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

BY the AAtociAted Press.
NEW YORK. January l5.-The
captain of the Port of Missing Men
10 a wonlan--a woman without
single son, but with men afioat on.
seven seas who call her "mother.
She is Mrs. Jane Lord Roper. house
mother at the Seamen's Church lnstl-
tute, New York City.
She has heard more versions OF
Where Is My Wandering Boy To
night?" than any other person still IN
active service.
And in the last FIVE years 5000
wanderers have piped up here when
she has called their names.
That's her job--finding missing men
But ii is not the limit OF her interests.
Az thousands Of sailors have attested
whom she has helped through illness
poverty, joblessness and friendliness
A tall, spare woman of New Eng
and, with eyes wise With tolerance.
the house mother at the establishment
now boasting 12-story quarters at the
tin of Manhattan Island. began her
work Of being a friend to wanderers
when she was 16 years old. She dis
tributed religious tracts in the Deep
water Sailor Rooming Houses in
Boston
when I saw men drinking and
gambling, she said, some feeling OF
consideration made me think that the
arrival of a woman. especially mis-
sionAry, might be embarrassing. So |
always heralded my visits with an oh
vious cough, and 1t was amusing to
see their sheepish faces as the men
scoopod UP the oards and hid :hem.
Times have charged now" sao
added. "EoM ! keGst suDpose tina.
any one feels even a missionary can
be shocked.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
CAPTAIN OF PORT OF MISSING
MEN IS MOTHER ON ALL SEAS

This work teaches tolerance
though. When | was 20 years old
| could tell man just what his duty
was Now it isn't so easy. One can
learn something now and then from
the boys themselves, and the talk Of
some of my radical and agnostic
friends would make your hair curl.
But there is one fundamental thai
never has changed; love for ones fell
low man is the same today as it was
2 900 years ago. These sailors cling
To that"
Love. indeed, is what makes the
Port of Missing Men q churned up
place. Somebody mother father,
sister. brother, or sweetheart-has lost
track of q wandering boy
And Mrs. Roper, with requests from
all over the world, gets her lines out
and drags him in.
For her services, but more usually
for her friendship. many sailors have
named her next of kim" and one
such son" dying in hospital, was
a colored boy.
Mrs. Roper, the widow Of a
clergyman. who joined her in her
work among sailors, has been with
the local church institute since it took
over it's present headquarters Il years
ago. Before then the institute was a
floating barge.
Trained TO meet any emergency, the
house mother has encountered odd
sides of her multitudinous wards. Re
Gently a seaman handed her SIS with
a request that notice be posted for
one Pat Breen.
Il stuck a gun I'm his ribs a week
aEo A. took h:s loii,' explained the
seaman. 'Essut 4on': ENJOY TIE kale.
| See that no gets It back, will you?"
| And Mrs. Roper did.
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reports of customer of foreign origin
wearing a pepper-and salt Norfolk
coat" he wrote. What else have
YOU found. professor"
The latter looked at his notes.
II know he smokes a pipe, because
the tobacco dust is of the 'Warship'
brand. An English pipe tobacco. I've
analysed that dust before"
The detective made a note.
81 should say" continued the pro
fessor, that the man who carried
the knife is either English or had
cultivated rather pronounced Eng
Iish taste This combination Of Nor
folk jacket and pipe smoking would
point to one who lived in England.
''And here comes another clue. if
I'm not mistaken" the scientist said
as an assistant entered the room with
report of Il qualitative analysis
made in the chemistry laboratory.
He glanced at the report.
Yes, it's as | thought / found
among the dust in the knife some
sugar dust mixed with another sub
stance. which on analysis turns out TO
be chicle, or the substance from which
chewing gum is made
There is quite a lot of it present. so
that chewing gum must have made a
rather constant part of the contents
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4 fellow officer appeared on the run
/ soon after and a few words sent the
! newcomer to the nearest telephone.
y j. X x
IN a commercially short time an
automobile slid up to the place
/ where the policeman was guarding the
| body From it issued briskly several
superior officers OF the Vienna detec'
tive force. One Of them knelt by the
side of the body and uncovered the
! head.
He recognized the face at once,
Count Won Growth. a wellto-do boule.
Warbler, one of the most familiar ftg-
ures in Nienna's cafe life. In the
jugular vein in his throat stuck thin
gold penknife. The pockets had been
rif1ed
With a pair Of fine.pointed pliers
brought along by one of the detective
officialS--thanks to the competent re-
port by the policeman over the tele
phonetic penknife was removed
carefully lest fingerprints be marred.
For the penknife proved to be the
only clue to the slayer, though the
motive, robbery. was plain enough.
At the laboratory of the Vienna
police headquarters-they maintain
one of their own-the fingerprints
found were so smeared up with blood
that they proved almost worthless.
Almost, / say, for there were some
shreds of print; but so minute were
the clear parts that as basis for
search they We're worth nothing. New
ertheless, what there was of them was
photographed for future use.
But the knife itself was of such fine
workmanship that it pointed either
TO an owner of means and taste or to
a thief who had stolen it from such
an owner. In tiny letters on it was
stamped Made in Paris" and there
were engraved initials on it, "A. w"
At once a staff of clerks dug into
the city directories and the many and
minute records at police headquar-
tiers, records that have something of
Berlin's Meldwesen and of Scotland
Yards Criminal Registry" in their
scope and efficiency.
All the "A. WIS" in the city We're
looked up and their records studied.
Any "A. w" who had q criminal past
found himself infinitely questioned.
But they all had more or less con-
vincing alibis.
The investigators were having
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w YHEN YOU think OF Vienna
n YOU think of Strauss
wv, waltzes delicious little
breakfas st rolls. cafes gay
with music. sweet girls and
artists. You think of everything but
the ruthless bloodhounds, police. who
follow a scent where apparently there
is none. who track the slayer to his
den, who shoot it out with him when
cornered.
For the Tiennese are pretty much
as the world conceiVes theIn-pleasufe
loving, charming, soft-hearted. easy
going folk-not the caliber that makes
a famous police. They have not the
genius for teamwork that makes Scot
land Yard a household word they
have not that brilliant individual initia
tive that makes French police annals
as fascinating as good fiction; they
have not the regimentaliZed efficiency,
the genius for machinery that make
manhunting so mechanical q, pursuit
in Germany and so dreaded by the
criminals.
Something of their German brothers
talent for keeping elaborate records
the Viennese have, and the kriminal
AYchiv of Vienna is almost as com
plOte as the world-famous Meldwesen
OF the Berlin police. But of the quail
ties that make efftclenC SleuthS the
rank and file of the Vienna police have
natively little.
And yet the record of Vienna for
solving crime and experimenting the
criminal when only the slenderest of
clues exist ranks as high as that of
any police in the world. What is the
answer?
The answer lies in university labo-
ratories. When the Vienna police are
Atumped with a mystery presented by
crime they waste little time with their
own detectives. They take up the tele-
phone, call up a university professor
or scientist and put him on the trail,
For in Vienna-which today means
all Austria, since the country is
mostly head and little body, mostly
capital and little PROVINCIAL the de-
tective talent is almost monopolized
by the men who have spent their lives
in universities and in laboratories as
delivers in books and searchers with
microscopes, chemical reagents, spec
trums and whatnot.
But let me tell it with an actual
case.
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Vienna used to be as gay and charm
ing an Paris, and night made the city
a place OF all play and no work. The
war has sobered the city somewhat.
but gradually the old Viennese gayety
ana stir are coming back to its night
life.
One dawn not so long ago a Wen
nese policeman turned the corner of a
street into the Ringstrasse, that girdle
Of boulevards that makes Vienna s
main thorcughfare. On the sidewalk
against the granite wall surrounding
a former palace he saw a crumpled
figure dressed in opera cape and eve
ming garb The high silk hat was
lying a few feet away from the mans
head, which was almost hidden by his
cape.
"A gay bird too drunk to find his
nestn the policeman unused as he
walked toward him.
But at few feet from the motion
less figure the policeman changed his
mind about the gayety Of the bird.
For there was pool of something
dark OH the sidewalk about the head,
and the weather did not account for
il. Bending over the policeman drew
back the opera cloak that hid the face.
Then carefully he replaced the OPP
era cloak and blew his police whistle.
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carried the knife about the three
months smokes or smoked an English
pipe tobacco of the Warship' brand
that he also chewed gum; that he was
probably at some time in England and
perhaps in America; that his predilec.
ton seems to be for English dress and
tobacco; that he is perhaps of q ner-
vous temperament.
we ourselves deduce from our rec
ordS that the man is probably a for
eigner and an old hand at this pecul.
lar murder technique of stabbine in
The jugular vein | think we have
something to work with
~ x
THE detective official returned to
police headquarters and ordered a
reOpening of the investigation of the
Weissman burglary, which, because
of the comparatively small haul taken,
had been more or less neglected.
This time the police went over the
ground minutely. The entry had been
made through basement window in
the rear of the house. There were
strong iron bars in the windows. but
the burglar had worked on them with
"a technique of his own.
He seemed to have used a small
automobile jack. such as is used in
raising car to aid the removal of a
tire. Only instead of using for up
and-down work the burglar had placed
the base of the jack against the side
of the wall, the other end against the
nearest bar and then jumped the
handle of the jack.
That pried the bar out by its roots
and made entry easy. The police had
looked up in Vienna records for a sim
liar technique, but found none.
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! on going over the ground of tn.
/ burglary after the Won GROWTH muir
I der however. the police found some
! thing they had not seen the first time
| In a dusty corner under the window
where the entry was made they founC
| cloth-covered button, evidently TORI
off by accident. for a bit of the cloth
| of the coat still chung to the thread.
On the reverse side of the button
was stamped the name of the manu-
facturer of the button and the word
Berlin.
A member of the Vienna detective
force was despatched to Berlin. at
ter an investigation in Vienna showed
that no tailor handled buttons of that
particular make. In Berlin the tailor
who made the coat from which the
button had come off was found.
He had made to order some 20
suits with those buttons, and his rec
ords of the customers for whom these
suits were made yielded, after eiimi-
nation, some half a dozen possibilities.
Meanwhile, at Berlin police head
quarters a search was being made
in their famous catalogue, the Meld.
wesen, and their Kriminal Archiv.
for a burglar or burglars who used
an automobile jack or something like
it in forcing entry into houses.
Two cases of the kind were found
one eliminated by the presence of the
burglar In Hamburg Prison. The
other case recorded. Principals es.
capped. Known to be two brothers
probably foreigners.
Description of one of these: Slim,
about "a, smooth-shaven, character.
istic twitching of nostrils and upper
lip observable in cocaine addicts. Seen
by half stunned Waterman who had
been blackjacked by the burglars"
The Berlin tailor now remembered
q customer answering to such a de-
scription, one for whom he had made
a suit with such buttons as those
under investigation. His order book
gave the name of Victor Rizzi and a
hotel.
Here was obtained description OF
the second brother, for the two had
lived there three and half months
before. The other was the elder,
about So, lean, nervous, with q mus
tache clipped in British military style.
Both men spoke German excellently
but with a slight Italian accent and
| were heard speaking English appar-
emily without accent at all. When
the brothers left the hotel they gave
no sign or clue to their next stop.
But the Vienna detective returned
to his city with a description of two
likely candidates for the missing
equations In the Weissman burglary
and the Won Growth murder.
X X X X
| COME days later the police made
- several raids on resorts which
| drug vendors frequented. The prison
ers were kept together in one cell for
two days and nights. Then with only
q perfunetory examination they were
released.
| But during their enforced sojourn
some Of The amnpected drug vendors
made the @cQwnAmtance of newcomer
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16

YOU to invite them out for an eve
/ ning's fun while | manage TO visit
/ their apartment and do a little inves
/ tigating That's how | did il last
/ time.
II spent an evening IN their rooms
while a comrade enticed them out
| Then | found out from their rooms
/ what sort of jobs they were up to.
| When / know this | come to them
| with a proposition that is part black
mail. part offer of help in similar
| jobs.
II put the proposition TO them in a
crowded restaurant so that they hest
tated To answer me as they would
| if they were alone with me. They are
artists with any kind of knife, from
penknife to stiletto'
Then all I'll do is to furnish en-
tertainment," Fritz said. Don't ex-
pect me to do anything else
Don't worry. I'm taking the dan
gerous end of It," Manuccio assured
him.
Two nights later Fritz invited the
two brothers out to party given
by some of the Vienna underworld.
He saw to 1t that by midnight they
were full of wine and enjoying them
silves.
Meanwhile, Manuccio with appar-
ent ease had gained entrance into the
apartment in which the two brothers
lived. A bunch Of skeleton keys had
helped him. Once inside he went to
the street window and, opening it. lit
a cigaret.
Against the dark of the room the
little action was quite visible in the
street to any one who happened to
be looking up at that window. 1t
appeared that there We're four or five
men looking up at that particular
window at various points of the
block.
Quietly they converged on the house
and, mounting the stairs, were adj
mitted by Manuccio. Several other
men remained in the street, appar-
emily lounging.
In the rooms of the brothers an
active search was going on. In a
closet was found the we'll worn Nor
folk coat OF "pepper-and-salt" pattern
taken in the Weissman burglary; a
suit of clothing with a Berlin tailor's
labor and a coat button missing; sew
eral cans OF an English pipe tobacco,
"Warship" brand; several packets of
American chewing gum, a small
amount of heroin.
But most important were several
articles reported as taken from the
pockets of the murdered Count Won
Growth on the night Of his death.
All these things were carefully done
up and taken away by tive of the
visitors. Three others remained in
the room and the light was put out.
\ X y
MOST of the night passed in silent
Ava waiting for the two brothers to
return. 1t was well along toward Z
o'clock, with morning light showing
strong, that from the street sounded
the singing of q bibulous individual
The men in the apartment became
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hard enough time of il when there
came the news of the success of the
search success that wrecked that
line of investigation. The owner of
the penknife was found.
He was u clubman. Arthur Weiss
man. He came to police headquar-
tiers and proved that burglars had
entered his bachelor quarters three
weeks before and had gone off with
some loot, among which was the gold
penknife found stuck in Count Won
CroyitZ's throat.
He had reported the robbery and
there in the entry made by police
themselves was the knife described
and listed, initials and all Arthur
Weissman himself was proved TO be
some hundreds of miles from Vienna
on the night of the murder.
X x 4 x
THEN it was that the detective
heads decided this was "A matter
for better heads than theirs. They
We're not particularly distressed at
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
Master Man-HunterS
By Joseph Gollomb

H-MAkING THE KNIFE TALK
murder that baed Vienna detective until icbor-
atoy from the university brought the microscope
bear and fatal blade tell tale Of blood
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Came to the Aid of the Practical Expert on Crime

i'm Vienna. an Italian who gave his
name as Manuccio. This man was
more severely handled by the police
than the others. at least in the pres
ence of the other suspects.
When they We're all released his
hard treatment by the police won him
the sympathy of the other released
suspects and they befriended him.
Back in their hangouts Manuccio
proved to be a likable fellow and pos
sessed lot of knowledge of the tech
nique of peddling narcotics.
He also told his friends OF trick
he had practiced on a customer in
Berlin whereby the proceeds of sell
ing the heroin was a small item com
pared to the blackmail he was able
to extort from him. He gave only
half a description of the customer.
But it was enough to excite the inter
est of his new found friend. known
simply as Fritz ''How did your man
dress?" asked this new friend.
English in style" Manuccio told
him. English Norfolk coats, Eng
lish lounging robes and so on
Smoked English pipes and tobacco
Yet. he wasn't English.
Italians. he and his brother
though they had lived in different
parts of the world. living by Their
wits and iimmies and occasionally
with something more with a sting to
it than burglars tools. Dangerous
chaps. I know.
T'But 7 wish / could get on thelI
trail again / know they're good fol
another touch by now and l know
how TO work it, -
The other took Manuccio aside III
| put you on their trail will you
split the 'profits'?'
Manuccio. after an appearance OF
hesitation, assented.
'All right" said Fritz. They re
in Vienna and | keep them supplied
I am sure they're the ones YOU mean
He told Manuccio something of them
Yes. that's our meat, Fritz,
Manuccio nodded. Now I'll tell you
how we will work our little affair
When you go next to see them you
tell me. I'll trail behind and see il
they really are our men
4 X x
THAT night Fritz went TO might
l. club" and sauntered over to q
table in a corner where two stylishlS
dressed men sat, obviously brothers
They were expecting him and after
some tdik ne Sllppeu Dulhy eHNeIopt
over to them in return for which
they slipped him some money.
He then left them In the corridor
he was joined by Manuccio. who haC
been watching from a half-hidder
corner in the next room.
They're our men. all right. OttC
has clipped off his mustache. But IL
recognize that twitch of the nostril!
anywhere" Manuccio said. Now VIZ
must find out where they live. W.
will both lie low out here.
You follow on foot if they wall
| home. I'll get a cab and be on thei
/ trail if they go home on wheels.
Manuccio departed and Fritz re
! manned on guard in the shadow o
an unoccupied sentry-boX. An hou
/ later the two brothers emerged ant
/ hailed "A cab. As they went off in i
/ Fritz saw another cab swing into TIL
/ street and roll off in the same direC
/ ton.
The following day Manuccio saw
| Fritz.
I've found out where they live
/ he told Fritz. The next step is TO
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MOST of the night passed in silent
Ava waiting for the two brothers to
return. 1t was well along toward Z
o'clock, with morning light showing
strong, that from the street sounded
the singing of bibulous individual.
The men in the apartment became
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16

w YHEN YOU think of Vienna
you think of Strauss
w T SreaHfsst S delicious Ssre~ i sss
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16

A TELEPHONE call to police head
"A quarters started that search BY
next morning a collection such as he
had asked for was at the scientists
disposal.
From each sample he obtained wool
particles and compared them with the
findings of the day before. FINALLY
he smiled.
Here is the exact pattern" he said,
pointing to a cut Of English tweed
The Washington times., 1927-08-17

booked passage. She was on the
homeward journey now, leaving
Liverpool. Leaving without those
letters Of his sent to Paris. over
taking her. They would never
overtake her.
She would be home. All the
bitterness he hoped to avoid, all
the unnecessary hurt and re.
examination must be met.
He dreaded this. He dreaded
the injured look he knew would
come to her appealing, child.like
eyes
He imagined the scene when he
would tell her. Perhapa the
morning after her arrival.
She would be unpacking her
trunk. Kneeling on the floor. shA
would take out a bundle of let.
tiers. She would look up with an
inquiring smile: Mark. Won never
answered whether You really
wanted me to stay in Paris,
was so panied by that
i answered. You. must have
warded." AoA-
oh, you answered. Did Won
then, want me to stay on? Yon
Were serious? Mark! You seem
50 absent. After eight months
40 you know that you didn't kiss
me! You haven't really kissed me.
Wnat dlds you say in the letter2,,
ana through dumbfounded ri.
fence: Did you want me to stsv
on there indefinitely? You really
meant itr' say
II thought 1t would be better
You've been happier these eirht
months than in the past fourteen
years. a could tell 1t in your Let.
ters. can see 1t now in vour
looks. wanted You to face tha
truth. Yes, I wanted you to re.
main in Paris"
she would turn quietly 40 thai
ne might not see her face ana fra
tears she could never withhold
she would say in lost toms
Oh-ah, " and getting I'M nuiclTlv
dart from the room.
And In the night he would eira
letter on his desk. Often after
disagreement Claire would
spend the whole afternoon %.
thetically writing things she was
unable to say. She wrote fluentIv.
letters filled with yearning re-
greet. letters recalling him to the
awed, radiant tenderness of their
youth, bringing back the DEAFNESS
ot their early love and the vision
OF the young, young Claire who
had been lovely as an angel 10
the boy Of II.
GO Be Continued TOWorrOw)
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