Re: Episode 6-4: Just What the Doctor Ordered
With a stern glance at Suzy, Darling says: "I'd feel better about this, if we continued the discussion at the jail, but here goes.
"I came over here initially because Doctor Smith told me that Miss Winger had regained her senses. With a second murder in the close vicinity of the Dog Eye, I felt it was imperative to see whether she could identify the murderer, having been an eye witness to Paul Goodwin's death.
"I told Miss Smith that, as we have some sort of very strange killer on the loose, the safety of innocent people impelled me to enter here at such an unconventional hour. I felt that Miss Winger might be in considerable danger, having been a witness to the first killing and a resident at the Dog Eye. I thought it might be best to take her into protective custody and lodge her at the jail.
"But first, I asked her to tell me everything she saw last night.
"She said that Goodwin had insisted in coming up to her room, rather than meet her in the alley out back, as was his custom. He came up the back stairs, she said, and she heard them creak, so she was ready for him when he arrived. They were talking quietly when the monster burst in, that she didn’t even hear him coming -- never heard the back stairs creak. Goodwin hadn’t locked the door and, since he only wanted to talk, she hadn’t bothered either.
"Now this confused me, because I was under the impression that Goodwin was killed in the room he rents at the saloon, and that Miss Winger's was the other room, where we tried to speak with her later. After all, we found all of his belongings, including his book, in the room where he died.
"She described the killer as tall and slim. She didn’t get a good look at his fac, but remembers the way his eyes glared out at me from beneath the brim of his black top hat. Then he hit her and she blacked out. When she came to, she saw the man standing over Goodwin and stuffing his head into a bag and started screaming. The murderer crashed through the window and that’s the last she remembers.
"So she claims Goodwin was lying on the bed and didn't do anything to protect himself when this man burst in. Didn't even get off the bed, not even when 'the Butcher' hit her.
""Doctor Smith, she said, called the murderer the Butcher. This is when I began to get suspicious of her and, frankly, of Dr. Smith, who is by all accounts the most skilled surgeon in a town where someone with a surgeon's skills has murdered two men. And Miss Winger may be complicit in the death of at least one of the men.
"So I placed her under arrest to take her down and let Deputy Marshall Earp sort it out. Then I turned and Miss Smith was pointing a shotgun at me. After a bit Doctor Smith arrived and took the gun, but refused to let me pass with my prisoner. That's when I placed him under arrest.
"I'll abide by Earp's decision, but I'm not willing to surrender my prisoners otherwise."
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