Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16

| of the pepper and salt variety our
man then often wore a Norfolk suit
| of this pattern, comparatively new, as
| the particles under the microscope
| show"
| EOf course the detective ex-
| claimed. II remember now that in
| the list of articles stolen from Ar
thur Weissman at the time he lost
| this knife was just such a suit"
Then we know that the man who
| killed Count Won Crovitz was not the
man who looted Arthur Weissman's
| place, but was probably closely allied
| to some one who committed the bur
glary and from whom he got both the
suit and the penknife."
How do you deduce this?" asked
a layman, not the detective.
Well" replied the assistant pro
fessor in criminology, II can't do bet
ter than to let Lieut.. Col. Sir Henry
Smith. X. G. b.. former commissioner
of the City of London police, answer
| you"
He took book from his shelf and
read:
Criminals, if they will pardon me
for saying so, show strange want
of originality. The streets of London
have thousands of pickpockets, for
instance: they began as pickpockets
and will continue to pick pockets
The omnibus thief remains an ON.
nibus thief. and the stealer of milk
| cans steals milk cans and nothing
! else. The stealer of dogs might
| surely diversity his program by oc-
casionally stealing a cat, but, no. the
! felines concern him not With strange
| stupidity they frequent the same lines
of omnibuses. return TO the same
streets and. until Nemesis overtakes
them steal the same kind of articles.
I'm the higher walks of the profess
sion these peculiarities are still more
striking. The bank robber and the
forger are fascinated by their own
| style of business.
'The ruffian who robs with violence
| uniformly knocks his victims down
as the Slaughtered poles an OK, where
as the good old standard deliver
| would in the vast majority of cases
he quite sufficient and risk a much
! less severe sentence"
| THAT is why" resumed the pro
| fessor. Il am fairly certain one man
committed the burglary and another
man murdered and robbed Count Won
! GROWTH on 81 main thOroughfare. But
they undoubtedly are pals.
(Which reminds me- said the vi
emma police department official, "the
| murderer is probably a foreigner. per
| haps an Italian. We looked in our
records under the category of hold-up
men who killed, particularly those
| who used the knife.
I'VE found no one whose mode of
| attack was like his. And the violence
| of it and the skill with which the
man found the jugular vein point to
an old, ferocious hand at crime
| Then after him" the scientist re-
/ piled. I'VE know how he was dressed
! part Of the time; at any rate. in what
| sort of clothes he carried the stolen
penknife. 1t might be profitable to
| look again into the Weissman bur
glary."
at shall be done" said the police
! official.
''All right, then let's get back to
our dust Next in quantity and fine
| ness to the wool particles we find in
| the penknife the dust of a derivative
! of cocaine. The man was either a
| vender or user of drugs. And the
state of decomposition of this dust
would time the oldest deposit of it as
about three months back"
The Vienna detective official was
making a note. Investigate among
drug vendors known to us for