CHAPTER V

GATHERING INFORMATION (_Saturday, June 15; forenoon._) You will remember the sensation caused by Alvin Benson’s murder. It was one of those crimes that appeal irresistibly to the popular imagination. Mystery is the basis of all romance, and about the Benson case there hung an impenetrable aura of mystery. It was many days before any definite light was shed on the circumstances surrounding the shooting; but numerous _ignes fatui_ arose to beguile the public’s imagination, and wild speculations we…