The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1911-04-23
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when they are reflected in a plate glass
window. Happily the precautlon is un-
necessary, but am glad to see SO much
intelligent zeal In your work, Kelly. You
Seventy and thirty-thirty-o this in
What do we know OF him? That he
is an average appearing Engl!shman and
wears blue serge suit. Undoubtedly he
possesses other suits; but equally surely
he Will be astute enough TO wear blue as
diferentiating him less than a suit with
own cleverness assists In his undoing.
My orders TO those detectives were
to count all the men in blue serge suits
who passed them. excluding those whose
age obviously excluded the possibility Of
their being Rowell- I ordered each man
TO make three lists--one for the morn
which the number OF men in blue serge
suits abroad is too limited for us to draw
Passing Forty-second street: Morning.
i56; afternoon, liz, evening. III. Total.
ss Mons Rreoq a. Daags agnoon s%Dway 1
evening, 8S. Total. 21s.
Passing Twenty third street and Sixth
sn9e ing 9e Stning Totn1 i7o 81 afternoon IS; even
Passing the subway entrance on
-Four Tourtesnth sd. street: Morning, 50; after
What do you deduce from these fig
ures. Langton2'F
That surprisingly small number Of
men wearing blue serge suits emerge
from the entrance to the Brooklyn bridge
during the rush hours answered.
my dear. Langton. you are flying off
matter at all Many take surface cars
from Brooklyn and never pass the SUBJ
way entrance. And Brooklyn is barred
from our consideration. No. do you not
evening traffic is astonishing1y eyen7
AZ Twenty-third street u men pass In
the morning and 10 in the evening. AL
the Fourteenth street subway so pass In
the morning and So in the evening. At
the Brooklyn bridge subway entrance 81
pass In the morning and 8S in the even
Ing.
Therefore we can proceed by striking
out like figures either side OF our
equation. These men in blue serge suits
are office workers: they go and return
Emphatlcally Roweli is not to be found
| among this lot
"At our northern point, Forty
| street, the conditions are not quite so
Ing number 156; In the evening. III
difference Of twenty-one. Now we be-
out these figures. We have to postulate
the average man. the average unem-
ployed man: Let us discover him from
am9ng pg the figures that we have left
afternoon, %. Passing Fourteenth street
In the afternoon. 80. Passing the Brook
lyn bridge subway entrance in the after
noon. As. But these latter we must dis
| regard. for that is in the office district
and these As are probably all workers.
"Our final statement. therefore is that
| % men stroll of an afternoon from Twen-
| ty-third street TO Fourteenth street.
where their numbers are augmented TO
| 30. During the same period of the day
| 1l2 men stroll up Broadway 10 Forty
second street where. by nightfall. their
| numbers have increased to III.
Therefore our average man will most
assuredly be found somewhere in the
| theater district after the lights are lit.
! Rowell Will be there tonight. ! have
demonstrated this infallibly. Come.
| Langton. we are going to arrest him
/ rose in bewiIderment Crewe's fig
| ures were falling over one another il,
| my brain, and only one clear impression
| remained TO me; That Rowcll was oblig-
| ingly waiting to tumble into our arms