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GREEN "Fresh from the Gardens" BW -- The Green Murder Case BY §. 8. VAN DINE. SYNOPSIS ~hilo Vance becomes interested in the tireene v Murder Case and Julla Greene is killed and her sister, Ada, wounded. 1G Ars, Greene, w'th five children, Julia, Chester, Siella, tex and Ada live in the old Greene mansion. Chester <Gireene is the next victim, shot through the heart. Aga goes to the district Ate torney's office; while thers Rex is mur- dered In his bedroom. The next morning Ada is poisoned with morphiny and that night Mrs. Greene dies of strych- nine poisoning. Ada and Sibella are the only survivors, Ada, Sibella «nd Von I3lon, family physician, go for a drive, Vance starts in pursuit and finds Sibella unconscious and Ada at the wheel. On tha way back she poisons herself. Vance esplains his solution of the case. CHAPTER XL.--(Cont'd.) "Back in her own bedroom, with the lights on, she stood before the large mirror of the dressing-table, and, holding the gun in her right hand, placed it against her left shoul- ¢or-blade at an oblique angle. The mirror and the lights were essential, for she could thus see exactly where to point the muzzle of the revolver. All this occupied the three-minute in- terval between the shots. Then she pulled the trigger " "But a girl shooting herself as a fake!" cbjected Heath. "It ain't nat- ural." . "But Ada wasn't natural, sergeant. None of the plot was natural. Tha: was why I was so anxious to lnok up her family history. But as to shoot- inz herself; that was quite logical, when one considers her true charac- ter. And, as a matter of fact, there yras little or no danger attaching to it. The gun was on a hair-trigger, and little pressure was needed to dis- charge it. A slight flesh wound wes ths worst she had to fear. Moreover, h'story is full of cases of self-mutila- tion where the object to be gained was far smaller than what Ada was after. Gross is full of them. ******" He tok up Volume I of the "Hand- bueh fur Untersuchungs-richter," which lay on the table beside him and openéd it at a marked page. "Listen to this, sergeant, .I'll trans- late the passage roughly as I read: 'jt is rot uncommon to find people who inflict wounds on themselves, such are, besides persons pretending to ba tha victims of assault with (sadly weapons, those who try to ex- tort damages or blackmail. Thus it often happens that, after an insig- rificant scuffle, one of the combatants shows wounds which he pretends to hava received. "It is characteristic of these vol- untary mutilations that most fre- yuently those who perform them do rot quite complete the operation, and that they are, for the most part, who manifest excessive piety, or lead a solitary life. * * *! And surely, Ser- geant, you are familiar with the self- mutilation of soldiers to escape sex- vice. The most common method used by them is to place their hand over the muzzle of the gun and blow their fingers ofl." Vance closed the book, "And don't forget that the girl was hopeless, desperate and unhappy, with everything to win and nothing to lose. She would probably have committed suicide if she had not worked out the plan of the murders. A superficial wound in the shoulder meant little to her in view of what she was to gain by it. And women have an almost infinite capacity for gelf-immolation. With Ada, it was part of her abnormal condition--No, sergeant; the self-shooting was per- fectly consistent in the circum- stances. ****" "But in the back!" Heath looked dumbfounded. "That's what gets me. Who ever heard----?" "Just a moment." Vance took up Volume II of the "Handbuch" and opened it to a marked page, 'Gross, for instance, has heard of many such cases--in fact, they're quite common on the Continent. And his record of them indubitably gave Ada the idea of shooting herself in the back. "Here's a single paragraph culled from many pages of similar cases: "That you should not be deceived by the seat of the wound is proved by the following two cases. In the Vien- na Prater a man killed himself in the presence of several people by shoot- ing himself in the back of the head with a revolver. Without the testi- mony of several witnesses nobody would have accepted the theory of suicide. A soldier killed himself by a shot with his military rifle through the back by fixing 'the rifle in a cer- tain position and then lying down over it. Here again the position of the would seemed to exclude the the- ory of suicide." "Wait a minute!" Heath heaved himself forward and shook his cigar at Vance. "What about the gun? Sproot entered Ada's room right af- ter the shot ,was fired, and there wasn't no sign of a gun!" Vance, without answering, merely turned the pages of Gross' "Hand- buch to where another marker pro- truded, and began translating: "Early one morning the authori- ties were informed that the corpse of a murdered man had been found. At the spot indicated the body' was dis- covered by a grain merchant, A.M. supposed to be a well-to-do man, face downward with a gunshot wound e- hind the ear. "The bullet after passing through the brain had lodged in the frontal bone above the left eye. The place where the corpse was found was in the middle of a bridge over a deep stream. Just when the inquiry was concluding and the corpse was about to be re- moved for post-mortem, the investi- gating officer observed quite by chance that on the decayed wooden parapet of the bridge, almost opposite to the spot where the corpse lay, there was a small but perfectly fresh dent which appeared to have been caused by a violent blow on the upper edge of the parapet of a hard and an- gular object. He immediately sus- pected that the dent had some con- nection with the murder. According- ly, he determined to drag the bed of the stream below the bridge, when almost immediately there was picked up a strong cord about fourteen feet long, with a large stone at one end and at the other a discharged pistol, the barrel of which fitted exactly the bullet extracted from the head of AM, The case was thus evidently one of suicide. A.M. had hung the stone over the parapet of the brid and discharged the pistol behind Sis ear. The moment he fired he let go the pistol, which the weight of the stone dragged over the parapet info the water.* * * Does that answer your question, sergeant?" Heath stared at him with gaping "You mean her gun went outa the window like that guy's gun went over the bridge?" "There can be no doubt about it. {in this way, as has been proved by, against the other). The bea gun," Heath with 'awed dis- Harris is itself a remarkably remote "And what about the footprints, spot to be the origin of such a Mr. Vance? I suppose Ada faked famous mal L 'em all." . mountainous southern portion of} "Yes, sergeant--With Gross' min- What is known as the Long Island, ute instructions and the footprint for- ying far out in the Atlantic in the geries of many famous criminals to guide her, she faked them. As soon as it had stopped snowing that night she slipped downstairs, put on a pair hand looms, and the buyer receives of Chester's discarded galoshes and it in a web as immaculate as any walked to the front gate and back.' lifted straight from the shelf of a Then she hid the galoshes in the li- great warehouse in the vity. brary." In St. Kilda, where the sheep were Vance turned once more to Gross' black, the tweed woven hy the fin- manual. / habitants, before the island was "There's everything here that one evacuated, was usually = either black could possibly want to kuow about or speckled, owing to the difficulty the making and detection of foot-' of getting natural dyes; but * in Hebrides." In Herris the tweed is woven in the little houses, on small -prints--and what is more to the Harris, where vegetation is plentiful, point--about the manufacturing of the tweeds show a variety of bheauti- footprints in shoes too large for one's ful colorings. In fact, the only dyes feet. Let me translate a short pas-' bought are indigo and "enbbar'--a sage: 'The criminal may intend to bright red dye. Cochieal is also cast suspicion upon another person,' used for the finer shades of red, but especially if he foresees that suspi- it is too expensive to be used fraely. cion may fall upon himself. In this, Sometimes a pretty red and white case he produces clear footprints mixture is obtained by boiling in which, 50 to speak, leap to his eyes,' dye a tightly tied skein of wool of by wearing shoes which differ essen- equal lengths (usually measured in tially from his own. One may often homely fashion by placing one fist The tied por- numerous experiments, produce foot- tions remain the natural color and prints which deceive perfectly.' * * ™ thus a contrast is made throughout And here at the end of the paragraph the skein. ! Gross refers specifically to galoshes--| Among many plants from a fact whieh very likely gave Ada her, which dyes are extracted for the inspiration to use Chester's overshoes.| tweeds are alder-wood, which gives She was shrewd enough to profit by plack, ivy leaves which yield yellow, the suggestions in this passage." and heather tips which give green, And she was shrewd enough to Crotal, or rock lichen, yields brown hoodwink all of us when we ques-| and incidentally, gives the unmis- tioned her," commented Markham bit-| taxable smell associated with the terly. true Harris tweed. The following True. But that was because she ines, from verses by an anonymous had a folie de grandeur and lived the! writer, convey a real interpretation story. Moreover, it was all based on ot what the smell of Harrls tweed fact; its details were grounded in| peang to anyone who loves the is reality. Even the shuffling sound she jangg off the west coast of Scotland: said she heard in her room was an| imaginative projection of the actual' «; yet a man in Harris tweed shuffling sound: she made when she! ,o'; walked down the Strand; walked in Chester's huge galoshes.'; +. cq and followed like a dog Also, her own shuffling, no doubt, sug-| The breath of hill and peat and bog gested to her how Mrs. Greene's foot-) That clung about that coat of brown, steps would have sounded had the, And suddenly in London Town old: lady regained the use of her legs. | ) 1.4 again the Gaelic speech, _ "And I imagine it was Ada's orig-| myo sorunch of keel on shingly inal purpose to cast a certain amount beach: of suspicion on Mrs, Greene from the rane very beginning. But Sibella's atti-' 9 ¢ tude during that first interview caus- i ea ou one ed her to change her tactics, As I see | 8 SE 0 f Taransa it, Sibella_was- suspicious of little, o 0 rat OF © 4 i s : "€ Sang to me one enchanted day. sister, and talked the situation OVer| "as a man renewed indeed with Chester, rho may also have had] Because I smelt that Harris tweed vague misgivings about Ada. You I lked down the Strand." remember his sub-rosa chat with Si. As 1 Waike Pe ? bella when he went to summon her to the drawing room. He was probably! informing her that he hadn't yet made up his mind about Ada and was advising her to go easy until there was some specific proof. "Sibella evidently agreed, and re- frained from any direct charge until Ada, in telling her grotesque fairy tale about the intruder, rather im- plied it was a woman's hand that had touched her in the dark. "That was too much for Sibella, who thought Ada was referring to her; and she burst forth with her ac- cusation, despite its seeming absurd- ity. The amazing thing about it-was that it happened to be the truth. She! named the murderer and stated a large part of the motive before any of us remotely guessed the truth, even though she did back down and change the Prince George Honors Sir Malcolm Campbell London.--Prince George, who is President-in-Chief of the British Rac- ing Club, presided at a banquet which the club held in honor of Bir "Malcolm Campbell on' his return to England. Sir Malcolm set up at Daytona Beach, Florida, a new worlds' landspeed record of 272,108 miles an hour. It is understood that the club's British Empire Trophy rgce will take a different form this year. Instead of one race composed of four heats and a final, jt is stated that this year the club is holding a British Empire meeting, at which five sepa- rate and independent races will Te held, re her mind when inconsistency of it etme ffm was pointed out to her. And she really . did see Ada in Chester's room looking Novel Ingredients for the revolver." Are Used by Artist Markham nodded. London.--Jean Varda, French artist, "It's astonishing. But after the uses everything but the kitchen stove accusation, when Ada knew that Si-| in creating his "pictures." , bella suspected her, why didn't she. kill Sibella next?" (Tobe concluied.) They are made of painted.cement, wire, glass, bootlace eyelets, slabs of stone and beads from old cemetery wreaths. 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