The Montgomery advertiser., 1909-12-27
Wannowshi Is Winning Worldwide
 Fame.
He Unearthed The Famous Kiei Graft Cases--sermon Lectures is Drawing Attention to The Jews Work .. DsveIspsrs In Earope.n Cou.-
 tries.
ny CARL wALpEMAR.

v
 Berlin detective who was chiefly re-
 sponsibie for unearthing the evidence on which the great Kiei dockyard graft exposures are based. It is due primarily to his adroitness that the Imperial Admiralty has run to eartn
 the ring of contractors and dock- yard ofYiciaIs who are alleged to have
 secured s2.25o.o00 worth of plunder during a period of ten years
 wannowski. the son of Posen lawyer. was born at Danzig in 1870. After passing the examination for one year volunteers and serving for
 a twelvemonth in the 18th Artillery. he became an officer of the 25th Artii-
 lery. a rank which he still holds. ( With a fortune inherited from his father. wannowski became landed proprietor in his native province of
 Posen and chose the career of gentleman farmer. Fate. however.
 seemed to decree that mysteries. not agriculture, were to be Wannowskfs 1 life work. for his farming adventure was not successful, and in 1900 he ar-
 rived in Berlin intent on becoming a police official.
 wannowski wss assigned to the de- tective department, where he speedily
 won the title of Comfnissary. His
 first great case was a mystifying rail- way wreck in East Prussia In 1908. A passenger tra4fl had been derailed, three persons killed. and a score more | or less severely injured. The perpe- 1 trator of the out-rage--the rails and been deliberately torn up-could not | be traced by the authorities Young Wannowski was sent down from Ber- l lin. By pure deduction Wannowskt decided that the derailment was the work of a drunken man who did not | live more than three miles from the railway line. Donning the garb Of an itinerant cyclist. Wannowskf pro- ceeded 10 canvass all the taverns in the region for three miles on either
 bank of the line. Within twenty-four hours he had ferreted out the wreck 1 CT. a miller who had the week before
 unsuccessfully sued the Railway Ad- ministration, and in fit of drunken desperation, had revenged himself by
 wrecking a train.
 Just before the Kiel revelations wannowski. did brilliant piece of
 work in tracking the murderer Heider.
 a Berlin ..apache..' who enticed
 Jewish taiior's apprentice to his apart
 ments. killed him and. after mutt
 lating the body, hid the remains in the Tiergarton Park. The trunk, arms. and legs we're deposited in one part
 of the park, the head. cut and slash ed beyond all recognition, and three hundred yards away. After the sur | geons of Alexander Platz. Berlin's
 Scotland Yard, had with rare skill practically reconstructed the head. Wannowskis endeavors succeeded in Identifying the youth on whose shoulder it had once rested. . Then began long and heartbreak- 1 ing search for the murderer. After spending ten days and nights in the
 local "whitechapel" district, the de-
 tective convinced himself that a cer- tain Heidef was the cuiprit. A few nights later Heider was arrested by
 wannowski in crowd watching the garrison church fire. Hieder made a | full confession.
 Jack the Ripper Comes. few months later Berlin was ter- rified by series of mysterious "Ripp- | err attacks on girls and women. For
 weeks local womankind was in a state of abject fear. Ladies were afraid to | be seen in the streets of even the
 most fashionable residential districts and mistresses experienced difficulty | in getting servants to visit shops in broad daylight. Wannowski was prominently identified with the com- prehensive drive" organized by the police to wipe out Ripper" attacks. which soon ceased after the arrest of 8 number of low-elass men and boys,
 some of whom were caught in the act of stabbing girls or preparing to
 waylay them
 After the Admiralty authorities found themselves baf1ed in the att 1 tempt to elicit the source of dock yard graft" at Kiel, the services of Wannowsh were requisitioned from
 Berlin. The manner of his assign
 ment to the case is interesting. His
 superior officers at Berlin sent him to Hamburg one night without orders. except to call next morning at the Hamburg c. P. O. for a letter which
 would contain his instructions. They were to the effect that he was to
 nose about" Hamburg among mat
 erial contractors and then proceed to
 Kiei, where he was to worm him.
 self Into the confidence of suspected
 backyard officials and employees. The arrest and indictment of Messrs. Frankenthal and Jacobsohn dock yard officials Heinrich and Chrunst. and their respective alleged accompltces in defrauding the Government speedily followed Wannowski is the Crowns
 chief buiwark in the trial at kiel, He has been bitterly attacked by the de- fence. but his testimony has not been undermined. TheN German sherlock Holmes" was decorated with the Prus-
 sian Order of the Red Eagle by the
 Kaiser a few months ago as a reward for his clever work on the Heider Ripper" crime.
 Has Steel Blue Eye.
 This extraordinary man is of
 medium build. broad shouldered. and
 smooth -shaven. "A particularly keen and percing pair, Of steel-blue eyes are his--eyes which have more than once,
 so the story goes. extracted a con-
 fession from guilty crooks"
 Germany has no detective schools
 and few Hawkshaw traditions. Un-
 til the advent of Wannowski there
 had never been a detective of na- tIonal renown. Ills methods are now.
 however. held up to aspiring discip-
 les as models. and on many cases on
 which he Is not personally put to work