Evening Star Newspaper, March 11, 1922, Page 5

| __THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGION, D. (. SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1922. — e cles in its way—well, we gre practic-| “Who was it that gave the prescrip- blue or blue-black dye—is placed in Farrington and by the druggist. I dazed. Farrin : i , we 3 4 L t 5 J gton seemed nervous way. That is d 3 o Ing an art that calls up ail the mem- | tion to Mrs. Vandam originally? She|the Ink to make the writing visible|have compared the writing of the|and ill at ease. Mrs. Popper. who had | of this cabinet i e il O Canixieenth contury Italy. i, «i}s dead and cannot tell. The others| at first, and gradually fades, €ving]| original prescription with a color | Fotgitte ‘ef her ampeine hinienical| heard of ‘these ruppiugs before. w . have some of the contents of the ;Iv&n':h::u.r:::rlufioge:vs:: (:ehopg_:x: place to the black of the tannate Scale of my own construction, and 1 culty bl ter esiion wane ‘.?."‘?,;1.5‘.!’.1-.:‘;:5,2?“,‘.1 e - '-’,.'fi;“':;',o:’“fz’"‘gg‘l’ tunate womla e P ubetituced tne fata] cap- | WhICh is formed. The dyestuffs em-|have matie chemical tests. The drug-|dam was crushed. ghost red-handed, There is & limif °: that they show. traces of morphine. |sule in place -of the harmless. The |Ploved In the commercial inks of to-| gist's ink conforms exactly to the| I have not only arranged this lab-| to what you can do the first time yon- * | Was the morphine In such quantities | original prescription is here. I have | day vary in color from pale greenish | writing on the two pill boxes, but|Oratory so as to reproduce Mrs. Pop- enter a man’s house, and, besides. that ® as to be faial? Without doubt. But | been able to discover from it nathing | blue to”indigo and deep violet. No not to the prescription. One of the|Pers seance room,” began Craig|has no time to arouse suspicion in equa 4 '3 ! at all by examining the handwriting. | two give identical reactions—at -all | other three inks conforms by test ab- | afresh, “but T have had the cabinetthe mind of any one. But science has fl?fl l“:’cxalfnn“nlddg:l&[e-l‘tmilr’nwt[:ec?“e|Nor does the texture of the paper in- | events, not when mixed with the iron|solvtely to the Ink in that prescrip-|Placed in relatively the same position {# way out of every dilemma. I deter- BY ARTHUR B. REEVE of one inconsistency. Tae usual test |dicate anything to me. But the ink— ltunnale to form the pigment in writ- | tion signed ‘Dr. C. W. H.’ as a blind. | & 8imilar cabinet occupies in M an- | mined to learn iomething of these wh - .ah, the ink! In a moment my chain of evidence|dam's private seance room I¢h shows morphine polsoning fail-; &% ¢ 7% 0Ly seem very similar, Tsup-| “it Is owing td the difference in|against the owner of that bottle of Vandam munsion. raused and glanced first at ed in this case. The pupils of her n : F : . 3 o . 3 T pose, but to a person who has made | these previsional coloring matters|ink will be complete.” | “One night Mr. Jameson and my-|Farrington, then at Mrs. Popper and One of The Star's Week End Fiction Series. t.x“,:",;‘;["‘}fw'}'"v;:“r'e‘;mfi contract-) DOLtidy of the chemical composition | that it ls possible to distinguish be-| T could nol help but think of the |self were visiting Mr. Vandam. = At|thelatdr Vandam, = e ’ - Now, _ th -olof ink they are very different. Ink |tween writing written with different|two pendulums on the shelf behind | precisely 12:30 we heard most unac- n e o s l’:‘;‘f“'{;}" c"“e‘:,’e‘r c',‘l“,:: {s composed of iron tannate. which |kinds of ink. 1 was able easily to|the curtain, but Craig sald nothing | countable rappings from that cabinet. | ¥ loctor, i B o e oL ¢ i cley e O fui | on exposure to alr glves the black of | obtain samples of inks used by’ the|for a moment to indicate that he re- |1 particularly noted the position of |F4T ton. Mrs. Popper and Mr. Van- in the use of this drug where others | writing. ‘’he origmal pigment—say | Vandams, by Mrs. Popper, by Mr. ferred to that apparatus. We sal:the cabinet. Back of it ran a hall-' Fifteenth Page.) had failed the drug must be skill- v The story thus Par: a man who coyld truimp up an excuse | fully mixed with something else. In } i Galled” by Dr. James Homson. | like (hat whefh a bereon. was caught | that first box of capsules there were hysician, to solve the Vandam case. | with the goods was capable of almost | Six. The druggist compounded them escort the doctor, the inspector, Mr. Each Story Complete in Three Installments. N Le Vandam ease The executioners could not separate those Lovers, in nconsciovs. one BIght and died | #RYthing, eorrectly according to the ‘prescrip- a death grapple over one small piece of Bread. e e { wuvegi of this fake seance ex-|tion. But between the time whenl claimed Craig. *I have let it go on|they came into the house from the e merely for the purpose of opening the druggist’s and the time when she took | ’ Iritualism. | eyes of a cer deluaed gentleman | the first capsule, that night, some one | influenced b | in this room. Now, if you will all be | Who had access tothe house emptied her manager. it X " | scated, I shall have something to say | one capsule of its harmless contents ves 1 message from his wife each night, that will finally establish whether|and refilled it with a deadly dose of ud Cralg Eoes 10 see him. secretes a machiue | Mary Vandam was the victim of acci- | morphine—n white powder which iy . . & cabinet, listens to the old man recel dent, suicide or surder.” looks just like the powder already In series of rappings purporting | With hearts beating rapidly we sat!the capsules. John’" “Why, then, the normal pupils of] fhen gels ac in silence. > place sma s | PCraig took the “beakers and test|the eyes? Simply because the erimi- | nd to have the prescription of tubes from e shelf behind the cur=:nal put a little atrophine, or bella-! b . filled again. tain and placed them on the little donna, with the morphine. My tests| . ennedy gets samples of ink from the drug- | deal table that had been so mersily | show absolutely the presence of 3 from the Vandam librazy, trom Mrs. Pop- | dancing abolit the room. atrophine, Dr. Hanson,” said Craig. . e_presceiption I"'rnv :ncrtusmg irequency with hawTi‘::g ‘l,o tthe %lyslcln;x. : Rfregied. 1 which tales of murder by poison ap-| “The best evidence, however is yel B T At fomas. | Pear In the newspapers,” he began! to come. A second box of six cap- formally, “is proof of how rapidly|sules, all intact, was discovered yes- 'y made us nearly | zat10ns across the seas. Human life |sules. One contalns no quinine at all e g “qf'."}“!"'"’,:{;'*',;r;g;d";'xs cheap in this country. but the ways | —it fs all morphine and atrophine. Aeked 5y matertalisation of Vandam's eon. | in which human life has been taken |It is. without doubt. precisely similar > ad finaily Mrs. Popper cons among us have usually been direct. | to the capsule which killed Mrs. Van- . Kennedy then ed him | simple, aboveboard, in Keeping wita . Another night or 8o and Henry . endivg with, “Does Mrs. | our democratic and pioneer traditions. | Vandam would bave died the same N it ot o j The pistol and the bowie kifife for the | death.” e et the same peeson has done. the | individual, the rope and the torch for| The old man groaned. Two such| J) e R e puiee ot thas worn. | the mob. have been the usual instru- | exposures had shaken him. He looked il e cre was a wild | ments of sudden death. Eut when we | from one of us to another as if noti am as if some one Lad stabbed Mrs. Pop- | begin lDd |;|!sel Duisnns l’llu!r:. artfully knn\v'l(ng i:ix \;hol\? dfie uould‘ trust. compounded in order to hasten But Kennedy hurried on to his next — expected bequest and remove obsta- ' point. HE lights flashed up as Ken-| nedy turned the switch. Dr. Hanson finds that | 2 k i { illzati terday in the possession of Henry nedy, | ing on the aspects of the older civi] Vandam. I have analyzed the eap- 1 ¢ A man was lying flat on the floor—it was Inspector O'Con- nor. He had succeeded In slipping noiselessly, like a snake, below the curtain into the cabinet. Craig had told him to look out for wires or tarcads stretched from Mrs. Popper's clothing to the bulging curtain of the cabinct. Imdgine his surprise | when he saw that she had simply freed her foot from the shoe, which ! was carefully holding dow h a backwood movement was reaching out into the cabi- net behind her chair and was doing the rapping with her toes. | Lying on the floor he had grasped her foot and caught her heel with a firm hand. She had responded wita a will yell that showed she knew she was trapped. Her spcret was out. Hysterically Mrs. Popper began to upbraid the inspector gs he rose to his feet, but Farrington quickly inter- posed. | ‘Something was working against us tonight. gentlemen. Yet you de- _ manded results. And when the spirits | will not come. what is she to do? She forgets herself In her trance; she pro- | duces herself the things that you all rould see supernaturally if you were in_sympathy.” E The mere sound of Farrington's eemed to rouse in me all the I felt that "A wave of relief swept through Latimer. The woman was too weak to FIGHT him for the bread! e HE test was by hunger,”said Slake. ® ‘ “Ten days in adjoining rooms—a glass partition between so that they could l Ou e e [} see but not encourage each other. On the tenth day the glass partition was removed Two men and a slim, seventeen year old girl whirling through air from and one piece of bread thrown in to them, as trapeze to trapeze, high up against the topmost canvas of the giant cir- meat is thrown to starving animals caged to- C€us tent. And this was the first time without the safety net. Then the gether—you know the rest. It was di¥ficult for girl with only ONE man! Andshe HATED him! 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