Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1906-1907, 1906-07-28

| pocket. "Detective-Sergea Holt"
| THANK you, Mr.. Holt" said Billery.
We'll just conclude our inquiries here
| and then we'll go together to the chief
of your department and I'll lay my
facts before him. Have you called at
| this house? It's the only one haven't
visited
EYES," said Detective-Sargeant Holt;
sT drew blank there. There's an old
foreign woman there. Speaks no Eng
| lish. I couldn't make head or tail OF
| her"
Perhaps I can," suggested Billery
| The house door was open and an DIG
crone sat knitting in the sunshine at
| the doorway. He stepped forward,
| raised his hat, and accosted her in
! Italian Her dress and complexion
seemed to lead that way. She looked
up with bleared eyes and answered
| his salutation civilly enough Have
you lived long in the neighborhood,"
| he asked.
Long enough, she told him, to have
| lost everybody belong to her, except
one. Her son was out with his music.
He would be back at 9 o'clock ii the
senior wished to speak with him.
She knew the house where the body
of the old Englishman had been
found? asked Billery.
Oh, yes; she knew the house.
Had she known the man who sold
| the house four or five years ago?
Yes she had known him; he was a
bad man. He had robbed her poor old
| husband.
She told a long-winded tale of this,
and Billery listened with great pa
tience; but the story bidding fair to
short by the production of a half
crown.
81 want to know that mans name"
said Billery. 81 will give you this
for it,
His name was Eduardo-Eduardo-
she was growing old, and did not re-
member thing s-Eduardo-ah, yes,
that was it-Eduardo Missalli. He
was of France Of the Indies. Where?
Oh, she knew not where. He had said
that he was going home. Did he
speak English? He talked with his
English neighbors. What manner of
man? An ugly man. A little, man.
He had been in an accident. He went
lame and had scar upon his cheek.
He was about fifty years of age.
|
| and she bit it with the two teeth left
to her.
I'VE haven't wasted our day. SER
geant," said Billery. "The man who
sold the house was Frenchman, by
name Eduardo Missalli; more proba
bly, Edouard Missall. His home was
in the South of France, neighborhood
unknown. He had been injured in an
accident, went lame, and had a scar
upon his cheek" The sergeant booked
all this.
Great advantage that" he said; "a
| knowledge of foreign languages.
know enough to get along with a
Frenchman or a Deutscher, but there
I STOP
eff it's of any use to you to have
/ this little bit of information as your
own said Billery, you're welcome
| to it, | hadn't thought at first of ask
ing for your help at all, but you can
| be of enormous use. | suppose the
French police will assist you in look
! ing this man up?"
eff he's alive, and anywhere in
France, they'll have him in a week,
sir"
| Good" said Billery "And now, if
! you'll come with me to the Yard I'll
tell you something that will interest
| you I'm about at the end of my teth-
err / can't go travelling all over
France looking for man with a game
| leg and a scar And it's of no use for
| one man to scour over London to find
when. on an uncertain date, some per-
! hand furniture to a house in Agar
row."
81 can see,' said the sergeant, "that
you've been measuring ways and
! means, sir. But a one-man hunt is
very little good when you've got a
wide ground to cover. That's where
| the organization comes in. A word
to the police sets a hundred thousand
pairs of eyes on the watch. It's a
most uncommon thing nowadays for
i a man to hide himself for any length
of time. If that chap Missall or Mis-
salli is alive and in France we shall
have him in a week, as I've said al
ready. I don't say the SYSTEMS
reached perfection, because it's a hui
man institution, and a human insti-
tuition is pretty sure to break down il.
places, but it's a beautiful piece of
machinery, sir, is the police force-a
beautiful piece of machinery"
THE French or the English?" asked
Billery.
Both of 'em,'' said the sergeant.
81 speak as find / don't know about
them Russians, but as far as | can see
they're rather a measly lot, or else
they've got too much on their hands !;