The Washington times., 1909-07-09

for OratOrical effect or merely to get
his breath, il is hard to say. He
glanced around at the circle of tense.
set faces bent upon him, smiled
shade sardonically and then resumed;
The policeman, OF course, tele-
phoned his discovery TO headquarters
doVetail remarkably with another
murder mystery which had been re-
ported from the docks along the
North river not ten minutes earlier.
"A riverman and his son, out in
TOwboaL, il seems, had seen a heavy
portmaDtesU fall or be thrown from
the ferry boat PassamaquOddy. and
sculling toward il with some idea of
salvage. had taken IL aboard.
BY the light of the boats lantern,
however, they saw that blood was
leaking from the thing. and conse-
Quently lost no time in making for
shore and turning over their find TO
the haTbor police.
"Then at last it was opened, and
found to contain the remains OF a
falr-haired and presumably young
woman, although II lis hard to make
any definite statement in this regard,
as the body. apparently TO prevent
Identification, had been literally
hacked into mincemeat
There can scarcely be a Doubt,
however, under the known circum-
stances. that this was the woman
done to death in Central Park.
Communication was naturally
opened up at once by the authorities
with the ferry boat PasSamaGuoddy,
was the passenger who had pushed
the pOrtmanteau overheard. 1t is
true. he disclaimed the. ownership and
was not observed bringing IL aboard.
but several people saw him support
ing II on the rail Just before il fell.
and no one else in the vicinity could
possibly have had IL.
He declined, too, TO make any state
ment in regard 10 the matter to the
officers of the boat. except 10 deny
that the piece of baggage was his, and
to leave his name and address.
He returned To New York on the
boats next trip, from which II is de-
duCed that the portmanteau's going
into the river was either an accident
or due TO his discovery of its leakage,
and that his Original plan had been
10 take it hack TO Jersey somewhere,
aud rid himself Of it in more deXteTOus
fashion.
THAT, however" Warwick comment
ed, with sarcastic infection, lis infer
ence again, and I promised TO conhne
myself 10 bare facts.
ITO get back 10 them, therefore. so
much having been esta blished, the next
thing. Of course was 10 get hold Of
Mr.. Robert Graham and see what he
had 10 say for himself.
'sBy this time fully half a hundred
detectives were working on tle case.
anG TWO or IHeUl-lueSe gentlemen
here-chanced to extend their search to
the club and there fell in with me 7
suggested that possibly their man might
be at his Office, and accompanied them
thither. We learned from the elevator
boy that Graham had just left in cab
with Mr.. Coriett but since the lad
added the seemingly irrelevant renzark
that our quarry had gone off in a long.
gray raincoat, we deemed IL wise to de-
fer following until We had investigated
the reason for this significant change OF
attire.
Sergeant Taicott here opened the lock
Of the office door with little difficulty,
and we found inside ali that was re-
duired to complete the Case-stains upon
the bowl in the lavstoTy showing where
he had washed some part OF his clothing
or his person, and this overcoat with the
sleeve simply soaked in blood.
THAT cousin" he gave Gladys an
insOlent Ieer. excepting for the de-
tails here with which you are already
familiar. ends my plain, unvaTnished
tale, and ! think even you will aCquit
me Of having twisted the circumstances