Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 286, Indianapolis, Marion County, 12 April 1924 — Page 8

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BKUIN H KKK TODAY Sallie Peck, empioye of the Fair Deal Five & Teu. quarrels- with her policeman sweetheart. Michael Curtis. That oisrht Sallie goes into the yard to take down a washing for Ma Brennan, with w horn she lives. A crash shakes the earth and something strikes Sallie a b.ow on the head. When she regains consciousness the girl finds herself in strange surroundings. A French maid calls her Alva Copeland and Madame Copeland, a tall, richly gowned woman, claims her as her step-daughter. Sallie discovers that she has fallen into the hands of crooks aod is being substituted for the real Alva Copeland A man-servant thinks he recognize? in Sallie a member of a gang of diamond thieves and helps her eseaiie Burn the house at night. Michael Cur,tis and his friend. Captain Trevor, are trailing Sallie and Alva. NOW GO ON WITH THK STORY ‘‘.ryi HItOUGH the old taxi driver | | j she spoke of, who brought L J the young woman there when she asked him about a quiet boarding place; he remembered her very well,” replied the other. '‘lt’s my opinion that the fellow who approached her in Oldham honestly thought she was Bess Hilker —possibly a member \>f the gang who had never seen her but recognized the bag from a description given him—and trailed her from there to Mrs. Jennet's, then telephoned to the headuarters of the gang and it was arranged to get the girl first and then the bag. When Mrs. Jennet told their chauffeur the police had taken it. and then no mention was made in the papers of the return of the missing jewels, they must have realized that Bess died in the wreck and the dia monds were lost with her. If Miss Copgland has told who she is—and she probably has. as the lesser of two evils—you may be sure they'll give her the best of care as a possible future gold mine. Society heiresaes Jo.- I fall .niu the hands of abductors and blackmailers every day and the Ferret could have brought them afT the inside dope from the Copeland home. Let's get a bite to eat now. 'for we won’t hear from headquarters for at least an hour.” The telephone was ringing madly when they re-entered the apartment

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scarcely a half hour later, however, and within another few minutes they were headed for Center St. in Trevor’s gray car. Several high officials were awaiting them In the detective bureau and to them Mike tojd as much of his story as he cared to, stubbornly refusing to divulge his sources of information, while Trevor was again shown the photographs of the Ferret and positively identified him. ’’Your chief lias insisted that we give you your head in this. Sergeant.” The captain of detectives addressed Mike. “You want to sweat the Ferret out down here yourself after we get him?” “No. I’ll be with you myself and so will Lieutenant Trevor here, and the Ferret or whoever else in that house knows anything about the gang will talk right there, sir. Then I want to go right on and raid their headquarters, too. It’s a matter of !b~l j V AT THE FtX)T OF THE STAIRS I LAY A WOMAN'S BODY. life and death, but i don’t want to hit the" Copeland house too early, not until 1 o'clock in the morning, anyway.”, 'Have it your own way!” It was the highest official who talked. “If you can find the leader cf that gang for qs. and help us to break it up there’s nothing dbwp here too good for you!” The hr.al arrangements were made and they took their leave only to find thiß all four tires of the gray roadster had been slashed. “At the door of headquarters, too!” Mike commented grimly. “We won't gi near*your rooms again. Trevor, till ths affair is all over. I'll step inside and tell them what's happened. It'll just pul me edge on them for tonight, or I’m mistaken! They'll see that fresh tires are put on and the car guarded for you, ana meanwhile I think we’d be safest to keep moving. It's good you have your gun stiff with you.” They made their way further up town to a foreign restaurant, where they drank coffee from tall glasses and played a desultory game of donii noes, but when the last order of cos fee was placed +>efor< them Mike spilled his clumsily and whispered hurriedly to his companion: “Don’t touch that! Come, we'll be getting on." He summoned the waiter, paid the check and they moved leis urely out. but once on the sidewalk Trevor demanded: "What was tne matter with it? Dope?”

"Or worse! A strange waiter t-rought it, but he wasn’t strange to me; I saw him loitering around the entrance to your apartment house yesterday. If Miss Copeland has talked or they found the letter she may have attempted to mail to you. It's a safe bet you’ve been watched every minute since unless you gave then: the slip for that wild ride of yours to Shaftstown.” “Then let’s go to my club?” Trevor suggested on a sudden inspire tion. “We can be quiet and talk there, and get a decent dinner, for none of the stewards has been in service less than ten or fifteen years. We’ll wait there till the time for the laid.”* The chib was an old and exclusive one and only a’few of the veteran members were there To a few of them Mike was presented as an old army friend and then the two found a quiet comer where they compared cotes and went crver the case in every detail. "Come on, “Trevor. Time’s up. We’re going over the'Tt.p now!” The Copeland house was shrouded In darkness as the several motor cars filled with silent, grim men drew up in Its vicinity and the raiders dispersed to surround It. The captain with Mike and Trevor at his heels and two more men bring up the rear went to the great entrance doors and rang the bell. It reverberated again and again through the echoing house hut the watchers on '.he Park side of the Avenue reported that no light appeared in any of the windows and the captain remarked: “I don’t like this. Break in. boys!” The two men behind Mike and Tre vor stepped forward, but halted at an exclamation from their superior. < who had tried the heavy outer doors of grill word. They swung open al most at his touch, as did the inner ones of massively carved oak and they plunged forward into the utter blackness of the hall, then stood listening. A ttaint sound (Ike distant moaning came to their ears and the captain flashed his light about till he found the switch in the wall and the hall blazed with brilliance. While he paused to issue orders Mike and Trevor leaped up the stair case and then paused for a moment as though turned to stone, for at the foot of the second flight of stairs leading upward there lay the body of a woman. Her upturned face was thin and dark, and the short, gasping breaths issuing from her colorless lips each brought with them the moan of agony that they had heard, but there was consciousness in her dulling eyes, which brihtened \*itr recognition at sight of Trevor. • "My God!” (he latter exclaimed "It’s Tbegese!”^ The captain and several of his men had bounded up the stairs but at a sign from Mike they stood back as he and Trevor knelt to lift the woman. Then they saw in,.the dim hall light ,ihat blood was flowing from a small but evidently deep wound in

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her left side and as they raised her reddened froth bubbled from her lips. “M’sieu Trevor!” It was the merest breath blit she essayed the ghost of a smile. “Do not leeft me too high or the end will come before I speak. All —all are gone except M’sieu Wheelair Sloat, and he lies dead in the hall above.” “Captain, send for that police surgeon who is out in one of the cars, will you?’’ Mike, spoke over his shoulder in a hurried undertone. “If any of the boy's here can take down a

OUR BOARDING HOUSE—By AHERN

THE OLD HOME,TOWN —By STANLEY

deposition In shorthand let him get busy. Good. Another of them can step carefully over the woman and see if there’s a man’s body in the hali upstairs as she says.” More men had come softly up from the floor below and now several went to search the upper part of the house while a young plainolothesman knelt beside Mike with a pad and pencil. “Theiesc, where is Miss Copeland?” asked Trevor in a low compelling tone. “Dead, M'sieu, I swear it! Dead in that wreck of the train last wssk.”

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Absolute conviction breathed in her hoarse whisper. “Madame Copeland, M’sieu Sloat and I, we have queek adopt anothalr young girl with golden hair from the wreck and bring her to this house. She is unconscious, she knows nothing and Madame have reason to believe she Is shopgirl, but today it is discover that she is the thief, Diamond Bess. Doctor Qualters —” “Symington Qualtere, the alienist?” interrupted the captain, and /he woman's eyes turned to hie.

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“Bat yes, M’sieu. He is to take her tonight to his sanitarium in the country and kill her, but an hour ago word came from M'sieu Horace Bellows, who has what you call 'stool peegeon’ at your police headquarters, that all is known and we must esoape. Me, I am in the way, they have lost the big inheritance and so Doctor Qualters stab me with some small instrument from his case, but I do not think he is so good a surgeon as poisoner, for I live to talk still a little, eh?*' She paused, sniggling for

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FREUKLES AND HIS FRIENDS—By BLOSSER

breath, and Trevor drew out his handkerchief and wiped the froth from her lips. “Stool-pigeon at Headquarters!" the captain muttered, and turned to the man beside him. "Dan. find the nearest telephone in this house and call them up downtown. The sooner they get the news the better.” There wras an interval while the police surgeon examined the woman, administered a restorative to her and saw that she was made easier with cushions from the sitting room. To

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—By MARTIN

—By TAYLOR

Mike’s mute Inquiry he replied with a slow but decisive shake of his head One of the detectives who had been upstairs drew' the captain aside and Mike joined them. "There’s a dead man up there, aJI right, with his skull crushed in! One of the household, he must be. for his picture in a big frame stands on a dresser in the front bedroom, but this skirt ain't told all the truth,, for in bed-rm the floor above there’s an eld lady who’s very muoh alivel” (Continued In Our Next Issnff)