The Huttig news., 1913-01-18

CcQDI ought lO make 1H6 all eAcelleHL judge of anothers folly. I've med dled with the old business for the last time, Sweetwater. You'll have to go it alone from now on. But what's the matter with you? Speak out, my boy. Something new in the wind?"
 No, MT. Gryce; nothing new. You're not satisfied with the coroners yer dict in the Challoner case?"
 No. I'm satisfied with nothing that leaves all ends dangling. Suicide was not proved. There was no blood-stain on that cutter-point"
 'Nor any evidence that it had ever been there"
 "No. I'm not proud of the chain which lacks a link where it should be strongest"
 That chain we must throw away"
 And forge another?"
 sweetwater approached and sat down.
 Yes; I believe we can do it; yet l have only one indisputable fact for starter. MT. Gryce, don't trust Brotherson. Though he should tell a story ten times more plausible than the one with which he has satisfied the coroner's jury, I would still listen to him with more misgiying than con- fidence. Perhaps it is simply a deeply rooted antipathy on my part, or the rage one feels at finding he has placed his finger on the wrong man. Again it may be-
 What. Sweetwater 2"
 "A well-founded distrust. MT. Gryce, I'm going to ask you a question"
 Ask away. Ask fifty if you want to-"
 Did you ever hear of case before, that in someSof it's details was similar to this?"
 No. it stands alone That's why 1t Is so puzzling"
 You forget The wealth. beauty snd social consequence of the p4e.soA.. victim has blinded you to the strong resemblance which her case bears to one you know, in which the sufferer had none of the worldly advantages of Miss Challoner I allude to-"
 Wait. The washerwoman in Hicks street."
 The same. Mir Gryce, there's startling similarity in the two cases If you study the essential features only. Startling, I assure you"
 Yes. you are right there. But what if there is? We were no more sue cessful in solving that case than we have been in solving this. Yet you look and act like a hound which has struck hot scent
 The young man smoothed his fea- lures with an embarrassed laugh.
 I shall never learn," said he, mot to give tongue till the hunt is fairly started. If you will excuse me, we'll first make sure of the similarity I have mentioned. Then I'll explain my self. l have some notes here, made at the time it was decided to drop the Hicks street case as a wholly inexplic- able one. Shall I read them?"
 Fire away, my boy, though hardly see your purpose or what real bearing the affair in Hicks street has upon the Clermont one. A poor washer woman and the wealthy Miss Challon- er' True, they were not unlike in their end"
 "The connection will come later" smiled the young detective, with that strange softening of his features which made one at times forget his extreme piainness.
 And he read.
 "'On the afternoon of December 1. 1910, the strong and persistent scream ing of young child in one of the rooms of a rear tenement in Hicks street. Brooklyn. drew the attention of some of the inmates and led them. after several intellectual efforts to gain an entrance, to the breaking in of a door which had been fasteued on the inside by an old-fashioned door. button.
 The tenant. whom all knew for ar honest, hardworking woman, had not subsequently fastened her door in this manner, in order to safeguard her child who was abnormally active and had way of rattling the door open "HeH It was not thus secured. But she had never refused to open before. and the child's cries were pitiful.
 This was no longer a matter Of wonder, when, the door having been wrenched from it's hinges, they all rushed in. Across a tub of steanring clothes lifted upon a bench in the open window, they saw the body of this good woman, lying inert and seemingly dead; the frightened cfuld tugsing at her skirts She was of a robust make. feshy and fair, and had always been considered a model of health and energy, but at the sight of her helpless figure, thus stricken while at work, the one cry was A stroke till she had been lifted o1 and laid apon the floor Then some discoloIaf on in the water at the bot tom of the tub led to closer examin. ation Of har body. and the discovery of bullet-hole in her breast dicectly over the heart
 As she had been standing with lace towards the window, all crowded that way tO coo ubora ba eho+ I,o3