The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-14

Detectives Carroll the tale
of the horrors she had wit
messed in the Campfield place den
and that officer was calling Detect
i've ~Sergeants Michael Long and Joseph
Farrell to go with him, accident was
tempering the tragedy in that dingy
back room.
Miss Beatrice Ryerson, daughter of
the multi-rich insurance magnate of
Llewellyn Park, was ever more beauti-
full as she suffered the atrocious tor
lures being inflicted on her by DIR.
Markay, the Jekyl and Hyde society
physician of South Broad street. AS
a stole she withstood the taunts of
Mag, the repellent bag who was as
sisting the doetor-and the doctor had
become a hend in his lust for riches.
one red-hot wire after another was
applied to the soft white flesh of the
girls feet. She WINGED under the pain,
but when asked If yet she were willing
to reveal the location of the loose flag
stone by which the torturer expected to
come into possession of the $40, 600, 00C
crown jewels of Mexico, she each time
replied that she would not, that death
would be preferable to assisting such
a villain to wealth.
Had not Miss Beatrice beer ~pinioned
to the floor she could have reached
over and touched the body of her
father, who was now entering upon
his thirty-second hour under the in
fluence of the powerful drugs his cap
tor had administered. His turn would
come after that of the daughter, the
doctor said.
a dozen cruel brown stripes had been
scared across the white feet of the
young lady with the red-hot wires and
still she refused to give up her secret,
a secret the Importance of which she
knew little, but which she had prom
ised her father would remain a secret
with her.
The excitement vas telling on Mag.
Occasionally she would step into the
hall, where lay the unconscious form
- the burglar, who had broken into
the -quarantincd house, and who had
been quieted by the Doctors ever ready
h%ypodermic needle, and there she would
AXE a long drink from a demijohn OF
whiskey. The succeeding visits to the
hall We're telling on the woman, and
after each excursion her conversation
would become less coherent, and she
would reel and steady herself against
walls-themselves zone too steady. y
After one of these trips to the whis-
key bottle Mag staggered against the
doctor, who was holding another hot
wire to the feet of the pinioned young
woman.
whats the matter with you, you
hag?' yelled her co-conspirator at her;
cant you stay sober even when it's a
matter of life and death with you?"
As Markay pushed the woman off
of him she swept against the alcoho.
lamp and turned it over, so that its
flames set fire to the lacy, filmy skirts
of Miss Ryerson. which were spread
across the floor. The diaphanous gar
ments blazed up quickly, setting fire
to the oil-stained, greasy wrapper Mag
wore. In the same second there was
the most intense excitement in the dim
little back room. The drunken Mag
vented a shrek that might have awak-
ened the dead, and which really did
rouse the stupelied burglar in the hall
way. The burglar craNled to the open
door. saw the flames as they licked III
closer to the PROSTATE form of Miss
Ryerson. who had sunken into a faint
from fright ana pdlH. NldIhdy ildu
thrown off his coat and was whipping
the fire, which had now spread to a
wider area through the spilling of the
alcohol in the overturned stove
The burglar crcpt into the flame-hlleC
room on his hands and knees, and as
he came close TO Miss Beatrice he tool
a heavy knife from his pocket and was
cutting the ropes which bound hel
when the doctor. who had just seer
him for the first time. sprang upor
him. The two men grappled and went
down together, rolling to the side o.
Miss Ryerson,
NGarkay knocked the knife from the
burglars hand and was trying to draw
his pistol to put a quick end to the re
i|uyenated thief. when the burglar de,
Nvcred a terrific smash in the doctor''
face with his fist. The doctor was try
ing to fasten his teeth into the bur
glars iugular vein, just as bulldog.
| fight. when there was a loud poundinl
at the front door. accompanied by the
cry:
open the door or Wen break it in
1t is the p%olicel" Captain Carroll, will
Detectives Long and Farrell. We're al
the door, with little Laura with them
shivering in her nightgown. As she
had stolen from the house she closed
the door after her and the spring lock
had secured it.