Evening Star Newspaper, May 17, 1925, Page 78

4 THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTO D. C, MAY 17, 1926—PART 5. RIGHT AND LEFT By Arthur Somers Roche Young, Rich, Without Enemies, Yet Mysteriously Murdered—Who Killed This Man and What Could Have Been the Motive for the Crime? HERE are cer of conduct from which occa- | sionally one does well to devi-| difference to the writef. ate. Anonymops letters are un ok ok ¥ worthy of c proper action on receipt of such al e heon' toldito o munication is to throw the un-|would have compelled that he sthered thing into the waste basket. And had Holland been er practice of another pi fession he zed in the | negs of the writer with regard to this Holland that | ¥ ould doubtless hive adhered to thelpack of the letter lay genuineness of |arrived, and in 20 minutes the whole 1in general rules | neither the presence nor the absence|motor ar, or a fire blowing out. But of ITolland’s employes would make any | erfes of alarm convinced him that it watchtully escorted. But the careless. vital matter convinced was the report of a revolver. | | down the stoop and in a few strides eration. The | QO Holland decided to go alone. 1ad|had reached Madison uvenue. There, He ran one, prudence | upon the sidewalk, just around the be|corner lay young Calvert. bleeding from @ wound in the head, and a glance told Morphew that the He was voung man was dead. A policeman rule. intent. detectice force of the clty was en- But the Holland Detective Agency | Lacking opportunity to find out|8aged in the search for the murderer. never destroyed any communication.| physical facts, he had logically de-|But the police efforts had availed however trivial or even insane, until| quced spiritual faots. ; nothing. is” was written at the end of a case. to do with a case which had means r it with extreme respes come to the detective fro unexpected sources. “If you want to locate Malbron, do exactly as told morning service next seat in the I right aisle. Arrive early in order that You may be certain of finding the seat Sunday. vacant. A Friend.” Certainly the letter was writeen by no feeble-minded person whose brain had become heated by newspaper ding of the exploits of Malbron and 1o efforts of Holland to apprehend he criminal And inasmuch as this letter had'j, the phraseoclogy of the note; gen- N0 uinenessd of purpose ched its end, Holland treated | by the writer's failure to take those Yor clues|precautions which inevitably accom- the most| pany each mallgn invitation to & se- Attend St Andr»w_‘h‘g‘.pr, vet he possessed, of course, the Take | formal apparel required for attend- row on the ance at a fashionable church. | | cret meeting Sanity and earnestness were obvious was indicate Holland was not a regular church- And if St. Andrew’s was anything, it was fashionable. And then, even as he was brushing his high hat, he changed his mind. He was conceited; he knew that he Was as prone to error as any one else Although those unwritten things in | the letter seemed to point to a cer tain sincerity on the part of the writer, description of his murderer. | that it was a cloth cap. This was not to be wondered at; the police had fio clues. Although half a dozen people had been within 50 feet of the young man when he was shot, not one of them could give any exact Summed up. the testimony of the various eye- witnesses amounted to this: A taxicab had rounded the corner from Fifty- sixth street; it was driven by a man in a sult that, according to one wit- ness, was brown and to another was blue. His headgear was debatable. One said that it was a chauffeur's leather-visored cap, another that it was a black fedora, and still a third Through the window of the machine a hand had been thrust:; a revolver in the hand had exploded, and young Calvert had they were both slim, dark and me- dlum height. But one who knew neither might readlly, given a general description, mistake one for the other. At any rate, tenuous though the theory might be, it was worth acting upon. Moreover, it was the only theory that presented itself. And so next morning he had a conversation with the sexton of St. Andrew's. Yes, the sexton had seen young Cal- vert enter the church. He had come late. Probably because he did not wish to disturb the worshipers, the young man had not taken a place in the Calvert pew down front. Instead, he had slipped into a seat at the rear of the church. 'Show me the seat,” demanded Hol- land. The sexton pointed it out. Tt was the end seat in the last row on the lefthand atsle. | * ¥k ok J_EST his memory play him a trick, Holland consult, | ed the anonymous letter. But his remembrance was correct. He had been ordered to take a seat on the right aisle. Now, suppose that the inurderer was one who had never seen Holland, but who had been told what seat the detective would occupy, and had been given a general description of Hol- Qo hone rsason was motits mors | UL LR H bcn thelgston s wltor | XDl R O D ot i oot FROM THE DOOR CAME THE HUGE FORM OF MALBRO mal would not have confined himself | Malbron might be its author. have seen the shot fired. The others |bent make such a vital mistake as | A | 7 g : 10 so few words. A wandering mind| In which case the less conspicuous|at first thought, as Morphew had [the faflure to differentiate between | naving walked a few blocks, stepped | his cheek, another burned into his n actor speaks of ‘right” as mear expresses itself ramblingly. Nor was | Holland was the more certain his|done, that the machine had back-fired. | hi§ left and right hand? | {into a taxicaub. Fe drove circuitous- ]‘.smp. And that was as clear an ac-|ing right to one looking at the audi- t written by a practical joker. | safety. Instead of the formal clothing| But the man who saw the hand | “Why wouldn’t they send man | 1y to a house near Sheridan Square.|count us Holland could give after- The ordinary person speaks o A practical joker would have been ated by custom, h a4 blue emerge from the rear of the taxicab|Who knew you?” demanded Pinelli, ! i !He dismissed the taxi and entered |ward of the capture of Malbre : to_the right as or more emphatic in his instructio ack suft and a plain g had screamed, and the rest of the peo- | the Ttalo-American. who had Lecome | Year or two he had held various sten-|(he house. lxactly 10 minutes later | ¥ % % a T took Fearful lest the precious point of his| It Malbron intended evil. Holland | ple had guessed that a crime had been | Holland's righthand man. ographic jobs. He had given these|the house was surrounded; men were | was not until four days later | the Tight as one looks toy al erry jest be dulled, he would have | would not be quite such @ shining |committed. The taxi had sped up| “A man who knew me wouldn't |up upon founding the Clever Club. — |i‘the adfoining buildings and on the | |7, Was, not until four dave dater| 50 B0 10, %50, 00 S0 cen insistent, would have made prom- | mark for a by Madison avenue and vanished. No have to be told, in order to identify | This information dizested. Holland|roor And Holland himself led the |, &t as to hear e tent sae o o . for a bullet. 1 i 3 : | Pinelli's lips what had happened. : jses | ool | oladiton, anegiie ARG | me, what pew I'sat in,” said Holland, | called upon the sexton of St. An-|atiack (hat buttered doven. the door. | T : ; pulpit toward the cc trolled d | 5 Then, lying in bed, with a bandage | This writer was not the one nor did | ’ifth avenue he smiled at his own| There were statements issued by “"That doesn’t answer my question,” | drew’s. He showed Burton's photo- Revolver in hand, the detective |gver one cheek and other wrappings o Senlece it e the other. precautions. members of Calvert’s household to|objected Pinelli. | sraph. e stepped over the splintered panels of | around his side, Holland listened to | No one else would 1 Sent forth in sanity, then. and in| " [f Malbron intended to emerge, on|the effect that, so far as his family | All right, T'll try to answer it. Let| ~Recognize him he asked. . _|the door and into a modestly fur-|pjinelli. Now, men who are w earnest, what was its purpose”jurder bent, from that haven in the |knew, the young man had had no ene- |us suppose that Malbron planned my | The sexton studied the harsh fea- 48 G'% 1" rhere “staring at him ' hurton went for his gun: T let;other men whom It was to answering this question that | underworld into which he had fied [imies. Yet Morphew stated that he re- murder, and sent me. or caused to he | tures of the ex-manager. . in bewilderment, was Burton. Be-|him have his, but just at that mo- | know are le to hav Holland set himself. some weeks ago. he would not do so on | membered that a tax! had followed 'sent me. this anonymous letter. He | “He was in this church last Sunday. | [}, PpiIdgrEment. was Burton ment - Malbron came through the| We knew that none of Malbre A ridge of flesh appeared hetween |, shining Sunday morning on Fifth | himself and the murdered man up | would know that there was an even |l know because I offered him—I was “What's the big idea?’ demanded |door. He got you twice, The bullet|would risk recognition. So it mus his keen gray eves and spread itself| gvenue. = Fifth avenue and across Fiftysixth|chance that you or other operatives|acting @s usher—a seat well down| —iWbats the Dig ldea®’ demanded |SP0F tie €08 308 WOTe. oRe bt POt anger to us. it e e iny yinkles| Night and some baser part of the|street. He had noted its slow prog; | would follow me to the church. You | front: Buthe wauMln't go more then | Bvrion. His hassh festures, ad | iiar bne ptintired; a Juib.| actor, st niost B Aeross hit well shaped forehead. city would be the hour and scene of | ress only subconsclously; not until [know the Malbron gang by sight. | wa; particularly noticed him [taken on an expression of bewilder- |bul O e e i aa e s Concentrating, his nose seemed 1o Malbron's reappearance. after the crime had been committed |Grant that he has recently acquired | use, although he was quietly |ment. W “)-‘l;,fif’r‘l‘d";f‘"hf’n'an\';"‘.{.fl.lyi | bron's wrist with @ bullet. But be- | with a record o ke on a sharper edge, and his high However, though he found cause for | did the trailing taxi mean anything to [ new members for his gang. They | dressed. he wasn't exactly the type -l‘" ‘”)Y"Infi Sirned ‘”)plh’r with his |lleve me, that bird put up a tougher| Pinelll whistled cheek bones to become bonler, while|mirth in his own fears, he respected|Morphew. But the very fact that the |would be men of a type to attract | that we see often in St. Andrew’s. He 'v”f‘.- " il i " |tight with one hand than Firpo gave | wonder of the world the thinlipped, wide mouth became & those fears exactly as he would have|murderer had followed the young | your attention. Malbron is no longer | looked more like Sixth Avenue than o Slen Hollnar eaid the datacs Dempsey with two. But we got|a stenographer hard slit respected the fears of another man|man. awaiting an opportunity to Kill. |ruffling it in the best society, able to | Fifth. if you know what I mean tive. “If you move, Burton, youll [him: he's in a cell now. But tell me, |as an uector Some people purse their s when'\whom he knew not to be overtimor- | seemed to prove that the crime was attract to his banner adventurous! “I think I de,” said Holland. et vonea d 3 Yoas, how aid you Jnow MaTovo Siaiand shen iinking. Holland owed his. ous. He was as alert as he rn(ex?d!nnl an act of sudden insanity, but a|yvouth from the upper classes. ”Dl * k¥ i3 -4\31‘““ it all about?” demanded |would be there? typing was so e s the purpose of the anonymous | the church as he would have been at | carefully planned affair. [can only get gunmen, professional ¢ e " Holland smiled feebly. “I didn't|expert could huve who described himselt by the | enterlng a known haunt of the arch: | Fat why | crooks. " You would recognize such a|"['HAT evening a young vaudeville|BURtew 0 G e e BT hoped it S hanal title of “Friend” amicable or|criminal. | This was the question that Ridgely |type at once, and so would 1. So, it | performer asked for lodgings at|ing," sald Holland. “It matches a| “But why did you hope it? How nd or inother expert eould inimical? The letter itself gave no| It was that Indian Summer season |Calvert put to Holland that afternoon. |was necessary for him to engage a |, 0f" O/™C The young gentle- [note you mailed to me last Saturday. | did you suspect Burton?” { ha nded ‘him so glue to the answer. It ight have|wsen fashicn whichihes {aken upiita|The detective had'hardly reached 16 lwan of a iype that we wouid: not|iDe Gle¥er Club. Hhe yourg eentle; | aote you melled fo e faat’Jeruzany | SiC Y00 SMERRIE HERRL o S e et been composed by friend or enemy or | Winter abode in the city flies to the |office when the elder Calvert's attor-|suspect.” Bt o s eRaintn & ey of Touesce Galyertis killed. He had sat in the end seat in| vou hope that Malbre by one completely indifferent to Hol-| country for one last week end of golf.|neys had got in touch with him, and| “But you just sald he couldn't get H, udrn;”"‘- 4 “‘: :flu “~]""‘° Faal Piom @ doo: IfEUR: nal came . n e Taetivow ion theiatt: sl st. | house?” Jand. Only this last alternative must|se. Andrew’s held less than half of its | the result was an appointment With |young bloods like he used to get,” pro- | Holland operativ coples of the Bill- | slight sound. Holland turned to see|Andrew's. Now, if he had been kill-| “I knew that sooner or later Bur be ruled out. An indifferent person | winter congregation this morning. So| the banker. tested Pinelli. board and the Clipper. A taciturn |the huge form of Malbron. The|ed by some one who thought that he | ton, if he were, as I suspected, the would hardly take the trouble to inter- | that Holland had no difficulty at all in | P Jijs ¥ Andilmean what § sa(ctsBut thaxe | SERE SR 000 ORI iae oo |ctimindl's ahotik. of ‘red Hats Beemed!j wusiT, it woull be hachune/satne) one | nevest: rre to Malbron's gang. dect nimaair inio! the ‘hattle: Betweer Jigetting the meatimentloned insthe st Lo oL S D L o o iSRSNI ishother itype (AU typerthat (80K GC foui, he ineverihalesq en_er nele oot or ped B e e e e oo e Malbron and Holland. Nor would a|ter. ‘The last few rome were vacame | A MA gray neither you nor I would recognize as i b : A oroug! i n < e e - e [ an ok chose features were 3 = gy " Jargon of the variety theuater. {see smoke coming from the man's|the left aisle But in matters as/|such i thoroughly indifferent persen have| Holland slipped into the last pew on| -Hv’ll‘}“ e I Calvers | & hired murderer: a man whom we 12 Nl mebiits 3l 11 Mt rontn | HE AT Smite i satwHEH! farsaediFin | erive fos Tttt e HE Line huaaiebhie | rati T fot 1 taken the pains to hide his authorship | the righthand side. He sat down in e e | g (0L have seen before and o', ;3% Ghonever Burton went out the |hair leaped and began eating into which aisle 1'd been told to | bron was in t} e ad taken. the e: seat. | bore s 4 . suspect. % pe i s {the 00! fre L& it 3 So st loc for | a5 luck * % ok % | " Tense, he awaited a sign of some| This afternoon, though shocked and [“X54"\¢hat type is that?" demanded | YOURK man could see him from his|the door frame gt i B o S s ) g | sort. None came. An hour later, Brieved beyond measure, he neverthe- | pinel)y window, and shortly mr}rv:xfltr \\u-ll'l‘u\'w s g ’hrl-m DG ”ou:ha;l alw at the n = s Babe Ruth T letter itself was a small sheet | SOFt: None came. A 0 i S oMbl rtrol of - % p ) saunter down stairs and o ito the | Never before had he believed that | der: rought he wa o Bt ke 1 letter ltsell was a smail sheet |y mewhat chagrined, he made his way e h;,fl,;‘,‘,{,,’,‘fisl Holland 'pleked up the znonymans |SMBCEE AONY AL0ES L0 SLL I CE e e R i s for | wouid ‘eoituse risnt ~ib An P of cheap typewriter paper. Tt had | out from the gloom of the church into | faculties, an his business | oo e read it over. Then he smiled | (COUNT 1uke him swift signs, and it |hair. The thing was absurdly in-|actor, or one connected with fhe | srom Hikb e Been i onta by g 1 the glare of Fifth avenue. He almost tion that had % |at his lleutenant. 2 s ot IeraatIe yataliaral 1t wad VINIBIo el | ikeat ey Niohld to antiis ot o '€ | Mor is ganie I ehea dopn By sefoms e core | career was visible in his manner now. | .. 11i, the ve wi |happened that he never was very far |credible; vet here it was ve- | thea woulg be guilty of con-| ever goes 3 i | expected a group of practical jokers : man or men | whe nei. the man we want, the man | o S5 v eer of the Clever Club, |fore his e Then the flames leap- | fuston b & in the trimming the water mark had|pid iy ® S0oUP of | . e 1 want you to get the man or men {whg killed Calvert, is a former actor L iepdd g A Sd Bl F CWhy?' dem nelli oK en ou The typing itselt had | might not be averse to erie s bt oz who did this. Holland,” he sald. “T [3@ ooy 8ot o e pher or| And on the third night Burton, led toward him. One of them seared Why?" demanded Pinel )een cut a e typing itsel /¢ | might not be avi e to having a bit of | ¥ » = . v d - 'y X-8 0 D! 2 bt of| jon't care how long it takes or how | 0 POSSIDIY Sa ex-bieno ne by a competent operator;|fun at his expense—to greet him iwith | : 4 e ™ |secretary. Perhaps he was not an T e = {much it costs. 1 want you to B¢ igctor, but he had to do with the P the evenness of each letter was proof [J°FS L et him. |t | theater.” &4 2 nothing ward iim. | the hat I'll do my 22 Fou' i ) enough of that. And the machine|Nor, though He lingered on the steps |, .Y9u know that Til do my best, You're kidding.” declared Pineili. | i n ln seemed to have left no distinguishing | untli the last worshiper had departed, | <4 Hojland. "% ked BOrraliot™ o1 I was never more serious in my X marks. Al the letters were in align. | did any one seek to attract his atten: S0iA the Tatler ‘As dscent u“"“BufF‘:’;"";‘a :’fl“'*":ie e ment. There were no ldlosyncrastes | “Son gespite all his logte, it nad Ve LivEnil maoiis tathes 1L Imanven asked Binelll e b L { spacing which would help in dis-|been & joke. Not a very elaborate | d l;“l'" ::V "Qel‘llgr Lot h*a‘)_ | Holland laughed. “I'm serious, but losing the identity of the machine. | joke, either. Whoever had planned it | o dirty intrigues. no double lite, noth. | May be badly mistaken. If I am, I Of course, no two typewriters, even | had evidently been content to chuckle | ine S ppiy Faers = ' |don't want you laughing at my rea- | X . jmed y ing like that. No saint, and T wouldn't 3 : though new and from the same fac | quetly. He had not cared to force| pate wunted him to bé. But the kind | SOnins: Call up police headquarters. tory, make exactly the same kind of | his merriment upon Holland's n tice. S a g = . 3 v nd out i Jeutenant lair is there, 1 : “ 1 il ~, 0t print. An expert could easily deter- s < of a boy that any man would have |, j i¢ 1o can give us half an hour of BY J. D. HUFHAM. because public sentiment against it| “According to rule, only one fight | North Carolina won two, and we two. - i 2 S o been glad to see his daughter marry. |} i " - was growing even then. Tn order to|oceurred on the day of the showing. | Both sides were in even and'the nine, if he had other samples where- 5 [ e e s hoansenasterftrail | his valuable ‘time. O & tih St n Wash = In orfer to d on I 1 in e again a with to guide himself, which machine | [JOLLAND looked at his watch. He | NOW, why did, Pinelli did as told. Lieutenant Blair ington lives 4 man who re. |Tevive an interest in it a big cock-|This was called for 1 a'clock. The |pext batte would decide the contest. had written a certain letter. An ex had planned a day’s golf. There| "R % UL L ction T be able | Was in and would be glad to see Hol- Inembers more about horse | 1Zht, North Carolina against the Na-|main was 11 maches and’ their x ok % % pert could even take this anonymous [ would not be many more Sundays like | 1o anawer,- replicd Holla “Before [1and. S0 b racing. ‘about’ fox ihunting. |(lonal Cauitel seast srranasd tolbe| welshts gradusted’ fram the' NOtth| (opmp twor cocks atraggied o while, oIt 5 o i S 5 e sl et DUNE. | fought in Norfolk, The terms |Carolina champion ‘D. D.'s.’ 4-pound- | mmunication and _ quite possibly | this—Fall would soon merge into Win- | e ‘reach that ‘question we'll have to| .~ What's it today?” he asked, afte nd about cock-AZhting, as Nt 2 ; texmaC 0 4 | Ther tre Neith Cavollea cob Fach the i tior Bt el e Te weach thiatiqusation yalLs haA ALt s inE these sports tsed to be in the Dis. | Were two thousand doliars the main |6. downward. Very imposing all the | . then the Ne Foliniacot! necessitate a visit to various sales-| Well he could catch a train, first! ™" Gy ‘T know you'll be thorough. And | .The Calvert case.” replied Holland. | rit” than any other local citizen. An |and a hundred dollars the fight, the jarrangements were. The pit was {n | GEHVered @ terrific cut a 1ol to rooms, to factories, and even then|snatching a luncheon at the station,| g1 heip you all 1 can. Domt b atratd | The lieutenant of detectives pursed | LTIt thah BoF QIBOF 008 O ons | malnkiplbel 1t Cockh the ialoe, i | ohel canfer (o n (ampts warehouse; |[UESIS S inet 1 Sumileh and fallito might end in failure. and get in 18 holes. iy s | his thick ltps. | chickens, the Esli ¥ ills, a he | Nor r ans d, 3 h was built upon piles and ex-j 12t g Jov Hanees. fhe Hellind operstins] Womvriow Lo weul I ssonikioe ([ L BT e Soell, what osi T ds for youl” [Shickons, the Eslin Re e, Ear | won. o hold a big ball to celebrate [tended out over the water. The pit | deeply the two '”‘“\l“:“"““/u ik and who was most expert in matters hav-| the office study the anonymous letter. Gu said there was no scandal | _“"Are you as familiar with the Rialto | (""(00 ghont the country until the | thelr victory and invite half the|was circular. about 15 feet so in| latout F Ing to do with typewriting. was at this| And next week Hansen might be able |in the life of Torrance. You're certain |28 You used to be in the good old days | (10 + "\ aq suppressed by law. The old | PEOPle in the county. jatmeter, inalosediby boarding a footi . f3 2o 0 AR e ae the moment winding up his vacation in a | to do something with it. [ of that?" B when vou were a sergeant?”’ asked| ; .cman -he is now past fourscore LS ‘“.'.'.,.}‘b""“ i e i, [rest of his fighting in another worl Wisconsin town where he had been| In the meantime, he'd forget it. | “Absolutely. Mind, no man knows | Holland. 1" was asked the other day for @ Story | (TN the early seventies of the last | ... LIS Mat Was of some brown sub.|Test of hi Ly e born But next morning when he awoke/| everything about the life of another,| “T kets to all the first | ,p,u¢ cock-fighting century came & young man into| o s keps o i operly tanb and let’s go h 1t's all over.’ Finding out any of the physical| Holland found that the letter still ve- | but I'd stake my immortal soul on i + | nights I “Took here*‘he aald. “Aren't you | gl e tine Slauinls. haudsame, | T0 kept weriliy order, as ol Tam o 0S5y SO ECS o 2 co facts that lay behind the letter was|cupled his thoughts. Unless all his| Holland nodded. “I'm looking for an ex-actor or MAN- | ,rraiq 1o be writing about cock-fights> | TOTh Carolna. plausivle. handsome, | Harrington said, ‘to gin tosinai [ el D e NOHIICan g ench; out of the question today | logic was at fault, it had been written| “We'll assume that you're right.|aEer who is also a stenographer,” said | {i'u ygainst the law. vou know, to fight | G2SRIng, and v SR achioalnte: et to’ lina. was' painted white: | SlSlEhiencdiup and crowed. Cheen And re-examination seemed to fur-| by no practical joker. Some one had|Now then. what do you know about | Holland {chickens, and nowadays a man ls | € and novitiate preaching. Tn those | Seats surrounded the pit and asc EREnE ol lhay.* saln one or itn doe nish no spiritual facts beyond those| Wanted him to attend St. Andrew's|his movements yesterday morning? Up in Westchester there's a lot of | jj110 (o he put in jail for even talk- [ SA¥S: WhEN COMEEMCAZion Was not 90 [in tiers, one above the other. ators Svohi bt 2ot 0 moneY I e Tegarding Thich he was siready con-|foF A welghty reason. That the “soms| “No more tiian the pepers have|hey stacks.” gramte] Bialr. “Let's YU | g ghout 1t. The United States Min- | S0 °0 SO0 SN Lt (o gp, S0 O {Fomm which ted been the officdf ST FOU Puta lot of mon vinced: that sanity and earnestness|one” had falled to come forward, had | printed,” repiied Calvert. {and me sander up there and look for | juter to' one ‘of the South American (1T SN2, FOACe SR SUBRERD T, faerved as the jber.. It was in jone|PCCOLTOCRSE. 0 Liad inspired the note. | failed to communicate in any way| “We had breakfast together. e |needles.” sousitrles I tiomb on forleush. W Is {8 8 RO S0 SRR . my [ Ohmer OF the Warshouse and had &|,. "0 .S D. D. espied his erst Now, {nasmuch as he could not de-| With Holland, did not necessarily dis-|asked me if I were going to church. | It may not be so hard.” suggested | 200 8"t 5 S0 O TR M ylere (o e ot Intreinaily. Toes|door opening on the outside. A while antagonist lving on the mat cide off-hand the purpose of the writer, | Drove the detective's logic. | I told him that T had some work to | Holland. {is‘any cock-fighting in that country he [ lo9ay: and, not e ae G |Phnutojthallightyi 50 iconits ppr q and bent over to strike 1olland set himself to solving the pos-| And then with the advent of the|do. He said that he guessed he'd go, | “Masbe you don't think so. Butiyould have meen some, so I amked|\iih & Past Sought out one of these| “The North Carolina cocks were in|Shproached and bLent over to strike sible results of obedience to the au-|morning paper he forgot for the mo-|And that's all that 1 know." untilis guy 18nds (o the actingigame. | iy “No,’ was his' answer, 4t is| DO SNIIEURE o8 SO IR PO PO e pan iab thetsouthiend ofthe ware [MTH B8 DELE The hIow ks mever thor’s request. The first thought that | ment the mysterious letter. “Then T won't harass you with any |lic's lable to hit bis ups and downs | i (NG S0 PIE SRR N (Sand y to “come back.’ as the saxing | house, and those of Washington City |Efven. for our whampion Fathered to came to him was the possibiliiy of| ¥or the paper was extremely inter. | more questions now,” sid Holland. ~ | pretty regular. Half the men on the | BIVRG (10 (0e (ho Sivilized coun |0y o B G were at the other end; (he pens were |Eether evers particle of his dyins danger. He had courage enough. The | esting. As a matter of fact, he could think |stage have been in business at some | 4o of the world now.' } sate i ’_-’{‘]_"J {!"_’h i a n? kept locked. Presently Tom Har e e hothe M o LR fact that he had succeeded in his| Torrance Calvert had been murdered|of no other questions to ask the be- | time or another. [ “But it was a great sport in its|Of ‘coming back.” The dream still|rington, the North Car pitter, SREOUE. S0 et 1 oo o h chosen profession argued against any | on Madison avenue. reaved parent. | “Well, maybe 1 can narrow the field he continued. “and fts devotees (£0¢8 on. Many try; few succeed.|peared, carrying. in a white cloth bug, | thront. ripned it open. tore open tl Cowsrdice on bis makeup. ‘But he| Calvert was the son and helr of onef Heleft¥he house ofigrief and visited |down a HiIE.” sala Holland. “SUDpOSe |;bered men famous in world his. | Tuets 18 axold saving, (4 cat oan rull, [the cock selected by our opponents|MnCRiDe and the cock fell biSeding jossessed his fair share f caution.|of the wealthiest bankers in New | Morphew. But the financier could add | you give e the dossiers ‘of all the |{UIPered, MED GEEANS R S0RE 1| but it cannot outrun ifs tails and, MY | for that dax's combat. The crowd | EASDIng and dying i R and keeping a rendezvous with an|York. His death would have been a|little to what had appeared in thelactors, or men connected With the | piisan warrior, was said to have | Utteraon. the lawyer, jn Dr. Jekyll|recognized Tom and a babel of voices | \Washington fghter outlived him a anonymous correspondent is not the | news story: his murder was a matter | MOTNIng papers. Nor could the wit- | theater, who have been convicted of |y (Sl (RGNt (white gn [aNd Mr. Hyde' said, ‘There is no|began chafliing him. S N RCaralE ) ire part of caution when one happens to| that called for screaming headlines, |eS8es of the murder shed any addi- | —or charged with—crimes of violence, | }To% FRCELT, SOCCNE7) Lave never | Statute of limitation to the Jaws of | “Cicero Clark, the Washington pit. |, “The ~oung North =Carolina re be a detective for whose life one like | Entirely aside from his professionai | tional light upon the tragedy. {1, let us say, the last 10 vears. HoW | oon’ihe reformer's viewpoint. Who is ;"111'\-:0;:';'\”:@“:' ’(!h‘:hlsgnl:}er:z‘n‘\‘l’:‘: ta ””5"“]"" e “erm him, cock-Aghting as & xmr:‘x“f"‘ux‘ %o and Malbron is eager nterest in all or ollard feit & * % could it take to do that?” : : b’ courage | follows and wrecks < |bag, and the crowd turned on him. | = as a sport had to land's assassination in so public a he had plaved golf onee with the | ['HIS much Holland had managed to | Blair. “Photographs, too? find a better show of courage than in | 1% asain. g from opposite ends of the room, the |4tlon to his advantage. 1f he had place as St. Andrew's Church. Of | young man: he had handled, with s ascertain by nightfall, however. | Holland nodded. hea T that will fignt to the | . The sermons of this chap who went | betting began in earnest. stopped with being a reformer, we course, the very fart that Iiolland | coss, a case for the elder Calvert. | The senior Calvert had noi been de: * % % ¥ Jast ‘gaap of his breath? 'The fame. |into North Carolina were burningly and good, but the chance to make a wouldargue against Malbron's at-| Eagerly he read the voluminous ac. | Ceived as to the mode of lifa of his ES hours atter Tiol- |cock only does What s his nature to i e B e i e e fempting AUl & o mizht have | counts of the murder, which, boiled | dead son. Holland talked with several | | ESS than three hours after do when he fights; and he would fight | (1€ start that grew rapidly. But h ¢¢TOM opened the white bag and|paly 1o bribe one of the North Car entered into the calculations of the | down. amounted to this: A Itioaten of he youns wisn, und i |- lend Gad It Siics Sfles, 8 Wew -] o by loft entively to himeels. Tup- | S50 BOL comlen! Witk fhe gncoem took from it the fighter that was | fn helpers te mut. Sonetiin in e criminal. Malbron was capabie of the| Calvert had attended St. Andrew's|Sured himself that no scandal lay be- | senger arrived at the Holland agency | o = 2f © 0 S0 S0 0 Gqvantage be- | $ e, i to represent North Carolina. He was |chicken feed that would make the expecte: 5 s hind the tragedy. with a bundle of photographs and ! : z reforming and began a crusade against ; 5 | ehick : nake th unexpected vesterday morning. He had left the gedy. 3 T he mey | Cause it shortens the contest. cocKfgnting. To-drew, up a bill to|smaller than.-the other, but a perfect loick enough mot to Aght. with . an Holland glanced at the clock over|church with Oran B. Morphew, the| And then, that night, in his own | transcripts of the S “You can believe me, young man, |pa® "t BTNRR: BT SO UR e, malk, | Tepresentative of his kind: small head, | Spirit. | The North Carolinians were the fireplace. He came to one of those | traction magnate. They had walked [aPartment, he bethought him of the | whoae pictures were inslde. =~ had|When 1 tell you that the generatlon |, ", k fighting a State’s prison of. | Nooked beak, and from the tip of his|qn the look-out for trickery and caught e en aecisiona chardcteristlo of him. | Rorthion Fifthiavenue sa far us Wicty. SECIYMINS Jotter mhlch ine fhad e A e O L e s T “HashyWhich approved cock:fighting wasinot [{CE SSCELELIE & SIe D BEROR O} ovivomed/combitoihiailong toed feet e | 1y mervn’ sod Banind. - Rat the o le would go to keep the appointment | sixth street. Here they had turned | felved Saturda~ evening. Could there [eliminated all save o e ey of | @ brutal one. Its men gambled, per-yfense, and he cock-fNghting prevailed, | 1oked the part that nature hac fash- | former. had already bet through his iade by his anonymous friend. And|east. Morphew's residence was just |02 31¥ Sonmection betwsen his recelpt | onie of the four kad Boen convicted of | pape; and they dranis axdent spirits 505 poa b RS BN ®" | ioned him for alone—a pitiless. relent- | pa] all his own money and mones be. s he glanced once more through the|a few doors from Madison avenue.|O7 that lstter and the murder of Tor-{a crime of e e e o1t | and they fox-hunted and raced horses, | /0% complicated his cause by fall. | 1€8. courageous fightinz machine. longing to some organization of which tter the absence of something in its| Morphew ascended the steps and Cal. | Fahce Calvert? them nad ussd a detdly WeARONINUH (it Hieyiwere Btaves maniwhenilthey Iy cE1° SOMElicKed h Gaughter of the | . -Clcero’s champlon was examined | ne wis treasurer. and. lost it al contents struck him forcibly. The | vert continued toward Madison ave- ere was no reason why any one | intent to injure, if not to kil '€ | came to act, and they hated a lie, and | & = thoroughly by the judge to see that|Xeedless to say, he didn't tarry in Jetter contained no injunction ordernue. As the traction man rans his|thould murder Torrance Calvert. At |of them had played small parts UPCH| iho life of ‘a_scandal-monger among | Chief breeder of B e e | the cock tallled in every way with the | North ~ Coralint areer ince, oy 11 ing him to visit the church unattended. | door-bell he heard a shot from the di.| least, no reason that Holland could | the &tage: the fourth had been Toad | (jon was as brief as a Winter day. | Yol + The Eirl wanted to be logal |description: then he examined ours in course he didn't get the gisl" Apparently the writer didn't care|rection of Madison avenue. As he|!magine. And he was convinced that | manager of a repertory company. | * * o, e B e o1 0® io¥al | tha.same way; after which the cocks £ £ liow many detectives Holland brought |explained to reporters, it might | prolonged Investigation would fafl to| He went over to police headquarters | jto her father and his friends, but I|or™oiuimed to Tom and Cicero, who e B with hi Which would indicate that |have been the back-fire of a|discover a reason. * | again and consulted Lieut. Blair. {¢’THERE are some phrases still cur- | think the chap was too experienced in |, 4" o0 000 0 AR S HEER0: B Aticient: Stone: A But 1f things happen without rea-| “I want the present whereabouts of | rent which show the popularity | 1ove-making for her to spurn him mn~1u_‘. foiReliat ench othor BilrrAtIes I i et . . | son, they occur because of accident. | these four men,” he said. { cock-fighting once had. ‘I am game,’ | ight, once and for all, as she should | 0 “set them oyt (o ‘"ghl 0 the WO stone axes, which may prove Windmill Power in Europe | What was the nature of the accident | Blair looked at the photographs.{gvs a person who undertakes some- | have done. % laeathe one: st to be among the earliest mn- = pe. that caused Calvert's death? | “Keeler,” he said, tossing one picture | (hing difficult; ‘cock of the walik'—su- n bravado, I think, she named one | €I Tete QEOOR- L Htiquities thus Tar found within the The bullet that killed him had not | aside, “died two vears ago. Ormsby|premacy: ‘heeled'—have the gaffs on | Of her father's game-cocks ‘D. D.', to limits of the United States, have NTON FLETTNER, the German inventor of the rotorship, is plan- | 1% a gigantic windmill Gesigned on rero-dynamical principles, which will | e some 300 feet in diameter, mounted | on a tower 650 feet high, higher than the Washington Monument and near- v as tall as the Woolworth Building. This immense structure for obtaining power from the wind will not muke‘ use of the Flettner rotating cylinde ch as used on the rotorship, but will | ve two large wing: or propeller | Llades, so constructed that they will | obtain the most out of the moving air, | wcording to the reports that have | reached New York recently. | The jous Flettner rudder, which used for steering both ships and | rplanes, will be used to keep the pro- ellers at the most efficient angle for | the particular wind velocity. The cross-sections of the wings will re-| semble those used on airplanes and | ihey will be designed so as to decrease | 10 2 minimym the air pressure on the ' vear side of the driving wing. The proposed windmill is striking in wize, but it is also unique in the method | of generating power. Instead of hav-| ing the large wheel geared to a single | ic generator, it is planned to| thount a small high-speed windmill on the tip of each propeller arm. These | usiliary windmills will actually gen- P wer by directly driving e tner claims th ) will mu oo olie,velovity vk the sl windiills A {1t to such an extent as to increase im-| mensely the amount of the voltage of the electric current obtained. The huge structure that would sup. port the 300-foot propellers presents a | very difficult engineering problem and a problem of major design to make the windmill wheel itself struc- turally safe and strong. The reason | for such a high tower is said to be that | the winds are steadler at such heights. No estimates of cost are contained in the information published in German nor is it indicated whether actual con- | struction of the windmill is contem- | plated. Cleaning the Subways. | A RANGEMENTS have been made | the Brooklyn-Manhattan Tran- ion to test a glant pneu sit Corpe | matic machine which is said to be of | on his par | part. sufficlent size and power thoroughly to | clean the suby while running as rapidly as a passenger train. The de- | vice is guaranteed, it is said, to re- | move from the subways every particle | of dust and dirt which has been accu mulating for many years and to leave | the tubes more spick-und-span than when the first trains ran through | them. - Two cars will do the work. On one will be a suction blower that will send | oul a blast of afr strong enough to dis- | the nd dust. and these| en will he drawn intn ‘her car Ly suction, he been aimed at some one else. This theory of accident must be dismissed at once. Tt was untenable, for Mor- vhew testified that the taxi in which the murderer rode had followed him- self and Calvert for several blocks. The murderer, then, had almed at Calvert. This very deliberation, this sinister biding of his time, proved that .the crime was not the passionate act of a moment’s thought, but a planned deed. Only, there was no reason for any one to plan Calvert's murder. A murder was planned, but was it Cal- vert'’s? If Calvert's death were ac- ident, this was the only kind of ac- cident it could be—a mistake in {dentity. It was a planned murder. But it had been planned for another victim. At any rate, upon this theory Hol- land could see possibilities of action If he assumed that Calvert had been murdered by some one who knew that Calvert was Cal- vert, he could see no daylight in the case. But this suddenly arrived-at theory gave him premises upon which could work. Now there was one person in New York whose murder was intended; there might be hundreds, but one he knew about. That one was himself. And he had been requested to attend vesterday's services at St. Andrew’s. Suppose that some one had mistaken him for Calvert” tie and Culyert did not resemble cack vilicr al all, suve lu the Tact shay is doing time in Joliet. Prendegast|;nq ready to fight; ‘pitted’—a contest is in Australia. s of two cocks in a pit; ‘can't stand “That leaves Burton, the ex-man-!{he gaff'--punishment too severe for ager,” said Holland. . ‘opposing courage; ‘blackleg,” of indif- Blair laughed. “And that baby ain't|ferent breeding, as a cock indicates hard to_find. He's manager of thepreeding by his legs. | Clever Club. Ever hear of it? A lot| ‘Theodore Roosevelt made popular of actors of the cheaper sort have s phrase that originated around the rooms on West Forty-eighth street.icock-pit: ‘Hat in the ring.’ In Eng- Burton formed the club. It's really|jand it was the custom if a person de- a sort of restaurant and lodging sired to bet 10 pounds to a crown house. T guess you can find Burton while a fight was going on he could there.” ldo so by simply throwing his hat, “Well, I'l look him up,” said Hol- | glove or handkerchief into the pit. It land. {was not necessary to say anything, “Want him pinched? T can do it|for the act was upderstood, and the easy as not. We have a few things teller began immediately to tell off {on him.” 140 deliberately: after which he cried, “Let him alone,” said Holland. {“Ten pounds to a crown is offered. Blair laughed. “Say, what's the big | Will anybody take it? Will anybody | idea?” take 1t?° ; “If 1 were sure it was a big one I'd| ‘“Acceptance might be made by | tell you,” said Holland. “Maybe in a | throwing a hat, glove or handkerchief little while—certainly much obliged, |into the pit. If no acceptance, vic- lieutenant.” tory went to the cock upon which the He went to his apartment, where he | odds were offered. | studied the record of Burton. The| “A cock was ‘dubbed’ when his man had been convicted in 1916 of a|comb and wattles were trimmed for ferocious attack upon a stage hand.| fighting. These phrases occur to me He had knifed the man, and been|offhand. There are, no doubt, others. given seven vears {n Auburn. Good| “Being a young man, perhaps’ you conduct had reduced his sentence to |like a little romance to sweeten your slightly over four years. Upon his [stories, so I'll tell vou about the last release he had found it impossible to and most famous cock-fight in which obtain employment in the theater. He | people of any prominence socially fn had become secretary to a stock- | North Carolina hal a part. Fifty selling corporation. He had become | years Ggo—that is a long time, isn’t an expert stenographer. But he had |it, vet it doesn’t seem so long ago to quarrcled violentiy with o fellow- | me—ecock-fighting as a sport was al- cploye and been dischurged, For a ready vn its last legs in the Tar Swate ridicule the voung preacher. This I pleased all the sport followers might- ily, and one of them, Judge Turnboll, sent her a pair of silver gaffs for ID. D. to wear. ! f course, the fellow's attentions were not open. Her father would not have permitted that. He used to see her clandestinely. Thus things were looking black for the cock-fighters; sentiment against their sport and the popularity of the leader-of the opposi- tion to it were growing hourly. Some- thing had to be done and done quickly. Accordingly, the fight and ball were planned. - G‘D HARRINGTON took 20 fight- ers from North Carolina to Nor- folk, and I a like number from here, and from these the main was made up. The fight was held at Lamberts Point on the Elizabeth River. Lam- berts Point is now only the name for a locality in the borough of Norfolk, but then it was probably seven miles away and had its own identity. It was the scene of many a cock-fight, riding tournament and of sporting and gaming bouts of all kinds. “Virginia rules were agreed upon since these prevailed in most of the contests in the South. The choice of weighing first fell to us and, accord- ingly, showing first went to our op- ponents who, also, had the right to match any one of our fighters they wight select against their choice from own. alueng thels proved or jeered nolsily, according as | victory seemed to favor first one, then the other. “At the end of five minutes the; were bleeding profusely and stagger- ing, drunkenly, too weak to leap from the mat. They reeled toward each other and fell. Our cock was badly used. His head dropped, heav- fly. The judge gave the count and Tom and Cicero placed them, lying down—they could no longer stand—on the white-painted line, breast to breast. Then the count began: ‘One, two, three, four——.' Suddenly the North Carolina cock raised his head, made two weak, ineffectual attempts to peck his opponent, then fell back, fluttered a lttle, his legs twitching, and he was still. They were both dead. “A mighty tumult of applause went up from the spectators that made the rafters ring. The decision was for| North Carolina. Then, while the dead cocks were removed the bets were | settled. | In the first battle next day we Washingtonlans were not a little chagrined over the conduct of our fighter. He had been fighting only a few minutes when he turned tail and ran. North Carolina won the next en- counter which, with the victory of the day before, made our opponents three to our nothing. The four following we won without a break; then North Carolina gained another, which put us even, 4—1. North Carolina then swined fuur suuights and we four,; been brought to the Smithsonian In- stitution by H. L. Straight, a brick manufacturer of . del, lowa, says Sclence. These ancient implements are crudely shaped and were discov- ered under 25 feet of apparently un disturbed clay, according to the in- formation given to Neil M. Judd, archeologist of the United States Na- tional Museum, who is investigating the find. The digging of a trench for the laying of a narrow-gauge rail- way in the clay pits used by Mr. Straight, led to the unearthing of tools. On account of the possible im- portance of the discovery, the Smith- sonian Institution is planning to send a geologist to make a careful study of the site to determine whether the axes are as antique as the depth of burial indicates. Mr. Judd pointed out that before the extreme antiquity of the axes could be determined, the report of the geologist showing geo- logic age of the.stratum in which they were buried must be receved. —e World's Oldest Bush. CCORDING to Dr. Edgar T. Wherry of the Department of Agriculture, a box huckleberry bush in Perry County, Pa., is the oldest world. This remarkable bush is mile and a quarter long and cove: the entire side of a hill. Dr. Wherry estimates that it grows bush in the a 6 inches a' vear. Taking that as a basis. the plant must be semettne like 12,000 yewrs old, ; Ed