Indianapolis Journal, Volume 53, Number 1, Indianapolis, Marion County, 1 January 1903 — Page 7

TOE INDIANAPOLIS JOURNAL, TIIURSDAT, JANUARY 1. 1003.

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CORONER'S FINAL REPORT

DR. BRAYTON DISCI SSKS THE AVOnK OF LAST TKItM. Summary of the Statistics of Violence Shows Value of the Coroner's Ofllce Detail. In his annual report submitted yesterday Coroner Brayton reviews the work of his office during the past year. Dr. Brayton will be succeeded this morning by Harry W. TutewIIer, recently elected to the office. Some of the Interesting statistics of Coroner I3ray ton's report are as follows: Six hundred and fifty-seven cases were Investigated during the two-year term, 209 the first year and 34$ during the past year. Of the cases of this year 212 have been males and 10$ females. Forty-two of that number were colored, eleven Irish, nine Germans, four Jews, one Italian, one Chinese, and the rest clashed as Americans. Thirty-four deaths of children were investigated in less than one year. The ages of the bodies examined are tabulated by Coroner Brayton as follows: Eleven, one to live; fifty-thre. five to twenty-five; one hundred and fifty-four, twenty-five to sixty; forty-two, sixty to seventy; thirteen, seventy to eighty, and ten of the deathä were people over eighty years of age. Forty cases were examined at the City li'oepltal; seven at St. Vincent's Infirmary; seven at the Central Indiana Hospital for Insane; one at the Deaconess Hospital; one at the Little Slaters of the Poor, and one at the workhouse. Of the 343 cases there were twenty-eight suicides, eighteen men and nine women. Seven found dead by morphine: one by knife wounds: seven by carbolic acid; two by arsenical poisoning; two from hanging; five shot themselves; two by strychnine; one by hydrocyanic acid, and one by chloroform. Three accidental shooting cases were Investigated, ten deaths by drowning four of which were attacked by cramps while bathing and drowned. Seventeen street-car cases resulting in death were investigated. --. street car collided with two Belt trains at South East street, killing the conductor of street car and the brakeman of one of the trains. Three happened at crossings; two were walking on steps of open cars and missed their hold; two women Jumped oft the car before the car stopped, and three were knocked from their wagons. Two were employes of the street-car company. RAILROAD ACCIDENTS. Out of the 24S cases Investigated, thirtyone were railroad cases. Eleven were employes; ten occurred on crossings; three were cases of boys stealing rides; two were on railroad company's right of way. The railroads on which the deaths occurred were: Big Four, thirteen; Belt Railroad, four; Cincinnati, Hamilton & Dayton, four; Vandalia, three; Panhandle, four; Indianapolis & Vincennes, two, and Monon, one. Two cases of murder and suicide happened during the year. Calvin I. Totten shot his wife, then himself, and Tleasant I'ruitt shot his wife and then killed himself. Andrew Deiss cut his wife's throat, intending to kill her, but failed. He then .drank carbolic acid and died. MURDER CASES. The coroner has Investigated eight cases of murder. Delia Copenhaver was shot to death by her husband, who afterwards telcphoned to the police to come after him. Copenhaver was sentenced to death. Charles Hubbard shot and killed Gus Monroe. Hubbard was sentenced to prison for life. Raphael Conpitell was stabbed to death by Joseph Spalding. Spalding received a life sentence. Daniel Sullivan, of Brightwood, was killed Oct. 13 with some heavy Instrument in a fight with Mr. and Mrs. "William Caldwell. Caldwell was sentenced to two years and Mrs. Caldwell discharged, rack Williams shot and killed Wallace l'owell Christmas afternoon. Three murders have occurred in which the murderers have escaped. A Chinese, Dong Cong Tshun, jwas cut to death by an unknown person. He received ten strokes by a cleaver, cutting his throat. Henry A. Rosengarten, Merchant police, was shot, by some unknown person. Benjamin Kersting, restaurant keeper, was stabbed to death Oct 15 by an unknown colored man. Peter Webb was killed by Fannie Boyd in self-defense. Alexander Downle was shot In the spine by Dr. John S. Parsons on Aprlle 30, dying Sept. 19. Of ordinary deaths the coroner says forty-seven fatalities were attributed to various forms of heart disease. Fourteen died from tuberculosis, fifteen from pneumonia and five died from epileptic convulsions and seven from gastritis. There were ten deaths from burning during the year, two from scalds, one fell with a lamp in hand which exploded, two tried to start fires with coal oil, one fell in grate while in an epileptic spasm, and two children were playing with matches and their clothing caught on fire. Two died from dropsy, two from paralysis, two from peritonitis and eight from senile exhaustion; four fell from lofts, fracturing their skulls, from which they died in a short time; one was hurt by a tree falling during a storm. two reu from telephone poles, three were 'crushed in elevators, one fell from the eighth floor of a building, two were shocked 1 1 . . i . .. . . .

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caught in belting at machine shop, a little boy fell under a wagon while stealing a ride, and a schoolboy was hit in the head by a schoolmate with a stone from a sling shpt, causing hemorrhage and death; two died from tetanus, one from ptomaine poiBon due to eating refuse found on the dumps, and two from taking poison accidentally;' three persons met death by falling out of window from a first story. There were eight deaths from apoplexy. Fourteen Infants died from inanition and eight were overlain in bed. There were eight deaths from alcoholism. Two came to their death by gas asphyxiation and two were asphyxiated by dirt caving In. one In gravel pit and one In digging a well. Of the 313 cases, seventy-two autopsies have been held-in the morgues of the different undertakers and at the City Hospital. INQUEST RECORD. The attention of the coroner has been called to about seven hundred cases, but In about forty of these it was only necessary to approve the finding of the family physician, who was familiar with the patient, and expecting sudden death at any time. In such cases the coroner held no Inquest. The average number of cases the coroner Is compelled to examine in Marion county Is 250 each year. Coroner Brayton says. The expenses of the office are tXOOO for coroner, $1,800 for expert examinations, $780 for clerk, $000 for constable. $300 for witness fees and $3U0 for office material and Incidentals, making a total of $7.2M) a year. Each inquest costs the county about $20. In discussing the criticisms that have b?en made of the expense of maintaining the ofllce of coroner Dr. Brayton says: "In those cities or counties 'where the office has been abandoned the localities have been notorious for municipal or ring corruption, and in the tpatms of reform the coroner' office has in some Instances been found incompetent or co.rupt and has been abandoned, its functions passing to the police courts and medico-legal experts. Eight years ago the Legislature of Indiana fixed a salary for the coroner of counties oer 100,000. and later the establishment of County Councils threw the same safeguards about this office as it did others. The result is that In Marion county, whether' there are 10U cases or 500 cases each year under the care of the coroner, the expenses of the office are restricted to $7.0 annually. There is no danger of the coroner's office being abandonod in Indiana. It is held la respect by the people, both by tradition, custom and necessity. The last Legislature recognized the office as next to the sheriff's an old view and declared the coroner to be sheriff In case a lynching took place in any county in Indiana. RETROSPECTIVE COMMENT. The present coroner, who goes out of office to-day, looks back with satisfaction to the fact that since the office has been put under such legislative restriction as other county offices have been, that the office has been conducted upon a high pfane In Marion county. "Of all the murder cases, over one hunflred. before our courts in that time In no case has the medical or legal profession found any opportunity or necessity for criticism of the work of the coroner. The lutopsles have always been properly made and recorded, and the medico-legal work complete and perfect. "In civil cass the effort has been to get & full and early testimony of witnesses.

so that both corporations and individuals should have a true basis for trial and damages. . "Moreover, the coroner's office has prevented a vast deal of litigation by finding the facts In contested cass and making them of record. The minor cases of the office, those which depend upon the special knowledge, persistence, tact and Integrity of the coroner himself are many. Among these are the protection of persons accused, of physicians, druggists, relatives, policemen, public institution?, etc., and not infrequently the securing of peace and quiet in a neighborhood. The present coroner has spent entire days in going around from house to house correcting false stories and putting neighbors to rights in accidental shooting cases, accusations of neglect and murder etc. "And finally there Is a class of cases, sometimes bordering on crime, where in the interests of private, family and public morality, the function of the coroner is. to conceal rather than to reveal as with a divorce judge In cfcurt. "Such are some of the reflections which come to mind after holding this office for four years and to the satisfaction, I hope, of the people and the medical and legal professions." CHANGES IN POLICE FORCE

BRAY A!VD Kl'IlTZ APPOINTED TO DETECTIVE FORCE. Sergeant "Warren Transferred to Desk Duty and Ira Leet Promoted Detective Dasan Reduced. The Board of rubllc Safety was In ses sion several hours yesterday discussing police appointments and changes. There ate six new patrolmen to be appointed and one sergeant created. The board announced at the conclusion of its session that it had de termined all the appointments it would not announce the new patrolmen and the new sergeant until Jan. 13, when all would be assigned to work. It is understood that the pay roll appropriations for the department are so limited that there would not be enough to pay all If their appointments dated from to-day. The amount saved in the fifteen days of postponement will be sufficient to balance the pay roll account. Several changes in the force were announced. Thft resignation of Harry It. Wal lace, of the detective force, is accepted with regret and an expression of hope for his success in his new position of deputy recorder. Desk Sergeant Edward uray was transferred to the detective force in Wal lace's nlace. Detective Thomas Dugan was reduced from the force to the ranks for the good of the force and In his place JacoD Kurtz, a former patrolman, was named. Kurtz was one of the "Big Four" which was dismissed during the Taggart regime for ''congregating and winking." lie has been doorman at the county jail during the term of Sheriff Saulcy. Sergeant Calvin Warren was transferred to the desk sergeancy made vacant by Bray's transfer and Ira Leet, a patrolman, was promoted to the sergeancy caused by warren s trans fer. This completed the list of appoint ments announced. Market Ordinance Signed. Mayor Bookwalter has signed the ordi nance requiring marketers who use horses and vehicles In the East market to detach their horses and shafts during the market hours. This will necessitate stabling the horses away from the market. The mar keters who were making the greatest use of the privilege of standing their vehicles protested against the ordinance, but the mayor favored it in order to reduce me od structlons in the streets and passageways. It will also increase tho cleanliness of the market space. BOARD OF WORKS ROUTINE. FINAL. ASSESSMENT ROLL. APPROVED For brick roadway in alley east of Ala bama street, from Eleventh street to Thir teenth street. Capitol Paving and Con struction Company. PRIMARY ASSESSMENT ROLLS APPROVED. For cement walks and curb in Orange street, from Shelby street to State avenue. For vacation of llrst alley north of Michi gan street,, from Oriental street to Bell street. For vacation of first alley west of Meridian street, from a point from the east Pne of the first alley west of Meridian street. COMPLETED IMPROVEMENTS. For brick roadway in first alley north of Court street, from East street to Liberty street. Capital Paving and Construction Company. For wooden block roadway in Vermont street, from est street to Bright street. Hoosler Construction company. For brick roadway, cement walks, curb. etc.. In California street, from Court street to Market street. For cement walks, stone curb, etc.. In Thirteenth street, from Bellefontaine street to C. I. & L. R. R. A. D. Bowen. For local sewer in first alley east of Union street, from Arizona street to Palmer street. Charles Roney. For cement walks in Butler avenue, from University avenue to C, II. & D. R. R. (Irvington.) John Moore. For local sewer in Kenwood avenue, from Twenty-ninth street to Thirty-fourth street. PAPERS ORDERED. For the vacation of Kentucky avenue, west or Band street. Lost. O harken to what we have to tell! They say that he went at the stroke of a bell! Our good oid lean That never a pouI hath seen him go. Out through the sparkle of stars and snotv lie passed, ere the sound of that bell was spent. And we know not even mo way ne went Our good Old Year! Fo now we are looking and searching well To find the Ringer who rang the knell Of our good Old Year. For what hav we done to be treated so? He was our friend; ay, well we know Br what beautiful ways In the summer ray. With what wonderful tales in the twilight gray. . lie cam maae mm aear: Anl what we may do we will not tell Should we find that Ringer with rope and bell! Dut this is clear. He shall send one peal as a warning to you: "Hear, all good folk! Make the most of the New! Guard the hours while yours! Now heed us well. For we lost at the very last stroke ot a Dell . Our good Old Year!" Carolyn Wells, In January St. Nicholas. Record Made at City Hospital. In the report of Superintendent Jobes, of the City Hospital, it was said that more patients were handled at the hospital last year than in any year in the history of the institution. The number of patients re ceived up to midnight last night was 2,107. Superintendent Jobes Faid this was 3H) more than had been received in lyoi, and is more than were treated in any one year. NEVER HEARD OF HIM BEFORE. Sunday-School Teacher Who killed Abel? Bobby (a stranger) I don't know, ma'am.

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The House Opposite A MYSTERY

CHAPTER VII. MR. MERRITT INSTRUCTS ME. Fred's letter was a great relief to me. I had not dared to allow my thoughts to dwell on the man whom I had seen in May Derwent's apartment on that eventful night. The supposition, however, that it was her brother explained everything satis factorily. Nothing could be more likely than that this angel of mercy shovTld give shelter to this returned prodigal and try to save him from the punishment he so richly deserved. But what cared I what he had done? She she was immaculate. At the hospital that morning I was in such good spirits that I had some difficulty in keeping my elation within bounds. As It was, I noticed that several nurses eyed me with suspicion. My preoccupation about Miss Derwent's affairs had been so great that I had hardly given a thought to the mysterious murder, and was consequently very much surprised. on returning home that afternoon, to find the detective patiently awaiting me. "Well, Mr. Merritt." I exclaimed; "glad to see you; what can I do for you? Anything wrong with your heart, or your liver, or your nerves, eh?" "Well, doctor, I guess my nerves are pretty near all right," he answered, with a slow smile. "I'm glad to hear it. Won't you sit down?" He selected a comfortable chair, and wc sat down facing one another. 1 wondered what could be coming next. "Now, doctor," he began, in a matter-of-fact voice, "I'd like you to tell me all you know of the murder." He had taken me completely by surprise. but I am learning to control my features and flatter myself that I did not move a muscle as I Quietly replied: Thls is a very strange question, and I can only answer that I know nothing." "Oh, hardly as little as that," the de tective rejoined, with irritating complacency. "Just as little as that," I. asserted, with some warmth. "Well, doctor, if that is the case, you can, no doubt, explain a few things that have been puzzling me. In the first place, will you tell me why. If you were not ex pecting another victim, you showed such surprise at the sight of the corpse? What reason could' you have had for being so deeply interested in the relative positions of your roof not your office, mind you, but your roof and the room in which the body was found, unless you had noticed something unusual from that poit of observa tion? Why were you so sure that the Derwent's flat was occupied. If you had not seen some person or persons there? By the way, I noticed that from your roof I could look directly Into their windows. Again, you betrayed great surprise when Miss Derwent lifted her veil. Why did you do so, except that you had previously seen a very different looking person in her apartment? And wljy did you select the Atkins's two servants out of all the people In the building to question about a certain noise, but that you yourself had heard a scream coming from their premises? And, lastly, you showed an unexplained interest in the back door of the Rosemere, which Is particularly suggestive in view of the fact that this window 13 exactly opposite to it. I need only add that your presence on the roof during some part of Wednesday night, or early Thursday morning, is attested by the fact that I found some pipe-ash near the chimney. You smoke a pipe, I see" pointing to a rack full of them); "your Janitor does not, neither do your two fel low-lodgers. Besides that, all the other occupants of this house are willing to swear that they have not been on the roof recent'y, and those ashes could not have been long where I found them; the wind would have scattered them. You see, I know very little, but I know enough to be sure that you know more." 1 was perfectly dumfoiinded. and gazed at the detective for some moments without speaking. . "Well, granted that I was on the roof during a part of Wednesday night, what of it? And if I did hear or see anything suspicious, how can you prove it, and, above all, how can you make me tell you of it?" "I can't," rejoined Mr. Merritt, cheerfully. "I can only ask you to do so." . "And if I refuse?" "Then I shall have to delay satisfying my curiosity till we meet in court, but I do not doubt that my patience will then be adequately rewarded, for a skillful lawyer will surely be able to get at many details that would escape me, and I hardly think that you would resort to perjury to shield two women whom 1 am convinced you never laid eyes on before yesterday, and have certainly not seen since." The detective paused. I still hesitated, for I felt an extreme reluctance to further compromise that poor girl by anything I might say. "Come, doctor," he urged, leaning forward and placing his hand on my knee, "don't you think it would be better for all parties for you to tell me what you know? 1 am as anxious to shield the innocent as you can be. . By withholding valuable information you may force me to put a young lady through a very trying and pub lie ordeal, which I am sure might be easily spared her if I only knew a few more facts of the case. This last argument decided me. and mak ing a virtue or necessity i gave mm a minute account of all I had seen and heard. When I came to describing the man's pro longed search Mr. Merritt nodded several times with great satisfaction. "Can't you tell me a little more how this man looked?" he eagerly Inquired. "You must have seen him pretty clearly while he was moving around that lighted room li'ad he any hair on his face?" ' -XM f rcod "if 4 at a ftinnv ViIkt 1 t till, A VUIUtOtU . V . Ui Iii J lllkkifyt but I can't for the life of me remember; I've tried to. Sometimes I think he was clean-shaven, and again I am sure he liad a small moustache. The detective glared at me for a mo ment; it was difficult for him to forgive such aggravating lack of memory. To be given such an opportunity and to foozle it! He heaved a sign of resignation as he in quired: "Can you remember how he was dressed?" "Oh. yes," 1 replied with alacrity, anxious to retrieve myself, "he had on a white shirt and dark trousers, and his sleeves were rolled back. "Did he close the windows before he left?" "Yes, and he pulled down the blinds also." "You are sure that you saw no one in the apartment resembling Miss Derwent?" "Quite sure; the woman I saw was taller and had fiat, black hair." "What do you mean by 'fiat'?" "Why, nowadays girls wear their hair loose: it bulges away from their faces: but hers lay tight to her head in a flat, black mass," I explained. 1 then harped on the probability of the return of Miss May's prodigal brother, and suggested the possibility that the darkskinned woman might be his wife. "Well. well, doctor! This is all very Interesting. The story of the brother, especially. You see, I had already discovered that a man had spent many hours In her apartment " "How did you find that out?" I Interrupted. Oh. quite easily." rejoined the detective; "as j-oon as all the excitement was over yesterday I made McGorry open the Derwent's apartments for me. You may imagine what a fuss he made about it. Well, anyhow, he got me " "Hut why did you want to pet in?" I inquired: "did you supect her?" "No." he rerlSed. "I did not. But in my profession you take no chances. Impressions, intuitions, are often of great value, only you must be careful always to verify them. 1 was almost sure that the young lady was innocent, but it was my business to prove her so. Now, It is certain that the person, or persons, who smuggled the corpse into the room where it was found must, at one time or another, have had the key of that apartment in their possession, and there are only three people whom we know of as yet who were In a position to havo had it. These three are: Miss Der

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Copyright 1902, by o. i: Putnam's Sons went; the French butler and. of course, McGorry. So far I have not been able to connect the latter two, even in the most indirect way, with the catastrophe. Unfortunately, that is not the case with the young lady. One person, at least has identified the body as that of her visitor, and your behavior." he added, with a smile, ' led me to believe that you susoected her of something. Not of the crime. I felt sure of that, but of what, then? I determined to find out, and now that I have done so, let me tell you that 1 am still convinced of her innocence." I Jumped up and shook him by the hand. "So am I, so am I," I exclaimed. "But this is a very queer case," he continued, "and I shall need all the assistance you can give me, if " "You shall have it," I broke in, enthusiastically; "anything I can do. Hut tell me, first, how you found out about Miss Derwent's brother?" "Not so fast, young man! At present we know nothing about a brother. I only said that I had discovered in the apartment traces of the recent and prolonged presence of a man. and 1 may add, of a man of some means." "How did you find that out? Especially about his means? I inquired, with a smile. "Quite easily. In the parlor, which was the first room I entered, I noticed that every piece of furniture had been lately moved from its place. Now, this was too heavy a job for a girl to have undertaken single-handed. Who helped her. I wondered? Her visitor of Tuesday evening might have been the person, but for various reasons I was inclined to doubt it. I thought it more likely to have been the woman whose existence your behavior had led me to infer. I next examined the dining room. A few crumbs showed that it had been used, but I could find no traces of her mysterious companion. The library had not even been entered. On the floor above, the front bedroom alone showed signs of recent occupation. Two crumpled sneets were still on the bed. and in the drawers were several articles of woman's apparel. Returning to the lower floor by tho back stairs, 1 found myself in the kitchen. Here, in the most unexpected rlace, I discovered an important clew." Mr. Merritt paused, and looked at me with a gleam of triumph in his eye. "les, yes. and what was that?" I In quired, breathlessly. only the odor, the very faintest ghost of an odor, I may say, of cigar smoke." "in the kitchen?" I exclaimed, incredu lously. "In tho kitchen," repeated the detective. "I at once drew un the blinds and looked out. The window opened directly on the fire escape, with nothing opposite but the roofs of some low houses. Bulling out my magnifying glass, I crawled out. I soon satisfied myself that the stairs leading up and down had jiot been recently used; on the other hand, I was equally sure that someone had very lately been out on the small landing. So I sat down there and looked about me. I could see nothing. At last. by peeling through the bars of the iron flooring, I thought I could discern a small brown object, caught in between the slats of the landing below. I climbed down there mighty quick, I can tell you, and In a moment held the . butt end of a cigar In my hand. It was, as I had suspected from the delicate odor it had left behind, one which had cost about 50 cents. I now ex tended my search downward, and examined every windowsill. every crevice, till I reached the basement, and, as a result of my .hunt, 1 collected five cigar stumps, all of the same brand. From the number, I concluded that whoever had been In the apartment had been there a considerable time. From his only smoking in the kitchen or on the fire escape, I gathered that he was anxious to leave no traces of his pres ence; and, lastly, from the quality of his cigars, l judged him to be a man of means So you see, I had discovered, even without your assistance, that, although Miss Der went may have told us the truth, she cer tainly had not told us all of It. I nodded gloomily. "What you tell me of this dark-haired woman Is still more puzzling," the detec tive continued. "She has covered up her tracks so well that not only did I find no trace of her, but no one, not even yourself, saw her either enter or leave the building. And I should never have dreamed of her existence if I had not noticed your surprise when aiiss Derwent lilted her veil. Now, the first thing to be done Is to try and find this strange couple, and we will begin by tracing the man whom you saw leaving the Rosemere with a market basket. It will be easy enough to find out if ho is nothing but a local tradesman, and if he is not, then in all probability he is the man we want. The detective who is watch ing Miss Derwent " "A detective watching Miss Derwent!" exclaimed; "Why, yes. What did you expect? I sent one' down with her to the country yester day." Perhaps I ought to have been prepared for it, but the idea of a common fellow dogging May Derwent's footsteps was uulte a shock to me, so I inquired, with considerable ill humor: "And what does he report?" "Nothing much. The youns ladv re turned to her mother, as she said she would, and since then has kept to her room, but has refused to see a doctor." "Have you discovered yet who the dead man really is?" I asked, after a slight pause. "iso, answered ine detective, with a troubled look, "and I can't make it out. Jim and Joe each persists in his own identification. 1 expected Jim to weaken, he seemed so much less positive at first. but whether he has talked himself into the belief that the sorpse is that of the young lady's visitor, or whether it really does resemble him so much as to give the boy grounds for thinking so, I can t make out. "I see, however, that you believe the mur dered man to be Mrs. Atkins's friend, of whose history and whereabouts she was so strangely ignorant." "Well. I don't know." the detective re plied. "We have found out that an Allan Brown did engage a berth on the midnight train to uoston. "Really? Why, I was sure that Allan Brown was a creation of the little lady's Imagination. By the way, it is a strange coincidence that two mysterious Allans are connected with this case. "Yes, I have thought of that," the de tectlve murmured: "and Allan is no com mon name, either. But it is a still stranger circumstance that neither of Allan Brown nor of the murdered man (1 am now taking lor granted that they are not identical) can we discover the slightest trace beyond the solitary fact that an upper berth on the Boston train was bought on Tuesday afternoon by a person giving the former's name, and whose description applies, of course, equally to both, Mrs. Atkins volunteers the Information that Brown was a stranger in the city, and so far I have no reason to doubt it. Now, a man who can afford to wear a dress suit and who is a friend of a woman like Mrs. Atkins, presumably had fairly decent quarters while he was In town. And yet inquiries have been made at every hotel and boarding house, from the cheapest to the most expensive, and not one of them knows anything of an Allan Brown, nor do they recognize his description as applying to any of their late guests. The deceased, of course, may have had looms somewhere, or a fiat, or even a houe, in which case It will take longer to trace him: ulthough even so. it Is remarkable that after such wide publicity has been s4ven to his description, no one has come forward and re1orted him as misting. The morgue has een crowded with idle sightseers, but no body as yet claims to have seen the victim before." "That is queer," I assented, "especially as the dead man was in all probability a person of some prominence. He certainly must have been rich. The pearl studs he wore v.ero ery fine." "Oh. thoe were imitation pearls," said the detective, "and i am inclined to think that, far from being wealthy, he was. at the time of his death, extremely badly off, although other Indications point to his having seen better days." "Really!" I exclaimed. "Yes; didn't you notice that his clothes, although evidently expensive, were all decidedly shabby? That his silk socks were almost worn out; that his pumps were down at tha heel?" "Yes. I did notice something of the kind." "But tho.e large imitation pearls blinded you to everything else, I see," Mr. Merritt remarked, with a smile. "I suppose so." I acknowledged: "they and the sleeve-links with the crest." "Ah. those are really interesting, and for the first time in my life I find mvself wishing that we were more careful In this country about the use of such things. Unfortunately, we arc so promiscuous and casual In adopting , any coat-of-arms that happens to strike our fancy that the links become almost valueless as a clew. Still, I have sent one of them to an authority in heraldry, and shall be much Interested to hear what he has to say about it. By the way, did anything else strike you as peculiar about the corpse?" "No," I answered, after a moment's reflection. "It did not seem to you odd that no hat was found with the body?" "Dear me! I never noticed that. How

singular! What could have become of it?"

"Ah. if we only knew that we should be n a fair way to solving this mystery. For 1 have found out that, whereas tho description of Miss Derwent's visitor and Mrs. Atkins's friend tally on all other points, they differ radically on this one. The former wore a Panama, whereas the latter wore an ordinary straw hat. Now, one of those hats must bo somewhere in the Rosemere. and yet I can't find It." "Air. Merritt." I inquired, "have ycu any theory as to the motive of this murder?" "Not as yet." he replied. "It may have been jealousy, revenge, or a desire to be rid of a dangerous enemy, and if you had not given it as your opinion that the man met his death while wholly or semi-uncon scious I should have added seli-deiense to my list of possibilities. The only thing I am pretty sure of is that the motive was not robbery." Look here. Mr. Merritt. I can't neip wondering that, whereas you have treated Miss Derwent with the utmost suspicion, have made a thorough search of her apartment, and have even sent a sleuth to watch her, yet you have shown sucn indifference to Mrs. Atkins's movements. Surely suspicion points quite as strongly to her as to tne young laay? "No, It doesn't," replied the detective. The key! You foraret the key cannot so far be connected with her. But may I ask who told you that I had neglected to make inquiries about the lady?" "Nobody; I only Inferred," I answered. "You wehe wrong." continued Mr. Mer ritt. "I have made every possible inquiry about Mrs. Atkins. I have even sent a man to Chicago to find out further particu lars, although I have already collected a good deal of interesting Information about the little lady's past life." "Really? And was there nothing peculiar about Itr" "No; I can't exactly say there was. Mrs. Atkins is the only daughter of a wealthy saloon keeper, John Day by name, and is twenty-six years old. Nothing is known against her except that In that city she chose her companions from amongst a very fast crowd. There is also a rumor, waicn tho Chicago detective has not been able to verify, that when she was about sixteen or seventeen years old she eloped with an Eastern man. from whom she was almost immediately divorced. At any rate, she has been known for a good many years as Ml?s Day. and has lived at home with her rather. The memory of her marriage, if Indeed she. ever was married, has grown so dim that a great many people, among whom may be numbered some of her intimate inenas, have never heard of it and vehemently deny the whole story. I hope, however, soon to find out the facts of the case. Young Atkins met his wife last winter at Atlantic City and at once fell in love with her. His father, who is a very wealthy contractor, was strongly opposed to the match. He was very ambitious for his son, and thought the daughter of a saloon keeper whose reputation was none of the best was no desirable wife for his boy." "But they married in spite of him," I said. "Yes; and old man Atkins has become reconciled to them, and makes them a very handsome allowance." "How long have they been married?" I asked. "Since the 15th of April," replied the detective, "and they were not married in Chicago, but In this city. I guess the lady was not overanxious to introduce her husband to her former pals." "I suppose you have searched her apartment for a possible clew the hat, for Instance?" "Yes; but, as Ehe has not been out since Wednesday. I have not been able to make as thorough a search as I should like. She is a shy bird, and I don t wantvto frighten her till I have a few more facts to go on. If she thinks herself watched she may become wary, while now, I hope, she will make use of her fancied security to do something which may give us a lead. "Well, Mr. Merritt, I conclude from all this that, although you are unable to trace the possession of the key to Mrs. Atkins, nevertheless your suspicions point towards her?" "Certainly not. There Is nothing to connect her with the tragedy except the fact that one negro boy Identified the corpse as that of one of her visitors. On the con trary, the more I look into this case the less do I see how the lady could be involved in it. Let us suppose that she did kill the man. Where could she have secreted him during the twenty-four hours that must have elapsed before the body was finally disposed of? The only place of concealment on the lower floor of her apartment is a coat closet under the stairs, and I doubt very much whether a small, unmuscular woman like Mrs. Atkins is capable of dragging so large a man even for a short distance." "But," I suggested, "the murder may have been committed in the hall, Just a step from this hiding place." "Yes, that is, of course, possible. But there Is still another objection. The closet is so small that I do not believe a man could be got into it without doubling him up. and of that the body shows no signs. Besides, if Mrs. Atkins is guilty we must believe her husband to te her accomplice. for who else could have helped her hide her victim? Now, you must know that the Atkins men. both father and son, bear most excellent reputations, especially the young man. of whom every one speaks in the highest term?, and I do not think that a person unaccustomed to deceit could have behaved with such perfect composure In the presence of a corpse of which he had criminal knowledge." "But he did show some emotion," I urged. "Oh, yes; I know what you mean when he learned that the man was murdered on Tuesday night he seemed startled. "Well, how do you account for that?" "I don't account for it. Why, doctor, in a case like this there are a hundred things I can't account for. For instance, what was the cause of Mrs. Atkins s scream? You have no Idea; neither have I. Why did she show such emotion at the sight of the corpse? I am not prepared to say. Why did she appear so relieved when she heard that the murder occurred on lues dav? I can formulate no plausible explana tion for it. And these are only a few of the rockä that I am running up against all the time." "But look here. If you really believe Miss Derwent and Mrs. Atkins both inno cent who do you think killed the man? "I don't know. Oh, I am aware that the detective of fiction is always supposed to be omniscient, but my profession, doctor. is Just like any other. There is no hocuspocus nbout it. To succeed In It requires. in the first place, accurate and most minute powers of observation, unlimited patience, the capacity for putting two and two together. Add to this an unprejudiced mind. and last, but not least, respect, amounting to reverence, for any established fact. Now, the onlv facts we have as yet gathered about this murder arc that the man was young, dissipated, and was staboed through the heart by some very small instrument or weapon; tnat h:s assailant was an in mate of the Rosemere; that the crime was committed on Tuescay night; and lastly. that whoever placed the body where it was found must, at one time or another, have had the key to the outside door in his or her possession. Whatever else we may think or believe is purely speculative. We presume, for instance, that the man- was poor. As for the other facts we have gleaned about the different inmates of the building, till we know which one or them had a hand In this tragedy we cannot conEider what we have learned about them as throwing any light on the murder. About that, as I said before, we know mighty lit tic, and even that little is the result of thirty-eight hours work, not of one man alone, but of seven or elgnt. "Indeed!" I exclaimed. 'Now, both ladles deny that they knew the deceased, and perhaps they are right It is, of course, possible that there was a third man in the building that evening, who was also tall, dark, and wore a pointed board. It is not likely, hov.fvrr. Such a coincidence is almost unheard of. Still, it is possible, and that possibility must bt reckoned with. Now, 1 must be off," said Mr. Merritt, rising abruptly from his chair. "and if you hear any more ri the young lady's movements let me know. There's my address. In the meantime, thank you verv much for what ycu have :uready told me." And before I could get out one of the twenty questions that wcie still burn lnir on my lips the man was gone. For some minutes I sat quite still, too miserable to think connectedly. ,Mas! my fears had not been groundless. The poor girl was In even greater trouble than I had supposed. I believed the detective to be a decent chap who would keep his mouth shut, but how dreadful to think that her reputation depended on the discretion of any man. Should it become known that she had received one young man alone In an empty apartment while another was seen there at 3 o'clock in the morning it would mean social death to her. Oh, for the right to offer her my protection, my services. Of course, it was now absolutely neces sary to trace the man who spent Tuesday evening with her and to prove beyond doubt that he was still alive. I wished that this mlsht be done without her knowledge. so as to spare her the shock of finding her self suspected of a crime. Again I-thought of Fred and at once sent him a fev lines begging him to let me know whether he or his sister knew of any friend or admirer of Miss Derwent who resembled the Inclosed description, and if either of them did know of such a person please to telegraph me the man s name, and, if pos title, his address. 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