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YESTERDAY: Lient Rollins recolves to | get better acquainted with the pretty nurse, learns her name ic Joam Davaar.
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We becomes her partner in a bridge teyrmament aboard ship. Later ther take a strell around the deck, meet Rolling | friend. Cant. Tees. wha ic introduced feo Jean. Rollint is awakened later bv an | erderly, teld to repert te the Colonel's | Quarters at ence. There he is told that | Capt. Tees has just been murdered.
CHAPTER FIVE THE COURT OF Investigation got! underway in “B” lounge at 9 o'clock | the morning of Captain Tees’ mur-| der Colonel Stephenson himself pre-| sided and, upon his invitation. the tribunal was completed with Captain Vincent Murdoch. a former senior crown prosecutor of Toronto. and Lieutenant Harry Miley, who! had also been a lawyer, “As you are aware, gentlemen.” began the colonel, “a court of investigation is strictly a fact-finding tribunal designed to obtain sworn statements and general data of use to a court martial that will foilow on land. It will be conducted informally, and you are both urged to ask any pertinent questions I might omit. Bring in the first witness.” Captain de Watt, medical officer, testified that he had been summoned to “A” deck about 3 o'clock that moming. “I found Captain Tees lying just Inside a door under a corridor light. 1 was informed by the orderiy offir then on duty. Lieutenant Timfins. that he had found the eaptain on the deck. It was pitch black and due to blackout regulations he could not use his torch. They carried the captain inside and summoned me, “It was almost immediately evi-| dent that Captain Tees was dead. “His jugular artery had been pierced by some sharp instrument. The orderly officer showed me a blood-stained Bayonet which he claims to have found near the body, and while I have no means of proving definitely that this instrument was the actual murder weapon, I,
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murder weapon. “The deceased had been stabbed | in the throat. It was a strong plingeand . , .” Captain Murdoch quiry: “How did you establish the! time of death?”
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“OH, PARDON ME" The M. O. lapsed from his dull professional monotone and displayed enthu®lasm for the first time. “T had reported verballv to the colonel shortly after the body was disCovered and forgot that you were hot aware of the details. : “I arrived at the conclusion from two findings. In the first place there was an absence of post-mor-tem lividity . . .» “Please explain” interrupted Lieutenant Miley. “By post - mortem hvidity 1 mean the ashen hue of death which would normally be evident In such 2 cold temperature withIn approximately four hours after death . Captain de Watt looked at Miley who nodded. “The absence of that lividity indicated that the deceased had died some time less than four hours before. Iv second finding was made after the orderly officer de®cribed the position of the body as he found it. The deceased was lying face down on the deck with his arms beneath him. “I tested the armpits and found definite traces of warmth although the rest of the body was cold quite cold. . The armpit warmth. in view eof the body's general coldness, told me the deceased had been dead quite some time less than four hours. “The total absence of post-mor-tem lividity made the opinion definite. The stiffening would indicate about two hours. So, putting everything together. I can positively state that the murder must have occurred at or close to 1 o'clock— or two hours previous to my being summoned.” > on BN
CAPT. DE WATT paused and looked at the three officers with a tinge of professional pride. “Your conclusion seems entirely logical” commented the colonel “Now did you, by any chance, think of testing the victim to determine drinking
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“Yes, sir, I conducted a test! the lost bayonet by admitting he shortly afterwards in the surgery hadn't been doing his full “rounds” of the ship's hospital . ; .” and decided to let the bayonet go “Piease describe that test, Doc-{until first thing next morning. for> Four roommates of Slater's col-
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sickening him, and he had taken off his overcoat, hanging his belt with scabbard and bayonet attached over the deck railing, In plain battle dress, he had waiked to the fore end where the lashing spray seemed to help him.. He stood there for about 20 minutes before returning to where he had left his equipment. Then he noticed the bayonet was missing. Thinking it had slid across the deck into the trough by the rail, he went to look then
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air.” Rollins looked at his questioner curiously: _ “No, Captain, T walked directly from the door to the open space of ‘A’ deck at the stern. And Captain Tees. and I walked directly from the stern to the door.” “Did you notice anybody else on deck at that time?” “No.” ns Miley dropped a question. “You were alone at the
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