The Wenatchee daily world. [volume] (Wenatchee, Wash.) 1905-1971, 1906-11-08

OOdl reg, / StIu SUu&eI4N, IHSTe
are two points I'd like to submit to
you-both IA Their important ones, fam
/ cy But first | want you to tell me the
story of the crime just rs it occurred.
suspec. t.le-c were some details that
didn't get into the Record Start q
cigar first
! lie took a cigar and struck match.
There were.' he assented. with q
smile, "a number OF details that didn't
get before tie public. Most of them
have an unfortunate tendency to impli-
cate Miss Croydon
He got up and walked across the
room and placed his finger over Il little
| hole in the woodwork of the bedroom
| door.
There's where the bullet from her
revolver struck he said. There's no
| doubt about that. 1t was taken out
| and found to fit I'd give q good deal
/ to know who it was she fired at and
why she fred. | tell you. Lester, the
| more one thinks about that affair the
more incomprehensible it becomes,
4
| seem unanswe"a Die Who was Thomp-
| son? How did he get in condition to
receive her? Was the murderer a
friend of Th0mpscn's? If not, how did
| he get into the rooms? Above all. why,
after he had knocked Thompson down,
should he stand over him and shoot
| him through the heart? That savors
~.
being
| lie paused moment in q sort of
helpless perpIeXity. then sat down alb
ruDtly and ty,ruel 10 Ee.
~ hat We're your po.nts?'' he asked.
The first" l said, looking at him,
will l fear, hep to tip the scale
against Miss Croydon. She came here
the morni1g after tie inquest and
| tried 10 rent this apartment"
lie stared at Ue, aSt3unleI, his cigar
in the ar while l repeated the story
| Higgins had told he. y hen | had fin
;sAed, he sat gazing into vacancy, his
| lips compressed.
! Il see it puzzles YOU | said at last,
enjoying his perple1ity. Il confess |
couldn't make anything out of it,
Puzzles me" he repeated. getting
up again and walking nervously about
| the room. why, it's the most as
! founding thing | ever heard. It's the
most unexplainabie feature of this
| whole uneXpiaiuable case | should
| think she'd never want to enter these
rooms again. But perhaps Higgins was
mistaken" he added, stopping short
THAT might be- | admitted, though
he sWears he wasn't
We'll, let's pass over it for mo-
ment What's the second point? Is it
another staggerer?'
Not a staggerer. but another twist
to the puzzle. | imagine. Did Thomp-
son have any jewelry on him."
"Jewelry? Not bit. He was practi-
cally in rags
"Where was his body lying?'
Right here" and he Indicated the
spot with his foot.
And right there" | said, two days
later | found this, pressed into the
carpet" and l took a little paper packet
from my pocketbook.
He opened it carefully and looked
| at what lay inside. Then he whistled
softly.
a diamond, by all that's wonder
full
Tell me what it came out Of"
said
| zone of a group. l should say; or
| perhaps border around a larger cen
trail stone"
PRECISELY" | nodded. And last
night | happened to notice that Mrs.
Tremaine wore pin with just such
an arrangement of stones. One OF the
small diamonds in the border was
missing"
Godfrey wrapped up the tiny bit of
crystal and handed it back to me with
an exceedingly thoughtful face.
That's mighty pretty bit of evil
dence." he said at last, though. of
course. it may he only a coincidence.
| Taken by itself it isn't worth cent;
| in connection with other evidence ii
would be worth a great DEAL
/ "And there isn't any otber?"
"Just one little bit. You say Ire
maine comes from Martinique. Well,
among Thompson's clothes l found a
peculiar nut, called a snake nut, which
grows only in the West Indies. When
you add to this that Thompson's CLOTH
| ing was all such as is worn in the
tropics, the presumption is pretty
strong that he lived for awhile some
where in Tremaines neighbOrhoOd."
| nodded; then r?y face fell.
after ALL" | pointed out, call that