Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-06-08
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AIT. IldIulIE Nouiu p1 dpSSht dhli sfter, noon and that he was himself . newcomer who could give us no in- formation Holmes face showed his disappointment and annoyance.
 Well, well, we can't expect to have 1t all our own way. Watson" he said at last "We must come back in the aft ernoon, if Mir. Harding will not be here until then I am, as you have no doubt surmised, endeavoring to trace these busA to their source in order to find if there is not something peculiar which smay account for their remarkable fate Let us make for Mir Morse Hudson of the Remington road and see if he can throw any light upon the problem
 A drive of an hour brought us to the picture dealers establishment. He was a small stout man, with red face and a peppery manner.
 'sYes, sir. On my very counter, sir,' said he. What we pay rates and taxes for I don't know, when any ruff fan can come in and break ones goods. Yes, sir. it was who sold Dr. Barnicot his two statues Disgraceful, sir! A nihilist plot-that's what I make it. No one but an anarchist would go about breaking statues. Red republicans-thats what I call 'em. Who did I get the statues from? don't see what that has to do with it. We'll, if you really want to know, got them from Gelder x Co, in Church street, Stepney. They are well .known house in the, trade. and have sbeen this twenty years. How many had I? Three-two and one are three two of Dr. Barnicot's and one smash ed in broad daylight on my own count CT. Do know that photograph? No, I don't. Yes, do. though. Why, it's Beppo. He was kind of Italian piece work man, who made himself useful h the shop. He could carve bit and gild and frame and do odd jobs. The fellow left me last week, and I've heard nothing offs him sinces3 No, I don't know where he came from nor where he went to. I had nothing against him while he was here. He was gone two days before the bust was smashed"
 Well, that's all we could reasonably expect from Morse Hudson" said Holmes as we emerged from the shop. "We have this Beppo as d common factor, both in Remington and In Ken : sington, so that is. worth q ten mile drive. Now. Watson. let us make for Gelder & Co. of Stepney, the source and origin of the busts. I shall be sur prlsed if we don't get some help down there"
 In rapid succession we passed through the fringe of fashionable Lon don. hotel London. theatrical London, literary London. commercial London, and. finally. maritime London, till we came to a riverside city of 100000 souls. where the tenement houses swell ter and reek with the outcasts of Flu rope. Here. in a broad thoroughfare, once the abode of wealthy city mer- chants. we found the sculpture works for which we searched. Outside was a considerable yard full of monumental masonry. Inside was a large room in which fifty workers were carving ar molding. The manager. biz blond German. received us civilly and we a clear answer to all Holmes lnes- tions. A reference to his books showed that hundreds of casts had been taken from marble copy of Devine's head of Napoleon. but that the three which had been sent to Morse Hudson a year or 20 before had been half of batch of six. the other three being sent to Hard Ing Bros of kensingtOn. There was no reason why those six.should he differ ent from any of the other casts. He could suggest no possible cause why any one should wish to destroy them in fact. he laughed at the Idea Their wholesale price uas shillings. but the retailer would get 12 or more. The cast was taken in two molds from each side Of the face. and then these two p-ofles Of plaster of paris were ioined together to make the complete bust. The work was usually done by Italians in the room we were In. When finished the busts were put on 2 table in the passage 10 dry and afterwari stored. That was all he could tell us.
 But the production of the photograph had a remarkable effect upon the man ecer. His face flushed with anger. and his b-ows knotted over his blue leu tonic eyes.
 'Ah. the rsscal-' he cried. Yes. in- deed. know him very well. This has always been a respectable establish meui. and the only time that we have ever had the police in II was over this very fellow. IL was -,o-e than q year ego now. ,He knifed another Italian h the street and then be came to the works with the police on his heels. and he was taken here Bep7o was hls nane-his second name I never knew. Served me right for engaging 6 man with such a fsce. But he was good v0rEnan-o1e Of the oest-
 What d;d he get7'
 1e man iivet and he got cI vith . vesr. have n dsuhf be is ouf now. but he has not dared to show his nose te-e. We have a enusia Of his he-p. fni dare ssy he could tell yo- where b. iS-
 No. ro.- cried Holmes: -rrs q vcri te the cousia-Hot a word. beg of Jo1 The matter i< rerT important. and fbs farther e0 zffh ]; the m0re important f. seerzx to Cgu. When ys1 r-fe-rei s- .r- IL =