Wauwatosa news. [volume] (Wauwatosa, Wis.) 1900-1948, 1916-04-14

you enter, gentlemeRT
know this much.' replied Averao.
Jones as, followed by mis- friends 80 80
passed through the door when -.
host held open. You prepared IN ~
Ioneliest part of the Hackensaclx maaS
ows, some kind of poison which I No
lieve, can be made with safety onlv in
the open air. You found that your man
was coming 20 New York. Known,
that he would probably put up at Tho
Palatia or the Nederstrom. vou -
served rooms for him at both ana
took an Office across from each A.
it was hot weather. you calcuiated
upon his windows being open. Yon
watched for him. When he came Won
struck him down in his own room
with the poison.
But how?" 1t was the diplomat
who interrupted.
Il think with long blow-gun."
"By George" said Bertram softly
so the spirit-wand of bamboo was a
blow-gunlo
The fumes, whatever they were
killed swiftly?"
They did. Instantly; mereifuly
Too mercifully."
How could you know it was
fumes2" demanded Mr.. Thomas Colyin
Mcintyre.
BY the dead flies, the effect upon
the bellboy, and the fact that no
wound was found on the body. Then
too, there was the illuminate of mer.
curry shell. think the shell was
blown through the blowpipe to clear
the deadly fumes from the room bv
its explosion, before any one else
should suffer Mr. Smith is, at least
not wanton slaughterer"
You are right, sir, and | thank
you, said the foreigner. He drew
himself up weakly but with pride.
Gentlemen, | am not murderer.
am an avenger. 1t would have gone
| hard with my conscience had any in
nocent person met death through me.
AS for that Turkish dog, you shall
| Judge for yourself whether he did not
| die too easily"
From among the papers in a tiror
arainst the all he took French
| journal and read, translating fiuently.
The article was bald account of the
torture, outrage and massacre of Al.
menian women and girls, at Adana.
by the Turks. The NEST hideous por-
ton of it was briefly descriptive of the
atrocities perpetrated by order OF a
high Turkish Official upon mother
and two young daughters. An Ar
menian prisoner, being dragged by in
chains, went mad at the sight" the
correspondent stated.
Il was that prisoner" said the read
er. 1.-The official was Telfik Bey.
saw my naked daughter break from
the soldiers and run to him, pleading
for pity, as he sat on his horse; and |
saw him strike his spur into her bare
breast. My wife, the mother of my
children
Don't" The protest came from the
fifth assistant secretary of state
But what was the poison ?" asked
Bertram.
Il think Mr. Jones has more than a
suspicion" replied the doomed man.
with a smile You will find useful
references on yonder shelf, Mr..
Jones'"
Moving across the shelf. Average
Jones took down heavy volume and
ran quickly over the leaves.
All" he said presently, and not
noticing. in his absorption. that the
bosk bod oroaSad aootr ~ fha ffpoir
and was quietly searching in COM
partment, he read aloud:
in its action the swiftest and most deadly
of existing poisons. In the '40s, Bunseu.
the German chemist combined oxide Of
oseody w and gToSgeng vard ade al
cacodyl. or dimethyl arsine cyanide. AS
both of it's components are of the dead
lest description, it is extremely dangerous
to make. 1t can be made only in the open
air, and not without the most extreme
precaution known to science. Mr.. La
celles Scott of England nearly lost his
life experimenting with 1t in 1904. A small
fraction of q grain gives off vapor suf-
ficient to Kill human being instantly,
This is all very we'll" broke in Mr.
Assistant Secretary Thomas Colvn
Mcintyre, but l want this man ar
rested. How can we know that he
isn't shamming and may not escape
us, after all?''
BY this retorted their host. He
held aloft small glass vial lead
sealed. and staggered weakly to the
door.
stop him." said Average Jones
sharply.
The door closed on the words.
There was heavy fall without, fol
lowed by the light tinkle of glass.
Average Jones, who had half
crossed the room in a leap, turned to
his friends, warning them back.
TOO late. We cant go out yet
Wnit fo.. Ahn f,,r,a.a.. t1, .airnir,., % .