Evening Star Newspaper, February 14, 1926, Page 79

THE SUNDAY STAR,. WASHINGTON, Master Thief and Bluebird Pearl Factors in an Austrian Mystery True Detective Story 1 BY ELEANORE BROWNE, ¥ 81l the records of the great police bureaus Bt nd America the romance and tragedy of jewels occupies many pages in the blue and gray env which sheath dosslers of international adven curers. There is, for example, a packet of official documents in the Buge steel cases in the “police presi feney Vienna her in ¥ ind others in Berlin and even M narked quite simply pearl."” It would seem us pearl should bring happiness. Ve suggests beautif men, ardor of the lips at trigues under the ros athomless pride of nternational bluebird pearl” st mystery, and thir wross Europe. 1t hat are writter vecords in ti he roman the lnes of the The last the “bluct while tw han "0 1 p then he sed = Before t he b of o nd’ gall heart perhaps seuns 1s Khat zer of one of beautl 1d re he ul Friv Russin. In Rnss! ‘ollow the Kiss o ds one 1 wse of the “biuebird” iown to Napoleon, then to Ge - then back to old St. Petersin is interesting to observe the similarity | detween the description of it in the Vienna police records of today and the poetic tradition of it as found in an old Slavic manuseript written during the time of the first Czar Nicholas. And_then, with this description in mind, to follow course from one heanfiful nother—and through the )st startl criminal the ever deait n le he has iscript, now in the rs the signature describes him “Khan of the Midd ancient Prince . quite tary and THord vyecorder of the 1 down This precic bauble was fc from the song of a maiden who lifte her silver voice to the moon in an in- | escent orh ths inates the nig | ordalned that t answered and t tures be sent »n the moa o a great rou Sartai siinp! Pote One who Lord Vhinks uehird pea The Moon of 1s rmed en's praver be | token of her vir- | to her. Where. | yds made her wishes | pellet and varnished | 1t with the rays of n This token | of the night orb’s favor for the tle | matden was carried down to h moonbe: whereupon she was ecelved wi mighty ance taken by h tis best women The 20-year-ago preside pa’s police put into hi description of the “Bluebird reads This pearl is try, flawless, and of i 10 millimeter: {about in diameter. It is cent shean, of < hues varying with extraneous Under lamp or gas lizht In the daytime its colors ath of the sun. In th unique and thus tately ide ed. It is the prop of the Lili_Schukow of Austrasse Gate and is to be returned, if recovered, to her.” cht s Kha | | Ghe the into house t of more ti half an rich softnes iride IDELVING into the dossier of the “B “chives, on graph < in the folder °d by Maj. Lyf tlons, that t bottom of iebird” in comes upon one Vienna latest she “It is repor rector of investig: eneraily known stolen on the night from the Cou Marie Mindszenty, now attached to the State Opera, while | he was entertaining a party of guests n the foyer of her private suite of | Opera apartments. The Countess ports certainty of the time and n ] ner of the theft because of her recol cction that she examined the pearl which is tastened to « platinum neck hain, before she placed it round her ck and is, therefore, certain of having hung it there. Immediately | hereafter she entered her foyer and spoke with her guests. She did not | leave the room before she missed the | pendant search of the apartment | was madi once, with no result. | Certain facts noted below indicate to | Maj. Lyfertz that Paul Seviers has | once more stolen this pearl.” And in that lust observation of Maj. Lyfertz, one of the youngest of inter- nationaily famous detectives, is the 20-year story of the Blueb Pearl nd of Paul Seviers. who began to <teal the Bluebird 20 vears ago and stole it regularly, from the most heautiful throats and slenderest fingers in Europe, one after the other For Paul Seviers was no ordinary ~em thief. There is scant record of 1s ever having committed any crime sther than his thefts of the Bluebird. This has been the 20-year mystery of him, the mystery that has baffled the police of half a score -of Iuropean apttals. A romanticist would conjure him as some blood descendant of that sncfent maiden whose wish was made nto a jewel by the moon and who was received with appreciations in the rms of her sentimental Khan. Any <ort of imagination could describe the coursing in his veins of h malden neestor’ fascination for the Blue. ird, a fascination come down to him through centuries. For since the first time his eves rested on the Bluebird, on the hand of the Barone: owsky, he has stolen it from owner, collected a ransom for it wh he ran out of funds, e aped the police and went into hiding—until he wants it again. As he left a complete record of him -elf, with positive identification, each tme he filched his favorite pearl, thi trange adventurer spent his time in he Interlm between his amazing hefts in changing his personality. it was a workman on her est » who + AMsappeared with the pearl when it ielonged to the Baroness Schukowsky. After a year's employment this work- inan, whose forged credentials indi- cated that he had been a gardener on s e outside Vienna, liy promoted in the confidence of his mistress until ho cared for her own private garden Jjust outside her apartments in her Dalace at Austrasse Gate. He seemed 1ot to be an intelligent fellow, except n the matters of his garden. When lie entered the baroness' boudofr one norning and took her “Blugbeard” from {ts zolden jewel box. he left no ubterfuge hehind him. He left, even, iMs cap and his coat in the dainty. gilt ind brocade bedroom of the absent \<r.“ haroness. The police soon traced the work- man's antecedents and discovered the forgery of his references. They identi- fied him as Panl Seviers, an Anglo rjun, who had lived vicarieusly Archives of the Vienna Police Department. COUNTESS MARIE OPERA O FUI WOMAN 1N MINDSZENTY. PRIMA DONNA OF THE AUSTRIA AND CLAIMED TO BE THE MOST BEAUTI- CENTRAL ATE EUROPE. SHE WAS THE LAST OWNER OF THE BLUEBIRD PEARL—-TO LOSE AND REGAIN IT. in v peric A be. resple of the of fore late dozen in; hizh favors fr Especialiy whose nan moment, tle fraulein who was we bird Pearl of the first time in public. I gallant] permission to at fraulein’s home. A ror somed, for Fr: the = the moon maid held her hand at their parting, and begged make his compliments reception ance budded and almost blos- :in Delvig found her nat | st most entertaining as well He had traveled much, arently rich. There was talk of a conference between him cmbers of her family. This postponed hurriedly, ho en the lein was | sudden discovery er suitor through Potsdam her fingers uebird.” nion on_ that who imsell as a Frenchu n of high position, was sympathetic. ident to the n the president of with great show of co s received with that pro. ation which the old re- n police accorded any one to distinction. The Herr of those days promised to is utmost resources and begged visitor to help prepare a detailed ption of the jewel to be sent out n a continental alarm The President’s caller agreed grate- fully. His deseription of the lost gem was eloquent and colorful; almost as erfect as it could have been had he pulled the “bluebird” from his waist- coat pocket where it was at that mo- t safely reposing. To his memor- ized description of the jewel he added the incident of its having been stolen once before, from the throat of Bar- oness Lili, in Vienna. He described manner of its theft and its re- overy. He related the details of its oung | travels after the workman stole it, and And | confided that the Italian jeweler who ed | had sold it back, had really been a 1cu- | party of the theft plot, and had worked half a |in collusion with the thief, one Seviers sested | whose photograph might be secured inental | from Vienna. uished | The police president was her for [for all this Information. He was lit- [ somewhat Interested, too, when he Blue- |learned in the routine way of in- for the | quiries, that much of what his visitor, the intended fiance of Fraulein Del- vig, had told him of the history of the former theft was totally unknown to either the police of Vienna or the rela- tives of the Baroness Lill. He was further interested when the distin- guished Frenchman was discovered to rdmi lent new as a nd v v ma stroll, had identified A consid ts | the women | thankful at her THESE PHOTOGRAPHS ARE ALL OF THE SAME MAN—PAUL SEVIERS. THEY VIENNA POLICE, REPOSE AMONG THE RECORDS OF THE that | He | nolice | Obtained From Among the Striking Incidents in the Secret ~ have completely lein. it seemed, h: disappeared. Frau 1 lost not only the | “bluebird” pearl but her lover as well. | A short, although belated. investiga tion of Fraulein's suitor revealed him, mockingly, as Paul Seviers himself not a workman, this time, but orous volced, perfectly bred, de i nered drawIng room knight. His dec orations, like his personality, had bec forged—and so clumsily, or careless that they left behind them thetr record if his real name and identity. But even the police could not believe that the photograph of him, which he hud presented the Fraulein, w the sune man as that pictured earlier one in the files at Vienna © ok K % O president of a great metropolitan | police bureau is pleased by such | a foke as had been played upon IHerr, superintendent in the Berlin head quarters. The resources of the Herlin police were concentrated upon hunt the whimsical Paul land the fated pearl. Huge rewards were offered, totailing almost the 0| tire value of the jewel, for both Ber lin and Vienna were determined to| halt the caveer of this dangerous thief. He remained gaily at ltberty, however and this time, when.u gem de ¢ Brussels sent a messens to Fraulein Delviz with u proposition for the re turn of the “Bluebird”™ for $20.000. U pSsenge! brought nimpe that his employers had wsed the pearl from w patron of questionable standing who had selt a record of hin purchase froin an acquaintance who had introduced to him in London The search back to the “acquaint ance from London” revealed Puul Seviers. this time a well known figure in Mayfair, but Paul had disappe: leaving a new photograph behind him. and the saie to the jeweler had been, undoubtedly, “in good faith.” Their patron had been fmposed upon. There was nothing for Fraulein's family do but pay the runsom demanded which they could not afford to do. A little later Fraulein was compelled to | part with the “bluebind” to a Berlin collector. Another was s for Seviers ible v him of it | owner slen from a new This time the director of a Paris bank Perhaps the financier had some lady in mind when he mads the | chase, but, if so, he 1 been The pearl remained In his strong | which was rvifled by butler who 1 been employed upon the hest of rec ommend: Again Paul Sevier was disclosed, and i new of 4 new perse The polive of ever: down to i hard tash tent. They decided, after comn tion with each other, that t admirer of the biuebird ght. They awaited arrival of a messen Jeweler at the o A policeman was @ ned bank, another at the house sieur’ le Nifrector, and 7t | companied him wherever he wer appearance of a messenger wit lof a compromise « the lost | was to be the sig and arbitrary a Then, one mc fied the police that | returned to | not require fur: |tion. The Paris ur re sriefly, and include an obsery vy a petulant inspector who b he ways of men with the tnspector adds to his randum: “It appears that Monsieur le Direc tor became enamored of a moiselle with apartments in Rue St Honore and became a frequent culler at these lodgings. At a time which the mademoiselle believed to be the | psychological moment she discover to him the ‘Bluebird’ among her ef fects and made his purchase of it from her, at what I belleve to be a figu much higher than its value, the price of her neglect to inform his family and his colleagues at the bank of nocturnal attentions to her. Be that | as it may, Paul Seviers seems to have other methods of ransoming his peari | than those which require & male mes senger.” photog capital with from for an . the banker 1 pearl had he w mernio made. * X % % EARLS, like women, are said to| be faithless, however, Napoleon sent the “Bluebird,” which had been | presented to him by a courtier, to that | Queen Louiss of Prussia whom he | tried to buy. The Princess Louise kept the pearl and sent Napoleon a glove fwom her left hand with the ex- | planation that this was the best she | could do since she didn’t wear mit tens. Two women, after the “Blue bird” found its way back to its native Russia, were killed by admirers who had kissed the fingers which wore it At last came the time when it proved fickle to a strange devotee who en- joyed ft whenever he wished by the mere process of stealing it. The Countess Mindzenty remem- bered, that night at the opera, that among her visitors was a portly, hand- some man, of much more than middle age, who had not been among her friends. She was puzzled somewhat by his appearance with the others to | pay his respecis to her after a par- ticularly successful rendition of the | arla with which she had ornamented the night's performance. She con- cluded that the stranger, who was in faultless evening clothes and who spoke fluently the language of her country, although with a decided for- eign accent, must have come into her | under the patronage of one of the di- | rectors of the opera. So she was pleasant to him, and | smiled gayly at his compliments. The | Countess 15 winsome, as well as beau. | tiful, and wears easily the laurels that | belong to one who has been proclaimed | the most beautiful woman in Central Europe. Her jewels are famous, some of them as much so because of their donors as because of their value. Of them all she is proudest of the “Blue- bird.” When Maj. Lyfertz, director of po- lice investigations, examined the list of those who had been in the room to pay the Countess their compliments, he asked further particulars about one who was remembered by others present, but whose name was not registered on the visitors’ list at the opera door. These inquiries were made hurriedly, almost immediately | after the loss of the “Bluebird” was discovered, and long before the final fall of the curtain on the evening opera program. ‘While the director of investigations 'was making these inquiries of doormen and stage attendants and the Countess’ secretaries, an assistant brought him from the police presidency the dossier of the “Bluebird pearl.” On its index |page were the notations of the vari- i ous thefts of the pearl, and after them the {lluminating entry, “Find Paul Seviera.” The name recalled to him the fa- vored story of the drillrooms of the young detectives who learned, as fast as they could, the legends of the great mysteries of their profession; the 20. story of the adventures of the “Bluebird'” with this Paul Seviers as its shadowy nemesis. Just when the great orchestra in the pit began the cadences of its final score Maj. Lyfertz gave an order to the assistant. “There is no place to seek the thief, 1f he do be the same Seviers, except where no man would expect him to be. Surround the exits quickly. Make all patrons pass from the seats through the grand arch that opens into the | marble corridow, Let the Countess| | the Lin polfee | message | acceptable, for it soon cathe in all by | Pepys_confiding to D. C, FEBRUARY 14, 1926—PART 5. Napoleon Halted Great CrimeWave After Conquering Political Foes Modern French Detective Tells of Origin of Expert Methods and Advises -American Cities as to Effective Policies Under Present Conditions. BY PROSPER BURANELLIL APOLEON is guiling figure, and a wave makes a subject pertinent to this time city. It was M. Rene Cassel ‘i, tormer commissioner of the gen eral detective department of Paris, wh ke. During he said ested in be rime | very, and always a my sojourn in New York, ve been much inter matters here. Thin are really fascinating, as a difficult problem is nating. From what 1 hive heen able Lo see, it appears that the New York authorities have on their lands the difficult situa tion since the gr Napoleon hroke crime wave Paris 125 years maost in 1 cold day.” interrupted mine as a4 good restauranteur who | Lo take an order. T suggest 9 of mines ne first.” * having luncheon at a place v street, 1 high, historle matters had to stand aslde f a con sideration and discussion of the menu Yes, very weil, a minestrone M. Cassellari suitable tion hout ~qn and the erime 1 hastened to renew the sub- | That sounds timely." “Napoleon was, as you k eut in, sponded M. « His genius was not limited 1 W and st aft. but extended also te the po Still, the putting down of the crime wave followed as a result { 4 more important object. That is way things are likely to happen work You chase a forg catch a burglar. It all coln with the creation of the first ective force in Parls—by Fouche, the famous, or, if you want, infamous | minister of police. Afterward, past | the time of Napoleon, came Vidoeq. “There were no regular detectives in o sense before that,” he ex- panded the theme. “Only political spy svstems which had no connection with ime and small contact with the world wants after ery | ow, a isseilari ar | and vided way 1 insisted, scenting of putting down banditry that applicable in this present resp: M lution the the h means 1 ~the | | risunderstood think of | torture. n the ¢ to tell wh n the old days v eir f wonid cases of ioned cani how can s hidden if desc a valu- detertion, and “IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE MANY INFORMERS CAME FORWARD WITH THEIR OF THE STATE.” DENUNCIATIONS AGAINST ENEMI there have been « n P thera have been officials w Iy wished they b ssal Of co ane the pressure but tem: “\/l'l:\ torture v roristsdid t. The There The rule in ion tribu wa ve necd of evidence s were meed no arr: They we to th inforr rd forw ne wave in the s whem Napoleon was quite a eri “Spaghetti for troni for the sig waiter. After any sang: b war or Parisian detective habit of violence resu prevalence of violent Paris there was an epidemi beries and hold-ups. Well the zovernment not e troubled ahout the situatic gnor, mine wry disturbance, revo s in crimes, rob first mora important NP than reum and murdered s power ced of he, who had worked so no more p But the tions wer greater amibi o keep the tocrat and end It is o precarions r an au olid He of erime in Par wtacked | s the developmen “Fouche hi that ed turn, tr: o ther has beer every detec rmed e develo ra no You miz st puttine - ad to the t t mi ed the othe ave in nost le against crime, a it t ct that ov St. Valentine and the tor | ich it stands, St. Valen- ~'s day is little known or un- stood. It has come upon as mysteriously know not how or| when. We each may have | ideas on the subject, but| there is not a great deal with which | to back them up. Today, through the fog of comic valentines, one sees but dimly the real of this saint’s day, feels but the infiuence of love, lavender ind vellowed love letters that are in- | heritances of years gone by. The first written valentine, now ex- hibited in the British Museum, was written by Charles, duc d'Orleans, who was taken prisoner in the battle of Agincourt in 1415. He thus beguiled a dull hour or so of his sojourn in the | Tower of Leondon. The idea proved popular. The house- holds of the English gentry took it up and amused themselves by choos- | ing certain maidens whom they falthfully on St. Valentine’s d to whom they expressed their de in such fattering words as, “Oh, my | love, my dear love pretty! How I'love vou!” Well, the ladies liked it. So it grew. We next find the lovesick English swain cutting folded paper circles into | fanciful designs, with lacy edges and | four hearts, points inward, bearing a of love inscribed in the | spaces between. i Evidently the heart motif proved | de s almost itself, we whence of our own | itself unobstructed by the elaborate paper backgrounds. They were mod- est little hearts, unsymewically drawn and embellished by numerous de- formed doves bearing scrolls and rib- hons, with appropriate inscriptions, in their bills. Some of the doves, having no messages, merely perched nonchal- antly in“space, and, presumably, billed and coed. Hearts increasingly foéund favor. They began accordingly to improve themselves, appearing either outlined in red ink or entirely filled in with it. Arrows pierced them, and the in- creased ardor of their senders found expression in the greater fervor of the messages they bore. Needless to say, this increasing elab- orateness of rites was not without its attendant expense. In connection with this we find the economical Mr. is diary on St. Valentine's day in 1667: "This morning came up to my wife’s bedside little Will Mercer to be her valentine, and brought her name writ- ten upon blue paper in gold letters done by himself, very pretty, and we were both well pleased with it. But I am also this year my wife's valentine, and it will cost me £5; but that I must scan them closely. It would be like this cynical admirer of a pearl to see the balance of the performance through.” The Countess, hidden behind palms in" the corridors, saw her visitor emerge, dauntless, cgnfi;‘ilem.. Wt:;n Maj. Lyfertz tappe m on ) shoulder he went pale at first, the. laughed fronfcally, and with a gallam bow brought the rl from his pockev and handed it to its beautiful mistress. He was not put away for a lengthy {met wit have laid ou nad not valentines.” it we x % ox ok RESENTLY, due either to pauclty of ideas or to abundance of sweethearts per capita, there arose | a number of business heads who is- sued publications designed to come to the rescue of a_distrausht lover. One such was “The Young Man’s Valentine Writer,” which made its ap- pearance in 1779. It made no dif- ference what one's trade or turn of | mind, he would be sure to find some- thing appropriate within those covers. If you happened to be a cobbler this was just what you were looking for: A piecs of charmine kid you are. | e mine eyes did soe No calekin emooth. that e'er T saw Can bn compared with thee. | You are my all. do not refuse | To let s tack together. Bug Jet us join. my Valentin Like shoo and upper leath Similarly, a baker's needs were In these hard times it truly may be raid That halt o loafs much better than no hre | Then eurely. pretty dear. you glad may be Since sure of love's enough. to marry me. And the sweethearts of half the butchers in town no doubt were told: My nice little lamb, Your lover I am: I've money and got a good trads. My shop it {a neat. oo is complete; "All'ready for you. my eweet maid On dainties so fine Each day we will dine = And act as you please, your will shall be mine: So hope you'll eay aye. And bless with your heart your true VALENTINE. Bards there twere, however, who scorned to apply for assistance, and who still prefered to write their own. Some winsome “mayde” of Eliza- bethan times received this little of- fering: When_Slumber first unclouds my brain, And thoughte is free And' Sense Fefroshed renows her reigne— T think of Thes. ‘When next in prayer to God above 1 bende my knee, Then when I pray for thoes I love— T pray for .. And when the duties of the day Demand of mee To_rise and journey on life's way— I work for Thee. Or_if perchance T sing some lay. Whate'er it bee: All that the idle verses say— They say of Thee. For 1f an eve whose Gleams like the se Tugy sing of trosses oy sing of Thoe. Ang it a wearle mood. or sad, Ong thonskht van_all times make me glad: ne. thought can all times o glad— e thoukhte of Thee. € And when once moro upon my bed. Full wearily. In_ewect repie T lay my head— I"dfeam ‘of Thee In chort. one only wish T have— To live for Thee: . it one pang 'twould save o gladly. 7a"d3" gor Thes. PEEE OF course, we are not all lyricists. But a prosaic turn of mind, if sincere, need not impede its owner’sy progress toward the good graces of his lady. For instance, the younger Mr. Weller of Pickwick fame unbur- dened kimself thus: iquid lighte browne and brighie— time. The police of Europe soon will have to begin anew, perhaps, their watchfulness over the Bluebird pearl. | (Copyrizht. 1926.) “Lovely creetur, i feel myself| ashamed and completely circum- | seribed in adressin® you, for you| are a nice gal bu e, | and nothin® 4 | did wen he w: was alike ee vou I thought all women , but now I hat reg'lar soft-hearted inkred’lous turnip I must ha’ been, fer there aint n¢ body like vou thoush I like you bet ter than nothing all. So I the privilege of the day, Mary dear, as the T'm’n in diff ked out of a S that the my to tell you time I &ee, on my heart in much quicker time and brighter colors than ever a like- ness was took by the profeel macheen (wich p'raps you may have heard on, Mary my dear), altho’ it does finish a_ portrait i put the frame and glass on complete with a hook at the end to hang it up b; and all in two seconds and a quarter. Except of me, Mary my dear, as your walen- tine, and think over what I've sald. My dear Mary, I will now conclude, your love sick PICKWICK."” At one time people gallled forth with a net on the 14th of February in order to insure their happiness for the re mainder of the year by catchinz two sparrows and an owl. And the course of true love was sure to run smooth if one caught one's lover asleep on Val entine morning. In Scotland, however, and in some other countries the sacred rites of the day implied more important things than the identity of one's playmate for twelve hours or so. Such super- stition came to be attached to the drawing of names that life partner- ships were often formed in that way. The Connoisseur evidently got hold of the diary of some vouns lady when it printed this extract in 1754 “Last Friday was St. Valentine's day, and the night before I got flve bay leaves and pinned four on the corners of my pillow and the fifth to the middle, and then if I dreamt of my sweetheart, Betty said we should be married before the year was out. But to make it more sure I boiled an egg hard and took out the yolk and filled it with salt; and when T went to bed ate it shell and all, without speaking or drinking after it. We wrote our lofers’ names upon bits of paper, and rolled them up in clay and put them in water; and the first that rose up was to be our valentine. Would you think it? Mr. Blossom was my man. 1 lay abed and shut my eyes ail morn- ing. till he came to our house, for I would not have seen anotber man be- fore him for all the world.” * ¥ ¥ * OTHER maids of other lands were less retiripg than this one, how: ever. It was often the custom in cel tain places for the ladies to make the advances to the gentlemen of thetr choice. This may have been a relic of an anclent Persian festival which was called “merdgiran,” in honor of the angel guardlan of women. The day set as'de for this lelebration was known _as “Woman's day.” and wom- en had power over even their hus. bands for 34 hours. Any number of other origins are suggested, and whichever one accepts, it is plain that the day has strayed far from its original meaning. One legend has it that during the refgn in Rome of the Emperor Claud- fus, often called Claudius the Cruel, a certain high priest named Valen: tine officlated in a temple near the palace. So popular was he that his congregation was composed of high and low, rich and poor, alike. During 4 series of long wars which were rag- il take vour likeness was took | | | | | Customs He Inspired o W he fecree man; r fover h heavy not endure of his m n to d prison, nd died. Lach y was hi had united guished & death hi those other 14th o ory gre Some cuting tt t. Valenti caded. While t is said, th daughter of I 1y jom. occurred February; _ Another theory ho! tine has become t lovers through a Norman word “gals lover, and is o written “valentin An English e Shakespeare, possibility e e coup Fe on anniver hich 38 Surnose about 270 A.D. is that St. Valer @ patron saint confusing of in,” which me pronounced end, negests in the words St. Vale Begin these woodb now?” It is probable that the real orig! Is an early Roman festival which \E“{ held in honor of Pan and Juno during the month of February, With th coming of Christianity tho pagza names’ were supplanted by names « aints and since St. Valentine's birt day was only one day earler than t! feast day of Pan and Juno, this ccl bration took over his name. volced still anotl past; to couy e = New Anti-Knock. 'HE German chemical Badische Anil und Soda Fabrik WIH, O 15 sl iplace onithe maetat o the near future an anti-knocking cor pound having none of the drawbacks the lead compounds that hav. caused such contrvorsy. This new component, which permi of unusual compression in the auto mobile cylinder, is Irau-carbonyl, 4 compound of iron and uon moros tde. It is a_brown liquid, botlmg 103 degrees C.. and soluble in benzole and petrol. Aithough it is toxie, this disadvant entire mitigated by the mosphere and day it Is completely oxidized to ferric oxide and carbor dioxide. 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