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Updated: May 14, 2025
Observing reporters noticed that he did this whenever he intended taking the examination into his own hands. "Did anything peculiar about the wound impress you?" he asked. "Yes. The forehead of the deceased was powder-marked." "Showing that the weapon had been fired close to him?" "Yes." "Anything else?" "One thing. The bullet slanted into the head toward the right."
In our grandfathers' day the old sanctuary used to be dressed for Christmas by the sexton, Peter Davis: he was a Hessian deserter, with a powder-marked face and murderous habits toward the English language.
"Just a furrow," he said and smiled a trifle dazedly. "He fired straight into my face." "By Harry! He must have. Your cheek's powder-marked," cried Brannan, running up and holding the lamp for a better view. "See that, gentlemen? They tried to murder Mr. Stanley. This is self-defense. Who fired at you?" "This fellow!" Adrian indicated the sprawled figure. "Must have been.
Besides, yore uncle's face was powder-marked, showin' he was shot from right close." "Yes, that's so," agreed Lane, surrendering his brilliant idea reluctantly. A moment, and his face brightened. "Look, Cole! The corridor of that hotel runs back from the fire escape. If a fellow had been standin' there he could 'a' seen into the room if the blind wasn't down." "Sure enough," agreed Sanborn.
The sheriff and his men found the McBride woman, her clothing half torn from her body, her features powder-marked and blood-stained; but she was game to the last, woman-fashion weeping only now that all was over. They found, too, the man they had combed the country to find struggling fruitlessly in his bonds, her prisoner. And they likewise found the miracle.
He was seated on a boulder between two dwarf live-oaks and his big forty-five revolver lay beside him, with one empty shell. The bullet-hole was fairly between his eyes, all powder-marked.
Twice he held the gun so close my scalp's all powder-marked, and by rights he should have blowed the top of my head plumb into the street. He gets so taken up with this slaughter-house business that he'll wind up by shooting himself a few times if you don't watch him." "One thing," Weary put in mildly, "I want to speak about, Luck. We need more blood for those murders.
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