The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-28

RHN ~ 1900
height"
why the height OF . man. In l
cases out OF ten. can be told from the
length Of his stride. Tt Is a simpis
calculation enough. though there Is no
use my boring you with figures. l had
this fellows stride, both on the clay
outside and on the dust within. Ihen
| nave a way of checking my calcuia-
ton. When a man writes on a wall
his instinct leads him to write about
the level of his own eyes. Now. thai
writing was Just over six feet from the
ground. 1t was child's play"
"And his age?" I asked.
Well. II a nan can stride four ana
a half feet without the smallest effort,
he can't be quito In the sere and vel
low. That was the breadth of a puddle
on the garden-walk which he had eu-
IDENTIFY walked across. Patent-leather
boots had gone round and souare-toss
had hoped over. There Is no mys>ui
terry about 1t at all. l am simply ap-
plying to ordinary life a few of those
precepts of observation and deduction
which l advocated in that article. Is
there anything else that puzzles
1.-THE nnger-nalls and the Trichino-
poly" I suggested.
1.-THE writing on the wall was done
with q mans forelnger dipped In blood.
NV glass allowed me to observe that
the plaster was slightly scratched III
doing 1t, which would not have been
the case IL the mans nail had been
trimmed. I gathered UP some scat
tered ashes from the floor. It was
dark in color and ~1aky-such an ash
as is only made by a T~richinopoly. |
have made a special study of cigar
- 49, 4AaA
graph upon the subject. I f1atter my
self that I can distinguish at a glance
the ash of any known brand either OF
cigar or of tobacco. 1t Is just in such
details that the skilled detective differs
from the Cregson and Lestrade type"
"A.id the fortd face?" ] asked.
"Ah, that was a more daring shot.
though / have no doubt that I was
right. You must not ask me that at
the present state of the affair"
/ passed my hand over my brow.
my head Is in a whirl," I remarked,
1.-THE more ono thinks OF II, the more
mysterious It grows. How came these
two men-if there were two men-inte
an empty house? What has become G..
the cabman who drove them? How
could one man compel another to take
poison? Where did the blood come
from? What was the object of the
murderer. since robbery had no part n
it: How came the woman's ring
there? Above all, why should the sec
ond man write up the German word
'Rache' before decamping? / confess
that / cannot see any possible way OF
reconciling all these facts"
My companion smiled a~pprovingly.
you sum up the difficulties OF the
situation succinctly and we'll" he said.
There Is much hat Is still obscure.
though l have quite made up my mind
on the main facts. JAS to poor Les
trades discovery, 1t was simply a blind
intended to put the police upon a wrong
track, by suggesting socialism and
secret societies. 1t was not done by a
German. The A. il you noticed, was
printed somewhat after a German
fashion. Now q real German invaria-
bly, prints in the Latin character, so
that we may safely say that this was
not written by one, but by a clumsy
imitator, who overdid his part. 1t was
simply a ruse. to divert inquiry into a
wrong channel. I'm not going to tell
you much more of the case, doctor.
You know n conjurer gets no credit
when once he has explained his trick,
and if show you too much of my
lntllOu OF NpThlhE, yph VIII SoAip =
the conclusion that | am a very ordi-
nary individual after all"
Il shall never do that ] answered.;
you have brought detection as near
an exact science as it ever will be
brought in this world"
Sly companion flushed up with pleas
lure at my words and the earnest way
In which | uttered them. | had al
! ready observed that he was as senst-
tive to hattery on the score of his art
as any girl could be Of her beauty,
I'm tell you one other thing" no
said. Patent feathers and Square-toes
came I'm the same cab, and they walk
down the pathway together as frien.
as possible-arm In arm, In all pre-
ability. When they got inside ia
walked up and down the roons
rather. Patent-leathers stood still,
SQuare-toes walked up and down.
could read all that in the dust; and
could read that, as he walked. he grew
more and more excited. That Is sho-
by the Increased length of his stri
He was talking all the while, 49,
working himself up, no doubt. invest
fury. Then the tragedy occurred.
told you all | know myself. now fc
the rest Is mere surmise and COME =
ture. We have a good working bas+
however. on which TO start. We M
hurry up. for I want TO so TO Halle
concert, to hear Norman Neruda. this
afternoon" :
This conversation had occurred while.
our cab had been threading its W.
through a long succession of ding s
streets and dreary by-ways. In ths
dingiest and drearlest of them orr
driver suddenly came to a stand.
That's Audley court in there" he
said. pointing to a narrow slit in the
line of a dead-colored brick. "YouIl
ind me here when you come back
Audley court vas not an attractive
locality, The narrow passage led us
into a quadrangle paved with flags ard
lined with sordid dwellings. We picked
cur way among roups of dirty chill
drcn and throlgh lines OF discolorei
linen until we came to No. t6, the door
of which was decorated with a small
slip of brass, on which the name Rance
was engraved. on inquiry We ound
that the constable was in bed, and We
were shown into a little front parlor, TO
await his coming.