Evening star., 1932-01-31

wife without her husbands knowledge;
and the wife, asked to name her friends,
carefully forgot to list that young mans
name.
The division of the Flying Squad"
which is attached to the c. I. D. helps
in the matter Of speed. This squad has
its Cwn automobiles, which may or may
not be disguised as delivery wagons with
facilities to- change the name on them
around any convenient street corner, {,
which, as they cruise the streets of Lon
don, are in. constant touch with the Yard
by radio.
No case better illustrates the value of
concentration of all forces toward rapid
solution than the Mahon case of 1924.
A Mrs Mahon, suspicious of her hus-
bands frequent absences, asked an in
Spector to examine bag which he
seemed to have checked at railroad
station; he had dropped the ticket for it
in his home. On May l the bag was
opened and in it were the bloodStained
garments of woman. The husband was
Immediately questioned, but gave no
genuine information. Here was crime
turned backWard-a suspect detained
under a suspicion that a murder had
been committed, but the Yard yet had
to find the corpse In four days, with the
entire organization of the c. I. D. work.
ing at full speed, they discovered that he
had a cottage far from London, that
a young woman had been staying there
recently, that he had purchased knife
at the end of April The corpse was dis
covered in back room Of the cottage
and on the fifth day the man confessed.
The second feature Of the system is the
tremendous attention which the c. I. D.
gives to detail. Amazing deductions have
been made through seemingly triiing
things, but very seldom are they the de-
ductionS of one man. There was time
when the motto was Every man for him
self or the hogs will take all the credit"
Today all the information collected is
pooled; the Big Five meet every morn
ing and discuss the results of the prevl-
Gus days work. The young men in the
c. l. D. are taught to seek for every pos
sible detail, to be increasingly painstak-
ing And they are then told of solutions
that have come about because some in
be none.
In one case an old man was found
dead. In the shack in which he had
lived there was an Oil lantern which the
neighborS said had not been there before.
One inspector examined it and found
it had a homemade wick, taken from
piece of a girls dress. With this clue he
searched through the neighborhood and
found a girl who had had such a dress,
and through her he found the murderer
and secured a confession
IN another case the murderer was con-
victed because in the trunk in which
he had put the bodies Of his wife and
child he dropped few bits of tobacco
of the sort which he always used Here
the Yard did approach the Sherlock
Holmes method.
The most striking application of the
use of every detail occurred, perhaps, in
the Bonati case in 1922 The body of
woman, along with few rags, was found
in trunk which had been checked at
railroad station. The identity of the vic
tim was discovered in 43 hours by giving
to the newspapers pictures of the laundry
marks on bit o. the clothing, but this
discovery did not lead to the murderer.
Then Inspector Cornish, now superin-
tendent and one of the Big Five" no.
ticed on a rag that seemed to be a part
of a dish towel of the sort used in
saloons, three letters-GRE. The Yard
put every man it had on the job Of visit
ing any saloon that had GRE in its name
In one, "The Greyhound" they found
the wife of the man suspected, working
as barmaid. With this known, the Yard
soon fastened the crime on the husband
He was convicted and hanged.
The third feature of the Yards system