Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1922-04-09

the 1uncheon-an excellent one. by the
way--I tried to determine where / had
seen him before. But l failed.
A month more went by, when, to
my delight, after number of calls at
CurZon street. all calculated to cement
my friendship with BayHes and his
smart wife, received one day an in
vitation to go down to Ravenscroft
Hall for week end. After respecta
BILE delay I accepted, and one warm
afternoon found myself deposited at
the door of the fine old Jacobean man
sion, with a venerable, white-haired
butler ordering the footman to take
my bag to the red room.'
The week end passed quite pleas
antly. More than once felt tempted
to mention the tragedy at Wansford.
yet 1 hesitated, for was 1 not there to
decide what manner Of people were
the tenants of the Hall? The man
Glover was among the guests, and
the more 1 saw of him the more con-
WINGED I became that I had seen him
before in some adverse circumstances.
In the billiard room I had several
chats with him. That he was a man
how 1 would, 1 could not actually fix
him.
Now with me I had brought a neat
little camera the size of a cigarette
case-one that could be operated for
snapshots without knowledge of the
victim-and with this, by dint of lit
tie maneuvering, / managed to secure
a number of films of my host and
hostess, together with all the guests.
When 1 left on the following Tuesday
with expressions of hope that I
would return soon-I went straight
to a firm of photographers in Baker
street and ordered them to develop
and enlarge my secret pictures.
In due course these came to me, and
in due course I carried them across
to Paris. When I showed the pic
ture of Baynes to Mrs. Charlesworth
she exclaimed:
Wal! How did you get that?
Why, that's my husbands good friend
at Monte Carlo-Mr. Pearman"'
I pricked up my ears at her words
'Mr. Pearman was at Monte Carlo
when my jewels were stolen, but he
was staying at the Metropole. He
was interested in some concessions in
Mexico. and had interested my hus-
band in them" she told me.
"And have you ever seen these
people?" I asked her. producing the
pictures of Mrs. Baynes and the man
Glover.
why. of course I have" she re-
piled. with her strong American ac-
cent. The woman is Mrs. Pearman,
and the young fellow is Pearman's
secretary-Lee, think his name is"
~ x*
WELL, through a whole year I per-
w severed, and by dlnt of much
traveling-three times from London
to Monte Carlo and back-I succeeded
in unraveling the tangle of a crime
Of which the public were never per-
mitted to learn the truth. 1t is now
related in these pages for the first
time
To tell you in detail how I pieced
things together would occupy a whole
book. Suffice il I relate briefly the
actual facts.
The dead girl, who was French and
whose real name was Gabrielle Fol-
quet, had been cafe singer at the
Chat Noir. in Paris, before she threw
in her lot with the gang of interna-
tional thieves, OF whom the ultra-re-
spectacle tenant of Ravenscroft Hall
was head. Pearman. alias Baynes,
alias Lewis. had ingratiated himself
with the rich American, Charlesworth.
while at Monte Carlo and had put up
the pretty Gabrielle who, with the
man Glover. had succeeded in secur-
ing Mrs. Charlesworth's jewel case
from the neighboring hotel. 1t had at
last come to me quite suddenly that
1 had met Glover in Vienna, all un-
conscious that he was an international
thief. Since then he had spent five
years in prison in Paris, and on his
release had rejoined Pearman.
The girl Gabrielle Folquet lived in
a fat in London, and was their de-
coy. After securing Mrs. Charles
worth's jewels. the thieves dared not
attempt to sell the great emerald.
and it was therefore given to the girl
to wear.
On the night of the crime the girl
had been to dance at a certain well
known night club in London with
Baynes, when he suddenly suggested
that he should drive her to Ravens
croft instead Of home to her fat in
Mazda Vale. She consented, little
dreaming that plot had been formed
to close her mouth. Baynes and his
companions being under the belief
that she was about to betray them to
the police, as. indeed, she was. on ac-
count Of violent quarrel with Glover
over the division of the spoils of a
further jewel robbery from a certain
castle in Scotland
Apparently, Baynes, on the way up
the Great North road, stopped the car,
saying that he wanted to call at a
farmhouse across a field, where one
of their friends was living in retire
ment because he was wanted
The girl at once offered to accom-
i pany him to see their friend, but
when halfway across the field she
was struck from behind by the man
Glover, and died almost Immediately.
Not until the two men were back at
Ravenscroft did they recollect, to
their horror. that the girl was wear
ing the emerald! They, however. did
not dare return to obtain it,. Hence
they made no sign, and after a year
were congratulating themselves that
their crime would never be discovered,
when warrants were suddenly issued
for their arrest.
By what means they became aware
of this have never been able to dis
| cover, but on the very morning those
warrants were applied for at Bow
street the tenants of Ravenscroft Hall
disappeared. while Glover was found
dead next morning in his room at a
private hotel near Victoria statfon.