Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1918-05-02

thing i had found.
You were right-you always are
right" said in a voice which trem.
bled. He knelt here and rested on
his hand and looked over, and the
darkness kept him from seeing the
ledge-and the body caught on it.
See, Semi, 1t is the mark of a hand
with long, slender fingers and a mar
row palm!"
My friend nodded. "One of the
fingers is partly missing" he pointed
out.
you mean in the print or on the
hand?" / questioned quickly. I, too.
had noticed that the mark of the little
finger was short out of all proportion
10 the others.
From the hand itself. A valua-
BILE clue" said Semi. observe, Cor.
don, that the soil at the end of the
short finger has not been disturbed
any more than that about the others.
The man who made this has lost q
part of one finger-the last on his left
hand"
Sufficient for Identification in n
SELF" l suggested.
Conclusive with the footprints
said Dual.
"No doubt about it," agreed Os-
borne with emphatic assent.
"That settles it," declared Heffy
who had drawn up beside us and lis
tened with poorly controlled impa
uence. "Come on. Well 60 back
and hunt up guy with part OF one
fin missing. If he's got toothpick feet
to boot, then we've got the goods on
him for fair. l gotter hand it to your
friend, Glace. He's the pure quill"
But, senor," questioned Laredo,
"is it not possible that one of the
searchers may have leaned SO and
looked down, last night? / distinctly
heard it said they lowered light on
a rope and, later, this guide here.
Might not such a mark have been
mad at that time?"
1T might" snapped Heffy shortly;
"but we can soon find out. Ii any Of
them searchers is shy finge tip or
holds, an l bet you it does. The feller
who made this here print had long
hand, like he had feel-that is, if it
was the same man, which is likely"
Precisely" said Semi Dual.
Both hands and feet were long and
slender. Your point is well taken. Mr..
Heily. Now, one moment more. Let
US lind the place where Professor
Nngarde was killed"
"ililled!" Heffy erupted. why
say! What's wrong with this place."
Much" said Semi. I'VE all agree
that the murderer laid the body down
and pushed it over, and later looked
over to mark its fall. The mere fact
that he could lay it down and slide it
over the edge shows that the actual
death occurred at different point,
and the assassin then carried his vic.
tim to this spot in order to dispose of
the remains"
Good glory! You're right again."
bowled Heffy. "What do we do?
Look for more of them slim slippers?"
Semi nodded. Start here at the
lip and walk in half-circle back to
the lip above. Return at wider dis
lance and repeat. In that way We
should cross the trail to this spot II
there Is one."
Heffy started. l turned to assist.
Osborne, too. Dual had stopped again,
and was carefully measuring the
length and breadth of the hand
print. Laredo still stood, coldly OBJ
servant, taking no part in the hunt
which was forward. He stood quietly
smoking, his hands thrust into his
pockets, his eyes peering off across
the distance of the landscape.
But Heffy found it.
His jubilant cry took us to him. He
was pointing to another of the slender
footmarks, turned toward the lip of
the canon, from direction still far
ther along its brink than we had come.
Its pressed pretty deep, this here
one" he declared with no little pride.
Il reckon he was earryin double
weight, all right, when he made it,
Come on, Glace. Let's find some
more"
And we did.
Now and then we found telltale
mark to guide us, until at last we
came TO spot where the soil was
trampled, and other marks mixed and
crossed and blended with the slender
ones we followed.
This is the spot" said Dual.
Here they struggled, and the weaker
was overcome and slain. These other
marks are those of English shoes of
q make and size corresponding to
those Wingarde wore and" Sudden
ly he strode little TO one side and
pointed. Here are more of the first.
Some one stood here and shifted his
position from time to time. He was
waiting1for Wingarde."
lifted my eyes from observing the
fresh signs and met those of my
friend. "Wingarde was lured here
and ambushed." ! remarked to him.
1.-The Indian was the agent who lured