Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-23
By WILL IRWIN

followed him to America to get my
jewels, and that it was my brother
Juan who appeared to have stabbed
him.
'MARGARITA PEREZ"
He read it. As he looked up he
was still master of himself, but Ro-
sale could perceive behind his mask
kind of vibration, an inner agita-
ton of all his nerves. Suddenly one
of his legs began to move as though
the great muscles of the thigh were
twitchnig But his will still mastered
his voice.
Margarita Perez-who is she?"
She is your sister. You are Juan
Perez-not Estrilla. You are from
Port of Spain. You came here to
follow Captain Hanska-"
Where did you hear this?" in
quired Estrilla, with a pitiful at
tempt to put sarcasm into his voice.
Il have been listening to her con-
fession." replied Rosalie calmly.
She told the police-after she signed
that paper-how you went into Cap
tain Hanska's room at night to get
your family jewels, how that trick
alarm on his stronghold woke him
UP, an how you killed him"
But Juan Estrilla had leaped up
now as though his nerves would be
denied no longer.
know it nowi" he said. Somewhere,
somehow, the native cunning Of him
.ept his voice low. To one passing,
his action would have seemed but
the gesture of heated argument.
you are spy! She did not tell
that-she knows l. did not kill him."
He stood shaking. But what are
you? Have the police sent you"
"Now, Mr. Estrilla," said Resale,
in her most soothing tone, I'm goin'
to answer a lot that's in your mind
before we sit right down an get to
cases. In the first place, we're alone
here in the park. You're a young
man an I'm an old woman. If you
wanted to, you could get away from
me right now-easiest thing you
know to duck into that shrubbery
an run. If I was a female police
man comm to git confession an
then pinch you, do you suppose I'd
begin by breakin' the news to you an
givin' you chance to run before
1 learned anythin' at all? You've
been a fool all this time, Mr.. Perez
Don't cap 1t all by delayin', when
time is as valuable as it is.
How did you know where to find
me if you aren't spy" said
Estrilla.
81 suspected this trouble was
comm" replied Rosalie LIE Grange.
81 sent Miss Lane to deliver you here
at o'clock-because it's an out-of-
the-way place an quiet. Sit down."
Estrilla shook as he resumed his
seat.
docs she know he asked.
Not yeti" said Rosalie.
Il didn't give her my real reason.
1 was glad" she pursued, ito hear
YOU bust out in that sincere way
when 1 said you killed Hanska.
put that in for a tests an you stood
it. Now sit there and listen to what
else your sister said, an see if any
of that could have been worked out
by detectives. She says you didn't
kill Hanska, that he died of apo
plexy an fell on the knife you was
holdin' against him.
Estrilla turned his great eyes and
moistened his lips as though to
speak, but he held to his nerve and
made no sound.
"She says that you carried out that
box of jewels with the cover open,
an that diamond buckle dropped
out as you were passing through the
door An when she came back in
your clothes after you telephoned to
her, she picked it up. The jewels nre
in Caracas You dropped the box in
the river Could anybody patch that
together? Could anybody guess
that?"
"Then if he died of apoplexy-if
didn't kill him-why would they ar
rest me?" asked Estrilla.
Young man." said Resale, how
could you prove it?'
Innocently and directly Estrilla
came out with what amounted to his
confession.
HE was always in danger from
apoplexy-my sister knew that, and
undoubtedly it was a mortal seizure.
For his hands were going toward his
head, not toward the knife. Even
when he fell and died, his hands
were still going up not down. have
seen doctors. i have read about
apoplexy in every medical book in the
public library, and when I saw him
last-there was blood in his nostrils."
Rosalie nodded.
81 saw that, too. My, but coro-
ner's physicians are dense." she said.
Now I've got to talk hard and
straight. You were in the act of
burglary. It don't make no difference
that you had a right to burgle
no jury would recognize that.
The coroner's physician never
thought of anythin' but that stab
wound-never thought to look
for apoplexy-case seemed too plain.
You an / are the only peo-
pie who thought about that bloody
nose. The body's cremated. an even
if it wasn't-well, we won't go into
that. Why's Juan Perez. they'd laugh
at you. Do you see? Don't you get
your fix?"
ITO BE Continued TomorrowJ