The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1916-12-10

put something IN his mouth The reporter
Btrolled on to the house. and sure enough,
the bean was gone.
Tommy Grant turned at once and FOL
lowed the dark young man, who was now
In very much OF hurry. for he never
once looked back. After brisk walk OF
several blocks he turned into n dlareputa-
bic tenement The trail YVES ended.
The reporter made careful note of the
building and turned back all but running
Very shortly he had reached the murder
house. and there before the door was
disBruntled Cadogan with the roll OF oil.
cloth under his arm. talking to the ofncer
Hey. ehIefI' called Grant, hurry1ng up.
II believe I've rot your rTaani''
What's thRtT exclaimed the chief OF
detectives. turning.
Briefly Grant told him OF the bean tran,
ana ended by urging that the reserves be
called out at once and the tenement sur
rounded before the man could make his
escape. At first CadoEau was inclined to
scout the theory that Grant presented, but
he knew tho reporter from OF old, and
after a moments hesitation he turned
and they hurried to the nearest telephone
Thence they went with all speed to the
tenement
They watched inconspicuously from
across the street until an auto patrol
wagon full OF policemen sped up. In an
instant all was orderly confusion. Cado-
gan gave a Few crisp orders; tho instant
~ gathering crowd Of tenement dwelIers
was hustled back, and the bluecoats scat
tered to surround the building.
What's the guy look like?'' Cadogan
demanded, feeling for his revolver
Regular Eunman." began Grant; then
hastily, Here, know him by sight: Til
80 after him. and before the chief Of de-
tectives could stop him he had darted into
the building and up the stairs.
Several open doors and curious, peerlnR
faces at the second floor showed that this
was not the place, so Grant mounted the
second fight. Here he paused. undecided.
He was about to try the floor room by
room, when scream from behind door
near the hall window decided him. He
rushed to the door and tried it: then step
ped out OF the window onto the fro es-
cape A moment later no had pulled up
another window through which came
second scream.
Inside the dirty little room a young wo-.
man was struggling In the arms of the
man with the evil face.
At the same moment Thu man saw Grant.
He dashed the girl aside with an oath and
spranE, snariing at the reporter.
For a minute or two there was furious
fight on the ricketty 1anding then, with
q preliminary cracking, the whole thing
gave way. Grant clutched at and caught
the iron ladder as he fell, and a moment
later there was a hideous yell and a sick
ening crash and thud below.
The ladder It's basic support gone,
swung sidewise like pendulum, but IL
held. Grant watched his chance. Kicked
in a window beside him, and scrambled
inside to tho amazement and horror of
an old man IN bed But the reporter did
not stop for explanations. He tore open
the door and ran through the hall to the
room where the girl was. AS he was try
ing to force the door Cadogan came
pounding upstairs and together they
burst It IN, to the Accompaniment OF an.
other scream. But when they entered
the girl had tainted.
Three quarters of an hour later Grant
was telling the story to Mansfield, tho
city editor.
1.-THE girl is Tia pa Cappo. regular little
beauty he said. yep. got her picture
Shed been to see Tonic Palernt. the MUIR
dered man. Al gunrnan called Lupo the
Wolf had been trying to get her. While
she was talking TO Tonic. Lupo carne Ia
{thIs was at the House OF Three Deuces);
attacked Tonic and killed him. Tia
grabbed some beans and put them In
her pocket to make trail while Lupo
was doing the trunk act. Then Lupo
dragged her off, terrified almost to death.
and kept her locked up while he went out
to establish an a1ibi. He came back.
found the beans, and destroyed the trail.
I saw him and-that's about all. We got
there just IN time"
And Lupo?'' asked the editor.
"Lupo's dead. Tho fall killed him.
And Grant yauked the cover on his type
writer.