Red Lodge daily news combined with Carbon County news., 1934-01-31

most of those under suspicion had
already been collected. The SER
geant himself had obtained those of
Choo Choo Train, Calls Shipley and
Daniel Bulls. The men who had
been dispatched for the others had
returned by now, and the work OF
attempting to identify the five sets
OF prints found in the study, to-
gether with the thumb mark on the
revolver. had begun.
In the Bertillon laboratory, each
print had been photographed after
careful preparation. Then the work
of matching began, each whorl and
line of a print serving as a guide
to the identity of the person max
Ing 1t. On a fiat desk In the center
of a room whose walls were lined
with pictures OF criminals whose
identity had been established In
this very way, lay a number OF
square white cards.
In a second orderly pile were the
negatives of specimens collected by
the detectives, from the suspects.
A clerk armed with a reading-glass
was attempting to match the prints
In the two piles.
zone set has already been
matched" declared the sergeant.
He handed Peter two cards, clipped
together, and pointed out the means
by which the specimens had been
identified. mick Royce" said the
sergeant. He read the label at
tached to the card. "'Finger-prints
found on the telephone and on sur
face of desk HIM. Seems to bear
out his story, doesn't IT."
$50 far. at least" agreed Peter.
The officer indicated a vacant
chair for the novelist and drew n
up for himself. what luck are you
having with the one on the gum"
he inquired of his assistant. That's
the most important one"
Silently the man handed him an
other clip of cards. Kilday inspect
ed them earnestly, and then passed
them on to Peter.
1.-THE thumb-print matches these
prints found in the study" he said.
Now we have only to find which
one OF our suspects left these
prints"
Reaching among the specimens,
he selected those Of Webster
Spears. He made no attempt to
conceal his eagerness as he COM
pared these with the print on the
revolver, but after only a moment
he looked up, frowning.
mot Spears" he said.
He next tried specimens of Rylie
Carmody's finger-prints. with the
same disappointing result. He
slammed the cards impatiently upon
the desk. what do you think of
that, Peter? If neither of them is
guilty. what was the girl trying to
protect them for? Unless" a light
dawned on his face, 'h'ml Perhaps
it was herself she was protecting"
But Calls ~Shipley's prints did
not match the one on the gun,
either.
The work progressed with slow
care. Neither Calls Shipley's nor
Choo Choo Trains prints could be
Identified with any Of those found
In the study. This disappointed the
officer. He stared at one of the
cards in p%erplexity. I'D have
sworn that these we're a woman's
prints" he said. Small and slen-
der. OF course, they might belong
to a boy or a small man." His tone
was doubtful.
Nor did they find any prints
which correspondent with those of
Rylie Carmody and his father. APP
parently neither had left anS marks
In the study.
"Odd," said Peter.
Kilday raised his eyebrows.
II mean that I'm more suspicious
when a man leaves no finger
prints" the novelist explained. Il
have always felt that the guilty
man, or the man who knew that a
crime had been or would be COM
mitted, took precautions against
leaving 1nger-prlnts which might
later identify him. The person who
scatters finger-prlnts about either
has q clear conscience or is very
foolish. / don't think we r deal
ing with the latter class here"
"Then how do you explain the
print on the gum" demanded Kill
day.
That's what | asked you a bit
ago. l can't explain 1t. I'm not even
trying to, yet"
The work went patiently on. None
Of the other prints would match. OF
all those found In the room, only
those Of Doctor Abernathy, Nick
Royce and Dan Bulls matched. AS
for the others, Ambrose Carmody
and his son, Rylie; Choo Choo Train
and Calls Shipley had nSne Of them
left prints. OF the two unidentified
sets, one were those Kilday had
been so sure were made by a woman.
The thumb-print on the gun had
been identified with prints found in
the room, but not with those Of any