Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-12-05
TRIPLES TRIP CRIMINAL.
Finding Of Cobweb on Coat Brought
About Arrest Of Wine Cellar Robber.

The eye OF the law is remarkably keen
nowadays. A few weeks back q man was
brought up at the central criminal court
who found himself in the dock mainly
through cobweb. detective had been
attracted to pay him particular attention
by the fact that, fashionably attired, he
was walking down the street with a mass
OF cobwebs on the elbow Of his frock coat.
The news received later that a robbery had
been effected in q wine merchants office
in the neighborhood suggested the ques-
ton whether there were in the cellars,
where the thief might have concealed HIM
self, cobwebs of the same description.
There were. and the Immediately. dressed
man will in future probably take clothes
brush with Mm when engaged in like pur-
suits. He will not need one, however, for
over two years.
''It is the little. thing that catches the
criminal" declared M. Mace. the head OF
the Paris police. He caught criminal
named Avinet by a scent the offender
used. The crime was terrible one-the
murder of lady for her jewels and GER
tain bonds in her possession. The lady
was discovered lying upon the floor of her
room dead She had been strangled. No
from her rooms. There appeared to be no
clue. The unfortunate lady had evidently
been suddenly attacked while engaged in
friendly conversation with visitor, for a
OOlllc VI Wlu6 anu Two partly Ilieu glasses
stood upon the table. handkerchef-a
lady's-was on the floor beside her. 1t was
at once assumed that the handkerchief
was madames, and that it had fallen from
her hand. But Ii was scented. and no one
had ever known madame to use that pc
culiar scent
Mace came to the conclusion that 1t be-
longed to the murderer. and that the as
sassin was a man of effeminate and dandy
ish habits. What man was there likely to
commit the crime who used such a scent,
and preferred not to bulge his pocket out
with handkerchief which was larger than
found his man. 1t was the scent that led
to his head falling into M. Deibler's
basket.
In the Black Museum at Scotland Yard is
the plaster cast of bitten apple, which
was the only clew the police had to the
identity of the perpetrator of a most sem
sational crime The murderer's victim was
a woman who was found dead in a room In
The assassin had eaten part OF the apple.
and very fair impression of his teeth re-
manned in the fruit. Unfortunately the
clew was not sufficient, and the guilty man
was never discovered.
In a case tried on the western circuit
some years since a man suspected of muir
der was discovered to have on two fingers
of his right hand marks which had clearly
been made by peculiarly shaped human
teeth. The teeth Of the dead man were
shown to exactly fit into the marks and
the prisoner was convicted
The mystery surrounding the death Of
great continental banker was cleared by
means Of a cigar holder found in the room
with the body. No one could identify the
holder. No one had ever seen the banker
using 1t. But in the holder was small
piece of unconsumed cigar end. Experts
pronounced 1t cigar Of the finest quality
one which only person of wealth could
afford to purchase. This evidence appeared
to confirm the notion that the cigar holder
had belonged to the dead plutocrat He had
cigars in the house, too, OF the same brand.
One Of the detectives, however, engaged
in the case was not satisfied. The cigar
holder was peculiarly worn in two places.
It's owner had evidently been accustomed
to bite 1t hard. Two teeth had almost bit
ten 1t through. The detective inserted the
holder In the mouth Of the dead man, but
his teeth would not fit these holIows The
holder had evidently belonged to the MUIR
derer. He was discovered at last in the
person of the bankers cook whose teeth
correspondent to the worn places. He had
been accustomed to help himself to his
masters choice cigars