Mary's Nineteenth Century

The latest strange phenomenon of the bald leopard revealed by the hospital's autopsy is not known to Lestrade for the time being. He and Gregson are looking for Tanner, the owner of the pet shop.

These days, Tanner doesn't admit to losing animals for sale, but uncharacteristically keeps the pet shop open for only half a day.

Now it looked like he and the shop assistants were looking for lost leopards, maybe there was some special way of locating cheetahs.

When it was dark, after wandering around all afternoon, I finally caught someone on the street.

"Tanna Yamlach, your cheetah has killed a man!"

When Gregson met, he gave the shopkeeper a straight blow, "Stop denying that you don't sell cheetahs. I've been to the pier. Someone proved that you bought and transported a leopard from Africa ten days ago!"

Is this a fraudulent confession?

Tanner still wanted to quibble, but Lestrade reported a word.

"Thousands of miles."

Lestrade echoed Mycroft's previous reasoning, "Your cheetah is in the same cage as the plants in the East African highlands."

How did the detective know such dark details? !

Tanner began to believe that the other party had indeed found witnesses and had evidence of his new purchase of a cheetah.

"God be merciful! I don't want to deny the fact that the cheetah escaped."

Seeing that the situation had changed, Tanner immediately changed his attitude. "I never said the cheetahs were missing, I just didn't want to cause panic. You know how serious the panic would be if word got out that there was a wild animal roaming about in London."

Lestrade and Grayson knew that the shop owner was not afraid of panic, but was afraid that the pet shop's business would be damaged.It doesn't matter what the purpose is, as long as the person is willing to explain.

Tanner finally talked about the bizarre disappearance of the cheetah a few days ago. "On the morning of April 4, I went to the pet store to open the door. The iron cage that temporarily stored the cheetah was empty. The iron lock on the door bolt was still intact, but there was nothing in the cage."

That scene was too supernatural.

Tanner didn't find the slightest sign of the pet store being invaded. The other animals stayed in the cages safely, and the tables and chairs were not damaged, except for the cheetah.

Were thieves sneaking in?

But with no other financial loss, is the thief just here to steal the cheetah?

"If someone opened the cage, that person must be a master at domesticating cheetahs."

Tanner couldn't figure out why someone would let the cheetah go. Could it be that this one had an owner?

leopard? "Or, did I meet a kind of leopard demon? It knows how to pick locks and other skills, and it died in the middle of the night?"

Guess one is more outrageous than the other.

Under all kinds of doubts, finding the cheetah is the most important thing.

So Tanner's shopkeeper shortened the pet shop's business hours and took a group of shop assistants who have been dealing with wild beasts all year round to look for cheetahs.

Hearing this, the two detectives also felt that things were very strange.

Gleeson's main concern has not changed, "So, have you found it? Like a temporary cheetah base, footprints, feces, or something else?"

Tanner couldn't hide his frustration. It had been five days and he hadn't found a hair. "No, I began to suspect that the cheetah is no longer in the East District, but..."

But at this time, the police detective came to the door and told that the cheetah had killed someone, and the body was near the Whitechapel.

"It shouldn't be. I asked the local snakes in the White Church, but I didn't find any traces of beasts."

Tanner knew very well that the head snakes also spared their lives, and they paid more attention to finding the escaped beast than to finding the murderer.After all, murderers are human beings, and human beings follow rules in killing, but cheetahs forage for food regardless of your status.

Everyone hoped to find the cheetah one day sooner, so that the risk of being treated as food would be eliminated sooner, but there was no trace of it.Without even footprints, this looks more like a supernatural story.

The two police detectives didn't expect things to develop like this. The owner of the Tanner shop didn't seem to be lying, and after being questioned, he continued to lead people to look for the missing leopard.

The next day, the sun rose as usual.

Watson came to the police station with the autopsy report, but found that someone had come earlier.

"Mr. Minton, good morning. I was in a hurry yesterday, so I didn't come to remember to say hello to you. I haven't seen you for several years."

"Mr. Watson, time and distance have never blocked our friendship. We haven't seen each other for a few years, but it's still the same. As soon as I saw you, I knew there was some good news."

Mary got up early in the morning and continued to study the borrowed materials, but she hadn't gained any further results before she set off to the police station.She looked at Watson's expression, but knew that the autopsy report could bring some surprises.

surprise?good news?

To some extent, the autopsy brought new clues compared to the search for clues that found nothing.

Watson quickly revealed the so-called "surprise", "The autopsy last night did not find any remnants of cheetah hair on the body. There was no remnant of cheetah resistance in the nail gaps of the dead body, only one

Some dirt particles. "

Yes.

After an autopsy, it was found that only the index finger of the left hand was intact, and there was black soil between the nails of the index finger.

Mary immediately became suspicious, "The soil around the death scene is not black. Are you sure it's not colored by sewage?"

"Yes, sure it has nothing to do with sewage waste, the soil itself is black."

Watson said that Dr. Jekyll had done several experiments, "The soil is not discolored due to contamination by foreign objects, but the corpse itself is hard to say."

According to the report, the fatal cause of death of the deceased was still in doubt.

"What does it mean?"

Lestrade was puzzled, "Didn't the deceased be killed by a cheetah?"

Although we found out yesterday that the deceased was deliberately changed into other people's clothes, his identity may be a bit questionable, but after the autopsy, why is the cause of death still undetermined?

"Theoretically, after a cheetah attack, it can be determined that the neck of the prey was broken by the bite, and that would be the cause of death."

Watson pointed out, "But this deceased person is different. At first glance, she was bitten to pieces, but in fact the force of the wound on her body was similar."

To put it simply, the deceased suffered serious injuries to his neck, torso, limbs and other parts.

It was torn apart by the cheetah's claws and bitten by its teeth, which is completely inconsistent with the eating rules of wild animals.

"You mean no mortal wound can be found, because it looks like a mortal wound everywhere."

As Mary spoke, Watson nodded, and she suddenly thought of a possibility. "The deceased was bitten and dismembered while he was alive, isn't it after death?"

"Yes, the deceased was bitten to death while alive, but she may not be conscious enough."

Watson also found it strange, "There are some alkaloid residues in the body of the deceased, and the preliminary judgment is that they come from Datura flowers."

"Wait a minute, wait a minute."

Grayson was a little dizzy, "The deceased was killed by a cheetah. According to you, there is an anesthetic in her body?"

Watson nodded, "Yes, the test results of liver and brain tissue are not deceiving. But the method of ingestion is no longer traceable, because the corpse is severely damaged, and it is impossible to determine whether it has been injected with anesthesia."

Nowadays, some people regard it as fashionable to drink strange potions. Maybe the deceased drank some trendy drinks in front of him.

The question in Mary's heart was deeper, and she wanted to check one thing. "How much does the corpse weigh?"

"Without the bones, the rest is only 8.9kg."

Watson said,

"This data is far from the presumed body weight of about 45 kilograms."

Just like yesterday's doubts, cheetahs can't eat so much meat, where does the meat go?

According to the data obtained by the two police detectives from the owner of the Tanner shop, the lost cheetah came from Africa.

After comparing these figures, it is more intuitive to find that some of the flesh of the deceased is missing.

In addition, I want to emphasize one point: the missing cheetah in the pet store is not a bald man.

Not only is it not bald, but the whole body is covered with hair that a cheetah should grow, which can cross out the guess of a bald leopard.

With one possibility crossed out, those odd contradictions must necessarily require another explanation.

Mary had a faint guess.

Before returning to Pall Mall with the latest investigation progress, she went to the hospital morgue to collect some data on the female body.

Then, before lunch, he knocked on the door next door with a bag of carrots.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Holmes."

Mary handed the autopsy report to Mycroft, "I'm here to eat, and I'll give you another dish."

Extra meal, send carrot ingredients?

Mycroft has become accustomed to Mr. Minton's casual behavior, and the cactus given to him before is thriving in the club's exclusive reading room.

"You came just in time. Sherlock has made some discoveries about those "cheetahs, hunts." "

Mycroft said it was up to him to tell the story, because his overworked brother had caught up on sleep.

Sherlock has not yet set foot in the detective industry, but he has already forgotten to investigate one thing.

After staying up all night last night, and even forgot to eat breakfast, he finally found out a few words that might be related to the strange death scene.

With an extremely 'kind' tone, Mycroft 'persuaded' Sherlock to take a break.

In particular, he does not care about his brother's work and rest health, but just wants to continue to use his brain.

There was a friendly exchange between the brothers.

Finally, Sherlock was willing to go to the guest room and have intimate contact with the pillow for a while.

There is no need to say more about these.

Mycroft mentioned the discovery in the document, "It's not how cheetahs catch food, but how people hunt and kill prey in grasslands. Mr. Minton, do you know how today's hunting teams hunt a wild animal in Africa?"

What does human hunting of wild animals have to do with the crime scene?

The author has something to say: ahh, it's late o(╥﹏╥)o