The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1916-09-09
THE MYSTERY OFGOLF ROAD
or, Who Killed Dwight Dilworth
BY ARTHUR B. REEVE,
Creator Of Craig Kennedy, the Scientific Detective.
NVIllAT is the real story Of

NVIllAT is the real story Of
w Marc McNlht
W Getting that story is lhc
only way the police will ever clear
mp the mystery that surround, the
strange murder OF the LAWYER,
Dwight Dilwor,h, ON the lonely
golf road known as Lover, Lane IN
Van Cortlandt park, New York
CITY
She ha, told ono story with many
variations The police have been
kept busy checking up that story
The stops Wh.yh were made by Dll-
worth and Miss NcNiit seem toG
agree with hcr story But there
are many other things which, to
say the least are peculiar.
Assume that her story IN the main
Is correct II leaves much 10 be-
explained For instance. why did
the car stop IN the exact spot where
II dId Why were the light, ON the
car dmmcd OF OUT Why run uif
q lighted road into dark one
Was lt ,p take q short cut. Ii SO.
then why turn back from the short
CUT Why stop al all
Rather lnDumcn,cur questions.
POLICE CLUES VALUELESS.
At present the police seem to
have no cmc OF any value that
would lead 10 the murderer or mur-
dcrers Mary McNltf made many
contradictory statements. The po-
hcc have only the most indefinite
description OF the face, oi the muir
dcrcrs
Until Mary McNif is given the
only test of being taken up to the
scene OF the murder and re-enact-
ing what happened, the police will
continue to founder about in the
dark Nothing does So much to-
ward clearing up a crime as recon
slructng It, scene by scene
liseNpIanlug the case three the
orc, occur most rcfdily to the
mind
he first !, that NJ Dilworth
may have been murdcrcdNor some
As yet unknown reason ~ tha/
case Mary McNl0 may not be ITc
only one who can clear the mystery
Certainly much closer scrutiny
OF his professional career, and pos
sible business tangles, might lead
to something which has not yet
even been hinted at.
NEW LINE OF INQUIRY.
il has been SAID by some Of his
friends that he has figured in some
at the recent munitions contracts.
That would open up an entirely
new line OF inquiry Hints have
been made that he was being fol-
lowed by private detectives. Might
that not mean that he was an OBJ
.lect OF interest to the secret agents
OF some foreign government?
In other words, any one o' these
thcorie, would suggest tina, he
might have been led 10 this lonely
road How came the men 10 be in
the bushes at this exact spot?
That lends color TO the theory
that there was something more
than chance at work.
BACK AT STARTING POINT.
Al any rate, no one saw the men,
no one heard the shots 49, except
Mary McNifi. She is the only one
who can clear the mystery, which
bring us back to our starting
point.
\ strange fatality seems 10 have
followed the Dllworth family. At
nrS' that would suggest the posi-
billty Of icud But So far no one
has been able to discover any con
ncction among the i've tragedies
that have bciallcn the family. And
until the authorities, either in New
York or Kansas ~ Oklahoma. do
SO, We are bound to set them down
as condolences.
A second theory is that which
Mary McNitf suggests herself
highway robbery
Yet nothing was missing from the
body when IT was found. although
Dilworth carried a valuable watch.
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