Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-06-02

rooms; I will come on later; 1 must follow
this n an-it's the Foggatt case" AS he
went out / heard a cab rattle away, and
immediately after 1t another.
paid the bill and went home. 1t was 10
o, CLOCK before Hewitt turned up, calling in
at his office below on his way up to me.
Mr.. Sidney Mason" he said lis the gen.
tleman the police will be wanting tomor-
row, I expect, for the Foggatt murder. He
Is as smart man as l remember ever
meeting, and has done me rather neatly
twice this evening""
You mean the man we sat opposite at
LuzattPs, Of course?'
Yes. l got his name. of course, from the
reverse of that gold medal he was good
CROUCH to show me. But l fear he has
bilked me over the address. He suspected
me. that was plain. and left his umbrella
by way of experiment to see If 1 were
watching him sharply enough to notice the
circun stance, and to avail myself of 1t to
follow him. l was hasty and fell into the
trap. He cabbed 1t away from Luzattfs
and cabbed 1t after him. He has led me
a pretty dance up and down London to-
night and two cabbies have made quite a
stroke of business out of US. In the end he
entered house of which, of course, have
taken the address. but 1 expect he doesn't
live there. He is too smart man to lead
me to his den; but the police can certainly
find something of him at the house he went
In at-and. / expect, left by the back way.
BY the way, you never guessed that simple
L
was murder. did you? You see it now. of
course?"
Something to do with that apple you
stole, / suppose?
so, you worthy innocent. Just ring your
bell-wen borrow Mrs. Clayton's sewing
machine oil again. On the night we broke
INTO Foggatts room you saw the nutshells
ana the bitten remains of apple on the
sideboard, and you remembered it; and yet
you couldn't see that in that piece of apple
possibly lay an important piece Of evidence.
Of course, never expected you to have ar
rived at any conclusion, as / had, because
1 had ten minutes in which to examine that
apple, and to do what did with it. But
at least you should have seen the possibility
of evidence In 1t.
ten apple as you must have observed, turns
OF reddish brown color If left to stand
long. Different kinds of apples brown with
different rapidities. and the browning al
ways begins at the core. This is one Of the
twenty thousand tiny things that few peo-
pie take the trouble to notice. but which 1t
Is useful for man In my position to know.
A russell will brown quite quickly The
apple on the sideboard was, as near as I
could tell, Newtown pippin or other apple
Of that kind, which will brown at the core
In from twenty minutes to half an hour,
ana In other parts in a quarter of an hour
more. When We saw 1t 1t was white, with
barely tinge Of brown about the exposed
core. 1nference-somebody had been eating
1t fifteen or twenty minutes before-perhaps
q little longer; an inference supported by
the TACT that 1t was only partly eaten.
Il examined that apple, and found 1t
bore marks Of very irregular teeth. While
you were gone oiled 1t over. and, rushing
down to my rooms, where / always have a
little plaster Of Paris handy for such
work. took a mold of the part where the
teeth had left the clearest marks. / then
returned the apple to its place, for the po-
lice to use If they though fit Looking at
my mold, it was plain that the person who
had bitten that apple had lost two teeth.
one at top and one below not exactly op-
posite but nearly so. The other teeth, al
though they would appear to have been
fairly sound were irregular in size and line
Now the dead man had, as 1 saw, a very
excellent set of false teeth, regular and
sharp. with none missing. Therefore it
was plain that somebody else had been
clear?"
quite. Go on"
There were other differences to be made
-slighter, but all poip ting the same way
For instance, a man of Foggatts age does
not, as rule, mu1ch an unpeeled apple
like Observation-Disclosures, a young man.
and healthy. Why l came to the conclu-
sion that he was tall, active a gymnast
and perhaps sailor, / have already told
you, when We examined the outside of
toggatts window. 1t was also pretty clear
that robbery was Tot the motive, since
nothing was disturbed, and that a friendly
conversation had preceded the murder
witness, the drinking and the eating of the
apple. w neither or not the police noticed
these things / can't say. If they had had
their best men on they certainly would
think; but the case, to a rough observer
looked so clearly one of accident or suicide
that possibly they didn't.
las said. after tn. inquest I was unable
TO devote any immediate time to the case,
but resolved to keep my eyes open. The
man to look for was tall, young, strong
and active with very irregular set OF
teeth. tooth missing from the lower Jaw
Just to the left of the center, and another
from the upper jaw a little further still to-
ward the left He might possibly be a per-
son L had seen about the premises q have
good memory for faces, or, of course he
possibly might not.
Just before you returned from your hol-
fday L noticed a young man at Luzatti's
whom i remembered to have seen some
where about the offices in this building
He was tall, young, and so on, but / had a
client with me, and was unable to examine
him more narrowly-indeed, as 1 was not
exactly engaged on the case, and as there
are several tall young men about, 1 took
little trouble. But today finding the same
young man, with a vacant seat opposite
him, took the opportunity of making a
closer acquaintance"
you certainly managed IN 5raw b,r,,
out" ''''
oh, yes-the easiest person in the world
to draw out is cyclist. The easiest cyclist
to draw out is. of course, the novice, but
te next easiest is the veteran When Won
see a healthy, well-trained looking man
VINO. nevertheless, has slight stoop in the
shoulders, and, maybe, medal on his
Watch-guard. 1t is always safe card to
try him first with little cycle racing talk
soon brought Mr.. Mason out of his she'll
read his name on his medal and had a
chance OF observing his teeth-indeed he
spoke or them himself. Now, as 1 obse-, ed
just now, there are several tall, athletic
young men about, and also there are sew
eral men who have lost teeth. But now /
saw that this tall and athletic young man
had lost exactly two teeth-one from the
lower jaw, just to the left of the center
and another from the upper Jaw, further
still toward the left Trivialities pointing
IN the same direction, became important
considerations. More his teeth were ir-
regular throughout, and. as nearly as /
could remember 1t, looked remarkably like
this little plaster mold Of mine"
He produced from his pocket an irregular
lump OF plaster, about three inches long
On one side of this appeared in relief the
likeness of two Irregular rows of six or
eight teeth, minus one in each row. where
deep gap was seen, in the position spoken
OF by my friend. He proceeded:
This was enough al least to set me after
this young man. But he gave me the
greatest chance of all when he turned and
left his apple (eaten Unpeeled remember
another important triviality) on his plate
I'm afraid L wasn't at all polite and ran
the risk Of arousing his suspicious but 7
couldn't resist the temptation to steal It. /
did. as you saw. and here II is"
He brought the apple from his coat
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