The Little River news., 1920-04-21
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Granders, the bank president who go away with eight hundred thousand dollars and was sent up for seventeen years"
 , There was commotion in the rear of the courtroom. A dapper little old i gentleman with neatly trimmed white whiskers rose hastily and made a dash for the door. German, who had | been sitting behind him, sprang after | him and pinioned him by the arms: Nothing doing, Granders. I've got you'
 Wick, sitting up near the counsel table, at the same time showed evi- dence that he, too, was contemplating nasty flight, but a husky chap whom I suspected of being one of Germans aides, seized him, too.
 "Your honor," cried my counsel, "I demand the issuance of warrants at once for Orville Granders, alias Henry Kent, and his confederate, James Will son, alias James Wick and 'Stuny Jim.' on the charge of having mur- dered Daisy Lntan and Rufus Gaston. I further urge the immediate release of my client. Mir. Spalding Nelson, in my custody. Testimony that we al- ready have obtained will establish that he was an innocent victim of the dastardly plots of these two ex-con- victs."
 The reaction that came from this sudden clearing of my name left me in a puzzled daze from which I hard ly recovered until late that evening, when. once more free, I found myself In the Gaston apartment. Granders, his tool, Wick, and practically every employee of the Granddeck were un- der arrest, and warrants were out fo. other members of the band whose identity had been revealed by the for mer telephone girl. ...==
 And there in the apartment with me were my mother, German. McGregor-- and to my surprise and delight. Bar bara Bradford. After her sisters wedding. it appeared, Barbara's moth leaving her alone in the apartment with the servants. She had welcomed the opportunity to work undisturbed on the mystery that had landed me be- hind the bars. Thinking that at Rufus Gaston's funeral she might pick up some clue that would be of service in unraveling the tangled skein that held her and me together, she had gone thither. and seeing my mother there, and SuSpecting at once who she might be, had introduced herself. Quickly they had become good friends and she it was who had informed my mother of my plight.
 Present also with us despite the lateness of the hour, was the district attorney and two of his aides. and Nellie Kelly, or as she much preferred to be called. Mrs. Moore The girl was technically prisoner, but her services in bringing the real criminals to book had been so exceptional that she had been released on her own recOgniz- ance. Hither she had been brought that the district attorney might check up with her the marvellous tale Of criminal conspiracy that she had un- folded to my counsel in the brief re- cess of the court that day.
 Orville Granders, 1t appeared, had been the master-mind that had direct ed all the plotting. A score of years before he had been president of one of the metropolis biggest banks. He had been discovered to have embez- zled nearly a million dollars. He had been tried and sentenced to seventeen years imprisonment, but no one ever had been able to find what he had done with the money, 90 safely had he hidden 1t away.
 In his long years in prison, associ. ating daily with criminals of the worst sort, and listening to their plans for further crime on their release, his own criminal instincts. already devel oped, had grown stronger, and he hac spent his time planning new system head, using as his cOnfederates cer tain evildoers with whom he had be come acquainted in prison. When h' had been released he had slipped quietly away to the West and lived II close retirement until he had been TOT gotten. The white whiskers he hat grown so changed his appearance too, that he had little fear of bein
 recognized. Recovering such part
 the stolen money as was left to nm
 he had come to New York in the guis
 of a prosperous Western investor anc
 purchasing a plot of land, had ereete
 the Granddeck apartments, designe
 for the occupancy of the weaithlss
 class of tenants.
 In this building, sitting like hstl
 white spider in his web, he planned
 prey secretly on all who came to nv
 there. Eve<y attendant in the buii'
 ing was either criminal or an assoc
 ate of criminals, reporting to hil
 daily all that went on. and obeyihg n
 orders implicitly. A special switcl
 board in his apartment enabled him
 listen in at will on all telephone col | yersations that went on. Every lett' delivered at the Granddeck wei
 through his hands before reaching tf