Evening Star Newspaper, February 16, 1922, Page 30

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Pros- perity found us In a rather neat bach- elor apartment on the Helghts, not far from the university. “Why should there be a chair in criminal sclence?” I remarked argu- mentatively, settling back in my chair. “I've done my turn at police head- quarters reporting, and I can tell you, Craig, it's no place for a college pro- fessor. Crime i{s just crime. And as for dealing with it, the good detec- tive is born and bred to it. College professors for the soclology of the thing, yes; for th detection of it, givo me a Byrnes. *On the contrary, replied Ken nédy, his clean-cut fe res betray ing an earnestness which I knew in- dicated that he was leading up to something important, “there is a dis- tinet place for sclence {n the detec tion of crime. On the continent they ¥e far In advance of us in that re- pect. We are mere children beside a dozen crime specialists in Parls whom 1 could name.” “Yes, but where does the college rofessor come in?" I asked, rather doubtfull “You must remember, Walter,” h pursued, warming up to his subject, hat it's only within the last ten that we have had the al college professor who The silk-stockinged va- riety is out of date now. Today it is the college professor ho is the '“Il!(l arbitrator in labor disputes, who reforms our currency, who heads our itariff commissions, and conserves our farms and forests. We have pro- fessors of everything—why not pro- fessors of crime?” Still, as 1 shook my head dubiously, he hurried on to clinch his point. “Colleges have gorfe a long way from the old ideal of pure culture. They have got dow to solving the hard facts of life—pretty neariy all, ex- pt one. They still treat crime n the old way, study its statistics and pore over its causes and the theories of how it can be prevented. But as running _the criminal himself ntifically. entle bah! We haven't made an inch of Progress since the hammer and tongs method of your Byrne: “Doubtiess you will write a t on this most interesting subjec suggested, “and let it go at that. No, 1 serious,” he replied, de- termined for some reason or other to make a convert of me. “I mean exactly what I say. 1 am going to apply science to the detection of crime, the same sort of methods by which you trace out the presence of a chemical, or run an unknown germ to earth. And before I have gone far oing to enlist Walter Jameson I think I shall need you really prac could do it Jow do 1 come Well, for one thing, you will get a scoop, & beat—whatever you call {in that newspaper jargon of you { I smiled in a skeptical way, such men_are wont to affect thing until it is done— after which we make a wild scramble to_exploit it. Nothing monre on the subject passed for several days. etectives In fiction nearly alway make a great mistake,” said Kennedy one evening after our first conversa- tion on crime and Science. “They al- most Invariably antagonize the reg- ular_detective in real s imp “Yes,” I agreed, looking up from reading an account of the failure of a large Wall Street brokerage houee, Kerr Parker & Co.. and the pecul| suicide of Kerr Parker. “Yes,” it’ tmpossible, just as it is impossible for the regular detectives to antagonize the newspapers. Scotland Yard found that out in the Crippen cake.” ¢ idea_of the thing. Jameson,” continued Kennedy, “is that the pro- fessor of criminal science ought to th, not against, the regular ttoward a They're all right. They're | ourse. Half th s nowadays is organi or; The proTessor of criminal science should be merely what the professor in a technical school often is—a sort of consulting engineer. For instance, I believe that organi zation plus science would go far toward clearing up that Wall Street case I see you are reading. 1 expressed some doubt as to whether the regular police were en- lightened emough to take that view of it “Some of them are” he replied. «“Yesterday the chief of police in a western city sent a man east to see me about the Price murder—you know the case? id. A wealthy banker of the town had been murdered on the road to the golf club, no one knew why or by whong Every clue had proved fruitless, and the list of dguspects was itself, so long and so impossible as to seem most discour- aging. “He sent me a plece of a torn a__deep blood- stain on i v, “He said it clearly didn’t belong to the murdered man, that it indicated that the murderer himself been wounded in the sussle, but as yet it had proved utterly valueless as a clue. Wouyld I see what I could make of it? After his man had told me the story I had a feeling that the mur- der was committed by either a Sicil- ian laborer on the links or a negro waiter at the club. Well, to make a short story shorter, 1 decided to test the bloodstain. Probably you didn't know it, but the Carnegie In- stitute has just published a minute, careful and dry” study of the blood of human beings and of animals. In fact, they have been able to reclas- sify the whole animal kingdom on this basis, and have made some most surprising sdditions to our knowl- edge of evolution. Now I don’t pro- pose to bore you with the details of the tests, but one of the things they showed was that the blood of a cer- tain branch of the human race gives a reaction much like the blood of a {certain group of monkeys, the chim- panzee, while the blood of another 4| Brancn’ gives a reaction like that of lthe gorilla. Of course, there's lots more to it. but this is all that need concern us now. “I tried the tests. The blood on the handkerchief conformed strictly .to the latter test. Now the gorilla was, of course, out of the question this was no Rue Morgue murder. Therefore it was the negro waiter.” “Bl I interrupted, “the negro oftered a perfect alibi at dinner: ‘Congratulations. Confronted Jack- son g_our evidence as wired. Con- eds " fe . “Well, Craig, I take off my hat to vou,” I exclaimed. “Next: you'll be solving this Kerr Parker case for sure.” ‘That_night without saying any- thing, I sauntered down to the im- { Rosing new police building amid the Ls ualor of Center street. They were wvery busy at headquarters, but, hav- ing once had that assignment for Fthe Star, T had no trouble in getting jn. Inspector Barney O'Connor of the central office carefully shifted a cigar from corner to corner of his mouth as I poured forth my sug- gestion to him. g “Well, ~Jameson, he said, at length, “do you think this professor llow is the el goods?” . 1 didn’t mince matters in my epin< Sileat B One of the Three-Part Stories of It THE STAR’S WEEK-END FICTION [ The Last Installment of This Story Appears in Saturday’s Star. | ve | of b I ullet” | i | | | fon of Kennedy. I told him of the, Price case and showed him a copy | of the telegram. That settled it. “Can you bring him down here to-| night?” he asked guickly. | 1 reached for the telephone, found Craig in_his laboratory finally, and in_less than an hour he was in the Mce. | . “This is a most bafMing case, Prof | Kennedy, this case of Kerr Parker.” said the inspector, launching at once into his subject. ~“Here is a broker heavily interested in M n rub- ber. It looks like a ood thing— | plantations right in the same terri- || |tory as those of the rubber trust. Now, in addition to that. he i | branching out into coastwise steam- | ship lines; another man associated | with him 'is heavily gngaged in & | railway scheme from' the United | States down into Mexico. | the steamships and railroads !Dhlg rubber, oil, copper, know what other regions. New York they ha stocks, borrowing two trust companies whi trol. 1I's a ey read about It, 1 suppose. read that it comes into competiti With a certain groun of capitalisis whom we will eall ‘the “Well, this depression in t ket comes along, At once rum spread about the weakn trust jes; runs start on both of them System—you _know them—make a great show of sup- porting the market. Yet the runs continue. God knows whether they will spread or the trust companies stand up under it tomorrow after what hoppened today. It a good thing the market was when it happened. Serr Parker was surrounded by group of people who were in schemes with him. They are holding & council of war in the directors’ room. Suddenl gers toward th s dead Lefore a doctor can get t& him Every effort is made to keep the | thing quiet. 1t is given out that he committed sui The papers don't pt the suicide theory, however. Neither do we.. The cor- oner, who is working with us, has kept his mouth shut so far. and will say nothing till the inquest. Prof. Kenne n on the spot found that— arker—was —murdered. “Now, here comes the amazing part of the story. The doors to the offices on both sides were open at the time. There were lots of people in cach of- fice. There was the click of typewriters, and the the ticker, and the hum of i We have any number of W the whole affair, but as far them know no shot 3 smoke wa: nor w on m The coroner’s of Parker's neck turned it over to Kennedy reached for the bLuilet :lnfl’ turned it thoughtfully in hix fingers | for a moment. One side of it had ap- parentls atruck a bone in the neck of | the murdered man, and was flattened. The other side was still perfectly smooth. With his inevitable magni- fying glass he scrutinized the bullet jon every side. I watched his face |anxiously, and I could see that he Was very intent and very excited. “Extraordinary — most _ extraordi- | nary"--he said to himself as he turn- ted it over Where did you | ¥ this bullet struck In the fleshy part quite a little back of and below his | Gollar. There wasn't much bleeding. | k it must have struck the base | brai w1t gidn't trike his collar or hair?* | “Xo,” replied the inspector. “Tnspector. 1 think we shail be able to put our hands on the murderer—I think we can get a conviction, sir, on ence that 1 shall get from this bullet in my laboratory. i “That's pretty much llke a story book.” drawled the inspector incred- haking his head. ), smiled Kennedy. “But il atill be plenty of work for | the police to do, too. I've only gota i clue to the murderer. { Here in from the and is was heard, Yet here ¢ bullet. out physician pri : nd afternoon of the neck,! It will tax the | whole organization to follow it up.| believe me. Now, inspector, Can you | ime to go down to Par-| ker's flice nd take me over the ground? No doubt we can develop | something ¢lse there.” i “Sure, rswered O'Connor. and | {within five minutes we were hurr: ing down town in one of the depart ment automobiles. We found the office under guard of { one of the central office men, while | n the outside office Parke onti- dential clerk and a few assistants were still at work in a subdued and awed manner. Men were working in many other Wall street offices that night during the panic, but in none was there more reason for it than hert. Later I learned that it was the quiet tenacity of this confidential clerk that saved even as much of Parker's estate as was saved for his widow—little enough it was, too. What he saved for the clients of the firm no one will ever know. Some- how or other, I liked John Downey. the clerk, from the moment I was i troduced to him. He seemed to me. at least, o be the typical confidential rk who would carry a secret worth | millions and Keep it. The officer in charge touched his hat to the inspector, and Downey hastened to put himself at our ser jce. 1t was plain that the murder had completely mystified him, and that he was as anxious as we were | to get at the bottom of it. { “Mr. Downey,” began Kennedy, I understand you were present \when place.” { g right here at the | he replied, taking a | ke th ¢, can you recollect just how Mr. Parker acted when he was shot?, Could vou—er—could you take his place and show us just how it hap- pe! es, sir.” said Downey. “He was sitting here at the head of the table. Mr. Bruce, who is the ‘Co’ of the firm, had been sitting here_at his right; 1 was at the left. The in-| spector has = list of all the others resent. That door to the right was open, and Mra. Parker and some other Iadies were in the room—-" “Mrs. Parker?” broke in Kennedy. “Yes, like a good many brokerage firms, we have a ladies’ room. Many ladies are among our clients. We make a point of catering to them. ! At that time, I recollect the door was | open—all the doors were open. Iti was not a secret-meeting. Mr. Bruce had just gone into the ladies’ depart- | ment, I think, to ask some of them | i to stand by the firm—he was an ar- | tist at smoothing over the fears of | customers, particularly women. Just | before he went in I had seen the ladies go in a group toward the far end of the room—to look down at the line of depositors on the street, which reached around the corner i from one of the trust companies, I — e THURSDAY, FEBRUARY: 16, 19‘_’2 'thouxm. I was making a note of an !memv' T think 1t was Bruce's voice. | ev Altogether, || amiding | his|! For, || - order to send into the outside office | The next mom . there on, the lofe. and had Juei pushe | say, -Stand back, trer Barer i ed this button here under th» table | fainted” But I didn’t pay much to call a boy to carry it. Mr. Parker | tention, for 1 was calling to some had just received a letter by special |not to get a doctor over the t and seemed considerably | phone, but to go down to the ffth! puzzled ‘over it. o dom't know | floor where he has an office. I made v i out. a sudden !|Mr. Parker as c - as 3 zaw hiin ‘mtart in_ Bis ohair. sise up | Thore wabnt. soach 1 could: dor He unsteadily, clap his hand on the back | seemed to want to sav something to of hix head, stagier across the floor— | me, but he couldn't talk. 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