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TODAY'S MYSTERY STORY
By THILIl KItANCIS NOWLAN
l'csrcrffly'a Mystery Solution
HAKVEY" HUNT'S deduction in the
case of "How JudRe Fnxon AVns
Kl'lcd" wns a very nlmplc one.
There was no tnurdcrcr, bocntiec no
body could hnvo deliberately killed
.Titdse Faxon under those conditions.
Ills death wnn on accident, one of those
accidents which happen once in n mil
lion times. It was n stray bullet that
l.illrd him.
Harvey Hunt knew this because he
knew It was Impossible to aim n rifle
accurately from such n distance that
(he bul'et would drop Into the court-
,om at an anicle of CO decree A
bullet dropping at such an angle is en
tirely opent, and its direction subject to
change by the slightest wind and the
vagariw of nhape it has acquired In
Its flight. The shell of n cannon may
ho pulded to a distant Invisible tarKet
bi mathematical calculation, but such
V ralMlle is heavy, and not so subject
to the Influence of crossing air currents.
The man who rea'ly did tiro the shot.
t, miles away, proved to be a t Liter
In the region for the purpose of hunting.
He had fired nt what he thought was a
bear In a tree.
LXIV
Can you solve, this mystery
of
Unbroken Snow
C A LIMIT snow had fallen that
" night,' " quoted Harvey Hunt
from the volume of detectivo stories he
was reading. "Snow has n habit of
falling Just nt the psychological mo
ment to catch the footprints ho neces
sary to tha solution of the mystery
in fiction. In real life, however, it's
not always so obliging."
"I take It that vou have a specific
instance in mind, ' 6ald his friend
DeKyne, quietly lnyinc aside the maga
zine he had been thumbing, for he
scented a storjv
"I have." replied the criminologist
with n smile, "and with n brief pause
to compliment you, 'my dear Watson,'
on the accuracy and rapidity of your
deduction, I will proceed to relate It
to you, which. I take It in my turn,
Is what you wish mo to do.
"It Is n story of a murder that oc
curred upon a night when the snow was
actually obliging enough to fall. The
only tronb'o was that the murderer was
not equally obliging, no refused to
lenve his footprints in It.
"The victim was (leorgo Flushing,
a oung farmer who had lived by himself
since the death of his wife. Ills house
stood back from the main road about
a hundred feet, and through the large
windows a clear view of the Interior of
his sitting room could be had from it.
"Early the evening before thero had
been n heavy fall of snow. It was a
wet, soggy snow. Afterward wo traced
the faint Impressions George had made
that evening n" he went from the barn
to the house. They were faint because
tin; subsequent snowfall had all but
filled them up.
"It was about 8:30 the following
morning when n couple of youngsters
on their way to school passed by $hc
house. They noticed first that one of
the sitting-room windows was open,
then that the lamp was still burning,
although It was broad daylight, and then
that something like the body of a man
lay stretched on tho floor.
"They found George dead, stretched
face down upon the floor, nn Iron rod.
the point of which had been sharpened
sticking between his shoulder b'ades.
llut there were no footprints In tlm
snow. How had the murderer left the
house? If thcrs hud been enough snow
to take George's footprints when he
went into tho house there must hnve
been enough to tako those of the mur
derer upon lenving.
"At first we wore eominced that the
murdcer Was still In the house. AVe
searched It from attic to cellar. Wc
compared tho outside and Inside meas
urements of the walls even, just to make
sure that thero were no secret closets in
which n man could hide, though we
knew while we were doing It that the
Idea was ridiculous. .
"Of course- everybody's suspicions
centered on Adam Hcfflcfinger. Adam
was a mean customer, and had always
borne a grudge ngainst George. They
had courted the same. girl. They had
been rivals in nearly everything, and
George always had won out. Lately
there had been some controversy over
tho ownership of n few feet of ground
where their lands joined. Adam knew
wc suspected him. He was pretty nerv
ous. He denied having been anywhere
near the place. Claimed he'd been call
ing on a girl, but said it was nobody's
business who she was.
"I turned my nttentlon to the Iron
bar. It was more or less rusty, and Its
surface was so pitted that It was hope
less to try to get n fingerprint from it.
It was nbout a foot long and a half nn
inrh or n little more In diameter. The
point on it, as near as I could tell with
out washing off the hiatal, was not
newly ground. It must have been
sharpened a long time before; hence
quite evidently not for the purpose of
tho murder.
"But the weapon puzzled roe. I
couldn't imagine a more unhandy
weapon with which to stab a man.
though as a rough sort of jimmy for
prying open a window It would hnve
been fine. My glance roved to the win
dowslll ot tho window that had been
found open and sure enough I saw a
deep gouge, freshly made, In It. But
hero again I couldn't satisfy myself ai
to the fitness of things. The mark was
a gouge, whereas it should havo been
merely an Indentation. Besides it was
sivcrnl inches further in than it should
have been had tho bar been used as a
lever, and In addition the bar was not
bent ns it should have been, for it was
soft iron, nor wan there any mark on
the lower edgo of tho window sash it
self, as must hnvo resulted from upward
pressure.
"Then in a flash tho explanation came
to me. I had Adam Hcfflcfinger ar
rested. 1I broke down and confessed
under tho stiff 'third degree' tho sheriff
and I gave him."
"But what was th explanation?"
demanded DolCyne.
Do you Inoict
The antwer will appear tomorrow.
Speaks of Wrangel'o Fight
The evacuation of the Crimen under
General Wrangel was discussed yester
day by Thomas Whittcmorc, archaeolo
gist and relief worker, nt a meeting In
the Emergency Aid assembly room; 221
South Eighteenth street. Mr. Whittc--more,
who was with General Wrangel
before the evacuation, said: "General
Wrangel knew that It would bo impossi
ble to overthrow the Bolsevlsts, hi'
whole idea was to nrcsosye Intellectual
Ittissln." Mr. Whittcmorc urged that
aid bo sent to the Buffering Hussion
rofnrocx on the phlns nt ""onstnn'monle
tow .&::..
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