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KNIKKING DRAMLE OF THE COURTS.
MURDER OF MYNİKAY.
An Ex-Official of Scotland Yard wirtes in Reynold & Newspaper S
Nearly forty years ago all Europe was excitedly discussing: a murder
But Armand Peltzer smiled as obliged to fly, realising the danger of Arrest and the difficulty I should have, crimmdly at this new evidence in Mas abs with him at the time, ariseinating his brother as at that of establing my innocence of caus-directed previously against himself. ing his death
And to show that he had good cause This strange letter the coroner at to smile, he produced a letter written once handed to the police, with the to him by his brother from St. Louis result that a few hours later, M. Barr on the very day of M. Bernay's dis- the Royal Procurator, and two detec appearance, thus proving, so he de tives presented themselves at No. clard, that Leon was more than three 159, Rue de la Loi, to find that it was thousand miles away from Belgium
which in its mystery, its romance, unoccupied, its tenant, Mr. Vaughan, at the time the tragedy took place.
LINKS IN THE GRATS. and baffing complexity outstripped a wealthy shipowner, as they were
The police, however, were not the most imaghative flights of fiction, informed, being absens on his travels. and which has had no piral in the They obtained admission to his house inclined to accept such bland atsir annals of crime. Who was Henry by breaking a windows and entering ances. Their conviction grew that not Vaughan, the mysterious shipowner, one of the two rooms on the ground only Armand, but his brother, knew who on his own confession had been floor, discovered the body of the miss an eye-witness of the victim's death; ing lawyer seated in an armchai
On table in front of the dead mau and what had become of him Sach
were five pistols, a sixth, the fatal weapon, lay on the four near his feat In the draws of a desk they found number of receipted hater bills, ranging from Brussels to Antwerp and Bremen, and also the cards of a number of putxinent Belgian lawyers.
were the questions that passed from Hips to hips in every country of Europe, and to which no answer was forth. coming until, when even the most sanguine had begun to despair of a solution, Henry Vanghan was at last run to earth with a detective skill and a dogged tenacity which won the aduration of the world.
The curtain rose on this amazing crime drams with the announcement
WHO WAS THE WRITER.
more of the secret of the lawyer's death than anyone else, and they redoubled their efforts to bring their gailt home to them. Link by link, with infinite skill and perseverance, they forged the chain of evidence which was to bring them to their doom.
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They discovered that, on the 10th of November, a passenger named Prélat had landed at Liverpool from the Atlantic liner "Arizons," whose It was thus clear that M. Bernays description strongly resembled that "ALL RED” CABLE ROUTE. had come to a tragic end. But who of Leon Feltzer. And that the same was the mysterious Afr. Vaughan, the man, now masquerading as Louis
Step by step they tracked Prélat, aliss Marco, through rations disguises and assumed names.
"
In Paris he had been seen more than
GERMANS FOILED AT PARNING ISLÄND.
The story of the building up of an "All Red" cable route--one of the
SPORT.
LAWN TEENIS.
T
HE.C.C. TOURNAMENT.
Only one tomament match, in connection with the Handicap achievements of the war of which little Doubles, was played on the stand has been heard-was told in a paper court of the Hongkong Cricket Club read to the London Telegraph and resterday, afternoon, when J. B. Penman and A.D. Humphreys met Telephone Society by Mr. A. Avery, J. R. Wood and G. R. Sayer in a close
The route taken by the "All Red "
THE QUEST OF MOHAMMED'S passed, and he had neither returned of the businesi men in the city, and he had visited a theatrical costumier route, said Mr. Avery, was from London W for the former pair in dires
SACRED SLIPPER SERIES.
VI-A DISC OF LIGHT.
BY ALIE ROHMER.
(Continued from yesterday.)
(COPYRIGHT, 1917.)
All the cunning of the Hashishin, the acheming of the sombrern man, and the alertness of Scotland Yard meet in prosaic old Fleet street, where the then- sands past with no thought of the grim tragedy being enacted in their midst.
Again I doubted the wisdom of
Bristol's plan. Had I not fied to the
of him.
sccent.
struggle which resulted ultimately in straight sets, by 22 games to 15.
-Result: Match to Penman and Humphreys, 3-7, 7-5, 6-3
THE CHINESE INTERPORT
HONGKONG WINS DOUBLES.
in an Antwerp newsusper on Jannary writer of the letter which had led to Marco, had arrived at the Hotel da 14, 1882, of the disappearance of the discovery, who although he pro-Nord, Paris, on the following day, Monsieur Guillaume Bernay, one of fessed innocence of any part in his the City's best-known lawyers death, confessed that he had run Benays, so the report ran, had left away to escape arrest, realising that Antwerp by the 9.30 am express circumstances pointed to his guilt? train for Brussels. He had been Enquiries soon established that, who once in the company of a man who, seas to enter the train at Antwerp, ever he was, he had made no conceal if not Armand Peltzer, was at least and to leave it at Schaerbeck, and ment whatever about himself or his his double and under the name of and to leave it at he had variated business. He bad come to Brussels Vibert he had bought several revolvers as completely as if the earth had to establish a new steamship company. from a gunmaker named Ducante swallowed him. Several days had He was known personally to many Masquerading next as Alfred Kranss, home nor been seen at Brussels; and also to several tradesman, who all and had purchased a black wig and to Halifax, by direct working, through his relatives and friends were utterly spoke of him as frank, pleasant, and various paints and dres, and, thas at a loss to imagine what had become gentlemanly, with the air of a pro-effectually disguised, he had travelled automatic repeaters at Penzance and sperous business man. He was of to Brussels, where he had taken the Fayal in mid-Atlantic; Halifax to "M. Bernays," the report in the middle height, with long black hair house, No. 159 Rue la Loi, as Mr. Bamfield, in Vancouver, by Wheastone duplex through right automatic, re- less than a foot removed from my lace. Antwerp "Precurseur concluded, and black moustache, who spoke Henry Vaughan, a shipowner. That I had my revolver in my pocket Jew by birth, became a convert French without a trace of foreign Having thus, as he naturally pesters, being direct working across thought, concealed his tracks and Canada; thence to Fanning Island, a could avail me nothing, for in my poc- to Catholicism, and has latterly er
When M. Berré, on his return to masked his identity beyond detection, small island on coral in the middle of
At the C.P.C. yesterday afternoon ket it must remain, since I dared tohibited a certain leaning towards the make no more to reach it under cover religious life. It is conjectured that Antwerp, asked Peltzer if he knew "Mr. Vanghan" proceeded to put the Facific. From Bamfield to Fann- of that unfamiliar, terrible wespon
The black eyes of Hassan glared he may possibly have joined some anything of this mysterious Mr. his clever and diabolical plan to ing was the longest single stretch of the Chinese Lawn Tennis Interport monastic order under an assumed Vaughan of Brussels, he answered execution. In his character as a rich ocean cable in the world. The next between Hongkong and the Straits, emphatically, "No, I know nothing shipowner about to establish an in-step was from Fanning to Surs, in concluded will a doubles match in insanely into mine.“
"You will have placed them in your
whatever of any man of that name portant line of steamers, he wrote to Fiji, and then the route was via which Ng Sze Kwong and W. Lok Wei ** Take it out; pocket-case," he said.
Further inquiry revealed the follow- or description." And when Madame. Bernays, who had made no little Norfolk Island to Auckland (New (Hongkong) were opposed to Chesh hand it to me !"
I obeyed; for what else could I doing facts About ten years earlier M. Bernays, the dead man's widow, reputation as a commercial lawyer, Zealand), and thence to Sydney, with Keng Tye and Ching Ab Ming (Straits). fine form, outgeneralled their appon- Taking the case from my pocket. I Bernays had married a beautiful girl, begged him with tears in her eyes, to requesting his assistance to form the an alternative route from Norfolk to The Hongkong players who were in
daughter of a well-to-do Antwerp swear that he knew nothing of Henry proposed company, whose capital was Southports, near Brisbane.
ents and won the match easily in two placed it in his lean brown hand.
An expression of wild exaltation merchant. A year later he had in Vaughan, he swore a solemn cath to be 12 mihion francs. "I shall,” he wrote, "require it to be posted up in
straight sets, 6-1, 6-2 The visitats crossed his features; the eagle eyes troduced to his home one of his that he had no knowledge of him. seemed to be barning into my brain clients, a M. Armand Peltzera tall, Probably never have the police been all the Belgian legislation relating to
played a very sporting game through- from which the local playmetrofited A puff of hot vapear struck me in the handsome man of charming marners, faced by a more difficult task than the formation of such a company.
out but they made many mistakes considerably. The Hongkong men face-something was expelled from who had quickly established himself that of running to earth the fugitive Could you, therefore, favour me with the mysterious black tube. And with on an intimate footing in his family. shipowner, who alone seemed to know a visit here on Friday or Saturday memories crowding to my mind of This friendship had lasted until a few the secret of M. Bernay's death; Let me call your attention to the fact the cable station. They overhauled were deadly accurate, od giving stretching themselves, to any great similar experiences at the hands of months before the disappearance, and with what cleverness and patience that my house is only's few yards everything and discovered the pincething away, won the match without the hashishin, I fell back, clutching at
which was destroyed. The attiger in charge of the statin, however, showed to moczow, will be given a farewell® resource. Next morning, by means of dinner to-night.
zame.
THE WIFE AND THE VISITOR.
Fanning Laland was one of the first cable points to be attacked by the German Fleet. One day near the outbreak of the war a German cruiser, accompanied by a collier, landed a party, which smashed everything at
sufficiently evident and while I could my throat, fighting for my life against when M. Bernays, alarmed by Peltzer's they discharged, it this story will from the station" This mnocent and of concealment of the duplicate plant, extent. The Straits players who leave
Astoria to escape from the dangerous solitude of my rooms? That he was laying some trap for the hashishin was not justly suspect him of making a pawn of me I was quite unable to find any other explanation of this latest
move.
the deadly, vaporous thing that, like
maded attentions to his wife and her prove. Their first step was to scatter tempting invitation the lawyer accept growing infatuation for him, was broadcast throughout Europe aed, and thus started on the journey to obliged to ask him to cease to visit minute description of him, with a Brussels which was to have such his house since," as be explained, facsimile of one of his letters, and to tragic termination.
your presence in my house is the cause of insulting. gossip about Madame."
WALKED TO HIS DEATH.
a
SUPERSTITIONS.
BABY'S TOOTH.
All old-time nurses and mothers
a palpable cloud, surrounded me
& pickare, which he used as a grapnel, then a curtain of darkness descended.
he picked up the ends of the broken 1 experienced a violent blow upon the
When he presented himself at No. cable. Improvising a wooden raft, forehead (I suppose I had pitched for
offer a reward of 25,000 francs for Bat, although many persons came 159 Rue de la Loi he was admitted to which he anchored, he fastened to it I was torn between conflicting ward) and for the time resigned my
information landing to his arrest. doubts. I glanced at my watch part in the drama of the sacred slip-
In the light of this story of betrayed forward with the information that the house by Henry Vaughan, now the broken cable ends and made a Yes! There was just time for me to per
At about 5 o'clock that afternoon, trust it was only natural that they had met the man, no shred of disguised as a man servant. He hung through connection with a piece of revisit the bank before joining Bristol at my chambers 1.1 hesitated. After Inspector Bristol, who had spent sev- Peltzer, the man who had been for-evidence was forthcoming as to his up his hat and coat in the passage and covered copper. He then constructed
when a child lost its first milk tooth all, in what possible way could iteral toms in Sebe upon the scene of bidden to enter the lawyer's house, present whereabouts. The only was ushered towards the back study.aprimitive telegraph set, and got into
that the tooth should be burned in jeopardize his plans for me merely to the murder of the Greek, was walking should be suspected of having had a sistance the police received was ex. The portier: aser the door was fixed communication with Suws and made in the rural districts were very careful
along Fleet Street, bound for the hand in his disappearance. And it dence that he wore a wig and that his very low, so that he was obliged to known his plight.
Mr. Avery described the laying of a the fire; for it were thrown away and pretend to bring the keys?
"Hang it all!" I said, and jumped offices of the Report. As he passed soon began to be broadly hinted that black moustache was dyed-thus sug- bend his head to pass under it. In so
deenshire coast, to Alexandrovsk, a Those maddening con- the court on the corner of which stands 31. Bernays had been made away with gesting that Henry Vaughan was doing the vital point at the back of the cable from Peterhead, on the Aber-a dog happened to get hold of it the to my feet.
child would have a "dog's tooth” This was the moment which the small town on the shore of an inlet of jectures will turn my brain: I'll let a branch of the London County and by the man who had supplanted him asquerading in a character not his neck was exposed. matters stand as they are, and risk Provincial bank his eye was attracted in his wife's affection. But at such own.
disguised servant, holding up the the White Sea, a tax-time operation grow in its place when the new teeth came. Inquiry reveals this supersti to a curious phenomenon. the consequences !”
Thus month after month passed portiere with his left hand, had plotted accomplished with great secrecy. The ion to still be surprisingly common resumption of trade with Russia, he even among people who ought to Quick as Eghtning his right hand said, would now bring the cable into know better. But its absurdity is without disclosing any trace of the and schemed to reach. runaway; and meanwhile the original from the corner. A fixy beam of light of the day on which the lawyer had suspicion that Armand Peltzer was went up. There was a flash, a guff full commercial use. The linking up equaled by its antiquity, and our through which streamed many busy shone from the bank window on the disappeared, and that thus he could in some way connected with the of smoke, a mufled report. Almost of the "All Red" route was also the barbarian ancestors regarded it as a Atlantic cables from Emden 'to New It works by" contagious magic""' workers, I told myself that to dread reflector, or from the reflector on the not possibly have had any personal tragedy began to raise its head again. simultaneously Guillaume Bernays result of the war. One of the Germs perfectly reasonable proposition.
police, had a ne'er-do-well brother, Less than an hour later the "ser-York was cut m the English Channel entering my own chambers at high Window; which circumstance in itself part in the mystery.
Yet I did was not curious. But above the re-
Thus a few more days passed with- Leon, who had been in business at vart," whom nobody hat the dead and taken into Penzance. The distant upon the principle that what has been dread doing so! And as I mounted the stair and came to the landing, terious beam was seemingly projected out throwing the least light on the Antwerp, and who had a highly dis man had ever seen, was sitting in send was picked up on the other side part of a man retains, though dis upward. Walking a little way up the problem, until on the 18th, the creditable history. He had been railway carriage, en route-for his of the Atlantic, about 300 knots added severed from him, a magical sympathy which was always more or less are court he saw that it shone through, Antwerp coroner received a letter, often seen in Brussels during the weeks native Germany, where he was quite to it, and taken into Halifax (Nova with his person and what happers. Scotia). The "All Red" cable had to it will happen to him. This is I paused for quite a long time before and cast a disc of light upon the ceil- signed "Henry Vaughan," which preceding the tragedy; and those at home and could hide at his ease. putting the key in the lock.
ing of an office on the first Boor of threw a startling and unexpected light who had seen his handwriting declared Such was the story of this amazing had good fortune in the matter of and most indestructible part of a Bank Chambers, above.
on it. In this letter the writer, after that it strongly resembled that of and cleverly planned crime as built interruptions on the whole.
I hesitated no longer, but passed out from the hotel and once more turned my steps in the direction of
Fleet Street.
As I passed in under the arch
roon was utterly chikish.
As I closed the door behind me.
something. -probably a slight noise, but possibly something more subtle and festince-made me torn rapidly.
There facing me stood Hassan To! Aleppo!
That moment was pungent with drama. In the intense hash of the
There are reflectors above the bank suspicion Peitzer merely smiled. He windows which face the court; and it was able to prove to the police, who appeared to Bristol that there was a had now taken the affair in band, that hole in one of these, the furthermost he was in Antwerp during the whole
Bector, at an acute angle, this mys
A STRANGE LETTER.
A NEW LINE.
Peltzer, it was discovered by the pitched forward on his face.
It is every detective's business to declaring that his conscience would "Henry Vaughan's" letter to the up by the Antwerp detectives, and be observant; and although many not allow him to keep silent any coroner. Was it not possible, the supplemented by Ister revelations, thousands of passers-by must have
cast their eyes in the same direction longer on the subject, continued: "If suspicion began to grow, that, al- and on which warrants were issued for
десеваату
especially true of teeth, the hardest
man. Young children were always regarded as being particularly suscep- tible to magical influences of all sorts. had supplied Therefore if a dog gnawi "the cast Funds. The milk tooth of a child a contagion is
that day, there is small-matter for the police will go to my house, No. though Armand took no personal the arrest of Armand and Leon throughout, and wonder in the fact that Bristol alone 159, Rue de la Loi, in Brussels, they part in the lawyer's death, he might Peltzer. Armand's arrest was prompt the lock the trouble to inquire into the will find the dead body of M. Bemays, have employed his unscrupulously effected; for, ignorant of the net evidence was conchisive, and both set up and the tooth which grows, in next five seconds I could fancy that mystery-for his trained eye told him whose sad and tragic and happened brother, to murder, the man who had of evidence that was being drawn brothers were sentenced to the death its place is a "dog-tooth. Many thus. Eight, days ago M. Bernays, insulted him by closing his door around him, he had made no effort to they so.well merited, Armand carrying an old woman can paint to "dog- escape. Leon, however, who seems an insolent and defiant attitude to the toothed" neighbor as proof of this. the world, has slipped away from me that there was a mystery here.
He walked down the court and into by my invitation, came to Brassels against him? and that I was become an unsubstan- tial thing of dreams. Hassan of Alep the entrance of Bank Chambers. Ar to see me on certain matters of bui- Evidence, too, had been growing to have got wind of his danger, success last. When asked by the judge if he The superstition appears to be un- po appalled me; and now, with my inspection of the board upon the wall--ness connected with shipping, in that Henry Vaughan was not an fully eluded capture for two months: had anything to say why sentence of iversal and in some countries the cast
daughter's curses on the jury who belief that if they do back to the door, I stood watching showed him that the first floor ap which I am interested. During the Englishman, as he professed to be then, foolishly returning to Brussels, death should not be passed on him, he milk teeth are deliberately placed
have condemned me, an innocent new teeth will be an efrong and him, and watching the ominous blackparently was occupied by three firms, interview his attention was drawn to Whoever he was he was cleady" play he, too, found the handcuffs on his exclaimed, melodramatically, "My where fats can get at them in the
It two of them legal, for this is the some pistols which I had on my desk ing a part, for among several witnesses write,
as the thodent's tube which he held in his hand. was a weapon unknown to Europe and neighbourhood of the law courts and and which he saked my permission whose statements supported this
THE FRUIT SEASON. therefore more feared than the inost the third a press agency. He stepped to examine. He was handling one of theory, a porter at the Hotel Britanni- At the trial which followed, and man!"
OWEL Complaint li up-to-date of death-dealing instru-up to the first Boor. Past the doors them when he must have accidentally que declared that Vaughan spoke which excited the greatest interest In such dramatic fashion was the bearing the names of the solicitors pressed the bigger The Weapon English with a strong French accent, from end to end of Europe, Lead curtain rang down on a drams, which, Hassan of Aleppo pointed it toward and past that belonging to the press to my horror, went off and the bullet, while a hatter, when one of Vaughan's sought to save himself by making a for cleverness of conception and execu
agent he proceeded, to a lourth suite of offices. Here, pinned upon the entering his neck, killed him in hats, found at No 159, Rue de la Lei full confession, declaring that he had tion, and for its mystery, as well as door-frame, appeared card which stantly. This tragic event so unnerv was shown to him, declared positively been merely the tool of his clever and for the marvellous detective skill: ed and siarmed me that although I that its owner was certainly not an unscrupulous brother, who had displayed, has probably no val in the
planned and conducted the plot history of came bore the legend.
had no part whatever in it, I felt Englishman. (To be conllayed.)
ments.
me.
"The keys, ellerdi," he said
"hand me the keys!".
He advanced step; his manner wis imperious. The black tube was
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