Listening at the door, she heard no
sound. It was not locked, and on entering she found the former
steel-magnate lying lifeless on the floor between his bedroom and
the library adjoining. His personal physician, Dr. W. C. Bryant,
was immediately notified.
Close examination of the body revealed that his face was slightly
discoloured, and the cause of death was given by the physician as
apoplexy. He had evidently been dead about eight or nine hours
when discovered.
Mr. Fletcher is survived by a nephew, John G. Fletcher, II., who
is the Blake professor of bacteriology at the University, and by
a grandniece, Miss Helen Bond. Professor Fletcher was informed of
the sad occurrence shortly after leaving a class this morning and
hurried out to Fletcherwood. He would make no statement other
than that he was inexpressibly shocked. Miss Bond, who has for
several years resided with relatives, Mr. and Mrs. Francis Greene
of Little Neck, is prostrated by the shock.
"Walter," added Kennedy, as he laid down the paper and, without
any more sparring, came directly to the point, "there was
something missing from that safe."
I had no need to express the interest I now really felt, and
Kennedy hastened to take advantage of it.
"Just before you came in," he continued, "Jack Fletcher called me
up from Great Neck.
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