The daily morning journal and courier., 1905-09-14
THE TRUE SHERLOCK HOLMES.

A few weeks back a man was
 brough up at the Central Criminal , Court who found himself in the dock mainly through a cobweb. 4 detec- tive had been attracted to pay him peculiar attention by the fact that, . fashionably attired, he was walking down the street with a mass of cob
 webs on the elbow of his frock coat. The news received later that a robbery had been effected at wine merchants office in the neighborhood suggested
 the question whether there were in
 the cellars, where the thief might have concealed himself, cobwebs of the same description. There were, and the immediately dressed man will in future probably take a clothes brush With him when engaged in like pur- suits. He will not need one, however for over two years.
 Tt is the little thing that catches the criminal" declared M. Mace, the great head of the Paris police. He caught a criminal named Aviret by a scent the offender used. The crime was a terrible one-tile murder of a lady for her jewels and certain bonds in her possession. The lady was dis covered lying upon the floor of her room dead. She had been stranglet.
 No one had been seen going in or de- parting from her rooms. There ap- peared to be no clew.
 The unfortunate lady had evidently been suddenly attacked while engaged in friendly conversation with visitor, for bottle of wine and two partly filled glasses stood upon the table. A handkerchief a lady's, was on the floor beside her. It was at once as- stunned that the handkerchief was 1 madame's, and that it had fallen from her hand. But it was scented, and no one had ever known madame to use that peculiar scent. Mace came to the conclusion that it belonged to the murderer and that the assassin was a 1 man of effeminate and dandyish habits. What man was there likely to commit that crime who used such a 1 scent and preferred not bulge his | pocket out with a handkerchief which
 was larger than a lady's Within four days Mace had found his man. It was the scent that led to his head 1 falling into M Deibler's basket.
 In the Black Museum at Scotland | Yard is the plaster cast of a bitten apple, which was the only clew the 1 police had to the identity of the per petrator of most sensational crime. 1 The murderer's victim was a woman ! who was found dead in houss in | reat Coram Street, London. The 1 assassin had eaten part of the apple 1 and a very fair impression of his teeth remained in the fruit. Unfortunately 1 the clew was not sufficient and the | guilty man was never discovered.
 In a case tried on the Western Cir cult some years ago, a man suspected of murder was discovered to have on 1 two fingers of his right hand marks
 which had clearly been made by pecul- | larly shaped human teeth. The teetf ] of the dead man were shown to ex. 1 actly fit into the marks, and the pris. 1 oner was convicted.
 ! The mystery surrounding the deatt l of a great Continental banker was cleared by means of a cigar holder l found in the room with the body. Nc
 one could identify the holder No one had ever seen the banker using it. But in the holder was a small piece of
 unconsumed cigar end. Experts pro- | nounced it a cigar of the finest quality | -one which a person of wealth could I afford to purchase. This evidence ap l peared to confirm the notion that the | cigar holder had belonged to the dead | plutocrat. He had cigars in tht I house, too, of the same brand.
 One of the detectives, however, en gagged in the case was not satisfied The cigar holder was peculiarly worr
 in two places. Its owner had evi
 dently been accustomed to bite it hard
 Two teeth had almost bitten i
 through. The detectives inserted tn,
 holder in the mouth of the dead man
 but his teeth would not fit these hol
 lows. The holder had evidently, be
 longed to the murderer. He wa
 discovered at last in the person of tht
 bankers cook, whose teeth core
 sponded to the worn places. He hat
 been accustomed to helping himself t
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