Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1892-07-20

nm impression as II heavy body
had been laid there. Near the i'm
preston, lying on the ground, was a
spade, and at a distance of a few feet
the ground had been dug up, as if
it had been intended to bury the
body there.
On the river bank the footprints
were again found. This time they
pointed forward and not backward,
and the impressions were clear and
sharp.
The body must have been carried.
The river at this point was deep and
sluggish; there wonld be no little
difficulty in dragging it.
Drags were sent for, and the In
spector went home to breakfast,
leaving a policeman in charge of
the premises, with orders to admit
no one except on business.
The Inspector had hardly finished
his breakfast when Policeman Jones
returned from Balston.
He had been eminently success
full. The bank manager had identi.
fed the numbers on the paper as
those Of the bank notes paid the day
before to the Captain.
The money, it appeared, had been
paid to him in pursuance Of an Or
der contained in letter received
that Saturday morning from their
London correspondent, Cowie, Ma
bob & Co., the great China and In
dian bankers.
The drags had now been at work
some time, but without success
The river had been dragged up and
down, and sideways and across, and
every conceivable angle, but no body
had been found.
The Inspector was getting impa-
tient, when a gig drove up to the
building" and dapper little man
in frock coat, buttoned to his chin,
jumped out.
The crowd which had collected
by this time made way very respect
fully, for it was whispered that this
stranger was no other than Detect
i've Perkins, from London.
In few minutes the detective
had heard all that the Inspector had
to tell.
They entered the "building."--
The crowd outside was getting more
excited.
They thought that now the Lon
don detective had come, the MUIR
derer would soon be dragged from
his hiding place and handed over to
justice.
Time, however, went Oh, and Per-
kins was still inspecting the premi-
ses, while his character was rapidly
falling in the opinion of the crowd
outside.
"He's no conjuror. | told We so
afore," said one sturdy countryman,
who had been skeptic from the
first.
And this time his assertion did
not meet with the disapprobation it
had called forth when pronounced
half an hour before. The crowd
was tired of waiting.
Perkins, meanwhile, unconscious
of hostile criticism, had looked over
the kitchen and Mary's bedroom,
but without making any discovery.
When he came to the Captains
bedroom he stood in the middle of
it and took general survey.
He then proceeded to the details. |
He raised the chairs and then put
them down again in their original
position, repeating this operation
two or three times, watching with |
great interest how they fell.
Then he came to the bed. He
looked at it from all points-first q
full view, then a three-quarters,
then one side view, and then the
other, till he had exhausted it and |
the patience Of the Inspector.
He then stood and mentally threw
himself upon it in such a position as
to make the impression which still
remained on it.
There was some hitch, for he
shook his head. He pulled out the
drawers and examined the wardrobe |
of the deceased man.
A pair of boots lying in the cor
ner OF the room next attracted his
attention.
He examined them carefully
Something in the lining of one Of
them seemed to interest him, for he
brought out his pocket-book and re-
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