Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1907-09-13
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H"% e, nine cases out of ten, the obvious
ma no "a always the wrong one. smart
['-; q,ho knows enough to carry glass
.I1ttos and how to use them skillfully,
MD nor have unnecessarily alarmed
", household by firing pistol in the
,,o3 Of night. Oh. no. he would simply
. sroo+bpred the woman. already lnsen-
'ssr, and unresisting. with a pillow, or
.rokad her to DEATH
s ~ soc | see" acquiesced the physI-
i,r Go on
~ or rs assume, now, that this I'M
q ..,n.r nprson entered the house through
's,rtndow in Monsieur Van Lith's cham
8 tor While creeping through the room
! ~, osnies case of pistols. He has come
,.n,od save with the Venetian stiletto.
d., onco in the house, his courage fails
t:n He picks up pistol from the case,
.,,ing This will protect me If L have
>. orooeed to extremities.' He passes on
. Madame Roupell's chamber, and falls
-, searching among her papers. She IS
ronan Of large property, and must
,,, rau5bps. He is not after money
~. tho diamonds which she wore to the
mora have not been taken. While thus
,no.gad he is interrupted by Madame
po,ro1I who rushed forward to save her
,,,ars He Jumps from his chair, over
inrp:nr it. aid raises the stiletto; she
turns and fees ne pursued and stabs her
m VOL understand. monsieur?'
"Yay | understand everything. except
bis firing the pistol into the head Of a
woman whom he had apparently already
amt onr Of the way of harming him. l
a., assuming. Of course, that his object
ras not murder OF course, Madame
RounpU NAV have recognized him, and he
may have wanted to be sure she was
dead
Even that would not have warranted
hi, risking firing the pistol. Recollect,
as I have already said, he could easily
have smothprpd her without making any
noise" replied Cassagne.
True. Then why did he fire the pis-
toI:'
1T is easy to conjecture" returned the
Trpnchman He did it to direct suspi-
cjoB from himself to the owner of the
weapon
The diaboical villain - exclaimed the
doctor, and apparently so impressed was
he with NJ Cassagne's theory that ne kept
repeating tine phrase over and over again,
The diabolical villain y
But NJ CaSsagne paid no heed to the
ajaculations of the physician. He was
down upon his knees, running about on
All fours on the carpet. totally regardless
Of the injury to his pantaloons. His nose
was within an inch of the floor. At last
he stopped in the middle of the apart
mont, and exclaimed:
Give me- the knife
The doctor handed it to him He at
once proceeded to cut away the carpet,
and then to dig furiously into the wooden
flooring.
"Wbsr on earth arp Won looking for?"
norfrad Mason
"V,ror mind =" ranIiod Cassaone "Wait
moment and vou'II see"
He kent on DIGGING away with the
knife az furiousIr as ever At last he
stunned and still on his knees. held
riumphantIv aIoft 4 small. obIong. black
object Then he exclaimed breathlessly ::
"AI right I have GOT the bullet"
re We op}y had Van Iitb's pistol
here" said Mason, tine evidence would
be comDlete but it is in Paris
The detective arose and smoothed out
the knees of his pantaloons. which he had
sadly crumDIad
We have got what is unite as good"
10 sod 900 into tho nex+ room and
lr;nr ~, ~. ! .I.o sie Iie>, n.y. lo'.l ",,o
they were mates"
Taking the pistol from the doctors
hands, he pushed the bullet into the muz-
ze II fitted to nicely.
We have thus far said NJ. Cassagne,
established our theory successfully in
regard to one very important point
Neither your friend Van Lith nor Mon
Seur Chabot had a hand in this murder.
1t was committed by a third party
someone who entered the house unknown
10 anyone. and who left it in an equally
secret manner. Let us see, now. how he
got away and what means of escape pre-
~nted themselves. He could not have
made his exit by any of the doors, be-
cause one of them led to the room in
which Van Iith was hiding and another
opened directly into the chamber occupied
BY Monsieur Chabot. There is still, of
course, bare chance that he retired by
rha Nn1r H., IL &, :,