The Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, N.D.) 1916-current, 1924-08-25
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John Ainsley, man Of education
and breeding, becomes a master
crOokpreying upon other thieves
Swede Thomassen, a brutal murder
err, is killed by another crook il
Ainsley's apartment. Police search
for Ainsley.
In the Trevor dining room Ainsle!
overhears young Frank Tirrell tel
his faancee that he intends to kill
himself Tirrell has robbed the safe
Of his employer, Phineas Carbon, i
Spectator. Ainsley gives Tirrell
$4,000 to make up for the thievery
Going to Garbon's office, they find
the employers body on the floor
Carbon has been murdered. And the
housekeeper says that Carbon wen,
to his office to see Tirrell. So cir.
cumstantial evidence turns towarC
the innocent Tirrell as the murderer
NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
"How many people know that yor
are Garbon's confidential clerk?"
asked
"Hundreds, l suppose he answer
ed duly.
"How many of them are of thu
temperament that would make yo,
suspect them capable of MURDER"
"How can possibly answer that ?
he retorted.
I nodded. OF course, a boy lik'
this would not be reader of char
acter.
do you know anyone who coul'
initiate your voice. ] asked.
ut isn't hard to do, is it," he re
torted. The shock of the tragedy ha'
almost stupefied him.
"It's extremely hard" l told him
you've been working for Carbon
several years. The person who's
voice imposed upon him so that h
believed it yours must have been al
excellent mimic"
A light flickered in his eyes. "Po
ganni told me today that he used t
be an actor" he cried.
1.-THE handbook mani"
Gamblers are crooked--professi ion
al gamblers, that is. Poganni kne,
Carbon and his confidential clerk. o
course, a hundred other shady char
acters might have known the dea
man. But only today Poganni ha
accepted a wager Of ten thousand dol
lars from Tirrell. The sum Of none
might readily have aroused Poganni'
cupidty. 1t would turn his thought
upon Carbon and his safe.
had but little time before M
The Celeste sailed at five. 1t wa
after ten now. could not spen
days, weeks, even months, in invest
eating the acquaintance of the mui
dered man. For l must sail. Safet
demanded it. But decency demande
that, no matter what the cost t
me, l do not leave this boy in tn
lurch. l must find the murderer o
DER myself to the police as a viii
ness, even though my credibility b
doubtful to them, and even though
must xpose my own mode of life
as was inevitable.
The telephone book showed tha
Rafael Poganni lived in Greenwic
Village. We left the dead man lyin
on the floor, took n taxi to Sixt
Avenue and Eighth Street and wall
| ed the rest of the way to Poganni
apartment. A negro elevator ma
told us that he was at home; am
declaring that we were friends {
his, we induced him to carry = u
stairs without announcing US owe
the telephone. AS the life assemble
Poganni's door opened. l damned
revolver against the stomach of II
man who opened the door. TIRE
| pushed into the room. / heard hi
cry ut in exultation. And as | bacl
| ed my man into the apartment, ov'
his shoulder / saw Tirrell strugglir
with another man. The struggle WI
brief. Tirrell was powerful, and
savage blow sent his opponent vi
conscious to the floor. Tirrell turf
ed to me. He pointed to the ope
door of a bathroom.
"Look there! A shirt, the cuff
still bloody. He hasn't had time
wash it out"
NV man shrunk almost physicall
ut was him did it," he walled.
didn't know he was going to do it.
at was Harris who did the actu'
killing. then?" cried Tirrell. All tn
bewilderment had left him. He W:
tense and alert.
$50 help me, it was him. said p
ganni, my prisoner.
"Why?" demanded.
"We've not been lucky lately.
ten-thousand-dollar bet we won fro
Mr.. Tirrell is the only luck we''
/ had. Afterward we lost fifty tho'
sand. We didn't have the money
make good tomorrow. So Harris pr
posed robbing Carbon. l called hi
up and said / was Tirrell. He can
down to his office. We waited, hi
den in the hall, until he was hal
:. way through his door, and then y
i jumped him. But l didn't know tn
Harris was going to. kill him. "
| got his key out Of his pocket, opent
the safe and took the money. b
Lo,, d;d vou know we done it 2"