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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-06-28, Page 7• A 929„ Eye,1, a+�D �YGMR' Qli4ca rtq,�]nV'4W,W inQala.ate M04.44041 4k9 r V.'2R e �2� Nep eta ozgao. QE A as 5;114 -Mute, I Ioo>;;eflekro m,4 Oclaext Square Throat 1 op- �o lq, 'l ountlon l a'g, At Commercial 7itetQl, a^:,g'or't n„ r ,irti Rgonday >In wk=oekth from 11 a.m. to 8 G f»a. fwd VAltarloe Street, South, Strrassror 1, ] mune 56%, Stratford. RU]PTN IY 2 SPECIIALIIS7l 78upture Varicocele, Varicose Veins, Abdominal Weakness, Spinel Deform - Qty. Consultation Free. Cali or write. J. G. SMITH, British .Appli- rance Specialist, 15 ,Downie St., Strat- 3®rd, Ont. 3202 LEGAL 10111e No, 91. 01HEN 1BIUGGAIIBIlD Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. trie ]Block - - Seaforth, Ont. I• . S. IH!AYS 15nrrister, Solicitor Conveyancer sonel Notary Public. Solicitor for the 114mminion ]Bank. Office in rear of the minion ]Bank, Sel•`orth. Money to • ]EST .c I;:EST Jatarristers, Solicitors, Conveyan- awe and Notaries Public, Etc. 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DOUGALL nor graduate of Faculty of reiedicine and Master of Science, Uni- versity of Western Ontario, London. her of College of Physicians and 3c: -ons of Ontario. Office, 2 doors razst of post o i'.ce. Phone 56, Hensel], finrio. 3004-tf glo D. A. NEWTON-BRADY }Bayfield. Graduate Dublin University, Ire- £nd. Late Extern Assistant Master 3otunda Hospital for Women and Children, Dublin. Office at residence itately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. ]®ours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.; ,ys, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-26 DR. F. J. ]BURROWS (Mee and residence Goderich Street, Wisst.,• r the Methodist Church, Sea- ' idaat'lh. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of uron. DR. C. MACgAY C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- University, and gold medallist of 'ty Medical College; member of 0he College of Physicians and Sur- nof Ontario. a DR. ]HI. 'HUGE a OSS G'raduate of University of Toronto L'acmulty of Medicine, member of Col - tinge of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario; pass graduate courses in f eago Clinical School of Chicago ; gal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, land; University Hospital, Lon- : England. Office—Back of Do - ion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, Moria Street, Seaforth. D. J. A. IiiiUNN Successor to Dr. R. R. Roes Graduate of Northwestern Univers- , Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Cie over Sills' Hardware, Main St., geaforth. Phone 151. DR. F. J. I;:ECHELY Graduate Royal College of Dental Faurgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. kith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea- Qemth. Phones: Office, 185 W; resi- dence, 185 J. 3055-tf CONSULTING ENGINEER S. W. Archibald, B:A.Sc. (Tor.), O:L.S., Registered Professional En- gineer and Land 'Surveyor. Associate Member Engineering Institute of Can- ada. Office Seaforth, Ontario. AUCTIONEE r; S TEOPJIAS ROWN lily 315GAII WAILLACO CEA/F/1'22 11 The day Mr. Reeder arrived at the Public Prosecutor's o iee was indeed a day of fate for Mr. Lambton Green, :ranch Manager of the London Scot- tish and Midland Rank. That branch of the bank which Mr. Green controlled was situate at the corner' of Pell Street and Farling Av- enue on the "country side" of Ealing. It is a fairly large buil' ng and, un- like most suburban branch offices, the whole of the premises were devoted to banking business, for the bank car- ried very heavy deposits, -the Lunar Traction Company, with three thou- sand people on its pay -roll, the As- sociated Novelties Corporation, with its enormous turnover, and the Lara - phone Company being only three of the L.S.M.'s customers. On Wednesday afternoons, in pre- paration for the pay days of these corporations, large sums in currency were brought from the head office and deposited in the steel and concrete strong -room, which was immediately beneath Mr. Green's private office, but admission to which was gained through a steel door in the general office. This door was observable from the street, and to assist observation there was a shaded lamp fixed to the wall immediately above, which threw a powerful beam of light upon the door. Further security was ensured by the employment of a night watch- man, Arthur Mailing, an army pen- sioner. The bank lay on a restricted police beat which had been so arranged that the constable on patrol passed the bank every forty minutes. It was his practice to look through the win- dow and exchange signals with the night watchman, his orders being to wait until Mailing appeared. On the night of October 17th Po- lice -Constable Burnett stopped as us- ual before the wide peep -hole and glanced into the bank. The first thing he noticed was that the lamp above the strong -room door had been ex- tinguished. The night watchman was not visible, and, his suspicions arous- ed, the officer did not wait for the man to put in an appearance as he would ordinarily have done, but pass- ed the window to the door, which, to his alarm, he found ajar. Pushing it open, he entered the bank, calling Mailing by name. There was no an- swer. Permeating the air was a faint, sweet scent which he could not locate. The general offices were empty and, entering the manager's room in which a light burnt, he saw a figure stretch- ed upon the ground. It was the night watchman. His wrists were handcuf- fed, two straps had been tightly buckled about his knees and ankles. The explanation for the strange and sickly aroma was now clear. A- bove the head of the prostrate man was suspended, by a wire hooked to the picture -rail, an old tin can, the bottom of which was perforated so that there fell an incessant trickle of some volatile liquid upon the thick cotton pad which covered Mailing's face. Burnett, who had been wounded in the war, had instantly recognized the smell of chloroforiu and, dragging the unconscious man into the outer office, snatched the pad from his face and, leaving him only long enough to tele- phone to the police station, sought vainly to bring him to consciousness. The police reserves arrived within a few minutes, and with them the di- visional surgeon who, fortunately, had been at the station when the alarm came through. Every effort to re- store the unfortunate man to life proved unavailing. "He was probably dead when he was found," was the police doctor's ver- dict. "What those scratches are on the right palm is a mystery." He pulled open the clenched fist and showed half a dozen little scratch- es. They were recent, for there was a smear of blood on the palm. Burnett was sent at once to arouse Mr. Green, the manager, who lived in Firling Avenue, at the corner of which the bank stood; a street of semi-de- tached villas of a pattern familiar en- ough to the Londoner. As the officer walked through the little front gar- den to the door he saw a light through the panels, and he had hardly knock- ed before the door was opened and Mr. Lambton Green appeared, fully dressed and, to the officer's discerning eye, in a state of considerable agita- tion. Constable Burnett saw on a hall chair a big bag, a travelling rug and an umbrella. The little manager listened, pale as death, whilst Burnett told him of his discovery. "The hank robbed? Impossible!" he almost shrieked. "My God! this is awful!" He was so near the point of col- lapse that Burnett had to assist him into the street. "1—I was going away on a holi- day," he said incoherently, as he walked up the dark thoroughfare to- wards the bank premises. "The fact is—I was leaving the hank. I left a note—explaining to the directors." Into a circle of suspicious men the manager tottered. He unlocked the drawer of his desk, looked and crum- bled up. "They're not here!" he said wildly. "1 left them here—my keys—with the rote!" And then he swooned. When the dazed man recovered he found him- self in a police cell and, later in the day, he drooped before a police mag- istrate, supported by two constables and listened, like a man in a dream, to a charge of causing the death of Arthur Mailing, and further, of con- verting to his own use the sum of £100,000. It was on the morning of the first . remand that Mr. John G. 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Totino t'tl!s ottf tla, ' arao kN70 178 r 11 W , Ceu' Il2a p.a., i ;q0. 1. bram I t tstr VIZ r non loamy h ZO , l" sea the to, ,tPn og th41 bnildinov $ hopped t a bfl Propeento. 1n mal fano this chaa he anti ed only only ail oink baron;-,. that he should be connected bpPriv. ate telephone wire with his od bur- eau. He did not demaand this—he never demanded , anyt 'ng. •l a asked, ner- vously and apologetic '.y. There was a certain wistful helplessness about John G. Reeder that made people feel sorry for him, that caused. even the Public Prosecutor a few uneasy mom- ents of doubt as to whether he had been quite wide in substituting this weak -appearing man of middle age for Inspector Holford --]bluff, capable and heavily mysterious. Mr. Reeder was something over fifty, a long -faced gentleman with sandy -grey hair and a slither of side whiskers that " mercifully distracted attention from his large outstanding ears. He wore half -way down his nose a pair of steel -rimmed pince- nez, through which nobody had over seen him look—they were invariably removed when he was reading. A high and fiat -crowned bowler hat matched and yet did not match a frock -coat tightly buttoned across his sparse chest. His boots were square toed, his cravat—of the broad, chest - protector pattern—was ready -ma 'n and buckled into place behind a Gladstonian collar. The neatest ap- pendage to Mr. Reeder was an um- brella rolled so tightly that it might be mistaken for a frivolous walking cane. Rain or shine, he carried this article hooked to his arm, and within living memory it had never been un- furled. Inspector Holford (promoted now to the responsibilities of Superintendent) met him in the office to hand over his duties, and a more tangible quantity in the shape of old furniture and fix- ings, "Glad to know you, Mr. Reeder. I haven't had the pleasure of meeting you before, but I've heard a lot about you. You've] been doing Bank of England work, haven't you?" Mr. Reeder whispered that he had had that honour, and sighed as though he regretted the drastic sweep of fate that had torn him from the obscurity of his labours. Mr. Holford's scrut- iny was full of misgivings. "Well," he said awkwardly, "this job is different, though I'm told that you are one of the best informed men in London, and if that is the case this will be easy work. Still, we've never had an outsider—I mean, so to speak, a private detective—in this office be- fore, and" naturally the Yard is a bit—" "I quite understand," murmured Mr. Reeder, hanging up his immacu- late .um,brella. "It is very natural. Mr. Bolond expected the appointment. His wife is annoyed—very properly. But she has no reason to be. She is an ambitious woman. She has a third interest in a West End dancing club that might be raided one of.these days." Holford was staggered. Here was news that was little more than a whis- pered rumour at Scotland Yard. "How the devil do you know that?" he blurted. Mr. Reeder's smile was one of self - depreciation. "One picks up odd scraps of in- formation," he said apologetically. "1 —I see wrong in everything. That is my curious perversion—I have a criminal mind!" Holford drew a long breath. "Well—there is nothing much do- ing. That Ealing case is pretty clear. Green is an ex -convict, who got a job at the bank during the war and worked up to manager. He has done seven years for conversion." "Embezzlement and conversion," murmured Mr. Reeder. "I—er—I'm afraid I was the principal witness against him: bank crimes were rather —erea hobby of mine. Yes, he got into difficulties with money -lenders. Very foolish—extremely foolish. And he doesn't admit his error." Mr. Reeder sighed heavily. "Poor fel- low! With his life at stake one may forgive and indeed condone his piti- ful prevarications." The inspector stared at the new man in amazement. "I don't know that there is much 'poor fellow' about him. He has cached £100,000 and told the weakest yarn that I've ever read—you'll find copies of- the police reports here, if you'd like to read them. The scratch- es on Mailing's hand are curious— they've found several on the other hand. They are not deep enough to suggest a struggle. As to the yarn that Green tells " Mr. J. G. Reeder nodded sadly. "It was not an ingenious story," he said, almost with regret. "If I remember right, his story' was some- thing like this: he had been recogniz- ed by a man who served in Dartmoor with him, and this fellow wrote a blackmailing letter telling him to pay or clear out. Sooner than return to a life of crime, Green wrote out all the facts to his directors, put the let- ter in the drawer of his desk with his keys, and left a note for his head cashier on the desk itself, intending to leave London and try to make a fresh start where he was unknown." "There were no letters in or on the desk, and no keys," said the inspector decisively. "The only true part of the yarn was that he had done time." "Imprisonment," suggested Mr. Reeder plaintively. He had a horror of slang. "Yes, that was true." Left alone in his office, he spent a very considerable time at his private telephone, communing with the young person who was still a young person, although the passage of time had dealt unkindly with her. For the rest of the morning he was reading 'the depositions which his predecessor had put on the desk. It was late in the afternoon when the Public Prosecutor strolled into his room and glanced at the big pile of manuscript through which his sub- ordinate was wading. "What are you reading—the Green business?" he asked, with a note of satisfaction in his voice. "I'm glad that is interesting you --though It seems a fairly straightforward case I have had a letter from the presi- dent of the man's bank, who for some reason seems to think Green wa's telling the truth." iVir. Reeder looked up with that pained expression a his which he in - Variably wore when he was puzzled. jyF �A,.,Itylt'S�/ 7:Ir,(�,+5{y. 4lr mat , J M4�aj � 043,',)q1(43°7111-41.1302,14; aa�gtnlPPmcQ ,artr 11114.0411���;:ne tat ' ;. read it, Soauaa� tamrn � �pl`� iI �4rs ase ® 4` Ceed the bank premises Il heal a man standing et the owner of the street imrnediata- ly outside the bank, 1 Paw him dis tinctly in the light og ai passing mail van. 'II d ,n- not attach '"f„ ny import- ance to leis presenia; and I did not see him again. • 1t was possible for this man to have gone round the block and come to 20, Firling Av- enue without being sdies by me. Im- mediately after I saw bins, my foot struck against a piece of iron on the sidewalk. I put my lamp on the ob- ject and found it was ou old horse- shoe; I had seen children playing with this particdtlar shoe earlier in the evening. When I looked again towards the corner, the man had dis- appeared. He would have seen the light of my lamp. I saw no other person, and so far as I Not remember, there was no light showing in Green's house when I passed it." Mt. Reeder looked up. "Well?" said the Prosecutor."There is nothing remarkable about that. It was probably Green who dodged round the block and came in at the back of the constable." Mr. Reeder scratched his chin. "Yes," he said thoughtfully, "yes." He shifted uncomfortably in his chair. "Would it be considered indecorous if I made a few inquiries, independent of the police?" he asked nervously. "I should not like them to think that a mere dilettante was interfering with their lawful functions." "By all means," said the Prosecu- tor heartily. "Go down and see the officer in charge of the case; I'll give you a note to him—it is by no means unusual for nay officer to conduct a separate investigation, though I am afraid you will discover very little. The ground has been well covered by Scotland Yard." "It would be permissible to man?" hesitated Reeder. "Green? Why, oft course! I will send you up the necessary order.".. The light was fading from a grey, blustering sky, and rain was falling fitfully, when Mr. Reeder, with his furled umbrella hooked to his arm, his coat collar turned up, stepped through the dark gateway of Brixton Prison and was led to the cell where a distracted man sat, his head upon his hands, _his pale eyes gazing into vacancy. "It's true; it's true! Every wort" Green almost sobbed the words. A pallid man, inclined to be bald, with a limp yellow moustache, going grey. Reeder, with his extraordinary memory for faces, recognized him the moment he saw him, thought it was some time before the recognition was mutual. "Yes, Mr. Reeder, I remember you now. You were the gentleman who caught me before. But I've been as straight as a die. I've never taken a farthing that didn't belong to me. What my poor girl will think—.—" "Are you married?" asked Mr. Reeder sympathetically. "No, but I was going to be—rather late in life. She's nearly thirty years younger than me, and the best girl that ever " Reeder listened to the rhapsody that followed, the melancholy deepening in his face. "She hasn't been into the court, thank God, but she knows the truth. A friend of mine told me that she has been absolutely knocked out." "Poor soul!" Mr. Reeder shook his head. "It happened on her birthday, toe," the man went on bitterly. "Did she know you were going a- way?" "Yes, I told her the night before. I'm not going to bring her into the case. If we'd been properly engaged it would be different; but she's mar- ried and is divorcing her husband, but the decree hasn't been made absolute yet. That's why I never went about with her or saw much of her. And of course, nobody knew about our en- gagement, although we lived in the see the J I • VISIT our showrooms and see a remark- able display in motor car color design— a variety so wide as to give almost individual distinction, at no extra cost. 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"Firling Avenue?" asked Reeder, and the bank manager nodded des- pondently. "She was married when she was seventeen to a brute. It was pretty galling for me, having to keep quiet about it—I mean, for nobody to know about our engagement. All sorts of rotten people were making up to her and I had just to grind my teeth and say nothing. Impossible people! Why that fool Burnett, who arrested me, he was sweet on her; used to write her poetry—you wouldn't think it possible in a policeman, would you?" The outrageous incongruity of a poetical policeman did not seem to shock the detective. "There is poetry in every soul, Mr. Green," he said gently, "and a police- man is a man." Though he dismissed the eccentric- ity of the constable so lightly, the poetical policeman filled his mind all the way home to his house in the Brockley Road, and occupied his thoughts for the rest of his waking It was a quarter to eight o'clock in time. the morning, and the world seemed entirely populated by milkmen and whistling newspaper boys, when Mr. J. G. Reeder came into Firling Av- 0nue. He stopped only for a second out- side the bank, which had long since ceased to be an object of local awe and fearfulness, and pursued his way down the broad avenue. On either side of the thoroughfare ran a row of pretty villas—pretty although they bore a strong family resemblance to one another; each house with its lit- tle forecourt, sometimes laid out simply as a grass plot, sometimes de- corated with flower beds. Green's house as the eighteenth in the road on the ight-hand side. Here he bad lived wi a cook -housekeeper, and apparent] gardening was not his hobby, for he forecourt was covered with grass that had been allowed to grow at its will. Before the twenty-sixth house in the road Mr. Reeder paused and gaz- ed with mild interest at the blue blinds which covered every window. Evidently Miss Magda Grayne was a lover of flowers, for geraniums filled the window -boxes and were set at in- tervals along the tiny border under the bow window. In the centre of the grass plot was a circular flower - bed with one flowerless rose tree, the leaves of which were drooping and brown. As he raised his eyes to the upper window, the blind went up slowly, and be was dimly conscious that there was a figure behind the white lace curtains. Mr. Reeder walked hur- riedly away, as one caught in an im- modest act, and resumed his pere- grinations until he came to the big nursery gardener's which formed the corner lot at the far end of the read. Here he stood for some time. in contemplation, his arm resting on the iron railings, his eyes staring blankly at the vista of greenhouses. He re- mained in this attitude so long that one of the nurserymen, not unnatur- ally thinking that a stranger was seeking a way into the gardens, came over with the laborious gait of the man who wrings his living from the soil, and asked if he was wanting any- body. "Several people," sighed Mr. Reed- er; "several people!" Leaving the resentful man to puz- zle out his impertinence, he slowly re- traced his steps. At No. 412 he stop- ped again, opened the little iron gate and passed up the path to the front door. A small girl answered his knock and ushered him into the par- lor. The room was not well furnished; it was scarcely furnished at all. A strip of almost new linoleum covered the passage; the furniture of the par- lor itself was made up of wicker chairs, a square of art carpet and a table. He heard the sound of feet above his head, feet on base boards, and then presently the door opened and a girl came in. She was pretty in a heavy way, but on her face he saw the marks of sor- row. It was pale and haggard; the eyes looked as though she had been recently weeping. "Miss Magda Grayne?" he asked, rising as she came in. She nodded. "Are you from the police ?" she asked quickly. "Not exactly the police," he cor- rected 'carefully. "I hold am-er— an appointment in the office of the• Public Prosecutor, which is analogous to, but distinct from, a position in the - Metropolitan Police Force." She frowned, and then: "I wondered if anybody would come to see me," she said. "Mr. Green• sent you?" "Mr. Green told me of your exist- ence: he did not send me." There came to her face in that sec- ond a look which almost startled him. Only for a fleeting space of time, the expression had dawned and passed almost before the untrained eye could] detect its passage. 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