I have the shivers now, thinking about this mystery case, even while I'm sitting in an over-heated cafe. Thanks for cluing me into it.
I just read through the Wiki - so we know it's all true - and the most interesting bit to me is that in the first section, describing the accounts of eyewitnesses, the couple at 7 pm said they saw him stretch his right arm and then let it fall limp. The police speculated this was a final death convulsion. And he was found in the same location as those eye witnesses had seen him.
Yet somehow he ate a pasty four hours later? And, if that movement at 7 pm really was the final convulsion for which he had the strength, it took him another 7 hours to die? I read about digitalis on the Wik, and it seems to affect the heart. Wouldn't that mean that his death ought to have occurred earlier, rather than causing a several-hour paralysis? I'm interested to hear Mystery!Lori and Science!Lori's theories on the case. :D
This story reminds me of a mystery involving my Husband's family. It happened around the turn of the century in Nova Scotia. A man appeared on the shore near the village. He was missing his legs, though they were bound and clean.He was placed on the sand. He had a box of biscuits and was dressed in a uniform with all buttons and labels removed. He spoke no words but when asked his name he said "Jerome". Husband's family took him in. He never spoke except when two women came to visit him in his later years. He spoke to them in a language no one recognized perhaps Polish or Russian. It was never solved who he was or why he was left on the beach. I have thought about writing the story.
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I just read through the Wiki - so we know it's all true - and the most interesting bit to me is that in the first section, describing the accounts of eyewitnesses, the couple at 7 pm said they saw him stretch his right arm and then let it fall limp. The police speculated this was a final death convulsion. And he was found in the same location as those eye witnesses had seen him.
Yet somehow he ate a pasty four hours later? And, if that movement at 7 pm really was the final convulsion for which he had the strength, it took him another 7 hours to die? I read about digitalis on the Wik, and it seems to affect the heart. Wouldn't that mean that his death ought to have occurred earlier, rather than causing a several-hour paralysis? I'm interested to hear Mystery!Lori and Science!Lori's theories on the case. :D
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