Evening Star Newspaper, January 17, 1926, Page 87

THE SUNDAY STAR, WASHINGTON, B C, JANUARY 17, 1926—PART 5. Slayer’s Finger Prints That Lied Mystified Many Criminal Experts True Detective Stor BY El dmost u ANORE BROWNE. every in the U fingerprint card bearing the imprints of . dlgits and thumbs | that are recorded, simply, as be- | longing to “The Sparrow.” On the ecord card there are many other mes, aliases of almost every kind sound, but the fingerprint card is nder the designation rded by the underworld. In those bureaus where the records re painstakingly kept there will be | ed line drawn through this carc nifying that the print is ““dead” an >t to be referred to. That red line just a bit of ink. the stroke of pen. It is tinal and definite and con usive. Tt marks out an 1 nt mps ccord being There's a e on the finge w." It's the ice don't like to U m't like to tell it unstances arc_related in the way steur Movain, preé police. bu Turge ited that red The Spar that th is. they unless all the cir M Paris it; nei ter, president would Commiss et of New Yor né of these fam leclared that if T must f that r ine the f of “The Sparrow,” who was le stealing. murdering crook mind Asi the Bath and itend- | India > 1 would would Her rlin’s_police ner Enright 's department. Each hiefs of police have the story about rints went to Asa » tell me why h the fingerprin * who had mu; len a woman's d Le istory the only knows, in far a o line were extended, it . ndds White. e pickpockets congregate E: irough the rendezvous the Apaches, in Paris, Y g0 o Suez to the land of the O tery story east tal mys. * * x5 $¢THE Sparrow” first Ly the police pocket was picl 1 street car nd the victim reported a heavy lo *ockets are picked every night on the street cars that go along Mile End road through Whitechapel, and no one, even the constalles of Scotland vard, pays much attention to the cir- imstance. Commissioner Basil Thomnson of scotland Yard once sald that any bhurgher of London who had anvthing his pocket on a journey throush | Whitechapel deserved to lose it. But | on this occaslon the pocket had in it number of negotiable honds of such rge denominations that inspectors of | the yard found it worth while to go own into Wihtechap d kick open e doors of several ten nent apart. ents and ask the men or women | 1om they found there, “What about was heard o Whitechapel The net result of their Inquiries was | that a chap everybody knew as ‘“The Sparrow” was found to have been making a number of big hauls and as particularly skillful. Several months later a German with 1 great deal of money was found mur- lered in a flat on Rue Michaud in Parls. The Paris police discovered thet this German, Herr Carl Spada, a erchant of Leipzig, had coms to iaris direct from the Lelpzg falr, here he had sold a large amount of ~oods, with a voung French woman, girl, who had engaged the flat in 12 Michaud. 1 had not been seen around tment on the day previous to murder. The Germa money gone— least, the was none ahout. Herr Spada was a r equence in Germany Relations be- veen France and Germany were | h. during those davs of the Ruhr cupation, that France was punetili- < in its obligations to its vanquished ener The police were eager to inow what they could learn about r Spada’s death. They went along st bank of the Seine, among the v haunts of the Apaches, and <kad their questions They reported to their chief, Mon- *ur Morain, that a new figure in the | wlerworld had beec tive in ris, and that the German was his ictim He was a sini: young | kncwn by h Imates as | rrow.” of the peculiarities of the ice of all countries, Ameri 11 as Europe, that when a denizen ¢ the underworld t known to ow, The ' he immediately The criminal who | vith the knighthood of nation neve o for- | who t regard to Le termed some- g characteristic of his particular | itfes. “The Sparrow” was so it seemed, hecause to do a thing and om i3 to who “The 1at he looked like, wihing. Their ierworld to) id he ckney rew details. One London rowever, that | d & “marque”—a gir us petty crimes—little steal- aconsequential burglaries and | robberies—were charged to Spar the police of Lon- aud. eventually. there ! about_him by the Seotland Yard and the Rais it was de bulletin about hix ¥ ox ‘bulletin vas @ st Al concerning an goes 1o all ssfoner Jin e time ago International and advised of sending criptive rogue: t any place | the Seine in fes and cellar 1 have pointed out who has earned iching to himself | e girl in his dis- ie the subject of an al ‘bulletin.’ | chance, these reports sent the police of London and ! oring an especially danger- f or assassin, include the sub- | - prints, that is different. girls are afraid of them prints are dangerous crook will leave left bhar L one rettiest being then. i and no them about The Sparrow,” however, never left bis finger prints—until that time that 15 (o every one who scorns the law. This one time he did. An Englishman, Rathbun Pugh, who rried o Boston girl, Dorothy Fever. | ome 10 years ago. was returning one night to his home In Hounslow, w. suburban community fust outside | London, in a cab. When he got out o' his cab he went up to the door of hix | house and opened it with his night s SSifa ety = he second-foor drawi 4, heard aig | ger first-class there | ! prints had been photographed from Reveals Unusual Way in Which International Strangler Was in the Habit of Approaching His Victims. 1o haunts of the s the Paris | ed as heard 2 muffled > ran downs nd_gaspir Not a ple come in thud = that “The | London, ac: it would be he het the foot sant thing for airs o f was not who was a physic a cord dying. A neighbor | who N, and of the | The circumsts first to respond to the wife's screams | Herr Spado ath and discovered that. Also he discovered | were too similar. And there had been | some things that made him usher the | partlal fingerprints, preserved from | voung wife Into her room and advise | one other crime of which “The Spar- | her to remain there—that everything (row” was suspected, that, when would be all right, but that she matched up with those taken from the | mustn’t interfere, with her ex | throat of the Englishman, ta ments. {fectly. 1t was then that When the ord of “The Sparrow’s” rrived, this was ound the we what he didn't w was underwo The lurking appe: t i urnin Pugh had str: | s associat iwus-'hx) the coroner vointed out wife to see. 1 h victim's them out him bl nder man's fing almost deadly mark was on eith It represented no police and physictan nt the a . he had Qis- | nd re- sent 1id in th w thumbs nost his re atten on the 1 where sed in with The W the throat b ot dful and A hout the ot intere: but they that i show pr sure side chance. by ti v slayin; understand | with can ver ipparently | oyal family | with the | Tt was resolved, | Killed Rath- | = [ family of the Pughs. therefore, bun Pu; A venr three months arrow's fngerprin police hureius in America with the request that th jagainst the pi hose ords th ie angling ed - only There was 1 ive no exn robbed of the f his pocket, and he knew whoeve was ponnds he h, e 1o ene o the decpl THE SPARROW.” Mo 1 When she was asked b, ® {rain_how it “was that she, a girl the Hindus, the daughter of a gov- ernor of a provine uld know the secre two ders. Janabs Rohade explained “The one who is called row’ 15 my brother, monsi the wife of the Englishman Pugh, was my friend. I have k e girl, Sara Marti, W \\l - solice \\.1“\4-}([ o were not for my brother sh > hy Pugh was killed as much as | GO0 POt 08 B Procher < ey wanted his murderer. iz ‘fx' i ';‘| "'. ’" Chen. one morning, the thing that |\Would have had her be. M. rous ed from a ci waiting until k ippointment u The potice hecause he was and a b rl criminals It had il knowr Sparrow in any arr very my h of the Eng ts ot were not Pa ure sh : I 5 ncerned Iy nn was 4 b And hib seen he had men other rican wife aft siven than | who advised her to 50 long as the Germ ony My frie wife, does not do not like tt taver | ¥ at must my t 1 ha goug- » marks pector rmants ioned be t friend Ap-.ches be que ok % % Mart, a waif of the Ap «miling, carefree girl, who ¢ 1 sang and lived any way ht and was happy so lon, popular 2 her k romptly foun She consid time whe 3 or to tell where * e caught. She mude vhen M rain hid Hindu She went the tomb on a h 1ne his rd wotor from s going tved crimes hulletin at nd attempt 1 on the li‘e of Rath- tun Pugh. and that this time it had been successful, | The circum-tances were almost the ame. Mr. Pugh went home from his ub. He got out of his eab and pald ff his dri r, as he had done before. He unlocked his door and stepped in <ide. His wife, agnin waiting for him unstairs, heard a noise. She rushed | downstairs to find him stretched on the floor. This tinie he died. And igain. the two biue marks were there on his throat, and the thumbs of the ouiuel oo ed into iy oY hmbught | The office of M. Morain, prefect of the hose marks, and gouging of the eves. | Peris police. e e e LT ) v TR e e the manile her e he 1 to the attentlon of Paris police. | ni oo f the features of the | reat inscrutable biack eyés solémniy | mysterious, appeared before M. Mor ath of the German, Herr Spado,” said M. Morain, t efect. E Aok M om et ot owa® | ain when his secretary had persuaded " H 1| the great mgn to srant an audience to i o s I\';,m},’w Hiela forelgner® who was persistent, and | oIter _But the finger prints did not led your M. Of that we|Who had Imp him as one who | A8Te€: and “The Sparrow” was defiant Ry el et chief of | Would not be demanding to see the{and confident of his denials. nolice added, after a moment: ~And | Prefect of the Parls police on a futile |, Tt was Asa Ram. chier of the Bom 1 after 1 mome 4| missior ay police, who supplied the ex t is reported that ‘The Sparrow’ who, | Mission | } a1 Beval Lt 4 | “I am Janabal Rohade of Bombay, |!!on, when he was calied to by v belleve, killed Herr Spada. 1s now | g, ,ciic, “of the governor of a prov.| Laris | police. “Abdur Ral When Tnspecter Day wetuened o |12% of Indls.” the visiror sald. simply | 00, Be 8, ‘has inhert s gy . . |and directly. “I ve come to tell|i'” s suncestors. he London he was shown a vague, shad- | 300 Zirectly. UI have come to tell s with his own hand the tale imprint of finger. thatGarman. ana Rt re hand of ier. Discover if n, | e Sparrow” did ot take with hi Just as simply the visitor told her was wh 3rotland Y as ir > to him he Yard made m he Spar up her glven girl Jarn with the certain niz rtive, 1i d for c him, was n hat grant who SARI MARTL, THE SINGING | Eud™ AND DANCING GIRL OF THE APACHES. H wher t | with ! of th | aid not mat |ent as they vas su | her er ca ently, that he ha their caste—that he had 1 :wade and a dissrace Lo the a tdmily ana he pur lest his relatives suffer in their here- his finger = those tak: nglishman from 1i Rohad him aple d violated the laws { i re the the 4 much ¥ murder mission the hands 1d cut {rom some other wana | close them, not his own, they | throat of the Enzllshman Y1 The sister agrae inzlishman, a tempo-. | he the method of I e s rrow” laughed tauntir ry bad character, but Sizeestion, but in some ways good. She had been | he was cornered, bt s e by the German. |that her Apache suitor haud k | The Englishman was sorry for her | and tried to help her be of a different I'sort. It was said she v the Apaches of Paris | " “The German was 1 Englishman was not “Rathbun Herr Spada met in I | was, like the | rary resident | glan girl of Pugh,” she both loved where <ld, Birl « a a that this r brother, a Hindu d an to murder the Ge lishman. She did not | killed these other m very rich: the| 10 conseuuence and w The girl, who | 10t aroused the , but M. Morain, | was Sarah Marti, listened to the Eng- | “1en he had questioned the reports |lishman, and loved him. She re |Of their deaths, discovered that ach mained with the German. and spent | nStance their hands had been severed his mone; And while she wavered ind carrled away by the assassin. Batwann e b6, the ba6. whot woa| Tt swus s dead mants Bands whose dishonest with her and the one who | fin8er prints were discovered on would have helped her If she would | Rathbun Pugh's throat, but the voung let him, she fell into the hands of a ) ‘iindu Apache went to the gallows voung outcast called Abdur Rahim, @nd the red llne wus drawn through | who was & little thief of Bombay. To|the card that bore the false finger rid herself of him, Sara Marti sent the | Print little thief to Paris with the words that gained him entree to the Apaches, | of whom she was a part. “When Sara and Her turnad to Europe,, going first to Leip- | zig, the German's home ¢ nd then to Parls, Abdur Rahim, who had h | come known as “The Sparrow.” found the German and killed him. hen he went to London and, discovering the the throat of Mr. Pugh. inglishman, whom loved, It was the first time in police his- iand for whom she was trving to be | tory that fingerprints had been re-lhonest, he killed him after two at- 1 from the body of the victim | tempts. tang They were faint white | “Sarah Marti,” the Hindu girl went < but when they had 'on, “may be found any night at ‘The magnitied, then trengthened, | Tomb,” a cave which the police will alloy, while somewh 1 then reduced, they were perfect. know on the left bank of the Seine. | mond, offers many sver it was that Killed the English- | She will know where “The Sparrow | tag It is sald to have his ilentification was perfect | may be found, for, since the English- | structure and to retatn its he should ever be caught! man and the German have gone, he is | power much longer than the diamond the only one she can count as a |that had crystalline structure and is Paris and London police work- on the left bank of | iover. | extremely brittle, hence soon loses its ind the Eng- now why who se deaths had (Copyright. 1925.) Substitute for Diamond. R several JANABAI ROHARDS, THE HIN. da re- | DU GIRL, WHO DELIVERED HER OWN BROTHER, “THE PARROW,” TO THE POLICE. experts of a nt uthern many, claim to have produced a metal illoy nearly as hard as the diamond, Science Monthly. The rence in the scale of hardness is one-tenth of a degree. The iloy consists of a fused mixture of ’min.]]h: tungsten and tungsten car- Tests have shown that A met. steel T cover " r. black lines, his tun, t softer th practical \ man meta | eutting power by the chipping of its| rystal edges. Peacocks Color ‘VL‘ may cock them vain birds. Munich, who been experiment ing with the ey of birds, says that the shimn:ering colors in plumage | probably mean nothing to the feather ied creatures. At least they do not ap- preciate colors as we do, if, they even distinguish one color from another. Birds that flv by d Dr. Erhard says, see evervthing in a bright red- orange lght, In sitive to the short wr blue and violet. Night birds, on the other hand, never see red, but do see blues and violet. Tiny globules of oil in the retina of the eyes act as color screens and determine the birds’ color sense, according to Dr. Erhard. Blind. be misjudging the and_rooster when pea we ¢ Bullet-Proof A UTOMOBILE bodies proof metal that cannot be dis tinguished in appearance from the usual material have been constructed for police and other specizl uses, says Popular Mechanics. The metal is the same as that of which bullet-proof vests have been shioned and its efficiency lies in its |ability to absorb the impact of a mis- sile, allowing the vibrations to spread nd thus preventing perforation. Un- e stiff, heavy armor plates, it can be cut or punched easily, and bodies constructed of it are well within the #ii ] weight limits of the car's chassis, a 5 heet of the metal being only about | one-sixteenth inch thick and weighing but two and onehalf pounds to the uare foot. It also has a surface that Lakes any kind ¢ automobile finish. uto Bodies. of a bullet- INSPECTOR DAY OF SCOTLAND YARD EXAMINING PRINT RECORDS OF “THE SPARROW.” FINGER- would | other man each time before he went | he ! ere of | vears of research, Ger- | cutting | For Dr. H. Erhard indeed. | Coal Industry Has Had Troubles Since the Time of King Members of British Parliament Feared That Burning of the “Earth Health and They Prohibited Its Use in London. BY GEORGE PORTER. | S coals are to burning coals, #nd wood to fires, so is the Contentious man to kindle strife.” Proverbs, xxvi:l. That scriptural = passage, written by King Solomon in 1016 B.C., is the first historical mention of coal, nd would seem to indicate that the word coal was at least suggestive of trouble even in the days of antiquity Of course, “coal” in the quotation may refer to wood, charcoal or other | substunces used as fuel, but most au thorities take it to mean the actua! biturmnous mineral with which we are familiar today Solomon is there fore supposed to have been the chief g the world's origin res, which were seirat Syria, and which, by the re | still productive Moreover, it is probably Solomon in all hi 13 hie might kavi i many of his mine; . as the S-hour day, labol heck-off m and other in ics of modern mining had no been “invented,” the wise ruler’ problems in regard to coal must have been relatively simple. Edwin F. Hill, information manager large corporation, who througt ars of association with the citizen the coul communities of West Vir inia has come to Know 1 muny angles, explain he difficulties of the first lomon, with a thous: provide for, must have had a sweet time Kkeeping the coal bins fllled and providing rmth for his many house. | He, no doubt, experienced the same troubles in having an adequate supply of fuel on hand during the sea. sons of the year when heat was re- quired that people do today, for un. oubtedly the methods of transporta 11 near way, fe y was n been in the How unions, al man nd wives Solomon Fuel” Would Injure PERATOR. ELECTRIC MINING LOCOMOTIVE AND O in those days were na could only be transported from place to another in smail quanti ter royal privilege was mpostor for attempting to sell | am Penn to mine coal in ' to the people as coal. Liter. of com o e, for were whole problem 1742 John Peter Salley any | ks usully a g to carry pres. | and incense to the reciplent in a good frame o 1 eive t ual message ind of this required much time | 2 it went 2/0: wines, si'k had 116,000 le of the | 1840 the uel for ‘0 ourse Hother Coal orth 1} Thoma on was the first to Z w, Lieut.-Gov ‘ri‘e of coal in the Bible, there are numerous other Scriptural passages of | later date referring to the fuel. Ex les worth citing are Isaiah, v.16; | have created the smith that! th the co: in the fire:” and ion, iv.8: “Their visage is| han a coal.” ok o % | HE use of « ntedates the! Christian _era parts of | Asia, expecially and was | oted, centuries later, by Marco Polo | 1 his trav Concerning it he | srote: “It is a fact that all over the | ountry of Cathay there is a kind of | ilack Stone existing in beds in the | mountains, which they dig out and | irn like fire-wood. It s true they | have p of wood also, but they | o not lurn it, because those sltml«.\‘ burn better and less.”” Marco fellow countrymen back in Venice ht the wines of the strange land ffected his imagination. 15. Krebs, mining engineer geologist, cites the writings of the Greek author, Theophrastus, as ce of the early use of coal. E v worthy of ention {s the par- written about 334 B.C., which | ires "hose substances that are called | oals and are broken for use are | . but they kindle and burn Itke | They are found in| where there is amber, and | over the mountains towards 3 = 3 E They are used by the S e ! s John Penr “We desire acres of land Pittsburgh, inch may now be I from its situntic fderable in tin gross all the the wor vou to will River became a h I ion of Cum and ne b o 830 ound the icker t 3 the f m ng of perfecti e o he 1l also 1 o in other in China, . coal became erais in the fulles In the Baltimore railroad hegan moving coal nd = markets ngton coal in Mason Virginia), in his diary George sense o! i 1nd from while over; (now 1770 or stern Charles | 1 wo 15, Lyei in E len « ia, is, npias. | smiths.” ; : X 3 Excavations near the Roman wall | R > 3 o i England disclosed tools and coal | % S H which lead to the bellef that | . S i 5 were famillar with the | ming mineral prior to the Roman | wasion of 54 B.C. | A receipt for 12 cartloads of coal | given by the Abbott of Petersboro in | > constitutes the first actual record | transaction. The monks of | began mining the ‘“earth | fuel’” about that time and used it for manufacturing purposes. | he books of the Bishop of Dur- ham, England, for the yvear 1180 di close the first record of actual mining operations. The far-famed fields of | Newcastle date their coal history from | the vear when King Henry III | granted the men of that district the | “privilege” of working mines. Jus !how much of a_ “privilege” it turned ! to be can be gathered from an account: e merchant imployeth 500 or 1.000 in his works cf coale; vet for all is labour, care and cost, can scarce- v live 1t his trad nay, many of them both consumed and spent gr estates and dyed beggars. I can re- imember one, of many, that raysed his estate by coale trade: many I remem- ber that ath wasted great estates. | ome South gentlemen have, upon reat hope of benefit, come into this suntry to hazard their monies in ~-pits. Master Beaumont, a gen tleman of great inginuity and rare purts, adventured info our mines with 10,000 pounds; who brought with him many rare engines, not known then in these parts—as, the art to boore with on rodds, to try the deepnesse and the thicknesse of the coale, rare en- ines to draw the water out of the its. and wagons with one horse to wrry down coales from the pits to the ver In a few years he con- imed all his money, and rode home {upon his light-horse.” * gl‘m'u}:Tm: of the coal industr: % 4t first experienced the same diffi- culties in putting their product across 1o the public that has characterlzed the introduction of every new thing, he it mechanical invention, political theory, or sclentific process, through- out the ages. After regular coal ship- ments to London had been started in | 1240, proclamations were issued pro- hibiting the use of the new fuel dur-! !ing the sessions of Parllament for fear i | in TRAIN OF MINE CARS. War coal was transported to Car for the Coutinental Army. having been taken to Harrisburg in be and hauled the rest of the way wagons. It 1s the first shipment of anthracite coal made in Ameri In 1802 coal was first shipped boat down the Ohio River from burgh to Cincinnati. Two it was disc ed west of pi by the Leuwi 1 dition, which found evid of essen mineral ong the nks the Mi: i and Yellowstone Rivers The attitude the public toward anthracite at is indicated by an incident when one, Col Pottsviile, ha tof hard coa reaching the for coal commenced with the completion of rtant railroad lines into 15 which opened the New hontas, and other we Kknown sections to the world's use The same old pr and labor that hav ears r i the commercial M f centuri have expe- | the coal mining indust even more noticeable s of business. By vork aquickly became prise requiring the use of wen. The ordinary industrial re hetween this vast v of nd their employers h: often as at present—interrupted form of commerclal warfare own as a strike, and # history of able to find buyers for only two such conflicts would involve practi and was forced to give away the seven | cally every colliery in the country, for Even then he had to employ |nearly all of them have had their ¢ to get out of town without ! share of labor troubles. With few ex being arrested on the charge of heing | ceptions, all strikes, like the ]vr\\wnli golden 873 arly capital ed in e most nature an ente thousands | ustra hum: present to a d than in its very of n Clark i the ms s s rdelphia., Quaker City, he it would prove injurlous to the health of the knights of the realm. Again in 1316 the Houses of Parliament peti- d their monarch, Edward I1I i time, to prohibit the burn- ing of the “black diamonds,” and the sovereign complied, with the custom- proclamation. The laws of supply nd demand, however, proved more stent than the edicts of the King of Iingland, and when wood became so <earce its price was almost prohibi- | tive, the use of coal gradually became : : : general throughout London. IV T -~ 1] Similar superstitious {gnorance was ¢ A . | encountered when the effort was made to popularize the use of coal in Pari At the outset samples were submitted o the faculty of medicine to deter. mine if the new fuel would be inju- : rious to the public health. By 1520] g B 7 : < i coal was being sent from the mines of | . : 4 3 i Newcastle, England, to the French metropolis and found a ready market there. The first authentic record of coal in the New World is found in the y journal of Father Hennepin, a French i 4 i 3 - ! Jesult missionary, who noted traces 4 | of bituminous coal on the banks of | the Tlinois River near the site of i present town of Ottawa, In 1679, Five , : | | A COAL TRAIN IN WEST VIRGINIA. It have st 1 men. In the ar it ark president i n had pa as field agent iring d risen vy increased hich was notab! The next ban s Benevo together in the Workinzmer v lent Assoclation Fron »al men have never 1 > the workers, every strike the history I gani suspe pread made it impossi and the men 1 ness to add a list ¢ . their employers. Hav organization to enf however, all their ception, der, COMMONX .er A learly, his for eyes is, th: ey school iear and distant pe A fars see perfect with perfect her distance i ooked «t for more thar held. But the by s to work ix s the should be s more har need cause of nerve results 1s’ addec nal strain Uncorrected out astigm: distaste f work. to be punished by evestrain out thinking much about w sations are, he avoids i th ations which are u This may cause his entire educ be a failure, but it does s and nervous system fron the instinct is the only forded, nature falls back 1t of ificing edu opportuni The boy wh w5 nearer school author his ses are needed. . *To Scare the Ducks. QOLDIERS at grounds, in patrolling the banks hanna River d rounds of blank tridges to f ducks away. The preciutior taken to protect the flocks « hucks, many of which have oned by phosphorus from shells in the swampy land he. If htednes eve cost s wtior e eyes ex Aberdeen Maryland of the and n righter 1s heer canvas cen Thawing Plants I svite of all pre ; sometimes freeze following first aid tip has s eral. Sprinkle the plant liberally wi cold water. Then, after half an hour, let warm air enter the room gradually but under no conditions should the plant be brought into a heated room The whole process of revival should be over a perfod of ‘o two