“I’m almost ready to dismiss the notion of a murderer at all.”
“Why so?” demanded both the others.
“Because there was no murder, probably.”
“How do you make that out?” queried Bain.
“From the nature of the wounds that caused death.”
“They look to me to be just such wounds as would be made by a blow with a heavy club.”
“Several blows with a heavy club might have caused such wounds. But the blows would have had to be delivered peculiarly. A circle on the skull, six inches in diameter, impinging on the right ear, is crushed in. If you can imagine a man swinging a baseball bat at the height of his shoulder, repeatedly and with great force, at the victim’s head, you can infer such a crushing in of the bone. My imagination hardly carries me so far.”
“Beating down from above would be the natural way,” said Bain.
“Certainly. No such blow ever made that wound.”
“Then how was it made?” asked Sedgwick.