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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Huron Expositor, 1929-08-30, Page 7A Chi Cr `pro Wait pp Sae Zxgen� 7 atQgw7, otel,, carat 8 WraterlOO alta ne (Te U//175144 ia, aaQnaaa,armt AUrail incl 0,, Ol e )l�ondena PGElp Menthe S rN.0, 28.7i Stir=situ. st vast in W,%•? ,' b Ai'Y7-' y'h re PU JAM q otae8lela�l1? 4itia2��\� 4�1p oat , ly ,,w� e- Elea ,. " q.• t '�+NMUtII$(�{(�rneala Basel. Bgenelai in IP 11 Gama, to 3P.M. Srs>mtb. Staatfard. Septembea. RUFF URE 811 ECIZAILES`IC Rupture, V:"ricocele, Varicope Vein°, domrninI Weakness Spinal Deform- oa- . f,v�r. Consultation 'Free, Call . or write. J. G. SMITE, iBritielli dJppli- ratmc® Specialist, 15 IIDawvnie St., Strat- fterd, Ont. 2208.25 LEGAIL ]Phone No. 91 JOHN J. IHI•UGGAIlBID Barrister, Solicitor, Notary Public, Etc. aeattie Block - - Se north, Ont. R. S. HAYS I: arrister, Solicitor, Conveyancer and Notary Public. Solicitor for the Dominion Bank. Office in rear of the Dominion Bank, Seaforth. Money to loan. I: IES .s I aEST e arristers, Solicitors, Conveyan- eere and Notaries Public, Ete. Office in the 1 Edge Building, opposite The .positor Office. VETERINARY JOHN GRIEVE, V.S. Conor graduate of Ontario Veterin- ary College. All diseases of domesti: animals treated. Calls promptly at- tended to and charges moderate. Vet- erinary Dentistry a specialty. Office and residence on Goderich Street, one door east of Dr. Mackay's Office, Sea - forth. A. R. CAMPBELL, V.S. Graduate of Ontario Veterinary College, University of Toronto. All diseases of domestic animals treated 11)y the most modern principles. Charges reasonable. Day or night calls promptly attended to. Office on Stein Street, Hensall, opposite Town Hall. Phone 116. MEDICAL DR. W. C. SPROAT Graduate of Faculty of Medicine, University of Western Ontario, Lon- don. Member of College of Physic - lams laps and Surgeons of Ontario. Office lin Aberhart's Drug Store, Main St., Seaforth. Phone 90. DR. R. 1P. L DOUGALL I:+ onor graduate of Faculty of Medicine and Master of Science, Uni- versity of Western Ontario, London. Member of College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario. Office 2 doors east of post office. Phone 56, Hensall, Ontario. 3004-tf DR. A. NEWTON-BRADY Bayfield. Graduate Dublin University, Ire - Hand. Late Extern Assistant Master Rotunda IHbspital for Women and Children, Dublin. Office at residence ]lately occupied by Mrs. Parsons. Hours, 9 to 10 a.m., 6 to 7 p.m.; Sundays, 1 to 2 p.m. 2866-2G DR. F. J. i:URROWS 4 ;.ce and residence Goderich Street, east of the Methodist Church, Sea - forth. Phone 46. Coroner for the County of Huron. DR. C. MACXAY C. Mackay, honor graduate of Trin- ity University, and gold medalist of Trinity Medical College; member of Dine College of Physicians and Sur - aeons of Ontario. DR. IE. HUGH ROSS Graduate of University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine, member of Col - Siege of Physicians and Surgeons of mzatario; pass graduate courses in Chicago Clinical School of Chicago ; Royal Ophthalmic Hospital, London, England; University Hospital, Lon- don, England. Office -Back of Do- minion Bank, Seaforth. Phone No. 5. Night calls answered from residence, Victoria Street, Seaforth. DR. 0. A. MUNN Successor to Dr. R. R. Ross Graduate of Northwestern Univers- ity, Chicago, Ill. Licentiate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over Sills' Hardware, Main St., Seaforth. Phone 151. IDR. F. 0. :ECHELY Graduate Royal College of Dental Surgeons, Toronto. Office over W. R. Smith's Grocery, Main Street, Sea - forth. 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. Oce Seaforth, Ontario. AUCTIONEERS THOMAS I::ROWN Licensed auctioneer•'for the counties of Huron and Perth. Correspondence arrangements for sale dates can be made by calling The Expositor Office, Seaforth. Charges moderate, =, n d satisfaction guaranteed. Phone 802. OSCAR 1KLOIPP Honor Graduate Carey Jones' Na- tional School of Auctioneering, Chi- cago. Special course taken in Pure Bred Live Stock, Real Estate, Mer- chandise and Farm Sales. 1" ales tri Trooping with prevailing market. Sat- isfaction assured. Write or wire, Cedar Klo;. ;', Zurich, Ont. Phonee 18-28. R. T. LtJJ 3 Licensed atictiormcer /Or the Counter o� 16(pa an. Baden attended to in al ofd the"! odtAty. Sevens_yeaaro' etc pe r; Foe fin ,Draliltoba. and Saokabehe e✓a Ter'mmts 7l',iaoonabIl4. Phone No 176 r 11 >' 'ot ; 0o17nmr' 111 ce Pita , No. 1. Orrdorre left at IDIVV,ZtVg Q eltor Mee, 03,0 ,OFtilap p, o DF y CSt : _.. I- - ElliZiala "Of conrae he war` dnagCnised,'a Bald the other iraitagoly. "One reads of paean 'things," said Mr. Reeder with a algh, "but so sel- dom does the beaded" etranger ap- pear in real life! ]Titan you be good enough to tell me your nbees ad- dress?'" Lerd iSellington took a card from his po'eliet and threw it across t tabllys. ,21t fell to the floor, but he did not apologize. 5 . was that kind of man. "Jermyn Mansions," said' Mr. Reed- er as he rose. "I will see what can be done." Lord Sellington grunted something which might have been a tender fare- well, but pro!b: a.ly was not. Jermyn Mansions is a very small, narrow -fronted building and, as Mr. Reeder knew -and he knew a great deal -was a block of residential flats, which were run by an ex -butler who was also the lessee of the establish- ment. By great good fortune, as he afterwards learned, Harry Carlin was at home, and in a few minutes the man from the Public Prosecutor's of- fice was ushered into a shabby draw- ing -room that overlooked Jermyn Street. A tall young" man stood by the window, looking disconsolately into that narrow and lively thoroughfare, and turned as Mr. Reeder was an- nounced. Thin -faced, narrow -headed, small -eyed, if he possessed any of the family traits and failings, the most marked was perhaps his too ready irritation. Mr. Reeder saw, through an open door, 'a very untidy bedroom, caught a glimpse of a battered trunk cover- ed with Continental labels, "Well, what the devil do you want? demanded Mr. Carlin. Yet, in spite of his tone, there was an undercur- rent of disquiet which Mr. Reeder de- tected. "May I sit down?" said the detec- tive and, without waiting for an invi- tation, pulled a chair from the wall and sat down gingerly, for he knew the quality of lodging -house chairs. His self-possession, the hint of authority he carried in his voice, in- creased Mr.HCarlin's uneasi- ness;y Harry and when Mr. Reeder plunged straight into the object of his visit, he saw the man go pale. "It is a difficult subject to open," said Mr. •Reeder, carefully smoothing his knees, "and when I find myself in that predicament I usually employ the plainest language." - And plain language he employed with a vengeance. ,Half -way through Carlin sat down with a gasp. "What -. 'what!" he stammered. "Does that old brute dare -I I thought you came about the bills --I mean-" "I mean," said Mr. Reeder care- fully, "that if you have had a little fun with your relative, I think that jest has gone far enough. Lord Sel- lington is prepared, on the money be- ing refunded, to regard the whole thing as an over -elaborate practical joke on your part-" "But I haven't touched his beastly money!" the young man almost screamed. "I don't want his money PP "On the contrary, sir," said Reeder gently, "you want it very badly. You left the Hotel Continental without paying your bill; you owe some six hundred pounds to various gentlemen from whom you - borrowed that a- mount; there is a warrant out for you in France for passing cheques which are usually described by the vulgar as--ter-`dud.' Indeed" -a- gain Mr. Reeder scratched his chin and looked thoughtfully out of the window -"indeed I know no gentle- man in Jermyn Street who is so bad- ly in need of money as your good self." Carlin would have stopped him, but the middle-aged man went on re- morselessly. "I have been for an hour in the Record Department of Scotland Yard, where your name is not unknown, Mr. Carlin., You left London rather hur riedly to avoid-er-proceedings of an unpleasant character. `Bills,' I think you said? You are known to have been the associate of people with whom the police are a little bet- ter acquainted than they are with Mr. Carlin. You were also associated with a race -course fraud of a pecul- iarly unpleasant character. And amongst your minor delinquencies there is-er-a deserted young wife. at present engaged in a city office as typist, and a small boy for whom you have never provided:" Carlin licked his dry lips. "Is that all?" he asked, with an attempt at a sneer, though his voice shook and his trembling hands betray- ed his agitation. Reeder nodded. "Well, I'll tell you something. I want to do the right thing by my wife. I admit I haven't played square with her, but I've never had the money to play square. That old devil has always been rolling in it, curse him! I"m the only relation he has, and what has he done? Left every bean to these damned children's homes of his! If somebody has caught him for five thousand I'm glad! I shouldn't have the nerve to 1 • do it myself, but I'm glad if they did -whoever they may be. Left every penny to a lot of squalling, sticky - faced brats, and not a 'bean to mei" Mr. Reeder let him rave on with- out interruption, until at last, almost exhausted by his effort, he, dropped down into a deep chair and glared at his visitor. "Tell him Ca t," he said breathless- ly; "tell him thatl" Mr. Reeder made time to call at the little o"ice in Portugal Street wherein was housed the headquarters of Lord Sellington's various philan- thropic enterprises. Mr. Arthur Ilse- enrd had evidently been in c.oramnaini- catlon with his nobles patron, for trtia Cachet mild rAvtiev agaithilts stens gem 'fattate was a heap 01! aannea anhich, disc lei SNti erica liva tc n a 4,91,: )1 ,„t� a"ka as ars tl cid inaarla ,sin $p 0)1<1D 44 •a' aatl"rd's aretivAlea tlaci Varian.* Weal °Were oases stow �y4i =pa with sa, 1'0 and a had ]dead, ISO 'gladmum#va the. attaDela0 %vbaachn . P Oantne the TI T 0 men engaged in c ar tmbllc wfd;S. ani wasp mot partncallarller aaalareM rel by recent visit he had had galena Zany Carlin. "I don't I iah to be se •sa,, �.. said, "(but our friend ca led here on such a lanae excuee that 1-can'thelp feeling Haat hip real abject wrist to secure a 'sheet of my stationery. Jt did, in fact, leve him in the roans for a few minutes, and he had the opportunity to purloin the paper if he desired," "What was his exeu,se?" asked Mr. Reeder,and the, other shrugged. "He wanted money. At first he was civil and asked me to persuade his uncle; then he grew abusive, said that I was conspiring to rob him -I and my 'infernal charities'!" He chuckled, but grew grave again. "The situation is mysterious to me," he said. "Evidently Carlin has com- mitted some crime against his lord- ship, for he is terrified of him!" "You think Mr. Carlin forged your name and secured the money'?" The superintendent spread out his arms in despair. "Who else can I suspect?" he ask- ed. Mr. Reeder took the forged letter from his pocket and read it again. "I've just been on the phone to his lordship," Mc. Lessard went on. ":'e is waiting, of course, to hear your re- port, and if you have failed to make this young man confess his guilt, Lord Sellington intends seeing his nephew to -night and making an ap- peal to him. I can hardly believe that Mr. Carlin could have done this wicked thing, though the circumstanc- es seem very suspicious. Have you seen him, Mr. Reeder?" "I have seen him," said Mr. Reed- er shortly. "Oh, yes, I have seen him!" Mr. Arthur Lessard was scrutinis- ing his face as though he were try- ing to read the conclusion which the detective had reached, but Mr. Reed- er's face was •notoriously expression- less. He offered a limp hand and went back to the Under -Secretary's house. The interview was short and on the whole disagreeable. "tI never dreamt he 'would confess to you,"said Lord ,Sellington with ill - g disguied contempt. "Harry needs somebody to frighten him, and, my God! I'm the man to do it! I'm seeing him to -night." A fit of coughing stopped him and he gulped savagely from a little medi- cine bottle that stood on his desk. "I'll see him to -night," he gasped, "and I'll tell him what I intend do- ing! I've spared him hitherto be- cause of his relationship and because he inherits :the title. But I'm through. Every cent I have goes to charity. I'm good for twenty years yet, but every penny-- 4--n He stopped. He was a man who never disguised his emotion, and Mr. Reeder, who understood men, saw the struggle that was going on in Sel- lington's mind. "He says he hasn't had a chance. I may have treated him unfairly - we shall see." ,I]!e waved the detective from his office as though he were dismissing a strange dog that had intruded upon his privacy, and Mr. Reeder went oui. reluctantly, for he had something t.r tell his lordship. It was peculiar to him that, in his more secretive moments, he sought the 'privacy of his old-fashioned study in Brockley Road. For two hours he sat at his desk calling a succession of numbers -and curiously enough, the gentlemen to whom he spoke were bookmakers. 'Most of them he knew. In the days when he was the greatest expert in the world on forged cur- rency notes, he had been brought in- to contact with a class which is of- ten the innocent medium by which the forger distributed his handicraft - and more often the instrument of his detection. It was a Friday, a day on which most of the principals were in their offices till a late hour. At eight o'clock he finished, wrote a note and, phoning for a messenger, sent his letter on its fateful errand. He spent the rest of the evening musing on past experiences and in refreshing his memory from the thir scrap -books which filled two shelves in his study. What happened elsewhere that ev- ening can best be told in the plain language of the witness box- Lord Sellington had gone home after his interview with Mr. Reeder suffering from a feverish cold, and was dispos- ed, according to the evidence of his secretary, to put off the interview which he had arranged with his nephew. A telephone message bad been sent through to Mr. Carlin's ho- tel, but he 'was out. Until nine o'clock his lordship was busy with the af• fairs of his numerous charities, Mr. Lessard being in attendance. Lord Sellington was working in a small study which opened from his bedroom. At a quarter -past nine Carlin ar- rived and was shown upstairs by the butler, who subsequently stated that he heard voices raised in anger. Mr. Carlin came downstairs and was shown out as the clock struck.half- past nine, and a few minutes later the bell rang for Lord Sellington's valet, who went up to assist his mas- ter to bed. %d �aar nrkf�D'4 i1;CAJyu' N74Fl.A'`11ati"r,�,'adif3 IR, �� r Jm4 Iii'i ,r Cfinl n it z:n?<;a97 ns Qh10., +'i''74\' giRgPI t 00+14 ,;ter :sa rept for one coreie1' was eaatirely (burnt. The valet telephoned frame ately. for the doctor and for: the police, and from that moment tine case went out of 'Mr. Reeder's able hands. Later that morninghe reported briefly to his superior the result of his inquiries. "Murder, I am afraid," he said sadly." "The Home Office patholo- gist is perfectly certain that it is a ease of aconitine poisoning. The paper in the hearth has been photo- graphed, and there is no doubt what- ever that the burnt document is the will by which Lewd Sellington left all his property to various charitable in- stitutions." He paused here. "Well?" asked his chief, "what does that mean?" Mr. Reeder coughed. "It means that if this will cannot be proved, and I doubt whether it can, his lordship died intestate. The pro- perty goes with the title " "To Carlin?" asked the startled Prosecutor. Mr. Reeder nodded. "There were other things burnt; four small oblong slips of paper, which had evidently been fastened to- gether by a pin. These are quite in- decipherable." He sighed again. The Public Prosecutor looked up. "You haven't mentioned the letter that arrived by district messenger af- ter Lord Sellington had retired for the night." Mr. Reeder rubbed his chin. "No, I didn't mention that," he said reluctantly. "Has it been found?" Mr. Reeder hesitated. "I don't know. I rather think that it has not been," he said. "Would it throw any light upon the crime, do you think?" Mr. Reeder scratched his chin with .some sign of embarrassment. "I shouldthin k Might," ht itmi " > he said g "Will you excuse me, sir? Inspector• Salter is waiting for me." And he was out of the room before the Pros- ecutor could frame any further in- quiry. Inspector Salter was striding im- patiently up and down the little room when Mr. Reeder came back. They left the 'building' together. The car that was waiting for them brought them to Jermyn Street in a few min- utes. Outside the flat three plain- clothes men were waiting, evidently for the arrival of their chief, and the Inspector passed into the building, followed closely by Mr. Reeder. They were half -way up the stairs when Reeder asked: At half -past seven the next morn- ing, the valet, who slept in an ad- joining apartment, went into his mas- ter's room to take him a cup of tea. He found his employer lying face downward on the floor; he was dead, and had been dead for some hours. There was no sign of wounds, and at first glance it lqoked as though this man of sixty had collapsed in th.s night. But there were circumstances which pointed to some unusual hap- pening. In Lord •Sellington's bed- room was a small steel w ll -safe nd the first thing the valet notieed Was that this was open, papers were lying on the floor, and that in the "Does Carlin know you?" "He ought to," was the grim re ply. "I did my best to get him penal servitude before he skipped from England." "Humph!" said Mr. Reeder. "I'm sorry he knows you." "Why?" The Inspector stopped on the stairs to ask the question. "Because he saw us getting out of the cab. I caught sight of his face, and " He stopped suddenly. The sound of a shot thundered through the p ouse and in another second the Inspector was racing up the stairs two at a time and had burst into the suite which Carlin occupied. A glimpse of the prostrate figure told them they were too late. The Inspector bent over the dead man. "That has saved the country the cost of a murder trial," he said. "I think not," said Mr. 'Reeder gent- ly, and explained his reasons. Half an hour later, as Mr. Lessard walked out of his office, a detective tapped him on the shoulder. "Your name is Elter," he said, "and I want you for murder." R O C :} p "It was a very simple case really, sir," explained Mr. Reeder to his chief. "Elter, of course, was knowe to me personally, but 1 remembered especially that he could not spell the word 'able,' and I recognized this pe- culiarity in our friend the moment 1 saw the letter which he wrote to his patron asking for the money. It was 'Elter himself who drew the five thousand pounds; of that I am con- vinced. The man is, and always has been, an inveterate gambler, and I did not have to make many inquiries before I discovered that he was ow- ing a large sum of money and that one bookmaker had threatened to bring him before Tattersall's Com- mittee unless he paid. That would have meant the end of Mr. Lessard, the philanthropic custodian of chil- dren. Which, by the way, was always Elter's role. He ran bogus charit- able, societies -it is extraordinarily easy to find dupes who are willing to subscribe for philanthropic objects. Many years ago, when I was a young man, I was instrumental in getting him seven years. I'd lost sight of him since then until 1 saw the letter he sent to Lord Sellington. Unfortunate- ly for him, one line ran: `I shall to glad if you are ahel to let my mes- senger have the money' -and he spelt. 'able' in the Elter way. I called or him and made sure. And then I wrote to his lordship, who apparent- ly did not open the letter till late that night. "Elter had called on him earlier in the evening and had had a long talk with him. I only surmise that Lord Sellington had expressed a doubt as to whether he ought to leave his nephe'vr penniless, scoundrel though he was; a Elter was terrified that his echet+ute for getting posscsaion of the old man's money was in danger of failing. 'Moreover, my appearance in -the ease had scared hien. 381e de- cided to kill Lord Sellington that night, took :aconitine with him to the hou>ae trcaail intrrpdaaced it into the mad - specia>< aten ?'• Kr, ''Reeder aao ow, east le popaable that Sclli gtoau weal = ` dressy under the i nll.'aelace. cg the drug when he harnt the will, tznd.r burnt too the font' ibillc which Carlin. had forged and w $nh the old samara had field over Tia basad aa thr'aat. Carlin may bane known hie at tele woo dead; he certainly recognized the Ln. Spector when he stepped oast ' ` the cab, and, thinking he was to be ar- rested for forgery, shot himself." Ilfr. Reeder pursed his lips and his Melancholy face grew longer. "I wish 11 had never known Mra. Carlin -my acquaintance with her in- troduces that element of coincidence which is permissible in stories but is so distressing in actual life. It shakes one's confidence in the logic of things." Vit; doblvjeo VIII TIBJB INVESTORS There are seven million people in Greater London and each one of those seven millions is in theory and prac- tice equal under the law and com- monly precious to the community. So that, if one is wilfully wronged, an- other must be punished; and if one dies of premeditated violence, h:s slayer must hang by the neck until he be dead. It is rather difficult for the sharp- est law -eyes to keep tag of seven mil- lion people, at least one million of whom never keep still and are gen- erally unattached to any particular domicile. It is equally difficult to place an odd twenty thousand or so who have domiciles but no human association. These include tramps, aged maiden ladies in affluent cir- cumstances, peripatetic members of the criminal classes and other friend less individuals. Sometimes uneasy inquiries come through to head -quarters. Mainly they are most timid and deferential. Mr. X. has not seen his neighbor, Mr. Y. for a week. No, he doesn't know Mr. Y. Nobody does. A little old man who had no friends and spent his fine days pottering in a garden overlooked by his more gregarious neighhor. And now Mr. Y. potters no more. His milk has not been taken in; his blinds are drawn. Comes a sergeant of police and a constable who 'breaks a window and climbs through, and Mr. Y. is dead some- where -dead of starvation or a fit or suicide. Should this be the case, ail is plain sailing. But suppose the house empty and Mr. Y. disappeared. Here the situation becomes difficult and delicate. Miss Elver went away to Switzer- land. She was a middle-aged spin- ster who had the appearance of being comfortably circumstanced. She went away, locked up her house and never came back. 'S'witzerland looked for her; the myrmidons of Mussolini, that hatefully efficient man, searched North Italy from Domodossola to Montecattini. And the search did not yield a thin -faced maiden lady with a slight squint. And then Mr. Charles Boyson Mid- dlekirk, an eccentric and overpower • ing old man who quarrelled with his neighbors about their noisy children, he too went away. He told nobody where he was going. He lived alone with his three cats and was not on speaking terms with anybody else. He did not return to his grimy house. He too was well off and reputedly a miser. So was Mrs. Athbell Mart- ing, a dour widow who lived with her drudge of a niece. This lady was in the habit of disappearing without any preliminary announcement of her intention. The niece was allowed to order from , the local tradesmen dust sufficient food to keep body and soul together, and when Mrs. Marting re- turned (as she invariably did) the bills were settled with a great deal of grumbling on the part of the payer, and that was that. It was believed that Mrs. Marting went to ::oulogne or to Paris or even to Brussels. But one day she went out and never came back. Six months later her niece ad- vertised for her, choosing the cheap- est papers -having an eye to the day of reckoning. "Queer sort of thing," said the Pub- lic Prosecutor, who had before him the dossiers of four people (three wo• men and a man) who had so vanisn- ed in three months. He frowned, pressed a bell and Mr. Reeder came in. Mr. Reeder took the chair that was indicated, looked owl- ishly over his glasses and shook his head as though he understood the reason for his summons and denied his understanding in advance. "What do you make of these dis- appearances?" asked his chief. "You cannot make any positive of a negative," said Mr. Reeder care- fully. "London is a large place ful' of strange, mad people who live such -um-commonplace lives that the wonder is that more of them do not disappear in order to do something different from what they are Accus- tomed to doing." "Have you seen these particulars?" Mr. Reeder nodded. "I have copies of them," he said "Mr. Salter very kindly " The Public" Prosecutor rubbed his head in perplexity. "I see nothing in these cases-noth ing in common, I mean. Four is a fairly low average for a big city----" "Twenty-seven in twelve months," interrupted his detective apologetic- ally. "Twenty -seven -are you sure?" The great official was astounded. Mr. Reeder nodded again. 43.7747* THE 6°NUGGIET" TIN OPENS WIT;;. TWI Marting. Beyond these points of re- semblance there was nothing to con• nett one with the other." The Prosecutor looked at him. sharply, but air. Reeder was never sarcastic. Not obviously so, at spay rate. "There is another point which I omitted to mention," he went on. "Af- ter their disappearance no further money came for. them. It came for Mrs. Matting when she was: away on her jaunts, but it ceased when she went away on her final journey." "But twenty -seven -are you sure." Mr. Reeder reeled of the list, giv- ing name, address and date of disap- pearance. "What do you think has happened to them?" Mr. Reeder considered for a mom- ent, staring glumly at the carpet. "I should imagine that they were murdered," he said, almost cheerfully and the Prosecutor half mse from his chair. "You are ing gayest a est mood this Y morning, 'Mr. Reeder," he said sae- donically. "Why on earth should they be murdered?" Mr. Reeder did not explain. The interview took place in the late af- ternoon, and he was anxious to be gone, for he had a tacit appointment to meet a young lady of exceeding charm who at five minutes after five would be waiting on the corner of Westminster Bridge and Thames Em- bankment for the Lee car. The sentimental qualities of Mr. Reeder were entirely unknown. There are those who say that his sorrow over those whom fate and ill -fortune brought into his punitive hands was the veriest hypocrisy. There were others who believed that he was gen- uinely pained to see a fellow -creature, sent behind bars through his efforts and evidence. His housekeeper, who thought he was a woman -hater, told her friends in confidence that he was a complete stranger to the tender emotions which enlighten and glorify humanity. In the ten years which she had sacri- ficed to his service he had displayed neither emotion nor tenderness ex- cept to inquire whether her sciatica was better or to express a wish tnat she should take a holiday by the sea. She was a woman beyond middle age, but there is no period of life where in a woman gives up hoping for the best. Though the most perfect of servants in all respects, she secretly despised him, called him, to her inti- mates, a frump, and suspected him of living apart from an ill-treated wife. This lady was a widow (as she had told him when he first engaged her) and she had seen better -far better -days. Her visible attitude towards Mr. Reeder was one of respect and awe. She excused the queer character of his callers and his low acquaintances. She forgave him his square -toed shoes and high, fiat -crowned hat, and even admired the ready-made Ascot cravat he wore and which was fastened be- hind the collar with a little buckle, the prongs of which invariably purc- tured his fingers when he fastened it. But there is a limit to all hero-wor- ship, and when she discovered that Mr. Reeder was in the habit of wait- ing to escort a young lady to town every day, and frequently found it convenient to escort her home, the limit was reached. "They were all people with a little money; all were drawing a fairly large income, which was paid to them in bank -notes on the first of every month -nineteen of them were at any rate. 1 have yet to verify eight -and they were all most retic- ent as to where their revenues mine from. None of them had any per- sonal friends or relatives who Were on terms of friendship, except lyra. (Continued next week) UNTOLD TREASURE LIES ON SEA BED of sand from the wreck; and bunt' into a barrier to divert the sena ow. rents; finally, they uncovered .ober wreck. A mass of cannon ball, rusted to- gether, then barred their way. They .> smashed through this, and found ons ball that had been in actual coditae?, with the gold. Then a storm ; iiovoe !them off -and buried, irretrievnbly, the wreck. The gold off the cannon ball weighed six grains.' Not always is it the storm, how- ever, that sets at naught the salvor'e efforts. The -bullion lying in the Lus- itania is a case in point. This great liner lies at a depth of forty fathoms off the Old Head of Kinsale. Eleven years of tide rip alndcor- rosion, to say nothing of the tremen- dous pressure of the water at that depth, will have reduced the once fine ship to a mass of tangled girders and grotesquely twisted platework. What staterooms are still whole will Rae the haunt of gigantic conger eels, andh t e breeding ground d of the loathsome hs me octopus. But shattered steel work and dan- ger from deep sea denizens would de- ter no diver worthy of the name. Dynamite can remove the stoutest ironwork, and there are means for the discouragement of the stoutest hearted of finnery foes. The trouble is .that men dare not go down because of the pressure. At half the depth at which the Lnsitania lies a man in ordinary diving dress would be called upon to bear the tre- mendous pressure of about 112,000 pounds, Under such stress no man could go down and live, let alone work. To cope with the pressure, special all -steel suits were constructed, and in these, because of the tremendous weight, divers were lowered over the side of the salvage ship by means of a crane, a special non -twisting cable' being attached to the helmet. Treasure has been accumulating on the sea bed since the ancient Carth- agenians sailed out to scour the then known world. Day in and day out men sail over treasure trove that would make them rich for life, anti the treasure may only be a matter of thirty, forty. or fifty fathoms be- neath their keel. It seems incredible that science should not yet have found a way to this treasure chamber. Armed with the newest and latest diving appar- atus, men periodically attempt to sal- vage the bullion of some famous wreck, but more often than not they return broken in heart and pocket. Once in a while, perhaps, ons suc- ceeds in wresting a treasure from the caverns of the deep, and, inspired by the news, others come forward to fill the gaps in the treasure seekers° ranks left by those who have fought and failed. In 1911 a British salvage oomparny attempted the salving of the Letfne LONDON AND WINGIHZAM North. Centralia Exeter email .ippen Brucefield Clinton Londesboro Blyth Belgrave ..... Wingham South. Wingham Belgrave Blyth Londeaboro Clinton Brucefield lippen Hensall Exeter Centralia mi.m. p.m. 10.36 6.52 10.49 ' 6.04 11.03 6.18 11.08 6.23 11.17 6.22 (1631 (165) 11.53 6.52 12.13 7.12 12.22 7.21 12.34 7.38 12.50 7.551 a5.ffi. 6.55 7.15 7.27 7.35 7.56 7.58 (162) 8.22 8.32 8.47 8.59 C. N. R. T11DIE TAELE Ikett. p.m. 3.05 3.26 3.34 3.47 4.10 4.28 (164) 4.35 4.48 5.05 5.17 Za.m, pony Goderich 6.20 2.20 i'olmnesville 6.36 2.87 Clinton 6.44 2.50 Seaforth 6.59 3.04 St. Columban 7.06 3.15 Dublin 7.11 2.22 Dublin St. Columban. Seaforth .... Clinton olmesville Goderich .... , West. a.m. p.m. gn.ame. 11.17 5.38 9.35 11.22 5.44 11.38 5.53 9.50 11.50 6.08-6.58 10.04 12.01 7.08 10.18 12.20 7.20 10.80 C. 1P. R. TIME TABLE Goderich Menet McGaw Auburn lyth Walton >Il[eNatight 7loron o Met. a.m. 6.000 Sa.aati 0.231 (1g.00 71.2/3 Toronto ;.LO Walton lti3.� treasure, held since 1'799�p in the 4y •Aanbwx of the treacherous Viieland ahoeis. me6s Por nine months they labored, and P"32 in that time sucked million® of tong eo„ask, 0 t 444444 ,..e G4, 4000 .0.44 0090040000,04.00',0