The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blindâthere were simply no trails. The circumstances baffled explanationâa lone woman entering an empty taxicab; a run to a distant point in the city; the discovery of the womanâs disappearance, and in her stead the sight of the dead body of a prominent society manâthat, and the further blind information that the suit-case which the woman had carried was the property of the man whose body was huddled horribly in the taxicab.
The crime seemed to have lost itself in the sleety cold of the December midnight upon which it was committed. The trails were not blindâthere were simply no trails. The circumstances baffled explanationâa lone woman entering an empty taxicab; a run to a distant point in the city; the discovery of the womanâs disappearance, and in her stead the sight of the dead body of a prominent society manâthat, and the further blind information that the suit-case which the woman had carried was the property of the man whose body was huddled horribly in the taxicab.