The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1902-02-09

WIN. H PALMER W. II. MCCARTHY.
President. Seer iary.
tl,:s case offered a remarkable problem
10 the police. There seemed no way to
show the Identity of the dead man One.
Of the newspape. men assigned to this
over the scene of the explosion later,
picked UP button which had beer
part Of the dead mans clothing. TO this
button was attached q small strip OF
cloth.
Working from this minute cue the
identity of the bomb-thrower was estab-
lished. The reporter. who had previous
Iy distinguished himself IN work of this
kind. was given permission to work this
clue alone and @ large expense account
WIS allowed. First to find ont where the
button was made. This was done by
tour OF the button houses of New YORK
and tbs Identification Of certain mark
on the button as that of g factory IN
Massachusetts,. Then began the but
ton chase. The reporter went person
ally to this factory and found that there
were probably thousands OF buttons
idcItically like this one, but he perse-
vered and followed that button over half
dozen States.
It was in Ohio finally that he found
Some clothing with this particular but
ton had been sold to a firm there. and
the reporter began inquiries of tins
firm to learn to whom these clothes were
sold. He finally found that one OF the
Zen TO whom sale had been made,
man Of Anarchistic tendencies, had mys-
Leriously disappeared. This was the be-
ginning Of the end. and from Ohio the
reporter wired back the story of the
Identification TO New York The police
were nonpiLssed. The amount of de-
Jailed work tina. had been done was
stupendous. more than they would ever
20 Undertaken. For his work on this
case the reporter received largo CHECK
.u.n me u..n Her of The paper.
MARY MARTIN CASE
a few years later the Mary Martin
case came up in New York. The body
CT a negro woman, cut UP into small
,ouudln b sunny sack at
O'Clock one morning, in the areaway
ui bank in Sixth Avenue There was
absolutely no trsce of any one in con-
nec1icn with the case, and such care
had been taken to conceal the woman,s
identity that every bit of the clothing
lad been removed
This CHASTITY find YES removed 70 the
Morgue, where the head, and that dis
figured, was held in order to identity
he woman. The same newspaper man
who had solved the Russell Sage mys-
terry went to work on this. For days
the police foundered heiplessly about in
This maze. while the reporter pursued
his way, regardless of his Office and
everything else He took negro after
negro from the black quarter Of New
York to the Morgue to view the head,
being meanwhile watched persistently
by other reporters, and finally he found
ne woman who said she had seen the
girl at certain place. but didn't know
ner name. She knew somebody who did.
This woman was spirited away from
the Morgue, and in a cab the sleuth
Guided the other reporters. Other per-
sons who had seen the negro woman ID
life finally Identified her as Mary Martin,
all this being done without the knowl-
edge even Of the Office for which he
worked. It seemed that Mary Martin
was engaged to be married to William
Caesar. a porter in hat store in New
York. Then investigations as to Caesar
and who he was were undertaken. This
led to the discovery of a series Of Incl
dents which. in the mind of the sleuth-
reporter, were sufficient to warrant
Caesars arrest. Caesar meanwhile had
been steadily at work, and there was no
reason to any one else to suspect him
of the crime
CAESAR CONFESSED.
At length the reporter wrote a COM
plete story of the crime. his investiga-
lions, turned 1t over to his Office, where
it was put in type with orders to hold
it until he himself released it for publ
cation. Then. at 2 o'clock in the morn
ing, accompanied by an assistant, he
went to Caesars room. knocked on the
door. and Caesar opened it to find HIM
self facing a large revolver.
Where is Mary Martini" demanded
the repoI ter.
Surprised into confession. Caesar told
o. the crime in detail. how he had cut
up the body and disposed of it. Then
the reporter left Caesar under guard of
his assistant, Went to telephone and
released the story. making great addi-
tons to it as to Caesars confession.
Between them they kept Caesar under
guard until O'clock in the morning.
long after the papers were out. ano then
turned him over to the police Chief
Tom Eyrnes at that time came nearer
having heart failure than evel before in
his life. the surprise was SO great.
Caesar was cond nned to the electric
chair, but died in prison.
THE GULDENSUPPE CASE.
Another problem of Identification was
offered in the Guldensuppe case. Por-
tons Of body had been found in East
River, but the head was missing. For
several weeks the work of trying to
Identity the body went on steadily. At
length one night reporter. who had
lust that night fallen into disgrace with
his paper. and had as a-result taken too
much to drink, went to Turkish bath
tc sweat it out. There he heard two or
three attendants talking of one of their
number who had been missing for some
tine. He had, it seems. a peculiar mark
on his body.
The reporter heard this, and instantly.
more than sobered. he climbed out Of
the Turkish bath, took one of the at
tepdants to the Morgue, where identifl-
cation was made, the mark being very
clear. and then the reporter went back
to the paper and redeemed himself. Fol-
lowing this came the arrest OF Mrs. Au-
gusta Mack. who was party to the
crime. and the man who had done the
cutting. This was pure luck, but re-
bounds to the credit Of the press as
having solved three Of the greatest mys-
nr;ec which tf., nofjce OF this country