"Would such a wound cause fever?"
"It is quite possible. He might have lost consciousness for some time, and contracted a chill and fever by lying in the wet."
"Are the appearances consistent with his having lived for some hours after being wounded?"
"They strongly suggest it."
Re-examining, Sir Wigmore Wrinching established that the wound and general appearance of the ground were equally consistent with the theory that deceased had been shot by another hand at very close quarters, and dragged to the house before life was extinct.
"In your experience is it more usual for a person committing suicide to shoot himself in the chest or in the head?"
"In the head is perhaps more usual."
"So much as almost to create a presumption of murder when the wound is in the chest?"
"I would not go so far as that."
"But, other things being equal, you would say that a wound in the head is more suggestive of suicide than a body-wound?"