Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1879-08-28

lice surveillance.
Among the detectives wht
: Examined the scene Of the Grim,
was a yonhg Bavarian namet
Pohl, who had already distill
Iguishcd himself in various com,
plicated cases. He applied fol
8 permission to work this one up
: saying that he had discovered q
tclae. This clue was a partial
lly masticated quid of Ameri,
lean fine-cut tobacco which hi
had found under the table il
the bedroom, and a well-know1n
rubber. tobaeeo-pouch, which
had evidently been emptied and
thrown aside by the iirobberooi
the discovery of some similar
Irecepiacle in better repair. ge4t
! The Chief of the Police Blu.
reau smiled, but what was more
to the purpose, granted tie re-
quired permission, and Pohlsset
to work, TO run the assassin to
death. 9's
l Fraif as the thread which he
Ihad to guide him was, it was
really q stronger one than the
reader may think. Chewing is
an almost unknown vice in
Continental Europe, The peo-
pie who do masticate tobacco
are either IaborersI or sailors, ,and
they use the weed in plug OF
leaf form. The presence of the
fine-cut and the pouch limited at
some special deyotee of r the
weed-an American, as Pohl,
who had visited this country,
argued, or some one who had
been to the, United, States.
The sequel proved his theory
correct.
| The proof came purely by ac-
cident, though, and when the
detective had begun to despair
of success. More than a month
after the murder, while stroll
ing through a public concert
garden, theIdetectiye's attention
was attracted to aiwell-known
member Of the dena5-n9oRde who
occupied one iofI the tables a.
lone. She WAS evidently wait
ing for some one. That some one
presently came in the person Of
a stalwart, handsome, but some
what coarse-leoking man of
thirty, dressed very fashionably
in clothing OF Enthusiastically En-
glish cut. This gentleman's
other characteristics were u SUI
perabundance of gaudy jewelry
and a most extravagant assump-
tion of gentility. .anf5sa rlo
To the experienced officer his
manner and makeup marked
him at once as an adventurer of
some sort. More for curiosity
than any suspicion, for the man
was utterly unknown to him,
ROhl kept him in view.
Shortly after he joined the
woman they rose and strolled
off jarln-in-arm.g j Pohl dogged
them. In u retired corner Of
the garden the man attempted
to kiss his companion. She re-
sisted, saying:@ 'M
81 will not kiss you. The
smell OF that filthy tobacco
sickens me" - ~ -,.
The man turned and spat
something over his shoulder.
1t rolled to the detectives feet,
and that worthy scourge of the
wrong doer felt his blood thrill.
The morsel the caddish strang-
Ell had been rolling under his
tongue was quid of fine-cut
tobacco. arr,55
Four days later Heinrich
Blumenstiehl, who registered
himself flamboyantly as ''from
New York, travelling for pleas
ure," was arrested in his room
in the Crown Hotel, for the
murder of the sdUd,H Pusinelli.
He denied his guilt, but the
clever detective had not done
his work by halves. He ap-I
peared against him with chain
of such incontrovertible evil
dence that the accused finally
surrendered at discretion. He
acknowledged his guilt, and
was sentenced to Imprisonment
for life. This is what the trial
brought forth.
Blumenstiehl, who's real
name is Aarons, is the son of a
well-to-do slop-shop keeper.
He went wrong early in life and
was packed off to America by
his father. After a few years
in this country he returned to
his native city and entered the
ranks of the professional thieves
there. He was exceptionally
lucky, and escaped detection
and punishment up to the Der
by Day of 1877, when he was
arrested in company with
number of other "mobsmen,"
but managed to give his cap
tors the slip and fled, through
Flanders, into Germany. He
passed for a German without
difficulty, for his mother, whose