Cañon City record., 1904-02-18
An Expert In Chirosraphy.

An Expert In Chirosraphy.
Carl Kila-.t expert In chtroEraphy.
sat in his study In the city OF Eeriin
examining 10y lamrliEht a package OF
papers While thus engaged the door
opened and q stranger entered
KRAFT had that afternoon testified
in a murder case. in which he had
shown coucIusivcIy that the prisoner
had written threatening letters to the
murdered man The experts reasons
why these letters had been written by
the same person a letters proved to
have been written by the prisoner were
so convincing tina; the jury would have
convicted him without leaving their
seats But the case must be summed
up by prosecuting attorney and counsel
and that wouh require another day.
Herr Kraaft." said the visitor, Il
listened TO your testimony today in the
skill is so great that l have decided TO
employ You in a case have in hand"
PLEASE be seated. sir
Here is letter which came TO light
after an interval OF twenty years. 1t
was written in 1919. You will remem-
ber that the year previous occurred the
| revolution OF lsis. During that troublous
| period prominent member OF the leg
islative body defied the revolutionists
throwing ali his Influence with the gov
| ernment- He stated to several intimate
| friends that he had been threatened
with death by the revolutiouists II he
did not cease his opposition to their
work. one day he was found dead.
and everybody knew that he had been
murdered Nevertheless the murderer
or muriercrs were never discovered.
This letter. recently found among the
papers OF the murdered man that es-
capped notice at the time of the mur-
der. WAS evidently written by the leader
OF a revolutionary society and threat
ened him xkh death II he did not ac-
cede to the society's demands"
| The speaker threw the letter on the
desk before the expert 1t read:
| Herr X:
The revolutionary committee warns you
/ that II you speak tomorrow to the citi-
Eens OF Berlin upholding the ty-rant and
| denouncinc the motives Of the ,revoluti0u-
/ lists you will never address another as
J semhIy, BY order Of the committee.
] HANS pbElSbESh- President
The expert bent low over the letter
as he read 1t.
Now. the receiver OF this letter"
4 the visitor continued, addressed the
meeting referred to and the following
/ day was found dead with bullet in
| his back Hans Oberbeck is well re
membcred as a young enthusiast but
twenty-five years OF age. lie disap-
! peared as soon as the revolution was
suppressed have letters bearing date
| Of 1882. 1857 and lSGo which are SINH
lar in chircgraphy TO the one before
| you. though they bear different sig
nature. have come TO you for the pur-
| pose OF getting your opinion as TO the
/ identity OF the writer OF these recent
letters with the man who wrote the one
OF ISIS
| The speaker threw three more letters
| on the desk, which KRAFT opened and
| appeared TO study intcntly for time,
| then said: The letters bearing the name
OF oberbcck and these bearing the
name of Herman cannot possibly have
been written by the same person be
| cause happen to remember that Ober'
| beck died Of fever in 1919. The rea'
son rrmcmhcr his death is that he
being Il prominent revoluticnist, 1t eS'
| cited considerable comment at the
| time
And ll he had not died Of fever
he would have died by the rope.
Il remember that. too" said the ex'
pert in n scarcely audible voice.
.Therc is chapter OF this little story
with which you are perhaps not IA
miliar. A year ago the grave of oeer
beck was opened and found TO contain
q coffin allied with stones"
KRAFT made no reply. but bent lower
over the letters. as though deeply i'm
mcrsed In them. Rising with the letter
Of oberbeck In his hand he held II near
the lamp. IA II to get better light. In
decd. 10 near that corner Of It caught
IRE. In q twinkling the name was
blown out by the visitur, who covered