The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-16
CONTINUED From Yesterday.)
CHAPTER VI.

Nlr OfthED poucenen VINO had
~ stood guard at the tunnel OPEN
Ing In the cellar of the ruined
house were startled by a single faint
yell, or scream, ten minutes after
the three detectives and the reporter
entered the tunnel. There was a long
pause of silence. The policemen did not
know what to make of 1t and they
looked at each other q-uestioningly.
A wait of fifteen minutes followed
and two policemen volunteered to go
in, fearing something nae happened. as
the party had been gone twenty-five
minutes and only the faint scream had
been heard.
These policemen entered the tunnel
with drawn pistols. A few minutes
later they came out, carrying Chief
Carroll with them and with the news
that the roof of the tunnel had caved
in and had buried the entire party.
Chief Carroll was the first mar they
came to and as he was only partly
buried by the rocks and earth they
dragged him out. He was almost
dead when he reached the tunnel open
ing and was hurried to the City Hos
pital.
Firemen were called and with wreck
ing apparatus they entered the tunnel,
taking lanterns with them. When they
brought the other victims out a half
hour later, it was apparent that All
Fong, in his opium dive in LAFAYETTE
street, had pulled the wire a second
too soon to kill all of the pursuers.
But the falling debris had completely
blocked further progress in the tunnel.
Detectives Long and Farrell and Re
porter Whiting had been considerably
bruised by the falling roof and had
been buried up to their waists, so that
they could not free themselves. A few
hours in the fresh air would make
them practically as able as ever.
Wreckers were sent into the tunnel
with searchlights to remove the OBJ
structions so that the police could con-
tinue their pursuit of mysterious oc-
cupants of the house which burned.
All Fong assured his peculiar guests
that they could not rest safely there
until dark as it would be impossible
to remove the debris in the tunnel
until then.
This day Martin Curtis, the young
insurance official, was seeking more
the whereabouts of his sweetheart,
Miss Ryerson, than her father. He had
called several times at the office of
Dr.. Markay, in South Broad street,
because that was where the chauffeur
had last seen both, out each time the
maid informed him that the doctor was
not in, that the day before he had tele-
phoned that he a going out of the
city with a wealthy patient and might
be gone several days.
Tba Iocf limo rurfig OLD h. +eIl
the maid a fb which admitted him to
DR.. Markay knew more than he had
told. He told the maid that he had
Just met DIR. Markay down the street
and that he had been instructed to
wait in his Office for him. The maid
admitted him to the great physicians
office and retired to the reception hall
1t took the young man only a few min
utes to find in the top drawer on the
r%ight-hand side of the lat-top desk
the carbon copy of that section Of Mr.
Ryerson's will which described the
stolen crown jewels of Mexico and
directed his daughter how to find them
That was sufficient evidence for the
eager young man. 1t showed that DR.
Markay had possession of a document
TO Wnlcn ne was not emitted, ana IL
showed that DR.. Markay might have a
motive in The disappearance of the
father and daughter, the two persons
who possessed the secret of the great
wealth.
Leaving the office hurriedly, with the
excuse to the maid that he could wait
no longer Martin Curtis rushed around
to police headquarters. Chief of De
tectives Carroll had been sent to the
hospital d few hours before, and
"Matty'' Whiting, the reporter, who
had now quite revived, was in the
chiefs office. Young Curtis impetuous-
ly mistook the reporter for a city de-
t%ective, and to him hurriedly explained
his mission. exhibiting the carbon copy
of the Ryerson will.
Whiting lost no time. Taking Cur
It's with him they went over to the
ruins of the burned house in Campbell
place and saw several detectives wh'
were walclng for the distractions il
the tunnel to be removed so as to con
tinue the pursuit. Whiting introduces