The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1913-03-14
CHAPTER VIII.
(ContInued.)


1T looks to me So" said the law
yer. He's the one naturally inter
asted In concealment."
I'm alme$: ready to dismiss the
notion OF a murderer at all"
Why SOP" demanded both the
others.
Because there was no murder,
probably"
"How do you make that out?"
Queried Balm.
"FTom the nature OF the wounds
that caused DEATH
They took to me TO be just such
wounds as would be made by blow
with heavy club"
Several blows with a heavy club
might have caused such wounds. But
the blows would have had TO be de-
livered peculiarly. A circle on the
skull, six inches In diameter, imping-
ing on the right ear, is crushed IN.
Ii you can imagine a man swinging
a baseball bat at the height of his
shoulder. repeatedly and with great
force. at the victims head, you can
infer such a crushing in OF the bone.
My Imagination hardly carries me
SO far"
Beating down from above would
be the natural way" said Balm.
Certainly. No such blow ever
made that wound"
"Then how was it made?' asked
Sedgwick
Probably by fall from the cliff
to the rocks below.
And the fall broke the manacle
from the right wrist"
THE broken manacle was never on
the right wrist"
That's merely conjecture" said the
lawyer
NO It's certainty. A blow heavy
enough to break that iron, old as ii
Is. must have left mark on the flesh.
There was no mark"
why should any one put one hand
cuff on a woman and leave the other
dangling
Suppose the other was not left
dangling"
Where was It, them"
ION the wrist of some other per-
son, possibly.
"A man had chained the woman to
himself" said Sedgwick increduously.
more probably the other way
round"
That's even more unbelievable"
mot II you consider the evidence.
You will remember that your mys-
FERROUS visitor, while talking with you.
carried a heavy bundle. The manacles
were. | infer. in that"
But what conceivable motive could
the dead woman have in dressing her
self up like a party. going TO meet a
man, and claiming him TO hersef?"
when you have a bizarre crime
you must look for bizarre motives
Just at present I'm dealing with facts.
The iron was on the left wrist Of the
body; therefore. 1t was on the right
wrist OF the unknown companion. 10
is natural to perform n quick deft
act like swapping on nandcuff, with
the right hand. Hence. presumably.
your visitor was the one who clamp
ed the cuffs
And the man broke off his?"
YES But only after struggle,
undoubtedly. II could find man
with badly bruised right wrist,
should consider the trails end In
sight You'll make inquiries, will
you, Mr.. Balm"
II will and III keep an eye on Len
Schlager and the doc. Anything more
now? If not. I'll say good night
After the lawyer had made his way
into the darkness. Kent turned 10 his
host This affair Is really becoming
very pretty problem Why didn't
you tell me OF yonr meeting with
Simon p. Groot?''
Who"
"The patriarch in the circus
wagon"
"Oh! I'd forgotten. Why. when
was trying to trail the woman.
CHANGED upon him and asked If he
had seen her. He hadn't
"He had Also ne heard terrified
cry shortly after The cry, he thought,
WAS In mans voice. Simon +.
Groot isn't wholly lacking in sense
of observation"
"A mans voice in a cry? What
could that mean?"
ooh, any one of several hundred
unthinkable things said Kent pa
tiently
wait. She must have attacked
some other man, as she did me. She
was going to rendezvous, wasn't
she? ThehEshe and the-man-
went to meet quarreled, and he killed
her by throwing her over the cliff
And the handcuns?''
Sedgwicks hands went TO his head
That OF course. Is the inexplicable
thing. But don't you think that was
the way she met her DEATH"
NO"
"Then what do you Think
"Never mind that at present The
point is that Simon p. Groot natural
Nv supposed YOU to have been mixed