Evening star., 1922-07-22

for help on a counterfeiting case. man call
Ing himself Williams and woman passing Nj. ss
J O'Connor has found from the mans nngertips
! that he is famous English crook. but when he
| they do not tally with the frst. They have
leased a house at Riverwood on the Hudson.
and Kennedy goes to watch 1t after tad man ~ ~
killed in a motor wreck. Kennedy and Jameson
make their way into the house, and IN aesk
Kennedy nnd. various odds and ends. 1 ether; disa
things. Suddenly a woman's voice screams out
upstairs and they rush away to the railway ~
wealth at the house. SO Kennedy reasons tnst
| the occupants Of the house. alarmed at the IN
get s' their % money % and them disappear. probably
to- Lexington. KY. to spend II on the races:
Kennedy is convinced that it was another MOI sI
/ the side Of the railway. Kennedy. Jameson
| and Burke watch the crowd arriving at the
| gates Of the Kentucky train.
TN HE gate was Just opened and
| the crowd led through. No
| one who seemed to satisfy
/ either Burke or Kennedy ap-
| peared. The train announcer made
his last call. Just then taxicab
| pulled up at the street-end of the
platform, not far from track s. A
man jumped out and assisted heav-
lily veiled lady. paid the driver.
picked up the grips. and turned to-
ward us.
We waited expectantly. AS he
turned I saw a dark-skinned. hook
nosed man. and 1 exclaimed disgust
edly to Burke: We'll. II they are go
ing to Lexington they can't make
this train. Those are the last people
who have a chance"
| Kennedy. however. continued to re-
gard the couple steadily. The man
saw that, he was being watched and
faced US defiantly. "Such impertin-
ence!" Then to his wife, Come, my
dear. we'll just make It,"
I'm afraid I'll have to trouble you
to show US what's in that grip" said
| Kennedy. calmly laying his hand on
the mans arm.
We'll. now. did you ever hear Of
| such blasted impudence? Get out of
| my way. sir, this instant, or I'll have
you arrested.
Come. come, Kennedy" interrupt
ed Burke. Surely you are getting
in wrong here. This can't be the
| man"
Craig shook his head decidedly.
You can make the arrest CT not,
| Burke. as you choose. II ro;, l am
through. If so-IlI take all the re-
sponsibility."
Reluctantly. Burke yielded The
man protested: the woman cried; a
The train gate shut with bang.
changed Instantly There" he
! shouted angrily. you have made US
miss our train. I'll have you in Jail
for this. Come on now to the nearest
! N dva "
rights as an American citizen. You
have carried your little joke too far.
Knight is my name-John Knight of
| Omaha, pork packer. Come on now.
| III see that somebody suffers for this
| If have to stay in New York a year.
| It's an outrage-an outrage"
| Burke was now apparently alarmed
i more at the possibility of the hu-
injurious publicity that would follow
such g. mistake by the secret service
than at anything else. However.
| Kennedy did not weaken. and on gen.
i eral principles l stuck to Kennedy
| "Now." said the man surlily, while
| he placed Mrs. Knight in as easy a
chair as he could find in the judges 3
chambers. what is the occasion of all
this row?". Tell the judge what bad
man from Blood Gulch l am
O'Connor had arrived. having broken
all speed laws and perhaps some records
on the way up from headquarters. Ken
nedy laid the Scotland Yard finger
prints on the table. Beside them he
Burke in New York.
Here" he began, I'VE have the
| finge ger-prints Of a man who was one Of
the most noted counterfeiters in Great
Britain. Beside them are those of a
man who succeeded in passing counter
York. Some weeks later this third set
| of prints was taken from a man who
was believed to be the same person."
| The magistrate was examining the
three sets Of prints. AS he came to
| the third he raised his head as II about
to make remark when Kennedy
quickly interrupted.
zone moment sir. You were about
! to say that finger-prints never change.
never show such variations as these.
people taken fifty years ago that are
| exactly the same as their fnger-prints
Of today. They don't change-they are
| permanent. The finger-prints of MUM
mics can be deciphered even after
thousands Of years. But" he added
! slowly. you can change fingers"
The idea was SO startling that I
could scarcely realize what he meant
at first. / read Of the wonderful work
Of the surgeons OF the Rockefeller In
| stitute in transplanting tissues and
| even whole organs. in grating skin and
days under proper conditions. Could it
| be that a man had deliberately ampu-
tated his fingers and grated on new
ones? Was the stake sufficient for
| such a game? Surely there must be
some scars left after such grating.
| picked up the various sets of prints
| It was true that the third set was not
| very clear, but there certainly were no
scars there.
Though there is no natural change
| ability of f1nger-prints," pursued Ken
nedy. such changes can be induced,
as DR.. Paul Prayer of Vienna has
shown, by acids and other reagents, by
| grating and by injuries. Now, is there
any method by which lost finger-tips
can be restored? / know of one case
| where the end Of a finger was taken off
! and only ne-sixteenth inch Of the nail
| was left. The Doctor incised the edges
i the granulations on by what is known
in the medical profession as the
sponge graft He grew new finger
1.-THE sponge graft consists in using
portions Of fine Turkish surgical
sponge. such as I have here. 1 found
these pieces in desk at Riverwood.
| The patient Is anestheticized. An in
cision Is made from side to side in the
are sliced OF and turned up for the
new end Of the finger to develop it..a
) ! sort Of she'll Of living skin. Inside
this the sponge IL placed, not large
piece, but very thin pieoe sliced or
and cut to the shape of the finger
stump. 1t 10 perfectly sterlized In
water and washed in green soap after
all the stony particles are removed by
jhydrochloric acid. Then the finger