Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1914-10-31


tiDctive mark"
identity or the bodyT
Presumably. Also to some ono.
we may assume, who was willing to
pay roundly TO have that identity con-
ceaIed"
That would naturally be the muir
derer. wouldn't it," asked Sedgwick.
mo. 1 don't think So"
''It looks to me So" said the lawyer.
Hes the one naturally interested In
concealment"
I'm almost ready to dismiss the mo-
ton OF a murderer at ALL"
why soY demanded both the 9TH
ers-
Because there was no murder prob
ably"
How do you make that out?' que
ried 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 deliy-
cred peculiarly. A circle on the skull
six inches in diameter. fmpinging on
the right ear, is crushed in II you
can imagine n man swinging Il base
ball bat ut the height of his shoulder
repeatedly and with great force at the
victims head you can infer such a
crushing in OF the bone. My imagina-
ton hardly carries me so far"
"RpafinU down frOrn ahovo ,ronId 10
the natural way" said Balm.
Certainly. No such blow ever made
that wound"
Sedgwick.
Probably by fall from the cliff to
the rocks below"
And the fall broke the manacie
from the right wrist?"
The broken manacie 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 mark on the flesh. |
There wss no mark"
why should any one put one hand |
cuff on a woman and leave the other !
dauglinG?"
Suppose the other was not left dan
CLING"
Where was il, then?'
ION the wrist of some other person,
possibly"
II man had chained the woman to
himself?" said SedSwick incredulousl:.
More probably the other way
round"
That's even more unbelievable"
Not If you consider the evidence.
You will remember that your mysteri-
GUS visitor. while talking with you, car
ried a heavy bundle. The manacles
We're, l infer, In that"
But what conceivable motive could
the dead woman have in dressing her
self up like a party, going to meet
man and claiming him to herself?"
when you have n 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 IL was on the right wrist OF
the unknown companion. 1t is natural
TO perform n quick, deft act like snap
ping on handcuff with the right hand
Hence, presumably. your visitor was
the one who clamped the cuffs
And the man broke OF his?"
Yes. But only after n struggle. IN
II l could find n man with
n badly bruised right wrist l should
consider the trails end I'm sight. You'll
make inquiries. will you. Mr.. Bain?".
IL will; and | will keep an eye on
Len SchlaGer and the doc. Anything
more now? II not I'll say good night"
After the lawyer had made his way
into the darkness Kent turned to his
host This affair Is really becoming 4 |
very pretty problem. Why didn't you
tell me of your meeting with Simon p.
Groot;"
"who?"
THE patriarch in the circus wagon"
'-Oh. I'd forgotten. Why. when was
rying To trail the woman 1 CHANGED
upon him and asked If he had seen
ler. He hadn't"
He had. Also he heard a terrified
Try shortly after. The cry, he thought,
vas In n mans voice Simon p. Groot
sn't wholly lacking in sense OF obser-
-ation."
"A mans voice in a cry? What
,ould that meanY' -,
"Oh. any one of several hundred I'M I,
hinkable things" said Kent patiently. ,
Wait, She must have attacked
ome other man as she did me. She
vas going to rendezvous. wasn't
he? Then she and the man she went ,
q meet quarreled. and he killed her d,
" throwing her over the Cliff" !
And the handcuffs:' ,
Sedgwick's hands went TO his head.