Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-11
QriumphS ofA
MJonque1leX
by MELVILLE DAWSON Posi- =
% 1909 NEA Service. Inc

/ carefully dropping splotches OF
blood on the white squares of the
I floor of this drawing room, n es-
Gaping over a wall covered with a
coating of dust which L did not re
move? What could have been your
| object in undertaking to establish
these facts, if you were yourself
guiltless of his death?'
The mans reply vas quite simple
and without emotion.
"Why, monster, should 1 wish to
| assassinate Dernburg Pasha?"
Did you not wish to take over
this house?" replied the Prefect of
Police. "And if you took it over you
| would take it over with what it con-
tsins. Let me show you, monsieur,
the treasure that it contains!"
He stopped over, slipped the point
of a knife-blade under one of the
large white marble squares in the
drawing room floor and lifted it up.
These squares had been laid down
on wooden stills, nailed together, and
hoored over underneath. Each
square had, therefore, a sort of
wooden pocket beneath it. This
wooden pocket under the white
square that Monsieur Jonquelle re-
moved was filled with g~old-pieces.
The Oriental, bending over, made
a profound exclamation of surprise.
He remained immovable in an over
whelming wonder. That the man
was amazed at something of which.
up to that moment, he had not had
the slightest conception, was clearly
evident.
Monsieur Jonquelle permitted the
marble square to go back into its
place, and he returned to his chair.
The Oriental sat down beyond him,
speeches. in his amazement. The
Prefect of Police continued to speak
as though the mans concern were
not a thing which he had observed.
"And so you see, monsieur, we
have here the motive, the opportu-
nifty, and the construction of these
false evidences, to indicate that you
were the assassin of Dernburg
Pasha. And again I beg you to OBJ
serve how fatal it is to proceed with
~indicatory evidences when one
wishes to establish a theory. 1t is
fortunate, monsieur, that it is 1 who
considered these evidences against
you, for it is 1 who know that Dern-
burg Pasha was dead when you ar
rived in this house"
He paused.
'And from the wound in his
throat I knew at once what hand
it was that inflicted it-a hand not
now living!"
"The hand of the dead mani"
echoed the Oriental. You mean
the hand of a dead man."
IT mean the hand of the dead
D%eruburg Pasha," replied the Pre-
feet.
1.-THE wound began heavily on the
left side and tailed off to the right.
That is the slash of a suicide.
Death-wounds, inflicted by one in
tent on taking his own life, are al
ways inflicted on the left side, be-
u they are undertaken with the
right hand. and if they are done
with a knife, they begin with a
heavy incision that tails out as the
knife is drawn to the right-as the
strength of the person undertaking
to inhict the wound fails. Suicidal
wounds, when inflicted with a sharp
instrument, have always these evl-
dental signs. They cannot be mis-
taken"
Monsieur Jonquelle arose.
"Let me clear this mystery" he
said. "Dernburg Pasha was n of
the most accomplished counterfeit
ers in the world"
He opened his hand.
''This device, which looks like an
alabaster box, is a mold made of
plaster for the purpose of counter
one of the largest gold coins
of the French currency. Dernburg
came here, took this house, carried
forward his undertaking until he
had stored the squares under this
.rawing-room with false coins. Then
when he had f1nished-when he had
got the coins nodded, gold-plated
and hidden, ready for the business
their distribution, 1 called on him
last night. 1t was my voice that
heard outside. I showed him
that he was at the end of his tether
the house was guarded; and
I came away leaving open to him
the only escape he had. He effected
that escape with a z drawn
his throat"
Monsieur Jonquelle paused, his
voice firm, even and unhurried.
you appeared, monsieur. a little
later, and seeing an opportunity to
obtain an indemnity from France
for a murdered subject of your
country, put the razor into your
pocket and clumsily daubed the