Perth Amboy evening news., 1922-12-09
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cd for the carrying out of his
scheme: and at the opportune hour
he entered this house. These are
the facts, monsieur, which l have
accurately ascertained, which are
true beyond doubt
and So said the Oriental, this
mysterious stranger finally ran
Dernburg Pasha to earth here and
killed him"
The Project of Police arrested the
mans discourse with d gesture.
"You travel, monsieur" he said,
"a point beyond my conclusions. Do
| we know hat this midnight visitor
is the assassin? We must consider
the evidences as they are presented
to us"
THE evidences are conclusive of
this fact" replied the Envoy, 'if cir
cumstantial evidences can ever be
conclusive of a murder. Here is the
opportunity, the quarrel, the dead
man remaining in the library, blood
drops falling from the weapon on
this drawing-room floor as he hasti-
ly crossed it, and the escape over
the wall of the garden"
But, monsieur" said the Project
of Police, where is the motive? The
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evidences, in the investigation of a
should be time, opportunity and
motive. The time, monsieur, and
the opportunity are here, plainly
indicated; but the motive? Where
shall we look for that?"
The Oriental turned, as with an
inspiration, in his chair.
why, monsieur" he said, you
spoke at considerable length upon
the motive. You seemed to know it
quite well. You conceal, as you
have indicated, the somewhat mys-
FERROUS evidence of it in your hand"
quite true, monsieur" replied
the Project of Police, but you will
observe that it is l who am familiar
with this motive. 1t is l who have
what you are pleased to call this
concrete evidence in my hand. And
nat brings me to an interesting hy-
pothesis with three phases to be
considered. Let us consider them,
monsieur! l name them in the
order in which they occur to me:
first, monsieur, that L killed the
man; second, that you killed him;
and third, that the agency that kill
ed Dernburg Pasha is no longer
living in this world"
The Oriental turned suddenly, his
face contracted and tense, but his
voice firm.
VERY we'll, monsieur" he said:
whittier do these suggestions lead
you?"
Jonquelle continued in an even
voice.
ITO arrive at that he said, eve
must first consider the evidences
which have led you Il believe that
Dernburg was killed by the man
with whom he quarreled last night
in the library. Now, if you please,
monsieur, we will look a little at
tie indicatory signs"
He paused.
'There is always this disturbing
feature about circumstantial evil
dence, the trick of pointing in the
direction that one is going. If one
a a conclusion, one will find that
the circumstantial evidence supports
it. You have a theory, monsieur,
that this visitor was Dernburg's as
sassin, and consequently, to you the
~lndicatoiy evidence supports that
theory. But, monsieur, I have the
theory that the visitor was not the
assassin. and L bid you observe how
the i~ndicatory evidences will turn
themselves about in order to sup
port the theory which 1 maintain.
Take, for example. these blood
drops on the marble floor of the
drawing room. In support of your
theory, they have fallen by hazard
from the assassin's knife in his
flight, and you would cite them as
confirmatory of your theory.
Nov, monsieur, 1 will cite them
also as contirmatory of mine.
You will observe that each of
these seven blood-drops has fallen
on 4 white square of this checkered
marble floor. There is no drop OF
blood on a black square. Why, mon
should these drops appear
ally on the white squares? L con-
slider that fact with my theory in
mind, and l conclude that they so
;-2pear because the one who placed
them thee wished them to be seen.
We cannot conceive that he would
undertake to create evidence against
himself. And it is beyond our con-
of coincidence that each of
these W. bl~ood-drops should, by
accident, have fallen precisely on a
square when there was an
equal number Of black squares in
t%ervening. Therefore, monsieur,