CHAPTER III

A LADY’S HAND-BAG (_Friday, June 14; 9.30 a.m._) The District Attorney and Heath walked up to the body, and stood regarding it. “You see,” Heath explained; “he was shot directly from the front. A pretty powerful shot, too; for the bullet passed through the head and struck the woodwork over there by the window.” He pointed to a place on the wainscot a short distance from the floor near the drapery of the window nearest the hallway. “We found the expelled shell, and Captain Hagedorn’s got the bul…