Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-04-20


skin of the victim. The old man
wakes he struGgles--to what avail
he is a child in that strangling grip,
He reaches up and claws at the cruel
face above him and tears few hairs
from reddish-hrown mustache."
1t was vivid, gripping, horrible, as
his level tones told it. | felt myself
chill and quiver.
glanced at Johnson and Bryce.
They sat leaning forward as though
viewing the actual scene. 1 glanced
at Mallet and found his eyes staring,
his face bloodless, lis forehead beaded
with sweat which glistened in the
light.
AS Dual paused he sighed as one
coming out from a heavy sleep.
"Could l have glass of some
thing?" he asked. "I'm bit shaken
by all this. That was horrible, Mr..
Dual"
Dual pressed button Cor Henri and
directed him to serve Mnl'ct with any
thing he might desire.
He called for whisky, and Henri
left the room.
Semi turned to the desk and az
ranged two papers upon it.
"1n order to make sure ] had SOM
mers send me some of the hairs from
Gustav Conrad's mustache," he re-
sumed. "These are his"
He laid the hairs from the hospital
on one of the sheets of paper and
marked them.
"These," he went on, "are those
from Anthony Conrad's hands,"
He took those Bryce had brought
and placed them on the other sheet.
"Viewed through good glass you
will see that the two hairs do not bear
the same qualities, though there are
some resemblanses. However, there
is difference, and that is all we re-
quire to prove that they grew upon
different lips. Any expert in the line
will verify my statements. Thus we
see that the hairs Anthony Conrad
held in his dead hands were not such
hairs as he could have drawn from
Gustav's face. Have | made myself
clear to you all?"
For the first time he turned his eyes
fully upon Mallet.
Mallet nodded and made no other
reply. Henri returned with his whis-
ky and he tossed it off at a gulp.
$50 now we know that there was a
murderer, and that he was man
such as have described, and we have
an actual print of his fingers, and of
his foot. 1t should be easy enough to
trace the man from these things. How
ever, It'll well to be absolutely sure
of all we do and say in a thing like
this. While | do not feel that there
can be any doubt about the deductions
we have made"
81 should say not! They're rivet-
ed!" exclaimed Bryce.
"That we have made" Semi re-
sumed, "still it may be just as well to
call in the material sciences to show
that they are true, and prove beyond
any question or criticism that Gustav
Conrad did not shoot himself. / have
prepared to do that before we go any
further in the matter of finding the
n,.,y h
over here by the desk and remove the
loads from those cartridges you hold"
Bryce rose Immediately, dragged a
chair over to the desk and busted him
self with digging the bullets out of
the shells.
"Be careful not to spill the pow
der" cautioned Semi.
He himself drew the alcohol lamp to
him and lighted it's wick, then taxi
ing four small steel plates arranged
them before himself upon the desk,
slipping sheet of white paper be-
meath each one.
Next he drew several bottles of re-
agents toward him and rack of test
tubes, picked up the gun from the
desk and removed the discharged shell
from its cylinder, setting it upon an
other sheet of paper open end up.
Meanwhile Bryce had succeeded in
unloading the four shells and Dual
poured the powder from each into
little pile beside one of the steel
squares.
Ito he continued)