Evening star., 1922-02-25


to come to his room.
A T one end OF the room Craig
~ had placed large white
~ sheet such as he used in his
stereopticon lectures. while at
the top CT the tier Of seats that made
a sort of little amphitheater out Of
! the lecture room his stereopticon
sputtered.
Moving pictures tonight. eh I"
said Inspector O'Connor.
Not exactly" said Craig, though
yes. they will be moving in another
sense. Now. If we are all ready
I'll switch of the electric lights"
The calcium sputtered some more.
| and a square OF light was thrown
on the sheet.
Kennedy snapped a little announcer
such as lecturers use. Let me in
vite your attention to these en-
largements Of fnger-prints." he be-
gan. as a huge thumb appeared on
, the screen. Here We have a series
Of finger-prints which 1 will show
one after another slowly. They are
all OF the fingers Of the same person.
and they were found on some empty
bottles Of spring water used at Bis
bee Hall during the two weeks pre-
yious to the departure of Mr.. Bisbee
| for New York.
Here are. in succession. the fn-
ger-prin-s Of the various servants
employed about the house-and of
a guest" added Craig, with a slight
change of tone. They differ mark
| edly from the flnger-prints on the
/ glass" he continued. as one after
1
\ last one. That is identical. 1t is.
! inspector, what We call a composite
| type of f1nger.-print-in this case a
combination of what is called the
loop and 'whorr types
| No sound broke the stiffness save
the sputtering of the oxygen on the
| calcium of the Stereopticon.
THE owner of the fingers from
which these prints were made is in
| this room. 1t was from typhoid
fever was introduced into the drink
ing water at Bisbee Hall"
J Kennedy paused to emphasize the
statement. then continued.
| II am now going to ask DR.. Les
| lie to give US little talk on a recent
| discovery in the field of typhoid fever.
| You understand, commissioner, what
| 1 mean. I believer"
| Perfectly. Shall I mention names"
| mo. not yet"
I
his throat. within the past year or
two we have made a most weird and
startling discovery in typhoid fever.
We have found what we now cal
typhoid carriers persons who do
| not have the disease themselves, per-
| haps never have had 1t, but who are
1 literally living test-tubes Of the ty-
phoid bacillus. 1t is positively un-
canny. Everywhere they go they scat
ter the disease. Down at the depart
+, NJ
ber of such instances. and our men
in the research laboratories have come
to the conclusion that. far from be-
Ing OF rare occurrence. these cases
are comparatively common. l h;H: m
mind one particular case OF servant
girl who during the past Ave or six
years has been employed in several
families.
I'm every family typhoid fever has
later broken out. Experts have traced
/ out at least thirty cases and several
deaths due to this one person. in an
other case we found an epidemic up in
Harlem to be due to a typhoid carrier
on q remote farm in Connecticut. This
carrier, innocently enough. it is true.
contaminated the milk supply coming
from that farm. The result was over
fifty cases of typhoid here in this
city.
However. to return to the case of
the servant I have mentioned. L:.Ss
spring we naQ nef uuQer SuTSSlld.ice,
but as there was no Jaw by which We
could restrain her permanently. she
is still at large. l think one OF the
Sunday papers at the time had an ac-
count Of her they called her "Ty-
phoid Bridget and in red ink she was
drawn across the page in s:uesojne
fashion, frying the skulls of her vic
Tins in a. frying pan over roaring
fire. That particular typhoid carrier.
understand"
Excuse me, commissioner. IL 1 in
terrupt. but l think we have carried
this part Of the program far enough
to be absolutely convincing" said
Craig. Thank you very much for the
clear way in which you have put IL"
Craig snanned the auuouucer. and a