The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-05-07

next Holmes was in a mood which
| his friends would call tacituru. and
/ others morOSe- He ran out and ran
q IN smoked necessarily, played snatch
I IS on his violin, sank into TeverieS. de-
| vOured sandwiches at irregular hours,
| and hardly answered the casual qUes-
/ ton which | put to him. 1t was evi-
| dent to me that things were not going
! We'll with him OF his quest. We would
! say nothing Of the case. and il was
| from the papers that I learned the par
/ uCUiarS of the inquest, and the arrest
| with the subsequent release Of John
( Milton, the valet Of the deceased The
/ COTOnerS jury brought in the obvious
/ 'wilfUl murder but the parties re-
/ manned as unknown as ever No mo-
/ tive was suggested. The room was
/ fun of articles of value, but none had
( been taken The dead mans papers
| had not been tempered with They were
| carefully examined, and showed that he
was a keen student Of international pol
/ itics, an interchangeable gossip, a remark
] able linguist- and an untiring letter
writer He had been on intimate terms
/ with the leading politicians of several
., countries But nothing sensational was
! discovered among the documents which
/ filled his drawers. As to his relations
I with women. they appeared to have
] been promiScuOuS but superficial He
| had many acquaintance among them.
/ but few friends. and no one whom he
loved His Ia bitS were regular. his
! conduct inoffenSive- His death was an
/ absolute mystery, and likely to remain
| So
As to the arrest Of John Milton. the
( valet. it was a council Of despair as an
/ alternative to absolute in action But
/ no case could be sustained against him.
/ He had visited friends IN Hammer
| smith that night The alibi was COM
! r11afo * fTTr n nc cd home
! al an hour which should have brought
/ him to Westminster before the time
I when the crime was discovered
{ but his own explanation that
he had walked part Of the way
seemed probable enough in view Of the
fineness of the night. He had actually
] arrived at i o'clock. and appeared t"
be overwhelmed by the unexpected
tragedy. He had always been oH good
terms with his master SeNer.l Of the
! dead mans OSseSSiOn-nOtabIy =
: small case Of razors-had been found
I I'm the Wallets boxes, but he explained
/ that they had been presents rom the
I deceased. and the hOuSekeepeT was
able to corrOborate the story Milton
had been in Lucas employment for
three years 1t was noticeable that Iu-
: cas- did not take Milton on the CONT
nent with him. Sometime he visire1
/ Paris for three months on end. but Nit
ton was left I'm charge of the GOdoiphin
/ street house As to the h0USeSecper.
she had heard nothing on the night Of
the crime. If her master haG visitor
I he had himself admitted him.
! 50 for three mornings the mystery re-
] manned. 50 far as I could follow 1t in
! the papers. If Holmes knew more. ne
! kept his own counsel. but. rs he told
me that Inspector Lestrsde hid token
! him into his confidence in the ease 7
+ every development Upon the ioUtth
4 day there appeared long telegram
! from Paris which seemed 10 solve the
/ whole question.
! ~ discovery has just been made by
> lhp Partisan police said the Daily
I Telegraph. which raises the veil which
/ hung around the tragic fate of Mr.
/ Eduardo Lucas. WHO met mis- death by
/ violence asst Monday night at GCdOi-
/ 3hn street. Westminster. our readers
/ will ren-mDer that the decrease gen
/ tlemau was found stabbed ia his room.
/ and that some suspicion 3ttdChe-j To his
. valet but that the case brrke down on
an aliIi- Yesterday = lady. who has
/ been known a. Nine Henri Eouruaye,
/ occupying a small villa III tn Rue Aus
! terliJz was reported TO the authorities
/ by her servants a : being insane An
! examination showed she had indeed de
Eveloped mania of a dangerous and per
/ manent form. On inquiry. tie= police
{ have discovered that Mme- Henri
/ FOurHaye only returned from u Jour
/ Hey to London on Tuesday last. and
| there IS evidence to connect ne with
l the crime ut Westminster 4 cOmDaTi-
SON Of photographs has proved CON
/ clusivcIy that NJ. Henri Fourndye md
/ Eduardo Lucas were really o-In AMI
! the same person. and that the deceased
/ had fer some reason lived 4 dOUbI- life
/ i'm London and Paris Nine FOUrnaye.
! who is Of Creole origin. Is % an eN-
! tremeIy eXcitable nature. ana has SUI
/ fered in the past from attacks of 5e3-
lousy which nave amounted to frenzy
: II is cOnjeCtured that it was in one OF
/ these that she committed the terrible
crime which has caused SuCn = SeDSd-
/ ton in London. Her movements upon
the Monday night have not Vet been
traced. but it is UndOUbted that n NO
, man answering to her description at
htTaCted much attention at Charing
1 Cross station on Tuesday m0rling by
the wiIdness of her appearance ana the
violence of her gestures. It * prob
BILE. therefore. that the crime was
either committed when insane, OF that
its immediate effect was to drive the
unhappy woman out of her mind At
present she is unable to give any CO.
heTeut account of the past. ana the
Z
establishment of her reason There Is
/ evidence that woman. who might
| have been Nine. FOurnaye. TaS seen
/ for some hours upon Monday night
watching the house in GCdOlphin
street
What do you think of that.
Holiness I had read the account
aloud 10 him, while he finished his
/ brea kfast.
My dear Watson" said he. ~ he
I rose from the table and paced up and
| down the room. you are most lDng-suf-
| fering. but if I have told you nothing
/ i'm the last three days. il - because
/ there is nothing to tell. Even now this
| report from Paris does not help US
! much
Surely it is final as regards the
/ mans death"
The mans death is Il mere incident
! "A trivial episode-in comparison with
/ our real task which is to trace this
document and save a European catdS-
| trophe. only one important ChiJ Z has
! happened in the last three days and
that Is that nothing has happened I
/ get reports almost hourly from the
| government. and il Is certain that no
| where in Europe is there any sign of
trouble. Now. if this letter we're loose
no, it can't be lOose-but if it ism I
| loose. where can it be? Who has 1T ?
| Why is IT held back? That's the pues-
! ton that beats in my brain like ham,
| mer- Was IL, indeed, a coincidence that
| Lucas should meet his death on the
night when the letter disappeared? Did
/ the letter ever reach him? If 50, why
| is it not among his papers? Did this
| mad wife of his, carry If off with her?
II so. is it in her house in Paris How