Evening Star Newspaper, February 28, 1930, Page 44

{~now quartered at Wraisdale Moor, in [ THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, FRIDAY, The Wrist Mark Copyright, 1930, by North American By J. S. Fletcher Newspaper Alliance and Metropolitan Newspaper Service. SYNOPSIS. Col. Engleden, formerly the governor of Southmoor Prison, is murdered. A la- borer reports having seen three men on the might of the murder close to the apot where the body was found. Sefton Enoleden, the colonel's mephew, inves- tigates with the aid of his law clerk, Johnsom. The colonel's diary tells of the escape of two convicts from South- moor years ago. It also is learned that the colomel, fust before his death, had sent a message to the prisom asking whether any of the warders who were on his staff are stil there. Johnson Delieves that the colomel mey have en- countered the escaped convicts and that they killed him. Mallison, super- intendent of police, does mot kmow of this development. He tells Engleden that bank motes that were kmown to have been on the colomel's person have been traced, and that it has been tablished that they were changed by soldier from a mearby barracks. Joh son and Engleden. send for Millwaters, ome of the warders in charge of the convicts who escaped. Since leaving the prison he has been engaged in private detective work. A few hours later he is murdered. Capt. Shore- ham, an official at Southmoor, arrives with descriptions of the escaped com- victs. One of them—Snelling—had e peculiar birthmark on his right wrist. | Engleden recalls that Sandersom, om whose property his uncle's body was | found. wears o heavy steel bracelet on | Ris right wrist. They wonder whether Sanderson is Snelling. Meanwhile, Mal- lison comes with mews that the soldier who changed the five pound mote has been arrested, with ome of his com- rades. He believes these men to be the colonel's murderers. When they are erraigned in court, it is proved that the colomel's watch and other jewelry was in their possession at the time of arrest. They them ask permission to make a statement, and court fis adiourned meantime. ELEVENTH INSTALLMENT. NGLEDEN and his two compan- ions hurried from the court to the hotel. The first words to be spoken when they got there came from Jol n. “I dom't believe those chaps mur- dered Col. Engleden.” he said. “I think we shall find out this afternoon that they'll swear they didn't. But I don't know if they’ll tell us who did.” “You think they know who did?” suggested Shoreham. “I think they know something,” as- sented_Johnson. ‘‘Perhaps a great deal. But whether they’ll tell what they know is another matter.’ “The evidence n‘ut {O{erd this mur:‘ ing is quite sufficient to ensure a con- Vlcsuon?' said Engleden. “But—I really don't know why—I'm inclined to agree with Johnson. Mallinson’s very Pos\-‘ tive about these chaps, and there’s no | doubt_they somehow. got possession of | Col. Engleden’s money and valuable, but—" “You've an instinctive feeling that ey're not the men.” put in Shoreham. ‘Well, I felt a bit t way myself, and I can't tell why. Probably because we suspect some one else. And as to | that, if I'm to endeavor to identify | Snelling and Hardle in Sanderson and | his butler, I shall have to see both at | loser quarters. | £ “Leave that to me" said Johnson. “T'll arrange something by which both men shall see you suddenly, unexpected- y. I want to see the effect of such a| meeting—on them. For theyll know | you! A start of recognition on their mere glance of surprise—eh?” | what these two men want | wonder to tell?” remarked Engleden. *“Anyway, all speculation is useless till we hear that. It struck me -that Maillison was not_particularly pleased made that application—why, -I ‘when Pecke don't know. “T do!” said Johnson. ‘Mallison had got _everything cut and dried, - Pecke's application threw him out of his stride. For you may bet all-you're worth that these two men know something and are going to say something that will—I Won't say totally upset Mallison’s theory, but will throw a new light on the situa- | tion. | “¥ou're a person of great perception, | Mr. Johnson,” remarked Shoreham. | “Have you any notion of what it is these men are going to say?” “Well, if you really want to know,” retorted Johnson, “I have!—but I'm not | going to tell you what it is. All I say | Itflrreaen'. is that in my opinion we've | still got to look for Col. Engleden’s | murderer—or murderers!” | Three o'clock came. The court was | densely crowded. Pecke rose, glancing | at certain sheets of official-looking | paper. “Since your lordships adjourned,” he said, “I have had an opportunity of con- sulting my clients. At their own wish, that consultation took place in the pres- ence of Supt. Mallison and Detective Sergt. Peel. My clients stated that having heard the evidence produced | them, they were now desirous | of making a statemeint as to their | doings on the night of the murder of | Col. Engleden and particularly as to how they became possessed of the money and property found by Detective Sergt. Peel in their boxes at the Wrais- dale Moor Camp. I put it to them that your worships would certainly commit | them for trial and that they had better reserve their defense, but thoy insisted on their desire to—as they phrased it— ‘tell and be done with it.” Supt. Malli- son warned them that any statement they made could be used against them | in evidence; they replied that what they | ‘wanted was to ‘have it all put down in | writing and read to the magistrates!’ | Accordingly, and still in the presence of Supt. Mallison and Detective Sergt. Peel, the defendant Luttrell dictated a | statement which was afterward read to and signed by him. The defendant Clarkson then made a short confirm- atory statement. These statements are now in my hand and with yoyr wor- &hips’ permission- < ““Yes, yes!” said the old mayor im- patiently. “Let the statements be read!” Pecke then read the following state- ment: | “This is a statement made of my own free will by me, Alfred Luttrell, a pri- vate soldier, of C company, 1st Bat- | talion the Northern Counties Regiment, the presence of Laurence Pecke, so- licitor; Charles Mallison, superintendent | ¢! police, and William Stephen Peel, Getective officer, all of Barowsburgh. I wish to say that neither I nor my fellow defendant, William Clarkson, had anything whatever to do with the mur- der of Col. Engleden with which we are now charged. on Col. Engieden. We are willing to plead guilty to being in po: Col. Engleden’s money and but we had no hand in his death, Col. Engleden was dead when we found him ssion of and that is the gospel truth. | “I have heard the evidence given in court this morning by the witnesses Hopkinson, Suttie, hind. It is all correct. What the wi nesses Peters and Shipton said is co rect, too. I have nothing to say about the evidence given by the detective; it is all right. I wish to tell the plain truth about what happened, as far as Clarkson and myself are concerned, on the night on which Col. Engleden was murdered. and I that night went into Barowsburgh. We passed our time as was said by Hopkinson anad Suttie. We were not drunk when we left Suttie; we were not even the worse for liguor. We might have been a bit merry, but that was all. We knew what we were doing with ourselves. All we were thinking about when we passed Scott and said good night to him was how we could get into camp without being caught. | would be 30 yards aw | backs to us. | talking. | themselves, looked round, and when they | Wraisby Abbey. | saw them was only about 15 yards from | the nearest part of the ruins. | were into the ruins before we got up to | the place from which they had run | ring, a purse and some loose money. I We never laid a finger | luables, | Scott, and Good- (] by the IW! went along the riverside, that being the shortest cut to our camp. We | heard nothing and we saw nobody until | we got close to that part of the river | that is called the Brown Pool. The {trees and the shrubs are very thick | | thereabouts, but we got out of them into bright moonlight. The stretch of the riverside was all in the moonlight | As we came out from the trees we saw two men who seemed to be stooping over something on bank. hey ‘They had their 1 suppose they heard us They suddenly straightened saw us, ran away toward the ruins of The place where we ‘They ‘When we got up to the place we found that what was lying there was a man—a gentleman by his dress and appearance. He was dead, but he hadn't been dead long. His hands were still just a bit warm. I am quite certain he was dead. We didn't stop by him more than two or three sec- onds. We dashed off after the two men. We went into the ruins and listened. There is a great deal of that place left, and it is full of all sorts of dark corners, and at the rear of it there is a pretty thick plantation or wood which stretches from there and up toward Wraisby House, where Mr. Sanderson lives. We hunted about and | went to the edge of the wood to see |1f we could hear anything of the men running away, but we heard nothing. “We went back to the dead man. He was lying right in the full moonlight. As we got up to him we saw something shining on a plece of flat rock near his head and shoulders. We saw that we had disturbed the two men as they were taking things out of his pockets. However, they seemed to have got everything and to have laid out what they’d found on this plece of rock. There was a watch and chain, a scarf-pin, a put all these things in my pocket. Our ddea then was to hand them over to the police. I know now that we ought to have gone back to Barowsburgh and to have given information. But we knew if we did that we should get in trouble for being out of barracks, and we believed we had a chance of get- ting back unobserved, so we decided not to do anything till the next day and went off. Before leaving, however, we had another look around the ruins. We pretended to go away, but turned back quietly and hid ourselves, think- ing the two men might come out if they thought we'd gone. Nothing hap- pened, and we went on to the camp. Next day we talked things over, and it struck us that, if we went to the police they might accuse us of the mur- der. So we let things slide. I was foolish enough, however, to change one of the bank notes we'd picked up. “My notion is that the two men we saw were removing the money and things from the dead man's pockets to make the police think that he'd been Tobbed, and that when we went off they came back from where they'd hid in the ruins, put stones in his pockets and sunk him in the river. As near as I can remember the men were tall fellows, dressed in dark clothes. We saw nothing of their faces. “This statement has been written down at my own dictation, and has been read over to me. It is all correct. 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