Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-24

l les, yes. BuC ure you an men near CT with all these speculations? Can you get nearer than am now without | them?'
 Well, perhaps not" Hewitt replied. But you don't offer an opinion as to who removed Rameaus body" ] "Who was it?"
 "Come, tSy and guess that yourself It wasn't Goujon; don't mind letting you know that. But 1t was a person quite within your knowledge of the case. You've mentioned the persons name more than once."
 Nettings stared blankly. 'I don't un- derstand you in the least" he said ''But of course you mean that this mysterious person you speak of as having moved the body committed the murder?"
 "No, I don't. Nobody could have been more innocent of that"
 "Well," Nettings concluded, with res ignation, "Im afraid one of us is rath- CT thick headed. What will you do?"
 Interview the person who took away the body" Hewitt replied. with smile. Probably the person will be most valuable witness"
 Do you mean you think this person, whoever it is, saw the crime?"
 T think it very probable indeed" "Well. won't ask you any more. I | shall get hold of Goujon; that's simple and direct enough for me. prefer to deal with the heart of the ease-the murder itself-when there's such clear evidence as have"
 T shall look little into that too, perhaps" Hewitt said, ''and, if you like, I'll tell you the first thing I shall do."
 What's that?" T shall have good look at map of the West Indies, and I advise you to do the same. Good morning" Nettings was better than his word, for within two hours of his conversa- ton with Hewitt Goujon was captur- ed and safe in cab bound for Bow street. He had been stopped at New haven in the morning on his way to Dieppe and was brought back to Lon , don. But now Nettings met check. Late that afternoon he called on Hewitt to explain matters. We've got Goujon," he said gloomily, "but there's difficulty He's got two friends who can swear an alibi Rameau was seen alive at half past 1 on Saturday, and the girl found him dead about 3, Now, Goujon's two friends, it seems, were with him from 1 o'clock till in the afternoon, with the exception of five minutes when the girl saw him, and then he left them to take a key or something to the housekeeper before finally leaving. They are men employ ed near the place and seem to have good characters. I wish you'd ex- plain a bit as to what you meant by looking at a map" ..t.
 "See, now," quoth Hewitt, you re- member what map told you to look at?"
 ''The West Indies."
 Right! We'll, here you are" Hewitt reached an atlas from his book shelf. ''Now, look here: the biggest island of the lot on this map, barring Cuba, is Haiti. You know as well as do that the western part of that island is peo- pied by the black republic of Haiti and that the country is in a degenerate state of almost unexampled savagery. Perhaps the very worst of the presi- dents in recent times has been the mo- torious ,Domingue. who was over thrown by an insurrection, as they all are sooner or later, and compelled to fly the country. Domingue and his nephews, one of whom was chief min ister, while in power committed the cruelest bloodshed, and many mem- bers of the opposite party sought ref uge in a small island lying just to the north of Haiti, but were sought out there and almost exterminated. Now, l will show you that island on the map. | What is its name?"
 ''Tortuga."
 ''It is. 'Tortuga,' however, Is only | the old Spanish name. The Haitians | sDtelh TitLth-NltOlt I1tEt IS a French atlas-now see the name of . that island"
 La Tortue"
 La Tortue 1t is-the tortoise. Tor tuga means the same thing in Spanish. i But that island is always spoken of in Haiti as La Tortue. Now. do you see the drift of that paper pinned to Ra- meau's breastT
 Punished by an avcnger of-or from the tortoise or La Tortue-clear enough. It would seem that the dead man had something to do with the massacre there, and somebody from the island is averaging it."
 And now listen. The name of Do- mingue's nephew. who was chief min ister, was Septimus Rameau."
 And this was Cesar Rameau-his brother. probably. I see"
 q think the relationship probable. Now you understand why I was in- clined to doubt that GouJon was the man you wanted"
 'Of course, of course. And now suppose I must try to get a nigger- the chap who wrote that paper wish he hadn't been such an ignorant nigger. If he'd only have put the capitals to the words Ia Tortue.' I might have thought a little more about them. in- stead of taking 1t for granicd that they meant that wretched tO:toise in the basement of the, house. We'll I'll be { after that nigger" |
 And I. as I said before" said Hew- fit. shall be after the person that car