The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-11-01
Davidson Is Hit Hard.

on. very we'll answered David
son. i knew him quite veil re
bought the goodwill and stock-.n-
trade Of a business once owned by a
man named Phelim iIanrahan in
Lower Abbey street, and ran IL for
some nine or ten months. Oh YES. I
remember Kilner-a big. heavy, rather
unwieldy man. who was Obliged 10
give up the business because OF some
heart trouble. L had a chat with him
just before he left Dublin. Yes what
OF Kilner2''
he is living as an afhuent retired
L-aHdon merchant in very. good. quiet
style at Denbigh, in North Wales"
replied Nicholson. But he is Joseph
Kilner no ionger-he has been known
ever since he went there as Keene.
DaYidson's face showed a new in
terest
'.weI2" he said.
You were concerned in the Driscou
case?" said Nicholson. "A case n
which two men named Claye ana Bax-
endale made a lift Of diamonds al q
Dublin hotel and disappeared success
fully"
Davidson made a WY face.
Yes" he said. It tried a new
plan there and failed ANONYMOUSLY"
and he gave his visitor a brief ac-
count Of what had happened. There
were strange circums. @nees about
that case, he said meditativeIy. Miss
Driscoh could not be got TO account
FOR her possession OF the diamonds.
or, rather, for their possession nv
the man vino had left them 10 her.
and she would not agree 10 more pub
LEFTY about them than was contain
ed in the announcement that a dta-
mond necklace had been stolen. As
a matter Of fact, she alleged 10 ms
that the diamonds were worth ESQ.,
COO"
Inspector Nicholson uttered a Curl
Gus chicking sound with his tongue.
Aye" ne said. 81 thought so.
That's il; Kilner got The diamonds
Inspector Davidson started In his
chair. lie looked at his visitor from
England as if be could scarcely be-
lieve bis eyes or his ears.
WHAT he almost shouted. XII
ner. Why what do YOU mean2"
You said that from the time Bax-
endale, IN his disguise, was seen %
enter Kilner's saloon he was never
seen again, said Richardson.
''N es. that is so-he never was seen
again, replied Davidson
NO, and I'll tell you why" said
Nicholson, n3dding his head You
didn't know, and nobody knew-here,
at any rate-that Kilner was an OLD
friend OF Clayes s. and had been in his
in
YOU were looking for him. would be
in hiding at KilRer's.'
Davidson leaped To his feet with q
sharp exclamation.
'Ah' he said. 'If I'd only known.
But Kiluer was a perfectly respect
able tradesman-there was Moth
ing against him and no reason to
suspect him 5le was also a most
plausible liar fully believed his ex-
PLANTATION about Baxendale's robbery
of the TIL and flight by the side door
lit was so much what a sneak thief
would do Coco heavens. and they
were all three together! And you think
-"
81 think. answered Nicholson,
slowly. that one might put il ia this
way. kilner CONT across here, poor
man. as ! can P.ove he was wnen ne
left Leeds. He clears out of Dublin
some few months later. and within a
very few weeks he is found living n
wealth in North Wales and giving in-
disputable proof that ne is "a man OF
means
Where did he get the money? Now.
about the time of his disappearance
from Dublin e5e000 worth Of dia-
mOnds disappear. tell you straight
out-niy theory is that these d!a-
monds within a few days of che rob
berry at the hotel. passed into the
entire possession OF Joseph [ilner,
and that he is living On the proceeds"
Davidson nodded bis head iH silence.
He walked up and down the room for
a mJmeut or two without speaking.
Then he looked al his visitor
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CTO Be Continued Next Week.