Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-09

murder. theft and so on down the
alphabet of crime. Under burglary
for instance, there are further sub
divisions~-armed. bank, cutting bel
wires, rear of building entries, killing
dog. wears gloves, wears mask. expert
in burglar alarms and so on and Sc
forth.
For those of the underworld are
as much creatures of habit and spe
cialiZation as the rest of the world
Here. too. are registered on the rec
ords of past crimes any pecuiiarities
discovered in connection with suCl
crimes. The fact for instance, that
Il burglar will help himself to fooC
in house he is looting is fact SC
familiar to police that in Inspector
Hendry's remarkable catalog one
finds even notes of the particular
foods that have appealed to different
burglars.
The hours of the burglaries are
carefully recorded. There are day
light burglars and evening burglars
who work between the dinner houl
and the hour of return from the
theater: and there are the burglars
who work in the dead of night.
In this office, too, are classificati0ns
~
Of description; men over six feet tall
widows weeds; Sufferers: left handed
men.
Inspector Hendry, therefore. studied
the description of how the murderers
broke into Mary Ennis house; how
they had killed her; how they opened
the safe, and what they had eaten in
her kitchen. No wonder the face OF
the Scotland Yard man had lit up
when he found that two pots of Mary
Ennis jam were consumed. For in
Inspector Hendrys records there Were
several burglars who were fond OF
gooseberry jam.
From the study of the Ennis muir
derers' method of entry and work
Inspector Hendry proceeded to study
other records in his catalog. Twelve
cards were then taken out of their
cases and the records on each noted
down for comparison.
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MEANWHILE from the Fingerprint
A'A Bureau had come their seven
cards as contribution to possible iden-
tifications. Other reports. too, were
drifting in from the patiently plodding
searchers for the place of origin OF
the bit of dried mud found in Mary
Ennis room.
From the comparison of the cards
bearing possible identities that would
match the clues in the Ennis case
there resulted a narrowing down of
the search. Seven men had records
into which might fit the fragments
of descriptions,
Then followed another Sitting. OF
these seven one was dead. One was
in Pentonville Prison at that very
moment. One was on parole, and his
record showed that he was undoubted.
~ turning over a new leaf. Four re-
manned still possible factors.
One of these had sweetheart living
near Dorking, as the record showed
Among the places reported as show
ing a clay composition like that of the
bit found on the scene of the murder
Dorking was one. Therefore Jim
Sully, alias Red" Sully, alias several
other names, whose finger prints might
contain the fragment of finger print
found in the Ennis murder; whose
method of dead-of- might burglary was
recorded in Scotland Yard as similar
to the entry in question; whose fond
ness for food, especially jam, while at
his predatory work was already noted
in Inspector eA'ndry'S catalog; the
marks of whose chisel on previous jobs
resembled those in the Ennis case-in
short, whose whereabouts were I'M
known. hut who had a sweetheart
in Dorking-was now studied from the
photographs in the Rogues' Gallery
of Scotia nd Yard.
He's electedr' the council decided.
Immediately wheels of other parts
of the Scotland Yard machine began
to whir. At a. peculiar-looking key
board a telegraph operator began tap
ping a key marked "A. meaning
"all stations"