Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1930, Page 29

The Wrist Mark Copyright. 1930, by North American By J. S. Fletcher Newspaper Alllance and’Metropolitan Newsraper Service. SYNOPSIS, Col. Engleden, formeriy the povernor ©f Southmoor prison, s found dead. The police deljeve that he has been mur- dered. A loborer reports having seem three men on the might of the murder at a spot close to the stretch of river where the bdody was found. Sefton Engleden. the colonel's mephew, bepins an investigation of his own with the @id of his law clerk. They find in the dead man’s diary en entry that tells of the escape of two comvicts from South- moor vears ago. They also learn that the colomel, just previous to his death had sent a message to the authorities at the prison asking whether any of the warders who were at the prison in his time are still there. Johnsam advances the theory that the colonel mav have encountered the escaped comvicts and that they killed him. Mallison, superintendent of police, does not know of this development. He tells Engleden that bank motes that were known to have been on the colonel's per- 20m Rhave been traced and that it has Ddeen estadlished thet they were changed by & soldier from a mearby barracks. Johnson and Emoleden decide to ask the Present governor of Southmoor to send them the mame of an er-warder who may possidly pive them aid in unravel- ino the situation. They receive an enswer suogesting that they retain Mill- waters, ome of the warders in charge of the comvicts who escaped. Accordingly they send for ‘Millwaters and lay the situation before him. Since leaving the prison he has beem emodoed in private detective work. He accepts the com mission and, a few hours later, he is Jound murdered. Maliison brinos Engle- @en word of the crime. The man who found the body tells of hearing and seeing & man flee. EIGHTH INSTALLMENT. OHNSON remained lost in thought as he and Engleden went back to Barowsburgh by the noon train. Engleden let him alone. He himself was cudgeling his b:x’m in_the effort to solve this last problem: Had the murder of Millwaters sprung out of the murder of Col. Engle- | Engleden. “How did the £5 note come | into_the soldier’s possession?” | “That is something that may be | found out and, again, it mayn't,’ re- |plied Johnson. “But no soldier busi- ness for me! Let Mallison pursue his own line—we'll take ours.” What is ours?” sald Engleden. “Hanged if I can see it—especially after | 1ast night's work!" | “ours is to find out who it was in this | town, or in this neighborhood, that Col. | Engleden recognized as one of his old | charges between his arrival here on Sunday evening and Monday afternoon, | when he sent that telegram to the pres- |ent governor of Southmoor,” replied Johnson. “In plain English, we must | narrow our net! “I was hoping that Millwaters would | have been of the greatest assistance in | helping us to do that,” observed Engle: den. “If he'd recognized somebody- Johnson allowed himself to give vent to a grim chuckle. “Poor chap!” he said. “I think he did recognize somebody! Little doubt of that! Well, we may have to fall back on_somebody else.” Had Johnson known it, the somebody else was already awaiting their arrival. When they walked into the hall of the | Castle Hotel they confronted a tall, | soldierly-looking man who was in con- | versation with the landlord. Christmas | directed his attention to_them, at the | same time motioning to Engleden. “This gentleman has been asking for you, Mr. Engleden.” he said. “This is Mr. Engleden, sir: this, Mr. Johnson, I can't give your name, sir—" “My name’s of no particular impor- tance at present, Mr. Landlord,” said the stranger, smiling. *“But you shall have it after I've seen Mr. Engleden.” He turned to Engleden. “Perhaps we can have a word or two in private?” he sug- gested. “I have come & long Way to see you—all the way from Southmoor,” he continued, as Engleden led him toward his sitting room, “Allow me—Capt. Shoreham, deputy governor of South- moor Convict Prison. The fact is, Mr. Engleden,” he went on, when they were all three in the room and Johnson had carefully closed the door, “the governor and myself, in view of what you told THE 'EVENING "STAR, WASHINGTON. D. C., 'TUESDAY. FEBRUARY 25, ' 1999, dead on the outskirts of the town. The murderer got clean away.” “Any clue to him?" “At present, none. “You think this arises out of the previous crime? “It seems to me so. Yes!—that's my conclusion. It must have done.” “There's a fact not to be overlooked, though,” interrupted Johnson. “Mill waters, who, according to his own ac- count, has lately practiced as a private inquiry agency, told us last night that he was killing two birds with one stone by coming to Harlington. In other words, he'd another job there. He didn’t tell us what it was. But the murder may have risen out of that.” Shoreham nodded—and ‘glanced at the table, already laid for lunch. ‘May I lunch with you?” he said. “There's a great deal to discuss, and— “I was just going to ask you,” inter- rupted Engleden. “We've had all our meals here, in private, for that reason. There is, indeed, no end of things to discuss—and, up to now, we haven't got much further. “If you would give me a sort of re- sume of the whole story,” suggested Shoreham, “I might be abie to offer one or two plans of campaign. For example you're of opinion that Col, Engleden, when he came to this town, recognized somebody who had been under his charge at Southmoor, and that he had | reason to know that somebody to be, say, a bad lot, or an undesirable lot— or something of that sort?” “Well, something rather more defl- nite than that” replied Engleden. “From certain discoveries we've made, Johnson and I believe that, when he got here, Col. Engleden recognized one, or perhaps both, of the men who made a sensational escape from Southmoor dur- ing the time he was governor there.” “You mean Snelling and Hardle? I remember that. Most sensational affalr, as you say. But what reason have you for_thinking this?” The end of that story did not come until well after lunch was over. Even- tually Shoreham was in possession of all the details, “You think, then, that in some man here Col. Engleden recognized one of these two men?” he asked. 'Yes—or that in two men_ here he Wfill. are there any solicitors’ names?” ‘Several—in various cited cases,” said Johnson. “But they convey nothing.’ “All the same,” remarked Engleden, “ever since I heard that my uncle had been in that court I've had a convic- tion that it was while he was there that recognized both men!” replied Engleden, | e made some recognition of some man ‘'The two escaped together—probably they have stuck together. “Are there any men in this town or neighborhood that you suggest “No! All the men we know anything of here, or that Col. Engleden was in the way of seeing, appear to be highly respectable characters—country gentle- men, well-to-do tradesmen, and so on.” “You say that you've ascertained that he visited the magistrates’ court that Monday morning? He'd see a mixed ssemblage there! And most prominent of all would be the magistrates on the bench and the solicitors at their table. Now, I remember that the man Snelling was a solicitor. Of course, he'd be struck off, T suppose, after his trial, but— could he have got admitted again under another name? If you could find out who the people were that Col. Engleden saw in court that morning it might—-" " said Johnson. He rose from the table and went across to a desk, on which lay a pile of newspapers. “I have the local papers here, amongst others,” he continued. “There'll be one that has the local police court news in for that particular Monday. Yes—here we are! Barowsburgh Magistrates’ Court, Monday. Before the mayor, Alderman F. R. Simpkins; Alderman A. Sadler; Councillor S. F. Bratten, J. P., and Mr. J. Sanderson, J. P.” “‘Magistrates,” said Shoreham. “Well, what do you konw—if you know any- thing—of that lot? Anybody there that you would suspect?” “No!' replied Engleden. “The mayor's a doddering old chap, over 80, T believe. jeweler in the town: Bratten an equally réspectable linen draper, and Sander- son is a country gentleman.” “All above suspicion,” commented Shoreham. “On the surface, anyhow! | | | Sadler is a_highly respectable | or men. As far as we can ascertain, it was the only public place he visited. He must have seen somebody there!” “It's always been a marvel to me” Shoreham sald meditatively, “a positive marvel, that that chap Snelling was | never recaptured! I know, of course, that he had wealthy and influential friends behind him—must have had, or they couldn't have managed what they did—but still, descriptions of him were circulated all over, broadeast. And Snelling was good to identify—anybody could have identified him from one thing only. Snelling on his right wrist carried the most peculiar birthmark T've ever seen; a mark—nhullo!” He stopped 'short, staring at Engle- den. Engleden had suddenly leapt to his feet. His lips were parted; his eyes glittered. It was plain to those watch- ing him that he had remembered some- ng. (To be continued Bible and Finger Prints. Quoting from the Book of Job, chap- ter 37, verse 7, Detective Sergt. Garrett of Scotland Yard declared at a recent inquest. at Portsmouth, England, that the Bible showed the infallibility of identification by finger prints. The verse reads, “He sealeth up the hand of every man: that all men may know His work.” The inquest was on & man who was found dead under some bushes and was identified by finger prints as George Yates of Battersea. Garrett sald that since 1901 Scotland Yard had identified more than 300,000 persons | who otherwise would never have been Real Estate Loans (D. C. 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The theory was that, when Millwaters | Engleden's term of office” left the saloon-bar of the Station Hotel | = oro s, <ol g the previous evening, he had recognized | ;T &wIully obliged to v i some man who had just gone out and | had followed him into the street. There had arisen a difficulty. According to the two barmaids, the saloon-bar had been unusually full of customers that eve- ning, and about 10 o'clock, when there were two or three trains almost due to leave the adjacent station, several men gone out about the same time. No one had seen Millwaters in conversa- tion with any other customer; he ap- to have sat in a corner alone. ut the Harlington police, by 11 o'clock that morning, had unearthed a man, a frequenter of the saloon-bar, who had been able to give some definite infor- mation. He said that he had remarked Mill- ‘waters as a stranger and had wondered ‘who he was. He had been there all the time Millwaters was in thie bar. Mill- ‘waters had come in carrying an over- coat, a hat and an umbrella. He had laced these articles in a chair near At .10 o'clock a group of three or four men—none of whom was known to the informant—went out by the side door into the ‘street. Millwaters suddenly snatched up his hat and went after them, leaving the overcoat and the um- brella behind. The informant thought, of course, that Millwaters was coming back. When at 10:30 he hadn't re- turned, he drew the attention of one of the barmaids to the articles in the chair. The barmaid said it didn't mat- fer—the gentleman was staying at the hotel—he’d been in the bar before din- mer for five minutes. The local police were now endeavoring to trace the members of the small group of cus- tomers followed by Millwaters. Johnson, however, as his first words m&d when he came out of his reverie, not been concerning himself with the Millwaters affair. As the local train drew up at Barowsburgh he glanced at Engleden. “Here once more,” he remarked, “and we'd best confine ourselves to our own iness. I've formed two definite con- elusions. “Well?” inquired Engleden. “The first is that the £5 note changed by a soldier at Harlington is undoubt- edly one that belonged to Col. Engle- den!” replied Johnson. “That,” remarked Engleden sarcas- , “Is a very profound thought of Johnson! The £5 note certainly ged to Col. Engleden!” “The second,” continued Johnson, “is that the soldier who ohanged the £% note is not Col. Engleden’s murderer and knows nothing about the murder. Stop, though! I'll qualify that. I mean —he didn’t know who murdered Col. Engleden.” 'What are you driving at?” asked | very help we want! But—have you heard the latest news?" “I cant say that I have. T'd only been here a few minutes when you came in. I came frcm York this morning, by car. The landlord was just asking me the very question you've asked when you appeared. What is the news?— something relating to this affair>” “The news,” replied Englede that Millwaters, an old warder—' “I knew Millwaters!” “Millwaters, whom I'd got down to help in the way I hope you'll be able to help, was shot dead last night, at Harl- ington!” Shoreham's face became very grave. “‘That’s serious news,” he said. “Where is Harlington?” “Fifteen miles away—the principal town in the district; a big manufactur- ing town. Johnson and I saw Mill- waters there last night, at the Station Hotel. We left him there about 9 o'clock; an hour later he went out of the hotel, and at 11 o'clock was shot HOIC 'PIANOS FOR_ EN FREE TUNING UNDER RENTAL CONTRACT WORCHS 1110 G EST1879 “BROMO QUININE” is GROVE’S There is no other Bromo Quinine Grove’s Bromo Quinine is the safe and proven remedy for colds—the first and original cold tablet. 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