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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times-Advocate, 1933-05-25, Page 2THURSDAY, MAY 35, 1033 THE EXETER TIMES-ADVOCATE of our own millionaires brutally done to death, in in Liverpool-—there are spring to my mind. And dinner-party in Amsterdam land, one who was an hotel four that as I say, at first sight there seemed no connection between them. But if you go a little deeper into it you will find all. SYNOPSIS a Tiny Carteret was a free easy going young man extremely popular with both men and women and and with his income of five thous­ and a year enabled him to live in an up-todate apartment in the city of London. He received a letter one morning front a friend, Ron­ ald Standish, which bore a post mark Grand Hotel, at Territet, on the Lake of Geneva. Standish appealed to him to meet him at once as he needed someone who had steady nerve, could use a re­ volver and could use their fists if necessary. Gillson from the Home Office calls Tiny and he goes there before leaving. Here he SUBSCRIPTION—? 2.00 per year In advance. Member of The Canadian Weekly Newspaper Associationin each ,case—I mean ones.” perfectly, Colonel,” Established 1873 and 1887 Published every Thursday jnorninr at Exeter, Ontario time, too, strange ru- RATES—Farm or Real Estate for sale 50c. each insertion for fir*t four Insertions, quent insertion, tides, To Rent, Found 10c. per 1 Reading notices Card of Thanks vertising 12 and Memoriam, with extra verses 25c. one factor that is common to In each of the four cases have mentioned the death of the vic tint was of inestimable value to cer­ tain other people, I won't bore you with the why and the wherefore, but the bald fact remains that no tears were shed by various vested inter­ Don’t mlsun- tliat they did leave some mes-j derstand me; I don’t mean the same And then, once they were! vested interest murderer, who could then j four different take his time, destroyed) “I get you what you say, Dexter, the said Tiny, fainted. Isn’t it feasible) "About that 25c. each subse- .Miscellaneous ar- Wanted, Lost, or line of six word*. 10c. per llD*. 50c, Legal ad- 8c. per line. In one verse 50c, each. IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIM where or other on the body there has been a small scratch. But on no occasion has the thing with which the scratch was made been You found nothing, did you, this time?” “Not a thing, sir, though over the room with a comb.” “But have you no Colonel?” asked Tiny. “I certainly have an as far as it goes. U —-- — -— - - -* , ( f ... - ......- - - —- - that isn’t very far. That these four) Doesn t get over my. initial dif-| found that the same stories were be-! men were murdered I have no doubti ficulty’ Carteret,” said Gillson.; circuiated in Paris and Berlin. What about that period of time an over the continent. between the puncture and death? rumor of a thing -which has long Do you mean to tell me that Jebson been the subject of sensational fic- was going to allow some strange'tion__namely man in his bedroom to stab him in' the chest, and not raise Cain?” I "It’s the devil,” said Dexter. “Be-) cause whether it seemed an accident' , or whether it did not they had to make certain of doing it last nightj I’m sure of that, though of course) became so overwhelming that I had no alternative but to agree. Some­ where or other there was a con.trol- at work, though -one man or several . _ . . Nor do' we know today. But after having sifted all the information we could1 lay our hands on, and .rejected every scrap which seemed in the smallest degree doubtful, we came to the definite conclusion that a new factor in? crime had arisen and a damned, dangerous factor too. In short, we were con­ fronted with a- central body 'of un­ scrupulous and clever men who were prepared—at a price—to do your' crimes for you.” “Good Lord! Colonel—it sounds incredible.” “Nevertheless it is the truth,” said the other gravely, “It is a la­ mentable fact, but when you come into the realms of high-finance a good many standards seem to change And though I do not say for a mo­ ment that the people who stood to be ruined by Leyland, for instance, would ever have gone to the length of murdering him themselves, they were by no means averse to some­ body else doing it for them. Of course, to a certain extent all this is conjecture. Not one of the many • men who, I believe, were Collective- Following it to its logical) ly responsible for Leyland’s death found, j Dexter,' I fine I went tooth­ explanation, explanation Unfortunately' That these four their training, their sense of duty—j they would have left some record of it.” | “Mightn’t it be possible,” put in’ ests when they died. Tiny, “ sage? dead, the afford to it. From old lady that the murdered, who was conceal-1 mors began to go round in the lin­ ed in the room the whole time, took; rerworld. At first the police paid I the chance and calmly happed it?” 1110 attention to them: then it was I and they were murdered in precise-) ly the same way. They were killed by the introduction into their sys- ' tern of some form of unknown pois- Fs~ instructed" by Gillson to appear on, probably of the snake venom at a certain restaurant in Paris) Yai'iety. It was injected thioughj and after receiving instructions the scratch, and the ghastly expres-j there to proceed to Switzerland I si on on their faces was due to the) Just as Tiny was about to leave agony of the muscular contortion as- word came that Jebson, a mem-) they died, her of the force had been mur-j ed. ■dered, he being the fourth officer her of the force had been mur-i ad. How was the - - - - ...........— “Blow-pipe and to be dene away with in the same) suggested Tiny, manner. Dexter came in and des-) .“You can blow cribed the facts. ’ his friend Lady Mary is connected with the case. But how was it inject- scratch made?” poisoned dart,” a dart out of a CHAPTER ,1 the super-criminal. The Napoleon of crime had at last arrived—-the man who sat at the centre of things and pulled the strings while others did the work. “For a long time I refused to be­ lieve it, but at length the evidence Professional Cards i j nthe difference between knowing and . proving- You won’t believe, but (the police know of four men at large i in London today—two of them i members of first-class clubs—who It was kayetall committed murder. But they can’t prove it, so nothing can be done. However, that is a degres­ sion: let’s return to our friends. We dug and we delved: we tried chan­ nels known to us and channels un­ known to us. We pieced together together information received from every imaginable quarter and after a time things did begin to look a little clearer. But always did we come up against one impenetrable wall—the wall that we still haven't succeeded in climbing. Where is the big man? Who is the big man? At this minute we could lay our hands on half a dozen underlings, but GLADMAN & STANBURY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, &o. Money to Loan, Investments Made Insurance Safe-deposit Vault for use of our Clients without charge EXETER and WENS ALT. CARLING & MORLEY BARRISTERS, SOLICITORS, LOANS, INVESTMENTS INSURANCE. Office: Carling Block, Main Street, EXETER, ONT. At Lucan Monday and Thursday we’ve got no proof.” Tiny lit a cigarette. “What sould make you so sure ot! lim that?” he asked quietly. I “I believe he found out something we didn’t now. whilst he was waiting,” - - ■ other. himself away- rate they make his “Well, remarked saying so, it seems a piece of wild­ est guesswork. Why you should as­ sume that there is any connection* , ibetween this door devil’s death in Hammersmith, and a party in a pri-l vate room at the Fifty-Nine is be­ yond my diminutive brain. And you Colonel, went so far the man giving the did it.” “Not so, Carteret: responsible for it. different.” “A matter of words, xsir. But I cannot forget either—going back $ bit in the discussion—that the name of a great personal friend of mine was mentioned as been in that room, you will—though that what is said walls is sacred- matter, conclusion, Colonel, it boils down to'has ever said a word. Naturally not. this. That whoever the lady wks Though it is possibly suggestive that who was present, she took part In one of them—a man well known, and some conversation with the others well respected—has since commit­ ted suicide for no apparent reason.”, "But what I don’t understand, interrupted Tiny, “is how the dick­ ens they set about it. How did they' get in touch with this central body‘s “I don’t suppose they did for a' moment: the central body got in touch with them. My dear Carteret1 if our theory is correct we are deal­ ing with people whose brains are quite the equivalent of our own. We are dealing with an organization! Which has ramifications and spies all over the place through whom it collects its information. And I be-! this, cau- men Pro- was said otl ,g influence whether it wasTiny finds that pipe, Carteret,” said the other, "but • -1 I have yet to hear of a person wno can suck it back again, been done that way we should found the darts” “That’s true,” agreed Tiny. I suppose it couldn’t have been 1 by actually introducing a snake in- ; to the room.” “Impossible, Mr. Carteret,” said i Dexter. “At least—almost impos­ sible, was quite impossible in this 1 But there are ' ties over such it got away know 1 snake i —the same; an unmar-' in a back ■ Broadway, the house’ “Just the same way, sir- in every detail. He was ried man and he lodged road off Hammersmith The woman who keeps heard him come in about two o’clock’ •—she is sure about that because she happened to be awake at the timC| and the clock in her room struck hour. Then she dozed off only to be woken up about an hour later by. a choking sort of cry. Half shout .—half moan is how she described it to me. Then there came the sound of a heavy fall in the room above her—the room which belonged to Jebson. Thinking he might be ill she put on her dressing-gown and ran upstairs. Then apparently .she threw a faint at what she saw. “I really don’t blame .went on Dexter. “I saw devil this morning and .pretty ghastly sight. He pyjamas, half in and half bed. One hand was thrown up as if to ward something off, and his face was controted hideously. Just like the others. Teeth bared: and only ,the whites of his eyes showing.” “Was the light on or off when the woman went in?” asked Gilson. “On, sir. He was evidently jusr getting into bed.” “And the window?” “Wide open.” “Would it be possible, without great difficulty, for someone outside to get in through the window?” “Quite impossible, sir, unless a ladder was used. But the room looks out at the back of the build­ ing. And about three yards away there is a sort of outhouse there. Nothing would be easier than for an agile man roof of the could see room.” “Quite.” fully. “And "In the chest. “This is the fourth affair of this sort that has taken place,” said Gib­ son. “In each case the appearance of the victims has been the same— distorted features, teeth set in a rig­ id snarl, only the whites of the eyes showing. And in each case some- her, sir,” the poor he was a was in his out of to scramble up on the outhouse, from straight into where he Jebson’s thought-Gillson nodded where was it this time?’ If it had have “I done “And then perhaps ■who knows? did him in before report.” really, my dear Tiny, “if you’ll forgive my said the he gave At any he could fellow,” where is the boss?” (Continued next week) ZURICH “At least—almost I wouldn’t say that anything case, a number of difficul- a solution. How was room: how was it got Besides, ,so far as I into the again? there is no known brand of whose bite causes practically 1 instantaneous death. Well, you are­ n't going to tell me that if Jebson found that he had been bitten by a snake he was going to do nothing about it until he died twenty min- I utes or so later.” "Surely,” said Tiny, - the same objection applies to whatever it was that did it. You can’t have a hole made in your chest without know­ ing it,” “Precisely,” remarked Gillson. "To my mind that is the essence of the entire thing. And it is such an‘ amazing feature of all the cases’ that there can be only one solution. Consider the facts. Four trained officers—each of them scratched by something: each of them taking some period of time—how long we, waiting on them, do not know—to die, and yet not one of them doing that period, either of, even to write a piece of paper. It is prepostrous unless we assume one)at his watch, of two things. “™_. __to all intents and purposes instan-' taneous, or they attached no impor­ tance to the initial puncture.” Dexter nodded his head thought­ fully. "I get your meaning, sir. Tho’ it doesn’t seem to make things any easier,” he added ruefully. "By what possible method could the scratch be made to seem accidental, and yet not be accidental?” “When you have solved that, Dex­ ter, you have solved the problem. But of one thing I am certain. None of those poor devils connected the pain they were suffering—pain which must have increased to- agony at the end—-with the thing that baa pricked them. If they had—with I as to say that) party actually! I said he was Which is rather possibly having Well, put it how I quite realize inside these four ■it’s a pretty serious I ( I who were present which resulted In- the murder of the man who was Am I right?” Colonel Gillson took a couple of anything during' turns up and down the room: then to call for help ( he swung round and faced Tiny, message on a is incredible: it’my decision, Carteret.” He glanced .‘‘.Qome and have Either the poison is^ lunch with me at the Rag, and I’ll put you wise.” “I see that I shall have to alter i Eczema or Salt Rheum A Troublesome Skin Disease RURDOCK -ft Bitters Eczema manifests itself in little rbUnd blisters which contain an ex­ tremely irritating fluid. 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She is to be congratulated especially as this is the second •she has won the congoleum having won it last year. The tarvia roads in town this week received their first atten­ tion for some time, and the holes have been filled and we understand that a new -coat of asphalt and gra­ vel will be applied soon. Mr. and Mrs. H. Yungblut, Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Yungblut motored tc J Kitchener recently where tended the funeral of the J. Bean. Mr. Arthur' Aulerich Elizabeth Truemner, of spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. L. Prang. Mrs. Aulerich, who has been visiting with her parents returned to Detroit with them.'. Mr. and Mrs. N. Rehder, of Steamboat Springs, Colorado, visit­ ed a few days with Mr. and Mrs R. F. Stade and other friends. Mrs Rehder left here 38 years ago, she is a daughter of the late Hartman Hopp ell. The following officers were elect­ ed at the meeting of the Horse­ shoe Club: Pres., T- H. Meyers; Vice .pres., E. Mousseau; manager of the grounds, J. Hey; Jr. director of the club, 'Clare Surerus, Koehler and H. Steinbach. Mr. and Mrs. J. ' Albrecht Mr, and Mrs. Chas. Scotchmer tored to Woodstock one day recent­ ly where’ they visited the former’s daughter, Miss Rose Albrecht. Mr. Menno Oesch Suffered a nas­ ty gash to, his foot while cutting they at- late Mrs and Miss Detroit FRANK TAYLOR LICENSED AUCTIONEER For Huron and Middlesex FARM SALES A SPECIALTY Prices Reasonable and Satisfaction Guaranteed EXETER p. O. or RING 138 OSCAR KLOPP LICENSED AUCTIONEER Honor Graduate Carey Jones’ Auc­ tion School. Special Course taken in Registered Live Stock (all breed*) Merchandise, Real Estate, Farm Sales, Etc. Rates in keeping with prevailing prices. Satisfaction as­ sured, write Oscar Klopp, Zurich, or phone 18-93, Zurich, Ont. lieve -what happened was some underling — tiously approached one of the who were up against Leyland, ba’bly no mention "of murder made. Probably all that was was that for some large sum money it could be guaranteed' that Leyland would change his .policy. Which shows, mark-you, if my sup­ position is correct, that they are no ordinary type of criminal. Hard­ headed business'men don’t part with their cash on vague promises, unless) the man who makes then) is pretty ) convincing. Anyway -still sticking ^opd, when the' axe somehow came to our theory—the fact remains thatJn 6ontact with Ws 10ot< with* Someone- I say is in of conjecture or even Certain bald facts stick those pegs we have had our theory. Hbw much CHAPTER II “Now you’ll understand, Carteret, that what I’m going to tell you is for your ears and your ears alone.',’ The two men were seated in a corner, of the smoking-room coffee and brandy on the table in front of them, “Fire ahead, Colonel. I don’t mind confessing that I’m deuced curious. And you have my promise that I shan’t say a word to a soul.” "I’ll make it as short as possible/ began Gillson. "And you had better realize right away that a great deal of what I am going to the nature guesswork, out, and on to build up of that theory is right, and how much wrong, only time will show. And reading between the lines of a letter iStandish wrote me, I think the time is pretty close at hand, "However, let’s get on With. it. About five years ago there was a series of extraordinary and appar­ ently disconnected crimes. They were not confined to England: in fact some of the most remarkable of them took place abroad. To take only a few at random. The murder of Rodrigo, the Spanish millionaire banker, in his hotise in. Madrid; the death of Steiner, the German cOal magnate, in Essen; Vanderstrum the Dutchman, w!ho was shot late on© bight when going back; from a 1 they did stump up, and Leyland Was murdered.” "Have you any proof that they stumped up?” asked Tiny. "No actual proof. But it is a sig­ nificant fact that the bank account of ‘ the man who committed suicide shows that he drew Out a sum of five thousand pounds about a week before Leyland was murdered—a proceeding so foreign to his usual habits that the cashier remarked on it,” "But surely something should be done about It.” “My dear fellow,” said the other, with a short laugh, “one of the first things you find out in this game is Gib. and mo- Mfrs. John Oesch, who wks so ser­ iously ill has now recovered and is able to be around again. A Very happy eVent was celebra­ ted at the home of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. HOrner recently oh the occasion of Mrs. Horner’s birthday. Th© fam­ ily were all present also Mr. and, Mrs. S. Gotts'Chalk, of Seaforth. Mrs. H. G. McKinley and her twin daughters, Joan and Jbyce hav^ returned to their home In Toronto after Spending the past few weeks With Mr. and Mrs. T. H. 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