The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-05-12

} F'urEivaH turned to them briskly.
They were lying on a table in heap,
and he examined several pieces one h.
one.
I'm wager you confined your atten-
) ton to the body, Gerrish,' he said.
You never looked at these?''
Certainly net Why should I? They
wouldn't be likely to show what the
body didn't"
Don't you see anything extraordi-
nary i'm them nOw?'
why, no. l can't say I do. But
: stay-they have been cut or torn in
pieces"
Yes, yes. The name-marks were re-
moved. That is strange, certainly, but
is that all you see?"
Gerrish scanned them again and
shook his head
II am physician, not a dressmaker,"
he said. somewhat sarcastically.
Nor a detective" added FurnivalL
But am. And 1 see enough in that
pile of wearing apparel to upset my
whole theory of the case
You had u theory. then?" asked Ger
rish eagerly.
Certainly, and a wrong one. when,
but for your stupidity, it would have
been the right one-as it is now he
added, rushing from the shop and
jumping into the automobile without
paying any attention TO his compan-
ions look of amazement and hurt The
! next moment they were whirling down
the street, and presently drew up at
telegraph Office.
Into this FurnivalI hurried telling
Gerrish to remain where he was and
t stayed full half hour. Through the
windows he could be seen. consulting a
: newspaper and dashing off numerous
kilograms. When he reappeared it was
with countenance eminently good nu-
mored.
We'll see the Waterman next" he
said as they shot away. ''They told me
in there that they held him uD this
morning, and then decided to let him
, go on the car cOmnanys recognizance
: He is probably asleep now in his room
t at the barn. for his work is done at
night, As / question him. watch him.
/, for unless I'm most egregiously mis-
taken, you'll see something of curious
interest to psyehiatry.''
| L suppose it's my stupidity" re-
turned Gerrish, but l confess that
l your theories seem to me to be made too
: nearly out of whole cloth. How can
you have any notion of what this man
is like. or what he will do or say. or
that he viii prove interesting to sci
ence? I admit" he added hastily. as
Furpivail stared at him, that you usu-
ally hit the bulrs-eye. but how that's
nv INV e'eH> Iva AiAAoA ma
tion2''
t Furnivall threw back his head and
laughed
why he said. allowing for a few
additions and subtractions as go
,, along. it is the simplest thing in the
! world. Tell me- now, how many new
kinds Of crime you heard of since you
Well" returned Gerrish. thinking
| I cIoxVIU ct 1iSnd RI -
Exactly. Furnivall interrupted. you
had read Poe, Gaboreau and the others
and history, besides the newspapers
and SO. even as boy you had heard of
. all of them. For there are no new ones
They are new only until they are laid
: bare. when they are seen to be one of
l a class that has been known pretty
nearly from the dawn of time Isn't
that SOP"
''I don't know but it is" said Ger
IRISH. doubtfully. The thought was a
strange one to him and he couldn't en-
terrain it too readily.
Yes. We have twenty-six letters of
! the alphabet only, and out of these
250, 900 different words are made to
compose the English language. In
: physics there are some seventy bases,
and of these are constituted all the diff
ferent objects on earth. And you know
how it is in medicine. how few at bot
tom the principles are, and what an
: enormous multitude of forms they can
I be made to assume. Schiller and others
showed that all the various plots en-
! plOyed by dramatists and the story
tellers in all the ages may be reduced to
an extraordinarily small number at
bottom, don't recollect how many, but
| somewhere about the twenties And
: it is so with everything, even with
! crime. The principles involved are few,
! ject, who has digeSted and co-Ordinated
! all the cases, has only to learn the
facts of a crime in order to name the
class to which it belongs. The class be-
ing determined, the next thing is to
= find the person concerned whose char
acter would admit of his belonging to
that class, as in language, physics,
2 medicine and plots"
"AhI You think, then, that this
2 Waterman" began Gerrish, excitedly
: shit" continued Furnivall. this is
the place, ] fancy" and stopped the
l machine before the Office OF the car
barn.
They found. as DR.. Furnivan had
I prophesied, that the Waterman was
2 asleep in distant corner of the build
ing. The superintendent offered to send
: for him, bat Furnivall declined the ia
kvor and asked to be shown to the room.
e Here the man was awakened without
difficulty, and, lying in bed, he told
e his story as the newspapers had printed
j it, and as it had been repeated by DIR.
Garrish.
5 A thrill of excitement shot through
the younger physician as his friend,
: standing in front of the reclining man
= and looking down into his eyes. began
: to question him. He expected some
startling denouement, though he had no
, idea what it's nature would be, and he
I listened and watched with bated breath.
4 The man was a white-faced, sandy lit
tie Irishman of perhaps 30. with thin,
reddish whiskers and hair, nervous in
manner, and his speech, though directly
5 to the point while he was telling his
story, was quick and jerky But for
? the frequent short ~pauses between
phrases the words would have tumbled
over each other as they shot from his
colorless lips and became an incoherent
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