The Washington herald., 1920-07-26
MAN AND WOMAN
81 HAINlNMYSTERY
BATTLE; I DYING

with an older man. the one who was
killed this afternoon. The boy asked
me for three rooms. saying he had
his sister and brother with him.
showed them the two rooms on the
upper floor. He said-they would
take them. 1t was about 3 o'clock.
told him he would have to see Mrs.
King, who was not in at the time.
About o'clock, saw the two
men taking the suit cases upstairs
and about an hour later. when
was outside, L saw the woman in
the window upstairs.
When 1 went up there this morn
ing about o'clock, all were
asleep in the rooms. two men in the
big room and the woman in the hall
room was up again this after
noon about o'clock and they were
all out. No one heard them come
in"
Nance said that the man had Civ
en- the impression that he was a
Frenchman and he was nicknamed
The Frenchman," but that he had
never given his name to anyone in
the house.
Another angle is given the case
by a letter found in Odiscos' suit
case from a nephew in Fayetteville.
y. C. dated July II, 1917, which was
found in the young mans pocket
The writer tells of the address of
| ''Dometahenes" and the writer's
wife. Uncle John" is the saluta-
tion on the letter. Il am glad you
have forgotten the affair and are
going to let God punish thom,"
| passage reads. The letter further
indicates that one of the two men
of the tragedy yesterday had been in
| partnership in Norfolk. Va, which
was broken up when one of the
/ partners left with the other mans
( wife who is thought to be the wom-
an killed yesterday.
Letters in Greek.
! All of the letters found in the
room and one of the books were in
Greek. The letters were translated
by police interpreters.
The revolver was of 32-caliber,
with five chambers, four of which
were empty, thus accounting for the
three bullets which had been sent
into the head of Odiscos, and the
one that killed the girl.
In 1918. Odiscos evidently was in
Norfolk, one envelope being found
without Enclosure, which was ad-
uiVSocu " MN at the I VI. l. ~
there.
! Odiscos. the younger man. was
reported to have been employed in
the Century Lunch. Seventeenth
street and Pennsylvania avenue for
the past two weeks, but other en-
ployes said last night that no one
had been employed there by that
name.
{ A package Of cigarettes and 3
half-consumed bag of fruit found
in the room was taken by the police
! to Indicate that the trio were
spending a leisurely. pleasant Sun
! day afternoon when the storm OF
passion arose that eliminated, in
an inferno of savagery and death
The rooms where the tragedy was
played to a finish were the usual
] lodging house type. Some former
occupant must have appreciated art
for just above the mantelpiece is
pinned print of Whistler's
Mother" evidently clipped from q
magazine. The picture of the serene
old gentlewoman must have gazeG
down on the inception of the
strange, inexorable passions that
swept the strange trio to theil
doom.
Study of the motives of the actors
in the tragedy leads into a Jungle
of suppositions.
Did the girl love the young mar
or the old, or was her heart of the
quicksilver kind that no man may
hold and ever slips from one tc
another? Only she can tell and her
beautiful, inf1exible face will holt
its secret to all eternity.