Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-08-17

fNote---On the todH Of the library
IN the Crfmiaolo0y Club hangs Por-
ttom Of a ne,cspdper in a frame IS
an account OF the killing OF Kan
Chandra IN grounded court room ~
San francisco, April, 1918. Dhen ne
for sedition HIS murderer. Ram
Singh, aoho tcds on trial for he Sane
oDense. tods Killed a fep seconds idter
by United States Marshal Written
sEvidently a Stirling Demonstration
of the frUth OF Rdtu Chibrd's state
fnent In phono0raph library IN re the
Made in Germany Hindu Soctety,
Harrison Grant" Az i,.q",hg c9nru'n sPnr,, n nf
the connection the club had to,th the
breaking up Of the, great Htnd" GUm, Th.
spiracpi. Uhich is here reldtsd. Ire ihs
Cbnudyd intended to turn inform'r
has neDcr been unSperedJ
sNTNHERE is the latest thing IN Ger
man code. II it happens to be cooe
at ALL" said Harrison Grant, pres1urr' nspn
Of the Criminology Club, to pixie mason;
~ fhe secret service. one evening carry
in 1el7 in the presidents room OF 'he
club. He tossed her piece Of paper.
"why it's nothing but cohtlnuo,s
,na ~ iumbled letters" exclaimed the
little Secret Service operative. iookins
3 at n critically at appears as though
some one had been trying out Spe-
writer to see If the letters neeaea tttsn this H.
"Picked up from the Sayville WIRE
less answered Grant.
"The Sayville wireless?' questioned
Dixie, intensely interested at the men
tion of the station so widely u assa ca, tes py
German agents until the ChNeu Sta'eS
put it under control.
yes" answered Grant. You know a
number of German operators are located
there-none of them really under sus-
picion. but worthy of constant watchlhg ing
merely because they are German: For
that reason Hennessy has carefully re-
corded everything that has been sent
OUT
"You mean that the censors let a
: jumbled mass of letters like TINS pass /!
demanded Dixie.
mo. not in that form. A few nights
ago Hennessy began to realize that be-
tween words there would be a quick jar
and then a legible word. He got Charles
here and listen in. Apgar suggested re-
cording the sendtngs on the monograph
for study. The result is that by running
the machine slowly distinct letters be-
tween words can be distinguished. They
are snapped through, but easily caught
by any one expecting them. These let
ters are the sending of the last two
nights"
There is no code or cipher that I
know of that could be applied to them. -
said Dixie. studying the jumbled letters
carefully. They are not German Eng
lish, French. Spanish. Russian or any
other language with which l am at all
familiar"
'"rhat is just the question:" answered
Grant. "Apgar, who is quite linguist
Il said that the letter combinations re-
minded him very strongly OF Hindu
! don't know Hindu at al. and Apgar
declares that If it is Hindu it Is a di9.
lect different from any with which he Is
familiar. l telephoned to Columbia Uni
veFsity today: you know there is a small
colony of Hindu students there, for an
expert in the dialects. so we may know
the answer to this any time
Their talk drifted into other matters
until it was announced that Ratu Chibra
of Columbia, was awaiting Harrison
Grant
Hennessy and CavanauGh were walt.
ing with a dark skinned, intelligent-look
ing East Indian. He spoke perfect Eng
lish as greetings were exchanged. Gram
then turned to the business of the even
Z ing, and as he handed the same lines
( of letters to Chibra that he had shown
to Dixie earlier in the evening, Hen
messy started the recording phonograpf
as a means Of preserving any aid th'
Hindu might be able to give in decI'
phering the strange tumble.
Chibra looked long and earnestly al
the paper which had been placed before
him. Not one of the four watching hin
detected a motion of his features or tht
muscles of his little body, but yet eacf
one of the four had the impression thal
his spine. hardened and stntened' ina
his ewes became wider and his jaw SCI
firmly After some moments OF silence
so complete that the din OF the street:
x nineteen stories below could be ciearl!
discerned, Grant broke the trance BY
= asking:
Can you make anything of it,
without turning his head the HindI
answered Although he spoke in Eng
lish his voice had assumed the chanting
tone of the Eas
Indian mystic:
Chibra Refuses 1t is my III
to translate you ask for, sahit
the Code. 1t is written tina
the chosen sha
know that the
have been selected ! have already ha
my call and know those who have bee
chosen with me. But 1t is also writ
ten that those who are selected sha
have judge among them, and shall ais
act as judge of one of the chosen An
1t Is further written that when on
speaks of those things which concer
only the selected ones to those VINO ar
not of the chosen, his judge shall ki
him. That is all can say
"You mean that to speak of whs
YOU see there, would indicate your Iii
would be in danger from some source
demanded Grant.
my life would be forfeit" answere
the lnQldn Stlll Win MS eyes u
paper. For it is written that If juds
fail in his duty of killing his charge the
the name of both the judge and II
charge shall Se gilen to all the chose
and they shan both be killed. No OF
can know all of the chosen, therefore
knows not who to guard himself agains
1t is unalterable and unpreventabie thi
whosoever of the chosen shall speak
matters concerning the chosen sha
die"
* Chibra by the arm and shaking hiI
wake up, you are in America In u
twentieth century, not In India in Il
fourteenth !"
you do not know. sahib," answer
the Hindu drawing himself 10 a digni
which made Grant look rather awkwar
s'On those papers are sacred plans
the chosen, plans with which l am n
M in,sympathy. but plans of which | m;
not speak. AS love my life, / must no
YOU fail in discovering them, for n
Judge, although ne Is unknown to n
knows of my presence here tonight
surely as | know every move OF II
charge. II you are successful In disco
q ering these plans my life ceases.
IN vain Grant offered him all the pr
lection the Criminology Club could of
ana Dixie assured him that any mea
which she could be instrumental in q
s :. ting would be forthcoming Chibra
{ y n,ained obdurate in fact, could not ev
So be Induced to look at the message
second time. Finally, he was permit
ut looks as il we had come
cropper," remarked Hennessey.
Far from it," responded Grant, -,
least Il has been established that u
are messages, and that they are Hin
y That forms working basis, and cop