Amazing Stories, Vol. 2, No. 1 — page 44: what you’re looking at

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720 MAN iv By Edwin Baler and WilhamB. 7 ROOM Authors of “The Hammering Man,” “The Eleventh Hour,” ete. «+ tenet nme ‘ . . ges “ ’ nt Be tne PO eee ewe ao, » . . ° TE pw OP or + ee ae ome ower me ; ‘AS € he So) GRE MED EMRE REE ; ? th OR e666 BUBB ‘ ae ts i = “% eS ul > | “So, you were the man in the room Sunday night! You, to save the rascal, Harrison, the real thief, burned the raised notes, turned on the gas and left him to seem a suicide and a thief!”’ AZING, Trant.” “More than merely amazing! Face the fact, Dr. Reiland, and it is astound- ing, incredible, disgraceful! After five =3} thousand years of civilization, our police and court procedures recognize no higher knowl- And under his right eye (the bluer one) a tiny birth-sear, usually almost indistinguishable, glowed dimly pink in his intenseness. On his knee Trant held the Chicago Record-Herald, and, as he went on, his finger followed the paragraphs. “Listen} ‘A man’s body found in Jackson Park’; edge of men than the first Pharoah put into practice in Egypt before the pyra- mids were built!” Young Luther Trant pushed impatiently back from Reiland’s breakfast table and crossed one mus- cular leg awkwardly over the other. Awkwardly, and with the same rebel- lious impatience, he pushed his fingers through His queerly mismated eyes— one more gray than blue, the other more blue than gray—fiashed at his older companion earnestly. his thick red hair. A FTER you have read this absorbing tale, you will read with a great deal more interest, future news- paper accounts of people who commit suicide by inhaling slluminating gas. Who knows but that in some cases not suicide but murder was committed? How our scientific detective goes about solving this particular case, makes excellent? reading. one: 43 six suspects seen near the spot have been arrested. ‘The Schlaack’s abduction or murder’; three men under arrest for that since last Wednesday. ‘The Lawton trial pro- gresses’; with the likeli- hood that young Lawton will be declared innocent; eighteen months he has been in confinement—eighteen months of indelible association with criminals! ‘Sixteen men are held as suspected of com- plicity in the murder of Bronson, the prosecuting And here’s the big Eomicboo <Si€O ~