Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-06
BY SAMUEL HOPKINS ADAMS
Copyright by Bobbs-Merrill Co.


influence him?"
"As much as he could get. If the
case was in the line of blackmail
he'd hold out strong. He's shreWd.
Doctor Breed must be getting
some of it."
"Oh. Tim Breed is Lens little dog.
He takes orders. OF course he'll take
money, too, il it comes his way. Like
master, like man.
"Those two," said Kent slowly,
know the identity of the body. For
good and sufficient reasons they are
keeping that information to them
selves. Those reasons we aren't like
ly to find out from them"
Murderer has bribed en-" opined
Balm.
Possibly. But that presupposes
that the sheriff found something on
the body which led him to the muir
derer, which isn't likely. How i'm
probable it is that a murderer
allowing, for argument, that there
has been murder-who would go as
far as to cover his trail and the ma
ture of the crime by binding the body
on grating, would overlook any,
thing like a letter discriminating him
self"
What did the sheriff find, then, in
the dead woman's pocket?p
Perhaps a handkerchief with a dis
tinctive mark"
And that would lead him to the
identity of the body?"
Presumably. Also to some one. we
may assume, who was willing to pay
roundly to have that identity con-
cealed."
"That would naturally be the MUIR
derer, wouldn't it?" asked Sedgwick.
mo. l don't think So
ut looks to me so,' said the law
yer. He's the one naturally inter-
ested In concealment"
I'm almost, ready to dismiss the
notion of a murderer at ALL"
why SOP" demanded both the
others.
Because there was no murder,
probably"
How do you make that out?"
queried Balm.
From the nature of the wounds
that caused death"
"They look to me to be just such
wounds as would be made by blow
with a heavy club"
Several blows with a heavy club
might have caused such wounds. But
the blows would have had to be de-
livered peculiarly. A circle on the
skull, six inches In diameter, i'm
pinging on the right ear, is crushed
in. If you can imagine a man swing
ing baseball bat at the height of
his shoulder. repeatedly and with
great force, at the victims head, you
can infer such crushing in of the
bone. My imagination hardly carries
me SO far"
Beating down from above would
be the natural way said Balm.
Certainly. No such blow ever
made that wound"
Then how was it nader" asked
Sedgwick.
Probably by a fall from the cliff
to the rocks below"
"And the fall broke the manacle
from the right wrist?"
1.-THE broken manacle was never on
the right wrist"
That's merely conjecture" said
the lawyer.
No; it's certainty. A blow heavy
enough to break that iron, old as it
is, must have left a mark on the
flesh. There was no mark"
why should anyone put one hand
cuff on woman and leave the other
dangling?"
Suppose the other was not left
dangling?"
Where was it, them"
"On the wrist of some other per-
son, possibly"
"a man had chained the woman
to himself?" saidS Sedgwick ineredu-
lousy.
More probably the other way
round"
That's even more unbelievable"
mot If you consider the evidence.
You will remember that your mys-
terious visitor, while talking with
you, carried a heavy bundle. The
manacles were, 1 infer, in that"
But what conceivable motive
could the dead woman have in dress.
| ing herself up like party, going to
meet a man and claiming him to
| herself?"
When you have a bizarre crime
you must look for bizarre motives.
Just at present I'm dealing with
facts. The iron was on the left wrist
of the body; therefore it was on the
right wrist of the companion. 1t Is
natural to perform a quick deft act
like swapping on a handcuff with the
right hand. Hence, presumably, your
visitor was the one who clamped the
cuffs"
And the man broke off his?"
| Eyes, but only after a struggle. I'M
doubtedly. IffI could find a man
with a badly bruised right wrist
should consider the trails end in
sight. You'll make inquiries, will you
Mr.. Bain?"
II will, and I'll keep an eye on Len
Schlager and the doc. Anything more
now? If not. I'll say good night"
After the lawysS bad made his way
into the darkness Kcnt TUNED to his
host This affair is reAliy becoming