Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-01-17

/ come in. heard a muf1ied cry and q
thud. She ran downstairs and found
! her husband gasping at the foot of
| the stairs. Not a pleasant thing for
a wife to find,
| Pugh was not dying. \ neighbor
! who was a physician, and one of the
! first to respond to the wife'S screams
| discovered that. Also he discovered
| some things that made him usher the
| young wife into her room and advise
| her to remain there-that everything
would be all right. but that she
mustn't interfere, with her eXicte-
mentS.
| When the police and the coroner
arrived, this physician pointed out
what he didn't want the wife to see.
, The lurking, would-be assassin had
buried his thumbs in his victim s
eyes and almost gouged them out in
his attempt TO throttle him. A blue
mark on the skin under the ears
, showed where the mans fingers had
pressed in with almost deadly pres
sure. The blue mark was on either
side of the throat. 1t represented no
chance grip OF the ASA sSins fingers
but a dreadful deadlinesS in the art of
strangling: and an art that is prac-
tised only by the Apaches of Paris
There was no Clue. Mr. Pugh could
robbed of the few pounds he had in
his pocket, and he had 10 enemies. so
far as he knew. lie had lately return
ed from a civil post in India and was
waiting until he could secure another
appointment under the government.
The police We're deeply concerned
because he was of a wealthy family
and high-placed one; Il cousin was
an earl and m attendant upon the
King and Queen. He, as well as his
wife. assured the authorities hat no
one could be seeking his life because
Of any amOrous affair--he had given
Few attentions 70 women other than
his Young American wife after their
marriage
When the police had done their ut
most 20 trace the wo ld-he SLAYER in
London thew remembered hat goug-
ing of the ewes and the hlue marks
GrGe" he ears and sent a. ;rSpector
20 Paris 10 ask that the in-nrmants
among the Aptches be questioned.
4
IT was while his inspector from
Scotland Yard was in Paris going
Ger here he Iist OF unsolved crimes
hat news came to him in q bulletin
f.'nm the Yard that a second attempt
had been made upon the lie OF Rath-
Nun Pugh. and that this time il had
been successful
The circumsta were almost the
same. Mr.. Pugh went home from his
club. He got out of his cab and paid
off his driver, as he had done before
He unlocked his door and stepped IN
side. His wife. again waiting for him
upstairs. heard a noise. She rushed
downstairs TO find him stretched on
the floor This time he died. And
again. the two blue marks were there
on his throat, and the thumbs of the
slayer had pressed into his eyes.
Inspector Day of London brought
those marks, and gouging of the eyes.
again 10 the attention of Paris police.
THAT was one of the features of the
death OF the German, Herr Spado,"
said NJ. Moran. the project. 1T was
an Apache. Monsieur lie Inspector.
who killed Herr Spade in the Rue
Michaud, and it was an Apache who
killed your NJ. Pugh. OF that we
may be certain. The Paris chief OF
police added. after a moment: And
II is reported that The Sparrow who,
we believe. killed Herr Spada. Is now
in England,'
When Inspector Day returned to
London he was shown a vague, shad-
oWy. but telltale imprint of finger