The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1912-03-16

sance. AZ doctor came from the Fifth
Avenue hotel In asfewi moments, but
found that lhebpatrolman had made q
mistake in tie first excitement Of his
discovery. The banker had been dead
for at least three hours; in fact his
body was aIready quite cold.
Mangam then told the Nathan boys
that much as he regretted It, II was
Ills duty to5take complete charge of
the household and permit nobody to
leaye$C Captain Burden was summoned
!. from the TRenty.nipth precinct and ar.
rived wittilnhalH an hour. He atonce
placed his detectives on the case and
notified Superintendent John JoIlrdan
and Chief Detective Kelso.
When the def ectives arrived they
declared that they had never wit
messed bloodier murder Or one in.
which the victim had evidently made.
80 determined astruggle forilife. On
the dead mans body the marks.
OF numerous blows, evidently inflicted
with a heayS blunt instrument, There
were four wounds on the head, any
one OF which would have been sufil-t
Client to cause immediate death. Sew
eral OF the fingers had been broken. a
desperate struggle had evidently &C
Cured in the doorway between the
two rooms, and upon the walls were
the imprInts Of two hands; one that
of Nathan himself, as was evident
from the shape Of the fingers, the.
other that oil d hand With long, taper
ing, well.kept fingers.
Had the system Of finger records.
now so universally used been In use
then, the murderer would undoubtedly
have been discovered. For never have
two fnger-prInts yet been found that
are alike. But In those days this fact
was wholly unknown outside Of China.
where the flngersprint system otiden-
tificatlon seems to have had it's origin
That the motive of the crlmo'was
robbery could easily bep determined.
The murdered mans keys. had been
taken from his pocket. but whether!
before or after bis death could not be
determined. The safe in the private!
office had been unlocked, clrcum-
stance somewhat peculiar. for 1t was
SO concealed that q burglar, coming
into the house by chances&Gould not
have discovered it. From within had
been taken a wooden case containing!
number Of rare coins; the house,
keeping money, amounting to several
hundred dollars, was also missing from
drawer. together with some family
trinkets. From the murdered mans
clothes the robber haC removed val
liable watch and chain, valued at six
hundred dollars, and three gold studs
had been removed from the shirt front
after death, as the bloody finger
prints upon the linen disclosed. Hav-
ling Communicative deed, thesmuaeTsr
had coolly gone into the bathroom and
washed his hands.
These circumstances made 1t clear
that 1t was an Inside" job-that Is to
say 1t had evidently been done by
some one familiar with the interior OF
the house.
While Patrolman Mangam was
awaiting the arrival Of Captain Bur-
den, Frederick Nathan. who was
standing beside him at the street,
dor, suddenly exclaimed:
Here's something!"
He stopped and picked up an iron
bar. about twenty inches in length,
smeared with blood and having few
gray hairs adhering, That this was
the instrument with which the muir
derer had accomplished his crime
there could be no doubt. 1t was what
is known among ship carpenters as a
dog" a bar Of one.tnch wrought iron
with the ends turned up. a'ss
! The news Of this tragedy shocked
the entire city. The press denounced
the police for their failure to appre-
bend the murderer Immediately. The.
, Hebrew community and the Stock Ex-
change offered rewards aggregatlng no
less than $4,000 for Information lead:
| ing to the discovery Of the murderer.
AS Is usual in such cases, the police
, were hampered by cranks who began
i writing them letters, Offering clues.
! With the sole object of leading the de-
tectives astray. Superintendent Jour-
Jan received at least five hundred Of
these missiveS from all parts Of the
country. Numerous criminals were ar
rested upon suspicion, among them
being George Ellis, a burglar who was
brought down from Sing Sing on the
supposftion that he was in possession
OF valuable Information In regard to
the murderer man who had heen
named by the police but had evaded
their search. Fills was kept under
guard in New York for more than
three months, a watcher being de-
tailed to guard him day and night.
One of these watchers was Detective
Patrick Dolan, and to him Ellis casu-
ally remarked one day:
'Isn't 1t too bad? Superintendent
!! Pat ,Jourdap's going to die, and I'll
be sent back 10 states, prison again. +"
"How do you know that?" Dolan
| asked.
Ills clothes don't At him." replied
Ellis, and that was all they could get
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