The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, June 10, 1906, Page 6

D v ‘AN OBSCURE'WORKMAN UNCOVERS AN ASSASSIN : WHOSE CRIME COMPLETELY / PUZZLES THE POLICE % = A~ /) —= N found the window so high that she must stand on her bed to. look out of it. “It is queer you should have done that,” said M. Hamard, “seelng you fad just left M. Bedor in his office™ “It was just an idea,” she persisted. “Wet during that time the assassin must have taken your keys from the kitchen of the flat right beside you, in the dark—and you heard nothing. He certainly needed the keys, if only to flee.” On this Germaine took refuge In silence. And the mystery thickemed. Al | Paris was divided over the guilt of + |four deeply involved persons—when a Sherlock Holmes emerged from the Bedor workshops. All Paris is admiring the gray- bearded M. Borromans, morocco worker by his trade. patriarchal, placid and worthy in his big silver-rimmed spec- tacles. On the fourth day he came to M. Hamard. “The assassin is other than you think,” he said. “I have been with Charles and Bedor since the founda- tion of the house M. Charles, the brother Frederic, the young wife, yes and the servant girl—they are all in- capable of such a crime. From the start, therefore, I looked elsewhere for the assassin, and I have found him!" “Explain yoursel “The secret of the crime must be said M. Hamard. x with the watchdog Diane. I saw that at once” continued the old French Sherlock. “It is certain that the as- sassin stood beside her when he put |the lamp on the table—yet she made : [no sign. Therefore I askea myselt : | who among us—knowing the offices and stairways well enough to o about them In the dark—could have passed | that ferecious mastiff. v | “Most of the workmen are my | trienas,” he continued with proud . | humility. “Together with Francois | Dombard. an artist in repousse leather, r [ persuaded all of them, one by, one, at lifferent times, when all was quiet of |evenings, to penetrate to the dog in M. | Bedor's private offfce.” “Well? “Only one made an engagement with us and failed to keep it. Yet he was the one among us all whom the mastiff loved—the man who fed her and tended her box-—the assassin of my |beloved employer—the automobile chauffeur of the firm, Auguste Ma- thieu!" Then the French Sherlock told how he and Dombard had caused Mathieu to | be shadowed by friends of irs, un- known to him Two of the most de- voted “shadows”™ were the nineteen- year-old son of the leather artist and Borroman's own daughter, of 17 spring- times. A holy zeal inflamed the yo couple; they desired romanticall rescue the fair widow from suspicion “No suspicion had .ailen on Mathieu, | because he did not sleep on the prem- ises,” said M. Borromans. Also you had discarded robbery as motive for the erime.” 2 “Effectively,” sald M. Hamard, “the g e g e o e g tensely: they reconstructed the killing.|tioned with watches and notebooks In|eves,. who -turned from the desk to]body—this time not horribly disguised. Safe cash drawer, opening with two 3 0 I ith dead, a “He drove blade in, like this! (C hand, made the witnesses go through | her. The two—Germaine and Frederic— | KeVS. one held by M. Charles gnd one e h ture) He pulled—and thrust up. like |all their evolutions of the fatal even-| - Whilé specfalists were putting the |were very shaky. Forpocrir o o o s, ey e hane | Ing. Germaine took the dogs walking, | half-crazed girl:through the third de- | { From this magnificent reconstruc-| e rorhorsEwan (o povorcl P MR AR ad the force of hate. behind them. | L CUSht the papers, returned over the gree, the reconstruction went on. The |tjon it resulted that the assassin must|was successful” insisted the sray e ¢ those thrusts!" suggested M. Hamard. | oome_Toute. unlocked the" courtyard janitor and wife heard a heavy fall [have entered the premises at 9:35 and | beard. “It is certain that Mathieu, who > T o Kmow any e who hated vouy | door, ‘locked it behind her, penetrated They ran and’told the coachman and | quit them before 10 p. m. wits: Darnt il atnalt: Sabi Aokt i husband?” 3 |to the factory, unlocked’ the door ‘at’ his wife. The two men patrolled; “My master was certainly all right companions only last week, paid 650 ~ <1 ol SToMiE Cieatiurh S oniea Mg the head (\‘l the airs, and entered the heard steps in the lfl\l!‘( and hurried after I had reached my bedroom. vol- | francs cash for a lot of furniture the . & bt e diniul o1 * erfea Offics g h({mx' the papers to-a detec- toward them—to see the street door|unteered the servant girl in a weakly day after the crime.” - E w1 wn, gabbled incoherent 1in aay ‘vesterd iy NS lnle “’im “fluu,.l represent M. Bedor. _|slam and a’dark form running down |effort to show her innocence. “He “If you can show that, I'll arrest BaINe. ko ls ih n Hle ‘wilh confess. tombrrow." | - vy 5o ambre. " T/ /ohs b LoReL 10 n the office the same lamp’ burned |the Street. was still working in his office five,him,” said M. Hamard. s t D ol s Isans of his SDent Pt ghe el dad on the “desk. With his back to her, They noted the time required for minutes before I went to sleep.” Tt showed it, and Mathieu was ar- w s G oabTin po e S et _ the.party reptesenting Bedor bent over |each . act—and the position of each| “How do you know that?" they rested. Being horribly and dramati- K ’ . 2 in. Bedor's clothes Ihey =speak Wf the] sudden disap-|the desk. The rest ofsthe room was actor at each minute. Every detail of | asked her. ¥ cally surprised in the usual way, he - ’ with ace painted o an ‘awful re- | pearance of ‘a friend coinciding lost. In darkness Shadows fiickered.|every version fitted as, to the tifhe | - “Before going to bed I glanced out | Proke down and made a full éonfession. 3 h ed be thE et San ety agionn Aoy It's false!”: exclaimed’ Madame, Be. | Abbroaching With the - papers, - Ger-{and place. The men called Germaine. |my" window on the.courtyard and saw| I was engaged to be married to & = n " e S e > el i 5 repeated the phrases of thefatal| A detective, after answering for her his light still there,” she said. I did 5009 Young girl he loved devoutly. He E ers and quit The widow is, a.delicate-and-lovely|d Ask. me. nd_gnore, night, “Monsieur, the papers.” * * ..|from her window, pushed her down- it by impulse,” she added. had bragged of his savings. He had < e tak The police commissary and Meanwhile they hig reconstructed the | Then she screamed an awful scream stairs to continue her part. She was| They made her do it again in her 0ld Of furniture already bought. They ; ¢ rd n:‘r_\:d» to ‘» W.f:yh_uvanfi \\hw‘m (,\x‘V nv-m{.-‘ vor |h‘f- }‘\n'd night an ran; it was her dead master,|made to call Frederic. They descended bedroom: and they thought the im- | "°r® to be married in a month—and . e. While watching her in-|some fifteen deteetives, variously sti-|white:faced, _tertible, with saring and found a detective representing the |pulse” the -more strange when they | 1S Si} and her mother wers coming n e — ik, A0 1 Y next week to see the furmiture. —~ e hives E 2 T BN R e - Mathieu was desperate. Acting as a The sort of uniformed runner for M. Bedor ek . _ when not automobiling. he had often - seen his employer put a wallet bulging @ v with banknotes in the safe, but not in y the double-locked cash drawer. The recent explosion on the battleship he e i = Mathieu says he only Intended sneak- . e r.,;.“, the earliest, as '1 1 ‘\L _\,T 'm,.?“;‘»;i(n‘; ;'.L\?::: \{";:h’i]n\gi;nm;n: zr)nrfl?::;f -‘?’:"‘lfi"” As I have the assent| Secretary of State Upshur expired in|in the White House, Generals Scott and Ins this wallet when Bedor's back was z he most. disastrous. of -eceldents | Alexandria:to Ahe ',rimmnn’ wohich it g 4"fr:!i \;I K'f ahedd. 3 a few minutes. Governor Gilmer was Jones led the procession to the Congres- turned, and now see the value of those fr on an American warship-in when ¥ing opposite Fort Washington. The | lighted I,‘"fd"’_l"?fkwn advanced with the | found dead, mangled beyond recognition. sional burying ground. All departments | Scientific reconstructions. Mathieu had e Pt JHosi deuin GaRa G 54 O ol e e siodyogaincen S {»“r”lwm“om:{f b dire: tly behind him stood | Mr. Sykes. member of Congress from of the Government, legislative, exceutive, hid in the archives, besides the private N Sintesship: Brinceon, kilitng the iacre- iha ot Sh woRa {PAS T Lot e Ts e |\]» v\‘{rxf»klz.n(l of Philadelphia;/| New J Mr. Gardner of New York judicial, military and naval, were repre- | Office. ever since closing time, at 7 - ot Biate tand NATY, oM Al it At thath o i L W Tyson, assistant post- |and Gommodore Kennon were picked up | sented in the solemn procession. o'clock. He says he got scared toward pass 1 and several other government offi- aming’ in -the bright February. sun- | ton ‘of - Misdouri arer LB0E, Senator Ben: unconsclous and expired without a groan. | Minute guns were fired from the west | the end- What If his master should . % ahine. the band struck wp ~Fail Bon o ot Missouri, and, Senator. Phelps of | Several escaped In a miraculous. man- [terrace of the Capitol grounds, from the | 9iS¢OVer and shoot him? So he took - ame AT L e T S A S hand o M“m;s T l’(r'ir:(":: Ju(hr:v:?un(:ps:‘::r.h:ma:;l: of fl;e sfimtl Stoog ner. Postmaster General Tyson escaped, Pavy vard and from a number of other ‘q‘gjl':l :::;:;:dl::pdpn‘?.stlalr?:n‘lhlz("t,'m . erly worked in constricted according to |ton’s rigging returned the cheers of ‘the’ Governor Gilmer,, Secretary of the Navy, | (hough a pleceé. of the gun passed [Places as the silent cavalcade proceeded | no interior into workshop, throush 956 She B | Inprevisl ptax Iy Alivoeated) Predlasntial Burts 2 3 2 | through his hat, ‘tearing out two inches to the cemetery. There religious services e o+ e X. The ser ad Becs Sons | by Captalin Bockain, Wi baatisaipes ‘he ‘obietiy blarden that tosser HE fi:l:;.ht\'alit:igrl::“:;"';';df'»M” Y of Mary- of his scalp. Judge Phelps also had his | Were again performed. the caskets de- S e A S, X Wt - screet. The intended the casting of two new guns of marines presented arms, the band played| tive. Gardner of \:p'wsn‘gznr.k lfi‘;:;es:‘r‘x’:: ::n xui?pked off, but was uninjured. Sen- P‘Osn(edl ‘(“ !hmlr '-'aul:]s, a lone bugler| From the hallrack he took M. Be- . ® these formidat eaponis of | sidentis ite_of twenty-one guns was | bureaus, o Hoaty A e gun, ibhe| SOlomA b nonial | testified toolarge to make the wounds! stitutions for his R the preparatioh of which Sto od. After a_sumptuous. hanquet ‘thel Tt was fortunate’ that Presidert Tyler, | were mhngiod Aba. bocnen: b sallors [0 SO “With this T can defend myselt” he A been so long engaged, that he party e on ‘the deck, while the |who was stamqis 13t President Tyler, | were inangled and burned, but survived| ‘The gun which exploded was at that| says he sald to himself. Then he hid . . is : Appten? s ohbol ke bls ghn, Troifcally. called dithe #Ecace | e Dm}mw(rnh by Captain Stockton, The next day a large crowd assembled time the largest in the United States. himself under the stairs. = A 3 Jth sexes to visit the magnificent siip ' maker,” was shotted and fired. The ball| mant be o 3-)0un2 rl':’lld\"" “;mw;l:‘r;:é ::?n s:(: 'i)alreldwhirll:fls tl;'e bodle: were brought It was made in New York and was far| M. Bedor came at last. lamp in hand. M F and go on excursion down the Poto- struck the water half a mile down the to-assiat- her. i = 3 T Mg line ofs hearses, in sad superior, in point of workmanship, to its| “I thought he saw me,” says the as- At mac. river and rebounded half a dozen times|Had it ‘mot h”':‘ 2;_;*'“:;% ({?\rldllwr\(h?rt. ;Zir:t;:num Sl::‘(fl 55‘11(* Ivyhslule. and re- companion, the “Oregon.” It was placed | sassin, “and that look was fatal to & [t s President Tyler was the guest of honor. until the eye ¢ . “ BTN s 0 s trivial Jaccur-{ Suceession their moy v volvi car- ¥ g dildathd g i Ty S e the eve could ng longer, follow its|rence, the, President, would. undoubtedly feeliht; as thescaskets barne. by Susmis 'rTa'q‘f hs? tohta;hfizmrl,fi S ATy Aving an- | Wi 1 Sew S L Jeuped. ent oy o 3 5 w3 E ¥ have been killed. | and followed ‘each b 43 2011 KIOES, - gh e fired from u al im with the cane. He Fyles, Miss.Coosier Sind. S0k SDyiar . of the Navy Gilmer requested| The. match vy aoo: ¢ o v I b an escort of naval either side. An ordinary charge of |grabbed it. The cane-sheath remain- all from the executive mansion; a large Captain Stockton, who was personally | blast followedq, ”‘ & nnlnsd.. A r}nnd@rous officers, m'_ere brought through the group | powder for it was thirty pounds, and it |®d in his hand. I had the blade. He : Erto gy i al officers, all loading and firing the gun, to give it one | reeled, a dense o, 'Ol ship shook and [of sorrowing'spectators. Scores of car- | carried a ball weighing-225 pounds. |ran on it. We fell together, roting e members of the Cabinet except Mr.|more trial. Captain Stockton playtully | the whole sroup er 1o frokS GIveloped riages followed tlie cavalcade o~ the| The last charge, which was put in the | dOWNR the stairs. The lamp chimney ary, desired Spencer, other high functionarfes of state, called for the sense of the-party. ~ . |this blew awas an oo Crecastle: When | White House, where, by the particular|gun by Captain Stockton himself, prob- | Vas Smashed but the lamp still burned ators and - Representatives, quite a 1l in ‘favor of one more shot say. itself to lh‘:“-‘_x““_ awful scene presented | desire of the President, the dead were |ably contained fifty pounds of powder, as | 1¥in& flat. I righted it. M. Bedor lay ® workshog M mber of attaches d secretaries of ‘aye,’” the captain shouted. tatore. o 'I\”‘?'; of the hushed spec- carried and placed in the East room. several requested him to “put a little | there Writhing. the blade still in him. - How he legations, the Minister from Mexico—in| A Storm of ayes greeted him. Not aifeet from (s 1,,»1?,,‘1.,"”"5'11“rft" Or four| .The funcral services took place on the |more powder in this time.” It is said that |1 Pulled It partly out'and thrust again thos jut four hundred of the diplomatic, | negative. voice was heard, and as. the | seore. of mncies el ‘and_scattered a| following day. Business houses all closed | the ball went four miles down the rives ({07 BiS Beart *+++1 bore down on red the and state circles of Washinglon. - captain : ngain loaded: the. S04 ! no b i otmon o odies over the bleod- thelr doors, and the hush of death hung | before it struck, and bounded fifteen times | It *.° * * i = s 3 |over all Washington. After simple rites on the ice. The rest was easy to understand. He > S Bedg . L STt i e et 5 | took Bedor's safe keys from his pocket - el i —there was no combination—and re- oy = turffed them to the victim's pocket : star ‘. s again. He dared not touch his person- 2 eves T aring ear. and the sceing eye, ear, and the seeing eve” are rich In|mer Sky given a 'sisa. A ; b Ty gy Mol by R \ awiul scream ang, | the Lord hath made even both of them the divine attributes which exalt man- | women L Lo fi:flnnlipnl;yr:r’z’;:r?\[‘fl is;l;.gapl;:dlfln::'::n:e;‘,:’ff;,,.;efi;P,':,? he] the remarkable sound which: the bird's | fully washed and aried the ::m;.arf,} ‘ o the cou o R SR e "nrlnlm i e “};fi? tgqsee“:an‘sses of snow-capped rock| boughs are aglow in April. Ther Sikbt etnah s n’finu::ml'x).z:.x:‘:.fi ;T;.::"f;"?n"e,,‘:_‘_‘dr::‘;‘kfinnp and re- i ' a which is closed to muc hiat is beauti- $ C e ecia f > ¥ and beautiful? Vho | that are crims s 4 o oK. e mystery s rth ‘n{‘:’cl‘" ful u’h«: int -3(:”;';:',," e auti-|senses used in the amplest degree and | Watches the changing tints of the | in May wnrlrx"v;?rlsr;&?‘LT;:;;;?:;J‘I:E :»"ll;lngss ;“,"L'.‘,L‘t ;lr“ewa;m b]y bracing its|only remained. It turned out to have g 3 et SIS R with the finest appreciation of life's op- Sha2dows thrown along walls and fences | ing leaves. air? It is as if the been a mystery to the assassin him- put & dummy there i xource whence come the " portunities and those which are dulled | by the sun, in the lelsure hours after| i $ | Siomgs Of > Bultar were struck alself. And it remains a mystery o : Bethng move] Whic 38 Hamthk-lnd i ere s |by the mental narrowness or inertness|the day's work is done? Yet. it Is pos: | o ith the ear as with the eye, there | glancing blow with the hand. | day. ‘ 3 You going to arrest me? Arrest ; Are]s K ot oo hroadest and highest | behind -them, is far, greater than thesible then to sep blue and violet Heht! Loy mam things well worthy of atten- | All life is much more voeal to the How did you get out the Arrest me meaning of the words. Often the sensoes | av e and violet light | tion which usually pass unnoticed. This | €ar trained to hear than it is to the ook 0 A ‘uge man or woman supposes. It is! on so ederic Bedor, having | which do not get most out of life are|like traveling in a new coK:lry to stay | tion s&::::'::f:s,urm“ hon the TRt e Shesially. trus in the warmer months | less educated senses af those who are Satisfactory even- | naturally keenest and most perfect at home and be led out of the beaten | ’ Parwhen the TR0 the Yoar (on Y o iondred feraois ) cAIEIoon o Siin Dedtty obpartanitiss of door?" he was asked. “By a providential accident,” Te- the expense of a pleas. | Their failure to -contribute ag thes | o i . conditions exist, and learn how much | who have n reas nature study. of | plied the assassin. “When they made . s Sed home by the un-|should to the full enjoyment of the P b S e Into the| mare truthful painters are in their rep- | love of nature e e LI L T et bfii‘fe:"i’«'éfd.’mii Sre | thotr paiseLYMenune « wea tubivst fons. known passcd through tne|opportunities which Surround all but. rained mesammt ot mores | their capns Of nature than ‘mostiof|songs which greet them in the parks|infinite possibilities of interest amd|Still I tan silergoo0r must be locked. o sroom the unknown was speaking|the most afllicted of men and women is For *theypicturesques. the - novel .and] ‘“’r‘:l; <ds I\lvould be. and the open country, or even in their | pleasure open before him who r":::(';s (l:l b "deml,\« in the shadows of w and intensel Ehosts, @ future |a matter of the mind rather than the the Instructive life i about us, half|not kindie oy P@8ination:which does|own city streets? Are there five, as a|the most of sky and cloud, hird so S rourtyard as they.entered the 0 feek 4 ""mJ ‘l‘_l ;'\“:z, ":rr”"'f](l:w ‘4‘“\'"0 m‘lx ;\ tl;er»fur'p. Sus- unknown and more than half unnr;ucgd_<fores(;lmet:l!sul‘:n?llg]le‘;,:mtlgf“ ?;““{S;" rlule, ‘W'no can associate the song with and wind whisperings in summer f:fif :2:‘?‘1’,'1;: 'f."m'f’n'f:"ii'?s' !hl:r‘am” : « s rederic | ceptible to nsforming influences How many see the glories of th it by - [the singer and picture the feathered age. To kmow the constellati ¥ o, 2w dor stumbled over something soft|of education and self-training. It in o glories of the sun- | fage. but how .many notice the fadt| mi - stellations of the | the lock of the courtyard st d ine g ~ . . A 5. - s rhich no city buildings can wholly | that the trees which | | minstrel they do not see? Few that|night is a joy which refreshes and T e ‘obd Test door. - The unknown struck a|volves the eulightenment of the voon:| ohcliich mo clty b o avhich are most gorgeous | watch the wavering, moth-like fligh ; turned {he key: obened the door and 3 g B L vl ment he soul: hide from view? How often are the | in the last dive o t &, -like flight of | calms the mind; to feel the tuil beauty | iew. sut now the Keye . creamed |ience, in,the truest sense, the "hearing | great slond mountains piled in tha sm: | Most ruday i the { their" splendor are | the so-calied pguthawic :::?nrué:; g the sunset is & benediction upon the a mystery to me. ¥S got there was A It remains a mystery to this day. »