Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 6, Indianapolis, Marion County, 18 May 1923 — Page 8

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BEGIN HERE TODAY Vendetta begin? between MICHAET, SAYERS, noted criminal and SIR NORMAN GREYES. once of Scotland Yard, when Sayers’ beautiful housemaid. 'ANET. saves him from Sir Norman by shooting dead an officer sent to arrest him. Janet becomes Sayers' wife and accomplice. Michael plots with his oonfederato. the lawyer Tonnghusband. to rob two men named Gorty and Metzger of seven boxes of gold brought into England for the purpose of establishing private credits With the aid of two masqueraders. Mr and Mrs. Jose do Miguel, supposed to be from South America. Sayers arranges to steal the gold Madam de Miguel manages a flirtation with Metzger and arranges to signal him during her husband's absence from their hotel suite NOW GO ON WITH STORY Michael Continues: METZGER bent toward her. I moved noiselessly, but I think he would not have heard me if I had worn hobnailed boots. The rest was easy, for It was a trick I knew well. He collapsed with scarcely a gasp. I tightened the cord a little and the deed was done. * • * Greys Takes Up the Story: ft was entirely by accident that I had dined that night in the grillroom of the Milan Hotel with Rimmington. He had asked me for an interview that afternoon over the telephone, and being disengaged. I had suggested a little dinner at my club. We had arrived there to find the place packed and the best tables full. Sooner than wait, we had gone to the Milan. Rimmington was in the act of disclosing his reason for wishing to see me. when the manager, who was an old acquaintance, came across to us. “I wonder whether you would mind coming upstairs with me for a moment. Sir Norman," he begcred. “And you too. -Mr. Rirnmingtor. I've just b°en sent for. Something wrong upstairs.”

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“MY GOD!” FuMMI NOTON EXCLAIMED. “HE'S DEAD!' 'HE'S VERY NEAR IT," I REPLIED. We rose, without hesitation and followed him out of the room in*o the lift and up to the sixth floor. When we stepped out, several of the servants were gat he red at the farther end of the corridor. The manner embarked upon an explanation. “There may he nothing wrong at all," he said. “This Is just the position as it has been reported to me. Suite eighty-nine was taken some days ago by Metzger and Gorty, and two emissaries from our eastern friends. They brought over some gold, as you know. In tin boxes, and greatly against my advice, they had it stored in their rooms. Gorty went to Manchester last night. leaving Metzger alone.. Our * ;ophnnc-operator reported that he refused to answer the telephone about half an hour ago. We sent up to his room and found it bolted on the inside. We rang and knocked without the slightest result Finally we entered the suite through the adjoining room, which had just been vacated, and found that although

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the outer door was bolted on the inside, the suite was empty. Further, the tin boxes of gold had gone.” “Interesting," Remmington murmured. “very!” The manager led us along the corridor, through an empty bedroom ' which showed signs of recent vacation. Into the suite which had been allotted to Messrs. Metzger and Gorty. There were no signs of any trouble, or dlsturbanace of any sort. “Is there any reason to suppose.” I asked, “that this man Metzger has not taken away the gold himself?” "In that casa," the manager pointed | out, “someone would have bad to • carry the eases downstairs. No one has done so. No one has seen Metzi ge>- leave the place.” “We are to presume," I asked, “that he’s still in the hotel?” “Precisely:" “You have had him searched for?" “Half a dozen men have searched every corner of the place. No one in : the hotel has ven caught a glimpse of him " I went through the rooms again. When I came to the bedroom adoinji in.g the sitting-room, and which the floor waiter told me was Metzger’s. T noticed that the wardrobe was lvcked. Not only that hut there was a slight strain being exercised against ! the lock, bending the panel slightly: For the "first time 1 began to look upon the matter as serious. “This door must he broken open 1 quickly.” I insisted, “or a spare key I found." The key front the wardrobe in : Gorty's room was tried with success. As it was turn-d. the door flew op“n. I was just in time to catch in my arms a crumpled mass of clothes and humanity. With a blackened face and protuberaet eyes, his tongue lolling out on one sld<\ it was still not I difficult to recognize from his picturer I the rnan who had refused to answer I the telephone "My God!" Rimmington exclaimed. “He's dead:" “He’s very near it," 1 replied loos letting the slipknot of whipcord from i around his neck. “Send for a doctor l at once. And Rimmington. you had better ring up the yard and get. to work quickly.” “How long ago did those j'eople leave?” he asked. “And what lug gage did they take with them]” “They left an hour ago,” the floor waiter answered. “They had two vary heavy trunks." "The affair appears to solve ltsolf.” Rimmington muttered after he had spoken a few hasty words down the telephone. The floor waiter, who was an In telligent fellow, followed us Into the other room, to which we had with drawn on the arrival of the doctor. “There Is one thing I ought to tell you. sir." he said. "The porters tried to move those trunks several hours ago. while Mrs. Metzger was busy writing in his room. They were too heavy then —and at this time the tin cases were still in Mr Gorty’s room.” “You are sure of that?” Rimmington risked. “Absolutely, sir." Rimmington looked around I could see that the same thought had occurred to him as to me. The briefest of searches confirmed our suspi cions. The wardrobe was filled with lumps of heavy stone. “There is only one point now remaining to be solved," l observed, "and that is, did these two, Mr. and Mrs. Jose de Miguel, carry out this little affair entirely alone, or had they accomplices?" “They had a visitor about an hour before they left, sir." the floor waiter told us. Rimmington took out Ills notebook. "Description, please." he asked. I scarcely 'saw the gentleman myself. sir.’ 'the man replied. "He seemed quite ordinary looking. He wore glasses, and hi3 hair was gray.” ‘"Well." Rimmington said, as we descended to the ground floor to meet the men whom he had summoned from Scotland Yard, “we get It in the neck sometimes about our failures. This time, if we don’t get hold of De Miguel and his heavy trunks, I should think we deserve :tll the censure we get." “Nothing in it for me. I’m afraid.” 1 remarked as I bade him good night. "It doesn't, look like it, "he admitted. "However, one. never knows." It was the unexpected which happened. Although Mr. Jose de Miguel and his wife could have had barely an hour's start, and wore handicapped by the possession of two trunks of enormous weight, a week passed without any news of their arrest or of the recovery of any part of the gold. Metzger remained in a state of partial unconsciousness and could give no coherent account of what had happened! Gm-ty returned from Manchester and behaved like, a madman. He spent his time between Downing Street, where he boldly accused the Government of having taken the gold, and Scotland Yard, where he expressed his opinion of the F-nglish police system in terms which made him, to say the least of it. unpopular there. In the beginning the whole affair had seemed so simple. Mr. and Mrs. de Miguel, distributing granules In most lavish fashion, had driven calmly away from the Milan at the appointed hour, and had arrived at Waterloo in ample time for The train which they had planned to take to Southampton. When that train arrived at Southampton, however, there was no one In it in the least answering to their description: neither had any rooms been taken in the hotel, or passages booked on the steamer. Curiously enough, too. none of the porters remember handling any particularly heavy lugg;ige for that train, or attending upon any passengers answering to the description of the two missing people: yet the man who drove the hotel bus to the station —an old j servant and a man of excellent char- j acter —gave unfaltering evidence as to : his having driven there, and having i left his two passengers waiting on ! the pavement while a porter went for j a barrow. I kept away from Rimming for some time, for I thoroughly sympathized with his position. On the tenth day, however, he came to see me. “Not so simple as we thought," he reparked as he accepted a cigar and an easy chair. . "Apparently not,” I assented.

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"What about the bus driver?” “He's been with the hotel company for seventeen years,” Rimmington replied. "has a wife and children and an excellent character. Besides, a score of people saw the bus in the station yard.” “And the man who visited them at the hotel at the last moment?” “We’re offering a bundled pounds reward for his discovery. Here's Ills description.” I carefully read the typewritten

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sheet which Rimmington, pushed across to me and returned it in silence. “Suggest anything to you?” my visitor asked. "The description might apply to thousands,” I answered a little evasively. Rimmington stared gloomily into the fire. “ft might,” he admitted. “Do you know who I think it was?” “No idea,” I answered mendaciously.

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line was established during March, the Department of the Interior announcing a production of 630,701,355 gallons during that month. Stocks on hand March 31 totaled 1,269,209,171 gallons, an increase of 129,000,000. gallons over thatv on hand at the close of February. Operations of the 288 refineries reporting to the department, however, showed a decrease of 1 per cent ovsr February. Kerosene production of 190,7014176

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gallons showed a slight decrease from the February rate of production, although stocks were increased about 11,000,000 gallons, amounting to 243,339,806 gallons. March production of gas and flMloOs "Jb 970,891,272 gallons, a decrease of 3Aer cent in the dally rate of output <Mmr February. Stocks declined stlgbt-/-Jto 1,254,122,372 gallons.