Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-07-25

| THAT for your law. GOlly, couio
carry a votes for women's banner
when I think about it! You men
have been maxim the law all these
years. An you've run it on rules
nothin' but rules. Diagrams. Did he
do it? All right, hang him. You
can't look at things except on tins
outside. 1 wish you did have rev
women to look at 'em inside an out
] Once in a while one Of your cussed
1uries uses its common sense an lets
man go when the police evidence Is
against him. But they don't do 1t
themselves. No, sir It's their moth
ers in EN-"
THAT will do enarled MCGEE;
''this suffragette dope has nothing 10
do with the case. Where's Perez?'
Now this Perez" pursued Resale,
treating the inspectors anger as
| though it had not been, was darn
| fool-worst fool I ever saw-as those
cute little men generally are. But
what was he dom when Hanska
I died? Gettin' his own from a crook,
the property that belonged to him, In
| the only way he knew. Suppose it's
true he killed Captain Hanska-dld
ever you see man that deserved
| KILN more? Besides. he didn't"
"You aren't swallowing that yarn
about apoplexy, are you?" asked In
spector MCGEE.
I'm the first place." said Resale,
"who knows Margarita Perez better,
you that pumped her yesterday att
ernoon or me that watched her for
month? Me that heard her talk her
soul out to her mother an her lover
l tell you, she told the truth"
Eyes, and how did she know he
died of apoplexy? She wasn't
there"
"she didn't know, except on hear
say. But l do"
Howl"
Because, Martin MCGEE, just be-
cause. That don't go down with you,
though comm from me it's the best
reason that is. But this ought to fix
YOU, even. You know Cleary-I don't
mean the sergeant, / mean the coro-
ner's physician that made the Hanska
autopsy. There's some coroner's doc
tors I'd trust my life with as soon as
any, but Cleary-political appoint
ment-you know. Do you think that
Clearly when they handed him
over man stabbed in the
heart, looked any further into
the cause? I'm betting, though, that
even Cleary must have seen one thing
which would have meant something
to anybody but a political doctor. l
saw it that night. And this Perez
Estrilla-fellow saw It,"
ooh, you've talked to him, then?"
"That'll come In later-if you're
still listenin' to me. Well, before he
knew what I knew, this Estrilla told
me that Captain Hanska, after he
fell, was bleeding at the nose. I'd
seen that, too-when I came into the
house ahead of the doctor Now,
here's the thing to do she added.
You call up that DIR. Cleary right
now You see If he didn't notice 1t
an just walk away from it,
Inspector MCGEE, with the air Of
one who punctures bubbles, opened
his telephone.
Spring double o. he said; and
then to Rosalie "You can listen on
the extension if you want to.% His
voice was formal, and he averted his
eyes.
While they waited for the police
central to get the number neither
spoke. Rosalie. however, regarded
him with an expression whereof the
main tint was anxiety and the under
tone soft mischief.
"Dr. Clearly" inquired the inspector,
inspector MCGEE. Doctor, have you
your notes on the Hanska case? The
autopsy | mean. In your pocket
notebook? Well, just one little thing.
Did you find any blood on the
nostrils %
Here's the record" came back DIR.
Cleary's voice after a half-minute;
slight bleeding from the nostril,
caused probably by the fall"
THAT will do" said McGee-'wait
autopsy on his head You didn't look
into his brain?"
What was the use." came back
Cleary's voice, a little defiantly. He
was stabbed in the heart, wasn't hep"
Nov, who's lyin'?' said Resale
lie Grange, as she hung up the tele-
phone
But there was still a snarl in Nc
Gees voice as he spoke:
you think you can monkey with
the law! You! You think you can
set crooks loose just as you please
and get away with it! It's all
very well for you, but look at the
fix you're leaving for me. The
Hanska case is cleared up. Wade
is innocent. We've had the wrong
man all the time That's joke enough
on us. But when we find the right
one, he gives us the slip. The big
commissioner will get roasted by the
! papers and hand it to the deputy
cornish. and the deputy will pass the
buck down to me, and I'll have to
report how it happened. Yes, and I
will, tool" he burst out It'll tell,
all right! Conniving at escape. You
know what that means?'
rs it felony or misdemeanor ~
asked Rosalie. 81 sort of forgot
which it was at the time 1 commit
ted it,"
you better worry" replied McGee
I'm going to do my duty by you