The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-11-21
SOME ANIMAL DETECTIVES
RENARKKA ABLE PART THAT THEY HAVE PLAYED m CONVICT
ING MEN or CRIMES.

which a been used was found lying
beside the murdered man.
Now, 1t happened that the crime
was discovered early in the morning
stopping at the hotel had risen from
bed. At about Z o'clock in the morn
Ing a man who occupied q room on
the same floor as the murdered man
called one Of the hotel attendants and
complained that the maid who had
been attending to his room must have
mislaid his razor.
He asked to have the maid ques-
TONED as to where she had placed It,
and also ordered hot water I O shave
IT the rasor was found.
Now, the boy who carried this mes
sage to h proprietor Of the estab-
liahment knew Of the murder and
suggested that the razor found In the
murdered mans oom might belong
to h n who had lost It. The po-
licemen who we're at the hotel were
informed. and one of them thorough
" cleansed the razor and sent It to
the ma whose razor had been lost.
He unhesltatingiy identified It as
his own. He was promptly arrested
and gave his name as Horace Wor-
they; he said he earned his living by
exhibiting trained monkeys tn music
halls and theaters. In reply to insist
ent questions he finally admitted that
he was In the habit Of keeping a large
Iape- Ia the room with him, smuggling
me animal IN by means Of a ventilat-
ed trunk. All his other pets he quar-
tered in the stable. but he always
kept this one In the room with him.
When accused OF tho murder he
said he believed the ape had taken
tho raaor. climbed into the adjacent
I RnAtVA Av ANeA~ N~Ak N-A-
n then pulling himself through an
open transom and had killed the man.
He said also tina. he had been at the
hotel in Sydney N the night Of the
murder there.
Tho ma and the ape ere taken to
Sydney and armed men stayed in the
same room with them at night. A
+, harmlessly blunted razor was left on
the table where Worthey said his own
had been the night Of the murder.
Shortly after midnight the ape crept
out Of it, cage. which was always left
30 that he might open It. took the
razor. climbed to the window sill.
teaped high enough to grasp the cop
Ing Of the roof and worked himself
along until he hung over the window
tof the room where the man had been
murdered.
Then he performed a feat q man
could not have accomplished. .Swing.
ing his body inward, he dropped to the
window sill and slipped n~oiselessly Ia
to the room. He opened the razor and
Okla. whose crime was brought home
TO him indirectly by a horse. James
Spsa1Na, q maj who lived alone in a
secluded neighborhood. was found
murdered In his two-room cabin. In
the claylike mud Of the road leading
to his door was the hoof prints of a
horse. and each print Of the of fore
foot showed a peculiar triangular nick
In the iron shoe. Tho LONGEST side Of
the triangle, instead Of being a stFatrht
line, was curved.
1t was assumed that the murderer
had arrived at and left the cabin on
horseback. and as no one was known
to have a grudge against. the dead
man 1t was supposed an alteration
q arisen and the victim had been
killed accidentally in the quarrel, The
hoof prints furnished the sole clew,
for the slayer had evidently dismount-
ed at h very doorstep and mounted
In the same manner.
Weeks passed. and the ono clew In
the hands OF tho police led nowhere.
The imprints of the horses hoofs had
ended where the soft dirt lane from
the vistim's dwelling Joined the hard.
dinty turnpike. aud no horse with q
shoe similarly marked had been found.
The sheriff who was working on the
case was In the village biacksmith's
shop talking to several men about the
case.
While speaking he CHANGED to pick
up q shoe which had been taken from
the hoof Of a horse then In the saop.
He turned II ove and over in his
hands. then suddenly started and ceas.
ed speaking. There. staring him IN
the face. was the Triangular mark
which had left It, imprint IN the mud
outside the murdered mans door.
"Whose horse ID that" demanded
the sheriff. 49,
1T Is mln." said a man named How.
ard Smifhers.
Tho sheriff Immediately arrested
him. But when the case was heard
before a magistrate Smithers proved
that he had purchased the horse from
l1emuel Boynt0n after the murder. and
that the shoe was on the horse at Tire
time. Roynton lived In the next
county. but before going In search Of
him tho police searched the ollie OF
cast-oR shoes in the hlacksmith's shoD.
Another shoe was found with the
Identical nick in Il.
Hoynton was arrested and tho black.
smith identified him as the man who
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