The Huttig news., 1913-01-25
SYNOPSIS.

CHAPTER I-Georee Anderson ane wife see a remarkable man come cut O the Clermont hotel look around furtiHely wash his hands in the snow and pass on 6ommotion attracts them to the Clermont where it is found that the beautiful Miss Edith Challoner has fallen dead on the mezZanine floor.
 CHAPTER Henderson describes the man he saw wash his hands in the snow The hotel manager declares him to De Orlando Rrnthcrson.
 CHAPTER TI1EPhysieians find that Mss Cha!loner was stabbed and not shot picion
 CHAPTER Iv-Gryce. an aged detec- tive, and Swe water. his assistant, tale up the ease They believe Miss Challone' stahhed hhersef
 GIT.151 - VA paper cutter foune near the scene of tragedy Is believed te be the weapon used
 CHAPTER VI-Mr. Challoner tells of batch of letters found in his daughter desk. signed with initials strange to him All are love letters except one whicf shows that the writer was dispieasef
 CHAPTER VU-This letter was signed by Orlando Brotherson. The others bore s'itials which lead to the conclusion that Brotherson wrote all of them
 CHAPTER VIII-Anderson goes with Sweetwater to Identify Brotherson. who is to address meeting of anarchists The place Is raided by the police and erotherson escapes without being fdehU- fed
 CHAPTER IX-Brotherson Is found lv. ing in a tenement under the name Of Dunn. He Is an inventor.
 CHAPTER -Brotherson tells the cor oner Of his acquaintance with Miss Chal- loner and how she repused him w1tf seorn when he offered her his love.
 CHAPTER XT-sweetwater recalls the mystery of the murder of a washerwon- an In which some details were similar to th. Challoner affair Brotherson was tenant of the building adjoining the one in which the woman died.
 And that is as far as We ever got. The coroner's jury brought in verdict of death by means of stab from some unknown weapon in the hand of per son also unknown, but no weapon was ever found. nor was it ever set tied ho4 the attack could have been made or the murderer escape under the conditions described. The woman WIS poor, her friends few, and the case seemingly ineXplieable. So after creating some excitement by it's pc culiarities, it fell of it's own weight. But 1 remembered it, and in many a spare hour have tried to see my way through the no-thorou2hfare it pre- sented. But quite in vain. Today, the road is as blind as ever, but" here Sweetwaters face sharpened and his eyes burned as he leaned closer and closer to the older detective-"but this second case, so unlike the first in non-essentials but so exactly like it in just those points which make the mys- tery, has dropped 8 thread from it's tangled skein into my hand, which may yet lead us to the heart of both. Can you guess-have you guessed what this thread is? But how could you without the one clue I have not given you? Mir Gryce, the tenement where this occurred is the same 1 wis tied the other night in search of Mir. Brotherson. And the man character ized at that time by the janitor as the best, the quietest and most respect able tenant in the whole building. and the one you remember whose window opened directly opposite the spot where this woman lay dead, was Mir. Dunn himself, or, in other words. our late redoubtable witness, MT. Orlando Brotherson."