The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-19

D. liz BOiIlE. l. EOllu nor fell
her to go and get the police without the
abductors hearing me. Then | would
nave been stabbed in the back. BUT T
knew that by slapping her she would
run Tor the police, which she did" Was
not hat plausible?
And how about the house in camn-
field place from which the secret tunnel
extended to the Lafayette street opium
Zen, and in which you reported a case
of smallpox"
Ihat was true. I do much charity
work IN that vicinity, and that night
l was called there to attend a woman.
ohe mad smallpox, and I so reported
II. l did not go back and knew nothing
ABOUT the secret tunnel. The old won1-
an running the place told me not to
come again, hat she would get a health
department physician"
While the public was satisfied with
the famous doctors explanations and
the revulsiOn against him turned to a
sentiment of heroism. the police were
not entirely satisfied and ordered him
held for further examination.
After the Vineyard at the river and
Bridge street had been searched the
night of the murder of Millionaire Rv-
erson and no trace found of the escap-
ing abductors n the fair young Miss
Beatrice Ryerson, "Matty' Whiting
took the wounded little Laura Brown
ing to a dispensary, where the neck
was dressed. Thu doctor said IT was a
slight flesh wound and would soon heal
without mountaineering the child to a
great extent. "Matty'' took her home.
and by daylight ne went back to the
Vineyard to make a thorough investi-
cation.
He was Joined there by Martin Cur
It's. who had just come from the Ryer-
son villa in Llewellyn Park. where he
had been consoling the mother Of the
kidnapped girl and the widow of the
slain insurance magnate.,
IF we do not find and rescue Miss
Ryerson very soon." said the young
man, der mother will become a ray
ing maniac"
1T is a practical certainty that they
are in the ~neighborhood of the lines
yard in Bridge street. said Whiting.
With the handicap the man had
against him it is not reasonable to sup
pose that they could have gotten very
far from there"
d you think he had a place already
picked out there?"
Eyes. you can't find a hiding place
such as they would need in a seconds
time"
well, that is not such a thickly-pop-
ulated place that they could not be
located, if they, are there, by a house,
toulouse canvass suggested Curtis.
Il know, but it is not every house
holder who will tell you who his guests
are. There is a, more certain way. IL
they have rooms in that vicinity it is
certain they must have provisions to
live on. Groceries and meats do not
go with room rent. Therefore, they
must go out to purchase provisions.
See the polnt?"
You mean to inquire at the shops?"
Certainly. There are fewer shops
than dwellings, and they will have no
object in not telling what they Know
After lunch the two men divided the
territory in the immediate vicinity of
the Vineyard between themselves and
started out to canvass the groceries
and markets relative to new CUSTOM
ers.
And, sure enough, right on Bridge
street, near Atlantic. Whiting found a
grocer who the day before had sold a
dozen ans of soups with other gro
ceries to II man whom he described.
This description fitted that of the man
who was with DR.. Markay. And that
morning a woman answering the de-
scription of the old woman with him
had been in to buy matches, and gaso-
line for a small gasoline stove. She de-
scribed the stove. Neither the man nor
the woman had been seen in the vicin-
ity before. But the grocer did not
know where they had gone. He be-
lieved they turned up Ogden street,
right back of the lime yard.
Whiting found Curtis, and the two
held a consultation, in which it was
decided to send for little Laura Brown
ing, as she knew old Mag, and had
seen the man when he came down.
stairs in the Lafayette street house..
Whiting was not sNre that he recalled
old Mag. although she had been a fig
ure about the vicinity of police head
quarters for years.
When the child arrived in Bridge
street she was told to watch the gro-
Gerry store for the return of either the
man or Mag, and then to follow them
wherever they went, and just to find
the house they entered.
A little after 8 o'clock that night the
child saw a woman come out of the
back door of a saloon opposite the
grocery. She ran up close behind her
and-it was old Mag, the woman who
had taken her from an orphanage to
make a serf of her. Laura followed
along after Mag, keeping close to the
shadows of the buildings.
Mag turned in at Halsey court, went
down the little narrow basement stairs
and opened the door with a key. The
place was dark.
Laura crept up to the uninviting
place n tried to peep into the win
dows. In the front room there was no
light. But through a rift in the curtain
the child could see a light shimmering
through a crack in the door separating
the front room from the Jack.
Although Whiting had instructed the
girl to cease her efforts when she found
the house, she was so interested in the
case and so curious that she .crept down
the steps to the areaway, intending to
place her ears at the door and listen.
AS she reached the door, which was
protected from the view of the street
by the large flagstone forming the
stoop for the first floor, the door sud-
denly opened and there stood MaTston,
ready to go out. The child drew back.
Marston grabbed her by the bandage
about her wounded neck, literally
throwing her into the damp hallway
with cracking walls and slammed the
door,