"When Anita Moreno went to Mr. Rogers’ home—to murder him—and found that he had died the night before of heart disease, she nevertheless inserted the needle of this hypodermic syringe in his wrist and injected some of Mr. Moreno’s famous poison into it."
Here he held aloft the syringe.
"She then broke off the point in the wound, hoping that the doctors would find it and naturally suspect the family physician of having used the dreadful poison it contained.
"But she was ignorant of the fact that[Pg 61] after death hypodermic injections will not be distributed through the system, as the blood has ceased to circulate.
"For this reason I noticed that the wrist was discolored by the poison, and that fact has guided me throughout.
"She then visited Dr. Lord and left the broken syringe upon his bureau.
"There is no necessity to recite the clever scheme of blackmail which was to have been put into execution.
"Every one in this room knows the particulars.
"But every one here does not know, nor does the lady herself, that the vial of poison from which the syringe was charged was dropped by her at the Providence depot and picked up by me.
"And lastly, only the three prisoners know that Alvarez attempted to murder your humble servant at midnight on Mr. Rogers’ lawn.