The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1898-04-20

oI the mystery was Mrs. Latymer-
Wynne's house.
1t appeared that us the various
rooms in the upper story were in
the hands of the painters and paper-
ers Mr.. Latymer-Wynne occupied
temporarily the library ON the
ground floor as a bedroom, while his
wife slept with tho children on an
other floor. Nothing occurred dur
ing the night to disturb those who
slept up stairs, but when the sery-
ants came down in the morning and
proceeded to call their master they
were unable to rouse him. After
knocking repeatedly without receiv-
ing any reply they informed Mrs.
Latymer-W ynne of the state of af-
fairs. That lady was naturally much
alarmed and at once sent for assist
ance. Tho door was forced open.
The scene which then presented it.
self was n calculated to excite the
most serious apprehensions. There
was no sign OF Mr.. Latymer-Wynne,
but there were various indications
Of q desperate struggle. One Of tho
windows was open below, end be-
tween this window and the bed the
floor was strewn with fragments Of
the heavy china ever belonging to
the washstand. 1t appeared as if
this had been used by the unfortu-
nate man as the only thing in tho
nature of a weapon within reach.
More olninous still, a closer inspec-
ton revealed blood stains on the
carpet.
The bed had evidently been occu-
pied, but the pyjama suit in which
Mr.. Latymer-Wynne generally slept
was missing. He happened not to
have dressed for dinner the night
before, and the ordinary morning
clothes which he had been wearing
were found. folded up on a chair in
Lis usual neat and methodical man
ner. But his valuable watch and
chain. together with & large sum OF
money of which he was known to
be in possession. had been carried
off by the perpetrator or perpetra-
tors of the outrage.
Mrs. Latymer-Wynne was in de-
spair. Of course the police were
sent for Immediately. They camo
III the persons &c district inspector
and a sergeant. hey looked at ev-
erything with eyes full of terrible
meaning and nodded to each other
significantly and occasionally grunt-
ed CALCULATIONS. AT last. in response
TO an impassioned appeal from the
lady, the inspector succeeded in de-
livering himself of one or two con
secutive sentences
"v " sorry. mum it looks like
IL bad business. Any~.,.y, its Il de-
t%cctiye job. We !. ws.u f4r one at
once
y little later In>liecinr EicNG-
dyke, The celebrated detective, made
his appearance on The scene. lie
made IL careful examination OF rv-
erything in the room and then went
outside. followed by Mrs. Latymer-
Wynnc and her Here he
pointed to Il number Of footmarks and
said:
why, there seems TO nave peen
a whole gang at work. It isn't in
reason that one man could do the
job all by himself, but this looks
like an army. Hello, what's thisi''
He pointed to two holes in the soft
gravel which were conspicuous
among the crowd of footmarks.
II expect they were made by the
ladder" said Mrs. Latymer- Wynne.
"There vas a ladder against the
house yesterday for the workmen to
do some painting"
"Oh, then, most of these are their
fcotmarks," said the inspector,
greatly Disguised. "That compli-
Gates matters a good deal-for now
we can't get any clew from the foot
marks"
1t almost seemed as if even In
spector Bickerdyke would, for once,
be baf1ed. But at last his patience
was rewarded; asweep made his APP
pearance on the scene and informed
the detective that, as he was passing
the house in the early, dawn, nc had
seen a. man, very shabbily dressed
in n gray SUIT, stealing from the
premises. At the moment he had
not attached any importance to the
circumstance. as he thought the man
was n Of the servants. Now, how
ever, he felt it to be his duty to men.
tion it.
The inspectors small eyes twin
kiod with satisfaction as he listened
to this statement. The mere fact
that the criminal wore q gray suit
did not seem much to go upon, but
Inspector Bickerdyke felt pretty
sure that it would be enough for
him. He would track that gray suit
to the remotest corner of the earth.
Wbou ho bod 0orr1o<o1 I;-oo