The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-10-16
CAUGHT BY TRIPLES.
Famous Criminals Who Were Track
ed Through Little Mistakes.
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The eye of the law is remarkably
Keen nowadays. 4 few weeks back a
man was brought up at the central
criminal court who found himself in
the dock mainly through a cobWeb. A
detective 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 robbery
had been effected at d wine merchant S
office in the neghbOrhood 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
immaeulately dressed man Will in fu-
ture probably take a clothes brush with
him when engaged in like pursuits. lie
VIII not need one, however, for over
two years
/ 1T is the little thing that catches
the criminal" declared NJ Mace, the
great head of the Paris police He
caught 4 criminal namsd AVinet by a
scent the offender used. The crime
was terrible One-the 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 strangIed. No
one had been seen going i'm or depart
ing from her roomsl There appeared
TO be no cleW. The unfortunate lady
had evidently been suddenly attacked
while engaged i'm friendly conversation
with visitor, for bottle of wine and
two partly filled glasses stood upon
the table. A handkerchief lady's-
was on the floor beside her. It was
at once assumed that the handkerchief
was madame's, and that it had fallen
from her hand But il was scented,
and no one had VaVer known madame to
use that peculiar scent.
Mace came to the conclusion that it
belonged to the murderer. and that the
assassin was a man of effeminate and
dandyish habits. What man was there
likely to commit that crime who used
such scent, and preferred not to
bulge his pocket out with a handker-
chief which was larger than a lady's?
Within four days Mace had found his
man. 1t was the scent that led to his
head falling into NJ. Deibler's basket
In the Black museum at Scotland
Yard is the plaster cast of a bitten
apple, which was the only cleW the
police had to the identity of the per
petratOr of a most sensational crime.
The murderer's victim was a woman
who oWas found dad in Il room in d
house in Great Coram street, London.
The assassin had eaten part of the
apple. and a very fair impression of
his teeth remained in the fruit I'm
fortunately the cleW was not sufficient,
and the guilty man was never discOv-
cred.
In a case tried on the western cir
c--i+ e"~'A years since man suspected
Of murder was discovered to have on
tnU 4nsers OF his right hand marks
which had clearly been made by pc
culiarly shaped human teeth. The
teeth of the dead man were shown to
exactly fit into the marks, and the pris
oner was convicted.
The mystery surrounding the death
of a 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 it. But
in the holder was a small piece of IN
consumed cigar end. Experts pro-
nounced il a cigar of the finest quality
one which only a person of wealth
could afford 10 purchase. This evil
dence 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 III
the case was not satisfied. The cigar
holder was peculiarly worn in two
places. It's owner had evidently been
accustomed 20 bite it hard. Two teeth
had almost bitten it through The de
tective inserted the holder in the mouth
of the dead man. but his teeth would
not fit thOse hOllOWs. The holder had
evidently belonged to the murderer. He
/ was discovered at last i'm the person
of the bankers cook, whose teeth cor
! responded to the worn places. Pie had
been accustomed 10 help himself to his
masters choice cigars.