Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-24

We discussed lt--yeS. He had al
ready read all the newspaper accounts >
The superintendent turned, pointing
to the man in the corner.
This is the man who found Mill.
waters dead" he said. II know him
he's man of thoroughly good charac.
| ter and his word can be relied on.
| think the best thing we can do is tx
get into a car and go to the scene OF
| the murder and let this man-Mar.
shall's his name-just tell you, on the
/ spot, what he saw, heard and discov.
cred. It seems to me-" he continued
as they went out, especially after what
you've told me, Mr.. Engleden, that this
business has sprung out of your uncle's
murderi Possibly this man was watch
! ed followed-and got rid of. II so, they
lost little time - whoever followed OF
watched him."
rs there no clue to anybody" asked
Engleden, as they drove of. Was moth.
ing SEEM"
You'll hear what this man Marshall
says when We get TO the place." an
swered the superintendent. His story's
best told at the exact spot.
The exact spot proved to be big. ir-
regular-shaped piece of waste ground on
the outskirts of the tom. Harrington
had grown through the spread of indus
trialism as such places always do, any
how, thrusting out a new limb here, an
other there, without apparent aim or
plan. The district to which its police SUI
perintendents car sped was a working
class one, of rows upon rows Of mean
streets and cottages; in the heart of it
lay the patch of ground just mentioned;
a triangle Of bare, CRASHES soil, with
heaps OF refuse dumped here and
there. and occasional depressions in the
one side OF 1t was hanked by long
line of dismal houses; another by the
high wall of a cemetery; the third by
the enbankment of a railway.
The car stopped at the corner of the
line of houses, close by the mouth Of
a narrow alley that broke that line and
vanished in darkness at the rear. The
occupants Of the car got out; the Hsr-
lington superintendent turned TO the
man who had sat in his Office.
Now, Marshall" he said, lust tell
these gentlemen all you know about it.
what you heard and Saw-everythmg :"
Marshall, standing beneath the light
of a street lamp, pointed to the mouth
of the dark alley.
81 live down there" he began. mo.
z JohnSon'S court. I was going home
late last night-this night, / mean-be-
cause I'd been to see friend of mine,
the other side of the town. Just as /
got hereabouts I heard IL strike from
the town hall clock, and stopped right
under this lamp post to put my watch
right-it was bit SLOW While I was
doing that two men came around the
corner, out of our aiiey, and made
across the waste ground. They were
walking very fast and I'd no chance of
seeing their faces. They were tall men.
should say the other mani mean
the man that was with the man
afterwards found dead-was the bigger
OF the two, II anything: they were both
what you'd call well-built men. I don't
know If they saw me or not. They
were talking--I fancied they were
arguing, but couldn't catch anything
that was said. They walked away
ton OF the bridge over the road yoIlder
the ROAD thai goes under the railway
enlbanknient I put my watch back in
my pocket and was turning away
homewards wher I heard a couple OF
shots, ons following instantly on the
other. ] locked sharp round, where
the NTH had gone, and then set on
after them. There's a great dump "
rubbish across there in the middle Of
GHlS waste ground suddenly saw one
man appear from behind it, running
fast towards the tunnel under the
bridge. shouted, but he ran Out Of
sight--r7n positive he ran through the
tunnel. Tne:c plantation bevond
that; it Iuns alongside the foot of the
embankmant for some distance. I
should say he WAS making for It. He
ran, anyway, straight for that tunnel"
That shows he was a man who
knew the locality" remarked the Far
lington superintendent, glancing at Mai
linson. We'll, go on MARSHALL. What
did you do?"
Il ran on till came up to that refuse
heap told you about-you can just
make 1t out from here, against that line
OF gas lamps; 1t stands high UP, you
see-they've been dumping stun there
for years. skirted round it. All of q
sudden came across the other man
He was lying on the ground. I'm not
sure that he was dead when benz