Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-06-30


Hanska had been killed. That is what
followed Bobby North's drunken ar
rival to Mrs. Moore's boarding house.
When feeling his way up the stairs
and, STOPPING to pick 1t up, found his
hand In something warm and sticky
blood. Then 1t was that he had cried
Arrived at the terrible scene. the
boarders all could account for them
selves except North, the unfortunate
SisSoysrer There had been f4er
men friends" of the stenographer's
who had sung in the parlor the en-
tire evenlng-Estrilla. the Spaniard.
who had visited his sister, an invalid,
Wade, who had called to see Captain
Hanska
He had called several times before,
but this time he had O bag, and some
one remembered of hearing sounds as
of quarrel coming from Hanska's
room. Everything seemed to point to
Wade's guilt, 1t being the more .suspi-
cious as he was taken by the police as
he was boarding a boat for Liverpool.
Rosalie lie Grange, entrance medium,
had given up the practise of her profess
sion since coming into fortune.
CONTINUED From Saturday,
Lawrence Wade admitted this; and
admitted also that he had left all
the debris which Uttered Captain
Hanskas table. THAT was part of
my Grand" he said. He had gone
from Mrs. Moore's to the Curfew
Club, had found from the desk clerk
that there was 1 o'clock train to
Boston, had telephoned for berth,
had taken the train, had been ar
rested in Boston while engaging pas
sage for Liverpool. At half past two,
Captain Hanska had been found dead
stabbed in the heart with a clean
thrust by one of the very knives
which Wade admitted bringing from
Arden. The coroner's physician tes-
titled that Hanska had been dead an
hour. and probably much longer. The
knife travelled an upward course.
Nothing about the bed indicated any
struggle; moreover, the experts said,
it was nearly impossible for a man
so large and so heavy to regain his
feet after such a stroke. He must
have been stabbed standing. If so,
the thrust came from the front"
of the murderer's hand-a fencer's
blow. And there was no doubt that
Wade was fencer. AT this point in
the proceedings, Rosalie LIE Grange,
sitting in the family group with Con-
stance and Lawrence Wades vener-
able father. might have seemed Wis
IDLY depressed-had any reporter
taken the trouble to watch this mere
landlady.
Indeed-and the newspapers made
significant comment on thistle pu-
tative defendant, although a lawyer
\ oil foa fe nv
cept touching upon his relations with
Mrs. Hanska. He admitted his feel
ing against Hanska. He volunteered
the opinion that such a man deserved
killing. On the night of the muir
der, he said, they had quarreled
again. Hanska had refused all pro-
posals Thereupon he had taken that
consignment of small possessions of
the bag. and had departed. On one
point alone was he vague. He did
not tell fully why he had started so
suddenly for Europe. II was afraid
to stay" he said once. His attorneys
intimated that he would explain this,
also. if there were further proceed
ings. On this point Constance COM
mitted her only indiscretion. 1t was
that very afternoon when the femi-
nine sympathy writer succeeded in
reaching her. 81 know why he did
that" Constance told her, land I'll
tell you, if he won't. He could do me
no further good and he was afraid
of what he might do to Captain
Hanska He said before he left for
New York that If he failed I might
not see him for long time"
And so the coroner's jury found
that John H. Hanska came to his
death from knife wound at the
hands of Lawrence Wade or persons
unknown, and recommended that the
said Lawrence Wade be held to await
action of the grand jury. He went
back to the Tombs under guard-a
straight, clean, stalwart figure of a
young man, seeming, in contrast
with the court room lawyers, the
shysters. the followers of sensation,
like an eagle who had been cap
tured by sparrow-hawks and buzz
yards. He did not look at Constance
as he marched away, nor she at him,
and the reporters must needs conjec-
ture what happened between them in
their two interviews through the bars
of the Tombs. They could not know
how braveiy and humanity simple were
the talks between this man and this
woman.
Here and now. the corporeal pres
enoe of Lawrence Wade shall fade for
time from this story. He is like
every jeune premier in every tale Of
crime and mystery. Although the
matters related concern him most of
all, he is still the least active char
acter involved; he has least to do with
the final solution % events. BY de-
vices which 1 consider unfair to the
reader, I might keep Lawrence Wade
in the foreground I might even play
intruder at some of his bravely pa
thetic meetings with Constance Han
ska. But all this, would have moth
ing to do with my story. His hands
are strong. his heart is firm, his judg-
ment clear; vet his fate lies in weaker
hands and hearts and judgments.
You have. of course, concluded by
this time that he is innocent. Per-
haps you are right; the unfolding of
this ta La will fell Leave him now in