The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-23

In Chapter !. George Harris Don
.sne introduces Captain Anthony
Stark. a retired mining man of Sal;
IsLe CITY, his wife and nineteen-ycar-
od daughter, Gladys. The trio have
isf, Salt Lake. registered at the st.
bonrs later the entire party arc chloro.
famed and Captain stark is robbed
Il tgenty-five thousand dollars n cash
and fen thousand dollars worth of
,srels belonging TO Mrs. Stark.
Marvellous Anderson, The Great In
,ssfipator. is called into the case by
Tsnager Woods of the St Francis, and
during the investigation Gladys sud
dsnly disappears. leaving no clue rs TO
ssr whereabouts. Shortly afterwards
rorpuson Thorne. her Salt Lake sweet
beart. arrives, and Marvellous Ander-
son promptly declares he has estab-
ljshed the first link in the chain of
mystery.
chief OF the Salt Lake Detective
Bnrean. scientifically adduces the facts
,hat Ferguson Thorue, despite his clam
of innocence, is in some manner CON
peeted with the st. Francis hotel rob
bery and the disappearance of Gladys
Stark. In his investigation Marvellous
Anderson has found a button belonging
Ia Charles d.. Remington of Salt Lake
tity, and the accusing finger OF suspl.
ron of Marvellous Anderson is pointed
Directly AT Thorne in the conclusion Of
Chief Sheets S dramatic deduction.
In Chapter Ill, Mr.. Charles S. Pul,
/ yer. former newspaper man, intro
luces a novel situation when he turns
the calcium of suspicion on Ferguson
1bornc. He permits Marvellous Ander-
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GLADYS sweetheart, but at the very
rlmax Anderson hears the frantic
,pcc of GLADYS over the phone. telling
bin that the tcl-tale pin worn by
ThOrnc was gwen him by herself less
ban a week previous Girl supposed
10 be GLADYS Stark leaves note for
Captain Stark at ST. Francis and then
again mystcriously disappears. Ander-
son returns 10 hotel with Captain
Stark md Thorne. and is intercepted
By 0 priest. who hands Captain Stark
package Of papers and hastily with
draws
Chapter " written by Mr., Joseph
!. CaUe. secretary OF tho Commercial
dab brings Marvellous Anderson again
face 10 face with the mysterious priest.
anderson accurately discovers the pre-
sumcd holy man is wearing high
lfceu snOcS ana 1anntN SIlkcn hose.
apiaiu Stark is then accused ~ the
greai detective of having committed
iobbeTy for AN mdcrhand motive aud
Marvellous Anderson leaves the st.
fnncls again declaring the actual so
iuiicn OF the puzzling mystery would
10 completely solved in very few
hours.
\ IN Chapter V. written by \. =.
io"let. private secretary 10 Mayor
Mansiord. Marvellous Anderson medi-
hles upon the varions theories thus
ger adduccd in the perpIexing mystery
IS mentally cndcavoring to solve.
iie has an argument with House De
~llvc Holmes and later breaks off all
'elalonS with Captain Stark, lie dis
"N'is nnothcr mysterious woman
nird IN the case, and at the Bismarck
faie finds Thoruc, the mysterious wo-
Eln and au unknown man i'm secret
trlerencc, AS the trio leave he cafe,
aauerson hastcns out the Market street
lof, lnmps INTO Il taNicab and directs
/ ,ac criver to start in pursuit of a rapid
disappearing automobile. which is
noueht to contain the central figures
A ~ inc unSolvIblc mystery.