The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1910-08-07

cautions, when they return at the ap-
locked up with a To Let Furnish ed
sign on 1t, and Blippens actually gone.
It's enough to undermine their conf
dence In human nature. 1t shows that
this murderer is not man of his word
It's what you get, so the auth critics de-
eide, for trusting one of these self
made vulgar American bounder MUIR
derers, who's been In trade, like as not
But the great machinery of English
justice soon RECEIVERS from the first shock
of disappointment. They put piece In
the paper appealing to Blippens, if he
really calls himself a gentleman, to come
in and surrender and be hanged ac-
cording to the old English common law.
And after waiting for only two or three
weeks longer they send out circulars
asking everybody to be on the lookout
for him because he has almost certainly
returned to America and is doubtless
concealed in an obscure seaport on the
/ South of England, and is thought to have
fed to Russia, and there are strong rea-
sons to believe that he has gone to a
French hotel and hidden himself in q
hotel bathroom, where he will be safe
| from discovery for weeks and perhaps
months He will probably be disguised
as a travelling female typewriter. or as
an old lady, or, since he is slender and
| has pink eyebrows, and red side twhis-
kers, possibly as an itinerant ear wig.
| The description also states that he
speaks with an American accent, which
ought to fetch him, since every other
| American who ever spent as much as a
| month In England went home with a
pronounced Piccadilly accent and quail
fled for membership in the When-I-Was-
On-The- Other-Side club. Yet, still he
continues to absent himself from the
vigilant detectives. 1t Is unaccountable-'
1--WE would do things differently in
America I said, with touch Of pride
| in my voice, ''or even In France"
Quite so,' agreed Sherlock Holmes
| but in France all murders invariably
get tangled up in some way with the
| Dreyfus case sooner or later. In New
York, your detective force would work
on the basis of clews first and theories
afterward, a clew being something that
can be put on a front page with large
head on 1t, while a theory is much larger
| than clew and can be illustrated. Wher
| the time comes to make an arrest the
force moves in a very secretive manner
Accompanied by the mayor and board OF
| aldermen in carriages, the press IN hireo
conveyances. the staff photographers or
! sightseeing cars, and citizens afoot. the
silent sleuths go out and surreptitiously
bring In the suspect
They take him to headquarters, where
the chief Inspector, miostening his palmi
by the same method that The O'Reillys
The Haggertys and other kings of Ire
land have always employed. takes firm
grip on the suspects neck and presses
the Adams apple firmly back into the
main design until the prisoners tongu.
hangs down on his chest like pink
| neckte This is known as the third
degree and is so called because nobody
! ever lived to take the fourth. Whir
the accused is in the hospital recover
ing from the effects OF his preliminar,
examination, his confession Is secretly
published in all the papers and the re-
|'pouers collect the evidence and save the
Jurors any mental strain by trying hin
In advance. That closes the incident, IN
less 1t should develop that he belongs
to a wealthy family who can afford II
hire an alienist Here's your retaining
fee, says the family, how soon can vol
give us an expert opinion? Just as soor
as I've counted over the roll says thu
noted scientist If the amount Is cor
rect I feel no hesitancy y informing you
that this unfortunate kinsman Of your