Evening Star Newspaper, January 9, 1927, Page 82

WA 5. SHINGTON. D. C, JANUARY 9, 1927 PART Torn Glove and a Men Trace Slayer by Piece of Clay, Print of ¢ requira mones and without at this | never hefore have disguises and ‘fi",'mv‘\r‘ used as today in S Yard work But the disguises those of character rather than of fa In the make-up room one finds to avoid meeting the hunting that mav and | those doors swing open otland {any further red tape as large & sum are | handed over te the datective for emar. e.|gency use as he mayv reed—and mora orie | added for good mensure Detective X those searches which to most people § | wonld seem the least interesting pro- n that the Scotland Y cedure in the world. Detectives were ers got little out of the following of Kitty This sent out to find parts of the country | | did not mean that she and her shadow iduot however, lover MAN-HUNTERS 1.—Scotla BY JOSEP nd Yard H GOLLOMBE hoy knows Scotland fiction Which the schoolhoy and Ahout VERY scho Yard fron means that all other lovars of fiction 4 world famous organization of criminal hunters have missed the better story a stroke « od for tune it has heen my privil writer to see from the inside the Sc land Yard of fact: to talk intimate with its chi {0 study at cl its crime-hunting machine it work al N tch and famous crimes d Jlhun that my sleer for nights: to gloomy “Bilack M its private recor of them for war articles. And Scotland Yard give it richer does Let us put an Seof Yard machi parts and workings by the way it spun A weh of steel from the merest gos samers of clues. It hegan with “hohby,” hest known, hest loved po liceman in the world, the hluecoat of London He, ton, is part of Seot land Yard, its uniformed man This particular hobhy recidential section of London, 1senm Ay ro iting 1 the the imour than act ase into the patrolied a neither | e - [} ws and found the fu skillfully Jock unknown had hasement doos scotched an up arm: strangled the without a power burned out the front window ason: robhed of refreshment nicked the len up I occupant however opened the mknown r stopped for a bi little Kitchen: and departed t wuy they had come, leaving ap parently little nothing for the to work on. This it that b owas done by practiced hands vear st stairs todate lone ot ful struge sufe door for n her med barrer fingerprint - man his black, white is < very doorkneh, doc window fram and closet panels, everywhere was likely to rest his hand eve instant He worked camel’s-hair edge. walls man for an away with his delicate brush, hoping at every fort that tiere would remain some fine lines of powder, which. delicate though they wre, often hang careless criminals. were fingerprints At the finger tips here enough: but a glanc REGISTR Ak'fl;ll ON *“DETECTIVE X, RESPLENDENT IN GARP_AND JEWELRY. WENT TO A FLASHY SPORTING HOTEL AND EN ROOMS FOR HIMSELF UNDER OOMSTADT, AMSTERDAM AND N GED A SUITE OF THE NAME OF ‘HENDRICK EW YORK.” -_— rich nor poor nor striking in any way. Which was the reason an elder- | 1y spinster, Mary Ennis, chose to live | there. She had reason for living in & colorless way in a colorless part of London, it developed Jater. Bhe had a small three-room flat in the upper story of a small brick house In a street full of small brick houses exactly like hers. The ground floor and basement she presumably tried to rant out, but the hobby who patrolled that street decided that she was diffi eult to please, for he ohserved that while people seemed ready to rent the place she chose none of them. . She was apparently a recluse, nobody called on her socially: ¢ a day servant and delivery boys et foot in the house. The n the heat learned these things just as a woman, by evervday study of her face, learns when the first’ wrinkle , arrives He knew every | house on his heat and the familiar aspect of its everyday fronts. for and a ) ARLY one morning when he came on his heat he noticed a slight difference in the aspect of Mary En- | nis' house. From the window of the | upper story where she lived fluttered the end of a curtaln. It was not a startling thing to ohserve. RBut it had been raining and. putting this to. gether with the fact that Miss En nis never kept this window apen even | on clear nights, the hobby started thinking, which London hobbies do 80 often that their fame is not sur prising When later. therefc that Miss Ennis did not morning newspaper and milk, which it was her habit to take | in exactly at 8:30 every morning. he | decided to ring her bell. No answer. | She may have gone away for a trip, | of course. But there was the curtain fluttering in the upper window The hohby then tried the front door, the hasement door and the back door | to her house. He noticed that she had | an exceptional number of locks on | her doors and very good ones-for all ot them held well—except one. This was on the door leading 1o the base. | ment in the rear. | The London hobby, like all police, has a traditional respect for the sanctity of the home against in vasion of any kind: and this hobby consulted his sergeant hefore entering Mary Ennis’ house. When he and his sergeant did enfer they found Mary Ennis strangled in her bed. a little wall safe of exceptional thick- burned open with an _ oxy torch, its contents looted nt window open with the eurtain hlowing | There was no telephone in the room, #0 the sergeant remained on the spot while the bobby sprinted to the near- @st police box and called up “Scotland Yard.” as the world knows it :mm.m Yard” as it is semi-officially Y he noticed take in her | hottle of | Rritish nown, and I D" or the “Crimi nal Investigation Department,” which is jts official name. With a brief but telling description, the bobby outlined what he had seen and thereby gave €. 1. D. an idea of what men and para- phernalia were to be hurried in a little green motor ear to the house of Mary Ennis A quarter of an hour later there ar. | would | nor | don s I,n! the mute victim told the Scotland Yard men the imprints were hers. They did get, however, shreds of im- prints that puzzled them. These were left for further study at the Yard. Photographs were aiso taken of the marks of a jimmy used on the base- ment lock. The method of forcing en- trance into the house was carefully noted. It would have puzzled an onlooker to see the eagerness with which the detectives studied, too, what the crimi nals ate from Miss Ennis’ larder, in the meal they calmly made themseives after strangiing her. Then, on the rug before the bed was found a bit of dried clay, such as be left by the stamping of a muddy shoe, This was not Scotland Yard men, hack with it and et the machinery of C. I D. to work on it. Their chemi cal experts analyzed the bit of dried clay to determine its source. It was not the mud of London's sidewalks, of the bit of garden through which the unknown _ecriminals had passed to enter Miss Ennis’ house. From thix it was deduced that the shae from which the bit of clay had dropped must have pressed hard into & hed of it somewhere outside of Lon- cuught some of it in the angle heel makes with the sole, where it 1 dried and then Aropped off in the course of a struggle in Mary Ennis’ room. a rich haul for the but they hurried th yived in Mary Ennis' flat a divisional inspector, a fingerprint man, a photographer ‘and a specialist in a certain category of crime hunting The four men busied themseives for Where the soil w== of such a composi tion as chemical analys showed t it of dried clay to be wot monotonous, uninspiring, do arch, wit= not even the incentive of much reward to it ze For even pl ¢ this investigation it vield the slenderes of clues an ative m however work those minute creptures build up coral iskinds has o thrill it own. And the search of Sc W Yard for the bed of mud w that flake of clay had come thrilled me perhaps more than flaxir-of-light ning intuition of Fr detectives which misses perhaps more often than ive ima Wl e he neh it hi Such the most characte Scotland Yard tience, the bulldog tenacity talent for tenmwork and lent of Scotland Yard for such effort e hunts have something of the in exorible quality of fate about them | * hing i one of procedures of With the the racial the tedious sear stic ANWIHILE S invest was e “h o she nd turn ne: it of looters. she neighborhood in nd lived air of gent wt up aRooms Tanks or broke {all her wealth into could keep in her them into cash as avert the attention chose the colorl which she had i To give her house impecunionsness, <he for Rent” sign, hut found excise keep them unrented. Xhe had no rela [ tives the police could find: no friends {and her business relitions were « fined to the few peopl: her daily provis “This line of in | vestigation, therefore, vielded Scot {land Yard nothing. Jewe hitt i ns. But there is a dark room in the reat, square, gloomy structure on the bankment, where ! studied |land Yard at work. Into this room | there huiried several departmental chiefs with whatever clues had {found fn Mary Ennig' room. Thes five men sat in tha pitch dark, while an operator adjustel a picce of partus at one end of it | Suddenly there was the | electric current through an are land a vivid white screen was reve: |on the wall. On this showed the in {tense shadows of the .operator’s fin | gers as he carefully placed some pho | tographs on the stanl of a reflecting | apparatus. There appeared hiss of an Tamp W on the screen the | vastly enlarged photographs, the shrewd-like imprints the fingerprint man had discovered with his powders {and camel’s hair brush. What were | they? Five experts ,in eriminal hunting | brought their combined intelligence to |bear on the peculiar shreds of im [ print now so huge on the screen. Fi nally their questionine minds agreed | on a solution. The me: who had mur dered Mary Ennis worked in street gloves. there was a seam open, not big enough to attract the attention of the w bhut enough open to hzave the pi of the finger leave a shred of imprint wherever it rested hard. Once this was decided, the photo graphs were hurriad to the finger- print bureau for plecing together and, if possible, identification. Fortunately the seam had shifted with the move- ment of the hand and the imprint left in several places was not always the same. It was in_ this same finger- print bureau that the whole scheme of identification by fingerprints was first developed by Sir Edward Henry, a for- mer head of Scotland Yard. A quarter of a milllon ningerprints of criminals were assembled there when I saw it; the cards so cleverly arranged that, given - fingerprint, it took only five minutes to find its coun terpart among those 250,000 different records. The shreds of imprint. when pieced together, gave part of a fingerprint. But it was so0 small n part that, abso- lutely individual as fingerprints are— no two individuals in the world give the same imprint—there was too littie on which to base an unmistakable identification. The most the bureau | could arrive at was to find seven dif- ferent fingerprints of which the shreds might form a part. T [ the dark room again the five experts studied new photographs of the marks made by the chisel or jimmy whereby the murderers forced entrance into Mary Ennis’ house. From the archives of the criminal in- vestigation department were brought other photographs taken with microscope camera lens of ¢ marks discovered on other casex. One by one these were com- pared with the newcomers Chisel edges show as individually ragged under a miscroscope as the bite of human teeth and can he as signlficant as fingerprints. But un- like the dents of teeth and the im- may change its mark if the chisel meets hard substance. So that here again the council in the dark room could arrive only at an approximate identification Meanwhile in another part of Scot- land Yard, under the supervision of a kindly, student type of a man, In- spector John Hendry, who was most kind in lending me records, another line of investigation was being car- ried on. Inspector Hendry has organized a most interesting system of classification. One thousand and more different kinds of crimes are here catalogued in classes, from A to 7, subdivided according to the technique smployed —arson, burglary, counterfeiting, alone. | led | On the finger= of one glove | arer, | | the deseription of how prints of fingers, the bite of a chisel | “THE | THE AND BOBRY NEAREST SPRINTED TO POLICE BOX PHONED ‘C. 1. D) WHICH { IS OTLAND YARD. A BRIEF BU TELLING DESCRIPTION OF WHAT who delivered ' and so on down the |alphabet of crime. Under burglary, for instance, there are further sub-| | aivisions—armed, bank, cutting bell | wires, rear of building entries, killing dog. wears gloves, wears mask, expert | [in ¥ alarms and 8o on and so | forth, i | For those of the underworld | las much creatures of habit and spe- | ation as the rest of the world. | too, are registered on the rec | mes any peculiarities connection with such | |erimes. The fact, for instance, that [« burglar will help himself to food | a house he is looting is a fact so familiar police that in Inspector | Hena remarkable catalog one finds n_notes of the particular foods that have appealed to different | bu s, | he hours of the burgli ully recorded here are day burglars and evening bhurgl who work between the dinner hony and the hour of return from theater; and there are the bhurgls who work in the dead of night In this office, too, are classifications |of criminals along every striking line | |of description; men ov x feet tall; | men with red hair; women who wear | widow's weeds; stutterers; left-handed | | men. theft st | disco in to fes are | care | tignt | dry. therefore, studie the murderers | Ennis’ house: how | how they opened | had eaten in | Ingpector T into Mary had killed her the safe, and what they her kitchen. No wonder the face of the Scotland Yard man had lit up when he found that two pots of Mary Ennis’ jam were consumed For in| Inspector Hendry's records there were several burglars who were fond of gooseberry Jam. From the study of the Ennis mur- derel method of entry and work Inspector Hendry proceeded to study other records in his catalog. Twelve |ecards were then taken out of their cases and the records on each noted down for comparison. R M WHILE from the Fingerprint Bureau had come their seven rds as contribution to possible iden- tifications. Other rep too, were drifting in‘from the patiently plodding searchers for the place of origin of the bit of dried mud found in Mary Ennis’ room. rom the compa | bearing possible identities that would match the clues in the Ennis case there resulted a narrowing down of the search. Seven men had records into which might fit the fragments of descriptions, Then followed another | these seven one was dead. One was in Pentonville Prison at that very | moment. One was on parole, and his record showed that he was undoubted- Iy turning over a new leaf. Four re- mained still possible factors. One of these had a sweetheart living near Dorking, as the record showed. Among the places reported as show- ing a clay composition like that of the bit found on the scene of the murder Dorking was one. Therefore Jim Sully, alias “Red” Sully, allas several other names, whose finger prints might contain the fragment of finger print | found in the Knnis murder; whose method of dead-of-night burglary was recorded in Scotland Yard as similar to the entry in question; whose fond- ness for food, especially jam, while at his predatory work was already noted in Inspector Wandry’s catalog; the marks of whose. chisel on previous jobs resembled those in the Ennis case—in short, whose whereahouts were un- known, but who had a sweetheart in Dorking—was now studied from the photographs in the Rogues' Gallery of Scotland Yard He's elected!” the council decided. Immediately wheels of other parts of the Scotland Yard machine began to whir. At a peculiar-looking kew hoard a_telegraph operator began tap- ping a key marked “A. §."—meaning “all stations.” | broke they on of the cards sifting. Of “SUDDENLY THE APPARENTLY DRUNKEN DUTCHMAN MADE A LIGHTNING MOVE WITH HIS RIGHT HAND TOWARD HIS POCKET, AND CAUGHT A HAND IN IT THAT DID NOT BE- LONG THERE.” | whol | work | every day | ing pol i police stations suburbs a machine be paper tape a Jim iy, In the various throughout London and corresponding tickerlike gan to click out on a typewritten description of his appearance, his records, his char acteristics, some of his habits, the kind of clothes he usually wore, his the pla he frequented and other information yout him In half an hour more than 20.000 hobbies nd other | wad his description fresh in mind, and the hunt spread wide In another part of Scotland Yard unlike any picture usually con nected with a police institution, miniature newspaper office was Here published two newspapers, one morn one noon, the latter al editions one bi-weekly, one weekly, and several that are issued as o sion demands. None of these is for the general public and none for saie. The Morn- Report is the morning daily, Printed Information the afternoon paper. Both are i trated wjth phw- tographs and carry the latest news under the following captions: ““Want- d for Crime,” “In Custody for Crime," voperty Stolen,” “Persons or Bodies ‘ound,” ““Persons Missing” and “Ani- mals Lost or Stolen. Every Tuesday and Friday there is published, too, in that Scotland Yard newspaper office the famous Po- lice Gazette, which is sent to the e chiefs of every city in the British empire and to many others. It is, like the others, a modest four- page affair, well jilustrated with pho- tographs, and has correspondents all over the world. On Tuesdays it lays stress on deserters from the army and navy; on Fridavs it devotes itselt exclusively to crime and criminals, Still another of this string of peri- odicals is the Illustrated Circular, devoted to the movements of wan- dering crooks. A certain gentleman who specializes in breaking into ware- houses leaves Liverpool for Bradford. The correspondent from Liverpool, its chief of police, whose interest in this gentleman’s movements is considera- ble, finds the storv important enough to telegraph it 10 the Illustrated Cir- cular. When the Bradford subscriber to this periodical reads this item he, too, is interested, even though the article in question is brief: “Henry Bolks, alias the Cardiff Kid, alias_Punkey kas left Liverpool for Bradford. Breaks into warehouses.” Still other periodicals emanating from this unique newspaper office are the Weekly List of Habitual Crim- inals, devoted to names and descrip- tions of that gentry just released from prison; the Black List, issued for saloonkeepers and containing rames and photographs of those habitual drunkards to whom it is for- bidden to sell liquor; the Pawnbrokers’ List and the Cycle List, circulated among those likely to give informa- tion on stolen goods. The detailed description, an excel- lent photograph, full face and profile of Jim Sully, therefore, appeared as the leading story in several of the above newspapers. Bundles of these were thrown into small closed green motor cars and hustled to all police stations, Others were mailed through- out. the United Kingdom. Thereafter police had an actual photograph to help them in keeping an intereated eye open. associs res x ok % ANWHILE {n Dorking a sharp- eyed young woman, who seemed live quietly, but in exceptional comfort, without working, kept her keen eyes and wits about her. Wherever she went she made it her practice to look Into shop windows. Now that is not a remarkable pra tice for young women. What~ was remarkable, however, did not meet the eve. For this young woman's gaze, while seemingly and naturally straying toward whatever mirrors the shop windows contained, was rarely concentrated on the jmage of her pretty self. No one could possibly tell that instead of admiring herself she was on the lookout in those mirrors for the faces of others. Kitty Pearce knew something about being shadowed by the police, and still_more about how to spy in turn on her shadows. Just now she had particular reason for being on guar less on her own account than an other’s. But keen as were her eyes and wits, and often as she stopped to look at the mirrors in shop windows, as well as in the pale reflections in windowpanes when there were no mir- rors, she saw no face that she re- membered seeing often enough to arouse her suspicion. evertheless Scotland Yard was on her trail; and if a bright intelligence Iike hers did not recognize the fact, it was due to Scotland Yard's system ot shadowing. Detective A was the first to follow Kitty Pearce. Behind him trailed Detective B. Behind the latter followed Detective C. Only A, however, kept his eyes on Kitty. But when he saw her keen interest in shop windows he was not deceived. So before his face should become familiar he gave a secret sign and dropped out of sight. At once Detective B hurried forward and took his place. He, too, knew the real reason why Miss Kitty preened her- self so often in shop windows. So he stayed only a short while on her trail and soon gave the secret sign to Detective C and, in turn, dropped out of sight. In this way none of the Scotland Yard men ap- peared often enough within range of Kitty's eves to arouse even her alert suspicio But Kitty Pearce did not trust to the evidence of her eyes, keen though they were. Much as she desired to #0e her sweetheart, Jim Sully, he apd she found it wise for weighty. \ to licemen in civilian clothes | both | worked of touch with each other exnerienced in the art o in spite of police | were out | Both were | communication | surveillance. ot more fruitful were slmilar | | stealthy " doggings of several othe men and women. marked on Scotlan Yard records as friends and of Jim Sully. Instead of f luck was against them land Yard took the of their average sociates | ng that however. failures percentage part | sucee It is only In fiction that tive lands fish on his line at the or second cast. Shall we fore. that fictic success thrilling to contemplate than the suc cess that comes with dogged, re! less effort in the face failure?” Finally Scotland Yard chiefs de | cided that if they could not catch up | with Jim Sully it might be worth try ing to get Jim Sully to come to them Into the council room at the Yard ¢ morning there were summoned half a dozen detectives, chosen for the phlegmatic appearance the detec fivst here more | ted of repeated of the six was given the sam play—that «f a Dutchman | in picking up bargains in no questions asked | he was in the company among whom there were ) trade, and was asked cordir Of these six one in the role. From | this operator went to the room of Scotland Yard. The when det < used false hezrds a " m Iy, terested jewels and that was told of e sibilities | TURN ON HER SHADOWS.” |of tr | tric paraphernalia of the dressing the theater—no wigs, paints, or “props’ in the stage the word. But one does remarkable collection of tumes aning of b of bricklayers and hook plun and min Salvation Army diers and ol re stolen of stock com undert ntlemen of leisire barkeepers, doctors, elec s, newspaper hundreds of up the myriad | London ion the prospective ts photographs of several orizinals of tne role he is Our man picked to play Dutch receiver of stelen jewels 18 to stud characte the cut of the absence of orr are ceivers of aods pany actors perfum dance and the SwAarm in every-d From this colles detectives assume the him anted made vhat he w Fad a suit 1sion Scotland London Detective 1 in the loud garb of a Dutch- 1 more than flourishing circum sstied from the swagger jew th a blazii one finger ral emeralds on an other, a great gold watch chain and resplendent watch and charm, a huge black pearl in his cravat and a dia mond stud in his shirt bosom In the office of Frederick Thomas, cuperiritendent of the central office of Scotland Yard, I saw a big iron safe elry shop w or sev “KITTY PEARCE KNEW SOMETHING ABOUT BEING SHADOWED BY THE POLICE, AND STILL MORE ABOUT HOW TO SPY IN mustaches have passed even in| cheapest detective fiction. But that | does not mean that disguises are not | employed in Scotland Yard. Indeed Time the S MAUDE C. LUKENS. PERSON named Time—Father Time he is commonly lled— started no end of trouble away back in_the beginning of things. Until he appeared there was nothing to worry about, some to spare; not just minutes, hours or days, but eons. And now man has refined time to the point where a small fraction of a second can be recorded and used Poor Richard said: “Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.” Time, so vital in every activity of lite, 'is something there is seldom time to think about, and vet it has occupied the hours and thoughts of sclentists and poets from the begin- ning. Aristotle, in the fourth century be- fore Christ, defined time as a “meas- ure of motion with reference to the earlier and later.” Latterly time has been defined in two ways—absolute (real or mathematical) and subjective or empirical. Newton held that time is conceived as flowing at a constant rate, unaffected by speed or slowness of motion of material things. The modern view of time is that it is es- sentially subjective, and even the standards of time regarded as most fixed and stable, such as astronomical time, are held o be purely ideal con- struction. Al of which does not make it any plainer why “time and tide wait for no man.” Since the world is becoming more and more standardized in every re- spect, there fa a_positive movement abroad to make 13 months of 28 days each out of the present vear. The new month would be sandwiched in between June and July, and the extra day of leap year become ap interna- tional holiday at the end of June. This plan, now before the League of Nations, would make all holidays stat®nary and prevent Easter, in particular, from wandering about all over the calendar. If a month were quietly handed out all around, what would be the re- sult? It is said that Lord Chester- field decided the 1st of January, 1751, should be dated 1752, as before that the new year had dated from Easter, instead of January 1. His decree provoked such & riot that the worthy gentleman was almost cut to shreds to the cry of “Give us back our three montha’ ‘When the present century was ush- ered in, it became the topic of in- ternational correspondence. Did it begin January 1, 1900, or January 1, 19017 Time units become more valuable and important as life becomes more complex. From sun dial, water clock, sand and candle time we have evolved to the present accurate time clocks. For these clocks, credit be- longs to Galileo, who discovered that pendulums were isochronous or equi- time swinging. It is interesting to note that this occurred while he was a student in Pisa. Sitting one day in church, he watched the chande- liers swinging first through a greater arc then through a smaller one, Wondering if the same length of time was required by all the excursions, he verified the fact by the only one- dimensional time measure at his command—his pulse. That discovery made present clocks and watches possible, as until that time clocks had what 1€ known as balance or for there was time for everything and | vetge: sacgpemants. ; fred ithe reat of England candle-time. Dellrh‘m.tn -devote tWo-thirds-of his time to the and when its doors swung open I caught a glimpse of considerable sums of gold and money. When a detective goes out on a bit tuff of Life work of translating from the Latin for his people, and one-third to sleep, he was at a loss to distinguish th dividing point. Casting about for some means of measuring the intef- vals in the natural division of a day he found that four candles of a cer- tain size would burn for 24 hours. hus by cutting notches in the can- dles at intervals a rough estimate could be obtained of the passing hours. There are many people who blithe- Iy announce that they take their own time about things. But is it their own time, if, for instance, some one is kept waiting 15 minutes? Can those minutes ever be returned? It is a thing to ponder while in the midst of New Year resolutions. To each man is made exactly the same allotment of this stuff which stretches from infinity to infinity and is called time. Intriguing investigations that use time as a base were carried on dur- ing the months of October and No- vember,” 1926. The United States Coast and Geodetic Survey collaborat- ed with some 30 nations of the world in an effort to determine the stability of continents, and time errors down to an almost infinitesimal fraction of a second were reckoned. ever before in the history of the world has a scientific problem been attacked with the degree of co-opera- tion that this one attained. The two reasons for this work briefly are: First, to furnish an accurate network of longitude stations around the world, and second, to furnish means of testing the theory of the so-called Wegener process. This theory is that Europe and Africa were once joined to America, and that gradu- ally this continent drifted westward and is still drifting. Thus, if the present relative posi- tions of the continents can be de- termined, the process repeated in 5 or 10 years, the yearly slippage can | be readily computed. This theory, if proven, will account for many curious facts; for one thing, the now discon- nected geological similarity of con- tinents, and also that of marsupial animals. For the testing of this stability of continents and the securing of base | longitude and astronomic stations | radio was an important factor. Time | signals were sent out from a chain of stations stretching around the world. These were located in Belle- vue, D. Honolulu, Saigon, French Indo-China, the Eiffel Tower, in Paris, and Annapolis. Local clocks were timed with the stars, and when radio signals from two contiguous stations were received comparisons were eas- ily made and the longitude correctly determined. Another iInteresting experiment ‘where time was the foremost item has just been completed by Prof. A. A. Michaelson of the Mount Wilson ob- servatory, in California. The Coast and Geodetic Survey fur- nished Prof. Michaelson with an exact measurement of the distance between two peaks, a distance of just 22 miles. The object was to determine if it were possible to measure to an exacti- tude the time required by light in, traveling short distances. As it has always been reckoned that light travels 186,000 miles a second, it is not difficult to imagine that 22 miles would be bridged very quickly. The distance given Prof. Michaelson by the Coast Survey was correct to within three inches, and it took light just one-four-thousandth of a second to travel the course and return, 1 a | that diamond ring | | the Dutchman releas | and told him to buy himself a drink , roll of Bank of Eng h to cause paly most_people was now given land notes big enou tation of the heart * Then Detective X, resplendent i b and jewelry, went to a flashy sporting hotel and enzaged a respien dent suite of rooma for himself under the name “Hendrick Oomstadt, Am terdam and New York." That eve ning he sallied forth to several cafes and dancing resor's whers the upper nd under worlds touch houndaries After a bit of solitary drinking ach round he paid chowily out of h phantine roll of bille—he became exceedingly hospitable and invited eral favored individuals to drink witl hir hese individuals responded with alacrity than with caution secmed more interssted in the than in his hospitality Ry QUDDENLY the apparently drunken , Dutchman made | with his right h nd caught a b » lightning move nd toward his pocket nd in it that did belong there, a light fingered hand he {longing to & slim soung man. Thers | was taneous scuffle and the Dutchman's other ghests arose and | surrounded i hand s rammed deep in his poc and pocket bulged siznificantly. T} bulge had a circular tip to it. “Yust vou fellows keep aw my money!" the Dutchman I don't want the pohless, |tamn, but I don't want ne trouhia from you, neither. If vou want n money, vou got to gif me someth |1 want for it, see? | Whether it was due to the weap: in his pocket or to his words ab not wanting the police, the effect nr the others was instantaneous. Their hostility relaxed and their interest in the man changed. Tmmediately afte: d the pickpocke: t ¥ fron growlsd not ps with a bill he tossed to him, the at mosphere in the group that remained became almost friendly. And the voices of all dropped to that of con fi tial exchange. “Just what Is it money, Dutchy?" man. The film of drink left the Dutch- man’s eyes. “Vell, I like to wear lots und lots of chewelry, as you can see,” he sald, looking the other straight and sig- nificantly in the eves. “Und &o long as the chewelry is goot and handsome I pays goot prices und asks no ques tio) See?"" ’ The other “saw.” He took off a ring of modest value and handed it over. ‘“How about this?” he asked the Dutchman. The other's face expressed deep dis gust. “I said ‘chewelry,’ not drinketa' If you got something wort’ while both- * ering with, call on me at the Sport- ing Arms In Two days later the keen-eyed voung fellow called on the Dutchman at the hotel and offered for sale a ring, this time of more impressive value. It was honestly bought of a respectabia Jeweler, though not necessarily with honestly acquired money. But the Dutchman was being tested He drove a knowing bargain, paying less for it than the keen-eyed man had paid for it. But the latter seemed satisfied, as it was a good price for a “fence” or receiver of stolen goods to pay. you want for your asked a keen-eyed * ok ok OR two weeks the Dutchman was shadowed by various gentry. Then as his movements seemed to ba satisfactory to prospective customers, there came to him one day by way of the keen-eved man several pleces of jewelry for sale, of rather consid- erable value. The look of phlegm on the Dutchman's face was a bit of art; for he recognized the jewels from a description he had been carrying about with him. “‘Pretty goot!” the Dutchman said. “But I'm leafing soon und I am keeping my money for some big deal or another. I'm after some goot col lection and I don't want to divide my money in several leedle bits.” The other pondered a while. "I think I can put you next to some- thing good—if you'rs going far from Sngland after you buy it,” he sald A ftriend of mine has it.” “Vell, T haf to haf it pretty quick, as I leave day after tomorrow. Bet ter I bring vour friend here, so we don't lose time." The other's eves narrowed slightly. Vo, I will bring it myself.” The Dutchman shrugged his shoul ders. “Makes no difference who brings it, so long as I see it befors I sall for Australia day after tomor- row. The other man returned that after. noon with an impressive collection ot jewelry. 1In the privacy of the Dutch man’s room—with the windows heav 1y curtained—the Dutchman, after a long examination, offered a_price 0o good to turn down without discussion, but too low to accept without a con sultatign with the “owner” of the Jewels.” And with true Dutch ohsti-, nacy he held to his offer. The other debated with himself for a while Then, going to the window, he raised the shade and lowered it twice. Five minutes later thers was knock on the door and a heavy-sho: dered man entered in reply to ! “Come in!" His quick green eyes darted about the room, noting each door and closet. He was Introduced to the Dutchman as “Mr. Smith.” The Dutchman and Mr. Smith then en tered into some close and expert bar gaining. Suddenly, without a knack. a youns fellow burst into the room. Mr. Smith and his friend, the keen-eyed man sprang to their feet and clapped their hands on their hip pockets. But ths newcomer paid no attention te them “Mr. Oomstadt, Mr. Oomstadt!" ha gasped. “There's a lot of men coming » up the stairs to get you and I'm afrald they’re going to search you!" Mr. Oomstadt leaped up, his face working with alarm. “How many?" he gasped. “Are they armed. Hans?" “Four and I think they are! Mr. Oomstadt seemed to have for- gotten his visitors. Down the corri- dors came the sound of heavy feet “They mustn't find anything on me!” Oomstadt gasped, thrusting the jewels back Into Smit Smith seemed equally anxious. on me, by cripes!” he growled. my gun, nor yours, Jerry!" With lightning speed he thrust the jewels and the two revolvers, his own and Jerry's, into a large brass cuspt dor and replaced the cover. But he * remained near it. After an imperious knock, five seriouss powerful men entered. A look flashed between Oomstad and their leader. “Jim Sully, vow're under ar— the leader began. Like the strike of a snake Jim Sul shot his hand to the cuspidor reach for his revolver. But Oom stadt knocked him to the floor and a moment later two men had pinned Sully and his friend and had them handcuffed. Two months later the two were explating the murder of Mary Ennis. (Copyright. 1927.) NEXT WEEK. Next week’'s article in this serles on “Master Man Hunt- Gollomb, will Knife Talk.” tective story will take the reader to Vienna, thing Baiqus, n that 1 beers [ g unique, at in_totch with the univarsi heads, It a « ! s ‘