The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-07-28

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ance-a change which she took pains
to conceal by wearing a heavy veil.
/ On one occasion he had SURPRISED her
While walking in the garden without
| 1t. and he had been Mortified at the
altera ton. Pressed as to whether the
change was sudden or gradual he
| had inclined to the former opinion
/ He was unable 10 give dates. but he
had seen his mistress face on the
| drive down, when it had been as
usual, but she had almost Immediately
| begun to use the veil
! Asked if his mistress had received
| any visitors at the farm, SparshOtt had
answered with 4 decided negative. And
| he had voluntarily added that the only
OCCUPANTS Of the house, besides Miss
| Nuneham and himself, had been an
old woman and her daughter, who had
acted respectively as cook and house.
maid. He had heard that these women
| had been temporarily engaged, and
/ that they were going to America at
/ the termination OF the job.
/ Having finished with Sparshott,
ShOne had gone down TO Basifdon farm.
convinced that there had been foul
play. He had found the farm unoc-
4 I'll
| since Miss Nunehams tenancy, it
being the property Of a farmer who
worked two farms and resided on the
homestead of the other one. Shone had
! then commenced a systematic search
/ of the house and grounds, which had
resulte3 in the gTewsome discovery of
a Tudely dug grave, containing the re-
mains Of a woman in an advanced
state of decomposition.
There was no denying the force of
the eminent experts reasoning, and
yet from the police point of view I
was not wholly satisfied. 1t seemed
! highly improbable that a woman could
| have planned and carried out such q
| crime without male accomplices. The
women who were to go to America at
/ the termination of their engagement
were certainly a feature to be cOnsid-
cred in this respect. but to my mind
mention of the gentleman whom Petrie
| had seen descend from a doctors
brougham at Lettuce Nuneham's house
gave Shone's case a lack of complete
ness and finality.
On the principle that two heads are
/ better than one, 1 called to my coun-
sells a very long head indeed. That is
/ to say, I rang my bell and told the
messenger to send in Detective Inspec-
tor Kyrle. He came at once-a big,
| loosely jointed man, grown iron gray
/ in the service.
Just sit down and read that report,
| KyrIe." 1 said. Mr.. Radford Shone
has been pulling chestnuts out of the
| fire, you will see"
He gave me a shrewd glance. at the
/ back of which lurked something l
could not put a name to, and settled
/ to his work.
with all due Difference to the Cover
| street prophet. he hasn't finished his
/ Job" the inspector snapped as he
| turned down the last sheet. IF Shone
/ is correct in his premises the woman
| is only a catspaw."
Exactly my view" l replied. And
| 1 told him of Sir Angus Petries shad-
owing of the house, and of the visitor
| in the brougham.
! Inspector Kyrle rose briskly.
| IF a lOve-sick barOnet can spot a
man going into house, it Oughtn't to
be beyond the resources of the yard to
put a name to him." he said. shall
work on that line?"
| 1 nodded assent, and the inspector
was gone. He was back again just as
1 had given him up for the day, and
was preparing to leave the Office. He
| had got the name, and the caller was
| a medical man after all.-Dr. Michael
Bardsley of Harley street. I knew
! him by repute as a specialist in throat
diseases, and said so.
Some ones throat will want a hem
pen plaster before this affair is over,
| SIR was Kyrle's grim reply. IF you
haven't any important private en-
! gagement tonight l wish you would
come with me and see this coachman,
! Sparshott. 1 can't think he's told
| Shone all he knows, for 1 have learned
that this DR.. Bardsley was several
| times at Basildon farm
! We boarded an EarIs court train at
! Charing Cross, and during the short
| journey my companion described how
he had procured his information. AS
| luck would have il, the doctor CHANGED
| to call while Kyrle was hanging about
| the Cromwell road, apd he had
promptly claimed acquaintance with
| the driver of the brougham, alleging
that he had met him in the neighbOr-
hood Of Basildon farm. The man had
fallen into the trap, and while dis
claiming all recollection of Kyrle, had
admitted that he had frequently driven
his master to the farm.
Queer thing, all this travelling by
road when the place is not an hour
| from Euston," said Kyrle. "Estab-
fishes a wonderful similarity of ideas
| between the doctor and the present
| tenant of Miss Nuneham's house."
81 thought so, too, though not quite
on the same lines as Kyrle. His dis
coveries made me grateful that another
Of my old school fellows was a sur
geon of even greater eminence than
DIR. Bardsley, and to this tried friend
1 determined to submit certain ques-
| tons in the event of Lettice Nune-
hams former coachman conducting
himself as there was just chance
| that he would.
Murchison's News was the usual
gloomy cul-de-sac of coachhouses and
stables, with lace curtains and window
boxes in evidence above. Half way
down the news a burly man in shirt
sleeves was washing the wheels of a
smart victoria. He saw us long be-
fore we approached, for by the time
/ we reached him he was standing uD-