

Doctor Says “BuLitets Not Porson”

One of the jurymen raised the question
of the poison pellets, and the doctor replied
that he didn’t think the man had taken
poison. “If he had taken poison,” said the

doctor, “it would have shown on the water -

surface of the stomach. The irritation would
have caused a redness.”

So the coroner’s jury brought in a verdict
that the “unknown man” had met his death
at the hands of some person or persons
unknown.

Throughout the testimony Chief Con-
stable Lister had had his doubts; despite
the medical evidence, there were some things
that needed further explanation. One thing
that puzzled Lister was the piece of wood
which had propped the door shut from the
inside. There wasn’t the slightest chance
of the dead man’s assailant leaving the shack
except through that door—and it was a
manifest impossibility for anyone to prop
the wood into position standing outside the
door. Another thing that Lister had noticed
was a bruise on the dead man’s right cheek,
a bruise caused when his face grazed the
stump. Now, if death from pistol bullets
occurred with a suddenness that caused the
deceased to collapse and hit his face against
the stump, where had the murderer stood?
On the roof? An examination of the roof
threw this theory out.. Dr. Poole had given
the opinion that the deceased might have
been shot lying down, judging by the angle
of the death wounds. Had the dead man

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