I -rr U Xi 1 TSTl f - v nr flR f 'vyt". i . I umT ,a wn EVflNIKG PUBLIC LEDGER-MJL'ADELPHIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1921 15 TODAY'S MYSTERY STORY lly 1'fllLIP OTIANCIS NOWLAN I Yesterday's Mystery Solution ... ! Dcrnons, inclmllng two .? ,. f.ml'l". Intel been wiped out by n 'ntlw $ nimlPM committed In rap i) C'Vn'" r'eenco of robbery. , th lftlmH apparently lmd re 1Ja Vn " tfircnts or demand for "no prlir to the murder. None of K0e',n"rrntlj lmd nny money. Hunt ni. Htriiok by three poln a in .Minn with the murders. First, oouncctlon ""," t, ', in,i.,n nn.i thL. ',be?r m thn ln-.trntn.Mit of death were Sonntol!of.l.chlllnR8. Hccond ln, 15 .it It ns the children vlio were rllt-t ll"oS.omen nt and the - fii i.i aim tinnu-nv it. ii n L. 1t. liuni, u- fcrMi. - JU - Jf.n '"'.. in t'lin low n. apparently, fhi h. J recced any threatening let ?.M and he had not been molested. '"?' ,hP flmt two of these poInU nn -drew tic conclusion that the "nJ had been committed by the ..me perHon, nml mac uio yciMinunj wilfss M'llng of children and women htartiw " h .lovlli.h inecnu tv 8'",r( m ln,l the iden- ? of th murderer. What other mean- t,ty 01 iii . ,to t,irom Ihi! Sfrd he deduced that the banker prob vtl WW more about the case tnan mittcd. Upnrmcd people had been ' . .i. ttfn nf lin Hincle nrrsrm who claimed to have been warned. Wotklng on tills theory, nunt itnniiy Opacity of confidential finauctal adviser h,. knew ihcmj " " "--- ".-. hem to Rft that money, but first he illlfd the members of their families so that none would he allvo to testify there hod been nny money or that the banker knew anj thing of It. Dl (Hntnunl was mentally unbai led. He planned his crimes with dlu- bolifttl ingenuitj, ouc ins wciiKiit-si, 11 1 . .i A I. ui innnv iintinlnru prl mpti- tihtles, wns an obsession that his own ie was bclnfi sought, an obsession i..i ..n cAttmlinti Iti rlin i nrllpil nro tes of his mind with the very crimes he as commuting ugainsi, outers, no hid, of course, "taktd" the letters and itut them to uimscii. LXXXV1 How would you describe the murderer in With No Light DETECTIVE SEIKJUANT ItltAN nljan swore in cltemcut exaspera- .t. TlnfAPllvp AniklfMn pphnprl htn iftitimfnts hrirtllv. The case had "got ten" their goat.. A patient in the .Northern Hospital had been murdered, it could almost be raid in p'aln sight of three nurses. Had there been a light in the ward the nurses must havij seen the crime com mitted, for the cot of the victim was In a direct linn with the door, Right oiji(ibiiu uiih ucor wan iuc ucucii on which the nurses had been slttlne. Thev weren't frivolous young nurses. They were women of cfllcicnt middle age, thoroughly responsible not only in their work, hut in every other respect. To doubt their statements that they all had been sitting there at the time, and that thero was not even a flash of light in the ward was out of the ques tion. Yet "Don" Ostcrman had been mur dered right in front of their eyes. Os terinan was an underworld character, tho head of a "dope" ring, though the authorities had never been able to get evidence enough to convict him, Jle was in the hospital because he had been shot and wounded by some unknown enemy. He had more of these than most men have acquaintances. There was no way of telling which of the hundreds had done its whether it was the (tamo man who had shot htm or not. Thp murderer had Jabbed a piece of wire, probably a hatpin, through his cjn and Into the brain as ha lay on his tot. He had died without a sound. All they k,new was that he had bcn killed between '2 and 2:,10 in the morn ing, for every half hour one of tho nurses went Into the .ward and turned up the light to attend to one of the Catlents. Uo might have been killed y one of the patients In the same ward, or by Rome one from outalde the ward, for there was u door opening on au other corridor from that in which the nurses sat, and anybody using that door might with luck get to almost any point in the hospital without being seen. But tho murderer must have been Hofncbody inside the building, for there was but one unbarred entrance, the front door, and a watchman was on duty there. "What's got my goat," remarked BrAitnignn, "Is how anybody could seo to run n wlro in his ejc. The nurses themselves were sitting in the dark. Tho light was way ut the other end of tho corridor. It f,as just com pletely, tectotally black In the ward. You know wo sot there for twenty minutes ourselves tonight, and couldn't seo a thing. You couldn't sen at all when jou went ln to the bed, could you?" "I couldn't see my hand when I held It three Inches from my eves," replied Anselm. "I'll admit, chief, my brain's Just as dark now as my hand was then. Wo know somebody In that hospital killed him, and that's all we do know. There atv Just ,'142 persons In that building altogether." "I'll tell you what," suggested Ilran nigan suddenly. "Let's put It up to 'our dear friend Harvey Hunt. He's a nut, of course, but jott'vo got in ndmit that sometimes he guesses right, lie's a pretty good spoilt, too. If he get's an idea on it he'll be willing to como ucross." Anselm grunted dlaapprovnl of the plan, hut Ilratmlgan was in hnrgc, so thev called upon the crlmlno'oglst. Hunt heard their story through, but It was nn effort toward tho cud. When they finished he could hold in no longer, but laughed until the team rolled down his cheeks. "It's absolutely the simplest earn I heard of for jears," he said flna'ly. 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