Show I The Mystery of the Hanoverian Coins AnEpisode in the careerof JamesFrazer one time Chief of Police of London COPYRIGHT ' " 1911 WOCHAPMAM BY " down constantly saying quite that be wlBhed to escape observation and also that rest and quiet were necessary for his work On the morning the newspaper picwas published the ture of Lamon Stepney landlady passed It over to her lodger and asked him If he did not think It was a remarkable case He looked at the picture Intently and also read the summarized' account before he replied: “No I don’t think there’s anything wonderful about It” “Goodness gracious Mr Park” she protested with the volubility of her class “I think It’s the most romantic thing I ever heard of In all my horn days” The engraver merely smiled “You needn't laugh” she ’’cried “Just Imagine a murderer being at large in the streets of London!” “There are many of them” he commented dryly “Yes but we may be' passing this Lamon on the street for all we know” “Quite likely" “And you don’t think it’s wonderblinds frankly 'f John been known to act foolishly under trytime In a retired merchant ing circumstances Chief Frazer recalled that the guilty residing at PreBtan Park who man in the famous Briggs murder had England Brighton been captured from the fact that his had been traveling abroad effaced photograph had been published in one was mysteriously Indeed this from lire earth He was of the London newspapers case resembled the Gold murder in on his way home and had taken a Mr exleading on the afternoon many of ltB aspects carriage carwas from a reachthrown train But Briggs the when railway tra'i press he was not in it riage and killed A hat that was left ed its destination And co stops had been made at way by the murderer contained a lining on stations! Ths railway guards said which was printed the name of a well ful!” that h was last seen somewhere be- - known English hatter This clue led He shook his head twen the Merstham and Balcombe to the discovery and arrest of the ‘'Only a clever criminal getting the a purculprit although It involved tunnels best of the stupid police” When the railway carriage arrived suit across the Atlantic ocean “They say murder will out" reThe chief felt that some similar clue at Preston Park a man who gave the marked the landlady sagely name of Lamon alighted and claimed might be found in the present believe it” retorted the "Don’t that be had been the victim of a mur- stance Accordingly he addressed him- engraver you “That’s one of those copy He said that there self to the work of a minute examina- bpok maxims that sounds well but it derous assault The were two other persons in the car- tion of the railway carriage won’t bear the test” riage with him one of whom was dis- first discovery exceeded his fondest "But this fellow — this Lamon — will coins Two Hanoverian They had expectations guised as a countryman be caught sooner or later?” sub- were picked up from the floor of the talked together on indifferent “Why?” a was vehicle entered when but That the the train good starting jects "Well will be on the everybody A detective was next sent to Merstham tunnel some one had fired point lookout for him after this publication” where Lamon reLamon said that before he the neighborhood a pistol The lodger threw his napkin aside In that secknew what was going on some one sided Every with a gesture of dissent struck him on the head and he fell tion was subjected to a severe “He’ll be safer now than ever” he He averred Most of them knew the said “he’ll senseless on the floor be on his guard” 'that he remained In this condition un- man but said that he had not made “You talk as If you knew him” A young til Just before the train reached Pres- any recent purchases confided to her “and “I in a grocery clerk store how- from do” he ton when he recovered consciousness my knowledge of the man he only to find himself alone in the car- ever said that he had talked with La- will not let the police get him” before mon two only days riage That afternoon the landlady met a “What did he want?” asked the deHis appearance bore outvhis story friend who was a policeman and reHe had lost his tective He seemed dazed conversation she had had the peated “He came here and bought a quancollar and tie and from the appearwith her lodger at the breakfast table ance of his clothing these articles tity of tinned goods" was the re- The policeman In turn reported It to bad been torn forcibly from his per- ply his official superior and before “How did he pay for them?” son The ticket taker at Preston hours had elapsed Mr Park “In gold" Park said that Lamon was very emengraver was being shadowed by one “How do you remember this?” phatic in his denunciation of the railof Mr James Frazer’s plain clothes Aft“Because it is so unusual sir The agent also noticed way company men But he stood the test well He that the end of a watch chain was er he had finished selecting his goods came and went silently but there was hanging from the boot of the Injured he handed me two Hanoverian coins nothing in his daily life that did not man saying with a laugh that he didn’t supseem to stand the severest scrutiny The police offerd to accompany the pose we would object to that sort of The Becretive lodger had a work man to his home where they might money We didn’t We took them bench In his room supplied with tools get his deposition He said he resided for gold and he was given 13s 6d in and at times he could he seen at work at Croyden and that it was not neces- change" with a green shade pulled down over in bis The toils were now closing sary for them to go with him They Once or twice the man who eyes When Mr Gold was was insisted however and he went to a around Lamon shadowing him lost the trail but discovered dead it was ' found that as the shadowed one girl’s boarding school at that place promptly reaphis He his watch relatives asked had disappeared by managed together peared no great significance was atto go into the houBe to with about $200 In money which he tached permission to these temporary lapses The police grant- had collected in London that morning change his clothes One day Chief Frazer learned that a ed this request and while waiting for as dividends on some stock he owned stranger had been seen In the vicinity At Several persons were found who were of him strolled about the grounds Preston Park Brighton making Inthe end of 15 minutes they regretted willing to swear that they had seen quiries concerning the Gold murder The unknown person asked all sorts of questions and was particularly anxious to know the whereabouts of the ladies who kept the girls’ boarding school near Croyden This It will he recalled was the place where Lamon had gone directly after leaving the train and whence on the plea of changing bis clothes he had made his It so happened that the escape school was closed for the short holiThe pupils were at their homes day and the ladies in charge were spending a few days in London There was great consternation the following day when It was learned that someone had entered the school The thief had broken open a side window and after ransacking a number of rooms had escaped by the rear door Drawers had been pulled out of their places and the contents thrown about the floor But the amazing feature of it all was the fact that At least nothing had been stolen The that was the assertion of the ladies their generosity and went inside to the watch in Lamon’s possession seek their man Dut he had gone man was very bold for he left a per- and they were In a position to know His relatives — who were very distant fect trail of gold along the shops what they were talking about They s where he had spent the money But were maiden ladles and very precise ones— had no knowledge of his He told them he had to see a when the police came to the grocery and systematic in their habits They doctor at once and then had quickly if store it was as though they had had a little book which contained a reached the end of a blind alley No list of every article In the house somewhat disappeared discourteously This not school the the fellow of his entrance a rear Included or trace further of the only furniture through but also every ornament money could be obtained building every book and every particular article of wearThe officers returned to Brighton It has been said that there is no Here fresh ing apparel They made a careful sur very much chagrined place in the world where a man can vey of the establishment and very startling information await- lose his and found more Identity thoroughly everything Intact Thus but for the It was announced that Mr than in the ed them Lamon city of London and the Inconvenience of havHis had John Gold had been murdered as fright as completely disappeared ing their property body had been found on tbs ground though he had been swallowed disarranged no up by been done near the line of the railway within the earth Not only the city police damage had the Balcombe tunnel The physicians but also the detectives from Scotland TheThe police were at their wits’ ends who examined the corpse said that Yard were was bad murder but this enough orders to look out useless housebreaking— death bad been caused by a fracture of for Lamon given after to their official day went by minds — seemed worse the skull The theory was that he had and they had Day their labor It was sugfor their only been first shot by some one in the pains gestive of the supernatural It got on A photograph of Lamon was their car and that after a struggle had been now But Chief Frazer In his in one of the dally Londonnerves published office was thinking and prethrown from the train thus receiving with the announcement newspapers to The act the wound which caused his death paring day after the that he was wanted the police second scare at James Frazer' the chief of police of With this was given abybrief Croyden he sent for a account trusted London officer and gave him minute gave the case his careful atof the murder of Gold Instructions tention He realized from experience At this time there lived in a StepThat morning a plain clothes man that there were no problems more difficult to solve than these mysteries of ney lodging an engraver of the name called at the Stepney lodgings and But he was also of Park He wrs quiet and retiring in asked for Mr Park railway carriages manner his and seemed to have no "I’m sorry” said the loquacious aware that the merest trifle sometimes points the way to the guilty man The desire to mix with the other lodg- lady “but he’s gone to town” “Then I’ll wait” finger of suspicion in this case point- ers He was greatly esteemed by his The landlady was delighted— and ed very strongly to Lamon but up to landlady not only because he was regHite time Frazer was called in it was ular in his habits but also (more Im- more talkative than usual She gave His flight was portant) because he was regular in the visitor many details concerning merely conjectur9 against him but Innocent men have payment for his lodgings He kept his the dally life of Mr Park She was OMB Golf 1881 ' especially Impressive concerning the of her lodger snd even consented to let the visitor take a peep into the sanctum sanctorum “Oh” he murmured with a satisfaction that could not be concealed ‘It’s just as I thought” This emboldened the landlady “Might I ask why you wanted to see Mr Park?” “Certainly” retorted the obliging caller “I want him to tell me wbat he knows about the murder of Mr Gold” At this point In the conversation Mr Park came Into the house ‘‘My friend” said the officer without “I want ou to help any ceremony me to arrest the murderer of John Gold” The lodger smiled showing a set of shining teeth “My dear sir” he replied “your request is preposterous!” “Not so much as you think” “Let me see the laughed the officer Mr Park backs of your hands” thrust his hands out unthinkingly and moment a pair of handcuffs the next had been slipped on his unresisting wrists Mr Lamon alias Mr Park alias many other names" had come to the end of his string ' Some contend that it waB caused by his second foolish visit to the Croyden house whence he went to secure some of the booty he had concealed on his first call Others — and they are in the majority — lay it to his Imprudence in leaving the two Hanoverian coins on the floor of the railway carriage workshop MAN No AND WIFE ARE Other 8uch Unity Between Persona— Home Impossible Either One Alone ONE Two to (Copyrighted by J S Klrtley) Ideally speaking a man and his wife are one actually they may be no more one than they always were Marriage was designed to make them one is capable of doing so and will the' stupendous actually accomplish task unless at least one of them is so abnormal as to be incapable of going Into the unifying process or is unwilling to pay the price of such a deIn that case sirable consummation unity Is impossible and marriage itself is the most hideous of human abnor- malities Whatever the exceptions to that law of the wedded life whatever the serious violations of it we all know that its' profound purpose is to take two and make them one The poets have sung of that unity we all dream of it in our higher aspirations the Book of It true the Man of books declares men affirmed it with almost tragic earnestness the whole world considers them one for its laws unite them in legal unity and publicly and privately they are embraced in the same Judgment What is perhaps equally interesting to us is the fact that every informed person knows many instances that prove the claim true There is no other such unity between two persons It is the one sublime instance of the unification of life its Ideals its Interests its alms and its activities Of course no one can shut his eyes to the fact that some marriages are union never a a only unity and the number of them Is all too large Whether such Is due to the abnormal character of one or both of the parties to the marriage or to the unwillingness of one or both to promote that unity such marriage to adopt the words of Talleyrand Is worse than a crime it is a blunder It seems a pity that those who are foredoomed to make a wreck of marriage for either of the reasons given cannot be restrained from the tragic step But once the step is taken there 1b no release of the worthy one from any of the responsibilities of the vows voluntarily taken and there is nothing to do but to cultivate all the virtues they both need and supply to the delinquent what is lacking A great power will come from such a discipline and from such altruism In time the effect of the example may be felt as a new nucleating point is found for common interests and activities and at last a unifying process started That Is a kind of triumph no one is ambitious for but as the alternative of utter disintegration it will be a heroic achievement We get clearer Idea of the nature of this unity from the Incompleteness of either the man or woman alone— "useless each without the other” Each is a fraction vexed with the pain incompleteness till they combine to form an integer each restless and homeless till they unite In making a home That something which we call borne Is Impossible to either one alone Each knows that the other Is necessary to complete the life To be sure there are great souls who seem providentially called on to render service to mankind which can only be done by sacrificing home and those fellowships that are to be found In the married life In that list we place the Incomparable Paul and many noble women like Florence Nightingale and Mary Lyons and Jane Addams and Clara Barton Perhaps we may write and Beethoven in that Mlchaelangelo list And we all acknowledge love as the adequate “melting pot” In which the reconstruction can take place Given of men and then the incompleteness women without each other and love as the universal solvent and unifier and the unity to which they are Invited Is not only a necessity but a fascination But there are two other facts that should give the aspirant for such life a salutary pause One is that not every one of the fractions that seem available to him or her is capable of uniting with him or her in the formation of an integer Both may be such large fractions that they will together foot up more than' one or so smay they will only be another fraction or one will be bo small a fraction as to furnish too little to the sum total to win any notice at all or one may beto the class of long so irretrievably irregular or defective or vulgar fractions as to vitiate the whole result The other fact is that when one unites with another to form that' integer that is only the beginning and unification must be made the one great business of the two to be studied and planned for and canted forward with the wisdom and skill and determination required in the greatest enterprise ever undertaken by two human beings Railroading and bookkeeping and shoemaking are sinecures beside this Mutual assimilation is difficult enough even though that is what Mature has arranged for and assists in but when special differences in temperament and training and tastes have to be reckoned with the process is Besides there still more complex are so many things that make for disintegration it keeps two people watch— so many outside ining all the time terests Boclal and recreational and that there are apt to be professional two struggling fractions in the home Instead of a growing and triumphant integer One and one never equal one unless they both intend to have it so Each must take over the other’s interests and liabilities foibles and faults strength and weakness virtues and vices each to appropriate and approve the virtues of the other as if they were his own each to bear with and overcome the faults of the other ns if he were dealing with his own faults That excludes fault finding Two are required to perfect that mutual life One may put in his whole time In Integrating work but if the other is engaged in the disintegrating business it will be a failure Before marriage there may have been external attractions like music or a dash of the heroic or an Interest in the money Involved and the mask be laid off afterward revealing the demon or the skeleton It only makes for the Innocent one a greater task but his only hope is In the awakening of the dere- lict Nor can there be unity when either one is the “One” and the other nothing The accord of two even though it take time to produce it is required rather than the complete dominance of one There are spheres in which in each one is to be completely charge there is a sphere in which everything is mutual Both wills- and hearts must be preserved entire One a tyrant and the other a slave — that is not unity A deliberate choice of all the things they can have and think about and do in common confidence in and confidences with each other are necessary will promote that unity to assume it always whether it has yet reached Its ideal stage or not before the world for the sake of all concerned before the children for the sake of all the members of the family The radical expression of disharmony in their presence is a sign of hopeless which of out Love the disintegration unity first began to gniw will accu- At mulate all strength and sweetness first they loved each o:h-- for what was to come now they love for their common toils and sufferings qud t"eqi It urea ' |