THE NORTH SHORE MYSTERY BY HENRY FLETCHER

<div>Henry Prather Fletcher<span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> (April 10, 1873 – July 10, 1959) was an American </span><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diplomacy" title="Diplomacy" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background-image: none; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial;">diplomat</a><span style="color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> who served under six presidents.</span><div><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fletcher was born in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greencastle,_Pennsylvania" title="Greencastle, Pennsylvania" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Greencastle, Pennsylvania</a>, in 1873 to Louis Henry Fletcher (1839–1927) and Martha Ellen (<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/N%C3%A9e" class="mw-redirect" title="Née" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">née</a> Rowe) Fletcher (1840–1896). His siblings included James Gilmore Fletcher (1875–1960), David Watson Fletcher (1880–1957) and Florence Fletcher (1883–1957).<sup id="cite_ref-HPFObit1959_2-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_P._Fletcher#cite_note-HPFObit1959-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[2]</a></sup> He was the fourth cousin once removed of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_McKinley" title="William McKinley" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">William McKinley</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Folly2010_3-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_P._Fletcher#cite_note-Folly2010-3" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[3]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Fletcher planned to attend <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Princeton_University" title="Princeton University" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Princeton University</a>, but his family could not afford to send him, therefore, he studied law and shorthand in his uncle's law office.<sup id="cite_ref-HPFObit1959_2-1" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_P._Fletcher#cite_note-HPFObit1959-2" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[2]</a></sup></p><p style="margin: 0.5em 0px; color: rgb(32, 33, 34); font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 14px; orphans: 2; widows: 2; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Shortly after beginning to practice law, the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish%E2%80%93American_War" title="Spanish–American War" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">Spanish–American War</a> broke out and the United States declared war on Spain in 1898.<sup id="cite_ref-Career1929_4-0" class="reference" style="line-height: 1; white-space: nowrap; font-size: 11.2px;"><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_P._Fletcher#cite_note-Career1929-4" style="text-decoration: none; color: rgb(6, 69, 173); background: none;">[4]</a></sup> Fletcher joined <a href="https://en.wikipedia.