The evening world. Newspaper, September 13, 1916, Page 13

The Evening World Daily Magazine, Wednesday, September 13. 1916 THE SCIENTIFIC GUNMAN ||Can You Beat It? wrtshas. \ are Sou By ARTHUR B. REEVE Craig Kennedy, the er rientifie Detective,” wine thable duet of wits with @ master eriminal ome methods are as scientific as bis own, «nome, rat ete om ume other” sir witemoie ond pg to MUL” PUMINAtEd Kennedy { ' -— oe (ee eee deren et ne rome wed n+ vorting game wet Olam) Mow Gid they ai ue ee ae (ake @ look at the ‘ It wae only toe vid eueeeed right | aur ¥ @ineovered ot te trom door, Bat of & moment for ait, Ce a * (turned bia attention to the clephone Hteelt Another instrument hh 1 brought with him wee sorted tn place o nitter It looked evidently been prepared with that ia bricks and earth and i been uped for at There bad been a tunnel, but the last m h b had ¥ . 1 h thas W wate! @ hin to Gemap. evidently exploded dyna we" BAND COHE he enteiee teenie an a ee ee eee te earner, 8nd gree we +20 AND WE Hu 7 ary transmitter site, @l- with the two storage batteries, te the gumbbeg joins to ont one cartridge oud the bad | [WITH OINNER Td GET To THe Movies ‘ hough tt had other uses It was held (wo earpisces, ong to each veutly Wnarniseung wo CAVEd In. 1 Hae srible to follow!) TRY SéVEN - ® More of & Job to trace owt the course t worke—4t works, eri it Until He courke could be earetully }} * 8 of the telephone wires and run in @ S2.muem delight as if he hed bece emcavaied with proper toole ta the q sort of tap line at a point where it positive that it would. daylight. “Here, it yourssit,” be eué would not be likely to be noted. This panding pts vostiviee to me. We wae done by Kennedy etil! in silence, — | put them ot my, ore wee mare gambling In New York, but the ronghola of ad captured the vellous 1 coi ear men biers had managed to ellp out of | Y vartows stings, Py or, tons Fasbed ott Cid r otal the low CHAPTER Vi. stellate sinned haiauaal , | ‘ vut of another window. grua ont. . “Just @ cow ot pale | Aa Craig fniahed hie myatert by * The "Reid CHAPTER Vil. j \ Unkering and rose from his dusty Job they snes tat OH esther : ., h off his clothes he remarked: last night. I heard one of T waa the work of only « The Gangater’s Garage. how you may. have your (hat Rome one they celled rahe few seconds before the out. HAVE it," exclaimed Ken. heart's denira, O'Connor, If you Waal man, the bese,’ gees pin ergere ry wide door had been jiterally Hedy, AB we were retracing | to watch these people.” te ene outeae Cheus th) om ted up until tte hingos our steps upstairs from the | “What te itt 1 hastened to ant, Chief ts our friend with the sa Dulged and cracked, It cellar, “Would be willing te a ra distoevanh, or @ micre. SUS. The bose must he the fellow crashed tn before the unwonted at- (o wager that that tunnel runs back ne, oneh as we Bevo beed belora Cat RENY” Mery une Breanean ann tack. n for women which wo) [———— handed the = poolro Thon Kennedy attacked the icebox visited en Forty-seventh Street, Wal. | doer, and upward, by fractions of an ter, That is the secret exit, It could) inab, by millimetres, the door was be used in either direction,” | forced, There was such a sirainiug We mbed the stairs and stood} and otreas of materials that [actually again in the wreck of things, taking began to wonder whether the building ™ hasty inventory of what was left itaelf would stand the strain, in the hope of discovering some new “Sclentifio jimmying,” gasped Craig, clue. ' @e the door bulged more and more, Kennedy shook bis head n and threatened to topple In at any “They had Just time enough,” he re~ | moment. marked, “to destroy what we wanted, SEVEN COOK A DINNER THe Tho door buckled and waa literally and carry off the rest.” = : \ \ wrenched off Ite hinges, Craig sprang The telephone bell rang, Kvidently back, grasping me by the arm and in their haste they had not cut the A > pulling me too. Hut there was no Wires, any how, Some ot who had | “mee”, need of caution, What was lef: of not yot earned of the raid was call: | the door swung back, svemed to tram. '9# UD. . i ble & moment, and then, with a dull Kennedy quickly unhooked the re- . thud, crashed down on the beautiful ceiver, with @ hasty motion to us to y ‘ be quiet. } eg marble of the inside reception “Hello.” we Beard him ans HH f Inside all was darkness, At the “Yes ¥e% bei ae yee wi \ ! first sign of trouble the lignis had | He nad Geen te ee watched his |, eS y | 4 Been switched out. It waa as ailent “St pat Fassonea hel Fax ( as a tomb. face to gather wha’ : } ceived. Pad The clang of bells woke the rapid wyng deuce!” he exclaimed, with his | echoes, It was the patrol wagons, 4.4 over the transmitter, ! come just in time, full of reserves, at “wyhat'e the matter?” we asked ai O'Connor's order, They swarmed up the steps, for there was nothing to “ do now in the limelight of the public eye but their duty, Besides, O'Con- nor was there, n gee that.” thetr work when I tle mush more sensitive, E think” OT 2ee scinated by the marvel \ 1 Metened, bi | Per he answered, “than any mechantoal of the thing. 1 could hear ate | © electrical eaveadropper that hae although the men muat have been DINNER IS Coue On LET'S HURRY U TOON, SEE HOw You DON'T HAVE 76 or eisemens gavecereeeey tt ee cee ee ak oan READY JOHN OR WE UL BE LATE | Jog AS COGK How 1S COOK FoR MOVIE” mon ahem wneen ator te wagon ony, ame (T's NEARLY, You NEVER CouLp SENOS MEY ser more,” one man wes Por Instance, that attachment whic saying, “A feller from Lys I placed on the telophone ts much come ai py Ly eee te more than @ eensitive tranemitter, °*S, Seng By There are in tt the minuteat globules One was here all night of carbon which are floating arou “Yeh. the fight.” and make ft alive at all times and pit they ert Ge va extremely sensitive, But as it Only one follows the chief .he's gotter replaces the regular transmitter, ite Pry wae any bull that ever pound- presence will never be guspected, eda! That operates just as well when the vying tga'd the Pome marr receiver Ie hung up, Even tf they now,” find the other one back of the tires, ae Chief's gone up the State, I the most suspicious person would not Sue think to look here for anything. We pos enon, “Tepe, al we want The are dealing with clever people, and ant didn’t they make e@ pinch? two anchors to windward are better Ain't there nobody watchin’ now? than one. “Naw. They ain't got nothin’ on us. “Tho other thing back of the tires wisre he wants ‘ome. Bee the paper is the ordinary detective form. All that we need now ts to find @ place to install this receiving box, with its two batteries and the two earpleces, one to be held to either ear, You moved. I could not belteve that any “I came to first,” went on Craig, points straight at him. Watoh the “You three stay here,” he ordered, #¢¢, the whole thing ts only about hoever he was, he was too keen O16 courg have gone away and left it now busy looking about as we were place.” “If any one should come in hold him. six inches square, and got four for me. He caught on, There MUSt gon expecting that the place would all recovered. “I found that none of The opening of the iittle outside Don't let any one get away. But I imches thick, Then there Js another ing the conversation, “They'd shoot have been some password or form. He not pe looted by the neighbors before us were wounded. However, while door startled us. O'Connor leaped don't think there will be any one, I'M box about four inches square, and, Pet hood, I imagine, if has hung up the receiver he returned, There must be some- we were unconsctous the villain, forward, Stupefying guns had no be back within an hour or @0.” perhaps, nino inches long, that I am ‘MOY &' Here,” he ordered, “four of YOU “opera operator," Crate 88 body im there in spite of the dark- whoever he was, succeeded tn run- taming effect on his nationality. It was far past midnight already as going to bring down later for an- iistening at the detectaphone. “re es fellowe jump into each of the next oaiing, insistently mov he hook UP ness. ning his car out of the garage and = “Well, Com) . is that the way we eat uncomfortably in the reeking other purpose when we find out what gathered a choice eollection of slang. houses and run up to the roof. Four and down rapidly, “des, b want © deputy pushed in, followed getting away. He locked the door, you greet an old friend?” laughed atmosphere of the garage, The hours We are going to do with the ends of and epithets, but very little seal news. ‘ more men go through the rear of this Gentral, Tell me what number that closely by both of us, prepared for but I have managed to work {t open McRirney, as a threatened strangto seemed to drag interminably, Al- these wires that are now dangling om Tt paced Chat the Teal head of the douse, The rest stay here and awalt Y44 which called up. Bleecker seven- ay onrush or hand-to-hand strugele again.” hold turned to a hearty handshake, moat I wished that something would (tho outside of that window. We J a6 000 at eee tar ¥ | orders,” he continued, detailing them one eignt-aughi? Thank you. With anything, man op be Craig was now examining the floor “How are you fellows? { got your happen to break the monotony and muat pick up the connection in some hinted. “up the State. off quickly. me information, please. A quick succession of shots greeted of the garage, turning the headlight message, Kennedy, and thought I'd the suspense, Our lonely vigil went safo 4 inconspicuous place outaide had meanwhile brought the othier detec pon whieh drop around. Well, thts is some unrewarded, however, No one came; the garage.” . Sone The door had yielded to the scien- iy the street address of Rleccker s us. Ido not recall feeling the aligbt- of the machine, which he had lighte i tile sledge-hammering where it aught? West Sixth est sensation of pain, but WIth @alek- on successive parts of the floor. place, ten't It? Neat, coay, well lo- there was not even a ring at the tel- The window through which the "8 eneee and, lee pg lack would have shattered all the axes in hundrod? ‘Thank you. A gare en Maaiion in the head 1 can just “By beaven, Walter,” be exclaimed cated—hello—that's that ninety horse ephone, wires passed seemed to open, as I wo square holes, fr-.. the 2 he | the department. What was next? Py Goodby." Vaguely remeaber that L sank down guddenly, “see those marks in the power Despard that was stolen from McHirney was the only one who had already noticed, on a little yard, whioh the inside ‘walls focused Craig jumped briskly over the garage?” echoed O'Connor, his on the oll and grease of the oor. 1 grease? Do you recognize them by Murdock, or I'll eat my hat." seemed to have gained much ao far, Yet much larger than @ court. Craig on two smaller, ciroular s wreckage into the building, where, ‘ instead of the lights and gayety j which we bad seen on the previous night, was black mystery. Some one struck @ light. He found the switch, and one after another the lights in the various rooma winked up. T have seldom seen such confusion eare almost going up as he realised did not fall, It seemed as if I bad It was the same tire He had raised the hood, and was He had looked over the cars most bye ry {athe Bs beet ous BA meee Taal meee ine two 9 ne on sound which importance of the news. time to catch myself and save, per- ayain—Warrington’s car, without @ straining his eyes to catch @ glimpse carefully, There were halfadosem. = qaniffed. The odor was anything but still further magn! es," cried Kennedy, “Waiter, call Da} fractured skull, But then all of the maker's number on the en- “TI don't doubt,” he concluded, “that pi It was a combination of was emitted direc! from thts re- nd stale beer. cetver without using any earpiece, ." he exclaimed. ~ | te by a room chose. ab. Let us hustle down there as Was blank, O'Connor had taken the photo- gine, which had been all but oblit- all of them have been stolen. But Ir med an age, though tt could graphs which Craig had made the erated by judicious blows of @ ham- there are only two here that I can and could be listen ed in, Rot bave been Mftcon minutes later, ether day, and was comparing them mer. aid Croig, hse 1 caume to |b felt = awful, himself with the marks on the floor, Kennedy wa night o} choking sensation iaimy throat. My while Craig exp! 1 them to him Birney what } on greeted us, as wo hurried upstairs 41. in nig office «tid veut to know Hnge seemed to rasp my very ribs burriedly as he had already to me, detective looked over one car after could build a ear here.” pullaice wits Pepin Gat eee Henealiie to the main hall, where the greater J 1.0.6 ne was, But if he ean locate @ | strugsicd for breath, Kennedy are getting closer to him every another as if he had unearthed a = “Yes, reed O'Connor, looking at an archaic architecture, In @ state all the time 9? 22 De room Netentag * part of the gambling was done. Furs pip pagine he'll be around at W4# Bending anxiously over me, bim- remarked Craig, “Even if he veritable treasure trove. the expensive “junk” that wae lying of terrible decay and dilapidation, Craig had gone uptown at walle niture was overturned and broken. . ' ea “Your man could not have been at about. “There is quite enough to “Md quite in keeping with the nelgh- time, I heard th ® ‘There had been no tline to remove Foeking with & swell that 1 did not and know it is the right one.” either of the gambling Joints,” agreed warrant closing the place, only I sup- Q°Cidy door read. “Hotel Batrance, | y the heavier gambling apparatus, but understand. It was difficuit not to catch the con- McBirney as Kennedy flaished, “or ho pose Kennedy Is right. That would “1 think wo can get In there tow pitty nex tasued @ vole playing cards, chips, racing she Thank baavea, you're all right," tagion of Kennedy's enthusiasm, wouldn't have called up, But he must defeat our own purpose.” morrow on 0! pretext,” decided — Tt wag the man whom they from the afternoon, dice, everything he exciained, with much relief, as he O'Connor grunted assent. have known of them, I wonder At last Craig returned from his hur- fy ieardrend ‘ oo 3 ’ to as the chief. He had nothing J portable and tangible and small ‘ helped me struggle up on my feet, My “This garage,” he put in, looking whether he's the short fellow who ried trip up to the laboratory. He askew on one of the winad > enough to be carried had disappeared. !0oking neighborhoods, On the street 1444 way still in a whirl as he helped !t over critically, “must act as a fen soon as we can.” T found the ead and we J “L tried to get Mebirney “put he was out, and th “They must piloempty kegs out there. full of identify, They certainly are clever Let's take a walk around the corner at! thea to the secret arrangement busy telling Mo- at fixing them up, Look at all the and see what the front of the place that had been connected with the 4 happened, as the parta they keep ready for use, They looks like.” telephone by inserting the imitation least shortly after we get there, — Self Pale aud gasping, The air was dig get qway we are on the tra: left the addr in downtown we en- and sinuous streets that somo pretty tough ound denoted f4% When he learned that the boss drove the car when It was seen up brought with him nothing but a plain, the place, “Phe Old Tavern looka as ing after'he had bean guirecd by the But the greatest surprise was in Corners were saloons that deserved i. over tow cushioned seat in an au- for etolen care and parts of cara Sea, there or the dig fellow who was im black box, like a camera. It contained !f it might let lodgings to respectable police. He left word bee .. +4 store, Though we bad scon no one No better name than common £TOB- iomopile, “Now I'll go back to O'Con- there over in the corner ts the stuff the car when he shot Warrington up in reality nothing but a couple of or- eaptenen they, were TONEY ay Up again, would leave by any of the doors, nor by geries. They were vicious lookin® yop ne added. ‘ for painting new license numbers, the Stat enous w 9. 08n Ot Cure Pa east I know that our gunmas ? @inary dry cells, and attached to tt seives up like m couple of teamsters the doore of any of the houses on the Joints. And the further we proceeded “wn what's the matter? What =2Fe'# enough material to rebuild @ The question was as yet unanswer- were two black disks, about two and and pick up the ends of those wires ane ie 2 Fee to call up block, nor by the roofs, of even the into tho tortuous twist of strecta yay Pralg on bie 1 gasped, gripping the DAlf dozen cars, Yes, this is one of able, The murderer, deaperate ap he one-half inches in diamoter. ‘Thoy toiwiorrow, Vin sure® return, ‘ back yard, there was not @ soul in tat etamp the old Groenwich Vil- io oe che cusuion to steady myself, “® Places that ought to interest you was, was atill at large, What might had in the centre of each @ circular 2) \, Beg ee po) rarage, —"l think he'll be here, all right,” the house from roof to cellar, Search le with a character all ite own, the 0 1 undead? Where was I bit? ®84 McBirney, Kennedy, I'll bet the he not do next? hole, about am inch across, showing O'Connor,” sald Crate, “ee ide as commented Cral a called up O'Coa. ‘ as we did, we found not one of the Worse it seemed to Ket, 1-1 don’t fool anything—but, ah, my SOW who owns this place ls one of We sat down in one of the stolen inside what looked like @ piece of iron you don't pinch this gold mine, Mo- y wan to seem to let up ee scores of people whom I had seen At last our cab turned down @ ) oy aig throat.’ nme those who'd engage to sell you a sec- cara and held a midnight counell of or steel. Harney, I know, will reduce the num- them They didn't get a word out of Sater. 19 the OnureN OF URS: RTCA. ee ee ee eeved este. “We all were put out of the busi. O8d-hand car of any make you want- war, There were four of ua Which 1 wonder where I can stow this least two. Do! Heuvat’e sake, dows Were e ectte net eaeatie hives O'Connor, ever mindful of some of “This te It" announced Crave, “ness,” muttered Craig, as he workea ©@ '2 Dam@e Then he'd go out on the meant four different plans. Mcliir- gway so that It won't attract any at- let oUt any suspicion about those pretty tough place, even eee thas the absurd rules of evidence in such Ping on the glass for the driver to’ Oo." Oconnor, O'Connor opened big “tet Abd bunt around unttl he got ney was certain on one thing. He tention? asked Kennedy, drawing ‘""s* I've hidden, As for ine, | am the Old Tavern. 1 let O'Connor get a caves laid down by the courte, had SP. “We had better get out and oo. wanily, then struggled up, CR OF course, we'll fd out bis would claim the cars be could idea: from hia pocket another little, round, ane, Hela and get @ fow hours’ man in there, but I haven't much had a photographer summoned, and W* k the rest of the way, “You got {t worst,” remarked name, but I'll wager that when we tify, They would know that we had piack disk, about the same size asthe We rode to our apartinent, where ieee call ose a tee of tele one . he was proceeding from F som to : ms Garage which we sought proved 5.4, ty to him. “You were closest see poninet Licked ve vers be en see and we conoeied that orner two, in the face of which dozens % Message Was awaiting us, telling has disappeared, I can’ 4 ‘trace ‘of room, snapping pictures of the ap- to be nothing but an old brick stable Gor what é ., ‘Gees, 4 o extract a thing from him ta to hi paratus tat was left, and the condi It was of such character that even cacmet geist ne Suttered “Was ne of little holes seemed to be perforated ‘"*!, Warrington had passed a very him since the rald oa the gambiing x A wood day. | had 0 i 5 %, the way of facts. I'm for arresting thegerage keeper, ang arranged in the ehape of @ alz: ote Te Cane Syetund sloop, als join tion of things gecersiiy. charity could not have said it bad “O™ : Craig had continued his examina. Whoever he proves to be,” asserted pointed star had mo up very early, and, by digs ayneg? “OT! from Warrington?” § i] Kennedy, was standing ruefully bee seen mucin better days, At was dark, We Were all etill choking over the tion of the floor, In a corner, near O'Connor, Ho had looked about for the least EINK back in our closets, we un- “YO, nets getting alo ” Saka enilatia wheel Bt welch 60 Es Linking Pecwllar oder in the air about us, the back, he had picked up an empty “It Won't do any good.” objected yea part of the garage, near the varthed the oldest clothes we had, swered Graig’ masunatoalty, Se | y fortunes had been dissipated, P and there in the distance, “The Ddulletiese gun,” explained shell of a cartridge. He held it down Craig. “Better to seem to accept MIS yack Near the barred window was a n eee oy yg Aueayg thougbte were tar away from Wage | ‘ “Get me an axe,” he asked of oneof the street about us was deserted, Nennedy, “It is a German invention, in the ght and examined it long sory and wateh him." pile of worn tires which looked ae if t forth no one would have murmured, whee Sout Str eel | O'Connor's men, who was passing, Even our footfalis cchoed, and Ken- 884 shoots, instead of bullets, @ stup- and carefully. He seemed to be cou- Watch Bim?" I asked. “How can jt nad beon seldom disturbed, except SCcused Us of being other than we “And, oh,” he added, “T torent t } | With a well, directed blow. he nedy warned us to trend softly, 1 ©f¥ing gas which temporarily blinds aldering It, Then he dropped it care- you watch one of these fellowa? They to he addied to When one gor tires NO Dfepared to represent ourselves, you that speaking about borbes ree | j workmen who had been laid off from . and were seeking another, smashed the wheel. Inside he laid bare longed for the big stick that weat 8d chokes its viet The fellow fully into his inside vest pocket as ave as © ae eels—and as silent minds me that Herman has been run- as cheaply as the users of this garage a) the magnets and wires that ran dowe with the other half of the phrase, ho Was in here didn’t shoot bullets taough tt were a rare treasure as a muffier,” I added, did, it was folly to bother much about ered the tavern and were cass, He's fa ail o ton one to buttons and switches under the car- He paused a moment to observe the at us. He evidently didn't care about Ag 1 gala before,” quoted Craig, “You've sugested the precise tdea, tho repair of the old ones. ya general air of rougm up there, he reports to O'Connor, a pet, which controlled the thing. place. It was near the corner, and 4 @dding any more crimes to bis Net “we might get a cohviction on cart. Walter, by your objection,” broke ta He did not need to say anything dim-lghted saloon on the next cross just now, Perhaps be thought that ridges. Anyhow, our man has es nnedy. “I've got 4 brand new eys- more to expose the character of the Street ran back almost squarely to if he killed any of us there would be caped from here. He won't come t#' of espionage, Trust it to me and whioh was quickly dis- neon Back of this p then, he threw posed by spending 10 ceits and ge me tor Peeve You knew the ttle, black disk car ting change for « bill, At least we they have a pecuilar license law th making sure that it was con eer? an for @aything reasonable, —at least he says eo—that caables ney ae : ‘ = % 4 ; 9 . . and, doubts on (hat score settled by place. tho stable wails, leaving a narrow too much of a row, I'm glad it was back, probably ever, not at least for yeu ean all your way. That was not difficult, for it was not the beni . a ‘one to conceal a car pretty well. Much ‘ell, at any rate, we'vo got evi- ¥ Apparently the garage Itself as it was, anyway, Hoe got us all « long time until he Mwures that thle "1 , . ie anaes uy Te eaverastion taunted good that does ux though.” ae ea much more than a wate In s: Tot, to enter into conversation, which ""wyeg* 1 cod, Y. Gence enough to protect ourselves and bad been closed for the night, If, In- this way before we knew it, Per- thing bas blown over.” CHAPTER VII. 1 noticed, had attached two plugs Htitmately resulted in our hiring @ Pris oak aan ee fo ve close the place, even if we didn’t make deed, it was ever regularly open, bups that WAS the reason, for If B® “pm going to watch {tall the same,” The Detectaphone. that were “foolproof’—that 1s, one me Dpe\eire tp the ugg come along with something Uke 4 BAY captures,” congratulated O'Con- Any one Who Wanted to use it must bad shot one, had a pistol ready ary which supp! that——" stoutly insisted O'Connor, RAIG d@ evidently figured small and the other large, so that ns to gentlemen only, 4 Bor, still blinking from the effects of have .arried a key, I suriised, myself to blaze away, But he got “of co bei all ial ata Pin ; eh a at. “eal Craig” said he would bring our ,./ust then the “master stattew™ $ — qhe Basniight powders which hie pho- We crossed over atesitntly, Craig iv, tov.” Daan aint gece ed vd ut way to go ahead they could mot be inserted Into the vine later, and we Went upstairs, tectaphone connected with the : ated Craig 1 expect our xt tm. while wo had all been wrong holes, A long, flexible, green. phone in the garage began to fegrapher had been using freely, put bis ear toa ree’. door cutout “A ret a : - We were po sooner, atte than be Coe 9 y. Peas: ‘ “A stupety wun?’ — epeate@ portant clue will come from this floundering around, help- covered wire, or, rather, two wires was at work. He had brought a rope ®2¢ 1 cut myself short. We After we get all the pictures of tt, of the double, swinging doors, O'Connor, “I should say so. I don't place. Only, 1 mean don't be hasty less, His” ailence had tagether, led up from disk. By ladder, and, after fastening it ge BOW At last about to learn TM have the arn Teneyed to hea; ron sound, know what happened yvt,” be added, and make an arrest. You won't get merely masked hie consideration of @ carefully moving the tires ao as to bimesit down, carefully aus thes hg that oald “Hheatet” bbadlars* (q@uartere—and woa' dan onuor @ door gently, It biipiing. tee right man; you may lose one who plan, . Brcserve the rough appearance they row court below. amare ’ ° ee »