The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-05-21


1t wal decided that a descent would
be made on the house at 9 o'clock that
night, unless Marston tried to get away
before, so, while Whiting and Curtis
went up to the Continental Hotel to get
a little rest, the city's sleuths watched
the house.
1t was just getting dusk when Mar
ston prepared Miss Ryerson for her de-
parture With him. On her swollen feet
be placed loose carpet slippers. About
her head he wrapped a shawl, and with j.
a burnt cork he made wrinkles on her
face, and further darkened the already
dark lines under her eyes. Into a large
market basket he placed eight cans of
soup and other groceries, to make the
basket heavy, he said, so she would
have to bend to carry it. Himself he
disguised as a day laborer, with a short q
pipe and a much-soiled SLOUGH hat and
plaster-eovered shoes.
When they were ready he instructed
Miss Ryerson that if she were stopped
she must pretend TO be a foreigner who
could not speak the language. Then he Is
Iced her out the back door of the base
ment and put her through the loosened
boards in the fence. telling her to go
out on Stevens street. turn to her
right and go down Atlantic street. He
proposed to follow her a few PAGES
back.
Miss Ryerson did not have to nre-
tend to be a cripple, She was truly
one. and as she walked she. hobbled-
from side to side, wineing under the
pain of her tortured feet and burdened
with the heavy basket. Near Bridget
street she was contemplating escape.
She thought it would be a fine time to
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policemen she saw at the corner of
Broad street. But just then, just when
she thought she would make the brealrs
for liberty. she thought of poor little
Laura back in the den, and she felt
that Marston would escape the poll ,asat
man. return TO the den, kill the child
and flee. She would rather continue
her own agonies than endanger the life
of the child.
Then, too, her thoughts of escape
were further discouraged by the apA
pearance of Marston behind her as ha
whispered
IF you call for help or make one :
suspicious move | will send a bullet 4
through your back!'
Beatrice turned north on Broad~
street, and was hobbling along in front
of the Continental Hotel, when Martin
Curtis. the man whom she had secret
ly loved when she was a little girl in
short dresses. and who was now exert
ing every energy to find her. came cut 2
with "Matty" Whiting. The young i
woman was so startled that she in
voluntarily dropped the heavy basket
and was on the point of running to- =
her sweetheart, when she recovered
herself and thought of a bullet piercing
her back. She did lean forward towardyIs
Curtis, and her hands extended in his.
direction ~inyoluntarily in a s~upplicating
manner. q.
Curtis. with a big heart for the poor.
tossed her a coin. saying:
Poor devil, Maybe she needs it,"
These professional beggars you
can't tell about" she heard Whiting
say, and then she heard the man she
loved say: ~.
"oh, well, it may bring us luck to-
night in finding the girl | love- The
blood raced to her head and she
thought she would faint, when Marston
came up behind her. put the basket
back in her hand, picked up the coinr
and placed it In her other hand and
She heard him say:
Don't stop. It's life or death!"
Now, I'm going to tell you that we
arc not going bach to the room we
just left" Ar
"What! And leave the little girl.
there?"
The police will find her soon enough.&.
1t is not good policy to stay in one !.
place too long. Now, I want you TO
tell me where that loose stone in the=t
sidewalk is and we will go directly
there. If the stone is not found you
will have IN rppnafp with mo-
Drive on. straight ahead" said the
young woman, and she lapsed into a
long silence.
When "Matty" Whiting and Martini
Curtis arrived in Ogden street they
met Captain Carroll and his men, who
We're preparing for the descent on the 3
den. Two men We're sent into the yard !.
back of the house in Stevens street,
while the others were to attack the
front. IT,.
When Captain Carroll sounded a
whistle the raiding party attacked thee
place front and rear. The men in the
rear were first to get in, because of
the removal of the boards from the
high fence by Marston in his flight less,
than an hour before. 5
Old Mag was terrified by the on Z
slaught az both ends of the house, and .
she could not move. Inc pack uoof
came crashing in, and there stood little
Laura in tie centre of the room, while
Mag was trembling on the bed. The
front door was quickly opened and the
other sleuths and Curtis and Whiting.
entered. The house was quickly
searched. Miss Ryerson and her caps
tor had gone. Laura told them how.
they had waited all day, expectantly,
to be rescued, and Curtis condemned
himself Tor not having broker in the
house in the afternoon, when he first
learned definitely that Beatrice was
there. She had gone less than a half
hour before the raid was made.
Old Mag was made a prisoner and
the party, after having searched the.
house several times, were leaving by
the front door when they discovered
what they had overlooked before, a.
sealed letter tackled to the wall just
where the front door opened, and adj
dressed ITO My Friend, Captain Car
roll" The note read:
II knew you would be here, but it
is too late. Unless the young woman
you seek gives me the information !
require tonight, you may search the
| rfvor for her body fom0rroVV