The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-03-18

rightly by them He was the cxecutor of his grandfather's will, but he didn't pay the legacies his grandfather left. He said there was no money. His grandfather drew all his money out of the bank when the war broke out, and no one was ever able to find where he hid it. But there are some who say Frank Lumsden found it and stuck to it an.''
 "This is interesting" said Detective Gil- lett. "We must go into it thoroughly later on."
 "And what makes it more interesting is that sort of plan showing where the money was hidden has disappeared" continued Ser geant Westaway. Tt disappeared after Lumsden was murdered. MT. Marsland told me that he found it when he was going up stairs to find out the cause of the crash he heard It was lying on the second bottom stair. MT. Marsland picked it up and put it on the table with the candle stuck on top ing it was gone."
 "That is strange" commented Inspector Payne. What was the plan like? And how does MT. Marsland know it had any thing ot do with the missing money?"
 "Of course he doesn't know for certain. But when I happened to tell him about the murdered mans grandfather and the miss ing money he called to mind strange look ing paper he had picked up. As he described it to me, it had some figures written in the shape of a circle on it and some letters or writing above and below the circle of fig ures. He did not scrutinize it very closely when he first found it, for he intended to examine it later"
 And it disappeared after MT. Marsland left the farm to go to the police station?" asked Detective Gillett.
 Showing, to my mind, that the mur- derer was actually in the house when MT. Marsland left,' added Sergeant Westaway. with impressive solemnity. "In all prob ability the murderer was hiding in the top floor at the time. have ascertaned that the crash MT. Marsland heard was caused glass broken. This picture I found on the stairs leading to the top floor. It used to hang on the wall near the top of the stairs. My theory is that the murderer, feeling his way in the dark while MT. Marsiand was in this room, accidentally knocked it down."
 q take it that Marsland did not go up to the top floor but left the house after ex- amining the body," remarked Detective Gill lett.
 That is SOL replied the Sergeant. "He forgot about the crash when he found the body of murdered man. His first thought was to communicate with the policc.'
 "And the murderer, leaivng the house after Marsland had gone, found this plan on the table and took it?" suggested De- tective Gilett.
 "That is my theory,'' replied Sergean, Westaway. T forgot to say, however, that the plan was probably stolen in the first place from the murdered mans poeketbook his pocketbook was found on the table near him. It had been opened and most Of the papers it contained had been removed. The papers were scattered about the table. The murderer had killed his victim, had re- moved his pocketbook, and had obtained pos session of the plan. He was making his way downstairs to scape when he saw Marsland in the doorway. In his alarm he dropped the plan on the stairs and then crept softly upstairs to the top of the house. After Mir. Marsland left, the mur- derer came downstairs again, looked about for the plan, and after f'"ding it then made off.''
 "A very ingenious reconstruction, Ser geant," said Inspector Payne "I shouldn't wonder if it proved to be correct. What do you say, Gillett?"
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