The evening world. Newspaper, August 12, 1922, Page 14

' | \ had secured what he sought, is ready eS DETECTIVES HAVE THEORIES T lunch Morgan reminded Marsh and Tierney that they had not yet analyzed the pe- culiar situation discovered in the Atwood apartment “My part's easy to tell,’ said Tier- WHC MARSH of the Gor WHO I MR ATWOOD, a pretty girl, ney. “I didn’t find anything sus- DAVE MOKGAN, picious. There were no letters or mysterious shot in a Mr photographs, and, as far as I could the Atwoods. gs had been dis- see, none of the things ha DETECTIVE turbed until I turned them over my- TIERNEY, ridan Road y Paul and Mabel Thorne tLeUS TRATED BY WILL 5B. GONNeE TON SIXTH INSTALMENT ernment Secret Service, Atwood 1s engaged in counterfeiting $5 notes, THE EVENING WORLD, SATURDAY, AUGUST N THE STORY believing @ man named takes an apartment on Sheridan Road, Chicago in the building in which resides the supposed counterfeiter's daughter. JANE father ard his gang, apparently the innocent tool of her Her father is a travelling man, she tells a Detective Sergeant, who is assigned to investigate a Ames's apartment (vacant while Ames and his wife are abroad), whiciv is over that occupied by Marsh and across the hall from Morgan's partner, and Morgan himself both suspect Marsh of some connection with the supposed shooting, but Marsh elf.’” reveals his identity to Morgan and says he is sure there is some connection “and I," sald Morgan, “found the between the shooting, and the counterfeiters. While they are comparing notes, mess that you saw in the maid's a bet a heard outside Marsh’s apartment and Jane is found unconscious 0 discovered that the back on the landing sen ALS las adil THE CLUES IN THE CASE ARE: A clot of blood on the floor of the Soe res wnrones Ames apartment; a flattened bullet in the bricks of the fireplace; indications “I had a theory,” explained Marsh. that two men had conversed at the dining room table; marks on its polished “and what you cay about the back top made by the sweat of a man’s hand—a man oor clinches it. Now, suppose you were a crook and had committed a crime that, through careless manage- ment, had broughi the police right next door to your headquarters; the place you had hoped to reserve fors emergencies, as a matter of fact “Suppose you had reason to be lieve that they would begin to sus pect you. You have long had a plan ready to throw the police off the scent, if anything should ever happen by pretending to make away with yourself, You put the first step of this plan into execution by sending that you are now as Miss Atwood ond Tierney are victi which her father declares his intention letter stating good as dead “Then you sudden! at your refuge you have left some im- something that, if y remember that portant evidence; discovered, might offset your well-laid plans. “What would you do? You'd try to get that evidence, wouldn't you? “That is precisely what happened Atwood, accompanied by one of his men, who was to stand guard, re- turned to his apartment to secure that almost forgotten evidence “Now, the man left on guard heard some familiar voices, or perhaps a name he recognized. He overlooked his duty for the moment and tried to listen. He was discovered. Natural- ly. his first thought was of himself, and he made his escape. “Up in his apartment Atwood, who to go, but is delayed by this dis- turbance in the hall, He doesn't know exactly what it is, so he sticks close. Then he thinks of making his escape down the back stairs, but unfortu- nately some of his feminine neighbors are gossiping on the stairs below. He could not go down that way without attracting attention that might prove awkward later. ,UDDENLY he hears the door of his apartment open, and some person enters. He waiches, and discovers that his daughter has come home, alone, Now, if she should see him, his weil-laid plan is ruined. Its greatest success lies in her honest conviction that he is really dead. “He is trapped, front, rear and on “ON SATURDAY THIS HEAD “My father is dead, Mr, Marsh." “What a shock!" he exclaimed. “I am so sorry. How did it happen?” “You know I received a letter from the premises. He is desperate. Some- him this morning, It said that his thing must be done quickly. health had failed, that he could no “In a favorable moment he springs longer work, and that by the time upon the gfrl from behind and ren- the letter reached me he would have ders her unconscious with chloroform. committed suicide.”’ He finds the back stairs still closed to ‘Everything Marsh said sounded him, and in his haste forgets to lock crude and rough in his own ears, but the door as he closes it. He finds a somehow his words seemed to have man keeping guard on the front a soothing effect on the girl and stairs. eventually her weeping ceased “He decides quickly that he can ‘She's a wonder!" thought Marsh @eal better with this man than the ‘The bravest little woman I ever women at the back. Leaving the door knew. open for a quick retreat, he jumped Then addressing her, he said, ‘'Miss @own the stairs, blackjacks the man Atwood, after all that has happened, ‘unconscious, and goes out the front !t Is not possible for you to stay here door. The next minute he is lost in Alone to-night. You should go to a the crowds on the street and is free, hotel, where you will have people all “That, gentlemen, is my explana- about you." tion of what happened in the house to- The girl considered a moment, then day. Of course, it 1s largely theory, ®Pringing up, said, ‘I will follow your but I believe it fits the case uncom- SUsgestion, It would be dreadful to monly well."” stay here alone to-night. It would “I'll say you're there!’’ cried Tier- Probably |. better for me to stay per- aw, manently at a hotel.” » “Yes,” Morgan agreed. “You talk She went to her room and soon re- as if you had beea a spectator of the ®Ppeared with a bag which Marsh whole occurrence. Still there is one took from her, A few minutes later Mogieal point. The letter from St. they parted at the desk of the Mon- Louis arrived some time this morning. Mouth Hotel and Marsh returned to If Atwood was in Chicago Tuesday his apartment, morning, how did he get that letter It was strange how lonely the place eff so quickly?” seemed, now that he knew the girl “It is possible some one went to St. Was no longer under the same roof Louis just to post that letter,” Marsh with him ventured. M D Morgan nodded. “It's straining » YO days had passed without point, but it’s quite possible, Marsh. Jb any word from Morgan, and ‘At least, we have no better explana- Marsh himself had made Uttle progress on the case, for a large Part of those two days had been NV his return to the house Marsh taxen up in assisting Jane Atwood to continued on up the stairs tO pack her personal things and remove the Atwood apartment and rang them to her new home in the hotel the bell. Miss Atwood opened the ‘They door. Her eyes were red with weep- Marsh because he ing. siderable happiness from “I called to see if everything Was services he had been able afl right,” explained Marsh. ‘Why, the girl, and also because it was the what has happened?" first time in all the months he had Remembering her father's letter, he been watching over her that he was knew perfectly well the cause of the actually in her company. stri's trouble, and he had to struggle During this time Marsh had made hard to assume an air of arrogance. one discovery of a peculiar nature, She wept silently for a few moments, but its working out appeared to have while Marsh sat and waited she spoke. tion.” had been pleasant days for had derived con- the little © to render At last no particular eff ments of the case. et on the develops The morning after ' from the perspiration, completely terrified to her father is stolen from her apartment Morgan believes, judging ms of attacks, and a suit case belonging Miss Atwood receives a letter in of killing himself LINE MET MARSH'S EYES: . “PROMINENT BROKER MISSING.” he escorted Jane Atwood to the hotel, she had returned to the apartment to begin her packing. While assisting in this, Marsh had suggested that she notify the man from whom her father had rented the apartment so that he could take steps to secure another tenant. He was amazed to learn that she knew nothing whatever about the matter, not even the name of the man from whom they rented The agent of the building had al- ways supposed a Mr. Crocker, whose name appeared on the lease, occupied the apartment himself. He suggested that he would write to thé supposed Crocker's former St, Louls address, The next afternoon, the agent tele- phoned him that a telegram had just arrived from the man in St. Louis, stating that he had never rented any such apartment in Chicago, had never signed any lease and did not know anything about the matter, To Marsh, the situation was ob- vious. In renting the apartment At- wood had used the name of a well- known St. Louis man so as to have good references and close the deal quietly without in any way bringing his own name and personality into the matter. On Saturday Marsh's eyes: Prominent Broker Missing. this headline met Marsh dropped the knees and thought moment, Ever since Tuesday morning when the trouble had occurred, he had care- fully scanned the papers for reports of any missing people who might in any way be connected with this oc- currence, Here at last was a story that looked promising read the article: Richard Townsend Merton, the well-known La Salle Street broker, has been missing for ten days, tt + was learned yesterday, Gilbert Hunt, the General Manager of the Merten business, notifled police that Mr. Merten appeared at his office, hi: his hotel for some day A telegraphed inquiry to li wife, who resides with an invalid son in Arizona, brought the re paper on his for a He began to the ad not clubs or that Mr. Merton had not been there. The manager ts inclined to believe that Mr. Merton has ster ike ‘ither wandered away during a lapse of memory or may have met with an accident, ‘The article then continued with the usual outline of what the police wer 12, 1922, h and doing, and a description of the brok- The Growth of Popu- 5 life and habits. Marsh learne from this that Merton had closed his country home in Hubbard her son. two years at a downtown hotel, spent most of his evenings clubs, After reading the entire carefully Marsh cut out the accom- Woodw when his wife moved to Arizona with He had lived for the past and at his article lar Taste for Period Furniture Gives the Partners Much Anx- iety for Their Friends panying photographs of Merton ana THCY Are Agreed, the absent wife and son. something worth investigating, thought, for he remembered the button with the Initial “M."" Morgan had discovered. Vor upward of an hour Marsh sat in deep deliberation, figuring how he could get in close touch with the sit- uation without in any way disclosing his official connection or real interest in the matter. At last he decided to follow a plan whteh had used successfully connection with two previous cases. He went directly to the Merton offices on the fifteenth floor of the La Salle Trust Building. He found him- self in a large room, on one side of which were three private offices. On the first door he saw the name, Mr. Merton; on tho second, Mr. Hunt The third door was blank. Marsh was ushered into "Hunt's office. Hunt motioned to @ chair and said, “Sit down, please.” Marsh's card lay before him on the desk. He picked it up and read: GORDON MARSH Private Investigator ‘Then looking at Marsh as he laid the card down, he said, ‘What can I do for you?” “L came in to see he in if you would care to! my services.”* “I have placed the entire matter in the hands of the) police,” returned Hunt. “You probably know, as well as [ do, Mr, Hunt, that that is the next thing to burying the matter. They will be very busy for a couple of days and then forget i “In your work," Hunt sald, “you probably come into more or less close contact with the police. I mean by that, that you would work with them more or less on a case of this kind?’ “Certainly,” replied Marsh, "I fol- low up every likely clue, including everything which may be unearthed by the police."” “What are your terms?’ “My ‘charges are $25 a day and expenses,"’ said Marsh. “Whew!"’ whistled Hunt, “that’s pretty steep. I could hire all the private detectives I wanted for $10 a “But I'm not a regul&r detective,” protested Marsh. ‘Im an investiga- tor. You make a distinction, do you?” smiled Hunt. “Absolutely,’’ asserted Marsh. “T merely dig up the facts and turn them over to you for any action you see fit. My investigative work could hardly be classed with the ordinary work of the Getective.”” Hunt clasped his hands before him on the desk, After a moment's thought he said, ‘All right, Marab, I'm going to engage you. See what you can discover, and report to me whenever you think you are making progress, Incidentally, keep your eye on the police and see what they are doing. As long as you are working on this job for me, it will be curious to see just how effective our police really are. Now, I suppose you want to ask some questions?” First, Hunt confirmed the news- papers’ facts about Merton's affairs and added some details, HEN Marsh thought a moment and said: ‘You mentioned be- fore that Mr. Merton's business could go on without Mr. Merton, I presume he has given you power of attorney?"" “Yes,"" said Hunt. “In case of his death, Mr. who would be his executors?" “Well,” returned Hunt, “if it's of any use to you, I may say that I would be the sole executor." Hunt, “It was a very wise move on your part to employ me in this matter, Mr. Hunt, in view of that fact."’ “How so?" inquired Hunt. “Because to the outsider it might appear that you had some personal interest in Mr, Merton's disappear- ance. You know, sometimes the po- lice are stupidly suspicious,’ Hunt sat up with a start. ‘You have given me food for thought, Marsh," he said, ‘I hadn't looked at the matter in that light before.’* ‘Has any one looked to see if Mr. Merton could have gone to the coun- try house because of illness, or for some other reason?’ ‘The caretaker assures me that Mr. Merton has not been near the place since he closed the house two years ago,"" Hunt answered “One thing more, Mr. Hunt, before I go. People sometimes question my right to investigate. Will you give me a line stating that I am authorized to represent you in this matter?’ “Certainly.” Hunt sat down at his desk and hastily penned a few lines on a sheet of letter paper, which he then handed to Marsh, Marsh carefully folded the paper, placed it in his pocketbook, and bid_ ding Hunt good day, went out. (Copyright, 1 by the Bell Syndicate, Inc.) (Another Installment Monday.) Here was he curl which However, That Women Are Going to Make Their Own Selections. By Montague Glass. SEEN Jake Lickman on the subway this morning,” Abe Potash said to his partner Morris Perlmutter. “He is going to make from his boy Benny an interior decora- tor on account the young feller couldn’t pass no examinations for anything and some inte- rior decorators is drawing down a lot of money at that, Maw- russ.” But couldn't , the boy mak? also money in 1 somey legitimate way, Abe?” Morris Perlmutter asked. “What do you mean—legit- imate way?” Abe retorted. “An interior decorator don’t exactly steal his money, Mawruss. “T know he don’t,” Morris said, “but what do people which pay their good money to an interior decorator get in return for it, Abe?” “Say! Anybody who furnishes his house through an interior dec- orator, Mawruss, gets his money’s worth after the job is finished out, of being able to lay the wholé thing to the interior decorator. Otherwise, Mawruss, there is plenty of shrewd business men which their friends would think they was plumb crazy to get stuck with the kind of machshovos that an interior decorator unloads on his clients.” “Then why does a shrewd business man hire an interior decorator? Morris asked. “He ought to know better.”” “He does,’ Abe sald, “but he couldn't make his wife see it that way, which no shrewd business man is a shrewd business man to his wife, Mawruss. She figures that maybe he on women.” “The average balb mafchholders has to take for ten cents mathematic spirits of ammonia to keep from having a stroke or something.” “The Minokers bad their h ond hand, and if any woman couldn't te! second hand, she didn’t need the advice of an interior dec. orator, y’understand.” D “Nowadays the way people acts together is neither here nor there, hut the way furniture acts together Is already a very serious thing with most interior decorator when he thinks o © all done over by the interior dec every room represents a different century except the twentieth.” “The first thing you know he has got the rest of the rooms all jixed up with Italiener fourteenth Cen- tary furniture which you could neither sit down on or stand up in.” el could put it over on them bank Pres!- dents, credit men and lawyers down- town, y’understand, but he couldn) fool her. Why, [ bet if Mrs. Hugo Stinnes would be fixing to re-decorate the flat and Stinnes would come home and gay: ‘Well, Mommer, I just closed a deal where I bought the Adlon Hotel, Berlin, the Ritz Hotel, Paris, the Carlton Hotel, London, and twenty-five assorted Swiss Grand Palace Hotels und I made a contract to re-furnish them from cellar to root.’ y'understand, she wouldn't trust “im to help her pick out the paper for the servant's bedroom even.” “But couldn't a married woman trust herself to pick out her own fur- niture, Abe?’ Morris asked. MIXING FURNITURE !S A CRIME. “Ten y but not to-day no longer,” Abe sald. “Ten years ago wien you come to fixing up house, Mawruss, you could buy two kinds of furniture, new and second hand, and if any woman couldn't tell "8 ago, your new furniture from second hand, she didn’t need the advice of an interior decorator, y’understand, Her mind was too far gone for one of these here cycle-analysers even. The best could hope for such a woman was that in the course of time she might get sane again, Mawruss, but nowadays when a women goes to buy furniture, there is already as many kinds of furniture as there was kings and queens in England and France, y’un- derstand, and if she would go to work and buy such furniture without the advice of an interior decorator, Maw- russ, she is Hable to put in tite same room together a Queen Anne sofa with a King George bookcase.’ “And what would be the crime in that, Abe?" Morris inquired. ‘Which I admit that I ain’t exactly a tickler for etiquette, Abe, but from what I seen of the way ladies has got such liberal {deas nowadays like cheek to cheek dancing and smoking cigarettes, Aba, it seems to me that if they was to come into a room and find that in- stead of a Queen Anne sofa and a King George bookcase, it was Queen Anne and King George themselves which had been in the room, that wouldn't give no schreck to the mod ern lady neithe ‘That only goes to show what you know about such things, Mawrus Abe said. ‘You are way behind the times in such matters, Mawrus: cause nowadays the way people ¢ Glands, Cause and Cure Of Many Sheep, Monkey and Goat Supply the Curative Material for Weaknesses, Both Bodily and Mental. Children Will Study Better and Some People Will Cease to Prey on Others After Treat- ment. RE you a coward? A Then, perhaps, you need gland treatment. Are you a kleptomantiac or even a thief? Gland treatment might cure you. Are you stupid? ‘Try gland treatment. These might be taken from the ad- vertisements of future gland doctors if some of the interesting things which havg been taking place during the past few months are to bo re- peated in the future. Read some of the following: Dr. Frank G. Bruner, Director of Special Schools of the Board of Edu- cation of Chicago, believes that back- ward pupils assigned to subnormal classes will be equally bright as children tn ordinary schools in six months if fed on ‘a special diet of sheep glands, This doctor, in conjunction with Dr. Allen Hurby, Medical Director of the Chicago Tuberculosis Sanitarium and Dr. Hirschfield of the Heath Depart- ment, believes that the faces of the subnormal children will change with- in a few hours after the first meal of glands, Lessons will come easier thereafter. uch has been done with the transplantation of monkey and goat glands for reviving physical func. « Human Troubles ' tions,” declared Dr. Bruner, ‘And we expect to meet with the same suc- cess in putting new brains into the heads of subnormal children through the exclusive use of a sheep gland diet 9" Sheep, monkey and goat glands— what next? No one need ever be afraid of any- thing again if the sclentific cure for cowardice being worked out by Prof. Charles Mix of Northwestern Untver- nity 1s a success. He belteves that the sensation usu- ally called fear 1s caused merely by the failure of the adrenal glands, which are just above the kidneys, to secrete. The visible result is the di- lated eye, the dry mouth, ‘the shak- ing knee and the shrinking from danger. When Prof. Mix has discov- ered the method of increasing the se- cretion of these adrenal glands, there will be no more cowards. Sheep glands, it 1s asserted, were used by Dr. Ernest M. Vaughn, Med- ical Assistant on the Brooklyn Dis- trict Attorney's staff, in an effort to cure a mother of five children of klep- tomanta, When asked ff it were true that she had been cured, he refused to talk for pyplication but admitted that there had been some tmprove- ment, Mrs, Fannie Liebowitz is the mother. She has served several terms for burglary. When she was arraigned on a new charge last summer, Dr. Vaughn found she was suffering from thyrolditis, or failure of the thyroid gland to function properly. This left her in a position where she did not really know what she was doing, Dr, Vaughn and Dr. Carl Boetiger then experimented, believing that the in- Jection of sheep thyroid glands will correct criminal tendencies { “NO SHREWD BUSINESS MAN HIS WIFE, together 4s neither here nor there, but way furniture acts together and ets toxether is already a very serious thing with most women, Mix- ing up King George furniture with Queen Anne furniture is getting to be crime like forgery in the third de among my Rosie's friends, and it gets worse und worse yet when for instance you've got one or two pi of early Broadway Central Hotel fur- niture with it.” “T suppose that havt™F one of the electric light bulbs with knitted around it to make it*look like a sn Abe, is already like highway robbery among Rosie's friends,’ Mo: ris observed balloon, ‘Murder in the first degree even,” Abe agreed And yet, Abe, you anyhow knew where to find a match in them days w n they had such aything hanging 0 the chandelier,” Morris sai ‘and it looked pretty nifty at that “Maybe you think so, Mawruss, but the average interior decorator when he thinks of them electric light bulb match holders has to take for ten cents mathematic spirits of ammonia to keep from having a stroke or something," Abe sald, ‘‘or at any rate that’s the he acts about such things and the consequences is, Maw- russ, he's got ladies buffaloed into thinking that they buy furniture without the advice of an interior decorator than a Wall Street- er could organize « promotion scheme without taking the advice of a smart corporation lawyer." “If them interior decorators get paid the same fees like them corporation lawyers, Abe," Morris observed, ‘‘I don't wonder that Harris Lickman is bringing up his boy Benny to be an interior decorator,"* “Well, as a matter of fact, Maw- russ, Interior decorators works on a commission basis, y'understand, s0 you could easily see why one of them fellers gets faint over the idea of a lady making her own match holder out of a second hand electric bulb," Abe said, “which the interfor decora- tor's idea of a tasty match holder, fourteenth century Ital- costing $1,800 F. 0. B. couldn't no more Naples, MAKING OVER MINSKER'’S DEN. “And I suppose when such an in- terior decorator talks a lady into buy: ing such an $1,800 contraption, Abe, he right away finds that when she puts into the living room, It simply sets the teeth on edge the way it ts combined with a Nineteen Twenty grand piano, and all the rest of the furniture in the room,”’ Morris sug- gested. “I bet yer!'? Abe sald | fervently. “And the first thing you know, Maw- russ, he has got the rest of the room all fixed up with Itallener fourteenth century furniture, which you could neither sit down on or stand up in. Only last week me and my Rosie was out to White Plains to spend Sunday with the Minskers. We come back by trolley and I give you my word that the wooden seats in that open trolley car felt like the uphol- stery from a Rolls Royce compared to the furniture in the Minskers’ liv- ing room, They had their house all done over ky the interior decorating new furniture from 1S A SHREWD BUSINESS MAN TO erlmutler THE VOGUE OF INTERIOR Pept ig “eT” years ago you could bay two kinds of furniture, new and sec- them electric light \ orating department, and practically MAWRUSS.” department of a Fifth Avenue furv ture store last month, Mawruss, and practically ever room represents ifferent cent xeept the twen- tieth. In the afternoon we played pinochle in Louis Minsker’s der which you remember how comforts that used to be, Mawruss “Sure [ do,"’ Morris said 1 in it a lot of miscellaneous ex flags and flashlights of the first, sec ond and third annual banquets of U Corset) Manufacturers’ Association "Well, they're all gone now," A sald. “It is now a duplicate of the room in a castle in France where Henry the wentieth ¢ something tabbed by a couple of Dukes, and the chair which Minsker was sitting in was the original chair which Henry was sitting in when he got scheciit by the Dukes, and that didn’t prevent Minsker winning sixteen dollars in that seat neither, y'understand, “L wonder he had the heart,” Morris commented “Say! | t in that seat myself later in the game, and I pretty near haa the same luck as Henry did, Mawruss. I went back twice on two four-hundred hands, and when I got up, I felt like I was going to get sci- ati Abe said. ‘There wasn't no. more give to it than a park bench, Mawruss, and I really and truly I gun to think after I had been sitting in it for a half an hour have been a got stabbed,” GRAND RAPIDS MAKES WORM- HOLES AND ALL, that it must eliet for Henry when he “Tfui!” Morris exclaimed, “And yet ladies fs furnishing their rooms with genuine Italiener Fourteenth Century chairs and they oser know how many of them old timers got stubbed or stranglec in them chairs.” “It's my belief, Mawruss, that them old timers didn’t get stabbed and strangled in ther chairs at all,"” Abe declared, “althoifgh them chairs must have had more than a Httle to do with it, y'understand, because after sitting at home in them chairs for at the most ten minutes, Mawruss, them old time Italians must have gone out into the street with murder in their hearts and stabbed the very first person they met." “But don’t the Grand Rapids manu- facturers object to them interior dec orators handing out this Fourteenth Century Italiener stuff to their cus- tomers?" Morris asked. “You would think that the furniture trade would run them interior decor@tors out of business, Abe." iey would tn a minute, Mawruss, but them Grand Rapids mAnufactur- ers sells only to the wholesale trade, Mawruss, and since them interior decorators has been putting over antique Italian furniture on the con- sumer, Mawruss,"” Abe said, “it's re- markable what a business them Grand Rapids furniture people has done.’ “But who do they do it with Morris asked. ‘The interior decora- tors?" No, Mawruss,"" Abe concluded, “with the Italian jobbers in Rome Naples, Florence and Milan. They Manufacture the whole thing in Grand Rapids—wormholes and bloodstains complete."’ (Copyright, 1099, by the Bell Byndiogte, Inge