Show THE GARLAND MARCH MURDER lit WEDDING by Copyright MONTE BARRETT by ths WN(J Servlet 1SJJ Oo SYNOPSIS Waiting In the minister's study Jim Franklin about to be married to Doris Carmody s stabbed to death Peter Cardigaft with Sergeant Kllday begin the Franklin Investigation while waiting had visitors among them his mistress “Choo Choo" Train his tended wife's father Ambrose Carmody her brother Rylie Daniel s politician and a woman In a blue frock Rylie Carmody admits trying to the stop wedding after being Informed by Webster Spears that Franklin was still friendly with Choo Choo despite his approaching marriage Kllday secures the dead man's keys From s Shipley one of the bridesmaids Rylle's friend the investigators learn An Interview with Bullla nothing la fruitless Webster Spears admits forming Rylie Carmody of Franklin's relatione with Choo Choo for Doris Carmody’s sake In the hope of preventing the wedding Fletcher Franklin's Is reticent An Interview with Milo Dunbar Franklin's law partner and search of the dead man's ofllce reveals nothing of ImChoo Choo admits her relaportance tions with Franklin were to continue after his marriage Six of the seven keys Franklin carried are traced to their respective locks One the vestigators are unable to place Callis Khlpley again interviewed confesses previous deception but nothing new Is elucidated CHAPTER VI —Continued — 14 — “There's nothing else left to say” retorted the girl “Now may I go?” I’eter who had championed the girl’s cause In spite of hlniMdf felt a reluctant admiration for the nmnner In which she defied the detective even though his faith In her Innocence of all knowledge of the crime had been shaken Kllday scowled He was evidently at a loss as to how to proceed further with his questioning: “All right” he declared reluctantly "you may go but” he repeated the Instructions he had previously given Webster Spears about remaining within reach “We’ll probably want another talk with you later” he added The minute the girl had left an assistant announced the arrival of Daniel Pullis The Sergeant’s surprise was apparent as he looked up at the politician whose hulk filled the doorway “Come In Mr Rnllis What can I do for you tills morning?” Hullis smiled with his lips while his eyes darted Inquisitively about the “You sent a man for my fingerroom “Why?” prints” he declared ‘Tlnger prints?” Kilday affected not to understand The politician eased himself Into a chair which creaked under his weight your man didn’t Ink my fingers Rut he was very anxious that I take a cigarette from one of those polished cases of yours I’d heard of them before” Hestudiedtlie detective thought"I don't smoke cigarettes Serfully As though to emgeant” he added phasize his point he bit the end from a fat black cigar “I wouldn't he surprised but what In I’d left several the Sergeant” Rullis Study of that church went on evenly His pale eyes had come to a focus on Kllday but there was no way of rending the expression behind that gaze “It would he odd If I was there you know I I hadn’t don’t make any hones about that” He gave the ImAgain he paused word deof each rhoosing pression Peter found himself weighliberately ing them for any hidden significance not at first apparent but could find none Evidently It was only the man’s manner rambled on ’’It’s funny” Hullis “we’ve both been around this town a long time hut we’d never met before I about had you Serheard Of course geant from time to time” ‘Td heard a The sergeant smiled deal about you too Mr Hullis ” “h great “I guess you ThP politician nodded have” he said “Most people do And I intend to you’ll hear more of me hang around a good while longer” Peter It sounded like a challenge saw the sergeant stiffen “Now about those Bullls’ voice had again lapsed Into a "You know I was there monotone What do you expect them to prove?” Kilday declared “possibly nothing” “It’s a means of Identifying every one provide us with there Often By Identifying a means of elimination those persons we know to be Innocent we have left only those of the person fact that The Is simple who guilty of an Individual there are In that room doesn’t convict that The officer faced the politician that I’m mnklng any squarely you understand" promises Bullls nodded silently the de“About those “You say my man tective continued didn’t get them?" reBullls smoke cigarettes" “I don’t peated The sergeant extracted a cigarette desk “As case from a drawer of his I’ve explained it’s largely a matter of of yours form but I’ll need samples Mr Hullis” to take The politician made no move the case “I don’t like too— permanent "They're he said there was I’ve already told you I Mr revolver “Did you have a “Not Hullis?” The politician's eyes ’betrayed a “No” flicker of Interest “Did you see a revolver la that Study or handle one?” "No" "Well I have to print on a revolver Identify You’ve a thumb- nothlDg to Besides" he worry about apparently added smilingly “this Isn’t a percan manent record These specimens be destroyed after we compare them” Bullls still hesitated then taking the cigarette case he pressed his fin“I’ll degers against It deliberately “I’ll pend on you Sergeant" he said confess I don't like the Idea" That was all With only a nod to Peter he lumbered from the room The sergeant puffed meditatively “What do you after Bullls' departure There's suppose was on his mind? He something worrying him Peter didn’t seem worried when I mentioned the revolver He knows we couldn't have anything else on him but he’s bothered Can you figure It out?’ “It may be Just as he says” the novelist pointed out "a natural averRememsion to being ber If you can judge the man by his he's had a great deal to reputation do with the underworld That would explain such an aversion” "We'll soon know If that’s all that’s worrying him" Kllday was assured I’m “Come on Into the Bertillon room going to check up on that on the revolver” With the aid of Kilday’g polished of cases the cigarette most of those under suspicion had alThe sergeant ready been collected himself had obtained those of Choo Choo Train Callis Shipley and Daniel Bullls The men who had been dls- “We’ll Probably Want Another Talk With You Later” patched for the others had returned by now and the work of attempting to Identify the five sets of prints found In the study together with the thumb mark qn the revolver had begun In the Bertillon laboratory each after print had been photographed careful preparation Then the work of matching each whorl and began line of a print serving as a guide to the Identity of the person making It On a flat desk In the center of a room whose walls were llned"wlth pictures of criminals whose Identity had been established In this very way lay a number of square white cards Some of these hail as many ns half a dozen different photographs pasted on them Others had hut one Previously the prints had been carefully sorted out all and the duplicates placed together In a second orderly pile were the of specimens collected negatives by A the detectives from the suspects clerk armed with a was to match the prints In the attempting two piles “One set has already been matched” He handed declared the sergeant I’eter two cards clipped together and pointed out the moans by which the Identified had been “Nick specimens He read the Royce” said the sergeant label attached to the card “ ‘Fingerprints found on the telephone and on Seems to bear surface of desk’ I I’m out Ills story doesn't It?” “So far at least” agreed Peter The officer Indicated a vacant chair for the novelist and drew one up for himself “What luck are you having with the one on the gun?” he Inquired “That'a the most Imof his assistant portant one” Silently the man other clip of cards and them earnestly handed him anKllday Inspected then passed them on to Teter t matches these found In the study" he said “Now we have only to find which one of onr suspects left these prints" he Reaching among the specimens He selected those of Webster Spears made no attempt to conceal his eagerness as he compared these with the print on the revolver but after only a moment he looked np frowning “Not Spears” he said ne next tried specimens of Rylie s with the same Carmody’s result He slammed the disappointing upon the desk enrds Impatiently “What do you think rof that Peter? If neither of them Is guilty what was 'the girl trying to protect them for? Unless" a light dawned on his face “h’m! Ferhnps It was herself she was The prints protecting" Rut Callis Shipley’s prints did not match the one on the gun either Neither Callis Shipley's nor Choo Choo Train's prints could be Identified with any of those found In the study the officer He This disappointed stared at one of the cards In per“I'd have sworn that these plexity TIMES were a woman's he sail prints "Small and Blender Of course they might belong to a boy or a small man" Ills tone was doubtful Nor did they find any prints which with those of Rylie Car corresponded and his father mody Apparently neither had left any marka In the Btudy “Odd" said Teter Kllday raised bushy eyebrow “I mean that I’m more auspicious when a man leaves no the novelist explained “I have always felt that the guilty man or the man who knew that a crime had been or would be committed took precautions which against leaving might later Identify him The person who scatters about either has a clear conscience or la very foolish I don’t think we are dealing with the latter cIbbs here” “Then how do you explain the print on the gun?” demanded Kilday “That’s what I asked you a bit ago I can’t explain It I'm not even trying to yet" The work went patiently on Daniel Bullls’ were the next prints identified They discovered that he had left marks on both the front and rear doors of the study as well as on the desk But this was of scant value They already knew he had been In the room and they were able to prove nothing further The was very different from the one on the revolver Yet none of the other prints would match Of all those found In the room only those of Doctor Abernathy Nick Royce and Dan Bullls matched As for the others Ambrose Carmody and his son Rylie Choo Choo Train and Callis Shipley had none of them left prints Of the two unidentified sets one were those Kllday had been so sure were made by a woman on the The gun had been Identified with prints found In the room but not with those of any of these persons under suspicion his atKllday puffed thoughtfully tention apparently on the centered blue clouds that encircled him “Two seta still unidentified" he mused aloud “One of them apparently belonging to a woman but neither Callis Shipley's nor Choo Choo Train’s That would be our woman In blue “The other set matches the print on the gun and that doesn’t fit any of our previous notions of the crime Who else was there whose specimens we haven’t got? Why did the murderer go there with a revolver then change his mind and use Doctor Abernow does It happen nathy’s dagger? that the murderer left a on the revolver although he wiped the dngger clean of prints? This doesn’t make sense “And" he continued “why Is Callis to protect Webster Shipley trying Spears? By all the laws of reason on the that should be his revolver” Peter was equally fact that this print Did the puzzled on the revolver remained unidentified absolve all those whose finger prints did not match It from suspicion? How about Callis he was forced Shipley? Reluctantly to admit that Kllday had ample for his mistrust of her But grounds If both Rylie Carmody and Webster Spears were cleared of suspicion what was the girl trying to conceal? And If that print on the gun was a clue seemed to be) who (as It certainly else should they suspect? What other could they match against It? The woman In blue? Who was How could they obtain a specishe? Daniel of her men Bullls was the only person who could Identify her and It seemed certain that they could expect little help from him Was there anyone along that line Frnnklln’s Fletcher servant? else? He hadn’t been That was absurd There was Milo near the church but been had He too there Dunbar he had been the dead man's partner What motive eotild he manufactured from that? Besides there was no evidence that he had been In the sacristy at any time other than the doubtful of Nick Royce that he had testimony been unable to find the man In the a short time before the wedchurch As Kllday had pointed out this ding was not Important evidence Inasmuch as It would have been almost surprising' If Royce had been able to pick him out of all that throng which had crowded the church 'All these and many other doubts He could not assailed the novelist shake his skepticism concerning fingerprints either If there were none on the knife with which the crime had been committed why should they have expected the murderer to have left any elsewhere? If that were true how acon the gun? count for the He was Irritated by the manner la which his reasoning led him In circles There seemed to be no end and no could he find a Nowhere tangible fact to which he might cling or from which he might argue lie almost wished that he might share Kilday’s confidence In that thumbprint door behind them was flung an excited subordinate “We’ve found It Sergeant!” the man who "We have discovered exclaimed registered that revolver when It was The GARLAND UTAH ( Artists’ ‘Painted Comments’ Even Great Masters of the Brush Are on Record as Employing Their Genius for the Small Purpose of Plaguing Enemies your easily (TO BE CONTINUED holes Into heated air as a silkworm silk substance Its gummy exudes This gave him filaments of a stuff he hoped to weave In 1884 he patented this process ' But the French government would The news that the benot allow him to manufacture Is to build more cause his silk was firm of Courtauld highly Inflammaartificial silk factories In Lancashire ble For five years he worked to recomes at an appropriate time for move this danger Then followed two this year Is the fiftieth annlversai to overcome years of experiments of tbe first patent of the registration but by 1891 difficulties production artificial of a process for producing artificial silk was being made Today commercial scale a on silk Is one of our greatIts manufacture In those fifty years a revolution In est Industries — London clothes has taken place The output figures prove Its extent In 1801 the Franklin's Many Honors total production of tbe new wonder Benjamin Franklin was honored by fabric was about 30000 pounds Tofor his ability many organizations day It Is In tbe region of 500000000 and In various lines accomplishments pounds Tbe British Royal soarti- of activity Like most great Inventions Copley gold ficial silk was brought about by ciety awarded him the sent him hfs XV Louis medal and strokes of luck and much patient bolli Harvard and Yale work on the part of several men appreciation on him honorary degrees conferred over a period of years M A he was elected a fellow of It was some children making of the chains of cherry stones by rubbing the Royal Society of Loudon VirIn out fibers from tbe stones on a grind- College of William and AMarytheScot-tlsstone who gave a German weaver ginia made him a M university conferred a D L detbe Idea of the mechanical produche was elected a tion of wood pulp Today wood pulp gree upon him member of tbe I'hllosoptilcal society Is tbe origin of viscose artificial silk Oxford conferred the defor your stockings really come from Edinburgh gree of D C L lie was elected trees Tbe Invention of guncotton or to president of the American Philosophical society for life the Academy of give It tbe scientific name was another step towards arti- Science of Padua the Royal society of Paris and the Medical society of ficial silk fifteen years later Then Count Hilaire de Chardon-ne- t London all elected him to membernoted tbe ship watching silkworms way they made their silk and tried Real Bitterness to Imitate the process artificially The worst disappointment you can Using tbe pulp of mulberry trees In yourhe made cellulose then nitro celluexperience is disappointment lose which he squirted through tiny self ARTIFICIAL SILK MERE IMITATION OF “REAL THING” SEE THIS It Means the j' The dang- of tht loe When Edgar Allan lived and worked In Philadelphia from 1838 to 1844 the scenic beanties of the valley Impressed the poet so much that he gave a vivid description of the region In a sketch with himself as the narrator The tale entitled “Morning on the Wissahickon" reveals Poe drifting in a skiff upon the surface of tbe stream during a sultry summer day In half slumber he lets his Imagination conjure up visions of the of Indian days "when picnics were undreamed of —Tho picture Is In striking contrast to the popular conception of the unhappy genius who wrote such morbid works as MThe Raven" and “The Murders In tbe Rue 530 North Morgue" while living Seventh street where the one hundred and anniversary of his birthday was recently celebrated at a brilliant gathering of writers and other notables The occasion also marked the opening of the Poe house as a shrine to hla memory Extolling the beauties of the Poe declared that "were it flowing In England it would be the theme of every bard and the common topic of every tongue If Indeed Its banks were not parceled off In lots at exorbitant prices as building sites for the villas of the opulent" at Animals Take Few Risks Big game hunters report that wild animals seldom die from accidents Tbe elephant weighs a couple of tons he has a thick hide when no living thing can witharoused stand him but he takes no chances Is there not a lesson to be learned In this for human beings who are so much weaker? 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his excitement Don’t stand there like an Idiot" ha urged Impatiently himJim Franklin to “It belonged self" declared the man “The registration shows that he bought It two years ago" a tall and some other little appendto Mr Hare the famous man Mr U having given that a conditional gentleman promise of dom descend to “personalities” In It for an exhibition picture on his their paintings but this was a com- lordship’s refusaL" mon trick among even Aha The money was promptly paid and men not so long ago the picture removed While engaged For Instance that eccentric genius upon his picture t Whistler never hesitated to use all “The Taking of Souza" Horace received a call from a member his powers for “getting his own back” He was admittedly an adept now deceased of the Rothschild famin “the gentle art of making ene- ily who asked him what he would mies” and his resentment at real or charge to paint his portrait Upon fancied Insult took at times a fan- being Informed tha£ £3000 was the On one occasion he figure he cried angrily: tastic form “Nonsense I won’t pay such a quarreled with the gentleman for whom he had painted the famous ridiculous price" the artist “Peacock Room” and took his re"Very well” replied venge by painting a portrait “Some day I will make a portrait of of him as a devil complete with you for nothing” And he was as good as bis word hoofs and horns Similar was the unenviable predica- for there and then he painted the ment of Sir Robert Sheard a gentle- great financier’s face upon the body man noted for his penurious habits of a flying citizen In whose hands two who by Incurring the resentment of he placed each Hogarth found himself depicted In marked £'‘1500" A painting as a of himself In the act one of that artist’s pictures miser sitting In Judgment on a dog of holding his nose with one hand On this while with the other he pushed away for robbing his kitchen coming to the ears of Sheard’s son a dish of fish was the covert threat the latter repaired to the painter’s of Sit Joshua Reynolds to Robertson house In his absence and destroyed his fishmonger on the latter’s pressthe canvas ing for payment of a On another occasion a portrait of account The poor tradesman was horrified a nobleman which Hogarth had paintor ed was returned to the artist as be- such a work must be suppressed ing nothing better than a gross cari- all tbe world that knew him for Sir Joshua’s The refused fishmonger would credit the cature and payment lie therefore had next day the peer received this let- painter’s Innuendo to sacrifice his money and acter: sketch by cancelling “Mr Hogarth begs to Inform his quire the A of case bill the paint brush for not send the does If he lordship that his picture within three days It will being mightier than the pen — Lonbe disposed of with the addition of don Answers Why) It comes to “getting back" the paint brush may prove mightier than the pen Our great artists nowadays own Poe’s Graphic Sketch' of Wissahickon Beauty PAY PUREBRED VEGETABLE SEEDS Evary packet dated |