New Britain herald. [microfilm reel] (New Britain, Conn.) 1890-1976, 1921-07-27
CONTINUED from Yesterdays Herald

David Carroll, detective, is shocked
by the receipt of a telegram from
Stanford Forrest, his lifelong friend
who had left three days before on
his honeymoon, stating that the bride
of three days had been murdered and
he, Forrest was in Jail, charged with
the crime. Carroll, with his assistant,
Jim Sullivan, Immediately rushed to
Karnak, South Carolina, where For
rest was in Jail, where they interview
the latter. They are Informed that
shortly before she was murdered, Mr..
Forrest had received a letter from
Bennett Hemingway, an interruptions
bucketshop operator and former adj
mirer.
The letter contained a sarcastic
reference to the character OF Mrs.
Forrest, but never had been shown to
her. Force tells the detectives that
he came home early on the evening
Of the third day after the wedding
and found his bride had been stabbed
to death by an ice pick.
Sullivan feels the same as the ma
tives that Forrest Is guilty Of the
crime, which theory Is not sustained
by Carroll, Later developments show
that Hemingway was in the cabin
used by the FORESTS after it had been
leased from Franklin Furness, an ar
fist. Unknown to Carroll and Forrest,
a man giving his name as Heston, had
been in Karnak for three months
prior to the crime, claiming to have
bought the Furness lodge but failing
to have the deed recorded.
Carroll sent a telegram to Furness,
who was in Denver. asking if the
la % 1N6
ton. A reply from F'urness said the
lodge had not been sold.
The detectives then turn their at
tenti6h to Conrad Hestop, to whom
suspicion seems to point. A CONVEX
sation with Mart Farnham, a local
character, who does odd jobs about
the town and who hates Heston be-
cause the latter cut him out with his
girl. brings out the fact that Heston
was in the woods near the Furness
lodge the evening of the tragedy. In
vestigation reveals foot prints about
the cabin which show that someone
had walked to the cabin and ran
away from it. The girl, Esther De-
varney, has been characterized as
"the woman in the case"
Following the footprint clues the
detectives discover evidence which
points so Enthusiastically to Heston that
upon learning his cabin has been
locked UP. they ask warrant for
his arrest. The actions of Heston and
the girl are under investigation and
the detectives suspect that Miss De-
varney knows more than she is will
ing to tell concerning what happened
thu night of tho murder.
This feeling ia strengthened by the
discovery of a diamond ring at the
Furness lodge, which the detectives
feel il valuable clue to the murder
err. Miss Devarney claims the ring,
although the initials inside arc not
her initials. Heston is arrested by
Sheriff Potter. Later he is interview
&c by Carroll but denies knowing any
thing about the ring.
Still feeling that Hemingway had
something to do with the crime, Car
roll proceeds to look him up. He
found by hotel records in Charleston
that Hemingway apparently was not
in Karnak the night of the murder.
Later while walking through the
woods near Heston's lodge, Carroll is
startled by bullet which whistles
within an inch of his head. He finds
a boy shooting squirrels who tells
him the rifle he is using was pre-
scented to him by Heston.