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the caller. Only then did the elevator
runner go back TO his cage. This was
the practice every minute of the "a
hours of the day.
Among the tenants of that residen-
tial vault was a DR.. kernstoff, a gem
expert for one of the biggest jewelry
houses in Germany. He was a bache-
lor and lived in a seven-room apart
ment alone. But a valet and a cook
came every morning to attend to him
and left only late at night, when DIR.
kernstoff himself saw them out of the
house. Then he would lock the only
door to the apartment, shoot home two
bolts on the massive oak door. re-
inforce this with q chain lock and go
to bed.
nNE morning the servants came as
usual at the accustomed hour and
rang the bell There was no answer.
The servants rang again and again.
until there was no. doubt that the Herr
Doctor was either out or so deep in
sleep that even the loud bell they could
hear through the oaken door could
not wake him. But were he out, both
elevator runner and the guard down
stairs would have told them so and
would have admitted them-fOr the
valet and cook had regulations for UNI
swerving honesty.
When they had been ringing for
quarter of an hour the valet went
downstairs and called up the apart
ment on the telephone. That bell
rang, as he knew. at the masters bed
side, and had an insistent ring that
would wake any but the dead. But
since the Herr Doctor still did not an
swer. could he be anything but dead?
The servants then telephoned DR..
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cannot easily promenade about city
i'm the small hours of the night with
coils of stout rope without being seen
by policeman and hustled off to the
station for examination.
And the policeman on the Kernstoff
beat on the night of the murder was
a man with record for keeping his
eyes open. He had seen no one carry
ing coils of rope that night. If he
had, he would have stopped him.
But now the wagonette on the tri-
cycle furnished the police machine a
new line Of inquiry. The policeman
on the Kernstoff beat was asked if
he had seen such a wagonette. The
policeman racked his memory and
consulted his memorandum book in
which Berlin policemen, according to
strict regulations, keep a detailed ac-
count of everything on their beat
that departs in the least from routine
occurrence.
Suddenly memory furnished what
had been too insignificant for the
policeman to enter in his memoran-
dunn. At about 3 o'clock of the morn
ing If th~ murder a tricycle. wagon
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surveillance. A great deal of this
work came to nothing. But on Gut
kinds card appeared the name of a
suspected receiver of stolen goods.
This fence had an eighteen-year-old
son, Fritz, whose name also appeared
on the cards of several of Gutkind's
associates.
On F'ritz's own Meldwessn card it
appeared that the worst thing in the
youths record was that he had been
used as a sort of innocent errand
boy in several burglaries and In the
consequent disposition of the stolen
goods.
1t was brought out in each case
that the boy, while he may have had
suspicion OF the character of some
of the men for whom he performed
services, was really ignorant of the
exact nature of each errand. and
was therefore not liable to punishment
as an accomplish. 1t would appear
that the criminals employing him
deliberately kept him irons actual
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ers or ironworkers. One was found
who had been steeplejack. Then
began the process of winnowing the
list. Two were dead. three In prison;
Ave were at liberty.
On the Ave conferred the hunt. Two
were at once located, one in Hamburg,
another in Essen. They were round
ed up, examined and found armed
with perfect alibis. Three remained
to be hunted down.
On the card of every one in the
Meldwesen are names of relatives
friends. business associates: on the
cards of those convicted of crime are
names of -.accomplices, sweethearts
and enemies of the person recorded
on the card. Each of these names In
turn has a card in the Meldwesen
with information reaching out In dit.
ferent directions
The whole catalogue can be likensd
to series of webs. like spiders.
with each web complete pattern of
its own, but with each thread lead,
ing to another web. until the whole
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@1vEN a machine that hunts
criminals. Set il the task
of weaving rope wherewith
~ to hang a man. But give it
not the slightest bit of ma
terial Wherewith to work, not the
slendefest goSsamer of a clue, moth
ing but Its vast and complicated self.
assisted by squads of mechanical men.
Captain it. however by a few
highly endowed men in charge of the
machine. engineers endowed with the
deadly machinelike logic of the
German. mind and its genius for crea-
ton of marvellous machines. Given
such a machine and nothing to work
with. what could it do? Let us see.
Morenstrasse in Berlin is a resi-
dental street of well-to-do apartment
homes. One of them. a ponderous
seven-story affair, lorded the block on
which il stood with it's massive gran
lite front, and housed people who
belonged behind such a front-suc-
cessful merchants, several bank
directors and the like.
The entrance to this house looked
like the APPROACH to a combination
cast:4. armory and safety vault Two
unf1rendly looking lions of granite
flaEked the steps up to the front
doors which were ponderous affairs
Of carved oak. never by chance negli-
gently open, not even unlocked. To
enter the house. If you were a visitor,
you had to press a button on the side
of the door, a button. by the way,
that looked like the knob of a rosette.
exactly like the other rosettes that
studded the side of the door,
So that if you did not know which
of these knobs sounded the bell you
had to go around to the servants en-
trance, where, before you were ad
mitted, you had to pass the scrutiny
OF the janitor's family peering out
from behind barred windows. 1t was
not fear OF the police, you may be
sure. that made the house so eau
tiouS In admitting the world.
For its tenants We're of the ultra.
respectable world, whom the police
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ers had not used that chimney to
anchor their scaffold. The only other
way to get up on that roof would be
to throw q rope up from, the street
a prodigious feat to do with a rope
heavy enough to support the weight
of man. But could 1t not be got up
there some other way?
Yes, rea soned the Berlin detectives,
If first stone We're tied to a long,
light string, then so thrown that it
would strike the steeply Sloping roof
behind the chimney and. rolling down
the other side, would drop over the
edge of the roof and be let down.
Then a sufficiently strong rope could
be tied to the string and hauled up
to the roof, around the chimney and
so down again until some one on the
ground held the two ends of strong
rope in his hands. To test their the
DRY, the Berlin detectives did just that
thing, and one of them climbed by
means of the rope up to the roof.
1t was then found that once on the
roof, with such a rope as aid, there
was no'need of the painters scaffold.
Therefore, either the theory was
wrong and no such rope had been
used, or the painters scaffold was
only a blind. Investigation with this
point in view showed that the latter
theory was correct. The burglar had
climbed the side of the house.
Word was flashed back to Berlin to
look on the kernstoff apartment
house roof for such signs as might
indicate that a similar device had
been used there, too. Yes, the word
came back. the chimney at one end Of
the roof bore such marks of rope.
Whereupon the theory was tested
in the same way as in Darmstadt.
A string was obtained long enough
to reach from the ground around the
chimney, on the roof, and down to
the street again. A small stone was
tied to one end. 1t was thrown up
to the roof, landed on the sloping
roof behind the chimney. rolled down
the slope and around the other side
of the chimney and so down to the
street. Tying a rope to the string. it
was drawn up around the chimney
and down again. Then a detective
climbed up the side Of the house by
the rope.
Once on the roof. however. it de-
veloped that man would have
hard job to get to DIR. Kernstoff's
window unless he could literally
walk along the face of the house
like a fly. So they went to work to
find out how man. hanging by a
rope from the roof. could yet walk"
along the face of a house.
They concluded finally that it could
be done if the climber. suspended by
rope, wore some such spur arrange
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nernstoff's place of business. No, he
had not arrived. they We're informed,
| and were sternly asked in turn what
was keeping the Herr Doctor? The
servants. by now thoroughly alarmed,
told the senior partner of the jewelry
house. who had taken up the receiver,
that without doubt something was the
matter. Would the Herr Senior Part
ner kindly advise them what to do?
The Herr Senior Partner not only
told them what TO do, but did. II him
self. He called up a friend Of his, one
of the engineers of the Berlin police
machine. and consulted with him.
"The apartment must he entered
said the police official when he heard
the details. I'm send some of my men
to do il.
A skilled mechanic from the police
department was sent to open the door
without breaking it open If possible.
lie managed to unlock everything that
skeleton keys could open. But there
| were the bars and the chain lock on
the inside to deal with. They We're all
shot home as usual when the Herr
| Doctor retired.
There was no other entrance into
the apartment--except the windows.
| But as there was no balcony or fire
escape" to the apartment-Berlin
apartment houses rarely have them
and as the roof was three stories above
the apartment and the htreet four
stories below, the only possible way
| the Herr Doctor could have left would
| be to lower himself with a rope or to
jump out. So. after consultation with
his chiefs at police headquarters, the
mechanic broke down the oak door
to the apartment.
X One glance into the living room
and pandemonium broke loose. DIR,
Kernston had been murdered: Clad
Lin his nightgoSp. he lay face down
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at his disposal a closed wagonette.
propelled by himself seated on q tri-
cycle arrangement on which the
wagonette was mounted.
j. u
In following up the theory of a
human fly climbing up the side of
the Kernstoff house the detectives
came up against this difficulty: A man
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By Joseph Gollomb

A CASE WITHOUT A CLUE
The only clue IS that there IS no clue" de-
e1ared the Berlin Police, confronted ,0;th the
mysterious murder case of the rich gen, EXPERT,
Dr.. KernstoH How the system finally ,Don out
makes most intriguing story
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FAT ABOUT 3 O'CLOCK OF THE
MORNING OF THE MURDER A
TRICYCLE. WACONETTE, PRO.
PEELED BY A YOUNG FELL
Low. WENT THROUGH THAT
STREET"
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The Indianapolis times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1922-1965, 1927-07-08
Bread Vinegar

Toast three slices of bread real
brown. then spread with one and
one-half cakes of yeast, slightly
moistened. Dissolve three pounds
of brown sugar in three gallons of
lukewarm water. Turn the bread
upside down IN this water and let
stand in warm place three weeks.
At this time strain once or twice
through thin muslin and the vine
gar is ready to use. The older it
gets the stronger, and must be
weakened. 1t may be used fer all
canning purposes.
Mrs. Icy Stanley, r.. r. A, Dan
vile, Ind.
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Raspberry Charlotte.

-Four cups Of fresh bread crumbs,
sugar to taste, one fourth teaspoon
salt, two pounds raspberries, four
tablespoons butter, cream. Pick,
wash and dry the berries, butter a
pudding dish, sprinkle in layer of
bread crumbs, then put in a layer
of raspberries and sprinkle with SUI
gar? Repeat until the dish is full,
topping it with crumbs. Sprinkle
salt over the top and dot with but
ter. Cover and bake for thirty mi
nutes. Remove cover and brown.
Serve with cream.
Mrs. William. Muenchen,.3 1901
Jefferson Ave-, city.
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Crun1h Griddle Cakes

Bring two cups milk to the scald-
ing point; pour over one cup finely
broken bread crumbs and let stand
until the crumbs are soft. Add one
slightly beaten egg, one cup flour,
two teaspoons backing powler, one
half teaspoon melted butter. Bake
on hot griddle.
Mrs. Carson r. Hunter. Brazil,
Ind.
French Toast With Peaches
IL small slices of bread,
cupfulls of milk,
Few grains of nutmeg, 81
2 eggs,
Few grains Of salt,
tablespoonful of sugar,
2 cupfuls sliced fresh peaches well
sweetened, leave the crusts on the
bread. Beat, the eggs, add the milk,
sugar, salt and nutmeg. Dip slices
of bread in this three or four at a
time and fry until brown, in butter
of good butter substitute. Do this
just before serving time. Serve
heaped with the peaches.
Miss Bertha Roth, 2453 E. Wash
ington ST., city.
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AppIe Charlotte.

Eight slices of bread, one half cup
melted butter, six apples, one cup
sugar, one tablespoon lemon juice,
one fourth cup chopped almonds
one tablespoon Of butter. Dip bread
in melted butter, butter mold, cut
bread into strips an inch wide and
the height of the mold. Line bot
tom and sides of mold with bread.
Pare and cut up apples, add sugar,
water, and lemon juice. Cook until
apples are soft. Add chopped al
monds, one tablespoon butter, pour
into lined mold, cover with slices
of buttered bread and bake thirty
minutes. Serve with lemon sauce
or hard sauce.
Miss Stella Nicholson, Union Gem
trail ms. CO., Roosevelt Bldg, city.
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THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES

dish. Bake in covered dish about
one half hour. Uncover and brown.
Then make lemon sauce from one
tablespoon .cornstarch, one half cup
sugar, pinch salt,on cup boiling wa
ter, one tablespoon butter. one and
one-half tablespoon lemon juice.
Put lemon sauce over brown betty
and serve hot or cold.
Miss Eva Morrison, 1929 Prospect
St., City.
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pan. Bake about forty-fiye minutes
in a moderate oven. Serve hot with
tomato sauce made in the following
cup water, two cloves, three all
manner: one half can tomatoes, one
spice berries, three peppercorns, two
sprays of parsley, three tablespoons
of fat, two slices of onion, one fourth
cup flour, one teaspoon salt. Allow
tomatoes, water, spices and herbs to
simmer fifteen minutes. Brown the
onion in fat, add flour and salt, then
the tomato mixture. Follow the US
ual method of making sauce. Strain
and serve.
Mrs. Carrie Shaddau, 907 Glad
stone Ave-, city.
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Peanut Roast

One and one half cups of dried
breaf crumbs, milk, one and one
half cups shelled peanuts, four tea
spoons baking powder one egg, salt
and pepper. Cover the, bread crumbs
with milk and soak them until soft.
Chop the peanuts very fine and mix
with the baking powder beat the
egg. Mix thoroughly all the. ingre--
dents and turn into an oiled bread
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Bread Croquette With Peaches.

Put two cups stale bread crumbs
in pan, add one half cup chopped al
monds, one tablespoon melted butt
ter, one fourth teaspoon salt, one
teaspoon lemon rind, one tablespoon
lemon juice and one cup of milk.
Heat and let boil for one minute,
remove from fire and add two egg
yolks. When mixture is cool form
into six croquettes, brush with beat
en- egg. white, roll in fine bread
crumbs and fry in smoking hot fat.
Serve with canned peach halves
Helen SalitrOs, r. r. l., Box >6S
Brazil, Ind.
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Dreamed Peas in Bread Boxes

Dreamed Peas in Bread Boxes
Drain the water from one can of
peas. Add salt, pepper, lump of
butter and cook till peas are tender.
Make a white sauce Of butter, flour
and milk annd add to peas. Cut
slices of bread about three inches
thick, hollow out center and toast.
Fill the toasted bread with the peas
and garnish with carrots.
Mrs. Mary F. Hessong, 6419 Ash
land Ave-, City.
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Tomato Pudding

Toast pint or more of bread
scraps to a golden brown. Place a
layer of sliced tomatoes in a baking
lish. Sprinkle with salt, sugar,
bits of butter and a layer of the
toasted bread crumbs, then a dash
of pepper. Put another layer of
sliced tomatoes and layer of
crumbs until the dash is within an
inch of the top. Cover aind bake in
the oven for thirty minutes. Serve
hot or cold.
Mrs. John Bland, 955 Magnolia
Ave., Frankfort, Ind.
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Brown BETTY

Three slices Of dry bread, two ia
blespoons of butter, three small ap-
Piles, three tablespoons water, one
half tablespoon cinnamon. Butter
the bread cut in small pieces. Wash,
pare, cut in quarters and core ap-
Piles, sugar and cinnamon in baking
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this mixture the soaked crumbs and
sufficient milk to make a stiff bat
ter; then whip in the stiffly beaten
whites of two eggs. Bake in muf-
fin pans.
Margaret Daily, 324 Spencer Ave,
City.
Crumb Pie
Fill a deep pan with crust, then
fill with stale bread crumbed fine.
Sprinkle good half cup Of sugar
over this, add grating of nutmeg
and few tiny pieces of butter. Fill
the pan with sweet cream and bake.
Mrs. Della Bradley, Moores Hill,
Ind.
Buttermilk Bread Cakes
Break up enough stale bread to
make a quart of crumbs. Cover
them with a pint of buttermilk; let
stand allN night. In the morning
mash we'll. Sift in one-half cup
flour in which have one teaspoon of
soda and one-half teaspoon baking
powder; add one well beaten egg.
Beat the mixture thoroughly and fry
on hot griddle.
Mrs. Elsie Todd, Middleton, Ind.
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Country Fried Bread

Beat two eggs, add four table
spoons milk, pinch salt, one-half
teaspoon sugar. Slice breal and dip
in this mixture. Fry a golden brown
in mixture of two parts butter and
one part lard.
Margaret Fisher, 1710 Lexington
Ave, city.
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ScalIoped Apples

Crui11b one small loaf of bread by
forcing it through a colander., melt
one fourth cup of butter and stir in
the bread crumbs lightly with a fork.
Cover the bottom of a buttered bak-
ing dish with the crumbs and spread
over them one pint Of sliced apples.
Sprinkle with sugar nutmeg and a
little lemon juice. Repeat finish
ing with layer Of crumbs. Bake.
Cover to prevent crumbs from burn
ing. Serve with sugar and cream.
Dora Bowman, 406 E. Third St..
Seymour, Ind.
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RuttermiIk Bread Cakes
MarmaIade Pudding

One half pound bread crumbs, one
half pound brown sugar, one half
pound suet, four eggs, one small jar
orange marmalade. Mix ingredi-
ents together and put in mold with
tight fitting cover and boil or steam
three hours.
Mrs. George Viewer, Darlington,
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I 70enty Winning Ways of
UtiliSing Extra Bread

This the learn how extra bread OF the hun
ohe Times recipe department. twenty have been
dollar printed
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Next Friday will be the day for
sauces. White sauce, hard sauce,
sweet sauce, salad dressings of va
rious kinds, or any kind of sauce you
use in your cooking. Send in your
favorite sauce recipe today and
compete for the prize next Friday.
Checks for~one dollar are mailed to
each reader who has a recipe print
ed in the special page on Friday or
during the week.
Each day in the week except Fri
day, The Times prints one miscel-
lanoeus recipe. If you have the
best way to cook a certain kind OF
food, send in the method and if it
is chosen to be printed, you will re-
ceiVe one dollar.
Here are the bread recipes:
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Crumb Omelet

One and one half cups whole
wheat bread dried or crumbled, one
cup milk, one and one half tea
spoons salt, one fourth teaspoon
pepper, four eggs, one tablespoon of
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Bread Mullins

Soak one cup stale breal crumbs
yolks of two eggs, add to them, one
and one-half cup milk. Beat well
cup flour, in which has been sifted
one scant teaspoon salt and two
teaspoons baking powder. Add to
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Bread Date Torte

half loaf stale bread, two
thirds cup of milk, one half cup SUI
gar, two eggs, butter. jelly or pre-
serves, one cup stoned dates, one
half cup nuts. Heat milk and add
sugar. Cut bread in slices to fit
baking dish and butter thickly.
Place in baking dish, butter side
down, and scatter the dates between
layers. Beat yolks of eggs and mix
with milk and sugar, pour over
bread, cover and bake twenty min
utes, remove cover and allow to
brown. Spread nut meats and jel-
ly or preserves on top, then cover
with meringue made of the egg
whites, allow to brown slightly and
serve.
Katherine Turner, 942 N. Beville
Ave-, city.
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Currant Bread Pudding
Cinnamon Toast

Toast medium slices of bread, re-
move crusts AMI butter the toast at
once. While still hot put on a mix
ture of cinnamon and sugar, and
place in the broiling oven or on an
electric toaster for about half min
ute. Remove and cut each slice in
two or three pieces according to size
of bread. SO they are nicely shaped,
r. M. Myer, 1924 S. Talbot St.,
CITY.
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ham, bacon or sausage fat. Then
add the seasonings. Separate the
eggs, beat the whites till stiff and
then yolks until lemon colored.
Pour the bread mixture in to the
yolks, combine with the whites and
pour into skillet in which the fat
has been melted. Cook as usual,
setting the omelet in the oven to
make a firm top.
Miss Garnet Massey, 302 Orange
ST., City,
Currant Bread Pudding
Place ten or twelve slices of thin
cut bread spread butter in pie dish,
sprinkle a few well washed currants
between the layers. Beat six eggs
in two pints of milk. Adding sugar
to taste and little cinnamon or
nutmeg and pour over the bread.
Bake for an hour and ten minutes.
Mrs. James Coffman, 119 Pratt
ST., Greenfield, Ind.