The Red Paste Murders

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Arthur Gask. The Red Paste Murders

The Red Paste Murders

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CHAPTER I.—A CITY OF FEAR

CHAPTER II.—MY EARLY DAYS

CHAPTER III.—THE POT OF RED PASTE

CHAPTER IV.—THE FIRST CRIME

CHAPTER V.—THE DEATH OF POLICEMAN HOLTHUSEN

CHAPTER VI.—THE ROUSING OF THE CITY

CHAPTER VII.—AT THE RACES

CHAPTER VIII.—SPECIAL CONSTABLE PETER WACKS

CHAPTER IX.—THE GRAVEL PIT

CHAPTER X.—THE LAST CRIME OF WACKS

CHAPTER XI.—THE DAY AFTER

CHAPTER XII.—I AM SUSPECTED

CHAPTER XIII.—THE NEW MURDERER

CHAPTER XIV.—IN THE HOSPITAL

CHAPTER XV.—OUR WEDDING

CHAPTER XVI.—A GREAT EVANGELIST

CHAPTER XVII.—SIX YEARS AFTER

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Arthur Gask

A Thrilling Mystery

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"On Saturday night Mathew Crane, a tram conductor on duty, was struck on the head when actually not five yards away from his tram, just as he was altering the tram time-indicator at the terminus opposite Kensington Gardens. He died an hour later in the Adelaide Hospital.

"Sunday brought a double crime—the killing of Mr. and Mrs. Van Dene, in their own drawing-room in Medindie. It is very difficult to write calmly here. Those whose duty it was to visit the scene of the crime described it as being as terrible in its surroundings as anything the mind of anyone could conceive. For the first time the assassin had been interrupted in his ghastly work, and Mr. Van Dene had put up a gallant fight. But we cannot further harrow the feelings of our readers—the dreadful facts were detailed in our columns yesterday.

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