In the flashes of cameras, Gladstone lay on a stretcher as he was carried into an ambulance. His leg was broken, or so he claimed.
He said that he had lost his footing while coming down from the second floor and tumbled down the stairs. Then his leg had broken.
In the photos taken by reporters at the scene, his lower leg could clearly be seen bent at an angle that blatantly violated natural anatomy. It had been completely snapped.
Some experts said that a break like this could not have been caused by falling down the stairs. The tibia was actually very hard and not nearly as fragile as people imagined.
When someone fell down the stairs, there was rarely any chance of the tibia colliding with the steps in a way that would produce such an injury. It looked more like it had been broken by an external force.
But regardless of how it had broken, Gladstone said that he had broken it himself. As the injured party, and with no perpetrator present, no one would consider whether he was lying.
If he wanted to claim he had broken it falling down, then so be it! Soon afterward, Gladstone's private lawyer applied to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for assistance outside their jurisdiction. Mr. Gladstone could not travel to Slem to assist with the investigation because of his fractured lower leg.
The hospital concluded that if Gladstone wanted to recover to a normal condition, he would need at least three to six months. Otherwise, the doctors did not recommend that he undertake a long-distance journey.
Federal justice was sometimes fair, when most people were watching it.
Gladstone was under the spotlight now, so even if they wanted to forcefully take him away, it would not be easy.
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