Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-01-11

foreigner, French or Italian, most likely
Italian.
There were other witnesses examined. and
the inquest was adjourned for week, the
usual order being given for the burial of the
deceased In accordance with the desire of his
friends
The adjourned inquiry evolved very little
addlnonal information. Much of the original
evidence was repeated, but no new facts had
peen discovered relative to the murderer. ex-
cept Mr.. Walkers reputation of any knowl-
euSe OF such mans existence. No man of
that name had ever been employed in NJ
walkers workshops in Cornhill. The police
nad mp to this time totally failed in their efforts
to trace either the missing man or the missing
notes. The murder not having been discovered
until a day and II half after it had been done,
the murderer had had ample time to cross the
Channel before the police were on his track
lie would probably endeavor to dispose OF the
notes IN Holland or in Germany, and perhaps
/ leave Germany for America. The London
police were in communication with their broth
erhood on the Continent, and all suspicious de-
partures from Havre, Marseilles, Antwerp,
Hamburg. Bremen, or any of the principal
! ports would be noted. The large reward which
had been offered by the widow of the decease d
was calculated to stimulate the energies of
Scotland Yard; but the efforts of Scotland Yard
resulted only in the following up of various
false scents. all alike leading to disappoint-
ment and disgust
The one scent which if it could have been
| followed while 1t was warm. should have led to
| the apprehension of the murderer, was a lost
| scent, because the lapse of time had made it
cold before the Scotland Yard hounds could be
! laid on.
len days after the murder there came CON-
munications from the Credit Lyonnais at Nice.
| from the Credit Lyonnais at Cannes. and from
MIR. Smiths bank at Monte Carlo. which dis
| posed OF the question as to what had become OF
| the money which should have been paid for
young Squire Florestan's river meadows the
| bundle OF notes which Robert Hatrell had
pocketed so gaily that summer afternoon after
| his CHEEKY luncheon at the Army aud Navy
| club
! In the morning of July ! an elderly woman
had called at the Credit Lyonnais at Cannes to
| exchange two notes of $500 each for French
| money. She was person of ladyike appear
! ance and manners, spoke French with u Fari-
| sian accent. and impressed the cashier us per-
sonaSe to whom the utmost respect was due.
She was very particular in exacting the fullest
| rate of exchange for her thousand pounds. and
| seemed TO take misery delight i'll the trltiing
| proht made on the transaction. She informed
| the cashier, en- PEASANT, that she had hired a
villa In the Quarter de California and that she
| required the greater part of this money TO pay
the seasons rent in advance. She added also.
| en- PEASANT, that the people of Cannes were
! usurlous In their nsistence upon payment be-
! 1orehand from tenant whose integrity and
! whose means it was impossible to doubt This
was said with an air of quiet dignity which con-
| hrmed the cashier in his idea that he was deal
| ing with parsonage.
These details were communicated later in
| confidential talk with the detective who fol-
! lowed up the clue; the main fact telegraphed
| to Scotland Yard was the fact that such and
| such notes had been turned into French money.
| From Monte Carlo came an account of a
| larger transaction. An elderly lady of aristo-
| cratic appearance had called at the English
Bank there late on the afternoon of July Z and
! had changed three Bank OF England notes for
| t5OO each, taking III exchange French notes,
twenty franc pieces, and those large gold pieces
| of a hundred francs which make SO fine a dis
| play IN roleau on q treHte ct Quarante table.
| Here, as at Cannes, the cashier had been i'm
i pressed by the lady's distinction of manner
| and perfect savoir faire. The easy way in
which she handled n $500 note indicated long
| experience OF wealth. 4 gambler evidently,
| thought the cashier, but woman rich enough
| to afford to gamble without any sordid anxiety
| as to the result; 4 person whose presence did
honor to the delightful little settlement on the
| rock.
| From Nice came third telegram. Elderly
| woman exchanged two notes, such and such
numbers rs advertised, for $500 each. and one.
| also number as advertised. for $3.50. on July
| 9, at IL o'clock am. at the Credit Lyonnais
| letter following the above telegram in
| formed the authorities of Scotland Yard that
| the elderly woman in question was of dis
! tlnguished appearance, speaking French per-
| fectly, and supposed by the cashier to be a
| French woman She had alleged as her reason
| for changing the notes that she had bought a
| plot Of land at Boullieu, with the intention OF
building a villa there, and she preferred to pay
| for 1t IN French money. The seller was an ig-
| norant man, who seemed never to have seen a
Bank of England note; and there was also the
| advantage upon the exchange. Again, as al
Cannes, the distinguished elderly lady showed
herself eager for the utmost profit upon the
| exchange.
| The money taken from the murdered man
was thus accounted for-within a hundred and
| fifteen pounds. The odd money being in smaller
| notes might easily be disposed of without leav.
| ing any trace III the memory of the people who
| received it. There could be very little doubt
that the elderly lady of Cannes was identical
| with the elderly lady of Nice and Monte Carlo
| Her description as given by the three cashiers
tailed in every particular. especially in the
| trlhlng detail of a rather noticeable mole Just
| above the outer corner of the left eyebrow
and IN another detail as to the lady's hands
which were remarkable for their whiteness anC
delicacy of form-haads which had gone u lone
way toward suggesting the idea of the lady.
patrlcian birth and refined breeding to the
| minds of the three cashiers.
| One of the cleverest detectives in Londor
| charged himself with the task of folio wing the
tail of this nameless lady, taking up the threaC
at Nice after a quarter-past III upon the 9Th o.
July, which was the tine of her latest recorded
appearance.
1t needed good deal OF close work in the
| way of inquiry at nearly every hotel i'll the city
to discover that an elderly French woman O.
good appearance spent Ike night of the 7th o
July at the Hotel des Princes, that she arrived
by the late train from Monte Carlo, that heI
only luggage consisted of II hand bag, neither
! large nor heavy, that she went out soon after
| ten O'Clock on the morning of the Sth, luncheC
| in her own room at twelve. and left the hotel a
half-past twelve In a cab which was called fol
her at the door, carrying her bag with her. after
duly paying her bill. Neither porter nor waiter
| had observed the number of the cab, nor ha(
any one heard her direction to the driver L
was supposed she was going to the railway
station, and the hour at which she left sug
gested that she was going in the Rapide, which
leaves Ventimile at six minutes past eleven fol
Paris. As the aforesaid Rapide stops at nearly
every station between Nice and Marseilles the
lady's range of country-as to choice where she
would alight-would be wide; but there was {
leave Nice was hardly likely to stop till he OF
there was practically nothing-a wide area oil
an insignificant watering place or two-Cannes
st. Raphael-a shipbuilding settlement-and
seaport-but for pleasure, for gaiety for move
ment, for the lovers of opera, play hous,
and little horses, absolutely nothing.
The intelligent detective visited Monte Carlo
and saw the cashier at Mr.. Smiths bank. HI
| went into the rooms and talked to the attend
ants. He met an acquaintance or two, also OF
business, but he could find out nothing more
about the elderly lady.