There is a deep mystery about a doctor who was a specialist in Asiatic diseases and had killed a young scientist whose will was made in favor of the doctor. Sherlock Holmes calls on the doctor, but is recognized and ordered out of the house. Some time later he receives a small box, so arranged that when opened a small pin stuck the finger. This pin was coated with the bacteria of tampanule fever. Holmes pretends to be ill in order to trap the criminal, but when you think they have him you discover that they have taken only the butler. The far sighted Holmes, however, knew this would happen and planted his men outside the house where the doctor is finally captured.
—Wid's, December 18, 1921