Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-02-09

he was mighty anxious to find them.
We arrive, then, at our first conclu-
| siOn-namely. that these clippings nee
essarily shed me-light upon the trag-
| edy recently enacted in this room and
| upon the connection of these people
with each other
Yes | agreed; unless all these
people We're mistaken III their estimate
of the value of the clippings"
THAT, of course, is possible. but l
don't think it probable. At any rate.
let us disregard that suggestion for
| the moment and proceed along the 9th
er line. What light is it possible for
| these clippings to shed on the murder
| of Thompson: Obviously il must be
only by explaining motives. The ma
| jOrity of them seem TO be concerned
with the adventures of Il Frenchman
| who goes under various names, but
| who. | am sure. is one and the same
person. He must then. be either Ire
maine or Thompson. But Thompson
was evidently not n Frenchman. and
| Tremaine pretty evidently is, though
his contact with the world has served
| to rub away a good many of the
marks. / think were pretty safe,
therefore, in assuming that the
Frenchman of these clippings Is Ire
maine. AS we 90 on l believe We'll
find some internal evidence confirming
this. You agree with me thus far"
Perfectly" l said, admitting your
first premise that these clippings are
really concerned with the case"
That. too, | believe, We'll soon be
able to prove 10y internal evidence. OF
course, If they haven't any connection
with it. they'll soon lead us into chaos.
But there's another thing We mustn't
expect too much from them. We
mustn't expect Il story complete in all
its parts-it's bound 10 be fragmentary.
The wonder is that Thompson succeed
ed in keeping this many links in the
chain. Maybe in his more prosperous
days he had Il mania for clippings. At
best we mustn't be disappointed if
there are long gaps i'll the story
Yes" | agreed again. That's evil
dent enough
Very well. Wen begin with the
clippings then. substituting Tremaine's
|
ping IS merely marriage notice. an
nouncing that on the 23d of August.
1888, Tremaine married one Terese
Bertigny ut Dieppe. Let me see. Ire
maine WAS then probably about twenty
years of age. No doubt he was born
at Dieppe. SO that the name given here
Victor Chareute, is his real one You'll
notice that he's retained his first name.
WHEN Is a bit or corroborative evil
dence"
Or mere coincidence" suppI,=
mented
III wire our correspondent al
! Dleppe to look up this Charente Per
hapS he can get Il photograph. That
would settle the question:
l nodded. Yes. that would settle it
for Tremaine at forty was probably not
greatly different from Tremaine al
! twenty. .#- .rIs,' . .. -.....
5 ''The second clipping" proceeded
r Godfrey, shows us that our hero sooI
wandered from the straight and mar
t row path. and gives Us. too, a little
light upon his personal history. In the
D | spring following his maria ge-Apri
| 1G, 1884. TO be eXact-while assistant
. manager Of the ship supplies house oi
Y Briquet Freres he absconds with 60,00(
= francs He is believed to have gone t,
/. America. TO have been Struggled out OF
the harbor by a friendly American cap
tain. Surely. it is not impossible" he
added, that this friendly American
4 captain was Thompson"
Q Very few things are impossible"
r commented. | began to be impatien
!. with Godfrey. He was permitting hi
prejudice against Tremaine to war;
q his judgment.
p well. We'll keep that fer Il hypOthe
sis. anyhow" And lie turned to tn,
= third clipping. This be continued
. shows lis that he indeed came (,
= America. 1t is dated July 23. 1885. ant
e states that young Frenchman and /:
|, tramp skipper named Johnson ah. you
T. See:"
e l did, indeed. see. Here was the frs
appearance of Tremaine's zombi - o
S his familiar devil. | looked at Godfre,
e with the livelieSt admiration. Thi
constructive reasoning was somethin;
o which | certainly was quite incapable
Of.
$50 that J ON ThOmpson's arm wa
q the initial of his real name observe,
Godfrey. Il thought it was; it ha'
been there long time. and an eff
fort had been made to erase it. Afte
It man has started on the crooked pat
" he doesn't want any tattoo marks OF
J. him; they make Identification too easy
y For Johnson, then, We'll hereafter reat
it Thompson"
e 1 nodded: was beginning to be con
a WINGED
y WELL" continued Godfrey, 'Ne
10 maine and Thompson then, were al
N rested in New York July %, 1885. a
r low resort where they We're havin
a carouse. They had beaten and rot
y bed another sailor 1t seems that moth
~ ing was left Of the 10000 francs, an
naturally Tremaine found it difficult
go honestly to work again. The fourt