![]() ![]() ![]() Holmes realizes this was due to Hatherley's lamp being in the press at the time the Colonel tried to shut it on him. Holmes, Watson, and Hatherley find their way to the house, whose location Holmes has deduced, and they find it up in flames. Hatherley made it away from the house to some bushes where he fainted. Hatherley escaped with the help of a woman in the house, but while in the process of lowering himself from a window, the Colonel chopped off his thumb. After repairing the press, Hatherley asked the Colonel the nature of its use, at which point the Colonel locked him in the press and turned it on. He was approached by a certain Colonel Lysander Stark with a lucrative but oddly secretive deal to inspect a hydraulic press in a house. ![]() Hatherley explains to Watson, who brings him to Holmes, the strange circumstances under which he received his injury. Watson treats Victor Hatherley, a hydraulic engineer, who has lost a thumb. ![]()
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