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B cJE rE 14 1 n. n n W b t r JI A. o v ss' ss I JJ A da U UY J J r- r ONE NB E of the pet theories o oi of f i Frances Baird detective A was involved in in what sh sh called tho Law of Logical Exclusion f c When she worked on a case under vt-under under that rule she concerned herself not at all with questions as to to the personality or Ol motive She simply i of f the guilty guilt man f went down down the list of all the ther r p persons TSOI in fin any way connected v- v i with the affair checking off t ach 11 on OIl one as soon as she sho jl i- i creel a fact which made it impossible im- im u JI possible for that one to have been n guilty guilt and then when but o one r remained mn uninvestigated t promptly prompt accused that one without without with with- out ut bothering to investigate him a tit t all In other othor words her P process racers worked in exactly the opposite direction from that of the law she coI considered every man Inan guilty until he lie was as proved innocent and the tIle last man as I often laughingly told old her Cl guilty whether he was proved innocent or 01 not CI Nonsense she use used to to reply We Ve have ve say only ten persons who conceivably could have committed a certain breach of laws law Ono One by one we find that nine of th them m could not have haye committed it Obviously the tenth one must have haye committed it so it-so so wheres where's the use of investigating investigating investigating gating him at all There arct are arc t some cases s so- so delicate so-delicate delicate that you rou have to put yourself in the place placey y of the murder and work forward I r There are others so m mysterious ster ous that you y you u have to start with the F S1 1 personality of the the victim and andE E work backward In both sorts j. j a of cases you'll have of of course i to tito get the motive b before e fore you yon yo can can start moving But in the ordinary ordinary 4 nary rough lough and tumble case what's the use of bothering about why a crime was committed committed committed com com- The real question is who did it Y And if youve you've any curiosity left after discovering that you'll get at the whys and the wherefores easily enough I Any other method only befogs your vision and impedes your action Tho The more obscure the motive the thel less ss you jou want want to look for it Although she demonstrated the i value of this this' practical al advice in at least a score of cases cases with I which I too was connected ina in ina a a. more or less professional capacity its bold contradiction I of all the methods advanced by bythe bythe the mere writers upon such subjects sub sub- its its flat denial of all the t t. t B systems stems propagated by the plausible plausible plaus plaus- 1 ible detectives of fiction was fiction was to toj tomy tomy j my mind never so conclusive as during the he month of July 1904 r I I refer to the curious affair at ati i Mt Hebron N. 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T the murder 1 of Emerson Pardoe I was at that time employed upon the Philadelphia Globe Glob I Express Express the tho same paper in iny y fact tact for which I had been working work work- r. r ing when Miss mss Baird rendered me such valuable aid in the affair of Pouch Mail No 27 and 27 and had b been en three days in my naJ native native na na- J tive town in Pennsylvania enjoying enjoy- enjoy i ing jug the start of a sorely needed r I vacation when I picked up my paper one morning and read of the crime Stripped to its barest details the affair as reported by bya a too competent man man wasas' wasas was wag as as' follows k Emerson Pardoe was wasa a a. a man 1 s lv of wealth a bachelor aged about I A 0 0 and living at the time of his death and for all his life preceding preceding pre- pre ceding it in hi the old Pardoe I I house just outside the limits of X i Mt l Hebron one of the pleasant U T New Jersey suburbs of New Ll York With him dwelt only his t younger brother George agede aged e 30 and three servants servants one one 4 h. h woman oman who acted also as a sort k of housekeeper another who was Jb both th cook and maid and a man who combined the duties of butler butler but but- l ler r with ith those of coachman coachm n. n The ff 1 elder Pardoe had never engaged i h in active business havi having it t seemed been content to spend t the interest of the fortune he I had inherited in a quiet life u Y t t d' d demoted voted t d to the pleasures of good I f S k books and better pictures where where- N Vif t t tir tw q George b. b being of a more ener- ener getic disposition was devotedly 2 t Interested in a company y for the t. t f manufacture of glassware at atif r n r if Newark e which h he had founded t himself and whither wInther he went wentOn e very da day l. l On the wet and stormy evening eve eve- I V-f V ning of the fifth of July the household went about its omed way though the maid was wasS' wasS wasing e v S' S 1 S ing fi I fin the night with ith a sister n 1 asti ast- The The- butler butler- ee i ri J M ire t toli 4 p tc f fa a iJ h l alit tin t e r o j I- I of th the house at 10 The housekeeper repaired to her room on the fourth floor an hour later George as was his custom had turned in in at 10 1030 30 his bedroom being in the rear extension on the second floor at the end of a along along along long hall from the first landing of the main staircase Each one of the trio had last seen Emerson Pardoe seated in the library at the front of ot the house reading as he nightly did beside a a. students student's lamp lampon on a table In the center of the apartment apart apart apart- ment gent with his back to the door At precisely 6 o'clock in the mornIng mornIng mornIng morn- morn Ing George was arous aroused d by loud cries from the library He Jumped into his clothes and ran downstairs downstairs to find the housekeeper Miss P Packer In inh h hysterics and nd Emerson de dead d on th the floor with his throat thront cut Miss Packer declared that she had come down to open up the house house house the maid being a absent absent at sent sent-a at the he accustomed accustom d hour when she came upon the body which George was certain was cold when he got t there ere About the place there was waS' every sign that tha t a severe struggle had t taken ken place but though I a n d desk sk In the library had been rifled nothing else was missing and all ll the doors and windows throughout the house were found to have b been properly secured secured Just as 81 they had ad been left let when the storm came up at 10 15 10 15 on the previous evening The local police pollee the correspondent add added d. d were utterly at sea because though it Jt seemed that the murder must have be been n committed b by someone someone someone some some- one within the house house or or at any rate by someone with a key to it th there it-there there re was absolutely no motive discoverable on the part of ot any such person The two brothers though of ot such divergent t tastes stes had always got along pleasantly pleasantly pleasantly pleas pleas- antly Miss Packer Packer a looking good-looking woman of 25 was WEtS highly esteemed In the community as a pl pious us person and a zealous worker In the church the coachman had never p possessed d a akey akey i key to the premises and the maid of course had a complete alibi In the person of her sister in East Orange whose room she had shared on the fatal night In short the affair was wasso wasso wasso so obscure that three of ot the best detectives In New York had been sent for tor and George Pardoe had offered a reward of ot for tor the I arrest of the murderer The mystery was too much for tor me meto meto to stand I flung my vacation to the winds at once and wired the office Feal Fealy Globe-Express Globe Philadelphia I i iCan Can leave in thirty minutes andreach and andreach reach Mt Hebron by evening to to cover Pard Pardoe e case Shall I go BURTON And after alter twenty minutes which minutes which I devoted to the packing of my suitcase suit suit- suit suit- case case I I received one of ot thos those answers so eloquent of the newspaper mans man's i I disregard for tor length when the COI com company company com com- I pany pays the tolls Samuel Burton South Second Street Columbia Pa Your good friend Led Ledyard and was sent out on the Pardoe case case last night flight and seems to me to have scored heavily with his story in today's paper However hes he's Just I sent word that they'll probably pinch the woman so therell there'll be bethe bethe bethe I the sympathy game to play and andas andas andas as that's not Ledyard's long suit you can go and help him out if If ie want to FEALY So Ledyard was on on the scene What luck luckl That settled It t. t In ten minutes I had put my needed vacation behind me and by evening I 1 was standing I before the Pardoe house Just outside the little town of Mt Hebron Hello Sam I It was Ledyard himself who greeted i me coming forward from among a I group of other reporters from New NewYork NewYork NewYork York and Philadelphia who were lounging under the trees before before- the gate gat of the long driveway I What news news news' I asked the asked the newspaper newspaper newspaper news news- paper mans man's gree greeting ng the world over Why Its It's about all over but the shouting Hallam has come o over er with two of ot his men from the New NewYork NewYork NewYork York force and they're going to t to pinch the housekeeper The only thing that's worrying mo Is whether I I can get em to do It In time for forus forus forus I us instead of holding over till to tomorrow tomorrow to- to morrow v I morning and giving the I evening paper men the first chance at the news Were We're asking em to act at once so as to give us a show for so far tar Its It's b been en an evening paper story all along But have they got the evidence to to arrest Miss Mss Packer Sure Its It's a cinch Id I'd tell you OU only Ive I've promised Hallam not to say saya say saya a word before I 1 write my stuff Oh you needn't worry Ive I've got the whole wholes s stuff tuft Ledyard generally thought he had the whole story and and his attitude of ot run along and play little boy would not ordinarily have bothered me but in this case it really did seem that I was an elet eld hour mth-hour man without the ghost of a show at t the e hour eleventh mans man's proverbial reward re reward re- re ward However I 1 resolved to work right ahead on my own hook and so I said Well I less guess about the only thin thins thin for me to do Is to run up and take a loot look at the dramatis personae I 1 strode up the walk convinced the he Doubting Thomas of a a. policeman lic m n. n who wh stood stood before t the c door o on the hc big b g J porch po c ch that I 1 W was vas a bonu bonafide y ne F feA pa e e men P and d IPg e lj n q SK- SK A l tf ij I a The coachman butler-coachman admitted me mea me- me a short stocky y Irishman out of ot livery livery liv liv- ery with a square Jaw and and anda a sullen fu face I want to see Mr George Pardoe I paid ald Well Ven ye cant can't he snapped and I started to shut the door door- I But I Was an ol old enough man at I Two and on one make three an and l applying this trus girl 1 F m detectives detective's system two from three leaves one one one- arrest that one Sounds easy but read how hov it is is worked out 1 2 t h r J I I t I I 5 r I lir lirt i tj J r. r T l t A N Nr r 1 11 I I J f r i I I. I offered reward for the arrest cst of the murderer and I would offer ten times that if I f. f t thought it would bring ring mo roe any positive knowledge of how this all happened th this s sort of f thing t to have my foot in inthe the way Think ag again again said said 1 I pi- pi and slipped him a bill i I tJ I His fist c closed on the g k and andI he nore respectfully than I spoke more beI before be be- I fore but his his' voice was firm I Its no use use sor he replied Mr Pardoe's been bothered to death by bye ye e newspaper fellows all the the day But j Just st then I 1 caught sight of a pretty little girl In a cap and apron h hovering v ring in th the hallway the hallway way the the maid of 01 courser course r I I raised my hat wit with 11 a flourish Miss 1 Anderson I J asked all aU the while making mental notes of the pair for my descriptive story She came smilingly forward her pretty prett pink round Swedish face tace broken up with dimples es Yas Yasi she nodded Well Yell said I as the astonished man fell back a pace will wm you jou ou i kindly tell teU your master that 1 Mr Burton of the Philadelphia Globe Express s' s has given up up his his vacation and come an all the way from Lancaster county count 1 P Pennsylvania j Just st to see him tf She curtsied and was oft off in a flash flashA A moment later I 1 h heard a broken weary voice saying Show him In George Pardoe rose to meet ni nv Pt et me I could see that ord ordinarily 1 rU h he was wasa was wasa a typical successful bu business iness man stout settled phlegmatic He had a n large clean shaven face with a a firm mouth ke keen n gray eyes and black hair just now going thin at the temples Altogether he was a man whom you would expect to see comfortable only in an office and one who as you pass his like by the score every even time you venture Into the business ss districts Of pf t a large city you would never glance at a second time Just now however he was Interesting interesting Inter Inter- esting because of hi his position In my story and I 1 noticed that mat his eyes were red with weeping that tha he was wa dressed in fitting black Instead of the lighter shades hades that he ha probably more usually affected and that his fun full well fed ted face face- was wag guy gray wan till the through which he had been een passim pass pass- ing im Good evening Mr Burton 1 he re s ne s e t- ead I with businesslike brevity What can I do for you jou you If you jou OU will be so kind I said as Has asto asto Hasto to give me five fj minutes I will occupy I j your our time timi c oni Uy asKing you u a tew q que quest quest-ons e which L have no doubt you jou have answered ri a hundred times to today today to- to day He Ile le bowed bowe hi his his' head in acq acquiescence i and andl andI I proceeded ded At what time were yoU ou awakened on th the morning of ot the As nearly as I can make out at just 6 G that o'clock that Is the time at which the maid generally opens the house house and Miss P Packer was performing perform- perform I ing the tho maidS duties in the Anderson I girls girl's absence You came downstairs at once Almost immediately Is it true as S stated state that your jour our b brothers brother's body was cold when you jou ou touched It it Yes I remember the shock of touching It it Had the coachman a key to this house I Not to my Imo knoK knowledge ledge Were V ere the doors and windows windo all locked that morning I 1 mado made sure suie of that myself Did you hear any noise noisa during the night Not a sound Are Aie you ou a heavy sleeper Very And the walls and floors are thick Mr Mi Pardoe did your brother ha have va any any enemies enemies' I Not a one he replied th that t I can think of pt I 1 have done my best to re recall recall recall re- re call any but It Is useless Emerson was the tho mildest and quietest of men He went out but little and h had cl few friends not friends not to mention enemies I offered reward renard for for forthe the arrest of th the murderer and I would offer ten tenI times that If it I 1 thought it would brin bring I me any positive knowledge of how It J 1 all happened I It Ham Itam am a 11 thousand times obliged to you jou for your trouble I T 1 said retiring L I a ahi that I 1 had to disturb you But that you know is a part of ot my business which I 1 cant can't avoid Dont Don't bother both i to ring I ring I can find my way out out With that I slipped into the hall closing the parlor door behind meOne me meOne One OUe glance showed |