This one is harder! Or, potentially, very simple.
The Case of the Bumped Head
The express train running between New York and Los Angeles had to back up outside Chicago.
Alas, the engineer stopped the train too suddenly while in reverse. Passengers tumbled like tenpins, incurring several suits against the railroad.
"The stop happened at 9pm," said Mills, the railroad's insurance man, while discussing the incident with Dr. Haledjian.
Mills related the biggest headache -- Ted Sheldon, a passenger who was suiing for one hundred thousand dollars.
"At 8pm," said Mills, "Sheldon had the porter make up his berth in the last car. He claims he had just retired for the night when the stop occurred.
"He says he was so forcefully jerked that his head struck the wall behind his pillows.
"Because of terrific head pains, he says, he left the train at Chicago," concluded Mills. He showed Haledjian a Chicago doctor's affidavit that Sheldon had suffered a skull fracture.
"You think Sheldon hurt his head somewhere else?" asked the sleuth.
"If I can't disprove his story about his hitting his head in the Pullman berth, the company is going to have to settle."
"You won't have any trouble," said Haledjian.
Why not?