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It is a curious fact about the case that the scar which his wife incurred to enable her to marry him was the means of his undoing . He insisted , and I believe he was telling the truth , that he did not know of the scar : that is , his wife had never told him of it , and had been able to conceal it . He thought she had probably used paraffin in some way . In his final statement , written with great care and no little literary finish , he told the story in detail : of arranging the clues as Mr. Howell and Mr. Bronson had suggested ; of going out in the boat , with the body , covered with a fur coat , in the bottom of the skiff : of throwing it into the current above the Ninth Street bridge , and of seeing the fur coat fall from the boat and carried beyond his reach ; of disposing of the head near the Seventh Street bridge : of going to a drug store , as per the Howell instructions , and of coming home at four o'clock , to find me at the head of the stairs . -LSB- Illustration : While his wife slept . -RSB- Several points of confusion remained . One had been caused by Temple Hope 's refusal to admit that the dress and hat that figured in the case were to be used by her the next week at the theater .