New-York tribune., 1906-11-25
THE SUPER
FLUOUS FINGER
Confined rom page 10

! absence OF every tact gave me no 1ltlTnatIOn
! that there would be murder. Then came the
murder presumably OF Mrs. Morev"
| Ism II Mrs. Morey:" demanded the de
| tective.
Mr. Hatch recognized the woman as the
one ne had followed, recognized her as the
one on whom there had been an operation. and
Or. Prescott also recognized her. continued
| ne linking Machine. 10 convince myself.
after / had found the manner OF death, that II
Wa the woman, I looked At her lett hand |
| found that the foretlnger was gone-It had
been removed by q skilled surgeon at the first
rolnt- And this fact instantly showed me that
/ the dead woman was not Mrs. MOrev at all, but
somebody else, and incidentally cleared up the
entire affair.
How" demanded The detective 81
1hoGght You 1I1st SAID that YOU had helped cut
on her tCrefl1ger'"
" Dr. Prescott and I cut of that finger YES
terlav replied The Thinking Machine CALMLY
ne nnger Of the dead woman had been cut
On months perhaps Years. agoi
" The perfectly healed wound on the hand
eliminated every possibility but one P-ey-iot5= "
had been informed that Mrs No-ev did not
n said She did not. play the piano 7 had
seen the bare possibility Of an immense irsur-
ance on her hands, and some trick to defraud
an insurance company by nlarrlng one. OF
course against this was the fact that She had
offered 70 pay large sum for the operation;
that their expenses here must have been
enormous: 50 / was beginning TO doubt the
lef'4 1liltE OF TINS sllpposItlon. The fact that
the dead woman finger was of removed that
possibility completely. as II also removed the
posslhlity OF q crime 0f some sort IN which
there might been have left behind q teIltale
PRINT OF that forehlger
hen the one thing remained; that IS that
MIS- Morey OF whatever her name Is. was IN a
conspiracy with her husband To get possession
oi certain properties, perhaps a title (rernem-
Ler, she IS Eng!ish) by sacrificing that finger so
tlat identification might be N accordance with
tIle description OF heir whom she was to i'm
Eer9eraIe We know Cunclusivelv that the
rEhts We're 70 have been stolen by the so
called Mrs. Norev"
But that IS Mrs. Morev; isn't it," de-
manGed the detective again
No., was the sharp reJort. The perfect
rese1n dance 70 Mr.. M0rev and the finger re-
moved long ago makes that clear There IS, |
imagine, = relationship between rhern-per-
maps they are cousins | can hardly believe |
JneE are TWINS, because the necessity, then |
OF one lrnperSonatlng The other to obtain either
money OF title would not have existed so pal |
PaalE, although Il IS possible that Mrs. Morev |
L Clsllher-ted 0T C1sowueG, would have resOrted |
= sEch q course. This dead woman IS Miss |
Miss, and he glanced al the back Of q photo
graph" Miss Evelyn ROssmore This is her
picture, and perhaps the photographer can give
EOu her address.
But how did she come here-like this7"
Hatch inquired.
% You remember, Mr. Hatch, when YOU fol-
lowed Mrs NoreE here YOU told me she changed
her dress and Went OUT" asked the scientist IN
turn It was not Mrs. M0rev YOU saw then
she was II, and ! knew II, from the operation
it was Miss Rossmore The maraFer saws
3 hundred persons i've IN this house: that
there IS great deal 0f passing IN and out
Can y0u see that where there IS such q start
ling resemblance Miss R0ssrnore could pass
n and out at viii and always be mistaken for
Mrs Morev' That no one would ever notice |
the diIerences"
But who killed herr" asked Detective
Mallory clriouslv.
"Morev killed her" said The Thinking Ma
chine fatty, and he produced Two other photo
graphs from his pocket. There are his pic |
ruTe and ms wites picture for Identification |
purposes / imagined first that he was large
powerful man because his grip on her throat |
was 50 powerful that he ruptu-ed the ilg11lar
inside. but instead Of that he plavs piano a
great deal, which would give him the hand
power 10 choke her. The cleverest part OF
the affair was Morev's act IN leaving his KEYS
with the manager here. He did not antici-
pate that the apartments would be entered
for several davs-then they would be safely
awav-willle there Was q chance that if neither
u them had been seen here and their disap-
DearanCe was unexplained the rooms would
have been opened 10 ascertain WhV. That IS