Excerpt from Trial of Mrs. M'lachlanOn their way Mr. Fleming told Dr. Watson that, when he unlocked the bedroom door with the pantry key, there was already a key in the lock inside, which he struck out, and which fell within the room. The doctor examined the body, and found various wounds - over forty in number, as after wards appeared - upon the head, face, neck, and wrists, and also one remarkable bruise upon the lower part of the back. This is evidently not a suicide, said Dr. Watson to Mr. Fleming, you had better call in the police. This was accordingly done, and Constable Cameron and Dr. Joseph Fleming, surgeon of police, arrived on the scene about half past four o'clock. To Cameron Mr. Fleming repeated his statement as to seeing a key in the lock, pushing it out with the pantry key, and hearing it fall inside the room. He also mentioned the fact to Mrs. Walker, a neighbour, who came to the house about five o'clock. Cameron looked for the key, but failed to find it. Yet at the trial, when cross examined upon this point by Mr. Clark, Mr. Fleming not only denied that there was any key in the lock at all, but that he had ever said so to the witnesses.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.