Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1919-10-16

rive at solution I didn't stand il
with any jockeying or dirty work h,
may have tried TO pull. I'm running
things straight"
I'm that case you will probably b,
glad to operate with u.s. Paul re.
marked. "lou have got Carmichael
record of the case ! want to leart
from you what you know of the Harts
horne woman's movements since tn,
Greenbrier Springs episode, who her as
sociates were and what her origin
Here are my orders from the chief"
II cant give you any dope on hoi
origin Wemple pressed button
1--WE were only employed to find heI
after she made that getaway and keer
her in sight until Prall could Obtain
his release. Timmons, bring me the
papers on file under Pr.'
He added the last to the secretary
who had entered in response to his
summons. When the latter had de
parted upon his errand he turned again
to Paul with a note of anxiety under
lying his surface cordality.
at will give me the greatest pleas
ure in the world to assist your depart
ment. Mr.. Harvey! That's the stand
I'm taking right from the start! This
office isn't going to work Mt cross pur
poses with the authorities for personal
advantage and reputation; it's going tc
supplement 'em, that's all. I've got
to live down the black eye Carmichael
"a &C ~ bn nI1nl ,,ip
tuously. "You can tell Chief Burke
from me that we're always at his
service"
Paul smiled.
"Did you or Carmichael know to
what use your client meant to put the
information you obtained for him? ~
"Prall? No, that wasn't our af-
fair, but if you want a personal opin-
ion, Mr.. Harvey, | don't believe he
killed her; his nerve was gone
The secretary reappeared with long
envelope which he placed upon the desk
and retired once more.
Here we are :" Wemple sorted the
papers with quick, nervous fingers.
"Hum! The subject did some travelling
since she left Greenbrier, and she cut
loose from all her old crowd, too. She
was in with the Jimmie Bayard buncl
that were backing the Springs resort
and running the games there; they
backed her, too. to play old Pral
for sucker But when she landed him
she skipped without kicking i'll and they
had to shut up shop and beat it, too.
They were good and sore, and ! guess
that is why she kept on the jump for a
year or two aftcrward. There was q
rumor-although we couldn't verify it
that she had been a protegee of old
Chris Waterford. the king of them all
who owned a chain of gambling houses
from coast to coast in his palmy days.
Anyhow, Alma Horton first ap-
peared at Greenbrier Springs in Octo
ber, 1912. We got this dope from the
chambermaid who took care Of her
suite. She must have had some sudden
news that alarmed her a month later,
for she packed up and left at an hour $
notice and the girl said she acted as if
she was afraid of her own shadow. She
came back, though, in March of the
following year. and it looks as though
the Bayard crowd had spotted Prall as
a come on for her and tipped her off, for
she didn't lose any time in mailing him.
She must have been fast worker or
he wes dead easy the bank went under
and he was arrested before the end of
the year, but she had already made her
getaway.
"She left Greenbrer in November,
1913, for Philadelphia, staying at a
quiet hotel there for month and then
going to boarding house in Lakewood
until March, 1914, when she went to
another select boarding place in Allan
tic City. After three months our oper
ative there lost her, but we picked up
the trail again and spotted her in Au-
gust in bungalow at Silver Lake. New
Hampshire. In October she made n
long jump out to the coast and spent
the winter doing the less frequented
resorts from San Diego to Frisco. In
May--this was 19l5--she chased up to
British Columbia and settled down in a
cottage near Victoria, but she gave. us
the slip again in August and jumped
back across country. We located her in
October, in an exclusive apartment
house in Boston. She stayed there for
a solid year, making little trips around
in the summer. In October, 1916, she