Solution—Case #194

If the newspaper account was correct Mayer was lying. He could not possibly have been in the water, walked half a mile through ten below zero weather, and then shaken water from his clothes. Had the tragedy happened as he described it, the water on his clothes would have been frozen.

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WINTER DOES NOT WORK ONLY ON A BROAD SCALE; HE IS CAREFUL OF TRIFLES.

—Smith