[Atlas Sneezed]

With a revolver, a killer using a different gun would also have had to load the casing into the man's revolver in the 6th chamber. Experts may be able to discern whether the empty casing had been fired in that gun, or another. It seems most likely that the fatal shot came from that gun.

[supercat]

With a revolver, a killer using a different gun would also have had to load the casing into the man's revolver in the 6th chamber. Experts may be able to discern whether the empty casing had been fired in that gun, or another. It seems most likely that the fatal shot came from that gun.

There were FIVE cartridges total in Baxter's gun, INCLUDING the fired one. So the crook fires a cartridge into Baxter's head, puts the other five in Baxter's gun, and fires one of those into the ground or other backstop somewhere it won't be noticed. The result is that Baxter's gun contains a spent casing which was fired in it, even though that casing is not associated with the fatal shot.

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With a revolver, a killer using a different gun would also have had to load the casing into the man's revolver in the 6th chamber.

WAIT A 'COTTEN-PICKEN' minute...some revolvers got 5, NOT 6, chambers.
whas-up HERE?