The L'Anse sentinel., 1916-02-12

| again on the evening Of the 2sth Of
May. On the occasion Of the last
visit Sam Webb says he heard them
quarreling about money.
Now the murder occurred some
time during the night OF the 30th.
Decoration day. Nobody heard the
shot, and the tragedy was not dis
covered until seven o'clock next
morning"
why" Hazard queried. "are you 90
positive Il was murder?"
There are several reasons why ]
can't accept the police theory" Miss
Bertel replied.
First, II is asking q good deal Of
one to believe that anybody can be
killed by revolver catching In q
drawer In such q way that merely
opening the drawer should explode t.;
then, that the; weapon should be
aimed 80 unerringly at the victims
heart simply knocks the law Of prob.
abilities to smithereens. It's impos-
sible.
"But I got most of my ideas from
Sam Webb-those two card corners,
for instance. He slipped them to me
and told me he had found them tight.
ly clenched In the dead mans right
hand. Now there wasn't deck OF
cards In the house from which the
jack of diamonds and the queen OF
spades were missing.
Here are several curious facts in
this connection. Mrs. Pell tells me
that in his younger days Henry Para
dis was gambler, but that years age
he foreswore cards and all games OF
chance. Now then. according to Sam
Webb. early In March the old mans
interest in cards all at once revived
and he became q pinochle fiend. And
too. early in March is the time wher
young Curtis Paradis. the nephew
first appeared on the scene. Also al
about this time Henry Paradis tool
up with disreputable individua
named Blackburn. tinhorn gambler
who hangs out at q neighborhood "a
loon. Sam says there used to be
some notable games at the house
marked by constant Quarrels and
chickering's either. between Curtis and
his. uncle, or between Blackburn and
the uncle; never between Curtis ant
Blackburn. nor, to Sans knowledge
was there ever game when the three
played all together.
I'm simply giving you these fact
for what they might be worth; they
tell me next to nothing.
Finally. on the afternoon Of Ma,
twenty-ninth Henry Paradis drew
from his bank $4,000 in currency
which 20 far IL missing"
Felix Hazard spent the better par
Of the afternoon nosing about the
North Halsted street neighborhood
He gathered lot Of information ol
one sort and another, the net re
suit Of which he summed up in the
reflection: III Helen wanted to helI
her friend, she'd better have let the
coroner's verdict stand"
For, among other things, he Learned
that Mrs. Pell had called at the Para
dis house early ON the evening o.
May S0th-the evening Of the TRACED,
and that Curtis Paradis also had
been seen thereabouts by at least tw'
persons. One individual asserted tha
about nine O'Clock Of the same nigh
he had seen Curtis hurrying ava,
from his uncle's residence and in th'
direction of the car barns at Dewe!
place; that he appeared nervous ant
| sgitated, and that he was tearing Il
| pieces a. he went along and scatter
Ing broadcast what looked like =,
couple OF postcards" but which. tn,
| spectator having been made inQuisi
tive. on examination proved to be tw,
playing cards!
Il These circumstances, in connection
with the fact that Henry Paradii
must have been slain some time dur
ing the night Of May 30th. and tina
the $2,800 was nowhere to be found
indeed looked bad for Mrs. Pell AMI
her brother.
It was at . nearby corner saloon
however, that Hazard obtained den
mite knowledge Of Blackburn. th'
"tinhorn," and In addition some gen
eral knowledge Of Henry Paradia
character that was in no way credi
thereto.
Speaking Of Curtis Paradis. the baz
keeper told Hazard that the younl
man was an automobile mechanicial