New Britain herald., 1925-04-08

Kathleen Glenister, sister of James Glenister. Kathleen's doubt of Wragge's ability to clear up the mystery vanishes.
 NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY
 And q lot of other things which don't touch the main line of this inquiry" Wragge continued. You will hear of them later, but let Us keep to the point. By ordinary de- tective work I got hold of a diary which Mrs. Coningsby had stolen from Trickey, and it gave me my first real insight into the case, though for a while 1t strengthened the suspicion that Sir Dudley had killed his cousin.
 Here are the facts. Your brother, Miss Glenister, went away to Amer ica to escape the consequences of harmless filtration with Sally Grimes, That young person, greatly daring, had built on few careless compliments the hope that she might marry the then heir to the baronetcy. She even went so far as to go 10 Sir Philip and threaten 8 breach of promise action. Sir Philip took the matter seriously, and father and son were not on good terms when they parted. It is prob able that Mir. George vent away as much to avoid the strained rela- tions at home as from fear of legal proceedings which would certainly have gone In his favor.
 "Then Sir Philip died and George either never heard of his death or he was too absorbed in his gold mining venture to return and claim the title. Be that as it may, when time went on and the title remain ed in abeyance, Dudley, the next in succession, sent his clerk Trickey out to America to trace him. He To- cated George Glenister at Lone Wolf City, mining camp in Mon tana. Trickey cabled to his employ CT for instructions and received a reply ordering him to return home without communicating with George.
 "On his arrival in London. Dud- ley told Trickey that he would deal with the matter by letter. After much trouble I got at the contents of that letter, and copy exists which will be available as evidence. In it Dudley informed George that if he would come home and meet him at Beeohwood at ten o'clock on the evening of the 7th of June two years ago he was prepared to make an offer for financing the gold mine by floating 1t as a com pany.
 "On the face of 1t that was fair ly conclusive that Sir Dudley had lured Mir. George back to England and murdered him 50 that he might succeed to the baronetcy. After the episode of the skeleton finger Sir Dudley saw the danger that this view might be accepted by a judge and jury, and your activities, Miss Kathleen, eventually drove him to extremes which constitute him 6 murderer in intent, though not, thank God. in fact.
 For though I was misled for a while into a belief that he killed George Glenister, all he had set out to do in the beginning was to swindle his cousin out of the gold mine. Hinkley has q record that Dudley was at Beechwood on the 7th of June that year, and the diary states that on the 9th he again sent Trickey to America with instruc- tions to manufacture evidence of George Glenister's death at Lone Wolf City. Trickey carried out his mission 50 cfeverly that the family solicitors. who went out later 70 verify the facts, were deceived and in turn deceived the High Court into granting leave to presume George Glenister's death.
 My trouble after these discover iee was that though had ample evidence for convicting Sir Dudley for fraud and conspiracy. had none to convict him for nhurdering his cousin. And all the time Mir. Colne was urging and threatening me. I felt a nervous breakdown coming on, and in fortunate mo- ment I consulted Doctor Wifloush- by Melville, who had cured me when Mir. Colne nearly drove me of my head years ago. Then he did it with physic. This time he did 1t by handing me a scrap of paper on which he had written the name of the Beeehwood murderer. It was that of the Right Honorable stephen Colne, bracketed with that of Sally Grimes"
 Perhaps he was pulling your leg" said Kathleen rather hysteri- cally.
 No. miss, he wasn't" wrsgge re- piled with firmness. "At first had as mush difficulty in bringing the crime home to Mir. Colne as had had in the case of your cousin. He fought like a cornsred rat to the last. He had suspected that Sir Dud- ley was holding you prisoner at the mill and he clutched at that to convince me of Sir Dudley's guilt in the murder affair. Probably he would have had you released be- fore if he had not been keeping the outrage in reserve as last weapon of defense. When Doctor Melville gave me that scrap of paper he might have known something, for Sally Grimes. alias Mrs. Simon Trickey, alias Mss Maud Blair, made things quite clear tonight. Whether she did it because she thought she was going to die and wanted to ease her conscience, or from a desire to square accounts with a gentleman who had thwarted her matrimonial aims, Is beyond my reasoning powerS
 Miss Sally Grimes, always am-