Show Pariet S S Mr M I to k kep ep a. a on th the second hoer floor of eC Mr house is 1 athi Dundee cub detective a. a lets Police Emir former boarder whom accused ot ber Is S SS S Cora Barker theatre pianist thought to biTe hav had bed an affair with la Ia arrested IS but Is out on Other boarders under are II KenT nry Do DoWd Walter Stylea near QUarreled wall iMra amateur scenario writer and Dalry Dundee learnS from papers in trunk th t th Sally Gra wrote month was cas and that she aJie lived In dread ot Sallye calir's husband Dan ht for lor clement of Sally tUya murder Ini In Km New Tork June 2 he concludes murdered both Cornea h he Is or baa been in the house S Anold rail ld et Dowde nam on It It showing h left w Ne-w York Tork Jun C lon Dowd captured to lob ob the oman old woman Saturday night saing h lie climbed to to her room found her dead and Cora Cor In her deak Cora Cars Is found dead be between be tween 1 2 o'clock mornIn morn morn- In Jog with her own braids Sorter la Is accused ac cUd of or both crimes DUndee be Griffin lo mIe le of his Iila handwriting from rein Belton where he wanted for theft S SoW oW GO J 4 CHAPTER Th inquest Into the death of at Mrs drs and was yas being held in the small funeral parlor of the city morgue Chairs had been placed upon able foot o space but only a a. a fraction frac- frac tion mob which had been milling about the doors pf of the morgue morning had been able to obtain seats seath Around one ine large table sat Coroner Cotoner Cot Cor oner PrIce andr his Jury if f six citi zens Around another representatives of the four men women three f fear a- a tur a. At Atone one bf Of the press table was was' a wn staff StaW writer from the most Chicago paper pap r looking aloof and slightly His Ris published ac account account count 1 jf the however bore not the faintest trace Side behind the the r- r table were svere two one be e a. a mend mouri- bulk bulk- other burden so no slight tha t the i sheet wa mattres Jh Iii spite of j rear rief whIch like a- a Bonnie Dundee novice detective found himself becoming ea vy and even bored He had been able to snatch less than two fitful sleep after his Interview with Lieutenant Strawn but that i nap had deprived of luncheon And he had not the temerity in trude his his' heeds eds upon his hostess when he the stairs an hour jt was tithe to leave for r the inq inquest esL He had found In her hr sitting bed room at heV desk her fine figure stiffly its confining con con- confining fining corsets tiie hard tears ear of pf gref and steadily her S I At sympathetic had ans d I never thought seethe the d day y when my guests wo would be forced by fear of arrest to stay in a 5 S Dundee echoed S. S Yes arrest Sirs Mrs bitterly That Strawn o youra called folks fIks together in in- inthe the vp parlor lor after a and told them were they here he gave gar them the word they leave Said Bald if anybody tried to hed put him or her under arrest arrests as witness Nearly scared death he did if poor Cora eTt ar a material a-material witness sh dead now S But Dundee sympathized and mentally deplored liis' liis chiEm chiefs chiE m method thod of witnesses wit fl nesses under one roof grate grate- fuLfor the Tor he a a stubborn conviction Hogarth Hogarth Ho Ho- garth case and the ho Cora Barker c case e be today For an hour and a a- a now iad listened to the taking of test test- mony Mrs Mm Rhodes had been called upon to identify bath bodies a shiver of horror running through the morbid audience as as the landlady bent first over over one stretcher and then the other as aA Coroner Price lifted tho sheet to disclose th the dead face beneath Witness after witness had been briefly but thoroughly questioned b by Dr Price himself had given liis testimony a as to the cause of death eath and tiie at which Out but Dundee had long since made a a. a complete is liis own wn notes floten taken from froni behind the screen In Hogarth's room tho as in- in ro tes of Rhodes Rhodes' house had been hours of 91 thai morning g the first notes hand in by the the investigation made from young Breden tes of Inga In inquiry by ly Sergeant Turner Into Cora Cort Barker death C Coroner ron r Price questioned his a a. swiftness arid which w won n Dundee's admiration As Lieutenant Strawn had man nian The Te young detective sUll sat eat among the witnesses all inmates of ot she the the- Rhodes House except ex- ex Dr Dr The stories stones now tallied remarkably wen well with the stories told originally Not ot even Henry D DOwd wd varied tes for at Dundee's urgent request request re- re quest the coroner Iliad not been taken into the of the police on the subject subject- of Dowda Dods And none but Sergeant Turner and Lieutenant Strawn knew that Henry Dowd had purchased d' d a In New York on June Tuno 2 Z for Chi Chicago M cago For the murder o of Sally Graves and the relationship between the New York Tork girl and the Hamil ton women who had been murdered were not to be upon at the th inquest Dundee himself had been been- one of ot the first to be called before the tho cor cor- jury for it waa ho who discovered Mrs Hogarth's body The fact that he together with Detec- Detec had also discovered Cora was skillfully omitted omit omit- ted from Dr Prices Price's questioning of the young detective And where were you between 1 and 2 o'clock this Dr asked t in my room on the third of the Rhodes House Hous floor Dundee answered And of your own knowledge can you throw any light whatever on the death of Cora Barker coroner cor oner asked I t cannot S 'S Dismissed with his official con conr secret ecret Dundee had returned tb to seat between Nornie Paige a and id Daisy Shepherd listened to o witness after witness apparently no more any other boarder in the Rhodes House On thing Dundee had confided to Coroner Price Just before the inquest however and and his weary ted when Daisy Shepherd was was' as' as called to the witness chair When had admitted flushing had raided Mrs on Saturday atthe Very time that Mrs Hogarth Strangled str to death Dr Price as suddenly ed 5 Are with a man Wheeler Miss V S Daisy's broad pleasant face went pale and her Jerked oddly as asslie slie retorted Of course course- 1 am He was wana a boarder at the Rhodes House All of us knew him that him that i is all who boarding Vere before he left left- S that was on what date Miss Miss' Shepherd Shepherd- hepherd erd know ahe ho blazed Then reconsidering i I think it was vas early in Iii June about the 3rd or Haye you any reason Miss Shepherd to the long distance call which cane came for you after 12 o'clock last Saturday Satur Satur- day night day night was from Mr Wheeler alI don't dont know who was calling Daisy retorted sullenly The call Chicago the coroner reminded her c You knew Wheeler was in Chicago didn't you 4 tJ X I But I cant can't see ace Arth what a minute Miss Dr Price peremptorily and he shuffled among the the- mass mass' massof of papers before him He selected a tinted blue sheet of note paper adan and ad an empty envelope both of which D Dundee nd given him Presenting the note to the witness witness' ho asked courteously S Do you recognize this Miss Miss Shepherd Daisy hands trembled as she stared at the blue notepaper note note- paper I dont don't know where you got got- this and how anybody has the nerve nerve s to go pokIng about in my things but but 1 L recognize It Its It's a. a letter I T started to write to Arthur Wheeler Wheelen and j didn't f finish S you kindly read to the J yote had written Miss Shepherd why I should Daisy cried i angrily It has nothing to todo do with the murders murders- Oh all right says It-says The Rhodes House 2 I have asked not to bother me 1 I have hac nb intention of doing what t you ask nak and it will be useless to call me write me again again- Thank j pu Miss Shepherd Now will you yo tell this Jury why ou wrote as you re request re- re quest Mr Wheeler had made of you C Dalsy obviously f fought with an fl t tHat It was was' none of his his business orth the fury's jurys but she finally answered defiantly Arthur wheeler had been pester pester- me for weeks to put my sav savings av- av ings into ah an invention he lie was all worked up over he Said lie would give me a half halZ interest fri lt if I I would but I worked too hard for my waste Jt on some Invention X couldn't even under under- stand What was waa this invention t Miss Shepherd the 1 gadget to go on a sewing machine Daisy answered sullenly JL 51 didn't pay enough chough attention to onIt understand to-understand Just what I to do AH MII I knowls knowin ho a model ind tried but it on Mrs Rhodes Rhodes' machine e ana ani he more to get t it patented and to try s you l know tow what became or O Mias Shepherd He Hi took it- it away with lifts him the night her sneaked aC off without P paying'S pay pay- y-i y ing ingS bill but li he left the rest of his Junk in his room And VAud did you hear front from Mr Mi Wheeler Wheeler- again after June 22 S Yea Yeo I did I didn't send this iett letter r but 1 I wrote another one not quite sc snippy bu but I told him pretty much the same thing But be wrote mei again anyway and I suppose suppose-it was wan him calling me from frOU I dont don't know This is the envelope In whIch he mailed you a letter from Chi Chi- cagO on 2 Ls' Ls It Jt S Irl o asked and ana ii her Iter the en envelope which Dundee had found in iii her wardrobe trunk Well o of all the nerve Daisy eja ejaculated with r you to ft his last dollar and begged me sue to change into hs invention I take the trouble it Mr Wheeler of course knew that Sirs Mrs Hogarth was supposed to to be a to hava havo a large arge sum bf of money her room Coroner asked He ue wasn't deaf f Daisy retort retorted od ed- ed Everybody that t over boarded at the Rhodes I that story atory but If youre you're thinking Ar- Ar thur was waa so no hard haM up for money that he ho killed and robbed Mra Hogarth HOgarth Ho garth then I dont don't see how you youcan youcan can think he was calling calling- me from Chicago that same identical time Do you know know- anyone else Ii Chicago Miss Shepherd who flight dis dik- dik have been calling calling- you long S SNot tance 1 Not a a single solitary soul Daisy retorted emphatically Now Miss Shepherd mayi-I mayi sK f S 5 Daisy tu lt you'd ever you'd-ever ein him un you ask And say siY docs this like I Iw Iwas w was romantically r interested in that sap sap S During th the gust of laughter with which the delighted audience greeted Daisy's retort the big girl Vas She returned to her seat zeat muttering Indignantly but but obviously pleased pleased-at the tho showing S Mrs Sharp who w ba had returned to the Rhodes the state capital the night before leaned forward for for- ward werd from her ier chair directly be behind be- be hind Daisy's and the upon the shoulder Mr Herbert S. S Magnus Dr Price called ailed was abuzz o oj excited com com- ment for the Uie newspapers had carried car car- ned ried the rumor of Berts Bert's enga- enga merit ment very o der Cora te-Cora Barker 5 1 4 |