The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1910-07-22


had decorated them. Blows with {
pick here and there satisfied Us Of the
nOnexistenee Of any sort OF opening
, The floor and the ceiling were thor
Oughly sounded. We found nothing
There was nothing TO be found. NJ do
Marquet appeared TO be delighted and
never ceased repeating:
"What a easel What a easel We
shah never know. you'll see. how the
murderer was able to get out Of this
ROOM
Then suddenly. with a radiant face,
he called to the officer in charge OF the
gendarmes.
go TO the chateau" he said, "and
request NJ. Stangerson and NJ. Robert
Darzac to come to me in the labora-
tory. also Daddy Jacques, and let your
men bring here the two concierges."
Five minutes later all were assem-
bled in the laboratory. The chief of
police. who had arrived at the Clan
der, Joined us at that moment. was
seated at NJ. Stangerson's desk ready
for work when NJ de Marquet made rs
the following little speech. as original
as 1t was unexpected:
with your permission. gentlemen.
as examinations lead TO nothing. we
VIII for once abandon the old system
of Interrogation. | will not have you
brought before me one by one, but we
viii all remain here as we are-M.
Stangersop, NJ. Robert Darzac, Daddy
Jacques and the two concierges, the
chief of police, the registrar and my
self We shall all be on the same foot
ing The concierges may for the mo-
ment forget that they have been ar
rested. We are going to confer togeth-
er. we are on the spot where the crime
was committed. we have nothing else
to discuss but the crime. SO let US dis
cuss 1t freely intelligently or other
wise, so long as we speak Just what is
IN our minds. There need be no formal |
fly or method, since this won't help us |
in any way"
Then, passing before me, he said I'm
q low voice: -~~.-.--..s,s--~.'- =
''What do you think of that, Ell?
What a scenel Could you have thought
Of that? I'll make a little piece out
Of It for the vaudeville" And he rub
bed his hands with glee.
I turned my eyes on M. GtHngerson.
The hope he had received from the
Doctors latest reports. who had stated
that Mile. Stangerson might recover
from her wounds, had not been able
10 efface from his noble features the
marks of the great sorrow that was
Upon him. He had believed his daugh-
er to be dead, and he was still bro
zen by that belief. His clear, soft blue
yes expressed infinite sorrow.
"Now. NJ Stangerson." said NJ de
with somewhat of an impor-
ant air. ''pIace yourself exactly where :
'ou were when Mile. Stangerson left
'ou to go to her chamber"
NJ. Stangerson rose and, standing at '
certain distance from the door of the .
elbow room. said in an even voice and 2
Without the least trace of emphasis,
dice which l can only describe as a
cad voice:
81 was here. About II O'Clock, after q
had made a brief chemical expert
lent at the furnaces of the labora- O
Try, needing all the space behind me- o
had my desk moved here by Daddy II
acques, who spent the. evening in q
Gaming some of my apparatus. My y
lughter had been working at the t[
lme desk with me. When 1t was her Sc
me to leave she rose, kissed me and u
lde Daddy Jacques good night. She
Id to pass behind my desk and the al
,or to enter her chamber, and she
uld do this only with some difficult OF
that is to say, was very near the
ace where the crime occurred later" IA
'And the desk?' asked. obeying, in tn
us mixing myself in the converse hi
N, the express orders Of my chief
IS soon as you heard the cry Of MUIR or
rp followed by the revolver shots, tn
nat became Of the desk?" ad
Daddy Jacques answered to-
we pushed 1t back against the wall In
re, close to where 1t is at the present of
,ment, so as to be able to get at the tn,
or at once" be,
followed up my reasoning, to \
itch. however, / attached but little Ro
portance, regarding 1t as only a
ak hypothesis with another ques- she
n w
Might not man in the room. the
X being so near to the door, by an'
oping and slipping under the desk -, -
re left 1t unobservedT' 10y
You are forgetting" interrupted NJ. 'u y
ngerson YEARLY. that my daughter =
locked and bolted the door, that
door had remained fastened, that 'nS
vainly tried to force It open when -,
heard the noise and that we were -
the door while the struggle between s .na
murderer and my poor child was =. s,s
ng on Immediately after we heard s VI
stifed cries.'N ae1
rose from my seat and once more
mined the door with the greatest
a Than rattyrrod IN rov n10oo