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A STUDY IN SCARLET. By Sir A. Conati Doyle. CAl'TEll XIV. The Conclusion, 'I can toll my own secrets," he said, "but I don't got other people into trouble. I saw your advertisement, and I thought It might be a plant, or it might bo the ring I wanton. My friend volunteered to go and see. I think you'll own he did it smartly." "Not a doubt of that," said Holmes heartily. . "Now, gentlemen," the Inspector remarked gravely, "the forms of the law must bo compllod with. On Thursday the prisoner will be brought before the magistrates, and your attendance will bo required. Until then 1 will bo responsible for him." He rang the bell as ho spoke, and Jefferson Hope was led off by a couple of warders, while my friend and 1 made our way out of the station and took a cab back to Raker Street. We bad all been warned to appear before the magistrates upon the Thursday; but when tho Thursday came there was no occasion for our testimony. A higher Judge had taken tho matter in hand, and Jefferson Hope had been summoned before a tribunal where strict justice would he meted out to him. On the very night after his capture the aneurism burst, and ho was found in the morning stretched upon the floor of his cell, with a placid smile upon his face, as though he had been able in his dying moments to look back upon a useful life and on work well done. " I reason and Hestrade will be wild about his death," Holmes remarked, as we chatted over it next evening. "Where will their grand advertisement be now?" "1 d; n't see that they had very much to do with his capture," I answered. "What you do in this world Is a matter of no consequence," returned my companion bitterly "The question is, what can you make people believe that you have done. Never mind," lie continued, more brightly, after a pause, "I would not have ?. 1! iiuoocw i iiv in ve?Liga.nuii ior anything:, There lias been no better case within my recollection. Simple as it was, there were several most instructive points about it." "Simple!" I ejaculated. "Well, really, it can hardly he described as otherwise," said Sherlock Holmes, smiling at my surprise. "The proof of its intrinsic simplicity is that without any help, save a few very ordinary deductions, I was able to lay my hand upon the criminal within three days." "That is true," said I. "I have already explained to you that what i# out of the common is usually a guide rather than a hindrance. In solving a problem of this sort, the grand thing is to be able to reason backward. That is a very useful accomplishment and a very easy one, but people do not practice it much. Tn the every-day affairs of life it is more useful to reason forward, and so the other comes to be neglected. There are fifty who can reason synthetically for one who can reason analytically." "I confess," said I, "that I do not rnt 1 t a fr\11 Am "en * I n i \.\j iuhum j u u , "I hardly expected that you would. T^ot me see if I can make it clear. Most people, if you describe a train of events to them, will tell you what the result would he. They can put those events together in their minds, and argue from them that something will come to pass. There are few people, however, who, if you told them a result, would he able to evolve from their own inner consciousness what the steps were which led up to that result. This power is what I mean when I talk of reasoning backward, or analytically " "I understand," said I. "Now, this was a case in which you were given the result, and had to find everything else for yourself. Now, let me endeavor to show you the different 'tops In my reasoning. To begin at the beginning. I approached the house, as you know, on foot, and with my mind entirely free from all impressions. I naturally began by examining the roadway, and there, as I have already explained to yon, T Haw clearly I lie marks of a cab, which, I ascertained bv Imiulry, must have boon thoro during tho night. T Hatlsfbd myself I linI It wim u cab, and not a pi*lvnf<> carriage by the narrow gauge of t In* wheels. Tin* ordinary London growler la consld erably Iorh wldn Minn a gout Ionian's brougham. "This wah tho first point gained I then walked slowly down llio garden path, will' li happened to bo com posed of a el ay noil, peculiarly sultfthlo for faking Impressions. No doubt It appeared to yon to bo a mere trampled lino of hIijsIi, but to my trained e oh every mark upon Ifh surface bad n meaning. There In no braneh of detective science whleb In so important arid ho much noglooted aa the art of traelrig footsteps. Ifap i pily, I have a I ways laid grout strews upon it, and mueh praetleo ban made it second nature to me. I saw the heavy foot-marks of the eonHtable.s, but I Haw also the tracks of the two men who bad flrHt panned through the garden. It. wan easy to tell that they had been before the others, because In places their marks had been entirely obliterated by tho others I . coming upon the top of them. In this way my second link was formed, which told mo that the nocturnal visitors were two In number, one remarkable for his height (as I calculated from the length of his stride), and the other fashionably dressed, to judge from the Binall and elegant Impression left by his boots On entering the house this last inference was confirmed. My wellbooted man lay before me. The tall one, then, had dono the murder, if murder there was. There was no wound upon the dead man's person, but the agitated expression upon his face assured me that ho had foreseen his fate before it came upon him. Men who die from heart disease or any sudden natural cause never by any chance exhibit agitation upon their features. Having sniffed tho dead man's lips, I detected a slightly sour smell, and 1 came to the conclusion that he had had poi son forced upon him. Again, I argued that it had. been forced upon him from the hatred and fear expressed upon his face. By the method of exclusion I had arrived at this result, for no other hypothesis would meet the facts. Do not imagine that it was a very unheard-of idea. The forcible administration of poison is by no means a new thing in criminal annals. The case of Dolsky, in Odessa, and of Leturier, in Montpellier, will occur at once to any toxicologlst. "And now came the great question as to tho reason why. Kobbory had not been tho object of the murder, for nothing was taken. Was it politics,.then, or was it a woman? That was tlie question which confronted me. 1 was inclined from the first to tho latter supposition Political assassins are only too glad to do their work and to flv TM? ,"*'1 - ^ . * 4??.j iiiui v* ^ jl nail, on the contrary, boon dono most deliberately, and the perpetrator had left bis tracks all over the room, snowing that bo had been there all the time. It must have been a pr;vato wrong, and not a political one, which called for such a methodical revenge. When the inscription was discovered upon the wall I was more inclined than ever to my opinion. The thing was too evidently a blino. When the ring was found, however, it settled thevquestion. Clearly the murder had used it to remind his victim of some dead or absent woman. It was at this point that I asked Cregson whether he had inquired in his telegram to Cleveland as to any particular point in Mr. Drebber's career. He answered, you remember. in the negative. "I then proceeded to make a careful examination of the room, which confirmed me in my opinion as to the murderer's height, and furnished me with the additional detail as to the Trichinopoly cignr and the length of his nails. I had already come to the conclusion, since there were no signs of a struggle, that the blood which covered the floor had hurst from the murderer's nose in his excitement. I could perceive that the track of blood coincided with the track of his feet. It is seldom that any man, unless he is very fullblooded, breaks out in this way through emotion, so I hazarded the opinion that the criminal was probably a robust and ruddy-faced man. Invents proved that I had judged correctly. "Having left the house, T proceeded to do what (Iregson had neglected. I telegraphed to the head of the police at Cleveland, limiting my inquiry to the circumstances connected with the marriage of Enoch Drebber. The answer was conclusive. It told me that Drebber had already applied for the protection of the law against an old rival in love, named Jefferson Hope, and that this same Hope was at present in Europe. I knew now that I held the clew to the mystery in my hand, and all that remained was to secure the murderer. "I had already determined in my own mind that tho man who had walked into the house with Drebber was none other than the man wlto had driven the cab The marks in the road showed mo that the horse had wandered on in a way which would have been impossible had there been any one in charge of it. Where, then, could the driver be, unless he were Inside the house? Again, it Is absurd to suppose that any sane man would carry out a deliberate crime under the very eyes, as it were, of a third person, who was sure to betray him. Lastly, supposing one man wished to dog another throurh London, what hotter means could he adopt that to turn cab-driver? All these considerations led me to the Irresistible conclusion that Jefferson Hope wan to he found among the jarv< ys of the metropolis. "If he had been one there was no reason to hellovo that he had ceased to he. On the contrary, from his point of view, any sudden change would he likely to draw attention to himself. lie would probably, for a time at least, continue to perform Ids duties. There was no reason to suppose that be was going under an assumed name. Why should he change his name In a country where no one knew his original one? I, therefore, organized my street-arab detective eorps, and sent them systematically to every cab-proprietor In London until they ferreted out the man that I wanted. How well they succeeded, and how quickly I took advantage of It, are still fresh In your recollection. The murder of Htangcrson was am Incident which was entirely unexpected, but which 4 could hardly In any case have been prevented. Through it, as you know, I came Into possession of the pills, the existence of which I had already surmised. You see, tho whole is a chain of logical sequences without a break or flaw." "It is wonderful!" I cried. "Your merits should be publicly recognized. You should publish an account of the case. If you won't 1 will for you." "You may do what you like," ho continued, handing a paper over to me; "look at this!" It was the Echo for the day, and tho paragraph to which he pointed was devoted to tho case in question. "The public," it said, "have lost a sensational treat through the sudden death of the man Hope, who was suspected of the murder of Mr. Enoch Drebbor and of Mr. Joseph Stangerson The details of tho case will probably never bo known now, tho we are informed upon good authority that tho crime was the result of an old-standing and romantic feud, in which love and Mormonism bore a part. It seems that both the victims belonged, in their, younger day, to the Latter-day Saints, and Hope, the deceased prisoner, hails also from Salt Lake City. If the case has had 110 other effect, it at least brings out in the most striking manner the oflleiency of our detective police force, and will serve as a lesson to all foreigners that they will do wisely to settle their feuds at home, and not to carry them on to British soil. It is an open secret that the credit of this smart capture belongs entirely to tho well-known Scotland Yard officials, Messrs. Lestrade and (Jregson. The man was apprehended, it appears, in tho rooms of a certain Mr. Sherlock Holmes, who has himself, as an amateur, shown some talent in the detective line, and who, with such Instructors, may hope in time to attain to some degree of their skill. It is expected that a testimonial of some sort will he presented to the two officers as a fitting recognition of their services." "Didn't I tell you so when we started?" cried Sherlock Holmes, with a laugh. "That's the result of all our Study in Scarlet to get them a testimonal." "Never mind," I answered; "I have all the facts in my journal, and the public shall know them. In the ; -uioiuoo souiiunu ou inrajs juiop osdi i opnupl nnm nuuens em snindoj, ,, meantime you must make yourself contented by tho consciousness of success, like the Roman miser? plar in area.' " (THE END.) ? GAVE STREET ONE YEAR. * Jury Refused to Relieve His Frameup Alnmt Coleman. Bruce Coleman of Saluda, formerly a Southern Express company messenger, was tried in Charleston this week and found not guilty of breach of trust and grand larceny in connection with the robbery of the company's car on a Southern railway train August 2 8. W. B. Street, of Reevesville, who admitted robbing the car, but accused Coleman of complicity, pleaded guilty to grand larceny and was sentenced by Judge Bowman to serve one year in prison. Coleman was arrested on the strength of a confession by Street, who gave what purported to be a conspiracy between him and Coleman to rob the express safe. He declared that he took the money and then, by arrangement, locked Coleman in the express safe. The messenger was found in his temporary prison when the train pulled into the Charleston station. The jury apparently placed little confidence in Street's story of the robbery, as it required only a brief period of deliberation to decide on a verdict which acquitted Coleman of all blame in connection with the affair. It was a plain frame-up on the part of Street against Coleman, and it would have been a miscarriage of justice had the jury failed ot acquit him. HAVE BUSINESS ROW. Two Partners llave Fatal Shooting Scrape at Olar. Joe Kimsey was shot and killed by Victor Kearse Saturday evening, the snooung lamng place on the principal street of Olar. Kimsey, who was a planter, and Kearse were business associates in a lunch room at Olar, and the dispute which ended fatally is said to have begun with a duscussion of business differences. Kimsey was shot twice, one bullet taking effect in the left side in the region of the heart. The other struck him in the right arm. Details as to the actual shooting are meagre. After the affray Kimsey was taken to a doctor's office where he died about twenty minutes later. Kimsey leaves a wif* and three children. Kearse is married and has one child. Honmn Numerals Doomed. Secretary McAdoo Thursday instructed the supervising architect of the treasury to use Arabic instead of Ruman numerals on all public buildings. The order was issued because of the difficulties the average citizen finds in quickly interpreting Roman numerals. The order, though a revolutionary one, was expected to be popular. REBEL'S CAPITAL TAKEN +. .. MKXIOAN l'KI>KKAL8 MAllCII INTO PIKDKA8 NKGKAS. Thousands of HofUKoeN CYoss Into United States When General Maa.s Appears With Victorious Army. Without firing a shot federal soldiers late Tuesday took possession of I'iedras Negras, erstwhile provisional capital of the Constitutionalists culminuating tlio victorious march of the government army under General Mans through the state of Coahuila, tho homo of Venustlano Carranza, revolutionary commander-in-chief. With the exception of four stragglers who were cut down by federal cavalry while attempting to escape across the border, all of the Constitutionalist troops in I'iedras Negras marched away with the approach of the government army. They were not pursued, the victorious troops contending themselves with a search of the city for rebels who might be in hiding. The federals were first sighted shortly after noon Tuesday on a hilltop, two miles south of the city. Cannon was planted and when all was Til 11 O eiiM / I tf f/-V ~ V?f* 4 4 1 ? -? 1 ... " >unuv> i < auj IU1 il llill III! U II'OOJ) OI cavalry was sent over the hill at a gallop and into the city. In the meantime the handful of Constitutionalists had shouldered their arms and inarched away. The federal advance guard encountered no resistance, and marched into Piedras N< gras through the Alameda to the deserted Constitutionalist administration building, and took possession. Tuesday night the city was policed by troops, and there had been no looting. While the city was being evacuated and before the federals took possession panic prevailed among the residents who made a rush for the international bridge. As an act of mercy to terror-stricken women and children, tho quarantine established by the city of 10agio Pass was partially raised and several thousand persons were permitted to cross tho boundary and were marched under guard to quarantine camps outside lOagle Pass. Reports as to tho status of the revolutionary movement were conflicting. Some dispatches indicate tno rebel army Is badly scattered and broken in spirit, while others an; that the different bands are Htill intact and are marching toward a common point to renew the campaign. Monciova and Cuatro Clenegas in the central part of tlie state of Coahuila, still are under rebel rule, it is understood, while private advices received at Laredo, Texas, report that the important city of Torreon, in the southern part of the state, has been taken by Constitutionalists. No reports are given as to the whereabouts of the Constitutionalist leader. Carranza, who was governor of Coahuila when he proclaimed a revolution against the government of President Iluereta, and left Piedras Negras three months ago, ostensible to take command of the rebel forces mobilized near Torreon. NOT DRIVING SENATORS. ? ? Wilson Denies Report Regarding His Attitude on Currency, Reports that President Wilson was attempting to prod Democratic Senators into quick action on the currency bill and a published statement that he would class as a "rebel" any Democrat who did not support him, brought out an emphatic denial from tho White House Wednesday. The President made public the following letter: "To the Editor of the Washington] T> ^..4 n:-. - i ?r^ir; i am quoieu in your issue of this morning as saying that any one who does not support me is no Democrat, but a rebel. Of course I never said any such thing. It is contrary both to my thought and to my character, and I must ask that you give a very prominent place in your issue of to-morrow to this denial. Very truly yours, "Woodrow Wilson." At the White House there was a disposition to look upon the currency situation as on the way to amicable adjustment. The president, it was said, feels sure that Senator Reed, o? Missouri, will soon Join the administration supporters in the banking and currency committee, and that Senator O'Corman will in the end side with the majority. There was no such sanguine feeling, however, with respect to Senator Hitchcock, of Nebraska. I.'-, T?I1 i ii < niv J I will Dtllli Two negro prisoners, J3:0 Dobey and John Richardson, charged with burglary and arson, while being fed Tuesday afternoon knocked Jailer Nicholson of Edgefield, down and escaped. Mr. Nicholson, though stunned, recovered, procured his gun and fired at them without effect. A posse is in pursuit. ? * Maniac Runs Amuck. Tn a flit of religious mania early Wednesday a youthful church worker at Liverpool, Eng., William McDonald, ran amuck with a loaded revolver and killed three of his fellow church workers. He then committed suicide. t SHOULD NOT FALTER CURRENCY REFORM BILL SHOULDj BE PASSED DURING THE SESSION rrwldcnt Wilson Makes Plain Mis ( onvict ion That tho Democrats Should llrcak tho Alliance of Disaffected Republicans or Pass Act at Onto iu Spite of It. Tho currency hill and President Wilson's determination to write it into law before long became tho storm centre of legislative activity at Washington on Tuesday. A series or conferences at tho White House made apparent a rather doubtful situation surrounding the bill in the Senate eommltteo on banking and currency and resulted in a general conference among Senate Democrats. President Protein Clarke, of the Senate, Senator Kern, majority leader, Senator Lewis, Democratic whip; j Chairman Owen of tho hanking and currency committee and Senator Oilie I James of Kentucky were called to the White House to discuss tho situation. After the conferences it became apparent that measures were to be taken to get tho Democrats of tho Senate behind tho currency bill as a party measure. President Wilson took the attitude that tho determination of the Senate hanking and currency committee to conclude its hearings "on or before October iif>" showed that tlie Kepub limns of tho committee, with tho aid of two or throo Democrats opposed to tho bill, woro controlling tho situation and that the Democratic majority should at once take steps to demonstrate its responsibility of legislation. All the senators who conferred with the president took tho position that as tho Democrats were responsible for currency legislation they should take the matter into their own hands. D. was indicated that one method which might be pursued was to withdraw tho bill from tho consideration of the full committee, where it i1* now tied up, and turn it over to tho committee Democrats as was done in the House. By this method, if the committee Democrats were unable to agree on the bill, it could bo taken direct to the Democratic caucus, although Senate leaders were doubtful as to the outcome of a currency caucus under present conditions. It would, however. be a choice between submitting the hill to the full committee of Republicans and Democrats or taking it into caucus. Senator Simmons of the finance committee eonferrorl wlfVi ! ?? - v/vi M i tn im; \r i ?J r> 1 * I dent at the White House. "Tiie Democatic party," said the Senator afterI wards, "is just as responsible to the country for the prompt currency reform as it was for tariff revision. The Democrats in'Hhe Senate went on record in a caucus recently in favor of currency legislation during the present session. J think it is our duty to carry out that purpose." Mr. Simmons said he saw no objection to considering the currency question again in a caucus and would discuss the subject further with his colleagues. He declared that the situation had reached a point when an agreement of some kind to end the hearings early and report the hill soon was necessary. The Democratic Senators are almost unanimous in favor of action at this session, he said. Senator Kern said Tuesday that it it. became apparent that the bill was being delayed the Democrats, in order to assume their responsibility for legislation, would call a caucus. Senator Owen also took the position that the measure should be made a party matter. It Is believed that the bill will pass at this session. Many Senators and Congressmen agree with the President that the bill should pass at this session. Outs Own Throat Instead of Wife's. After standing crver the pleading figure of his wife with a drawn knife for two hours, Duck Pitts, of Athens, Ga., cut his own throat when officers, summoned by other people in the building, suddenly stepped into the room at Madison, to which he had followed the woman. The pair had be? n separated for several months. Sheriff Averts Lynching. TIL. It -.-A A ~ ? .... - - nm turtsttt. 10 oaine mo nms with blood before he would be arrested," came near costing Willie Bouie, a negro, his life in Natchez, Miss. He was arrested in Harrison by Sheriff T. B. Ifammett, appointed to succeed bis son who was killed in the bloody fight at Harrison a few days ago. Hammet urged the crowd to allow him to discharge his duty as an offieer of the law and Bouie was spared. Cow Jxuids to Murder Charge. E. C. Burnseed and his son, Cleve, are in pail at Statesboro, Ga., charged with the murder of Pharris Davis, who was found dead near his father's farm. It is believed that trouble, starting when the dead man's cowgot into Cleve Burnseed's pasture, led to the killing. KNOCKED OFF BUILDING AKKOPL.WM KLIKS INTO CROWD WATCIItXCJ ITS PIJGIIT. ? Aviator Reachy loosen Control of III* Machine C ausing it to Brush Hoof Where Spectators Stoo<I. MIsb Huth Hlldreth, daughter of VV. J*'. Hlldreth, of New York City, was killed, and her Bister, Dorothy 11 i Id rot li, was perhaps fatally injured late Tuesday near Koehester, N. Y., when Lincoln Bearhy lost control of a hundred-horse power aeroplane and it swept off a roof from which they were wutchlng the exhibition. Huth llildrcth fell upon an automobile and her skull was fractured. Among those slightly hurt were I,tents. Richardson and Bellinger, of the l'nited States aviation corps, and Beacny. Iteuchy is said to luvo planned to execute a Homcrsault in tIto air. A crowd had gathered for the exhibition. To gain a good view the Misses lllldrotli and the navy officers climbc(l to the top of a small building used as headquarters by naval aviators. lleachy recognized the party and drpped his machluo in salute. They waved. The aeroplane went to the end of the field, turned and camo back. When it was over th ? heads of the llildreth party the machine was seen to dip. The aeroplane came so close to the party as to sweep all to the ground. The machine careened wildly and pitched to the earth, unseating the aviator and wrecking the machine. ltuth llildreth was unconscious when spectators reached her and blood was gushing from a gaping wound in her head. Her sister also was unconscious. Dorothy llildreth sustained a broken arm and leg and may have Internal injuries. Her condition is said to he critical. Dleuts. Bellinger and Richardson escaped with cuts and bruises that are not serious. Beaehy sprained an arm and ankle. lie said that as he reached a point directly over the naval building he momentarily lost control of his machine because his foot slipped from oim of ttao controls. u:i)i;ft.\LS a km i n;i>. Ceiicrnl Alvarez. and 1 i!f> Soldiers Slain After Torrcon Fell. flen. Alvarez and his staff of tho Federal army, together with \ 2'> Federal soldiers, wore executed Wednesday in Torreon, under orders of (ion. Francisco Villa, of tlio Constitutionalist forces, according to information from reliable sources brought into Loredo, Texas, Wednesday. With the city of Torreon, the rebels captured practically all of the arms and artillery of the Federals. The battle lasted four days, with heavy losses on both sides. Three hundred refugees, most of them Americans, left Torreon before the capture of that city by the Constitutionalists and are making their way overland to the border, according to a dispatch received Wednesday night. They are expected to reach Laredo Friday. Tt was learned that the Constitutionalists gained the advantage which resulted in the capture of Torreon through a ruse. With the battle at its height (Jen. Villa withdrew his forces, a portion of which he started on an apparent retreat toward Santa Rosalie. Relieving that the entire rebel army had been put to flight a largo force of Federals started in troops were well on their way, however, the main body of rebels, who were in hiding, slipped into the city and after a sanguinary battle, gained possession. rso tar as can bo ascertained none of the foreigners was Injured either while the street fighting was in progress or during the reprisals which folowed the rebel victory, the constitutionalist commander providing for them, especially the Americans. AT1ILKTICH LH.\I> SKIUKS. Win Thro? Out of tlio First Four ('harnpionsliip (James. Philadelphia has now won three out of the first four games. Hush, a recruit, held New York safe Thursday, while Philadelphia slugged Tcsreau and Crandall. Friday Bender won his second game, although hard hit, Merkle getting a home run in the seventh with two on. Third game at New York: Phila . . .320 000 210?8 12 1 N. Y. . . .000 010 100 ? 2 5 I Batteries: Hush and Schang; Tesreau, Crandall and Mcl^ean. Fourth traine at Phiin/i nl f%V? I o w S. ? - . N. Y. . . .000 000 320?5 8 0 ['hila . . .010 320 00* -6 0 0 Batteries: Demaree," Marquard and McLean and Wilson; Bender and Schang. Haves Man's Life. But for the protection of a folded handkerchief in his left beast pocket, L. J. Hughes, general manager of a saw mill at Paxton, Kla., would have been killed by Tim Williamson, a timekeeper on the Job. Williamson tried to stab his emp'oyer but the handkerchief retarded the knlf* and prevented Its reaching the heart.