Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-10-30

human frnsa bility occurred IN that Of
flee while i,5eue made such desper-
ate struggle for his life, he said. Il
am goin., to lift the cur lin and let
YOU see the only solinioa that fits the
circumstances. Ard mark you. the
I.ogue murderers viii be found and
my statement will prove true.
THE jealousy theory may as we'll be
Abandoned 1t is known that Logue
had a woman caller, but, as his wife
knew of this and found nothing i'm 1T
to disquiet her, 1t is safe to assume
that woman was only a business ac-
auaintance. It is also known that
I Logue's income was moderate, and no.
body thought him to be wealthy.
Therefore, it isn't probable that he was
killed for his money. No mere hold
up man could have Drained, slashed
and burned with acid a man whom he
only intended to rob- We must look
fer some other motive.
"Logue, as a dealer in diamonds,
dealt often, and with or without his
knowledge, with thieves. His con-
slant vigilance and his habit of al
ways keeping his door lock proved that
he was prepared for violence. Two
days before the crime man, whose
appearance was sufficiently striking to
make an impression on the office boy,
visited Logue's office and offered sew
eral uncut stones for sale. It was evil
dent he was anxious to convert the
stones into cash as rapidly as possible.
Let us call this man Green-J.
Green. Don't look so amazed at my
fondness for specific names in hy
pothetical case. \ name. as | have
tried to tell you time and again. means
nothing. Most any crook can show you
a choice assortment of them. Well,
j Green visited MIR. Logue and offer
cd his diamonds for sale.
1T is fairly plain that our Mr. j.
Green is a. professional diamond
thief. and that he awaited himself of
one of the few markets open to him
Perhaps Logue knew this. At any
rae he offered Green a price much
smaller thar the stor es were worth
slsall we say S75e'
.Logue, not in the habit of keeping
much money in the safe, failed to have
the cash on hand. Perhaps he also
wished to verify his estimate of the
value OF the stones. He asked the man
to return for the cash in 10 days. Turn
ing over 10 leaves in his calendar pad,
lie wrote a memorandum in the pres
/, ence of the visitor to The Effect Chat
one j. Green was TO call on Deccm-
her 90 and receive SIS.
5 Put the owner of the diamonds was
hard pressed fer cash, for instead of
waiting 10 days he returned in two
J days. this time with a companion who
probably aided him in procuring the
stones. He was angered at the small
offer. He demanded what was right,
frcm his point of view, and Logue,
| possessing a keen business sense, re-
fused to pay the advanced price.
1t isn't necessary to suppose that
the men went To the office with the in
tention of numbering Logue- 1t is
| characteristic OF those men that they
always are prepared for murder when
eyer they think it is a profitable move.
. | Prepared means that they carry the
necessary arms and have been stepped
in the depths of the lower world that
j gives them the proper education and
5, mental attitude.
so, in a terrific rage. they siashed
and dug at Logue furiousiy with their
: knives and, incidentally, overturned
! practically everything in the little Of
flee but the safe. Logue put up a
, stubborn resistance. There is every
evidence that he gave the two men
considerable trouble At any rate it
is very plain that no one man could
have ovcrpowered and tortured him in
the manner he was tortured.
i 1t is almost certain that they did not
intend TO nill the diamond broker when
they first gave way to their temper
. and attacked him. They made every
:, effort to extract from him the price
they had set upon their gems. Loguel
either wouldn't give up the money or
4 didn't have it. His repeated refusais
brought forth fresh attacks. That
acid was an afierthought in the way
CT torture.
when it finally became apparent
, that money could not be wrung from
I.egue the men knew they had gone
too far to permit him to live. At any
rate, that is the argument of the dis
eased criminal mind. Consequently
the revolver shot, the final crushing
blow upon the skull and hurried eff
fort to wipe out the traces of thel
crime were the last deeds of the twol
diamond thieves before they departed
Il confidently expect one or both
Of the murderers will be caught one
of these days. There are not more
than 10 or so Good diamond thieves in |
the country. The murderers had left
bloody finger prints on at least a doz-
en- cards and papers in Logue's desk,
and with these the police are possessed
of absolutely infallible means of iden-
LITIGATION. The murderers might as
we'll have left their photographs"
A whimsical smile tugged at theI
corners OF the Doctors lips.
There was another peculiar circum- |
stance connected with this murder
that at first was not given much at |
tention, he continued. "As I said al
moment ago, the murders had left
their finger prints everywhere. Even |
tie calendar pad on Logue's desk
had been stained with bloodsmearedI
fingers. And here is a queer thing. |
The murder occurred on Friday, De-
cember 20 The leaf for that date was
turned up on Bogue's calendar pad. |
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