Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1915-04-23
FIRST EPISODE
Tha ClutchIn0 Hand.

The clutehIns Hand.
There must be something new IN |
der to catch criminals nowadays.
Ae Old methods are all right-as far |
they go. But while we have been
Bi6g them, criminals have kept pace
kjfh modern science"
Craig Kennedy laid down his news
vaper and filed his pipe with my to-
>acco. In college we had roomed to
ether, had shared everything. even
.,overty, and now that Craig was q
7 professor Of chemistry in charge OF
4 tho laboratory at the university ana
I had q sort of rowing commission on
the star of the Star, We had continued
our arrangement.
1T has always seemed strange to
me-" be went on slowly, that no one
has ever endowed q professorship IN
criminal science in any OF the large
colleges."
I tossed aside my own paper and
retrieved the tobacco.
why should there be a chair IN
criminal scienceT I replied argu-
uentatively. settling back in my chair.
i've done my turn at police headquar-
tors reporting, and ! can tell you.
Craig, its no place for college pro-
lessor. Crime is-just crime. And as
for dealing with 1t the great detec-
tive IL born and bred to it. College
professors for the sociology OF the
thing-yes; for the detection OF 1t,
giye me Q Byrnes."
"On the contrary" persisted Ken
nedy. his clean-cut features betraying
an earnestness which knew indicated
that he was leading up to something
Of importance, there is distinct
place for science in the detection OF
crime. Today we have professors Of
oveFything-why rot professors q. OF
crime scienceY
Still, az I shook my head obviously.
be FASTENED to clinch his point. Col
lSges have got down to solving the
hard facts Of life, nowadays-pretty
nearly all, except one. They still treat
crime in the old way, study its Stats
tics and pore over its causes and the
theories of how II can be prevented
and punished. But a. for running down
the criminal himself. scientifically. re-
lentlessly-bah! we haven't made
enough progress to mention since the
hammer and tongs method OF your
sainted Byrnes."
Doubtless you will write brochure
q this most interesting subject"
suggested. land let It 90 at that"
mo, am serious" he replied. de-
tsrmined for some reason or other to
make Q convert Of me. II mean ex.
actly what ! say. am going to apply
science to the detection Of crime, the
same sort Of methods by which we
trace out the presence Of . mysteri.
Gus chemical or track down q deadly
germ. And before I have gone far.
am going to enlist Walter jameson
- IN aid. I think I shall need you
IN my business"
How do come inf' asked.
well, for one thing. you ~ill get
SCOOP Q 'beat'-whatever you cal
e In that Newspaper jargon Of yours
Fortunately. Walter" he pursued
~tho crime-hunters have gone ahead n
Ocaence faster than the criminals. III
- - my Job to catch criminals. Yours
Il seems to me, IL to show people how
they can never hope to beat the mod
eEn scientific detective"
go ~ far a. you Ike" ! exclaimed
convinced at last
And % 1t was that We formed THU
strange new partnership in crime SCI
onee that has existed ever since.
.
Jameson. here's . story ! wisl
yea'd follow mp" remarked the man
asing editor of the Star to me on
evening after I had turned In an "a
Oisnment of the late afternoon.
He handed me clipping from tn
evening edition Of the Star, and
quickly ran my eye over the headline