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BLOODSTAIN
Volume 4, entries 7369. Source context: THE PHYSICAL HUMAN BODY ITSELF → MURDER → HOW MURDERER CAN BE CAUGHT. Entries listed under this heading in the source volume.
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Entry 7369
Wus once a fellah found murdered [on the railroad track] between Gir- dletree an' Stockton [Md.]. So they said those people [the murderers] wus infi- dels, they could stop yer blood - you know, stop 'um from bleedin' so tha' choo couldn't find out who did it [by bringing any suspected person into the presence of the corpse]. An' they kilt this fellah, taken a board up in the floor, in 'tween the floor an' the groun'. [This board was retained by the murderers]. So they stopped his blood to keep 'im from bleedin'. Den after that, well, day drug 'im out on the railroad [to suggest death by accident].
The narrative explicitly mentions blood being stopped. That remains a reported claim; the bracketed explanations are editorial and no effect is independently established.