The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1913-07-31

anu lOIBb duOlntI.
Sweetwater approached and sat
| down.
yes; i believe we can do it; yet
have only one indisputable fact for
a starter. Mr.. Gryce. don't trust
Brotherson. Though he should tell
story ten times more plausible than
the one with which he has satisfied
the coroner's jury, l would still listen
to him with more misgiving than con-
fdence. Perhaps it is simply deeply
rooted antipathy on my part, or the
rage one feels at finding he has placed
his finger on the wrong man. Again
1t may be-"
What. Sweetwater?"
"a well-founded distrust. Mr.. Gryce,
I'm going to ask you a question"
ASK away. Ask fifty IL you want
to-"
Did you ever hear of case before.
that in some of its details was similar
to this?"
mo, it stands alone. That's why it
is SO puzzling."
you forget. The wealth, beauty
and social consequence of the present
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 / allude to"
Wait! The washerwoman in Hicks
street,"
"The same. Mr.. Gryce, there's a
startling similarity in the two cases
/ If you study the essential features
only. Startling. l assure YOU"
Eyes, 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 hound which has
struck hot scent"
The young man smoothed his fea-
lures with an embarrassed laugh
II shall never learn" said he, mot
to give tongue till the hunt is fairly
started. II you will excuse me, we'll
first make sure of the similarity
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 wholly inexplic-
able one. Shall / 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 plainness.
And he read:
ION the afternoon OF December 4,
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
kgain an entrance, to the breaking in
of door which had been fastened on
the inside by an old-fashioned door.
button.
1.-The tenant, whom all knew for an
honest, Woodworking woman, had not
infrequently fastened her door In this
manner, In order to safeguard hel
child who was abnormally active and
had a way Of rafting the door open
when 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 beer
wrenched from its hinges, they al
rushed in. Across a tub of steamint
clothes lifted upon a bench in the
open window, they saw the body o.
this good woman, lying inert and
seemingly dead; the frightened child
tugging at her skirts. She was OF 6
robust make, feshy and fair, and haC
always been considered a model o.
health and energy, but at the sigh
of her helpless figure, thus stricken
while at work. the one cry was "A
stroke!' till she had been lifted of
and laid upon the floor. Then some
discoloration In the water at the bot
tom of the tub led to a closer examin
alton of her body, and the discovery
of bullet-hole in her breast directly
over the heart.
"'As she had been standing with
face towards the window, all crowded
that way to see where the shot had
come from. AS they were on the
fourth story it could not have come
from the court upon which the room
looked. It could only have Come from
the front tenement, towering up be
fore them some twenty feet away. A
single window of the innumerable ones
} confronting them stood open, and this
was the one directly opposite.
Nobody was to be seen there OF
} I'm the room beyond, but during the ex
citement, one man ran off to call the
police and another to hunt UP the jani
tor and ask who occupied this room.
His reply threw them all into con
fusion. The tenant of that room wai
the best. the quietest and most re
! spectacle man in either building.
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