Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-05-08

Agent X. las you have kept away from
your friends, the Marleys, since the nigh
of the fire, I might tell you that theii
/ new lodger turned out to be an operatlv,
in the Big -Four knitting factory. Odd
was 1t not7'
"Oh No." responded Monte, welcoming
the drift of conversation away from tht
Countess Zeda. "She worked in knit
ting mill before she married Koerner: 6
simple reversion TO type. why do yor
say our finding her was too later
Because since her recovery she has
given '6s' an honest-to-goodness name
recognized the big rascal yesterday wher
took her to the Tombs in New York as
Anton Wuftling, n man often with jim
Koerner, she said, before the iron works
explosion. She Is going to stay with the
Marleys, who have offered her home
Her testimony would have connected
Wuftling directly with that crime"
wuftling alias "ss," had already been
tried convicted and sentenced to two
years Imprisonment in the Atlanta Fed
eral prison for violation Of American neu-
trality laws. The forged passport in his
possession had been sufficient to make such
case against him.
Monte knew something Of the machinery
of law how the prisons frequently get
short-termers who ought to be lifers; men
made to pay the penalties of minor Of
fenses in the absence of sufficient evidence
to link them with their major wrong.
doings.
wuftlng never once quallsd when faced
with the Koerner woman. He was the
same impassive, thick-slSulled enigma the
Government agent said, as when his huge
frame was measured under the Bertillon
system and his fnger-prints taken months
before. Owing to the war confusion
rampant in the European capitals, moth
ing had been heard from these personal
Identification marks sent abroad.
MY partner. Agent w, says wuftling
Is an escaped convict probably from a
Belgium prison." continued Agent K. "W.
spent days watching him through hole
in his cell claims the man has the habits
of confirmed jailbird. Anyhow. '6S' left
this morning for Atlanta with a regular
name; so much has been gained"
After ALL Imprisonment can only be
measured in terms of a mans capacity
for mental pain" said Monte. I'VE are
drawing our iron ring closer around the
Sigvay Gang every day. Come into my
dark room-I have some broken bits of
conversation from my recordophone that
may interest. If '68' Is Wuftling, then
'35' is Briccone We are slowly but surely
climbing into their nest"
Monte led the way into a small, sound
proof room, which he had rlgged UP di-
rectly off his study. It was equipped with
several chairs, and small table on which
was pad of paper, sharpened pencils and
n green-shaded electric lamp such as one
finds over the operating table in a hos
pital.
Shelves along the walls held rows of
wax cylinders and several piles of discs,
being master records the past perform
ances of the recordophone, Monte found
that some of the conversations reproduced
better from discs than the original cylin-
ders which gathered in the sound waves,
and an expert from great record factory
in Camden, n. j., had assisted him in
raising the most obscure indentations to
the plane of human hearing
In the centre of the room stood the re-
production machine. specially built for the
1t combined the widely
known features of the gramaphone and
the victrola, raised to the nth power
CONTINUED TOMORROW