HOW SHERLOCK HOLMES WAS KILLED.
Mr Silas H. Hocking describes in the 'New Age' a holiday spent in Switzerland I ■with Dr Conan Doyle, and incidentally recalls this conversation with the novelist. They were traversing a glacier and talking about Sherlock Holmes. " Whether you like Sherlock Holmes or not," I said, "he's teen a gold mine to you." " Anyhow," he said, " I shall kill him off at the end of the year." " Nonsense !" "If I don't," he said, with a laugh, " he'll kill me." We paused on the edge of a gaping crevasse, which gashed the glacier almost from side to side. "How are you going to finish him?" I asked. " I don't know ; I haven't decided yet," he said, thoughtfully. I stooped over .and looked down into the bine, treacherous abyss at my feet. " Why not bring him out here," I questioned, "and drop him down a crevasse? That would finish him off effectually, and save all the trouble and expense of a funeral." He laughed heartily. " Not a bad idea," he said. And that is exactly how Sherlock Holmes was killed.
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Tuapeka Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 4204, 15 May 1895, Page 6
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