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THE SCOTCH SHOOTING MYSTERY.…

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THE SCOTCH SHOOTING MYSTERY. A STORY ABOUT THE MISSING MAN SCOTT. THE POLICE HAVE BLUNDERED. I saw him (writes the Sun" representa- tive) in conversation with another official at a West-end hotel. Scott's brother had been particularly described to me. Are you Air. George Sweeney!" I asked. "I am," said the tall military figure of the man, who so ol«?ely resembled the, printed description of t1le mi3.<iu!{ Scott that I knew him at a glancc. Well I'm a friend of Mr.. Would you mind giving me a word?" "Certainly but I don't know what you want," said Sweeney. We stood aside talking as people came and went. You've been subpoenal by the police?" "No." Well; but they've seen you?" Oh, yes." "Where's your brother?" "I'm sure I don't know." "Yu know he's wanted 1" Y., but I don't think he knows it. They've made a great mistake. My brother is not the man." "Possibly; was not he in S-tl..d?" How should I know? He may have gone I fI7 folnetilo, A: or elsewhere. 1 -'t teU." "Then he is 'Scott'"? "He is not. The police have bluiidc-rld-got hold of the wrong man. Why, .hess my life, the description given doesn't fit my brother. How's that? My bwther's over six foot and has b 'u' and is qu*" doubled up with wn- blue eyes, ?7h dId you see your brother, d-?,,d Sweeney, t' 11 "I believe he came here about the middle of September. "After I th:e alr:toihM! "I think so—he didn't say where he'd been." "Was the Scotch shooting ease mentioned?" "Certainly not. not a whisper; I then knew nothing of it." How do vou account for his absence now vou know he is charged 1" In this way. My brother, as I told you juet now, is a book- maker. Now, racing's all very well in the summer, but for an invalid like him to follow his occupation in winter would be absurd. You know what a life it is. He is probably abroad, or at some out-of-the-way seaside place. It was always his habit to go off at a minute's notice without letting us know where he was. Once he went round the world." He's well off then?" Oh. yes, he has ofteu £100 in his pocket." "I suppose you know your brother 'Scott,' as they call him, and your father left 35, Sutherland-street, Pim- lico, in the first week in September. I d. It you 1 Detectives were worrving their lives out. My sister couldn't go to- the greengrocer's without someone following ber.?' "Did your brother ??- where he was going?" T. Y.. k,?o? Monson, 'rottnham, Hambrough, and the rest?" I don't, -d never heard of them until this caee." "I don't know whether you've notice the fact in the papers, but it is said a bundle of letters, written by Monson, addressed to one Davis, will be produced at the trial." I v- not seen the statement. If so, how do you know the Davis mentioned was my brother? Pos- sibly they'll produce the person who handed the pohoe the letters. "Perhaps they won't! Anyhow, you'll admit your brother raced under the Ynaua'ie of Ted Davis." "He did, and so do hundreds of others." What's your reason for your brother's extraordinary ab- sence? I say again, he is d,-ig, gave him. self a year to live, and most likely is in sc?oe out-of-the-way part of the country for the win- ter. He sta?ted mrly." "Do you think he'll turn up at the trial?" Most a-qruredly as eoonaa he knows of this affair. "Your brother lived at Richmond once? What does your father fay about it all?" "He was at first like myself much amused, but when it became serious he wouldn't discuss the matter he was so angry." "You know where he is, I presume?" "I don't; I go my way and do my work. I've been here some eleven years, and I refuse to be mixed up in such busi- ness.

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