Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-08-31

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mouth the small piece OF steak previously distracted
from the cebox became fast friends with the animal
the spot and led it off to the house where he stop
ping where he tied it in the cellar and went to bed
All the next day the detective to it that the dog
hungry dog howl? 1t is strange, weird, creepy
earthly melancholy sound The detective had heard
his hungry dog back home howl. He knew! At
twenty five minutes after twelve that nght-the hour
the murder had been committed the hungry dog
bowling whining, waing in the yard below the window
of the where suspected of the crime slept
The next day the dog was given meager mouthful OF
food just enough to keep its life going and at ex-
acty twenty five minutes after twelve that night
bowling again under the mans window
For third night, fourth night, and fifth the at
tack on this mans system kept up by the
detective, and the sixth morning, unable to endure
the aghastly supernatural coincidence of dog bowling
each night at the time the murder DONE he char
acterzed it subsequently when he confessed, the man
left town, and the all-important shadowing, which
eventually definitely fixed the crime, begun
This story has been related to me by the detective
himself and it offers in itself an apt example of the in
genuity exercised by the detective brain when engaged
in swift conflict with the brain Of the criminal There
are numerous other incidents that throw and not
unsurprisng light this phase of detective WORK,
garding which little is spoken and less written.
And it is to be venured these incidental tricks of the
detective brain in action possess curiousy angled
interest than the main groundwork OF the science OF
crime detection.
MOT less fertile an instance of nvenveness than the
episode of the bowling dog is revealed through the
manner in which famous detective SIX years ago out
generated criminal whose craft and cunning the former
realized were in normal circumstances probably superior
to his.
The of the larger cities in Pennsylvania
bank had been robbed Systematically for period
of four months and after week spent secretly the
the detective pretty that the succession of
robberes was to be laid at the cashiers door Proof
positive however, lacking and the detective, al
though his mind made to the caShlerS guilt,
appreciated that he had absolutely nothing in the way
of concrete evidence wherewh to lodge indirect
charge against the suspected man. 1t was essential
that the cashier be given hint that the robberes had
been noticed, and especially hint that he
under suspicion
Posing banker from the West, the detective
caused the president of the bank who had enlisted
his servces) to introduce him to the heads of de-
partment of the institution with the statement that
he 1.-THE detectVe) wished to study the excellent
banking methods obtaining there in order that his
own Western bank might adopt them In this
manner the detective into contact with the
cashier
The latter was a man of good habits and fine
physique. He lived moderate life; he drank and
smoked little; he went to bed early and got up
early. What he had done with the stolen money
one knew He certainly had not increased his
expenditures; had been too wary to buy
single expensive cravat. Here, then was the
problem confronting the detective brain: How to =
get this criminal in such situation that when
charged out of a clear sky with having committed i
the thefts he would find his quick and thoroughly a
mapped-out mind not equal to the emergency: how VII
to make the criminals BRAIN in itself even quicker
than the detectives, weaker than the detectives,
and all without in the slightest manner arousing
the criminals suspicious.
After day or two the banker from the West
apparently left town and the affairs at the bank