The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1900-08-17
TRACING A BULLET.

together at headquarters the other
night and spinning yarns to pass away
an idle half hour or so, and the red
mustached one had been holding forth
on the peculiar ways in which the
source Of bullet shots coming from an
unseen direction were traced.
The killing of Goebel had brought up
the discussion and they were comment
ing on the attempt made to trace the
place whence the fatal bullet came by
means of a tight wire stretched to va
rious windows of the Kentucky capital.
| II think I can recall a story that
beats that" said an old detective af-
ter they had looked al it from all points
of view. Il was down in Hot Springs,
Ark. once when very peculiar acct
dent happened to a policeman there.
He was more properly speaking, an APP
| plicant for admission on the force and
was undergoing physical examination.
They had him standing up against the
wall and had just adjusted the measur-
| ing machine to take his height. when,
zip! Mr.. Policeman clapped his hands
| to his right eye and fell in a heap. He
| was picked up almost unconscious and
an examination disclosed the fact that
he had been hit just above the eye by a
partially spent bullet, which had fallen
to the floor with him
1--WE doctored him up and found him
only slightly hurt, but everybody was
| wondering where in the world that bull
let had come from. No shot had been
heard and no shooting ARRAY had been
reported all that day, but there was
young army officer at the reservation
there who was pretty well known as an
engineer in the artillery arm of the SER
vice. He heard of the queer happening,
and becme interested in the case. He
came down to headquarters next day
and had a talk with Chief -, and the
upshot of it was that he was given per-
mission to work on the affair, as he said
he was sure he could locate the exact
spot whence the shot came
THE first thing he did was to exam
inc the measuring machine. and he
found it just as 1t was left when the
prospective policeman had been bowled
over, so he had him get under the bar
again and stand just as he had stood
the day before When he had rigged up
his own machine he got the exact alti-
tude of the place where the bullet
struck and the direction of the bullet in
the wound. can't give Won the tech
nical description, but he worked at his
instruments and worked at his paper
and finally told us he was going to as
certain the trajectory of the bullet in
lite flight He weighed the bullet and
measured it also to hairs breadth and
planted his machine so that his needle
would be exactly in the cpot where the
wound would have been in the police
mans head had he stood there. | for
got to say the bullet had evidently
come through the window opposite, and
outside was perspective of housetops
with the ridge of mountains away to
til back of them
"Of course we were al mighty curi-
ous and n whole Int sslsenticaI but tba |
military chan kent his month eh,t and
worked away nearly all dav Final,v |
toward dusk he i,I,nped nm and nut an |
his coat and told the chief TO follow
those fellows who were on dutv were !
awfully sore because thew couIdn,t go
"'Do Won see that tall house hchinJ
the water worksp" said the officer
eyes said we.
"'Wer do Won see that white hons,
ia the rirht2 Now do va, zoe tho ados
of that shantv living IN under tha hill
eve saw IL and fold hin, so
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