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This article was published in [[The St. James's Gazette]] on 15 july 1893.

== Article ==
[[File:st-james-s-gazette-1893-07-15-p3-4-the-ramsgate-mystery.jpg|thumb|350px|right|[[The St. James's Gazette]] (15 july 1893, p. 3-4)]]

The god Mercury, or whatever divinity it is that watches over the interests of newspapers, seems to have decreed that the last of the "Ramsgate Mystery" has not yet been heard of. The discovery of "the pistol," or rather of a pistol, will set people talking and speculating again. The weapon is said to have been found among the very rocks which the police have searched over and over previous to Noel's trial. If so, since the murderer could hardly have been ignorant of the fact, what an obliging murderer to go and put it in that very place? But at any rate, the bullet with which Mrs. Noel was killed is said to fit the barrel of this recovered weapon. That may or may not mean much. Revolvers, like rifles, are often made to certain standard sizes and calibres, so that a particular bullet may "fit" a particular barrel without having been fired out of it or intended to go into it. It is said that [[Arthur Conan Doyle|Dr. Conan Doyle]] has been asked to take the case in hand by some anxious Ramsgate admirers; but the talented creator of "[[Sherlock Holmes]]" has declined. [[Sherlock Holmes]] could no doubt have found out all about that mystery, if it had been properly devised with the suitable indications. But fact works so much more clumsily than fiction and sometimes quite forgets to provide its problems with the indispensable key, without which even the hero of a "detective novel" cannot be expected to solve them.

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