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THE CHARLOTTE NEWS, CHARLOTTE, N. C, SATURDAY AFTERNOON, JUNE 18, 1921. 100 True Detective Stories The Print Of A Buckle CpyritM. MM. by Th Wheeler Syndicate. tacBook Kfehts Beserve. But I don't understand it. Jim's ever failed to be nome lonr before !',iS sinco we've been married, and hat's soin' on 30 years. Something have happened to him." The speaker, an elderly woman, once .-or? picked i'P the oil lamp from tho 'tic in the center of the living room )f tlie Mr farm house some 60 miles ,,irthvr?t of Toronto, and tried in vain o peei out through the dense snow hat bfat up against the window. ' Nonsense," replied her companion. Jim's ?"'t too much sense to try to ,et h'""1"0 tnrougn mis storm. He',3 . v ' . - ... . O nut up pome i11 l-c iUI uie nignt ar.d hell oc site and sound in the put all night long, while the winl howlfd itnrt whistled outside and thj ctonn ni.ced with all the severity of which a Canadian northeaster is ca pable. Mrs. James Agnew sat up, anx ;,lUSiv awaiting the return of her hus land. Tho snow had ceased shortly a;' er nim but the gale had continued with unabated fury. Xhe tlawn of the following , dav iircught the solution to the mystery. Even before the sun came up Mrs! Agnew saw the body of her husband, y. is less than 50 feet from the house-"-ndark red stain spreading itself fan uiise from a hole in the center of his forehead. Shortly after noon, John Wilson Murray, chief of the Canadian Secret jpivice, and the man responsible fo; the famous "swamp mystery" was on he spot, and had taken charge of the investigation. Meanwhile, however scores of persons from the surround ing country had trampled the sno-v in the vicinity of the spot where te ,!ad man's body had been found, prnc lically e'.iminatng any hope of finding a tell-tale footprint. i " Murray, therefore, at first confined himself to consideration of reports of ;!.e local police, but found in them nothing upon which to base a theory whatWdeiivPPear5?' had been SaSn X return home by icason or the violence of the stnmi SngthuXh161"8 had s-n hirn strug: &V .S6h he Snow about 8:30 and. ?hP E5 allowance r the difficulty cf relchedTis' WUld P have" o'clock 6 shortly aer a ped-skpT e time tne sn stop ;3, , Murray, and the reply was m the affirmative. i"?t0M these anybodies," grow. 4S " ever a footprinf case the whnl! is this one-but the whole thing's been messed up bv the tracks of practically everyone fo ten miles around. Agnew have pv enemies?" he inquiredftaTinfanother nn2 ne' H:! was of the most popular men m the district. 'Always !vPnamS0milend cheery meeting for couH ni4and"tramps knew that they SnS aIways get a meal at his back door. Guess, that was the trouble. II was so well known that someone took that and held him UP realizing mJ? dAbe carr'inS a good deal of money. Agnew probably showed fight n?M?'a Sh0t,m almost in the shadow ''I PJlVe' The wind deadened the sound of the gun, and the tramp had Plenty of time to make his esca?e M,,? -it7 a tramp," muttered wn' then -again, maybe it w A.- Ke?p ever-bdy away from here this afternoon, if you have to build a fence around the place. I'm going over this ground with a fine tooth comb."" - - Dividing the trampled snow into im aginary circles, the detective gradual ly worked hs way outward from th blood-stained patch until he found him self on the edge of a clump of trees about a hundred feet away. There wa no road within some distance of tha section, and footprints were few. I" fact, there was but one set, leading to a point directly under the largest ci the trees, and with tiVu tnoa ---- vwvu jx. lih: shoes pointed toward the point where Agnew's body had been found. Exercising the greatest care, Mur ray examined the prints one after the other. Those on the further side of the tree had been almost obliterated by the snow, while those on the side .nearest the. Agnew house were com paratively clear and distinct.' The story of the tracks was at once clear to the trained mind of the expert in crime detection. The man who had made them had taken refuge under the ' big tree and had stood there for some time the condition of the prints on the far side pf the . tree proved that at least 15 minutes had elapsed between the time when he had sought shelter and the commencement of his journev toward the Agnew house. Possibly the crime had been premeditated. Possibly he had seen Agnew approaching, anil knowing that he would be carrying a well-filled wallet, had decided on tho spur of the moment to hold' him up. "After all," argued Murray, "the mo tive doesn't matter. What we want is the man behind it." And the footprints' showed elearly who that man was one who hail worn heavy overshoes, fastened to his boots by a strap with a buckle under the arch of the foot. . Making his way back along the line of prints which led to the tree, Mur ray eventually came' to within sight of the house of a neighbor of Agnew, and, taking the. precaution pf throwing a cordon of police about the place, in stituted a search for the overshoes with the telltale buckles. A thorough investigation, however, failed to bring them to light, and it was only when the detective entered the barn that he found what he sought. There in a cor ner, where their owner had thrown them, was a pair of shoes which pre cisely fitted the marks in the snow a hundred feet away from the scene of the Agew murder! "Who do these belong to?" Murrav demanded. "Jim. Carney," was the reply. "H'3 a lad that works on the place here. Got a sort of room over this, if you WTant to see it." The detective's reply was a leap up the stairs, for he had heard the sound of a muffled movement above him, and he realized that he would have to act quickly. Bursting into the room, ha had just time to catch sight of a boy ish figure lifting a revolver to his tem ple. A moment later Murray had the gun, and the bo-v was rmncViofi i-n corner, whimpering that he had "nsv- ei meant io ao it. On account of. his extreme youth, Carney escaped the maximum penalty for his crjme but his revolver, with. one chamber empty, and the barrei still blackened from the smoke of tb shot which killed James Agnew took its place in Murray's collection of crim inal relics, together with a plaster im pression of the print of the buckle the snow. WANTS TO RENT A STONE CORPSE Eighty-Year-Old "Body" a Big Worry" to the Police. Sycamore, 111., June 18.- For rent: A much dead "corpse,"- guaranteed hot to walk in the night nor to otherwise annoy the owner. .-. ; . ; This is the ultimatum . of Marian French, a pennmanship teacher and owner of the "corpse." The "body," by the way, recently was alive enough to keep police- in- eight Indiana and Illinois towns on the jump for twenty four hours. Even the Chicago police "fell" for the-"corpse," although the latter was partly victimized by some active student from a journalist school who had a sense of humor. The "corpse," now stored in a sta ble here, first came to the attention of the students at the ' Sycamore sta tion, 'trainmen, suspecting the box which contained it to be a bootleg ger's storeroom (the box weighed 4S0 pounds), opened it. They, found the corpse of a man, dead eighty years and in a petrified state. When the journalistic students no ticed the "find" they immediately scattered reports of a brutal trunk murder in which a woman was cast as the victim. "She -was stabbed in a dozen places," said their sensational reports. .' Police "snapped into it" and ran down clues. The Sycamore police finally denied the murder story and announced the corpse was that of a man dead at least eighty years. Its owner, French, was finally located. He explained he had been carrying the . body 'around for exhibition pur poses. He called it a "real Amreican mummy." "I bought it from South Dakota cowboys in 1881 as a .bona fide petri fied man," he said. "It's caused me lots of trouble, so I'm going to rent it out for exhibi tion purposes," he added. ""No, I don't want to sell it." -. YOUR TEETH. There are certain peoples noted for the . beauty of their teeth and? other peoples equally well known for the ill-health of their teeth. If you will study the history.-of these peoples a bit you will find invariably that those with good teeth live on :hard foods which require 'much chewing, and con tain comparatively little starch, and that the ,niost highly civilized nations are -frequently -those with the worst teeth.- English people, generally, have poor if m. mm Keep Your Teeth in Gced Health. teeth and hate dentists. American people are inclined to have poor teeth but probably take better care of them than any other nation in the world. An "American dentist" can command al most any price in foreign countries. We Americans, and by that I mean both the States and Canada, are inclin ed to eat too much starch and ' too many soft foods. Our teeth literally do. not get enough exercise, and as starch ferments in the mouth decay sets at at an early age. It is absolutely necessary to visit a good dentist every six months or even oftener, for the teeth become coated with tartar, this tartar gets under the gums, irritates them, eventually causes little puss cells and by its irritation causes the ums to shrink, and pyo rhoea sets in. Then the teeth loosen and drop out. If the teeth are kept absolutely clean, by brushing them at least twice a day, much of this can be avoided. : Hut only a dentist can get off the tartar under the gums. Anxious Eleanor Your anemia causes the pimples. They will disap pear as you build up the quality of your blood. Your weight is correct. Perplexed Your yellow skin comes from a sluggish liver. You can help it by drinking more water and eating plenty of fruit, green vegetables and salads, which can be made from dan delion leaves. The cold cream is used first, as it softens the skin, preparing it for the treatment. Ice always completes the treatment, as it closes the pores. H. P. T. You can reduce that flesh iness under the arms by rollinr; the arms in the shoulder socks and de scribing a circle with the hands . Take the exercise first with ons arm, then the other one and finally, roll both at the same time. Begin it with a slow mopon and increase until the arms whirl around as if they were wheels. Tomorrow Old Age and Digestion. All inquiries addressed to Miss Forbes in care of the "Beauty Chat" department will be answered in th-jsa columns in their turn. This requires considerable time, however, owing to the great numbmer received. So If a personal ,or quicker reply is desired, a stamped and self -addressed envelops must be enclosed with the question. The Editor. NEW RIDING HABIT OF COVERT CLOTH Tan covert cloth makes this nob by riding suit. A fancy tan ant brown barred vest gives a bright tuch to the whole. 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