Evening Star Newspaper, February 26, 1930, Page 24

The Wrist Mark Copyright, 1930, by North American By J. S. Fletcher Newspaper Alllance and Metropolitan Newsraper Service. SYNOPSIS. Col. Engleden, formerly the povernor ©f Sowthmoor prison, is murdered. A laborer reports having seen three men on the night of the murder at a spot close 2o the stretch of river where the body was found. Sefton Enoleden, the colonel's mephew. beoins an investigation of his own, with the aid of his law clerk. The colonel’s diary tells of the escape of two convicts from Southmoor vears ago. They elso learn that the colomel. just before his death, had sent a message to the prison authorities asking whether any of the warders who were at the prison in his time are still there. Johnson be- lieves that the colomel may have en- countered the escaped convicts and that they killed him. ©f police. does ot ment. He tells Engleden that bank notes that were known to have beem on the colonel’s person have been traced. and 1hut it has been established that they were changed by a soldier from a mearby barracks. Johnson and Engleden retain Millwaters, one of the warders in charge ©f the convicts who escaped no the prison he has been private detective work. He accepts commission and, @ few hours later, he is murdered. The man who finds the body tells of hecring shots and seeing a man flee. Capt. Shoreham, an official at Southmoor, arrives with descriptions of the escaped convicts. One of them— Snellino—had a peculiar birth-mark on | his right wrist. Enoleden recalls that | Sanderson, on whose property his uncle’s Body was found, wears a heavy steel dracelet on his right wrist. Since leav- engaged in | | NINTH INSTALLMENT. | HERE was dead silence m the room for a moment; then Shore- ham spoke. “Yes he said, softly. Engleden?” Engleden glanced at Johnson. “That man Sanderson of Wraisdale Abbey!” he exclaimed. “He wears a sort of steel band, something like a bracelet, but plain steel, an inch and a half wide, round his right wrist! I saw it when we found my uncle’s body Johnson may have noticed it since he's seen Sanderson at close quarters | two or three times.” “Neo!” replied Johnson. as all that. No!” “It's there—was there, that morn- ing,” repeated Engleden. noticed it 85 something very unusual. Not a wrist watch, you understand, but just a plain band of steel—highly polished. I saw it clearly—he stretched out his right hand to point to something.” “Many men wear bracelets now- | remarked Shoreham. | “Young men, perhaps. ' But this | man!—not the sort to fall in with fashionable fads, I think. And—steel!” | said Engleden. “Plain steel!” | “What's the man like?” inquired | Shoreham, & “A tall, well made man, good looking, | with a very full beard, dark, turning slightly gray,” replied Engleden. “Snelling—if that's what you're think- ing about—was a tall, well made man, | and what's called handsome, in a dark, | somewhat daredevil way, d Shore- | ham. “The sort of man admired by women. But the convict dress, and the convict crop, and a convict shave— | eh? They don’t add to a man's appear- ance! It would be difficult to identify Snelling the convict in Sanderson the | gentleman! Unless——" | “That mark?” interrupted Engleden, | eagerly. “What was it?” “Birth mark. Queer mark as ever I saw, just above the bone that sticks out on the right hand upper side of the right wrist—don’t know the technical name for it—I mean for the bone. Right in the center of the outer sice of the wrist, you know.” “That's precisely where this man wears that steel circlet!” exclaimed Engleden. “And why does he wear it? I've known men who wore a leather strap around their wrists, a shackle, for strengthening a weak wrist when play- ing golf or cricket, but—a steel one.” | “Well, there'll be a reason,” said Bhoreham. “But 1t won't be to remind | him of handcuffs, you may be sure!| What is this man? ~ Somebody of im g_-;runce. of course, if he's a magis- | “He owns the Wraisdale Abbey eswaie,” replied Johnson. “As Col. Engleden’s body was discovered on that gvl)lfly I naturally made some quiet quiries about it and the peoplc con- nected with it. Sanderson came to this neighborhood a few years ago— five or six, I think—as a purchaser of the estate. It's not a big one—there’s & nice house, a fine park, running down to the river, with the remains of the old abbey in one corner, a couple of small farms and few cottages. I heard that he gave 20,000 pounds for the lot.” | “Snelling had money,” remarked Bhoreham. “And, as far as I remember | the case, it was understood that he| had 2 well-to-do wife and rich friends. | Is there a Mrs. Sanderson?” | “There is,” said Johnson. “I've seen her in their car with him, here in the town, several times. Fine woman— middle aged, of course.” Shoreham smoked in sflence for a “Ye: “Not so close “Queer business that escape,” he said at last. “It beat all of us. Col. Engle- den was awfully upset about it. No fault of his, of course—no fault of | anybody's. But I've often wondered if | the two warders were squared.” | “Col. Engleden, according to his diary, had a high opinion of both men,” Temarked Johnson, “Col. Engleden was the sort of man Who always wénts to think well of everybody,” replied Shoreham. “But— I have wondered that. So have others.” “I don’t think Millwaters was squared =from what I saw of him the other night,” said Engleden “Perhaps not. Millwaters was a very decent chap—conscientious about his job. But the other man, Settle—ah, I dan't know! Settle was always in good odor with Col. Engleden—he was the | sort of man who knew how to get at| the colonel’s soft side, an ingratiating | sort of chap. But I always considered | Settle to be a sneak, and perhaps a wr(zclgh'un." “Where is he now?"” asked Engleden “Oh, T don't know! ‘He left Soutt moor not so very long after that af- | fair. 1If he really was squared, the squaring, possibly, included some pro- vision for life for him. One thing, | Engleden, about that escape is abso- | lutely certain—whoever engineered it, did 50 with extraordinary cleverness and at great cost “Evidently! And with great suc- cess! It seems amazing that a couple of convicts should be spirited away in that fashion and never be traced. I should have thought it impossible—ut- | terly impossible!” | “No!" said Shoreham, +Not if there’s money behind them and | those who are helping. I think I know what would occur in this particular | case. I should say that every single detail had been most thoroughly and carefully worked out. The two men | were got clean away to some place— most likely London or some large city or town—where they remained safely hidden until their usual appearance | come back to them, with, no| doubt, the addition of beards or, atany | rate, mustaches. They may then have been got abroad, or taken off to some other part of the country where they could begin life anew under assumed names. All this, of course, would have been difficult if they'd been men with- out means. But—these men had means, or, which was just as good, the People behind them had.” He paused a moment, then went on, “Now I come to think of it” he £ald, “I remember discussing this af- fair soon after the escape with a friend of mind, & city man, at our ¢lub in London. He told me something. *That chap, Snelling' he said, ‘was emphatically, | | don’t deal in mistakes, | ought to_have come into this place all b | pany | den at this hotel, | if the truth were only known, nothing {but a scrapegoat! The other man, | Hardle, had been a mere catspaw. The really ‘guilty parties, Shoreham, were the financiers behind Snelling. And you may lay a million to a monkey that Snelling, now that he's got out of your hands, is all right!" I dare- say he was quite correct. I don't re- member much of the case. All I know is that the men hadn't been long at Southmoor before they were got away. “The question is,” said Engleden, Sanderson Snelling If he is », Shoreham knocked the ashes from | his pipe and got up, can I seée Sanderson?” he easy!” exclaimed —not advisable! Yet—a | ohnson. | _“And why not advisable, | and why regarding “You " asked Shoreham, ohnson with an amused smile. whether you recognized | him or not, he, if he’s the man we think | him to be, he would certanly recognize | you replied Johnson coolly. “I don’t suppose you've altered much | years ing now than you were then.” f “Thank you for the compliment!” | said Shoreham, laughing. He turned | and glanced at himself in the mirror | over the mantelpiece. “I wear very well,” he remarked complacently. T believe I don't look any older than I did 12 years ago—must be the fresh air and regular life at Southmoor. Well d, if Sanderson is Snelling, and | did_recognize me—what then?” “Then he'd probably be off,” said Johnson, more proof than we have at present We've been a bit too much in evidence, so far. 1 made a mistake!-—and I as a rule. ‘I myself and never been seen in com- with Mr. Sefton Engleden—I could have done some good then!” “In what way, Johnson—what are you driving at?” asked Engleden. “This,” replied Johnson. “Let’s grant —take it for granted—that Sanderson is Snelling and that his butler, Hewiti, s probably Hardle, and that Col. En- gleden somehow recognized both, and that he came across them that night with the result we know. What do we | want to be certain about? Their move- ments that night! Where they were at 11 o'clock—say from 11 to midnight— between which hours, according to the doctors, the murder certainly took place. See? 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If we could | only get at a mere hint—"" “We shan't!” interrupted Johnson. “IUs got to be dug ouil Spade work. |If there is anybody who knows any- i thing, 1t'll be somebody whose interest it is to keep quiet. No doubt there is 1 somebody. But it's no good waiting | for that somebody to come forward.” “What about this police theory “what's to TAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1930. asked Shoreham. “Anything in it?" “There's no doubt about the pound note,” replied Engleden, if the man who changed it at Harling- ton can be traced at the camp hell probably say, and perhaps prove, that he got it in change himself.” “Still, i it really was a note that thad been taken from Col. Engleden's pocket——" suggested Shoreham. “‘Mallison, the police superintendent, says he's traced all the payments Col. Engleden made here after his arrival,” said Engleden, “but Col. Engleden w for some hours in Harlington on his way here—he may have changed the note there. 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I believe he's in town pretly often—"" A knock sounded on the door, the door opened, a waiter looked in and glanced inquiringly at Engleden. “Mr, Mallison to see you, sir,” he sald. “You said any time—" “Yes, yes, bring Mr. Mallison in” replied Engleden. “Come in, Mallison. This is a friend, Capt. Shoreham—Ca) Shoreham, Police Supt. Mallison.” “Pleased to meet you, sir,” said Mal- lison. He dropped into a chair and | began to mop his forehead. “Well, Mr. | Engleden,” he went on, looking up with if he came, " | companions. a smile of satisfaction. “We've got ‘em ‘Got—whom?” exclaimed Engleden. “Those two soldiers!” replied Mal- lison, triumphantly. “Safe under lock and key they are—in our cells! Ah! I don’t know who may have killed Mill- waters last night, but I'm very certain that I've got the murderers of Col. Engleden! dale Moor Camp, and this morning they got the evidence they wanted, took their men—and here the men are, safe. 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