Newly Discovered Manuscript Sheds Light On Fatal Duel

March 4, 2010 - PRLog -- “I’m not at liberty to say who I obtained the manuscript from,” Mulholland says. “I returned it . . . I think! There are days when I wake up and wonder if it was a real document. Or did I just imagine it?”

The novel reproduces the 50-year-old memories of an arthritic blacksmith who says he influenced the fatal meeting between Lyon and Wilson. The blacksmith was still living in Perth in 1883. He wrote his report at the request of John Watson, a Professor of Moral and Mental Philosophy (Psychology) at Queen’s College in Kingston, Ontario, from 1872 to 1924.

“John Watson was a real Professor at Queen’s,” Mulholland says. “Of that I’m certain. You can find references to him on the Internet.”

Mulholland says that although some sentences in the 126-year-old handwritten document were difficult to read, “it was in remarkably good condition, and, despite his arthritis, the author’s penmanship was legible.” Photographer Denis Filion took photos of some of the writer’s report, which are included in the print edition.

“Seeing the photos in the book, I guess the document must have been real,” Mulholland says.

Note: Mr. Mulholland has indemnified General Store Publishing House, his print edition publisher, against any claims to the truthfulness of his story.

E-book edition available at: http://www.smashwords.com/books/view/10052

Print edition available at: http://gsph.com/index.php?ID=545&Lang=En

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