The evening world. Newspaper, March 11, 1911, Page 9

- adil onrte orem THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1911, fi 9 DBDOHDHDHDHHHHDHHHDDGHGHDDHDGODSHHOHHOODSHOOOS: TDHDHDEHEOGDOOHDOHDHDOODAGDODH DODDS DIGI GOHGOC DIGGS: A Genius’ Discovery of a trange Scientific Method of Detecting Crime The Achievements of Luther Trant. By Edwin Balmer and William McHarg POI IOGSSSOSSSTIOOGHHOSDOHSGHOGOOD GOSDGGHOHHOTHHGHHOHHOHTEDGHWHHGEGDIIDIGOIHO 109‘ AIAGIOO/.AD. VAGINA‘ GAAnqaseosnnnnanoooosanqeoanonnnrannnrarnsoonnonnaseae as o © % sorry to a the very worst.” | Street at @ dachelors’ boarding hous inder electrode, With one held tn each, the test into his own hands rant, quiet parlor a note of passion and) in amazement. | "Yea," the girl replied. “It ts kept] ‘To his surprise, Trant’s eves blazed] hand, and the palms of hands watehing the galvanomoter needie, alarm had been struck, ‘Trant powed| ‘Mrs, Mitchell?’ they demanded. S by dirs. Mitchell, a very respectable | triumphantly. “Miss Allison,” said he, | slightly dampened to perfect the con- | started In surprise. Ho gazed suddenly qilietly as she rang for the maid to] *Yes~yeur wite | Caylis?” = Trant widow with @ little boy. Randolph had | auletly and decidediy, “I had not ex-| tact a Mght current parsed through the| at Kan * face, surmounted by show him out, Hut when he was alone! pressed, poarded with her for six rears. She | pected till 1 had tested Kanian to be | body and swing the deticate needle over | his ourly black hair, and smiled. ‘The | with the maid in the hall his ever!” "Yee, my wife, and mina," tho m had once been in great trouble and he | able to assure vou that ve {4 nog guilty. | the scale t r the change in the | needle had jumped up hither agato. Mashed suddenty. hissed defiantly, “eight years ago back | was kind to her. He often spoke of | But now I think tam safe in promis-| current. Walker, and even Captaln completing Crowley's triumph. ‘They Tell me," lie demanded awiftly, “the! mn St, Louis till, til! thie cursed Bronson oy E ‘ Ls Ne how she gave him motherly care.” ing jt—provided you are sure that Mr. | Crowley, saw more ctearly now how, | filed out of the and back to the ;night Mr. Bronson was killed, was there | broke up the ang and sent me ove A Detective Story of an Entirely New "itegns iment One stv you ae : | when he left | ff {t was a fact that moisture must come | little office. anything the matter with the tele-| the road for three years, and ehe got to “ Q . tg | te she’ you that night.’ And, Inspector Walker, | from the glands In the palm of the hand | ‘8 J proved him on your own ma. | phone? te ontim | Ning he must be atuck gn her and Sort; Where a Guilt - Gauging Mach-' agamtymeven oF eight, I should] if you are also certain that the mur-| under emotion, tho changes in the ghine,” Crowley rejoiced openly, “you, ‘The girl hesitated and stared at htm | mignt masy Nor, bosses We Welped 9 | think.”* derer waited in the vestibule of that | amount of the current pasting through four-flushing patent palintat aueerly, “Why, yes air," she sald. “Al her, untlicuntll she foend ov oe DB Jy, Thank you. How long had you| electroplating shop, It will he soon, in-| the person holding the electrodes must "I don't ask you to release Kantan Man had to come next day to eee a nt eee ota teen your ine Forces the Truth From Sealed Lips. [known Mr. Bronson, Miss Anson?’ — | deed, that we can give Crowley a bet-|register upon the dial, and the subject yet, inspector t ald, au @ break was on the inalde-T Mean, | wires when T tere ane, lad been you | “A little over two years.” ter—or, rather, @ worse—-man to aend|be unable to conceal his emotional Crowley lave sively, “That ia, the man worked In the house: | nut, of course"— ‘Trant checked him. — | “But you were not engaged to him | to trial in Kanlay place.” jchange when confronted with gufity ob- not until I have wed for y th “Why-yes, sir." The maid had opened oe he heard @ knock on the door. until just the week before his death? As Trant entered the Harriton Street | fects, Kanlan, esmprehending nothing, proper man tn his place Ho drew a thé door, Trant stopped with a smoth- | 8,7 Allison {# {n her carriage out- “Yes; our engagement was not made | Police Station half an hour but assured by Walker's nod that the paper from iis pooke f cannot s ered exclamation and picked up @ MEWS | 14, oie ty ne ‘howe on had knocked known till just two days before his— | he caught sight of the giant Inspector, | test was fair, put out his hands for the ly name him yety but Picking the mont Paper just detivered. He spread It open oko “Inspector Walker, “She has . a death.” | Walker. electrodes, likely of them from what I read, I ad- |and maw that tt was the & o'clock edi- | med ide Yeu, sit. hb ae ae “THE FAST WATC. ts the first of a series of LU- “Inspector Walker, how gong before| “You're late.” Walker lef him tnto vise you to rearrest Caylis,’ tlon of the News , 7 {¥9 i wien ” sent no word.” Watker looked from the Crowley, ing himself into “Thik ia Mra, Mitchell's paper,” he de- | Sent no wo chain Wabe es tas Taeate al He manded, “the one she always reade?” cringing Cayiis to ‘Trant chose Caylis, Sweeny, did you | “Why, yes, the «irl answered We do not need Cayis any longer, Inspector,” sald tha?” Cro " he | asain t hatt Crowley gasped. “That's in the |“4Ro sused to consider. ‘Tell Mrs.| Allison ail the tacts THER TRANT stories which will be printed complete } \‘y.grrinen” was Killea was any of the | site room, ; tn THE EVENING WORLD each Saturday. on 3 way the lookout for next week's, You mast not miss tt, 3) “1 ne Gromit tae se course, na nt. “Iocan tell Miss ow, If you wish same clase the rest of your per , | —t y the! ror ve yor Mitohell everything T asked you,” he de- | to have her hear them. well as—any oth said Trant, formance, young fellow. Say, I'm sorry | aed inally, and hurried down the steps| The docr, which ehut behind Crowley | thoughtfuny, hat two days after the hot to de able to oblixe you,” he went | iano to the as oat and hie prisoner, reopened attest ime ;@Hnouncement of his engagement was te ante eee ot tea ate, Cavite waa "Ty the room where the desk sergeant mediately to admit the inspector, and (rom “The Achievements of Luther rant.” Copyrighted, 1010, by Small, Maynard & Ce, | he anly one of the whole sixteen Who |igit Atm Inepector Walker was awaiting | Nise Allteon, Wh how fein ren fn Publisher’) | jcouldn't have killed Bronson; for ‘he him Tr Sweeny with the big. office fourth man, « 1d both Crowley and flushed with the hope which had taken , and & the place of the w anger to tim. The of the morning, Trant @arely knew her. stranger was slight and dark, He had “The inspector tell# me, Mr. Tra: a vain face, but one of starting ‘she stretched out both her hands to hewuty, with lazy brown eyes, him, “that you have good news for me } w," he asked Crow that Kanian was not guilty—and #0 Was with me-talking to mein the from half-past one that morn! halt an hour before the murder, till half-past two, a half hour aft ‘Trant sprang to his feet excitediy, “Ife was?" he cried. “Why didn’t you tell OLICE CAPTAIN CROWLUY—red-headed, alert, brave—stamped into | the North Side police station an hour Jater than usual and in a very; bad temper. He glared defiantly at the row of patrolmen, reporters busybodtes, elbowed aside his desk sergeant without @ word and slammed into his private office. The customary pile of morning! ite fear agd defiance papers, flaying him in stinging front-page columns, covered his desk, He glanced ai Gene tare nu BA oes yes ey derisively, “that made you think ; Randoph was not coing out as—aa they. them over, grunting; then swept them to the floor and let himself drop heavily sure which of the other fifteen k sant @ double to talk with you white *ald he was when they, killed him.” {nto his chal, Bronson; but now T say arrest Caylle—| “Sawai you have Caylie taken out of | triumphantiy, Efe. waa ee, ta “He's got to be sult The big fist struck the table top desperately, “Tt'a ,1 Would try to expla the room for a few moments, th-| on an errand of meres, Meg Allison. to Bot to be,” the hoarse votce iterated determinedly—“him!” He hed checked Walker," sata ‘Trant, “but | spector?” Trant requested, in reply. The summon a doctor tor a little enild whom the last word as the door swung open, only to utter it more forcibly as he 1 mean no offense when I Inapecter me loned to Sweeney, Who led | he had been told was suddenly and dan- i ol ory yu " recognized the desk sergeant. jog Mt td Pe absotutely useless | out the prisoner: o aakeq RAtOUsIY Mil ‘Phe telephone in the house Kanlan, eh, Ed?" the desk sergeant ventured, 1 have him at Harrison | {inspector turned coldly away. “In SEO ante: mere asked had been broken, so at the sudden street station again, the boys tell me.” | spector Walker, you suid this morning | "iy ca ak summons he dashed out, without re- . telly you knew Kanlan from his birth. How | yim off, much negvo blood ts there in him?” “How did you know that? orled | 1 presently,” ‘Trant put want to test Caylis witho is Knowing anything unusual te being tried, Capt, Crowley, can we have Yes, we have him." | mombering his danger, T am glaf@ to be able to tell you of that fine, brave thing when [ must tell you, also, the You got nothing out of him yet?" “No, nothing—yet!"* “Who said enything about thinking?” Crowley glanced to that the door He vis S always passed for wnite At Walker's nod Crowley brought 1 | on» who, Ina fit of jealousy, when she was’ shut. “I said it's got to be him! And—tt's got to, whether or no, ain't it?” | e's one-eighth nigger. But not three | the ohatr. It was a deop, hgh-backed, } found he had merely meant to be king to her, sent him out to his death." “Mrs. Mitchell?” the girl orted in hor- ror, “Oh, not Mra, Mitehell!” "Yes, Mrs. Mitchell, for whom he had people know it, Who tohl you? he galvanometer,” ‘rant reptted, quietly, “the «ame way {t told me that | he was innocent and Crowley's test useless. Now, will you rearrest Caylla them. Aw the captain brought In the i f at once and hold him tl 1 can get the | chair, Trant opened hia suit case and fone so much and whose past he pro- | €alvanometet on him?" | took out his galvanometer, batteries and tected, In the noblest way, even from “Twill, young fellow!" Walker prom- | wires. Cutting off the cylinder elec- YOU. But as she was the wife of the ised, still staring at him. “If only for | trodes which Kantan had held in his Criminal we have just caught, T am that nigger blood.” hands during the test of that morning, lad to believe this man played upon An hour later ‘Trant Jumped from a | ‘Trant ran the wires under each arm of her old paasions, go that for a while North Side car and hurried down su- | the chaly and made a contact with each | he held hie old sway over her and she Perlor street. Two blocks east of the brass knob. He connected them with | id his bidding without counting the oar tne he recognized from the familiar |the battery, which he hid under the consequences, Pictures tn the newspapers ¢ wed jchair, and with the galvano: re dial,| "I told you this morning, Inspector and once fasitonable front of the | which he placed behind the chair upom) Walker, that I could not explain to Mitchell boarding house, where Bron- a table, concealing it behind his hat. | You my conclusions tn the test of Kan- won had liv He was seeing it fo: Hoe seated himself in the chatr and /lan, But I owe you now a full expiana- | ph Bronson-{ "I was coming in with Inspector rney for whose | Walker to see Captain Crowley,” the girl explained to Trant, “whan I over. | heard you telling him that you think | woolen chair, with high arms: and ¢ ach arm was a brags knob, a0 placed @ person sitting in the chair would imost inevitably place his palms over A month before Ra the city prosecuting at unpunished murder Crowley was under fire--had dared to try to break up and | this ranlan—couldn't have killed’ Me, wend to the penitentiary the sixteen| Bronson, Thora tis feces men who formed the most notorious} ‘Trant looked to Walle: "Miss Alle and dangerous gambling “ring” in the | en's father was Judgo Alilson, the thus city. It grew certain that some of the |est man wao ever ant on the benoh in i to put, tis Walker responded. “His | j(aughter inows she must not try to | : pravent us from’ punts chief of police particularly chan murders; Dik Goltnee of tn Fanuc Crowley, therefore, to see to Bronson's| pelfeve Kanlan 4s the man—for good safety in the North Side precinct, where | reasons, Now, what was that you were telling Crowley?" welve days| ‘I was trying to tell Ing, | Of & simple test wh aixteen would stk at noth! the prosecutor out of the way the young attorney boarded. But Crow ley had failed; for within ‘aptain Crowley | ch must prove mor of the warning, ea ; Tete WHO ; 14, quiet- | the first time, but with barely © | gras e ein his palma, With ton, You will recall that I commented x ck | Kanlan's guilt or innocence at ance, : ays, oa Se Whenas tetends" he said, aulets | te clirlous glance he went on Hei head dtr no perceptible current | Ubon the fect thet the crime which Bronson had been forind dead a block » is 1 don't know. your game. But I na curt glance, he went on his hands dry no percept! | ‘ jand, if necessary, then find the guilty lgintel aera cae , ; {toward the place, a block en hake ch his body from knob to| Ws puzgling you wae committed with- from his boarding-houre — murdered, | mia, Mf meceasary, then f 7 ain't afraid, 4f {t's on the square. Of place, @ block east, where pasaed through his tn 60 short a time after the kuowleden Growiey had been unable to Nx a clew| mevis 2, Ave, heen conducting expert Coline, T ain't sorry hep dead, vubal attorney's body had been found. Me | knob to register upon the din} | didn’t do at!” | are me!" the suddenty commanded | of Mr. Bronson's engagement became “1 carefully the character of the! "s teins He | thet , | upon a@ single one of the sixteen. fects and re fons. A om heii . lini nb 1 o ait prehending, fumbled | known that I @ivined @ possible con- th + beNOn Gh: ‘ant glanced quickly at the dtal. Aj K9 on both sides of the atreot Walker, holf comprehending, had satiny Hed rohit Bae pgd ates bl | hinrent a0 Vary ANAHE CHAE he tenew at sere WAS A KTOcery. between two lin the drawer of a desk, atraightened |Rection, But thet, at best, was only but after his st nird de. ‘ alway: ay ntirely imperceptible to Kan-|™ansions; beyond the next house a} sudder had to release them. Now, in ened mani n, registered upon the scale; and hav. |Ciar store; then ther boarding |and snapped it at Trant’s head. At once | me wae { eration, he had rearrested Kanian. | ° or ow h the © ond!- registered It, the needle fematned | house, and the electroplater's shop be- | tiv lle of the «alvanometer leaped waited tn the vestibule of the electro. ‘ he deaacdwsant, icane (cere fe can contro features, | teady. fore which the body was found, ‘The|across the scale, and Crowley @nd plater’s shop. Ta was certain that the (eh CLL corded dcpenieeeaiat YS face flushing noticeably. | { “Watch tt! he commanded; then | little shop, smelling atrongly of the| Walker both stared [yer pungent fruit-ether odor of ben- ee at von as a Ais Ceti HOM AY SIL SEBO EAGLE SF Revked himself, "No; walt." Ho felt Olle and acide used In tho electroplater's| |The tnapector went to the door, took | ana oll--the thinnlg material used by et- —whether or no, But {f you a 0 to control himself, can prevent in hts pocket. Removing the newspaper trade, was of one story. Trant noted | Caylia from Sweeny, and led him to the | ectro-platere In preparing their lacquers ; the goods on Kanlan yet, maybe you'd minute changes which by sclen- which he had there, stiil folded at the tho conventent vestibule flush with the | chatt |—must be forever intimately connected ‘ vy t folded at the want to talk to a lad that’s wating in 1n3 Are meas le and betray ascount of the es of the convict Wall, and the position of the street | it down," he satd with the crime in the mind of the man A Rent » man, however on | | Johnson. he looked about for some place MP, which would throw ite light on| The childlike, brown eves covertly | who waited in that vestibule. Tomo one What does he know?" take the simplest test— | ; * ° Be put tt, and then latd tt upon Kan-|@y one appr ing, while concealing rt and watenful, wee Trant, and | alae could that odor connect !tself with 4 | T ort 1 Se t Hamaation the unl sweat glands in the Plt SDE OROISRIROG et binta Jen He took a tittle phial fr with a dark shadow one waiting in the Caylls nervously grasped the two Invit-| crime, So T knew that tf I could teat ; “And he saya he can | hands, which always ipa r Reve Fone Over the files of Mel nis pocket, uncorked it aa 1f to oll the | Vestibule Ing Knobs an the aris of his chair. | ait sixteen men tt would ‘be child's play Mi J Beau ti Stia Bere ARG E must edinit, Ce onain’ Crows | Mechanism about the galvanometer, but | He glanced beyond the shop to the! ‘Trant quletly took from his pocket to pick the murderer. But such a. test p US iad vn sweats; that's a Brant corecaea ats Captain Crow, | unilled It on the floor. ‘The stifling, alck- | house w! Inspector Water had told the newanaper containing the false @e- | was cumbersome, And the next elr- } he-—student MP routs ABP Saeed ay lor of banana ofl per ed the bim, the auestionable Mrs, Hawtin lived. count of Johanson's pe, a look~ | cumstance you gave me made un- “He says some so: sts have devised a sin Me A TSAR Ses Ony On WANDS ind as Kanlan smiled at hia clum- Beyond that he saw a sign—that of a. ing about as though A place to DUC peceseary. T menn the fact of the ‘fast Brosnan out of the way it I found Kar “Professor! Crow! i ny the emotions | “remarkably algnificant thing, You| Sess, Trant took his watch from his| Dr. O'Connor. He swung about and it—a# he had done tn hin trial San-| watch’ which, Mise AMison was able to { hate : t lands in the palms | ogy fe seon It?" Ho pulled a folded news. |POcket and—with tha gamester atill returned to the house where Bronson }!an—laid ft, with th Johanson foto tell me, could not have been fast at Not that kind, Fd.” mit OUR Eve <7 i si paper from his pocket and handed it to| Watching him curously—slowly aet it had boanted, raph uppermost, in Caylis's “kv all, Taw that the watch must there- Avot. hat Mind, (he galvanometer, I hay RORY SRD UsOt BNE BAIS A) ward an hour, The needle of the gal ell Mrs. Mitcholl that Mr, ‘Trane, {er smothered an exclamation; Crowley | gore have been set forward at least ten Rane NO Sree REI 8212 ATEN Phe Poet 1S A FDR Rat atria le nometer dia!, tn plain view of all, | who ts working with Inspector Walker, | looked up startled. ‘The needie—whteh | minutes, probably much longer. Who, ceps, “He's got plenty of this; rgeant. It is merely a device for | "The captain read ‘it eagerly, then | ited steady in ite place, ‘The young wishos to speak with her” ho said tg | had remained xo still when the poiad | Oetween Hale past ten end. tera, could he's got hair, too'’—-the sergeant glan meastt the varying strength of an | nd back and laughed, “Sure, T saw | PANChologist glanced at it satisfied! the mald, and he had a moment to esti. | Wt lid upon Kanian’s knee-DAd | have done this, and for what reason? at Crowley's ted head—"as red as ordinary electric current. ‘The man | 1" he dertied, “Tew that old Jonan-| "Well, what's the matter with the mate the partor before the mistress of | Jumped aoross the wale | | | mie ong convine!ne poantbility waa thit { Cap.” tested is !n each hand a contact fon fake, Sweeny—and he thought !t|S?0W2?" Crowley jecred, impatiently. | the house entered, | Caylia gave no signi his sets his | {he Assassin had set it forward, trust- ; etal wired to the batte r he 0 ye eeny eran od i oy ence." “lp > rasped the brass knobs nervousl in f be Send him tn." metal wired to the battery. When he | Gaylie nervously grasped the two In-|was u clew!" ‘The inspector took the | “commen A white-faced, brown-eyed Ittle boy of KMasped t ip im. rant took | ine ¢ would net be found ti moraing, Srowley looked up quickly at Trant thom a weak and tmpercepttble | r 4 Commence, Captain ¢ Prant | ev. with pallld cheeks and golden face Was quiet and calm Hebuid |and his only object could have been t Ss A elt ame ae aC it sses through his body or—it | Viting knobs on the arms of his chalr.|Paper oe ne eae gail” [raised himself triumphant! have | hair, had fled between the portieres ax from his pocket the little phial refitted | 44 estabiish for himself an alibi~for Soe he sistas) He sem 4 7e Net Gre very dary—perhaps no] 18 a, id uiy | Was the heading, and under it was this| finished 1." ‘They stared at him as Trant entered, The room was at all) With banana ofl and emptied Ita cone | 3 gotock | with hair indeed es t and red ax his Ou te ig) tien examined) | kao tee Mme Bay ole, ould AOLUSLY | para erknnt though iatrusting his sanity “You | typleal of the boarding house, Its orna- tenis on the floor as nan done that T surprise’ you, therefore, by as- ore) Ded with © eure for bie sicre | and confronted WIEN Sinaumetances of red psig Ld 1s seoreh 46 “James Johnson, the notorious Stock-| have seen for yourself the needle stand | ment and its arrangement showed the |morning. Agajn Walker and Crowley, | auring you, even before T saw Kanlan, medium height, quite as muscular as | connected with the crime. If ne Aneneck ; Mr. Bronaen, called yards murderer, ‘whom City Attorney | steady in place,” Trant continued. “In- | imprint of a decide, If not cultivated, | with siurtied eyes, watched the needi® thar he was Innocent, because Kanten any police officer's, He saw that the | nt the objects have no stg- | gveryihing wae as natal botreen your | BeOnson sent up for lite thren yeara ago, |apector Walker’—he turned to the|feminine personality. ‘The wali irncg | move, ‘Trant took hia wateh from bis had no allt whatever. T proved his young man’s blue y eyes were not | in his mind, and cause no | “Entirely, Mr. Trant. Of course, we! €scaped from the penitentiary early this) {Mendly superior oMcer as he recognized the usual faded family portraits, and Ket, and, as in the morning, be ig Innocence to my own satisfaction by st mates—that the right was quite | His face betrays none; |, freee elt ; Sr he ¢Morning and is thought by the ofliciais|the hopelessness of explaining to Crow: | there was an entire absence of mactent |« » he set tan hour ahead. | exhibiting before hm without exelting exact mi rth Bb ae foun his hands, But 4¢ he ig|Notp rescuuixed the constant danger hej Momnine and ie thought by the oficial | Tp Uisnastineds oF expiuning to Grows kknacks to give evidence of a paat | t are all these tricks?” sald any emotional reaction at all the re- Noticeably more blue than p | Cunt, thoust “he atl manages to con | (TPL nC enOw ON RHe Why Ae Mca eal will be-remomnered tor the. drar| #akOd you. to, bring me here that, eveni|genuily: wo he was sot surprised w Caylis contemptuously port in the News whioh, I felt fatriy BP SAGAr AU WARS SEAL. Dink BON | tr # face, he cannot prevent the | (nove stati, Fea Teen with iis afi{matio and spectaculay, denunciation of|!f WY test should prove conclusive to |tne mistress of thie hanes webs pretty| But Walker and Crowley, with flushed | sure, must have had something to do | Which reddened conspicuously with the) moisture from flowing from the giands day downtown; and Captain Crowley’s|the Prosecuting Attorney by the con-|M™e, yet I could scarcely hope to have| after a spectacular fashion, {mpreasing faces bent upon the edie, paid| with the crime; by loosing the smell slightest flush of the face, H palma, Understand me; I do not | man came with him to our house. Sr-|victed man upon his condemnation, and | the police yet accent ft, Z shall let Mies | him with @ quiet reserve of peacion con lta need. ‘Trant posted himself between | of banana oll and setting. forward a ‘Luther Trant, Captain Croy Mean an amount of moisture noticea-| pecnson went back to his boarding | his threat to ¢ree himsci¢ and 4) for | Allison know that Kanian can have had | power Caylia and the door. watch In his presence, ‘The objects Trant introduced himself ble to the eye, but It is enough to] Monson went back ‘at. hulfepast | Bronson.” nO possible connection with the crime | “I am always ready to mee any one) “You sae now,” Trant cried trt-| which Crowley used had-been so thor- i Eee 1 DAYS NON, OHOCUONE PDO: | make. an slectio contact ‘through the yume Wor) et Phenaee You see the date of the paper?” gaid@saingt Mr. Bronson; but I understand | who comes to help poor Mr. Bronson," umplantly to the pollee officers, “the oughly connected with the ertme in j Menta in the psychologteal laboratory of | metals which he holda~enough to rem |i ang hoarding house,""|Trant. “It js the five o'clock edition of |that I can * Kanlan in the gyes of she sald * | difference between showing the false ace | Kanlan's miné that—though he {= tn- the university’ — ister very plainly upon the galvanom- | roscector Walker took up the account, |the evening before Bronson was mur-| the police only by giving Captain Crow-| 1 heard ao, Mrs. Mitchell," aald count of the escape of Johanson to an | nocent--they caused reactions to which Te er riled Bronson in| meter Whose moving needle, travelling | wa "aitte before eleven and, went ai |dered! Johanson ts reported escaped | ley"—Trant bowed to that astounded | rant, "itt se set han re s tell Innocent man and showing it to the man, T pald no attention, exeapt the one If the man who Killed Bronson e-scale, betrays him pitiloagty (| ee eee et twolve-thiryy the (and at once Bron is killed jofflcer—"'the real murderer co?" | the painfit! details so many times to the whom it sent out to do murder, You] reaction whtoh, at Crowley's threat, SAE AE Hie Sx toOn MOR: YON SUR ‘ f inspector shook his head skeptt: linge poarder came In, Crowley's man| Crowley snickered patronizingly, ‘“Bo|, “You say you have made the teat, | police and the reporters: T ahall nee coe ese gittence hetweon loosing the| tol me of Kanlan‘s Besre. ie ae you will let me exan 1OPy BRODSES Ts: | ci immediately chained the front door and| you thoug before your palmistry, | Trant?" Walker challenged, in stupefac- | you for them again.” stench of banana oil before a man who for the rest, they merely scared Kan- I ean pick the murderer at once mora White than before, | made all fast. He went to the kitchen |you could string us with that?" he{tion. But before ‘Trant could answer| “Do you mean,” he looked up quioke a intey nathing with It and. hefore Ian Aw Your pistol soared me, and as xamine them pro Saints in} had ris and laid her hand uponlto yet something to eat, he saya, and |Jeéred. “You might better have kept | Crowley pushed hin fe, roughly, and | iy, “that you bring me news Instead of the criminal who waited in the vestibule they would have scared any tnnocent Heaven, gon! Bay! that gang needed | Trant's sleeve, | may have fallen asleep, though he de-|us waiting a little longer, young man, |st00Ped to the satehel which Sweeny to ask it?" the elect ster's shop and can| Man Under the same conditions, ate a stiff drink all rc € f | Lob. try It, Mr, Trant!" she cried | nies it, However, until after Bronson's | and yo! ave found out that Johan-| had brought ‘fo, T want your help, but only tn ne in his smell banana ol! again) OW" tests could cause reactions only i through exainining t i nove take you to Kanlan,” the in- | was found, we have made certain, |#on couldn't have done it. for he never| “Of course he a hast oY mur hav n without Ite belnging upon him the fear |',,the gullty man. : word or a move gave a mun aw | Spector granted at Inst, “As things are | t was no alarm inside or out.” lescaped. It was a slip of a sneak thief, |swered, disgusted dare to, Mr. Bronson's habits and needa ¢ the murderer. You see the diffe AAD ete can a “Phose men—of cours an @ with him, you enn't hurt, and |" phere is no doubt that Mr. Bronson | J that escaped, and he was on | nd is throwing a show intimately than any other person, Re- too, Capt. Crowley, between set. | 2¥ sabe it Hg DHE gebirned hotly, i ? bu maybe you can help. Every one knows | was in the house when it was locked | bis way back to bof t |him, with his n ma too, if cently may have thought of some ting 'a watch forward in front of a man ly sure of when Crowley told their tongues and thelr und YOU Kantan would have put out Bronson: | "a The ‘News’ got the name wrong, that’s there's anything t ta @ cap-| poasthle reason for his golng out in the tn shore tt can adie of Caylis's alibl. You have Just looked at nothing € While you | but not—I am certain—that way. T was Aranale he lash DORRMEDT kaha Went talc conc? ain stooped and, pulling from the| manner a t thet time, other then STA aah it ad the effect upon him of the sam Were exwinining tuem, if 1, ¢ rn in the basement opposite Kan-/to his room, saw Bronson sitting at his| “I was quite able to find that out, | pened valise a photograph of the spot | that he the police,” Pine 7 ho . triee on aniani and the cans rained psychologis:, ha ad @ galvan an's. Tf Mr. Brons had bee t 4 1 k a tena TF t ted, he ’ ae Ary man ve evidence the galvanometer gave. trained p mi had been At | table going over some papers, He was | to ore coming he Capt. Crow ne H 1, hi ‘Yh 1 T could, Mr. Tr the pror tat 2 but " h Bree Tau tace t alms OL | teateal in Leoaa Ane oo riper ma pe Oe v , x [Roan tt henna te TR naon—not @ fact that Caylis himself never read ometer cont i |! 1 in f a detective | gti) aresse was going to rant said quietly, oth that |Cashed tt Kanlin's face. Instant: | w annot Ne the Kay rg i ee be their hands, or {on each side of him and alt of them | bey primed and a Johanson never escaped and that alj|!¥, as both t uptain and ctor} I 6 f a dootor-—D ast an hour fast, then rushed in to| ‘he News only conteiuted to my oers “A palmist, Lord preserve us!" | had been eaten up or killed, T'd have | Pet imines to how he ‘evening papers except the News hua|turned to Trant's galvanometer needle, |O'Connor—s BUAKAY than an i Se eee sca te eatat: tainty that another person was con- Crowley cried, “Say! don't ¢ think the first to step over Kanlan | out. with n ‘overnble reason for the name correctly. Even the News| the little instrument sh 1a reaction, he was killed » you thin Aaeoes =. far the time | Seciece arte uae could have either terday—Kanlan—and we Avi a bons (Bronson wan GAUERC iat way, | SE Pm rat eaet ae metas ne foramina) Quereat THAt TONAREb Er uiesl ReAle. Of tho GIAL. aa. (HB meat eure have yom ¢ ight of that io had 90 fined for th F T went to the place, found the Goatarte fession out of him by night.» " man that Kited him waited till | se macwalt a block enst of his beard. laelt hod 40 °a6 SHEN ae wullty 4 from the) “It Mr, ‘Trant.” the | qLolice Captain Crowley, livid with the] sign Just beyond, discovered that th he called, as the door opened to admit | the house was quiet, unt!) Crowley's fhe sidewalk a tock east of his bo either vim it a stranica vo Is, made t t with woman returned, a deflant I THiS eee aateningly lire: Mitenaal boo, tick thet samme a man, “do you know w ou te a | guards were asleep, and then somohow | ¢oronead and ilied Instantly by « man | inelder A ale NateR att nd the our-| tried to first, that that might ! « ’ elle h phone t tot ther. orebea bel id am . arte pe 1 toward Ca ! a moment, as though m broken Inside the house that palmist!"” But it was not the ser: or o oN ld a vise -mystery| cig mist have Waited for him in the la rar s current in the olty thae ‘ , ‘ his & it J. gh ag Rl A he Pee } geant who enter “Aan! J than the murder Itself—got him out ule of a@ little electro-plating Johanson had broken out and was com. ala He: Crowley jas T had to tell tho detectives who : ef Fea act are ten aie Hae Walker!” alone in the street two o'clock in ng to murder Bronson, onson was | Polnted triumphantly to the 4 dome at some time ago, I hie an Se | te aera oe ae ere, Serene! “Morning Crowley,” ‘Trant heard the | the morning, and struck him dead trom what time was that—exnctly?" murdered, oF you must |e stooped again to the satchel ata tha 7o Bronson #0 intensely 2 secu » complete} ‘The Mitchell woman sent him out, quiet reaponse behind him as he turned. |a dark doorway nt interrupted. ‘The papers say the practical certainty that the|® Pi t ie mu a Mr j " white as) of course,” Walker checked him almost ‘A giant in the uniform of an inspector | “Captain Crowle said M t¢ ten minutes after two ng to murder Bronson say Vat efore the a t's eye ae he for ' pound | irrttably., "Six blocks away—Crowley @f police almost filled the doorway Allison, finishing, ed on. the | oto} a waiah Ht t account, and, owing it was st K 1 the ¢ he need. Besid sisnad “io ite His went tc hava Mor ee ante th F “Come with me, young man, said. | charge that after Randolph—Mr, Bron-| was broken and st b neorrect, chose t t to kill t t 1 n botr nee hig eee ended: hi daoahanesns face| Miss Allison gathered herself toether Miss Allison was passing with me out- | son—had returned to his rooms from |eynotly tea minute tw attorney, 40 as to Johanson," | him nh, as Crowle 1 n i 1 Aue fate og atone,” Boe ohitad tae ete aide here and we heard some of what| seeing mo that evening, he weat sORreoeal He picked up his s “But con Wa y star a r ee na eee . I tor Walk é : ‘ t I : F ‘| rant ack Iged t rant, I en he . vspector Walker, must you" you've been saying, We'd like to hear | two hours later to answer a| Yes," the fuspector replied, “The jet us Kanla' 3 @ it) fi 4 : Yet, it Mr. B, a iy t t » faltered more. 1 s from this—this Mrs, Hawtin, | watch stor t 2.20; b: n spite of I haven't told What you're go @ a Bi ok inoe t have met him. W ts : turned and) “None of us ts called upon to say ‘Trant looked up at the Intell | So long as Captain Crowley can con- that, the exact time of the murder must | ing to to him," volunteered, | fte ! have He leaned over and took t t ws ‘. id | bow she shall be punished, Misa Alli- face and followed, A young woman | vi one for this erlme, they seem |have buen nearer two than ten minutes ag ho led the thren ta the cells below, | murdere rhe 1 the pallio {litle ba hee hd Re vr'a powerful hand {son ‘rant sald, compasstonately was waiting outside the ¢ As the | to care no s how they slander and | tater, for Mr, Bronson's watch was Sweeny. at Crow had brought | Pubbed mene PANIAN 8 | or, O'COr to aan cam We must trust all to the twelve men inspector pointed rant toward a , n the name of the man who is! fast," with him a satchel the upper | cheek i ARE SEM ADS ORs Oh, yeu, Mf t A put rk ved and| Who shall try these two." But to her room In tho rear of the butiding she | killed-~as Ittle as they care for those) “I gee.” ‘Trant turned to the gtrl. | ome wit Hon of ObJects Cone | oe Tt y Say Wie ea ne wAaDe nd searching his, Seant seamae’ ts followed, Inspector Waller fastened tie | I love him : “It a strange, Miss Allison, that a man Trant had trained f to avoid rime, the merciless Hae Yr, O'Connor Peaks e aurye something, Suddenly the door behind them. ‘The girl had seated before I can examine Kanlan, | ike Mr, Bronson carried an incorrect defiin t ‘ e faced | te mnaws ai still, To Mrs. Miton- | 2 a C : phone rang. Walker took up herself beside the table in t ntre, | or ) you in any other w Mias | watch." the man with t @ momentary | cre Trant shrugged his, TRS Ae “arab 1 convince ‘ , Sayan” utter oeoian® bimiane Une and as she turned to Trant she raised | Allison," he explained gently, “I must) “He did not. It was always right.” | surprise. For I fn Kan ‘ f t " 4 wud anitated | ie ie area, atitone 7s "Sys Mrs. Mitchel! skipped—cleared, You Ner yell above her brown, curling hair| be sure of my facts. Tt ts not'too much | “Was it that evening?” lan only @ por caroiegn'y | Jake, we got the goods on you now tr Br ntild wea * ; Per eulik sid have taken her"? he accused j and pinned {t over her hat. He recog- | to yu to go over them with me? Why, 3 Ir that he com- | dressed in cloth r tallor had | Crowle K the wa role ' zto ut Dr. O'Connor p Trant, “but you let her got niged her at once as the Kirl to whom. No, vector Walker,” he anticipated | pared his our clock before cut etivee uch flate and pushed n n and 1 y could Trant stoo® Watching the face of Miss Bronson had become 1 ely a big po offi obje as | leaving.” The galvanometer nisted the uneas: esc 4 afely, an her to send Allison, unmoved, The desk sergeant week before he had ber 1 On ker started to speak, “if 1 am to| “Inspector Wo sald Tra lite 1 with a needle arranged) awn, "Y west confess, You killed Ar two, Mr, Trar . rs | to ‘ t In upon them, had fallen all the horrors as well elp Miss A , 1 cannot spare her iT i it all of the #t 1 " electr r ‘ odd vard and rushed to eytrs, Mitchell's outside, Inspector! grief of Bronson's murder, and Trant | no kixtoen men of the ring med al >» hund of a millian L did 1 1 é r, to t t , for we alibi, A8@ WAS) She sald she's come to give herself up!" did not wonder that the shadow of that! "Please do n Trant!" the girl| Was Kanlan’s one of the best or the attached two wires to t e4 aes 1 I ean ¥ watoh wag | compl : j “You counted upon that, T suppose,’* event was visible in her sweet face, begged brave worst” bine sof the Instrument, the clr anyway, It ere an stopned The woman arose sudder « a) ands shed Walker turned upon Trant. “But don't But -he read there also another ork Thank you. Mr. Bronson, I be The inspector hesitated. “One of the cuit Including « single cell battery ach | y ‘@ been lynched before this!’ a m oo sinuous as at 4 peached on rt t ot oh , do it again he warned, “for the sake @ Jook of apprehension and defiance, Meve, was g@) boarding on Superior {-wors,” he replied, anwilingly, "I'am wire connected with a simple steel cyl- | time since Crowley took startled tiger. was as though in the | Walker and Crowley turned to Trant’ of what's before youl y - - rare - a od ‘ u Anng-teidiinees oy hat tnonant a p Z