The Seattle Star Newspaper, March 23, 1916, Page 4

’ STAR—THURSDAY, MARCH 23, 1916. PAGE 4 “The Maxwell Mystery!” ===) The Seattle Star ft eal Bntered at Seattle Pestottios ‘By maf, out of city, one yea: 00; & month, 41.91 By carrier, sity, the @ mo socond-elase matter per month up to ¢ moe der Maxwell and Mim Miranda. lobby. The brother and sister were much together, and oftenest tn the do next, when a ex study, seeming to prefer to be alone |“Well, Mr. King, and how do y there in thelr grief, do Not wishing to intrude, I sald What Will We Do About It? ROM a commercial standpoint, Se : attle looks forward with the bright- est of hopes. The Bremerton navy yard Mothers’ Pensions T IS difficult at times to fathom the process of reasoning of some legisla- tures. _ Unprecedented era of prosperity. And now we must also put our civic affairs in ship-shape form. Division A of the municipal car line is an uncompleted affair. In its present enable them to keep their children at home instead of in institutions. But the little children DESERTED by their fathers have no such relief. The mothers’ pension does not apply to their my steter and myself that he must | ca fo at once, he went, leaving his!) adieux for the rest of you,” ever before, @ jaxwell affair, 1° |thra such an expertenc jindeed! The earl, whom we want-lan awful thing. Awful jed so much to see, was gone; and it} 1 accepted the earl's unsettled condition, it presents,a sore mothers. one a oe hte aetna Grange (ene went with him to the dining i i 7 : » i a . room. pt. It is losing from $100 to $200 a The supreme court must soon decide Bia way, suspicious Se saved ten! the Slee’: i her this differentiation between “Why did he go so suddenly?” 1 gy he observed, after the! y, according to season: whet pepe lasked | “I have an idea,” sald Mr, Max- well, “that he didn't care to stay for |the funeral, You know how queer Englishmen are that way, and I dare say It got on his nerves.” first course had “1 couldn't do tt got awfully on my nerves, mothers deserted by the fathers of the family and mothers whose husbands are in the grave, the penitentiary, and the asylum, is constitutional. We do not know. It may be consti- LESS IT IS EXTENDED AND PRUNK What ask?” DED, IT SHOULD BE ABANDONED _ tutional. It does not seem right, how- Bl.nat'man fe mixed up tn the shoot: |Srecnce 2 4 returned “What do ALTOGETHER. ever. nd now we've let him/you think about ft allt” \get away, It is not fair to make such distinctions, ‘the ctroumstances, and the legislature which made such an _ _ There is new blood in the council now. " he said, slowly | And tho neither of them could be Neve for a moment that thetr recent guest could have anything to do seems to have been wholly ignored. It was intended as a relief to children— children in destitute circumstances, who were not given proper support by their fathers. ~ re * Jewel to him and give him a chance The condition of the children should Biito expiain. be the guide in dispensing the pension— Jf) Hunt and not the state of criminality, insanity, believed Clarendon could not ex- or demise of the father. |plain. I did not feel so eure, tho A 7 the thing did not look very well for How could men of presumable intelli- Lord Clarence—eapecially when I re- two years ago, it has been because it “begins nowhere and nowhere.” That criticism is justi- Tt is in a decidedly incomplete state. ‘It is losing money and will continue to 0 as long as it remains incomplete. on A was intended to have connec- with a Division B and a Division C. ow two things remain to be done. Either the whole scheme of a municipal feally, “You see, Mr. (to permade them that tt was only tm.” |falr to the Englishman to return bis in his flash of amusement sisted ma in this, for hel~ny trating me?” embarrassed, “I did come ito ik line, for which the ple over- gence make such a woeful wreck of a [membered his tmpetuoes lovemek- PT Sear hg pgm a ? i i ling to rm in the rose garden. th ngly voted, must be abandoned, or good law? The answer is plain to those NGenaa & be thet Whie enabler vis wanted to ask your explanation who have followed recent legislatures. ja certain bit of evidence. The measure was not considered on its merits, but was handled by a political ma- chine opposed to its principle. The parti- san whip was cracked, and putty men who called themselves legislators, responded - Division A must be properly extend- ed and put on a paying basis. _ Merely criticising the present condition af Division A does not better the situ- letgaret on the veranda he had wit- nessed the acene between Mildred ind, hin! lousy, had| amble.” linfatuation breeding lrushed tn and shot Phil? | Such an explanation would ac leotnt for almost every clroumsatance is worth while only where it earl looked at tt thoughtfully. THE study we found Alexan-) ment, I stood around in the crowded) ty, 1 I looked up, atartied, to see Lordy t shake off the bower of that! correct n |. Here was a fine state of affairs, that death! of young Maxwell was) watch Invitation m served to us. The whole affair your theory of the crime, if 1 may Here was an opening, but I coun Lord | in the library that night, ft Is to be : neat Bo the detective told the two In-jto tel] me that nothing has been ac They ought, inhumane discrimination deserves the Fasteaee Mmeners about the finding| complished by the pollce-or the de- to be able to work together. criticism heaped upon it i jof the seal and the conclusions we |iwotives Ever since Division A was put in The spirit of the mothers’ pension law {| must draw from it “It isn't really tn the hands of the police,” I sald, a little apologet:| Maxwell thinks Mr. Hunt can ferret out the | with the tragedy, I was finally ableltruth, and I am trying to help| (aimed I was chagrined and not a little and concluded that frankness would be the best plan, soarch of YOU, simply proves that some one else | I told my mory and laid the seal) King, to ‘on the table before him, and the| question, 1 do not think Miss Leslie By Carolyn Wells—Copyright, 1913, by J. B. Lippincott Co. ONE MILLION FRANCS” if you will tell me what you know, I will promise that the se 1 was uncertain just what! should | ret shall be put to no use what dial volee said: | ever, un on we can feel sure that will positively lead to the din of the criminal.” Then I will tell you about thts on it 2 F Pale ——>-.4 . S mut hie)" As you remember, I was . Tr. « state, This ff quictly We're looking for I Clarence himself, holding out Raeten th to Sin, Aiecnaee Man ‘Bppropriation, the completion of the Take the last one in thi rhe ; |Glarendon, Do pou know where he|hand, in my gratitude finding show ne i » Mr. exander Max; ‘Alaska railroad, the splendid revival in legislature amended the ‘eo yeni Oe jon ts?” him, I grasped it and shook it warm-| Poll it Nin atnay. sunt botore the | : " law As a result, mothers whose hus “He bh gone home,” sald Mr. ly guests arrived for the dance, Very tee lumber business, the fine crops thru- bands are dead, in the penitentiary, or in Maxwell; “he remembered an tm-| “Have you dined?” he asked.| snortiy after, 1 danced with Miss / out the state—all these combine for an the insane asylum, may get pensions to portant engagement that called him|“No? Then dine with me, Won't! Tesite, She told me, laughing, sa Sy . e jto the city, and after explaining to|you? Do you know, Mr. King, ll that a watch fob was entirely in with evening clothes, and been! in obedience to her pretty, wilful 4) dictate, I took the fob off my She admired this seal, be ing enpectally interested in the crest, and J detached it from the rest of the fob and gave it to her.” i “As an out and out gift?” 1 “You; | was greatly attra Miss Leslie, in fact, | quit b over her 1 to a long neck hain she was fe| wearing, and seemed childishly do lighted with it She is a strange litte person, tan't she?” “She Is, And since you were not supposed, then, that she lost this seal from her chain while she war “I hesitate to any what I think,”| there with Philip.” “Put do you mean “Or perhaps she purposely de tached it to throw at the intruder. It fs a heavy missile, you know, and the little lady seemed Inclined to throw anything she could lay {her hands on.” “But you don't think Mildred Leslie tn any way guilty?” I ex and destde, she did throw that horse and Inketand.” And then | detatied to the earl how Tho earl looked up at me with ®) we nad found the red ink stains, | hadn't brought it up, I “And you're helping him,” he said and the broken ear of the horse. Hie looked utterly astounded “But,” he said, “how could those things get back on the table again?” “That 1s the mystery. To me it 1] waa in that room Inter who had a of reason for wanting those things re- And a8 I! stored to their places.” think you would prefer it, I will pot) jthe matter before you without pre/teft my seal by mistake,” said the Mr. “And you thought I did tt, and tule; your “but, earl, smiling a fotmer return to | gullty of any part fn the shooting “It certainly looks like a case| but I do think she knows very well age led-—even Hunt's con- " ” a remedy. willy-nilly. jthue far reveal against me, Mr, King; and I can-| who the intruder was two iti been 8 soon as partisan politics is wii tention that Mildred as well @8/ not binme you or the detective,| “Frankly, you do not believe years, criticism has ved ne age fi ces |Philip had recognized the tntroder,| june. for thinking that it Impl!-| Miss Leslie's etory, then?” I anid , but remedial steps have not been out in this state, we can hope for a dis- Biput was concealing his identity cates me very seriously in the| “Frankly, I do not,” replied the cussion of | ition on its merits. |with the story of the automobile) rime Now, Mr. King, I take {tlearl; “and that fs the reason I AN EYE TO EFFICIENCY, THERE IS NO MORE IMPORTANT ffi clothes. you don't accuse me of the mur-|left Maxwell Chimneys when I did MEASURE, AT THIS TIME, IN THE [f, Heat wee mach excited over this/ der STATE OF WASHINGTON, THAN [[ltncua ercccna ts New York lame. THE NON-PARTISANSHIP BILL TO diately after the funeral and inter. BE INITIATED BY THE PEOPLE. ivi Or, do yout’ inly not,” I replied, COUNCIL CAN NOW, CO- TING WITH THE MAYOR, Lard Clarendon. | He had left his address with Mi Maxwell, and with !t in my pocket, MAYOR GILL, It Ie said, plane to veto the jalong with the seal, it was not long port commission belt's franchise. Ae only 57 (before I was on the train. per cent of the voters of King county want It, | fefore 8 o'clock I was tn the} “Meaning whom?” I it’s mighty jnborly for the city to knock the Waldorf, inquiring for Lord Claren-| breathless: skids from ir it—yeo? |don, only to be told that he was| “That jout. way.” ‘With a feeling of utter disa Z Nor do I want to founded, and thereby must be entirely Innocent.” inte 4 Plus Four Trademarks from Quaker Oats Packages uaker Cooker We have supplied perfect double Cookers to over 0,000 homes, to make Quaker Oats more delightful. hey are made to our order to bring out the fullness the flavor and aroma. _ Such a Cooker as this, if sold at retail, would cost pre than most homes would pay. But our purpose quires it in every home where Quaker Oats are used, we ourselves supply it. purpose is this: To create more Quaker Oats users, by ing this the best-loved morning dish. To this end, we use queen grains only in this brand—just the big, grains. 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I felt sure she had done something with my seal, beca' sister the next day if it were on | her chain when she was carried to was not. Altogether, Mr ficiently strong to make me want to leave Maxwell Chimneys.” “To be honest, rou bad lost your Geep interest In Mies Leslie.” “To be honest, I had. She is most attractive, unusual type to me, and posttively fascinating But I capnot think her entirely truthful; and, at any rate, I pre ferred to come away, lest my pres- ence should disturb her.” Truly the Englishman gave me food for thought. At his reqnest, we disminsed the eubject from our jéinner conversation; but I had learefully laid up {n my memory all ho had 4, and resolved to act |upon it later. CHAPTER VIII. ’ ‘The Grey MotorCar Saturday morning I went back to Maxwell Chimneys. After luncheon, Mr. Hunt arrtv- ed, and we had a conference in Mr. Maxwell's study. The guests of the house were all present except | Miss Leriio and her nurse. Mr. Maxwell led the discussion. “T've been thinking It over, Peter,” |he said, “while you were away, and I've pretty mach come to the conclusion that we may as well give up our efforts to find the man who’ shot Philip. I was sure, be- fore you went away, that the earl of Clarendon had no hand in It, and I cannot think that we shall ever learn who was in the mysteri- ous motorcar that Lord Clarence saw thet night. And should we find the car, I dare say it would turn out to be some tradesman or other equally innocent person. “Both my sister and I have a hf ara against calling in the po- ice.” “I quite apprectate your ideas, | Mr. Maxwell,” said Tom Whiting respectfully; “but I want to call to your attention the fact that my wife's sister Is, in a way, under a suspicion of knowing who that in- truder was, and of being willing to shield him, Milly isn't shield ing any man. She doesn't know who that tntruder was—altho Philip did. Now, I propose to track that jear, and that man, whether he ts | the criminal or not!” “Do not misunderstand me, Mr. Whiting,” said Mr, Maxwell, “You must surely know that I'm entirely in sympathy with your feeling, and that I wish as much as you do, to bring the villain to an accounting. If you will conduct the search, | will defray any expenses {ncurred, and thus, in a way, do my share.” “All right, Mr. Maxwell,” sald Whiting. “King, I hope you will p me. Mr. Hunt, may I also count on you?” And so | went with Tom Whit- ing and Mr. Hunt to the library to discuss what we should do first “1 propos Whiting said, “that we three canvass the neighborhood, and see if we can find any one who saw that car Monday night.” We agreed to this, and after some further confab, we set out on our preliminary search, Later on Whiting and T returned |to Maxwell Chimneys, and found | there a note from Hunt saying that |he had discovered nothing of con- sequence, “Let's leave him out of ft,” said | Whiting to m he's no sort of a |detective, anyway, unless he \working ‘on bis own individual jf| theory What did you find out, King?” As we mutually discovered, we out and checked up, the evidence seemed to be that the car describ ed by the earl was neither fiction nor imagination Mr. Plattner, the neighbor on the right—-tho the country houses sat some distance apart-—had seen that car come from the village of Hamilton at about 19 o'clock on +Moaday night, He had chanced to ¢ I asked her! had found out considerable. Sifted | BY ARNOLD FREDERICKS notice it because of its great speed, and he deseribed it as « long gray car, with several men in it Mr. Allen, the neighbor on the other wide, bad seen the car pass his hovse, going very fast, at som time after 19, His description was the same. “Now let's go down to the vil lage,” Whiting went on, “and see if that car didn't stop at the fnn | » coming up toward Mr. Platt It would be @ most natural | thing to do.” | So to the inn we went, taking |for the purpose a@ little runabout from the Maxwell garage. inn-keeper Lstened ners to our | questions, and then said, thought fully “Yep, that there car stopped here along about halfpast 9 on Monday night.” “Did the men come tn? How long did they stay?” said Whiting, impatiently. “No, they didn't come in, They jus’ whizzed up here, stopped a | minute, and asked me where the | Maxwell place was.” “They did!" we chimed in amazed | duet. | “Yes, sir; they did! And, of |course, I told ‘em, and never | thought of {t again, Good land! So they wuz the murderers, was they?” ‘¢ don't know,” said Tom. “What were the men like?” “I didn't notice them much. It wan the chap that sat by the driver that asked me where the Maxwells lived. He was a big man, with a | big, deep voleg, and a off-hand way |.-kind of like a Westerner. If you never have | thought of that car again! How are you going to find it?” | “That's just what I don't know,” | sald Whiting, gloomily. | But I had an inspiration. “There's one thing, Whiting,” I id; “if those men left the Max- well# a8 late as half-past 10, they must have gone somewhere to spend the night. Of course, they would want to get pretty well away, but 1 doubt if they'd travel all Now, let's telephone to the and see if they ut them.” “Now, that's « smart idea,” com- | mented Schwartz, the tnn-keeper. | "I can give you a Het or a map of| all the hotels and inns in this part of New Jersey.” We called up a score of places on the telephone, and spent two good hours doing it. But at one of them we spotted our quarry. About mid- night that gray motor car had put up at a small hotel in Millville, a town some 20 miles a The hotel man described the and | the party, and sald that the man who registered was not the big | Westerner, but one of the others, who signed James Mordaunt and party. We asked no further tnformation lover the wire, but determined to 0 to Millville early the next morn- ing. Then, if we could trace our men, to go on wherevet we might be led. CHAPTER IX. Big Jack Judson Next morning we started on our trip to Millville, Our destination was the Prospect house, and we went directly there and Interviewed the proprietor, Mr. Halkett, with whom we had talked over the tele phone. He told us that only Mordaunt registered, but that during thetr stay he had learned there were two | men named Greene, and one, the big Western man, was Judson, and the chauffeur was Hopkins. “That Judson’s the man,” I de clared, “whose name we want. What's bis first name?” “John,” said Mr. Halkett; “John Judson. Bat his comrades called him Jack or Juggins,. They were a hearty lot of fellows, and all in | gay spirits except big Judson.” “Wasn't he? asked Whiting, No,” returned Mr. Halkett, “he was moody and silent; and when up, he would say, ‘Let me alone, boys, I'm feeling down.’” “How long were they here?” 1 inquired. “Just over the one night. arrived before midnight, day night, and went morning, about ten or eleven.” “Where did they go?” “Well, I don’t know exactly; but they seemed to be making a tour aiong the Southern New Jersey jcoast. I know they were goin | Atlantic City and later to Cape May.” As we took our leave, I fell back a little, and whispered to Mr. Hal- kett that ff the party should return, he was to telephone me at once and privately. This he agreed to do, and then we went back to Maxwell Chimneys. Th s the other men tried to cheer him) A Great Feature Resides afl the sther geod things at i Miss Gardiner seemed relieved Tinat we had not traced the men Mr. Maxwell merely observed that |he couldn't believe Mr. Mord was implicated in he had never he o |fore, But when I went on il of big Jack Judson, known by his friends as Juggins, both Mr, Max well and his sister exclaimed in | surprise. | “That's the man!” declared Miss | Maxwell “Oh, how dreadful! and that's | why Phillip said, ‘To think he should |shoot me!” and Mins Miranda broke into hysterical sobbing “There, there, Miranda,” sald her brother, “don’t jump at conciu- |sions. It couldn't have been he! Why, there wasn't time for such a thing!" Then he turned to us, and explained, “This Judson was in Philip's class at college, but they never were friends, I don't know the reason, but there was a never healed feud between them. Phinp ‘ed away from class reunion be cause he didn't wish to meet Jud- son. I never forced my boy's con- fidence, and he never told me what it was all about, but I know they were enemies, My sister knows it, too, and that is why she now sus- pects this man of the crime. But I cannot think it. No, Mr. King, I cannot think we have the crim- inal yet.” This speech amazed me, If Jud- son were Phil's enemy, if he came to Hamilton that night and asked where the Maxwells lived, if his ear, or the car he was in, was seen to enter and leave Maxwell Chim- neys at the time of the murder— what more evidence, save the man's own confession, could be re quired? It was about 7 o'clock that same evening, when, as I chanced to be alone in the music-room, Miss La- throp came to me. “| must speak to you alone, Mr. Kine,” she whispered. “What have you to tell me?” I asked. “Only this, Miss Gardiner has just mailed a letter addressed to Mr. John Judson.” “How do you know this? did you discover this letter?” “I happened to take a letter my- self to the mafl-box in the hall, and I found the footman just emptying the box to take the letters to the postoffice, I chanced to the name of Judson on one of them, and naturally it caught my eye. So | 1 looked at the letter and saw that it was in Miss Gardiner’s hand- writing. I noted the address, and I sald nothing to any one else, but brought the information directly to you. Have I done right?” “You have certainly done right in telling me about ft, Miss La- throp. May I ask you not to men- tion it to any one else—at least not for the present?” “I will not mention ft,” said Miss Lathrop, and glided swiftly away. (Continued in Our Next Issue.) LUNDIN ASKS DELAY IN THE SICHLER CASE Police Judge Gordon continued one week, Wednesday, the case of the state against Louis P. Sichler, private detective, lawyer and finan- cial agent, accused of conspiracy with Mra. Isabel Clayburg and oth- er alleged “badger girls” to black- [matt Samuel I. Silverman, a wealthy mining promoter. Sichler was to have been arraign- ed to plead, but, owing to the re- tance of Mrs, Clayburg against extradition from Los Angeles, Pros- ecutor Lundin asked that the case be held up a week. Mrs. Clayburg is a material wit- ness in the case, according to Lun- din. 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