Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-11
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Let us that there arS
three ways in which
DERNBURG PASHA might have
been killed." said
NJ. JONQUEBLE, greatest Of French
detectives, to the Turkish Envoy
who was demanding PREPARATIONS
for the murder in Paris of his fell
low citizen.
Dernburg had been found dead in
the library of his house. His throat
was slashed and a trail of blood on
the white squares of the ~checkered
marble floor apparently indicated
the escape of the assassin.
Il might have killed him. said
NJ. Jonquelle. you might have
killed him. He might have been
killed by a man no longer living
The last theory startled the En-
voy.
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CHAPTER III
ut is a conceivable theory" re-
marked Monsieur Jonquelle, that
Dernburg Pasha was struck down
by a hand that we can no longer
consider to be living.
"But IL you please, we will take
ND THESE lIGOElbS III LilCiI OIutAs 1lu
j murder Dernburg Pasha? II is an
interesting hypothesis, and l should
be glad to consider it at some length.
But 1t seems to require nc extended
deductions to conclude it. We have
shown that the mysterious visitor
who called on Dernburg last night
was not his assassin, because the
evidences which seem 50 to indicate
were laid down by design and did
not come about by accident. They
were laid down by the intention of
some person, some person who
wished to establish that this visitor
was the assassin. But the visitor
himself could not have wished to
establish that he was the assassin;
consequently he could not have
made these ~indicatory evidences.
and therefore he was not the assas-
sin of Dernburg Pasha."
He paused.
"And now, monsieur, as l was the
visitor who called on Dernburg
Pasha last night, it must be clear
that i was not the assassin that
struck him down. These conclusions
may seem to interlock with a slight
obscurity. But if you reflect upon
them, monsieur, you will observe
that they are sound and convincing"
There was a moments silence.
The Oriental did not speak. and the
Prefect of Police continued:
Now, monsieur, we approach the
second hypothesis: Did you murder
Dernburg Pasha?
Here. monsieur. one finds him
self confronted with certain Difficult
ties. You took charge of this house
the moment it was ascertained that
the man was dead"
The Envoy interrupted:
II did, monsieur. As a represen-
tative of the Turkish government it
was my duty to take charge at once
of the property of one of its muir
dered citizens. I came at once and
took charge of it,"
THAT is true, monsieur" contin-
red the Project of Police. You
came as you had the right to do,
and you took over this house as it
base we may go forward with the
fypotdesis in its first Inquiry
namely, did I create these false evil
dences on the floor of this drawing
room. or did you, or did the agency
not now living undertake it?"
Nov, monsieur, let us consider
these suggestions in a reverse order.
II D%ernburg Pasha was struck down
by a hand not moving alive in the
world after he died on the floor of
library yonder. then such a hand
could not have gone forward with
The manufacture of these false evil
iences of his assassination, and We
may dismiss it. l cannot have man
them, monsieur, because
It is not conceivable that one under
the assassination would o II
evidence Of his crime to con-
riot himself. Therefore, monsieur, |
by elimination, we to arrive at
The conclusion that it was you who
manufactured them"
The Enjoys face seemed to form
itself into q sort of plastic mask.
Now Jonquelle went on, IF you
manufactured them, monsieur, it
was with a deliberate object. That
object would be to fasten the crime
npon another. But n does not IN
dertake to fasten a crime upon an
pther without an adequate reason in
himself. Now, what reason, non
sieur, could you have had for wish
ing to establish that l. who called
upon Dernburg late last night, had
accomplished his murder and fed,