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hours he had recovered sufficiently to be taken to court, amazing narrative, recovered his aplomh at last and an extraordinary discovery. The man was not hum and he was arraigned before Magistrate Kernochan. at roared: He was a machine. Dr. Weston will tell you all about it." the Tombs Police Court. His head and neck were "Stop this fooling. I ay. Let us see if you will re- "Yes." said Dr. Weston, 'there can be "little doubt that swathed in bandages, giving him a fearful appearance. peat that preposterous lie after you have seen my princl- the object which fell out of the window of the Hotel 8t An officer of the Detective Bureau of Police Head- pal witness." Mldas wag not properIy 6peaking ma, but artificial quarters appeared in court, and the Magistrate remanded Here the Inspector pressed a button and a policeman construction rt had hrt in ....h iriati

FROM the fifth floor of the Hotel St. Midas, at Fifth the Prisoner in his custody to Police Headquarters. brought in a strikingly beautiful young woman, who ap- and all the lower organs of a man. It was not until we avenue and Fifty-fourth street, New York, the most Every moment added new and perplexing features peared to be in great distress She had Titian red hair opened the skull and examined the brain that we became luxurious hostelry in the world, a man s body fell to tne mystery. The newspapers and the detectives be- and an exquisitely clear complexion, and was dressed In convinced that it was artificial. In the interior of the hurtling to the pavement with a hideous crash. Sn to investigate with equal energy. They learned that perfect style. Her eyes were dark with weening. skull we found an apparatus resembling the receiver of a It was 5 o'clock in the afternoon of February 10, the Dr. Madison was a scientist and electrician, of St. Louis, She was Miss Justine Amory, who had general super- wireless Instrument. Then very close examination most fashionable hour on the most fashionable thorough- who had made many interesting Inventions, but had never vision of the housekeeping on the floor on which Dr. showed that the nerves were really wires connected with fare of the metropolis of the Western World. won commercial success. A very puzzling thing was Madlaon and his nephew lived. The great hotel was this apparatus. Among the throng of fashionable and well-known peo- that no one there knew that he had a nephew. accustomed to employ young women of good family and "There are many features about the apparatus that w pie in automobiles or on foot, who were passing the fatal They learned that the young man never left the rooms breeding for this kind of work. The inspector already cannot explain; and which only the inventor can."

was Mrs. Alva K. Belmont, she ordered her auto- at the hotel. He was Kept tnere practicauy a prisoner anew ner story, sne naa neen attracted by young MadI-

by his uncle. The doctor son s handsome and unhappy appearance. She knew No man ever received such testimony of his' ability a had the only key. and that his uncle exerted some terrible power over him. Dr. Madison The police, the Coroner. District Attorney he forbade any of the Unknown to the doctor, she had spoken to him and tried Whitman, the Grand Jury, were all compelled by their hotel servants to enter to console him. They had had brief whispered conver- duties to examine his invention, and were all compelled the room except when sations. She had brought him little delicacies. In short, to pronounce it the moat marvellous thine that hums be asked for them, and from pitying him she had fallen In love with him. Ingenuity had ever produced. he always watched them "You had talked with the deceased Mr. Madison, had Everybody was convinced of Dr Madison's greatness closely until they had yc-u not, Mis Amory?" asked the inspector. except Justine Amory. She left the employ of the hotel, done their work, and "0b. yes, certainly." she answered. wrecked In mind and body, a shadow of her former self, never permitted a word "You were in love with him, were you not?" asked Dr. Madison's fame became world-wide. He moved to pass between them Inspector McClusky, gently. n fc fipWmdld suite on the second floor of the hotel, and his nephew. Yes, sir," said the poor girl, overwhelmed with con- where the mutilated remains of -Richard Madison" were The unfortu nate fusion and distress. uid out in state in the principal parlor for inspection by young man spent nearly "And you expected to marry him?" continued the in- scientists and other visitors. all his time seated at epector. A corporation with a capital of tSO.OOO.MO waa formed the window reading a "Oh, yes," she answered, bursting into tears. f0r the exploitation of Dr. Madison's artificial man and book or looking sadly "Now what have you got to say to that?" asked the other inventions. He wae able to construct satomata out of the window, as if inspector, turning fiercely i pon the doctor. that could do many kinds of difficult work. Orders longing for liberty. Oc- "That's all right." said the imperturbable doctor. "That were received for many specimens of these automata at casionally he cast a shows how well my machine worked. When he made enormous price. They were more eagerly Bought tfcs glance of misery and love to her I was working his speech centre with a wire- flying machines had ever been.

resentment at nis uncle, less transmitter from a closet. I could have made him

The evidence looked marry her. if I had had a little more time.

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mobile stopped nt the curb near the man's body and stepped out. "What is this?" she exclaimed. "A murder or a suicide? Such horrible things would not happen if women had t'.ie fuffrage. Why don't the police come to the poor man's assistance at once? I believe he is still alive.

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crioa imperatively to the crowd who were pressing round the body with ghoulish curiosity. After seeing that two policemen, a doctor and the hotel employes were attending to their duties to the best of their ability, Mrs. Belmont entered her limousine and passed on her way. The ambulance surgeon declared that the man had died instantaneously. His head was crushed, his arms and legs broken, and he had received other terrible lnjarles. His heart bad

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ceased to beat. Nevertheless the doctor was puzzled by the fact that the body maintained persistently the name temperature that of life. Ills studies had taught him that such conditions were Impossible. The temperature ought to fall at once. Hotel employes rocosjnlzed the body as that of Richard Madison, a fine-looking young man, who occupied a suite of rooms on the tenth floor with his uncle, Dr. Thomas Madison, a much older man.

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The French Academy of Sciences, the Royal Society of

He would England and the most famous unlversitiaa maA artantttbt

very suspicious against have made a perfect huaband for an up-to-date girl." bodies of Europe showered degree, gold modal and dhv Dr. Madison. Either he Miss Amory threw a look of Indignation and horror at tinctions upon Dr. Madison. They begged him to visit had murdered the man. him. The inspector rose to check him in his brutal Europe and assured him a triumphal tour.

or naa treateu mm so cynicism. Cne evenln- n.. Madison returned to nfci

ai mis instant mere waa a noise or scuffling at the door great banquet In hi honor.

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''You were in love zvith him, acre you not? ' asked the Inspector McClusky gently." ' 'Yes, sir,' said the poor girl, overwhelmed with confusion and distress." " 'And you expected to marry him?" continued the inspector." 'Oh, yes ' she anszvered, bursting into tears."

cruelly for some purpose which the police not fathom that the poor fellow had Jumped out of the window. In the rooms at the hotel the police found a great deal of electrical and other scientific appliances, but they attached no great importance to that. Inspe ctor McCluskey, one of the

keenest - minded detectives New York ever possessed, put Dr. Madison through "the third degree" at Police Headquarters. The Inspector really did not know what to believe, but he was trying hard to pump t' mysterious doctor. "All the evidence is against you, Dr. Madison," said fhfl Inpnnt . 1 .. . t -v . . . . i s . V. t MH -r..

1 1 ' of Richard Madison, a And 3 expected to knQW yQu djd Confesg Jt J XN ! 1. fine-lookine voune man. marrv himr continued ..Ha , ha,.. ,u. ,f. t i

the least frightened, as a prisoner undergoing the third degree is expected to be. "What . very clever fellow you are! And how do you know he didn't jump out of the window?" "Don't fool with me," retorted the inspector. "How did

The two men had been at the hotel for about two you get those wounds on your face? You struggled with

months. Dr. Madison was about sixty years eld, of very him and he injured you and then you threw him out of distinguished and serious appearance, and waa Intensely the window." absorbed In some work he was carrying on in his "How do you know that I didn't receive these scratches

srooms. In trying to prevent him from committing suicide?" asked

The police went immediately to the rooms occupied the doctor.

Jty the Madlsons. and there they found Dr. Madison e came back nrst out or tne window and fell on his

awaiting tnem. mis ciotnes were nan torn on sua mer oaiu mc n-stiui. up wouia not nave aone mat

were serious Injuries about his face and body. His ap- if he had jumped out of the window. Besides, why should

pearance inevitably aroused a presumption that he had he try to commit suicide? What did you do to him? I had a struggle with the dead man. It seemed that he Why did you keep him prisoner? You will have to explain must have thrown his nephew out of the window or been all those questions to a jury, and remember that the more

injured in a struggle to prevent him from committing you try to deceive me now, the harder we shall make it

for you afterward. Now confess, or I will question you "I am ready to go with you," said a hundred times a day until you do." Dr. Madison to the police. "Well, well, Inspector," said the doctor, very slowly. On account of his injuries he was "I will tell you the truth. He was not a man. He wa3 taken to Bellevue Hospital in the cus- a mechanical man, an artificial man, but a very perfect tody of the police. Within twenty-four one. I made him. As a policeman, of course, you would not know enough to distinguish him from a real man. Only a scientist could do that. "I threw him out of the window of the finest hotel in New York, because I believed that that was the best

way to can attention to my great invention. I knew that would give the world a thrill. I knew that the occurrence would be published In the Evening Journal within a few minutes, and that through the Evening Journal I should reach the thinking closses of America immediately. If it had been reported in tie St. Loul3 newspapers It would have passed almost unnoticed . I launched several remar! -.ble Inventions in St. Louis and failed to win the success I aimed at. My ambition is to be known as the greatest inventor in the world, and I shall succeed.

"You are right in one thing, Inspector. I did receive these injuries from my 'nephew.' When I started and Coroner Feinberg brushed past the policeman who with pride, he gazed upon the remains of Us

to throw him out or the window he defended himself, as was guarding It. He was accompanied by Coroner's Phy- Richard" He was about to pack up everythtngrtbr fed I had planned that he should do, when anybody at- sician Weston and a number of reporters. tour of Europe.

tacked him. Ke fought well. In fact, I believe he would "I represent the people of the State of New York," A tall, Blender womar with great ctsrlnc

have killed me if I had not succeeded in outline the said Coroner Fpinharr "r.i nn nni(rmn or hit other hae-rarri fane rlidt Into fhm nnm nnf!v mm .

simon g ine inrong of jasnionable ana tvell-Rnoivn people m automobiles or on foot, motor of his right arm oat of action at the last moment, person can stop me from going where my duty calls me." It was Justine Amory.

utir FujsinS inc jaiai spm, zvas .Mrs. .tiza r.. ncimont. one oraerea ner lou see in my eagerness to make this great demonstra- Turning to Inspector McCluskv the Coroner said: "Liar! Murderer!" she shrieked, and fired threw

tion I had forgotten to disconnect his principal self- "You can stop your questioning and call your detec- from a revolver into his breast. defense centre before I took hold of him.1 tives off. There was no crime. This fs a case for science The wonderful Dr. Madison fell dead by thlde oC?Uj

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' 'Liar! Murderer!' she shrieked, and fired three shots from a revolver into his breast."

automobile stopped at the curb near the man's body 'and stepped out." 'IVixat is thisf she exclaimed. 'A murder or a suicide T "

Inspector McClusky, who was nearly stunned by this and the newspaprr, rr? sr the police. We have made "nephew."

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