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- ing and so returned to my room. About 9 o’clock yesterday morning in answer to a spirit of un- easiness I knocked at the door of No. 3. As I have since found out the next door lodger asked “Who is there?” I mistook the voice for Blane’s and so thought it was all right. However at about 11 o’clock the chamber- maid came to me and said that the parties in No. 3 had not got up yet. At this moment it happened that Chief Lyons came up to enquire about the shots. We knocked at the door and received no answer. Upon this the chamber- maid procured a ladder and looked over the transom and she almost fell down as she gasped “both the man and the woman were dead in bed.” The chief then opened the transom and assisted Mr. Moore through and he opened the door on the inside. The sight was a terrible one. On the bed were stretched the dead bodies of the two people, she with a large bullet hole in the center of her forehead and he with the brains oozing from his skull. Both were in their night clothes and his left hand held her right by the wrist as if he was feeling her pulse, and a pistol lay just between them. Her head was hanging slightly over the edge of the bed and she had bled terribly as the bed clothes were saturated and there was a large pool of blood on the floor. The bodies were immediately re- moved to Dolan’s undertaking parlors.