The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1906, Page 14

ate Sr as moe sees BB nrooee voces tangiements. ‘competent lieutenant, It to ‘accepted as part of the “system.” © Two provisions of the measure require ‘Wcense boy chauffeur was demanded ‘by + efficiency with the industry, Col Mann and Judge Denel seem to be the latest “didn’t-know-!t-was-loaded” ft Robberic SOLVED No. 1—— The markable talents for the ferreting out CHAPTER I. The Recital of a Crime. T the head of the first Might of a iy Aingy staircase leading up from an ver-open portal in a street by tne Btrand stood a door, the dusty ground- @laes upper panel of which carried m fts centre the single word “Hewitt,” while at its right-hend lower corner, in @maller letters, “'Clerk’s Office” appear- e4 On a morning when the clerks m the ground floor offices had barely hung ‘up their hats a short, well-dressed _ young man, wearing spectacles, hasten- hg to open the dusty door, ran Into the arms of another man who suddenly fgsued from it, “I beg pardon,” the first said. “Is this Hewltt's Detective Agency office?’ "Yes, I believe you will find tt 80," the other replied. He was a stoutlsh, elean-shaven man, of middle height, and of a cheerful, round countenanor. “You'd better speak to the clerk.” In the Uttle outer office the visitor ‘wes met by o sharp lad with inky fingers, who presented him with a pen and a printed sliip.. The printed slip having been filled with the visitor's mame ani present business, and eonveyed through an inner door, the dng table, sat the stoutish man himself, avho thad only’ just advised an appeal to the olerk. “Good morning, Mr, Lloy¢—Mr. ‘Vernon Lioyd,” he sald affably, look- dng again at the slip, “You'll excuse my care to start even with my visitors —I must, you know. You come from Bir Charles Norris, I see." "Yes; I am ‘his secretary, I have only “to ask yon to go straight to Lenton ‘Croft at once, if you can, on very im- ~ portant business. Sir James would have ‘wired. but had not your precise ad “Qrnss, Can you go by the next train? Pleven thirty ia the first available J "Quite possibly, Do you know any- of the business?’ itis a case of robbery In the house, rather, I fancy, of several robberies. ihe | Oral, ‘Bingham’s Military Aid: : exemplified in Gen. Bingham, The cut of the coat does not matter. is bound to no district leader. He ts footloose-and and there is no apparent reason why he should not make a capable objection may be made-to Waldo that-he fs targely iis duties. -Perhaps this is in his favor. The quality of ignorance Played by Gen. Bingham has been of advantage to him and to the-pubiic. inquire into conditions which other Commissioners ‘As a result of his necessity of learning the ropes sinecures have “been an-| men who were fast in the meshes of red tape has won approval. _ ‘To Bingham a month in office the city already owes the downfall of’ the squad fetish. Not a bad beginning. ; ‘Chicago courts are Just getting ready to try the manager of the burned Iro- @pols Theatre for involuntary manslaughter. Better Inte-than never, Automobiles in New Jersey. _ The New Jersey Automobile bill, of which the favorable attitude of The fine of $500 and imprisonment for sixty days ‘marks a distinct advance in penalties from the free-and-easy $10 fines ot} It prescribes a respect for the law which the offending: chauf- a professional examination for drivers before they may receive a and the refusal of licenses to drivers under eighteen. . This ban on created. He has become a menace to traffic needing the law's In its thoroughgoing legislation the State catches up with the manu- facturer and owner. For the first time the law is brought up to equal Lenten Cro Martin Hewitt began Ufe as a lato clerk, but quickly developed such re- “cast tt , No. 63 to 63 Park Row, Now York ‘York as Second-Class Mail Matter. «e NO. 16,227... The appointment of Rhinelander Waldo to be First Deputy Police Commissioner puts another military man in Mulberry street. Incidentally, in Devery’s phrase. it represents the “butting in” of an- other dress suit in the department. But so far the public fs not dis- pleased with the dress-sult idea as He has taken nothing for granted, which will be generally commended the conditions of recklessness which of complicated mysteries that’ he took wp the trade of private detective. His business was always conducted with- out the help of professional assistants. He maintained that he hed no “‘sys- tem” beyond a judicious use of ordinary faculties. The following experiences were narrated by Hewitt to Ms friend Brett, a newspaper man, first case occurred sbme months ago— nearly a year ago, in fact. Last night there was another. But I think you had better get the details on the spot. Sir James has told me to telegraph ff you ‘are coming, so that he may meet you himsejf at the station, and I must hurry, ‘a3 his drive to the station will be rather a long one. Then I take it you zvill go, Mr, Hewitt? ‘Twyford is the Statign, “Yes, I shall came, and by the 11.20. Are you going by that train yourself?’ } “No, I have several things to attend to |now I am in town. Good morning; I shall wire at onbe." Mr. Martin Hewitt locked the érawer of his table and sent his clerk for a cab, At Twyford Statin Sir James Nor- ris was waiting with a dog cart. Sir James wes « tall, florid man of fifty or thereabout, known away from home @s something of @ county historian, and nearer his own parts as a great sup- porter of the hunt, and a gentleman much troubled with poachers, As soon |as he and Hewitt had found each other the Baronet thurried the detective into his dog cart. ‘We've something over seven miles to Grive,"" he sald, “and I can tell you all about this wretched business as we go. That is why I came for you myself, and alone.” Hewitt nodded. “I have sent for you, as Lioyd proba- bly told you, because of a robbery at my place Jast evening. It appears, as far as I can guess, to be one of the three by the same hand, or by the same gang. Late yesterday afternoon"— “Pardon me, Sir James,” Hewitt in- terrupted, “but I think I must ask you to begin at the first robbery and tell me the whole tate in the proper order. It makes things clearer and sets them in thelr proper shape," “Very well! Eleven months ago, or thereabout, I had rather a large party of visitors, and among them Col. Heath and Mrs. Heath—the lady belng a rela- tive of my own late wife, Col. Heath has not been long retired, you know— used to be political resident in an Indian native state. Mrs, Heath had rather a ood stack of jewelry of one sort and ‘another, about the most valuable plece heing « bracelet act wlth » pastioularly, INEW YORK THRO’ FUNNY GLASSES Chicago woman had supposed feet. She had been led to believe eral debility. Thus we may see what sible for, @ hired girl docile, but interested also section of like area on earth.” magnificent stateamanship; a great thinker and a great actor in national events and issues. As father of the Home Rule bill he would go down in history and live forever, tf for nothing eee ee gee colr cu ott areet many great achievements in the political and diplomatic fie. I say diplomatic because Gladstone was one of the grewtest diplomats, in the strict- est sense of the word, that ever lived just ‘ae Gladstone, Duta man mighty Jerome and the Grafters. To the Eiitor of The Hvening World: Seeing your editorials on the back- wardness of Jerome in the prosecution of tsurance grafters I wish to say that our esteemed friend William A correspondent asks “Which was the greater, Bismarck or Gladstoner’ Giad- stone was a man of mighty intellect and BY ‘Phartin }tewitt, Investigator. The door hadn't been tampered ‘of coune, the window was “You cajled the pelice, of course?”. Bg Me ig i “sinart fellow, and che fret open, ine’ pearl—quite an exceptional pearl, in fact—that lad been one of a heap of presents from the maharajah of his state when Heath left India. “It was a very noticeable bracelet, the gold setting being a mere feather- twele’ht piece of native filigree work— almost too fragile to trust on the wrist —and the pearl being, as I have said, of a size and quality not often. seen. Well, Heath and his wife arrive? late Wer “That is why { came for you myself and alone!” er long dressing, and while they waited @3 we had one or two new servants my daughter went into Mrs, Heath's °"T\'Na the window? "a room, where Mrs. Heath turned over| fort os I was going to gene ‘went on thi t all her treasures to ell, the: th Lioya (whom do, you know. When my sis! walle, Nee cannes: back, with Lb x Their ‘one evening, and after Junch the follow- ‘ ing day, most of the men being off by|last ready, thoy came straight away, | they had met somewhere) themsclvee—shooting, I think—my own|Jeaving. the things littering about the feeke for ahem. Tt was dusie and almost room, rather than stay longer to paek | di daughter, my sister (who 1s very often | tn p. The bracelet, with git | dawn here), and Mrs. Heath took !t table then,” into their heads to go walldng—fern-| (OF bunting, and ao on. My alster was rath-} my’ iré. Heath went straight recat andthe bracelet was diaturtbed 2"* ‘Not ‘Was precisely | tl where It Gd been lett, except hp brace-| 7! to ber ba ty pit 4m war and in the leadership of men. E.R HUDSON.” | Aut a pretty smart thing | Eva—my dregsing-table, witht 88 and tara of *beaoelet REA te thier oe the large cities of the Old World—I sort of thing myself—but somehow district yet. Now, in the Whitechapel “As one interested in animals, I “that you know every inch of your great Bronx z00. praised as the finest collection of wild animals in the world.” “Yes, so I have heard too,” assented the New York woman; “and from time to time I have intended to compare it with the zoos cf Europe, but Bronx Park is so far away, you know—I'’m not exactly sure Just where it is, but it is several miles, I am certain. And, besides, so few people whom one knows goes there, Nearly all the visitors are out-of-town people,” Presently the Chicago woman discovered that the New York woman loved pictures and had visited all the notable galleries of the Continent. But the\New Yorker had to admit when sho was asked ‘lat she bad never been inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art, although, as She sald, she had always known it contained some of tho finest canvases that had ever been gathered together. And, of course, she was going through it some of these days. Oh, yes, she knew where it was, She had passed it hundreds of times; she lived just a few blocks from it. But something was forever bobbing up to keep her from going, Thumbnail By I. 8. Cobb. | NCE upon a time an average New York woman metrén average Chicago woman. Both of them were agreeably surprised. The lived on hard fodder, cooked oved a chafing dish six days e week, in onder to be able to go to Rector's or the Astor on Sunday night, dressed in tier best, and dine upon imported bran mash with truffles and mushtooms and acold quart. The New York woman supposed the average Chicago woman wan the hurry-up kind that eat shredded breakfast food in order to save brust- ‘Ing the teeth, She also had the customary itea about a Chicago womenfa anything the matter with her feet she was practically suffering from gene Each found out that the other was in all essentials a human being, wha had travelled and was interested in things. Interested, of course, in whether toques would be favored over turbans in the spring styles and how to keep as being of sven more importance than these. £ , “Yes, I'm going West,” said the New York woman. “In fact, to your elty. You see, I am an officer in the 8, P. C. A, and I want to tour your great stockyards, I want you to tell me something of them?” “T will,” said the Chicago woman. “You see, I go in for settlement work. Iam intending to spend a week on the east side of New York, which, as you know, of course, is the most densely settled and the most polyglot “As a matter of fact,” the New York woman confessed, “I have never been east of the Bowery. I have seen the congested quarters of* most of i) that the average New York sroman that when a Chicago woman hed in things which some people regard really take a small interest In that I have not seen our own tenement of London I remember, &c.” presume,” said the Chicago woman, I have often heard it spending a whole day there, and an afternoon would hardly be worth while, now would it? And so on. THE FUNNY PART: ‘The average New Yorker has been everywhere except to Now York, + Sketches. UBJECT—Goeorge B. McClellan. Favorite Sport—Tossing the Murphy. Favorite Task—Taking the count. Favorite Book—" “Barriers Burned Away.” Favorite Author—Parker on Contests, Favorite Artist—Santa Claus. Favorite Frult—The victors plum. Favorite Plant—The Christmas tree. Favorite Vehicle—The bandwagon. Favorite Musical Instrument—The high hat A New Detective Series y Arthur Morrison, hor of “‘Tales of Mean Streets.” “Rian, wae no water pipe within any distance of the window, but a ladder in thy was foun 9 e lawn, gardener explained, how- ever, that he had put the ladder there after using it himself early in the afternoon,"’ jones | Use in after | “Just what the jeald, He was gardener, but very oe knew nothing of it. No stranger 4 been seen in the’ neighborhood passed ! as the detect! Searcaly tt lodge gal A’ stranger the room where was done; en ea turn from the butlers. to the new. kitchen maid's, I. don't 's. at I should have had this carried quite so far if I had been the loser myself, but it was ‘was in puch & bore far Fee ae bul the enh I think that’s I about the , robbery. ted it clear?” “On, yes; I shall bly int to a few questions when I have seen the Place, but they can watt, What next?" “Well,” Sir James pursued, “the next was n very trumpery affair that I should have forgotten all ut, ‘obaibly, if it hadn’t been for one circumstance. think It could have id. Four Heath's disaster—in year, in fact—Mrs. Arm! Ty daughter's, stayed, with ys my daughter's, stay ! ‘week or 50. ‘Tbe girls don't trou! about the London season, 1 have no town house, 80. 0 KI friend ih: le in the dull time. Mrs, Armitage js very active young lady, and was scare in the house half an hour before she ged a drive in @ pony cart with it | ibeen to the door wh stranger. have known enough to | | brush, sash and before—had| she had left them. y y fee. hook Se ie Hoople, Found. of it that they ero lato for din- ne} irs. Tal @t all valuabie, you ae Pe eras ‘pounds, I ‘suppove— Wahine of shat ort. Before sbe. went out, he, skulle ee ees apie father @ good on¢, I belleve—lying close hte," Howitt, “was not in part of the os ep hata ‘Wall, Favorite Character in History—Little Jack Horner. —>No.1 cushion with a little tear In It, whi the brooch had been simply natcty off, But the curious thing was the ring—worth a dozen of the brooch— Was left where !t had been put. Mrs, Armitage didn't remember whether or not sho had locked the door herself, all sh she found it locked when she returned; but my niece, who was in- doors all the time, went and tried it once—because she ‘remembered that & @asfitter was at work on land! hear by—and found it nately locked, ‘The gasfitter, whom we didn’t know at the time, but who s seems to quite an’ honest fellow, was Swear that nobody but my niece ile he was in sight of it—which was almost all he th 71 and As to the window, the sash yetre ress ee anes r 6 Armitage hi FOO} open. 1o half about eight or ten Inch brush, and it eho Tages i ie “Oh, none at all! There was & most careful searc! “Then, as to getting in at the window, would tt have been easy?” 58) “Well, yes,” James replied; * : bryce oh it loots over of the Dfiiiard-room. f myselt- skylight i ig) the blillard. from @ smoking-room just ner. It would be es A foot Bute then” Too! my ‘ couldn't have been thi or other was in the tance.) wiiole time, and By over the roof i |e taking a i “we ‘ baguley, wan meee wo! the loss. of great ie ould SG BE Blain | woul be ey £0 she igh Sa