davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Evening star., 1933-02-19

formed force Byng handed him. He is
a man tenacious as a bulldog, swift but
enormously patient, a matchless organ
izer and leader.
He addressed meetings of officers and
men, injected esprit de corps, switched a
thousand conStables from traffic con-
troll to crime-prevention work, visited
every police station, short-circuited con-
tact between stations and headquarters.
BY the time he was through he had
working new system which kept him
and his aids in close and constant touch
with what you might call the front-line
trenches of the anti-crime army.
The unemployed gave him new prob
lem. He solved it by calling up special
constableS to reinforce and relieve the
regulars. The latter were not too
pleased, but Trenchard did not weaken.
He wanted to interest the private citi-
zens in the law-and- order business, train
them in anticipation of large-scale trou-
BILE and arrive on the field in great
force (that minimizes the risk of vio-
lence starting and of casualties If it
does start).
Reyerting now to the Furnace
and Flaming Shed murder. Trenchard
Evening star., 1933-02-19

the lot and died at dawn next day.
AS an attempt at the perfect crime
the Blazing Shed murder will rank high
in criminology. But Furnace made some
mistakes. He forgot that fire hardens
enamel. His victims teeth survived the
fire and provided proof of identity. He
had tried to leave a trail indicating sui
eide, but his fearful heart made him
take the gun away and throw it in a
canal; the missing gun alone turned a
possible suicide into probable murder.
And he had forgotten that the direction
of bullet can be traced. The bullet
wound he left indicated entry from the
back-and suicide was out.
BUT it is against the general back
ground OF the British crime situation
that Furnace provides points of chief
interest. He represents the depression
factor in British crime. He represents
the new phenomenon of the man with
a gun. And he illustrates in his own
fate the central fact that information
is the master key to the solution of crime
mysteries and the apprehension of the
crininal-(h (herein lies the clue to the
paradox Of record number Of unsolved
murders while the murder rate keeps
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was decisively solved. 1t was Spatch-
ett's corpse. And then big black car
from Scotland Yard, which had headed
for Camden Town at a call from the
local station. arrived at the morgue.
The hunt for Furnace was on.
One may here interpolate word on
the big man who sat in the chief COM
missioner's chair in that airy room over
looking the Thames at Westminster and,
glancing through those pince-nez which
look so incongruous on his massive face,
said just two words in a quiet voice to
a reporting c. I. D. chief next morning:
"Get F'urnace!"
Early last year Trenchard succeeded
Field Marshal Lord Byng, former Gov
ernor General of Canada and British
wartime commander, who moved in
following the park and pleasure-quarter
scandals Of 1929 and the retirement of
the commissioner, Sir William Norwood,
under whose regime the scandals had
occurred. 1t was Byng's job to pull the
shaken London police force together as
he might have pulled together an army
which had revealed weak spots in action.
The formidable Trenchard is advancing
against the underworld with the re-
Evening star., 1933-02-19

AVER the supper tables that evening
they wondered how poor Sam Fur
mace, the jobbing builder who rented
that shack at the back Of neighbor's
house as an Office and store, had per-
ished. Suicide" said the sage ones.
~He insured his life for $1,000 in his
wifes favor" said some one who knew.
sHe was good husband" sighed
woman.
Meantime, down at the morgue they
were establishing identity. Wife, rela-
tives and friends identified the charred
corpse as that Of Furnace. "Wait," said
newcomer. THAT Is Spatchett." The
police sergeant cooked an ear. "Spatch-
ett? You mean the rent collector re-
ported missing yesterday He had his
collection in his bag. His employer sur
missed a getaway" Spatchett's father
was called. He identified his son. The
Furnace relatives reidentified Furnace.
Into this argument moved the police SUR
geon with the news that the cause Of
death was neither asphyxiation nor
burning, but puneture in vital spot.
The man had been shot In the back
and burned after death.
Suddenly the riddle of Identification
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IA picking the cIln-
inologists and so
biologists. Here are
the high lights as revealed by
Scotland Yards survey for 1882:
A big drop in serious crime, but
a big rise in the number of
armed criminals; a record
legacy of unsolved murders; a
rush Of youth to crime, but a
static criminal population.
1t looks paradoxical. But be-
fore tackling the paradoxes,
glance at the Flaming Shed
murder, the news thrill Of two
weeks last month. Besides be-
ing a near approach to the
perfect murder" it i1lumi-
mates the general situation and
puts a spotlight on the Yard
under its dynamic new chief,
Air Marshal Lord Trenchard
.(Boom for short) famous COM
mander of Britain's wartime
air "shock troops" and a great
personality.
It was on the evening of
January 3 that a small girl
came running into the living
room of a villa in Hawley
Crescent, Camden Town, a
teaming suburb in Northwest
London. Mummy! Mummy!
The sheds on fire!" Inside five
minutes neighbors were heav-
ing buckets of water on the
burning shack. The fire bri-
gade arrived 10 minutes later.
A fireman broke down the
locked door. why, there's a
man inside" He meant there
had been a man. The fire had
started around the body,
perched on a stool at a rough
desk, and it was just a charred
relic.
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THE GUNMAN APPEARS IN LONDON
Police Under the Leadership Of the Wartime dir Chief Ae Gtng the Jump,
the Criminab-Sharpdmh Squads and Expert Chaufau Ae
Among the sShod Troops" Big

started 1888 with a brace Of
unsolved murders from 1892 on
his books. He was not going to
begin the new year with an
other baffling murder mystery
another uncaught killer.
Hence the biggest hunt In
British crime history. At one
time. or another $4,000 were en-
gagged. The newspapers were
hitched to the hunt. For the
first time the national radio
monopoly was used in a mur-
der case. A French broadcast
ing station was called in to
help. Police chiefs spent days
and nights at their desks.
Others spent days and nights
in fast cars to keep touch with
the main fleet of flying squad
cars dashing in all directions
with detectives following up
clues.
It took the police II. days to
come up with their man. A
watch on letters passing
through a seacoast town post
office, a check-up on handwrit-
ing 1.-TWO clues the killer had
not thought of, led to a long
street of dingy lodging houses.
All day a street musician with
a violin played up and down
that road. At last he saw the
curtain of a room on the
ground floor twitch aside and
a pale face look out. He gave
the signal. AS the police burst
in the killer arose in surprise
from the chair beside the bed
in the room from which he had
not moved for a week. At the
peak of an influenza epidemic,
which was front-page news
along with his own crime, he
had gone into hiding without
arousing any suspicion among
his fellow dodgers. He had lost
weight and anyway was a
much smaller man than his
description and large but
commonplace face had led
every one to suppose. These
facts had helped to mask him.
Twelve hours later the police
lost Furnace. He had con-
cealed a bottle Of corrosive
salts in the lining Of his over-
coat and the searchers missed
it. In his cell he swallowed
Evening star., 1933-02-19
By
c.. Patrick
Thompson

NEW crime situation
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cio1opiStS Here are
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
ADDS GOLD
TOU,S. STORE

NEW YORK. Jan. 4 QNSO
Despite the vast flow Of gold out
of the United States in the spring
of last year, this country finished
1892 with $48,00O,000 more of the
metal than it started.
The first half of the year was
characterized by an outward
flow during which the foreign
central banks, led by the Bank Of
France, Withdrew their balances
from this country to the amount
of 1851 100000.
Foreign Short-term balances in
this country, which amounted to
$4,000, 100000 at the end Of 1929
were reduced to less than $780,
100000 by June Is against a
normal requirement of more than
$1,000, 100000.
This Immediately caused a re-
turn flow of gold into this coun-
try and from June Is to the end
of the year the monetary gold
stocks rose $599, 9,0OO,0 900 to $4,50S,-
OC0 900.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
GAINS ARE LIGHT
IN DULL CURB
SESSION
By THEODORE KOsLOw

NEW YORK, Jan. 4 UN.SO.
The curb market presented a
generally unruffled front today
in another session of extreme
dullnesS.
Price changes in the leaders
were restricted to small proper
tions, with scattered buying from
time to time lifting quotations
slightly above previous closings.
Light Utility Gains
In the utility group, Electric
Bond and Share, American Gas
and Electric, and United Light
and Power A among the active
favorites to record some price
headway in the course of the
day.
Northern States Power A eased
off to 80 for loss of 3s, while
Brazil Traction was b lower at
8A.
Most of the Cities Service
issues were again in fairly good
demand, the common edging up
70 to q new high on the move
at 27s, and the preferred showing
a gain of "a at 14A. The 5 per
cent debentures of 80, however,
slipped back to 34h for a loss
of "a.
Boom in Graymur
Graymur Corporation, usually
inactive performer, came into the
limelight in the investment trust
list with an upswing of 2h points
to 10. Goldman Sachs and Penn
road were unchanged in the
lower priced classification.
Tech Hughes showed improve
ment in the gold mining group
with gain of 1s to it's best level
in months at 3%.
Curb bonds were irregular, with
American Gas and Electric IS
dropping back 1A points to 9O1a.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
Wilson Co. Returns
Net Profit on Year

Wilson and Company, 1ncor-
porated, third largest of the
big four" packers, showed a
net profit for the fiscal year
ended October 20, 1882, of $51, 1886
as against a net loss for the year
ended October 81, 1881, of $2,01T-
1856, representing a net improve
ment during the year of $2,068,-
492, according to Thomas E..
Wilson, president, in the COM
pany's annual report.
AS of october 20, 1882, cash
totaled $8,431,661~ as against
$7,082,476 in the preceding year.
Marketable securities amounted
to $1,255, 5,049. Inventories, at
market, less distributing and sell
ing expenses, are shown as
amounting at $11,996,457 as
against $14,833,941 in the pre-
ceding year, representing a re-
duction of $2,837,484. Total
assets for the year stood at
,423,993.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
FAILURES DROP
ID IN WEEK

Failures for the week ending
December % showed a small de-
cline from the preceding week.
The number of defaults, as re-
ported by Bradstreet's Weekly,
amounted to 447, 10 fewer than
the week before.
During this week failures are
subject to a number Of forces,
the approach of the year end
tending to pull them up, holiday
trade and one fewer business day
pushing in the opposite direc-
tion.
Since these are normally esti-
mated to balance each other,
the drop in actual number was
translated into a decline in the
weekly failures index, compiled
by Bradstreet's. This fell from
117.7 to HAT per cent of the
1928-30 average.
Failures among those concerns
capitalized at over $4,000 were
3 less at As. The adjusted index
for this group accordingly dropped
from Ills to 1919 per cent of
the 1928-30 average. This is the
lowest it has been since october
18, 1890.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
STEEL OUTPUT
UP To OPEN
NEW YEAR

NEW YORK, Jan. 4 QNSJ,
Steel ingot production has ad-
. vanced to II per cent of capacity
aS against last weeks rate OF 13
per cent, due largely to demand
from the motor car and container
industries, the weekly Iron Age
!, review pointed out today.
:. Among the Steel-producing dis
tricts the Cleveland territory and
the valleys alone registered gains,
the Cleveland rate rising from 26
to 35 per cent and the valley
average from 10 to is per cent.
December Rate Low
Final figures on pig iron pro.
duction for December as compiled
from returns from producers, were
even more discouraging than pre-
lminary estimates, the summary
stated. Output last month was
b46, ,080 tons or 17,615 tons a day
versus 631 ,28O tons or 21,052 daily
in November. The daily average
barely exceeded the depression
low of 17.115 tons reached in
August and showed a decline of
,16 $40 per cent from the No
Vember rate.
Pig iron production for 1882
was $8,686,443 tons, the lowest
output since 1896 and decline of
52.4 per cent from the 1881 total
Of 18.275,165 tons.
Furnaces in operation on Jan
uary l numbers 42, making iron
at the rate of 1870 tons daily,
compared with 81 active stacks
on December l producing at the
rate of 20,860 tons a day.
Building Prospect Poor
In general it is held structural
steel prospects are less favorable
than a year ago. In view of a
probable decline in public works
construction and the absence of a
scompensating increase in private
building work.
A decline of SOC ton in heavy
melting scrap at Pittsburgh
brought down the Iron Age com,
5posite price for scrap steel to
$6.75 gross ton from $6.92 q
week ago. The composite prices
for finished steel and pig iron are
unchanged at 1.948c a pound and
$13.56 gross ton, respectively.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
PRICE CHANGES
IN BOND LIST
ARE SMALL
By MUNROE ROBERTS

NEW YORK, Jan. 4 UNSo
The bond market showed scatter
ed irregularity today with few
price changes of importance noted
in the list as whole.
Rail Group Steady
The rail gloup steadied after
it's weak spell of yesterday, with
the active Baltimore and Ohio,
Missouri Pacific and Southern Pa
cific obligations supported around
previous closings.
A slight furry of activity in
the Nickel Plate 41as carried this
issue up almost point to 1874.
United States Governments were
irregularly improved, with the
best showing noted in Liberty 4th
4As up 3-32, at 1926; Treasury
334s up 3-32, at 104.24; Liberty
Is up 1872, at 106.20, and Treas
ury IS up 3-32, at 97.25.
Foreign List Easy
The foreign government list
lacked the buoyancy of recent
days. with profit taking carrying
the German rs down 20, to 804s.
French rs were off "a, at 1924,
and United Kingdom 51as off 70,
at 105h,
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
KROGER'S SALES
SOAR At YULE

A large increase in sales over
the previous weeks business was
reported for stores of the Kroger
Grocery and Baking Company
during Christmas week ending
December "a, according to an
announcement by Albert H. Nor
rill, president.
Total sales for the week repre-
sented a larger percentage in
crease over the preceding weeks
business than the Kroger Com
pany experienced in any previous
week during 1882.
Even more significant than this.
however, is the fact that the
Christmas weeks business showed
a gain over sales for the CORE
spending week of 1881, despite a
16 per cent decline in retail prices
reported in the United States Bu-
reau of Labor Statistics recent
index of retail food prices.
According to Mr.. Morrill, every
branch of the Kroger Company
reported increases in sales.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
RETRENCHMENT
CONF AB N AY
AID STOCKS
BY WALL STREET SPECTATOR

BY WALL STREET SPECTATOR
NEW YORK, Jan. 4 UN.SJ.
Wall Street came back from the
holidays with that dull feeling
and the market yesterday acted
as if it. too, had some of the
dark brown taste from too much
"partying."
There is some belief the market
may do a bit either before or
after the meeting between PreSi-
dent-elect Roosevelt and CongreS-
sional leaders here tomorrow.
A formal decision to retrench
Government costs drastically
would be a constructive thing
and, though lacking the dramatic
suddenness of the Lausanne
agreement last June, which set
off the summer bulge, would be
just as important. Other rumors
are that the market would get
sponsorship after January 10, the
date of the U. S. Steel untitled
tonnage report.
One guess is as good as another.
Well, the motor stocks have the
auto show, beginning Saturday,
to shoot for.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
SHARES STEADY
IN BAKER BANK
High Low 100

NEW YORK, Jan. 4 G.N.sO.
Stock of the Baker-controlled
First National Bank steadied to-
day after yesterdays 50-point
break following revelation that
assets of First Security Company,
the banks affiliate, had shrunk
$5,75O,000 more in the last year.
This brought the market value
of the affiliate's holdings to about
11,750,000 under it's indebted
ness. A loss of $4,000 900 having
been sustained in 1881.
The affiliate, however, in the
last year, made some progress in
reducing it's Indebtedness. Jack
son E. Reynolds, president of the
First National, said. The First
National owed $9,8O6,0OO at the
end of 1882, compared with
$9,900,000 the first of last year.
The affiliate directorate has
some Of the most powerful figures
in finance, including j. P. Nor
gan, Thomas w. Lamont, of j. P.
Morgan & Co.; Myron T. Taylor,
and Walter S. Clifford.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
GRAINS FOLLOW
WHEAT TILT

CHICAGO, Jan. 4 G.N.SO.
The wheat market was strong to-
day in fairly active early deal
ings. Buying was of good volume
and encouraged by strength in
foreign markets and firmness in
securities.
First prices for wheat were y
to 34c advanced while at mid
session advances of 1S to 13sc
prevailed. Coarse grains also
worked upward.
At mid-sesssion corn was % to
1ac advanced, oats 3sc up and
rye "a to 1c up.
WINNIPEG, Jan. 4 UNSO
Grains opened firm today. Wheat
was 1ac higher and oats Ac up.
Wheat-May, 4424-45; July,
45A-45B.
Oats-May 225s.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
Insurance Agents
Luncheon Guests

Members of the local agency
of the National Life Insurance
Company of Vermont were guests
at the Hamilton Hotel yesterday
at a luncheon given by General
Agent Karl S. Hoffman.
Among the guests were w. John
Basehore, Philip Blake, Robert
Brown, Vernon E. Brown, jr.;
Edna M. Clyburn, Clifford T. Day,
Carl S. Engel, Arthur w. Greer,
William Harmon, j. Leo Kolb,
jr.; Eva v. Lunsford, William H.
P. Mckinley, Joseph F. P. New
hall. Georgia K. Walker and
Enrora V. Zimmerman.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
Firemen's Insurance
Officials Reelected

Directors of Firemen'S 1nSur-
ance Company, of Washington
and Georgetown yesterday re-
elected William M. Hoffman,
president; Albert w. Howard, vice
president and secretary; Edward
C. Baltz, vice president; James N.
Fitzpatrick, jr., assistant secre-
tary.
The stockholders earlier re-
elected as directors Edward c..
Baltz, Millard T. Dixon, Leroy
Gaddis, jr., Parke A. Galleher,
william A. Hettinger, William M.
Hoffman, j. Logan Hopkins, AL
bert w. Howard, Charles H. Kin
die, John H. Snyder, Schuyler S.
symonS, Albert w. Walker, James
M. woodward.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
Rubber Plant Steps
UD Work 20 Per Cent

The United States Rubber Cos
tire plant at Detroit will increase
work 20 per cent during January,
j. F. O'ShaughennesSy, vice presi-
dent in charge of sales, stated.
"A normal payroll will benefit
from the hour increase. because
for several months it has been
possible, through a controlled dis
tribution of work hours, for a tire
plant to maintain practically q
constant number of workers."
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
Suspensions FeWer
On Stock Exchange

NEW YORK, Jan. 4 Q.N.So
Three stock exchange firms were
suspended in 1882, but these all
came in the first four months,
there being no failures in the last
eight months. This compares
with eight suspensions in 1881,
five in 1880 and two in 1929.
The firms suspended in 1882,
and the dates of their suspension,
were Gurnett g. Co., January s.;
Perry B. Strassburger SE Co.,
March 81, and Mark C. Stein
burg g. Co., April 20.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
Textile Production
II Per Cent CuDdcitu

The textile industry operated
at II per cent of capacity last
year compared to 86.4 per cent
in 1881, but did not suffer as
severely as many other industries,
according to Ernest N. Hood,
president, National Association Of
Cotton Manufacturers.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
LOUISVILLE GAS CO.

Net earnings of Louisville Gas
& Electric Company of Delaware
and subsidiaries totaled $5,261, ,696
for the IL months ended Novem-
Der 80, 1882, compared with
$5,9S4,341 in the IL months ended
&Rganher 30, 1881.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
SHOE OUTPUT GROWS

October United States shoe pro-
duction was 32,973,753 pairs of
boots and shoes other than rub
ber as compared with October,
1881, production of 25,380,80
pairs, an increase of about 80
per cent.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
POWER EARNINGS LESS

Net earnings of Northern States
Power Company of Delaware and
subsidiaries totaled $16,032, 1886 for
the IL months ended November
80, 1882, compared with $17,552.-
420 in the IL months ended
November 80, 1881.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
Manufactured Gas
Use Off 4.8 Per Cent

A decline of 4.8 per cent in
manufactured gas sales in 1882,
against a 3 per cent drop in
1881, is reported by the American
Gas Association Sales totaled
372, ,283, 100000 cubic feet, against
391,197, 100000 in 1881.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
DUQUESNE LIGHT NET

Net earnings of Duquesne Light
Company totaled $16,568,128 for
the IL months ended November
80, 1882, compared with $685.
1913 in the IL months ended
November 30. 1881.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
SOUTHERN COLORADO

Net earnings of Southern Col
orado Power Co. totaled $865,111
for the IL months ended No
vember 80, 1882, compared with
$l,000,707 in the IL months
ended November 80, 1881.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04
FINANCIALISMS
ELUCIDATED

Financier-AnyOne with 10
or more grand in real money
and leisure to tell how he
kept it.
X X
International BankerS-The
boys who reaped q harvest
recently by selling you ques-
tiOnabIe foreign securities
and now want Uncle Sam to
forgive his debtors in the
hope that the foreigners may
whack up the loot with you
and so provide a talking
point upon which the inter
national bankers can unload
prOfitabIy a new batch of
paper scrap.
The Washington times., 1933-01-04

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