Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-04-07


altogether have been guilty OF GER
tain doggerel myself 49,.
Suppose you detail said i, the
particulars OF your search"
''Why. the fact Is. We took our time
and we searched everywhere. have
had long experience IN these AFFAIRS. l
took the entire building. room by room,
devotlng the nights Of a whole week TO
each. We examined, first, the furni-
ture or each apartment. We opened
every possible drawer; and presume
YOU know that, 20 a properly trained
police agent, such n thing as secret
drawer Is impossible Any man IS "a
dolt who permits a secret drawer 20
escape him In q search OF this kind.
The thing Is 80 plain. There Is a GER
tain amount Of bulk-Ot space 70 De
accounted for IN every cabinet. Ihen
we have accurate rules The fftleth
part of "a line could not escape us. Al
ter the cabinets, we took the chairs.
The cushions we probcd with the me,
long needles you have seen me empty.
From the tables We removed the tops,
why SOP"
Sometimes the top Of a table, or
other similarly arranged piece Of furni-
ture is removed by the person wishing
20 conceal an article; then the leg
ls evcavated the article deposited
within the cavity and the top replaced.
The bottoms and tops Of bedposts are
employed In the same way
"But could not the cavity be detected
by Sounding I asked.
"By no means, n. when the article Is
deposited. a sufficient waddlng Of cot
ton be placed around q. Besides In
flEl
without noise
'But YOU could not have removed
you could not have taken 20 pieces all
articles OF furniture IN which IL would
have been possible 20 make a deposit
in the manner you mention a letter
may be compressed into a thin spiral
roll not differing much In shape or
bulk from a large knitting needle, ana
ia this form Il might be Inserted into
the rung Of q chair. Tor example You
did not take 10 pieces an the chalrsf'
Certainly not; bu. we did better-we
examined the ruugs OF every chair IN
tho hotel and. indeed. the jointlugs Of
every description of furniture by the
ala OF most powerful microscope. Had
there been any traces OF recent dis
turbance. we should not have failed 20
detect u instantly A single grain Of
gimlet-dust. for example would have
been as obvious as am apple. Any dis
turbanoe IN the bluIng-any unusual
gaming in the ioints-would have suf-
Coed TO insure detection"
u presume you looked 20 the mir
rors. between the boards and the
plates and you pr0bed the beds and
the bed clothes, az wen as the curtains
and carpets
THAT, % course. and when we had
absolutely completed every particle OF
the furniture I'm this way then we eX-
amined the house Itself We divided
its entire surface into compartments.
which we numbered. SO that none might
be missed. then we scrutIuiZed each Inc
dividual square inch throughout the
premises including the two houses im-
medIatoly adjoining with the micro
scope as before
THE two houses adioinng," I ex-
claimed you must have had a great
deal OF trouble"
I'VE had; but the reward offered IS
prodieious'
you include the grounds about the
hOuses?"
Gan the grounds are paved with
brick. They gave us comparatively
little trouble. We examined the moss
between the bricks. and found 70 un-
disturbed"
you looked among D-'s papers. of
course, and into the books % the D.
brary?"
Certainly; we opened every package