San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1895-08-04
"Yes. They call his place of business

Yes. They call his place of business
a mercantile bank. They are really a
lsort of produce brokers in a big way.
Steinworth was going ON his holidays
Itoday-that statement of his is right
Ienough. His books are all in order, but
he has been going it pretty heavy in the
betting line. There's bookmaker resid-
ling in Clayfields whom have frequently
lseen him talking to. Icalled ON Mr. Book
maker and learned that Steinworth had
la week from yesterday to pay up close
lon $500 under threat of exposure if he
didn't
"a mere debt of honor, which any
honorable man may repudiate.
"But the exposure would mean ruin
to him in the Office, where he is in high
favor
''What is his present salary"
A hundred and eighty-two pounds a
year.
Five hundred is large sum for a
clerk ON three ten week to owe. Bet
ter for him to bolt than to stump up.
Boiling wouldn't suit him. He has
large expectations from wealthy and
strait laced relative Besides he has
started little bookmaking business of
his own ON the quiet-under another
name. Commission business, they call
it, believe. All he wanted was short
loan"
"At tremendous heavy interest, if
you are correct in your surmises. I"
"He never contemplated anything
worse than chloroforming Mrs. d. He
calculated that suspicion would fall on
Vickery, or ON DR.. Leclerc, both being
persons who wanted money badly-and
were known to want it badly-and who
were in the habit of using chloroform
in their businesses or professions. He
may have had other motives, too, and
ether reasons for supposing that the guilt
could not be fastened ON him, but
think 1 have hampered myself with
enough motives as it is
''Well, let us see. You have got as far
as fixing Steinworth outside the door of
Mrs Davorn's room. What next?''
"Then brilliant thought struck him.
He waited until tho small hours of the
lmorning-the night was pitch dark
land let himself out of his bedroom win
ldow, dropped to the ground with the
aid of a rope or some similar kind Of
help, chloroformed Mrs. D., put the
notes into his pocket, went up ON the
first floor landing, turned the key in his
Town lock-
"And Vickery's lock? What of it?"
81 have not forgotten it. Steinworth
reflected shrewdly enough that it would
look little too clever if his door, and
his door only, was found locked, so,
tprudently enough, he turned Vickery's
Ikey. Then he crept down stairs, passed
Tout through the front parlor window,
Iclosed it after him and got back to his
Town room through his own window"
"a very good case, indeed--for Stein
WORTH said Goringe, after a pause.
I"Unfortunately for you, inspector, it
has one serious thing against it"
What is that?"
at never happened.
| CHAPTER TX.
| CONSTABLE YoUNG's OPINION.
81 know your mind is fixed on that
window hasp not being opened from the
loutside," said Inspector Briggs gloom
lily.
my dear SIR" said Detective Cor
hinge, "your man need not have put
himself to the Inconvenience of dropping
tout of a window in the dead of the
night. He could have walked down
stairs, taken the money, murdered the
lady, locked his. door, and climbed up
into his room Il some way or by some
means which we haven't yet discover
ed"
"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, I
expect. My thanks to you"
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. 1
have none. Suspicious are like accom-
mediation bills-kite flying, as they call
it in the city and elsewhere-mighty
dangerous things to put your name to. 1
try to go for certainties-not the morals
of the betting man, but sound cash trans
actions. Up to the present have an
open mind ON the whole case. kpaB
too little of Steinworth and "n1, 80,
For aught can tell he maygB,e, a. %
of all the virtues oiesHnop,