Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-24

might have come to itself, sat up on
 the sofa. stanched the wound and walked out. I reflected at once that Rameau was full blooded negro. and that negro's head is very nearly in- vulnerable to anything short of bullets. Then, if the body had been dragged out-as such heavy body must have been-almost of necessity the carpet and rugs would show signs of the fact. but there were no such signs. But be yond these there was the fact that no long black overcoat was left with the other clothes, although the housekeep- CT distinctly remembered Rameau's possession of such garment. judg- ed he would use some such thing to as- sist his disguise, which was why ask ed her. Why he would want to dis guise was plain, as you shall see pres- ently. There were no towels left in the bathroom-inference, used for ban dages. Everything seemed to show that. the only person responsible for | Rameau's removal was Rameau him. self. Clearly, Rameau was afraid of another attack from some implacable enemy whom he was anxious to avoid -one against whom he feared legal complaint or defense would be useless. This brought me at once to the paper found on the floor. If this were the work of Goujon and an open reference to his tortoise, why should he be at such pains to disguise his handwriting? He would have been already pointing himself sut by the mere mention of the tortoise. And, if he could not avoid a shake in his natural, small handwrit- Ing, how could he have avoided 1t in a large, clumsy, slowly drawn, assum- ed hand? No, the paper was not Gou- | ions.
 "The evidence of the chopper was very untrustworthy, especially when had heard of Goujon's careless habits. "It is quite possible, by the way, that the man who attacked Rameau got away down the coal lift and out by an adjoining basement, just as did l Rameau himself; this, however, is mere conjecture. The would be mur- derer had plainly prepared for the crime: Witness the previous prepa- ration of the paper declaring his re- venge. In regard to the use of small instead of capital letters in the words La Tortue' on the paper, observed, in the beginning, that the first letter of the whole sentence-the p in 'punf- was a small one. Clearly, the writer was an illiterate man, and it was at 1 once plain that he may have made the same mistake with ensuing words.
 "The rest of the job was not very diff ficult found out the cabman who had taken Rameau away, and from him got a sufficiently near East End di- rection to find Rameau after inquiries. yentured, by the way, on a rather long shot l described my man to the cabman as having an injured arm or wrist, and 1t turned out correct guess. You see, man making an attack with a chopper is pretty certain to make more than single blow, and as there appeared to have been only single wound on the head, it seemed probable that another had fallen somewhere else almost certainly on the arm. as 1t would be raised to defend the head. At Limehouse I found he had had his head and wrist attended to at local n1cdico's. and big nigger in fright, with long black coat, a broken head and a lame hand. is not so difficult to find in small area. How persuaded him up here you know already. think frightened him little, too, by explaining how easily I had tracked him and giving him a hint that others might do the same. He is in great funk. He seems to have quite lost faith in England as a safe asylum"
 The police failed to catch Rameau's assailant = chiefly because Rameau could not be got to give a propezsde. scription of him, nor to do anything except get out of the country in hurry. In truth, he was glad to bc quit of the matter with nothing worse than his broken head. Little GouJon made wild storm about his arrest, and before he did go to France managed to extract f20 from Rameau by way of compensation. in spite of the ab- sence of any strictly legal claim against his old tormentor.