If so, he re-entered without being observed, which does not seem likely.

Between two and three o'clock this morning, when _Stock and Share_ was practically ready for distribution, a man employed on the premises is said, for some unexplained reason, to have ascended to the top floor of the building, and to have entered a room ordinarily unused.

A gas-jet was burning, and the man was horrified to discover the dead body of Mr.Frothingham, at full length on the floor, in his hand a pistol.

On the alarm being given, medical aid was at once summoned, and it became evident that death had taken place more than an hour previously.

That no one heard the report of a pistol can be easily explained by the noise of the machinery below.