Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-09

Murder"
bullet She snatched at the back of the
chair, and laid in big breath. You had
better go to my lawyer. I don't think he
has it. madam I. said. I have seen 1t, and
1t was never made for a pistol BARREL
Say, old fellow, that's great woman,
and she'll beat US in the end If we don't
use a woman's tactics. She just braced
herself and began to act, but it was too
late. All, says she, you have some new
theory in the case or some new light. !
wish you would go to my lawyer with it
and II you wish any material assistance
why you can come to me afterward.'
Il call that simply prodigious: she says
get Mr.. Greve to handle him and I'll han
die Mr.. Greve and I'll throw out hint
OF money at the same time
Then Amos Daryl struck the paper
cally OH the table, and. turning round.
said: my friend. that woman had no
sooner clapt her eyes on me than she un-
derstood the truth: and the truth was
this: That somebody had arrived that she
couldn't. hoodwink I tell you, woman's
thinking apparatus is lightning some
times"
I sat down in front of Daryl. "You
amaze me-" I said. Suppose you turn to
the facts now. The bullet was not made
for a pistol barrel"
NO. The pistol is a little French play
thing. There are not twenty-five of them
in the country. for We make those things
better here. But it was made at a French
factory where the cartridges are all mold
was not nodded. 1t was cut from piece
of lead and shaped with an instrument.
You can see the marks of fine file on it
if you use a glass"
Mr.. Prineveau's side through his clothing;
the hole was found in his vest. 1t must
have been fired from that side. and Mrs.
Prineveau was on the other side"
hnro cai IN rvl ID
denly. Il don't mind being little lash
just for once, and FL bet you trip ticket
to Florida, where you can see my little
orange grove, after this case is decided,
that Mr. Prineveau didn't wear the vest
with the hole in 1t when he was killed in
the carriage. Have you been up to 66tn
street and 4th avenue to look the ground
over?'
mo"
well. have. 1t was o'clock when Mr..
Prineveau was killed, and there was
steady, stiff wind blowing from the north
east. with plenty of snow. but 1t was light
enough to see westward across the open
lots to 9Th avenue. II. there had been
anybody within thousand feet the coach
man or Mrs. Prineveau could have seen
him. To suppose that a little French
pistol could have carried further than that
straight to Mr.. Prineveau's heart is one
of those yarns that would make a marine
sick. My dear fellow. I've talked more to-
day than have in six months. But Mrs.
Clarkson was dead right when she said
the thing to do is to prove that some one
else committed the crime"
Can We do it?"
I'VE can find that person, but to prove 1t
well. to tell you the truth. don't believe
we Will. for that person is as clever as four
lawyers and eight ordinary detectives, and
has had the start of US for q year or
more
Where are you going now?"
I'm going over to take some things to
that woman in Varick street. / don't be-
lfeve she is comfortable, and I'm dead sure
she hasn't any friends I'll see you in the
morning with some facts, If run across