Waterbury evening Democrat., 1907-06-29

II must folloD this man."
 if they thought fit. Looking at my
 mold, it was plain that the person who
 had bitten that apple had lost two
 teeth, one at. top and one below, not
 exactly opposite, but nearly so. The
 other teeth, although they would ap-
 pear to have been fairly sound, were
 irregular in size and line. Now, the
 dead man had, as saw, very excel
 lent set of false teeth, regular and
 sharp, with none missing. Therefore
 1t was plain that somebody else had
 been eating that apple. Do I make
 myself clear?"
 Quite! Go onv'
 'There were other inferences to be
 made-slighter. but all pointing the
 same way. For instance, man of
 Foggatt's age does not, as a rule, munch an unpeeled apple like school
 boy. lnference-a young man and healthy. Why I came to the conclu- sion that he was tall, active, gym mast and perhaps a sailor I have al- ready told you when we examined the outside of Foggatt's window. It was also pretty clear that robbery was not the motive, siuce nothing was disturb ed, and that friendly conversation had preceded the murder-witness the drinking and the eating of the apple.
 As 1 said, after the inquest I was unable to devote any immediate time to the case, but resolved to keep my eyes open. The man to look for was tall, young, strong and active, with a very irregular set of teeth. a tooth missing from the lower jaw just to the left of the center and another from the upper jaw a little further still toward the left. He might possibly be per son I had seen about the premises q have good memory for faces) or, of course, he possibly might not.
 "A few days ago I noticed a young man at Lucatti's whom I remembered to have seen somewhere about the of fees in this building. He was tall, young and so on, but I had a client with me and was unable to examine him more narrowly. Today, finding the same young man with a vacant seat opposite him, took the opportunity of making closer acquaintance"
 You certainly managed to draw him out"
 "0h, yes; the easiest person in the world to draw out is cyclist. When you see healthy, well trained looking man, who nevertheless has a slight stoop in the shoulders and, maybe, a medal on his watchguard, 1t is always a safe card to try him first with little cycle racing talk. soon brought Mfr. Mason out of his shell, read his name on his medal and had a chance of ob- his teeth. Indeed he spoke of them himself. He had lost exactly two teeth-one from the lower jaw just to the left of the center and another from the upper jaw further still toward the left! Trivialities, pointing in the same direction, became important considera- lions. More. his teeth were irregular and, as nearly as could it. looked remarkably like this little plaster mold of mine"
 He produced from his pocket an IT, regular lump of plaster about three Inches long. On one side of this. ap- peared in relief the likeness of two ir- regular rows of six or eight teeth. mi aus one in each row. where a deep gap was seen in The position spoken of by my friend. He proceeded:
 This was enough at least to set me nfter this young man. but he gave me the greatest chance of all when he turned and left his apple Ceaten un- peeled, emember-another important on his plate. I'm afraid I wasn't at all polite. and I ran the risk of arous.ng his suspicious. but I couldn't resist the temptation to steal ]. t."
 He brought the apple from his coat i pocket One bitten side. placed against l the upper half of the mold, fitted pre- l .isely. a projection of apple filling ex- ! actly the deep gap. The other side l similarly fitted the lower half.
 There's no getting behind that, you .ee." Hewitt remarked "You'H never ind two men bite exactly alike. no natter whether they leave distinct | teeth marks or not. We'll take another mold from this apple and compare hem
 He oiled the apple, heaped a little plaster In e newspaper. took my water ug and rapIdly pulled on a hard mold. The parts corresponding 10 the merely broken places h the apple were. of sourse. dissiraIIar. but as 10 the teeth marks. the izpressions were Identical
 That Will do. l think Hewitt said. Tomorrow morning. Brett. I shah put ID these things In a small parcel and ake them around to Bow street.