Fulton County tribune. (Wauseon, Ohio) 1883-1925, 1920-07-16

listen IN dl Will Ou dll IeleplOne con-
versations that went on. Every letter
delivered at the Granddeck went
through his hands before reaching the |
tenants. For every wall safe in the
building he held master combination |
and his pass-key would unlock every
door there was. And in addition to
all this
HE HAD BUILT A SECRET PAS
SAGEWAY.
We found it that night and ex-
plored it, familiarizing ourselves with
all its exits, greatly to the amazement
and confounding of German. Con-
Meeting with the service elevator by
masked opening, it ran along the hall
of each, apartment, with entrances
concealed in wall panels. 1t enabled
Granders to wander at will through
the apartments at night, leaving mys-
terious notes to terrify his tenants,
prying into the secrets hidden in their
wall safes, listening when he chose to
their most private conversations, ex-
amining the contents of their pockets.
AS he had planned from the begin
ming, he gained in this way much in
formation that he was able to utilize
to his financial profit without arous-
ing suspicion. He had discovered,
Mrs. Moore said, secret stock market
movements one of his tenants was
planning and had made a small for
tune out Of the advance information.
Several injudicious women he had
successfully blackmailed, turning over
to agents who never came near the
Granddeck the secrets he learned from
! letters he opened and telephone con-
versations he had listened to.
In the case of Rufus CASTOR, he had
plotted to steal the CASTOR pearls,
Mrs. Moore explained, first terrifying
the old couple into leaving the apart
ment, the whispers that had been
heard coming of course from the Sc
cret passageway.
"But I can't understand" I said,
"why, after he had once got hold of
the pearls in Mr.. Gaston's absence, he
should have restored them to their
hiding place"
HE had a duplicate made of rhony
pearls" explained Mrs. Moore. "It
was part of his plan not to have any
of the tenants discover the thefts for
long time after they occurred"
"If he was so cautious" said the
district attorney, 81 am puzzled as to
why he killed Miss Lutan and Mr..
CASTOR. He must have realized that
both murders would be thoroughly in
vestigated.''
"Both were accidents, so to speak, .
the girl explained. Each of them
surprised him in their apartment, and
he had to kill them to make his get.
away. suppose he had been roaming
around so much he had got careless =
"How about the revolverF" asked
German. "How did he come to plant
it in Nelson's room?"
"He was puzzled by Mr.. Nelson but
ting in on the Bradford case. and il
made him sore. heard him and Wick
talking about it one day, and he SAID
that he'd teach Mr.. Nelson not to in
terfere. tHow?' asked Wick. I'll
frame him for the goat if anything
happens
"And was it he who had me dis
charged from my Officer" asked, Gag
erly.
"Sure it was. He wrote a note OF
Mr.. Gaston's stationery saying tina
you had forged a check after he hat
befriended you. He wrote in the let
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you because of your mother, but tina
he felt that you were unworthy of EN-
ployment anywhere"
Il believe" said the district attor
J ney, ''that that clears everything up
. except for one thing-why, Mrs
: Moore, did you aid him and Wick il
all these crimes?"
{ "He promised that IT, would he'll
, him he would get Eddie out" sh
7 cried. 81 was desperate. I'd do any
: thing to get my husband back"
r German and the district attorne
e exchanged meaning glances. Will
: nothing more was said, felt sure a
they departed that both were thinkin
. that this brave young woman who ha
solved the mystery for them certainl
: deserved some reward, and 1 think W
9 all realized that the only reward lif
: ever could hold for her was the fret
dom of her husband.
+ Presently they went and left U
4 alone, German, my mother, Barbar,
4 and /.
: "There are still two things cannc
8 understand" I said, as we sat talkin
n it over. "The first is'-and turne
n to Barbara-"what was your sister d,
d ing in this apartment on the night {
q the first murder? When i came U