The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-05-21
Copyright. 1911 by W. G. Chairman In
thc United states and Great BritalnD

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The United States and Great Britaln)
EADERs of these memoirs have
often said 10 me: 'Nhv do YOU
N lay so much stress upon Peter
il Y. Crewes optical powers when the
solution of many OF these cases
was due quite as much 80 the fertility ot
his ability TO remember everybody and
everything that he had ever seem"
Ms answer TO this criticism has been
that. while Crewc possessed in n marked
degree the ordinary detective instinct.
vet in almost every case IL WAS his OBJ
teal gift thai started him along the
correct line OF investigation. 1t was his
Dower OF calling up an exact scene. "A
footprint on a carpet, q misspeiled letter
IN manuscript, the slightest deviation
from ne normal. which none other could
have discovered that furnished him with
his clews
Take, for example. The case Of the muir
pected, or AT least sepsed the fact. that
he had been killed by Sswell. But It va:
Crewe Who. by means OF this power OF
his afforded us proof positive Of seweH
guilt Once the pistol trap had been laid
hare. Sowell was shown 10 have pur
chased the weapon he was identified br
evidence was woven around him; inoe-
pendenrly 81 the confession which he
sftsrward retrscted. and ultima ,ely he
paid the penalty OF his crime
Bentley had moved into his palatial
apartments month after sewell va
Gated them. He had rented them ready
well was enabled TO lay his trap. Had
Bentley known who the last occupant
had been he would never have taken ny
his abode there. but Sewell had en-
gineered tho matter so cunninEly. hav-
ins first lived there undeW au alias and
subsequently secured Rentleys tenancy
through series ar 5drolt measures
bad worked tho scheme With such per
foction that he got Bentley 4 his sue
ccssor. That was all he wanted. il
ever a man had cause 10 bate anothor.
man had ruined him by underselling his
Once Year clock. in the ns ;cnt on
which a flaw existed. and flooding the
market with an inferior product; neh
he had foreclosed ? mortgage, left Sc
well pcnniIcss. aud finally aliensied his
wife's affections. Sewell had pond"red
over ihcsc jhiugs until ho became indu-
hiiably insane, Tic should have been
sent Ia su asylum. hut he WAS found
guilty ot murder for the jury considered
that no uuatic could have contrived 40
ingenious rnuspTdcN
Heuuey waS highly pleased with his
nov apartment. which he considered a
bargain. So it was: That WAS part Of the
'lU'c When hc saw ono o( his own brand
"f Once - Year clocks licking rnerriily
upon the nantei he laughed and rubbed
hs hands thinking how he had ousted
SrVoli. The inventor. Altogether, Bent
ey was in 2 nigh good humor
GorGon:a Mansions. where Bentley
liN cd. was IN ono ri those parts 81 fhr
ci'y in which tho pa ST and tho future
S"c1l &" ho struggling FOR supremacy. II
WIS an old house and the district had
once h"eu fashiou8blc--wa stil so; hui
,rst across the stteri row oi rookeries
haI sprung IN. inh8bii cd hy Italians nf
fH" poorest aud most reckless character
Tisici dUals werc common among them
WHen. therefore. Bentley WAS found dead
Upon Tho floor ~ his dining room. an
u~l, bullet wound III his head and q hole
in IT," plaster 81 ;hc wall, IL was Jcrihc1
dat stray shot from tho tcucT"uis
a"Fn-s ~" street must have caused MS
death Suspicion was. for Time. drawn
toward Sewcll. Who had hccU breathing
nui thlcntS ~ murder. but Sewsll had
been staying in country house twenty
niles from GuTdouia Mansions. and had
bccu there A week a, tlle time OF Eenl-
Icy'S dclih. Tn" CoTouorS Jury brought
in n Vcrdirj of found dead, aud the
matter dropped out of public notice.
I. was Mrs BENTLEY who urged mo 10
inVcs, isat"- The affair. she had obtained
l"r divorce from SeT"n. had married
Bentley. and. knowing tn" ruthless and
bgnd. h"sides being crnzc1 with grief
o"nr Sentioys death. resolved to bring
IN" murder Ia justice Although | had
,itil" faith In her suspicious OF Scwcll
I enlisted Peter Gre IVES aid In the ns T.
tor. The aplrimcrt bad h"cn lett Just
IL was Al ih" time Of Bentlcy's death.
Trrwc and ! went thcr" 10 investigate.
D,ia' lay thiokIy over everything. the
lIullst hoic remained in the wall. and the
"cn~c-s Year clock still tickcd merrily
upon tho mantci.
Crewe took his station Ia tho doorway
and let his eyes travel slowly around tho
room. In those loue csn"cs he was
photoglaphinc npou tho sensitive retina
~ either eye tllc exact prescntimcni ~
everything within the boundary OF those
four walls. Never thence forward. 7
l,new Would Nc smallest particular he
forgotten hv hi,r.
Tho bullet came through this wall
f'-,u tho o.UsiGc." said crcwc. indicating
-" l.iIlio' hnlc and went "ic1r through