The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1910-09-25

ell and his losses. Valentine, by that
prescience which differentiates the born
detective from the ordinary ''gum-shoe
man. sensed that the rounding up of
Sarell would at once solve the mystery
Of why and how the four fnanciers had
lost their lives.
And so it proved. Inquiry and a
watch set upon four eighty-nlne re.
vealcd the fact that Arthur Sarell had
lived there. II was one of a block Of
old-fashioned houses setting well back
from the street, forming a veritable
oasis in the midst OF the busiest part
of Manhattan. Further sleuthing added
that Sarell was an inventor who had IL
laboratory and workshop on the top
floor. He was eccentric and soured, said
the landlady, and in great poverty ow.
ing TO the roguery Of some men with
whom he had been associated in bust
ness. He was only able to keep body
and soul together and pay his rent be-
cause brother somewhere in the west
sent HIM few dollars every month.
This data seemed sufficient to Fiurey
Valentine to warrant a heart to heart
talk with Arthur Sarell. Neither he
nor his men who watched the premises
had succeeded in getting glimpse of
the inventor for he seldom went out of
late, said the woman of the house, So
Valentine determined on a call-which
was distined to bring about tragic re-
suits and also clear up the mystery of
the taxicab murders.
Gaining admlttance to four eighty
nine, he ascended to the topmost floor
and raped on the door of the rear
suite. Although the landlady asserted
that the man had not stirred out Of
his room that day, there was no re.
sponse, only sort of sealthy, palpitat-
ing silence-such as results when one
knows that there IS some other one llv.
ing and breathing behind closed door
Then, while Valentine waited, after
rapping second time, and a third
time, there reached his acute ear the
faint sound of footsteps within; then,
after perhaps an interval of q dozen
watch ticks, there was a heavy fall :;
then silence again.
Valentine, upon this, hesitated 10
longer, but put his shoulder to the de-
crepit old door and pushed it IN. The
sight that he had half expected met
his gaze. On the faded carpet lay the
body of a man, thin and haggard to
the point Of emaciation, but with an
almost seraphic smile upon his face.
There was curious odor in the room.
the windows of which were tightly
closed and which was crowded with a
work bench and tables containing all
sorts of retorts and electrical devices.
In inc rlGlt nanQ OF the QeaQ man
for life was extinct when Valentine
reached his side-was a curious instru.
ment, something like clumsy, wide
chambered gun, having a handle and a
trigger, with g short thick barrel, ter
minating in a rubber cone such as den
lists or surgeons use when they admin
lister ether.
When doctor was called-for even
Finney Valentine 6 encyclopedia knowl-
edge was at fault-he uttered the
words:
''Hal A gas-gun. Carbon dioxide!' -
Arthur Sarell had chosen to travel
by the same road as the men who had
wronged him and whom he had "re.
moved In his half.crazy determination
TO "get square. His "gas-gun ''-one
of his many inventions-was charged
with the deadly carbon dioxide. an in.
stantoneous narcotic poison when in
hailed.
He had somehow lured his victims
into the narrow interior of a taxicab
AT a favorable opportunity he had
pressed the rubber cone of his diabol
ical gas-gun over the mouth and nostrlls
Of the condemned men, then pulled the
trigger two or three times. by which
the poisonous vapor was expelled and
which, taken by surprise, his victims
Immediately inhaled. Being every one
men of advanced age. heavy build and