The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-11
We went back to The hotel. and pro.

We went back to the hotel, and pro.
ceeded TO lay oct our theory Hay-
ing established the fact that the
child's bank with $40 in>it had dis.
appeared on the s~me night as his
murder 1t was apparent that the two
were connected: the boy had been
killed for the bank, slain by some mis-.
creant who valued that paltry sE:a
beyond a child's lire, But how Wa
this connection to be established IN
way to further our WORK? The boz
had been put to death out on th1
lawn. The bank usually w@s in his
room. There had been no burglary
of the house. no one had entered it
to take the bank. How could the per-
son or perscas, Tho killed the boy,
get the bank? Did they get it before
they committed their savage crime, or
afterwards? Was the murder the
main crime, or merely an incident to
a robbery? Or was the robbery q
mere incident to the murder?
The chief had said that we prob
ably would find robbery to be The mo-
tive. If this was so, then the person
or persons who killed the boy did so
because he stood between them and
the bank They had to get him out
Of the way to get that fifty dollars.
They wouldn't have killed him other
wise, But the bank was--or usually
was-up in the boys room IN the
house, where no intruder had entered.
Why should they kill the boy out on
he lawn to get fifty dollars in one
Of the upper rooms of the house?
"Either," said |, the boy had
caught them taking the bank---or ha
had the bank with him"
Clutter sat up rigidly.
Wow" he said That's some
bunch. Either someone had taken
the bank, and he knew who 1t was
and was going, to tell on them, and
they killed him to keep MIN quiet
or he had it with him | believe we
are beginning to zee toward the light"
Being in charge of the case | said:
"Cluffer | suggest that YOU 60 to
work in the Bauder home and get ac-
quainted with the servants. will get
job in the flower houses, I've got
Ii bunch that points that way
Next day the Bauder home had a
new man around the house to do odd
Jobs, and there were new hand IN
the. flower houses. learning, the for
lists trade. Bauder put us both to
work upon our request, and we had
the run of both house and flower
houses and intercourse with the SER
wants and employees without being un-
der suspicion as detectives Then,
having decided whittier our theory
pointed Cluffer ald | began our task
of clearing up the Popham Center my
stery.
All the circumstances attendant on
the ease suggested to my mind that
the guilty party VAS someone who
was extremely familiar with the Baud
or household, and With the Bardc-
boy. The moro | dwclt on the odd
feature CT the eGs2-,ao staying Of
the boy On the lawn aad the di5ap-
pearing of the bank In the hoase--the
more | became convinced that no out
slider had done this crime. 1t looked
more ard more like the work of some.
one who had been friendly with the
boy. | told. Cluffer to work in the
house With a view to finding the SER
want or servants who were mos. in
innate with the child, and il the Bar
der florist establishment bent my Of.
forts along the same lire.
Three days of this work, and We saw
that our task WAS to be more cofnpli-
Gated even than We had feared. pfac-
tically every one of the five servants
in the house, and all the six employees
in the flower houses, had boon
chummy With the little fellow, He
WIS strange child aud had sought
his playmates. not among ether chill.
dren of his own years in the village,
but among the men and women en-
pIoyed In various capacities by hts
father Seldom If ever did he stray
away from the florists or servants. IL
he was not. TO be found in the home,
search Of the flower houses would
reveal him busily engaged in CONVEX,
sation with one of the florists, aud ii
he was not with. the florists he was
sure to bs found With the, servants.
Thus there we're eleven people, s men
4 n 4 "a.