The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1909-12-16
NOTED SLEUTH
TO|LED On FARM
Kaiser's Sherlock Holmes Unearthed
Kiel Scandal and Has Had an
Exciting Career.

BERLIN, Dec 15-From farmer 10
detective is the unusual route by
which Herr Wannowski, the German
sherlock Holmes has risen 10 fame.
Herr Waunowski is the brilliant young
detective who was chiefly responsible
for unearthing the evidence on which
the great Kiel dockyard graft TX
posuFes are based. /, is due primarily
10 his adroitness that the imperial adj
miralty has run 10 earth the ring OF
contractors and dockyard officials who
are alleged 10 have secured E450,000
worth OF plumber during period 81
10 years. says the correspondent OF the
London Mail.
WannowskRf tie son OF a Posen law
yer. was born at Danzis In 1870. After
passing the examination for one-yeaT
volunteers and serving for twelve
month in the Eighteenth artillery, he
became an officer OF the Thirty-ntth
artillery. a rank which he still holds
With fortune Inherited from MS
father Wannowski became landed
proprietor in his native province OF
Pasen and chose the career OF gen
tleman farmer Fate. however, seemed
To decree that mysteries, not agricui-
ture. were 10 be WannoWskis ne
work. for his farming venture was
not successful, and in 1900 ne arrived
IN Berlin intent on becoming a police
officer
Brilliant Work.
Wannowsh was assigned 10 the de-
tective department. where he speedily
won the title Of commssary. His first
great case was a mystifying railway
wreck in east Prussia in 1909. 4 pas
seneer train had been derailed, three
persons killed. and a score more or
less severely injured The perpetTa-
tor Of the outrage--the rails had been
deliberately torn up--could not be
traced by the traffic authorities Young
Wannowski was sent down from Ser
lin BY pure deduction Wannowsld de-
cided that the derailment was the
work of a drunken man who did not
live more than three miles from the
railway line Downing the garb OF an
ttinerant cyclist Wannowsd proceed
ed 10 canvas all the taverns IN The
region for three miles on either side
OF the line Within - hours he had
ferreted ont the wreCker. a miller who
had the week before unsucceSsfuiy
sued the railway administration. ard
in a ~ OF drunken desperation hal
revenged himself by wrecking train.
Just before the KEEL revelations
wannowski did a brilliant piece n
work in tracking the murderer Heider.
q Berlin apache" who enticel Jew
fish tailor's apprentice % his apart
ments. killed him and after mutilot.
ing the body, hid the remains IN thc
Tiergarten park The trunk arms
and legs were deposited IN one part
OF the park. the head cut and siashed
beyond all recognition. was 300 yards
away After the surgeons OF Alex.
snder Platz. Berlin's Scotland Yard.
bad with rare skill practically recon
structed the head. Wannowsk's on
deavors succeeded In identifying the
youth on whose shoulders II bad once
rested.
Then began a long and rt.hreal,.
ing search for the murderer After
spending 10 days and nights in the
local "Whitechapel" district. the detec.
tive convinced himself that certain
Heider was the cuinrit few nights
later HeiGer was arrested hy Wanu0w-
ski himself IN crowd watching tho
garrison church FIRE Ucidor made
full confession
4 few months later Berlin was tor
riGed by n series az mysterious Rip
FER" attacks on girls and women For
weeks local womankind was iu state
az abiect fear Ladies' were afraid 20
he seen IN the streets OF even the