Rock Island Argus., 1914-10-21
The Daily Story
Turkish Sleeve Button-Ry Esther vandeveer
Copyrighted 1914 by Associated Bureau


- detective bureau. "a robbery ana
murder have been committed durine
the night, and have been called upon
A., to send n man to make an examination
of the premises with view to PICKING
nm n clew. The murdered man Is MI
| Charles Forsythe, a wealthy gentle-
man whose address you will find on
this card. am assured that nothing
| In the room where the murder was
committed has been touched. Go at
once and see what you can make OUT
of it"
| Hawkins went to the address given
where he found dwelling indicating
that the inmates were people OF con
| siderable means. He was received az
! the door by the butler and shown into
n room where lay the corpse or MT.
Forsythe on the floor. There had eVi-
| IDENTIFY been a struggle, during Uhicd ne
had been stabbed to the heart. A bu-
reau drawer stood open which had evi-
/ IDENTIFY been rifled. Several small pieces
of iewelry were scattered on the floor
Hawkins was informed that the vic
tim had been fond of jewelry. though
he wore very little of it on his own
person. He had kept what he owned,
consisting of studs, sleeve buttons,
| stickpins, rings, etc, in the drawer.
The robber had taken all there was ex-
cept the few articles dropped on the
floor, either during the scufffe or In his
haste of departure. Hawkins gathered
up what he found and put it in his vest
pocket He was a silent man, as de-
tectives should be, taking in what be
heard and saw and giving out nothing
Indeed, after his examination of the
room the only information he gave any
one was a list of the articles Of jewelry
that he had picked up on the floor
This he handed in to a Mr.. Withers, q
relative of the family who had been
given the care of the house. This list
was given because the articles were
retained by the detective. He kept
some other articles, but since they were
of no especial value he did not include
them in the list
Having finished his examination OF
the room in which the murder had
been committed, Hawkins requested
that every one in the house, including
the servants, be assembled in the draw
ing room Mrs. Forsythe and her chill
dren were excused until after the otk-
ers had been inspected, and then the
detective excused them altogether.
Those assembled consisted of the fol-
lowing persons: Miss Ashworth, a gov
erness; a cook, a housemaid and the
butler. OF the four Miss Ashworth
showed the most agitation. They SEEM
ed to realize that they were brought be-
fore the stranger for a preliminary ex-
animation as to their possible COM
plfcity in the murder. The cook and |
housemaid were very i'll at ease. The |
only person who seemed to be suffi- /
ciently conscious of innocence to be |
perfectly safe was the butler, an Eng !
lishman. whose name was Mosely. !
That he was of the lower class was |
evident not only from his position as !
servant, but that he had the manner
of speech of low bred Englishman
getting his his in the wrong place. /
Nevertheless, he was a good looking
man.
Hawkins soon set them all at ease /
by asking questions which pertained /
to possibilities of. entrance and exit to |
and from the house. whether a door |
"a.
what time Mr.. Forsythe had gone to /
bed, whether any one of them had /
heard a sound in the night While |
making these inquiries the detective !
indicated by his features and tone of !
voice that they We're of vital impor-
tance to the case. They did not APP !
pear. however. to deceive Miss Ash
worth. who continued to look at him
q h.aI I, &c (,
simply asking the questions to throw
her off her guard while his steel gray
eye was searching her for guilt.
While this examination was being
made the door opened and Mr. Withers
entered and said to the detective:
Mr.. Hawkins, it has just been dis
covered that some of Mrs Forsythe's
jewels have disappeared"
Hawkins turned those merciless eyes
of his upon Miss Ashworth. She bore
the glance for few moments, then
swayed and fell from. the chair in
which she sat. The housemaid picked
her up, and with the assistance of the
others she was laid on the sofa.
please all leave the room.' said
Hawkins in that we'll modulated voice
of his.
Every one ueIDaFteu. ana all those
who had been under examination SEEM
ed well pleased at being dismissed
Mr.. Hawkins closed the door after
them, and they all returned to the
quarters, where they discuss
ed what had occurred. all talking at
once. Hawkins remained in the room
with Miss Ashworth only few min
utes. when he came out. saying that
the lady had recovered. and he direct
ed the housemaid TO get vinaigrette
and take it in to her. Then he de-
parted.
Those who had witnessed the COVER
ness collapse. when it was announced
that Mrs. Forsythe's jewels had also
been taken, expected her arrest at any
lime. The theory most popular with
hem was that she had been IN collu-
sion with some man; that it had been :
u sfssaN - POL I,.f. al.