Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-04-28

PERFECTLY clear: exclaimed Hatch. Perfectly
clear. don't see how you make that out when.
The Thinking Machine started out, with Hatch
following. They went straight to the Hotel Belle
voir, and sent their cards to Langham. He
staring blankly at a telegram when they entered.
He recognized The Thinking Machine by name as a
physician who had called on his daughter
Your daughter is engaged to be married, isn't
she, Mr. Langham? inquired the scientist.
Yes, she was he replied wonderingy Why"
And she was believe, on her way to visit some
friends in small city just beyond Albany when this
this unhappy event occurred?'
Yes, Langham assented again.
Perhaps the family of the to whom she
betrothed?'
Again Langham assented
And what is the name of this man. please"
J. Charles Wlngate, was the reply. I've just
got telegram from him. Here it is.
The Thinking Machine glanced at the yellow slip
of paper. The message dated at New York
city. and said tersely
Wedding impossible. I cannot explain. W1SGATE.
It's an outrage declared Langham
It's confession, remarked The Thinking
Machine.
When we remove Miss Langhan possibility"
The Thinking Machine told Hatch and Detective
Mallory, we inevitably bring the murder of Miss
Farrar down to man. And may say that per-
sonally demonstrated Miss Langham's innocence
by little experiment in mechanical hypnotism.
She confessed that she had revolver on the train.
But her revolver a twenty-five Caiber, and
the bullet that killed Miss Farrar thirty two
So there further need to consider her.
Il also removed Devore by establishing an alibi
for him even after he had lied to the police as to his
whereabouts on the night of the crime Why he lied
doesn't appear, and is of no consequence now. |
proved his whereabouts conclusively by telephone.
and at the time proved the whereabouts of
Miss Farrar's brother thus eliminating both at the
same time. Then what?
Everyone had presumed-and | also did at first
that the person who killed Miss Farrar was in the
private compartment with her. And yet, if that
true, why didn't the shot awake Miss Langham9
When | knew that she innocent the logic of
the thing indicated that the shot from the
outside.
1t was warm night and we shall suppose the
window was open Was the screen in it 1t did not
have hole in it; so l presumed it was not Then
the possibilities became infinite. The first thing
do to dispose of Devore and Miss Farrar's
brother. | did that Both you gentlemen recall, l
dare say, the peculiar circumstances surrounding the
murder of the young woman in box at the opera?
Yes. Instantly that to me-perhapS the
wrong woman had been killed If So must look
for a motive for the murder of Miss Langham
Well, we know that there had once been love
affair between Miss Langham and Devore. Was it
possible that, despite her engagement to another
man, Miss Langham still loved Devore?-that she
learned Miss Farrars story and then and there
decided to Jllt the man to whom she engaged.
because of this love for Devore who now by the
act of Miss Farrar, cast aside? If would she have
teegraphed to him this change of mind? If sup
pose that she was expecting to meet him few
hours-in other words, visit his famly-we
imagine her telegraphing from the train while her
intention was to go no farther than Albany, where
she would turn back.
That hypothesis made the entire matter per-
fectly clear. She did telegraph her decision to
J. Charles Wingate, and motive for her murder
instantly created-revenge Now he probably
knew what train she on, that she had taken the
private compartment in a certain sleeping that
train. and it is only possible but probable that
he took train to meet it.
Some time between the moment he received the
telegram and met the train which she
passenger he resolved upon murder. The method?
What better than firing through the window while
the train standing at some small station? The
shot might not attract attention particularly the
sleeping car was the last the train, and it was,