"I have made a collection from time to time," he pursued, "of the
various exploded cartridges, the bullets, and the weapons left
behind by the perpetrator of the dastardly series of crimes, from
the shooting of the stool pigeon of the police, Rena Taylor, and
the stealing of Mr. Warrington's car, down to the peculiar events
of last night up in the Ramapos and the running fight through the
streets of New York in taxicabs this morning.
"I have studied this evidence with the microscope and the
microphotographic apparatus. I have secured excellent
microphotographs of the marks made by various weapons on the
cartridges and bullets. Taking those used in the commission of the
greater crimes in this series, I find that the marks are the same,
apparently, whether the gun shot off a bullet of wax or tallow
which became liquid in the body, whether it discharged a
stupefying gas, or whether the deadly anaesthetic bullet was
fired. I have obtained a gun"--he threw it on the table with a
clang--"the marks from the hammer of which correspond with the
marks made on all the cartridges I have mentioned.
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