A FAMOUS MYSTERY SOLVER
" And that is how it was done." The words were spoken by Professor Pepper, the Home Office expert, in the course of the investigations which ended in the conviction and: execution 1 of Samuel Herbert Dougalforthe murder of Catnille Cecdle Holland at the Moat Farm, Clavering, Essex. The .murder was committed in the dark, out of doers, and' when no one else was nigh. The aeeamsin afterwards buried the bedy, and it was between three and four . years later before (it was found and exliumed. Professor Pepper had (absolutely nothing to go upon save these decctmposed remains, and the marks and wounds upon them. Yet lie was able to " reconetruct " the ©rime in every detail, showing the very way the murderer descended from the tra.p after he had shot has victim, and winding up with the words quoted above.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 8705, 20 August 1906, Page 2
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143A FAMOUS MYSTERY SOLVER Star (Christchurch), Issue 8705, 20 August 1906, Page 2
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