The Guthrie daily leader. [volume] (Guthrie, Okla.) 1893-1996, 1895-07-30

means which we haven't yet discover
ed. 4"
"Of course he could, said the in
spector. my mind was so much occu-
pied with my original theory that 1
couldn't get the proper lay Of the mat
ter. You have hit the nail ON the head,
expect My thanks to you. I"
Don't thank me, please. Steinworth
neither dropped out of his window nor
climbed up to it from below If he has
any of the proper criminal instincts, he
would have known that trick so easy
to be found out was no use for his pur-
poses He must have been aware that the
locked door in itself would never have
been strong enough. He must have been
certain that the window trick could be
proved to have been impracticable. "
Then you also suspect it was Stein
WORTH"
81 can't afford to have suspicious. l
have none. Suspicious are like accom-
mediation bills--lite flying, as they call
it in the city and elsewhere-mighty
dangerous things to put your name 20.
try to go for certainties--not the morals
of the betting man, but sound cash trans
actions. Up to tine present | have an
open mind Oh the whole case. L know
too little Of Steinworth and his ways.
For aught l can tell he may be model
of all the virtues. ="
"You know as much as know now. "
VERY well, But granting he was suf
ficiently cornered to contemplate the
theft, l don't think you have hit the
nail on the head. The young man must
be a very idiotic sort of a creature, or he
would think twice before climbing up
the side of the house, as if he were prac-
ticing for the trapeze business--a house,
too, situated in narrow road with a
flaring gas lamp right in front of his
window and the prospect of the patrol
catching him in midair. If he stole the
money, he is no fool, and whether be
stole the money by design and killed the
lady by accident, or whether he did
neither, he never left the house last night
except he left it by way of the hall door. "
Then he is a completely innocent
man, that' 3 all, and I'd best drop him. -
Don't give way TO temper inspect
on. A"
"Steinworth. from the inside, could
not lock himself into his room. That is,
! think. perfectly impossible.
Granted. / have examined the lock,
and so far am compelled to agree with
you.
Neither could he have been helped
by Vickery. At any rate these two are
at daggers drawn and are not likely to
have entered into conspiracy.
"Then in your own mind you have
now practically disposed of the two
lodgers. Neither could have locked him
self into his ROOM F"
"Not without aid from the outside,
and if no one came in through the par
lor window last night-there are no
signs of any other part Of the house hay
ing been broken into-we are reduced TO
Miss Rodney.
"And DIR. Leclerc, " added Goringe.
"And DR.. Leclercl' -
"Now, let US start with him. What s
his record?'
VERY dickey, must allow. He's a
wild young man. He wasn't unknown
to me in his student time, when l was
stationed at Whitechapel He was as
wild MS young colt, but that 5 moth
ing. However, having as one would sup
pose sown his wild oats down east, he
starts job here which doesn't look very
promising for a young medical practi-
tioner.
Il have heard OF what you are refer
ring to, though | know nothing Of the
inside Of the case. From the outside il
doesn't look really very awful, but
that 5 nothing either.
"He freely admits he was ON the
point of clearing out OF the country, and
that he had all arrangements made to
fly this very day, leaving his troubles
behind him.
"That doesn't look well for him, t.
say the least of it, He must be biz
bewildered by the state Of affairs here
| 10 make SO foolish an admission,
Fright down crazy he looked today.
every well. Put all romance out OF
the question and out Of your head. Don'I
mind blushing If you re given that way.
Miss Rodney is an uncommonly pretty
girl. To mix her or her lover up with q
foul crime like this would seem to you
too awful. 4"
Nothing would seem too awful, " in
teITupted Inspector Briggs testify, If
felt sure 1 could prove il. "
There, we'll not quarrel Now
wouldn't it be ever so much a simpler
story if l were TO tell you that a younl
medical practitioner, facing ruin for In,
want of a little of the ready, accustomed
TO handling chloroform (Which Wei
take it a young cockney bank clerk ism { }
thought to forestall matters a bity Il,
was going 10 marry the niece, the only
surviving relative, il seems, Of the deaC
woman Wouldn't he have sort Of pre-
scriptiye right to this money! AnC
when wSs he ever again likely TO wan
il so badly
Eyes, there would be something il
that story-if you told it TO me. But d.
you?"
I've not done just yet. The chloro
form is in my mind If il were Wicker.
you had fastened your suspicion upon i
would be another thing. His room seem
STEPPED in drugs and literally furnishes
with empty vials. {"
you have disposed Of him by agree
ing he couldn't lock himself into hi
room without the aid of an accomphce.
But why shouldn't Mr. Vickery hay
an accompliceg Besides | do not say h
could not or did not do the window trick
There are no telltale flower boxes O
his window sill There is only hac
yard 90 drop into, not patrollod road