Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1896-06-10

inspector listening to her with close at
tention. Her narrative was clear and
precise.
do you think that he was aware that
you were the sister of Jerrold and Percy
Nolen?" he asked. after she had finished.
HE must have known it. Twas mar
ried only a short time ago, and my
maiden name was In the papers.
''Doesi 1t not seem odd that he should
have made this attempt upon woman
whose brother he had murdered? Muir
derers are usually more careful, II moth
ing else. Think we shall find, Mrs. Ke-
telle, that he Is innocent of that crime.
AS regards the robbery say. nothing;
but ! have never thought it likely that a
fellow like Dupee would commit a muir
der SO. peculiarly cold blooded and COM
paratively unprovoked as that would
have been. But If he was wrongly
charged with it It. isquite conceivable
that hr may have embraced this oppor-
tllnity to revenge himself upon a member
Of the family that brought him to ruin. -
"You may be right.
II believe it will turn out SO. But
there is another point suggested by your
story. 1t is quite certain that he did not
know your brother, for if he had he
would not have attempted to blackmail
you on his account-or, at any rate, not
on the ground that he put forward"
eyes, there can be no doubt about
that" Pauline assented.
"Then don't you see it has bearing
on the robbery? Your theory has been
that he committed the robbery partly, at
least, in order to have your brother ar
rested for it. But as he did not know
your brother by sight that theory will
not stand. If we consider him to have
been the thief, his involving your brother
in the scrape must have been merely a
coincidence. Your brother happened to
be talking to the lady, and his overcoat
pocket happened to be the one in which
the purse could most conveniently be
dropped. If Mrs Tunstall's husband.
instead Of your brother, had been in your
brothers place, the evidence. so far as
the purse was concerned. would have
pointed at him.
THAT is logical cannot deny it,
said Pauline. "But it does not show his
innocence Of the robbery; it only shows
that he had not the motive for commit
ting it that supposed he had; it was not
revenge-it was vulgar pocket picking!"
"Well, that is as it may be. But let
me refer to another point in your story.
You said that the name he gave to your
husband was Grush-John Grush?"
eyes. but of course it was an assumed
name.
''No doubt; but it is curious that he
should have assumed that particular
name instead Of another.
"Why not that as well as any?"
Because it is the name of another
mana real man. that is. a fellow who
has been companion and intimate of
Dupee's for some years past. John Crush
went with Dupee to California and re-
turned with him. It was he who pointed
you out to Dupee in the park. the day
you first saw your brother. 1t was he
who suggested to Dupee that it might be
a profitable job to blackmail you.
''How did you learn all that, Inspector
Byrnes?'
II might tell you that learned it by
detective intuition, or some other sort of
witchcraft. But the simple truth is that
John Crush told mel"
He told you? He is one Of your men.
them"
mot at ALI But he has done me good
service on this occasion, nevertheless.
"But don't think under
stand!''
"It is such thing as happens every
day. John Crush was arrested last night
for attempting to take mans watch in
an elevated train. 1t is not the first time
we have had dealings with him, and
when he was brought in he realized that
he would probably be sent up for long
term. So he resolved to get even with
man who had gone back on him. as he
expressed it. And that man was Horace
Dupee.
"They had quarreled?"
Precisely. And the quarrel was
about you When Crush proposed
you, Dupee had pooh
poohed it; but he did so only in order to
have all the profits to himself Having
got rid of Crush. as he supposed, be fol-
lowed YOU about. and traced YOU to your
brothers. lodgings in Harlem. What he
did there you know But Crush had
him. and found out the double
game he was playing. He bore him a
grudge for it: and early this morning
he sent word to me that he had some
thing to communicate went down
stairs and saw him in his CELL. He told /
me of Dupee's bad faith, and said that
would find that Dupee had actually re-
,eived money from you acted as if
placed no credit in his accusation; and
upon that he went on and declared that
Dupee had, a year ago, committed a rob
berry for which an innocent man was ar
rested. Yes, Mrs. Ketelle, it was the
Tunstall robbery that he mentioned.
asked him how he knew and he said
that he was intimate with Dupee at the
time, and that when Percy Nolen was
arrested Dupee had laughed and re-
marked that it was good job; he was
glad to have done Nolen an i'll turn.
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