The Washington herald., 1914-02-22

quainted. the threat which I had just
heard him utter against his miserable
dupe. the conviction which had that II
own horrible ends. to ruin her body and
soul. and then to cast her aside, caring
nothing IL she spent years Of her life in
Jail to pay for his misdeeds-I say that
these things rose up within me, SO that
when he tried to follow his shorter friend
| would not let him.
rushed out OF my hiding place and
| caught him by the coat-he still wore that
fawn overcoat. and yelled with the full
force of healthy. vigorous pair OF lungs:
''PoliceI Police! Help! Murderr
Thievesr'
It was perhaps not the most dignihed
| course I could have taken, but there was
no time to consider. For some seconds
he let me hold him without making the
slightest effort to break away; whether
it was because he was dazed by the sud-
denness Of my attack. or amazed at the
penetrative quality Of my voice, cannot
say.
It's a womanr' he calculated, as II
that great truth had only Just burst on
! him. Step that noise and let go Of my
coat. or-you'n sorry?'
"oh, no. shs'n't be sorry,'' told him
II shall be glad. 1t is you who will be
sorry. Police! Helpl Thieves
Loudly yelled again. He tried to shake
me OF; then. finding that it was not so
easy, he caught me by the wrist AS he
| did so I heard the window open in the
house behind him. and a womsn's voice
cried out:
George. don't hurt her. Go. George.
go-gor'
The last repetition of the word go
rose through the air like a trumpet, or
rather like frenzied shrek. The wom-
ans whole force was in the injunction
the word conveyed. He released one OF
my wrists, put his hand into his overcoat
pocket, swung round-I was for the mo-
ment stunned by the unexpected report
of pistol. Before 1 had even the dim
NEST suspicion of his intention, he had
dragged a revolver out of his pocket and.
fired at the shrieking woman at the win
dow. Just one queer sound came from
| her, then all was still.
Il said I would give you something
for YOURSELF he remarked. speaking TO
the place where the woman had been, as
coolly as if he were making some COM
monplace observation, land that's Il. I
don't think you'n want any more"
You've killed herr 1 screamed. you
murderous villain. you've killed herr
I tried to grip him by the throat. Had
been cooler I might have done it and
held him fast: 1 might at least have been
, upon my guard But 1 was in such
simple precautions. He was not the kind
of man with whom. at such a moment.
il was safe to do thaI- He swung sud
denly back toward me and struck with
the muZzle of his pistol at my fore
head. Down l went, and, TO use a famous
me no more.
Nearly all the rest OF the story was in
most of the papers. What my screams
and shouts had begun the report OF his
pistol finished; the whole neighborhood
had been alarmed. So soon as he had
felIed me, before he could even attempt
to escape. the police were on him. II was
the girl who had called herself Jane who
appeared at the window, and, aiming.
perhaps better than he knew. he shot
her dead.
They hanged him. At the last moment
strength had been given the girl to refuse
to play the despicable part he had
planned She was to have let him into
her mistress house. 1t contained many
valuables. She was 50 TO arrange matters
that they would be placed within easy
reach. She was even TO drug. not only
Mrs. Arnold and her daughter. but also
her fellow-servants While they were
drugged the house was to have been ran
sacked. But the girl refused. after all. to
carry out the program he had planned. or
even to admit him into the house-and for
that he had shot her. The first time 1
ever appeared in a witness box was TO
give evidence against him. The judge
complimented me O., what he called the
courage had shown 1 congratulated my
self on having been the means OF bring
ing such a wretch to justice.
As to IS, Elm Grove-back entrance
told that story to certain officials at Scot
land Yard. That same afternoon the mes
senger was trapped as was dropping this
contents of the bin into his leather bag.
They induced him to talk To begin
with, they made him drive to Scotland
Yard. There it was made plain to him
that unless he supplied certain informa.
ton he would find himself in an ex-
tremely unpleasant position. He placed
the police on the track of one Of the
greatest combinations for dealing with
stolen goods which the criminal world
has ever seen.
AS is so often the case in these cUsno.
poIitan days, the heads OF the business
were abroad. To begin with, the police
had to content themselves with the tails.
As 1 had surmisec. -, Elm Grove-back
entrance" was only one Of a dozen
branches in all the different parts of
town; so that when a man stole, let US
say, a watch, he had only to so to the
nearest, attaching to 1t his name or
Dsaudonyrn and within n yery short tina