seen it. We all knew about it."

Great and irrepressible excitement, especially among the servants.
"That's so!" I heard a heavy voice exclaim. "I saw it once
myself--master was cleaning it." It was the cook who spoke.

"In his stand drawer?" the coroner inquired.

"Yes, sir; at the head of his bed."

An officer was sent to examine the stand drawer. In a few moments he
returned, bringing a small pistol which he laid down on the coroner's
table, saying, "Here it is."

Immediately, every one sprang to his feet, but the coroner, handing
it over to the clerk from Bonn's, inquired if that was the make before
mentioned. Without hesitation he replied, "Yes, Smith & Wesson; you
can see for yourself," and he proceeded to examine it.

"Where did you find this pistol?" asked the coroner of the
officer.

"In the top drawer of a shaving table standing near the head of
Mr. Leavenworth's bed. It was lying in a velvet case together with a
box of cartridges, one of which I bring as a sample," and he laid it
down beside the bullet.

"Was the drawer locked?"

"Yes, sir; but the key was not taken out."