Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1916-04-27

uSDISuleoo oHdll Dc pau. ldhe Heeu
and curb thy greed lest it destroy
thee.
remembered the first time l had
ever read the thing myself. 1t had
given me distinct shock, until Dual
had explained it's symbolic meaning
and made plain to me that it was no
threat, but a warning which it were
well for all men, lest they wish to
bring sorrow upon themselves by
seeking to overreach or injure others.
To judge by Mallet's face as he
came back to his seat, he was inclin-
ed to take the words as | had at first.
He looked like man who had sus-
tanned mental shock, and he sighed
in a long, unsteady expiration as he
sank into the chair.
/ became aware that Dual was hold
| ing the two tubes he had been work.
ing over toward Bryce and pointing.
"By Jove, they're the same" the
inspector cried. "This chemistry
stuff is the goods, johnson. The skin
and the shell test up the same"
Dual nodded and set the tubes aside.
Removing the sheets of powder
from beneath his plates, he folded up
each and laid it aside. Then picking
up several other small plates of steel,
he held one over the first half pile of
powder on the desk and touched it
with a lighted taper.
A little puff of blue fame leaped
from the lower plate and thread of
whito smoke curled upward.
One by one he took other plates
and set off the piles of powder on
each plate, laying the smoked sections
aside as each was made. The sue
cession of tiny spurts of flame ran
down the line of plates and died.
When it was ended Semi took the
smoked plates and began again upon
his series of powder tests.
One by one he subjected the pow
der-smoked plates to his reagents and
washed them into his test tubes, ap-
plying his chemicals to each in turn
and settling the question as to their
constituents.
And as l watched him it came to
me that he was literally examining
into the spirit of each vanished pile of
powder, testing its quality, judging
it, weighing it, as ere long greater
intelligence than his might test and
weigh the spirit of the one who was
guilty of this crime.
Calm, impassive, exact in his mo-
tions and his judgement, he was ap-
praising all which each smoke-stain
stood for in the history of the case,
bending all his faculties upon the one
point of learning the truth and moth
ing more.
The golden apple in the hand of his
great bronze Venus glowed with its
encased light, apd threw a mellow
radience about his head and shoulders
as he sat holding the little tubes over
the blue flame of the lamp, his eyes
fastened upon their transparent con-
tents, noting every degree of change.
So l could imagine the greater pow
er subjecting the spirit of the man to
his calm, impassive, purposeful scru-
tiny, when, Dual said, its last sec
ond of time should be spent.
The last of the tests seemed to be
finished. Dual had set his four tubes
aside as if satisfied and once more
turned from his desk.
"These four specimens react sim
ilarly to the same tests and different
ly from the first two" he stated.
THAT should indicate that the pow
der-marks upon Gustav's face and the
powder in the shell of the jacketed
bullet were of the same nature, and
that the load in the other shells was
of different quality of powder; con-
sequently, in view of the fact that his
gun shows no sign of recent firing,
that my deductions are correct and
that he was shot as l have suggested"
"That's right" said Bryce. eve
can be sure 1t was murder now, all
right. That suicide business is all off
after this. never saw anything like
it outside of book. Mr.. Dual,
take my hat off to YOU"
Dual glanced at the Inspector and
smiled slightly,
professional criminologists are
doing this sort of thing every day in
the year." he remarked. "The detec-
tion of crime is rapidly being put
on scientific basis. One trouble
with methods still employed in this
country is the persistence in the habit
of forming theory of crime and
attempting to make the evidence fit
rather than in allowing the evidence
to build up the theory. Still, | am
gratifed that you agree with what