Nick Carter Weekly: The Little Glass Vial — page 81: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

aa + oy; 1, "There was an intention to murder him, however; but luckily nature stepped in and claimed Mr. Rogers before this crime could be committed. "This intended murder was planned by Moreno and was to have been executed by the woman, his wife, who is guilty of bigamy for entering into a marriage ceremony with Mr. Rogers. "The plan was to incriminate Dr. Lord, and thus create a lever for blackmail. "When Anita Moreno went to Mr. Rogers’ home—to murder him—and found that he had died the night before of heart disease, she nevertheless inserted the needle of this hypodermic syringe in his wrist and injected some of Mr. Moreno’s famous poison into it." Here he held aloft the syringe. "She then broke off the point in the wound, hoping that the doctors would find it and naturally suspect the family physician of having used the dreadful poison it contained. "But she was ignorant of the fact that after death hypodermic injections will not be distributed through the system, as the blood has ceased to circulate. "For this reason I noticed that the wrist was discolored by the poison, and that fact has guided me throughout. "She then visited Dr. Lord and left the broken syringe upon his bureau. "There is no necessity to recite the clever scheme of blackmail which was to have been put into execution. "Every one 1n this room knows the particulars. 81 comicbooe S CO