The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-10-21
THE ALTENBURG CASE
Bv GEORGE DIRE ELDRIDGE



 good of knowing whether he did or not?"
 Number one." snfiied Trafford, who knew that Fry was tlincensed at his failure to discover what it was be- yond his capacity to see for himself; If he'd started with the book nine times out of ten he wouldn't have written the name at all, but only the number. Put yourself to the task and see how it works. Probably he took ,, the name from another paper of some Kind which he did not want to mark up or leave lying about-'' But there's no such paper turned | up," interrupted Fry.
 Tt isn't the only thing that hasn't turned up by long shot Of course, we don't know, even in the sense that we know the. other things we're talk | ing about. that there was such a pa per, but we do know it we'll enough to keep our eyes open for it, and to try | and determine whether it means any thing that we have not found it. If l there was it's probably very import ant But let's get through with one thing at a time. The name was writ
 
 erately hard and sharp, and the num- Der with another. not so sharp and a trifle softer. Evidence, he wet the | first after he had written the "Grim- ble.' The .t-e-l' is written with the l first''
 Fry seized the paper and examined | 1t under the glass. When he handed it ! back he contented himself with say l ing:
 You've found the pencils?' l Yes. but I knew of the pencils be- | cause of the writing, and not of the different writings because of the pen | cils. The pencils are simply corrobora- | tive" .. Well. what do you make of it?' l Fry asked the question with the air of i a man who admits that another may have guessed rightly and then stun, | bled on evidence that enables him to ! convert his guess into a logical deduc- | tion. and also with the air of a man who holds these things to be simply exhibitory. unless they clearly lead to useful results.
 1 don't know, said Trafford frank ly. Every scrap of Knowledge that reveals any part of the day or days preceding the murder has it's value. It's for us to find out what it is, and often that's the hardest part of the task. We have evidence here that | Altenburg didn't know Grimbleshaw very well. He even went to the trou- ble to write down bis full name, which is no small item for some men. We have evidence that he. had to look up | fa1 he who called Grimbleshaw, and not I Grlmbleshaw him. We have an indi- cation. at least, that there was a paper | from which he took the name, which, l therefore, related in some way to l Gr1mbleshaw. which paper. if it ever existed. has not yet been found We probably have evidence that Altenburg expected to call Grimbleshaw again, since he left the paper, with the ad- l dress, lying there as a reminder. so that he could get the number without l going to the book again. We have | evidence that Altenburg didn't attach much importance to this paper or the | note on the other side since he pre- served it. but used it as memo randu1n paper. Still there stands out against this last the fact that the writer of the note urges the oppor- tunity for him to call. without being ! seen, and seems to think it will com mend itself to Altenburg as we'll as himself And. finally. we have the probability that whoever it was called Grimbleshaw that night saw his name on this paper, took it for granted he Twas Altenburg's physician and so call- ed him to A1tenburg's aid.'' "So you think somebody did call Grimbleshaw?'' It was almost a sheer. we have it positively that some one Continued on Page 11.)