Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1935, Page 36

F THER HERHAT JULIE ANNE MOORE INSTALLMENT XXIV. ELMA RUNBRECKER had van- ished. A telephone call from Carl early next morning gave Rita the news and before noon Senator Runbrecker visited Mollie at the Globe and expressed the fear she had been kidnaped. The Senator was a sick man, men- tally and physically. He told Mollie that if anything happened to Selma he would blow his brains out. And Mollle knew this was not & wild threat; it was a simple statement of fact. “She was unhappy about Carl Balmer,” Mollie said, “and in all probability has gone off somewhere to get it oyt of her system. Nothing will happeh to her, Senator.” Nevertheless, when the Senator had gone, Mollie went to see her friend at police headquarters. “All I want,” she informed him, “is perhaps a word whispered to one or two of your men. But officially you know nothing about i : When Mollie was leaving, the offic gave her a copy of what the police had said was a diary, found in Wells’ room. There were 24 single-spaced typewritten pages. It was not in any sense a diary but a clumsily written autobiography. When she had read it through, she went back and checked and re-read passages she found particularly interesting. The portions she checked follow: “I was born in Madrid, Spain, Sep- tember 22, 1903. Before I was a year old I was taken to Cairo, Egypt, where my father, a surgeon of some standing, was in charge of a large private hospital. I was always curi- ous about what went on in my father's operating room, and when I was 6 I climbed up to the transom of & small room off the operating room end watched, with considerable hor- ror, I must admit, a complete autopsy. It was a full year before I again ven- tured to return to my secret place. But the interval had given me new courage and by the time I was 12 years old I had witnessed at least 50 major operations, and several au- topsies. “In time I was not only hardened by these experiences but developed & great eagerness to try my own hand at this fascinating business. During my father’s absence from the hospital I inveigled a young neighbor boy into the operating room where I chloro- formed him, pulled off his clothes and had made a three-inch incision in his left side when my father, returning unexpectedly, found me there. Under his able care the boy recovered. I was thoroughly whipped, but I think my father was interested by the dis- covery that I was disposed to follow his footsteps, for after that he fre- quently talked to me about both medicine and surgery. “But about this time two events occurred that definitely turned me sgainst any orderly career. My mother, whose own mother had died in an insane asylum, went stark mad and after several months of infinite pa- tience on my father's part was re- moved to an institution. The second event took place shortly after my mother’s commitment. ing with a boy of about my own age and size, an elderly man interfered and in a rage I drew a pocket knife and stabbed him several times in the back. For this I was tried for as- sault and only my father’s plea saved me from a term in a house of correc- tion.” q There followed an account of the —a sleek high- cut calfskin, or soft "bucko®™ with trim, buckled strap! Watch it at the smartest rac- ing events! Easy } ~ walking last, and important 1%-:nch built-up 1leather heels,also Kiltie- - tongue and Ghillie | styles. 9 5 Fafwine 0t/ While fight- ‘boy Fuhrmars next three years which were spent in a military school. TFhen, after a year of travel, he was sent to Oxford with the expectation that on his graduation he would begin the study of medicine. . “It was generally believed now that I had undergone a reformation, and perhaps I had, for while I had defi- nitely decided long ago not to be a physician, I had also come to realize that the intelligent person does not openly defy society’s laws. “In my third year at Oxford I at- tended a series of lectures on crimi- nology and was so impressed that I promptly set about writing & book which I called ‘The: Police Are Pup- pets” What I sought to prove was that the modern method of detection was a formula which was so narrow in scope that a half-wit who had enough brains to understand the simple formula could safely commit any number of major crimes and escape punishment. I wrote the book under the nome de plume ‘Dr. Chez- zlee’ and mailed it to a firm of publish- ers with a note saying I would not, for obvious reasons, reveal my identity but that they were welcome to the manuscript, gratis, if they cared to print it. “To my surprise they did publish it and there was an immediate howl of protest which found expression chiefly in letters to the daily news- papers. And now, stirred by this re- action, I began writing a second book which I called ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Chezzlee’ This was pure fiction and my only object in writing it was to further irritate those who had been aroused by my first book. It was offered as an autobiographical record of the fictitious Dr. Chezzlee, who was then supposed to be living in Lon- don, to prove the arguments of his earlier work. Dr. Chezzlee was pic- tured as a man then nearing his 85th birthday and at least half the book was taken up with an experiment in murder” he claimed to have made in Bombay, India, 40 years before. told how he had selected three promi- nent persons in the city of Bombay, had written each when and under what circumstances he was to die and then had proceeded to kill them according to specifications. And then, in the person of Dr. Chezzlee, I de- tailed how, since the good doctor had taken care to leave none of the con- ventional clues witheut which the police are invariably baffied, the police | had made no headway whatever in their investigation.” Fuhrman then told how, before the Pluilipal:om 11* Stasey B Barwask F&-G 1 THE EVENING STAR, WASHINGTON, D. C, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 3, 1935. book was finished, he was called home because of the death of his mother. How, within 24 hours after his arrival his father suffered a stroke and was dead before morning; of his decision not to return to Oxford and of his keen disappointment when he discov- ered his father had not left him his sizable fortune outright, but had pro- vided a trust fund from which he was to be paid 2,500 pounds & year. “During the months that I re- mained in Cairo to await finnl settle- ment of my father’s estate, I completed ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Chezzlee.’ Returning to England I mailed my completed manuscript to the publish- ers of my first book, again concealing my identity. The success of the book was almost instantaneous. More than a quarter of a million copies were sold in the first 40 days. Though it was the thinnest fiction, it was received as a true record and rumor had it that Scotland Yard was combing the whole of England for the elusive 85-year-old Dr. Chezzlee.” He recorded various petty events in his unregulated life in England and devoted considerable space to his numerous amours both in England and on the Continent, gradually lead- ing up to his sudden decision to go 1o the United States and seriously ap- ply himself to the study of criminology at the University of Chicago. Then: “My only purpose in going to Wash- ington was to see the city, but before I had been there a week I knew that I should never see the University of Chicago. There were two reasons for this. First, it ‘'had beer. on my con- science for some time that while I had had the courage to present cer- tain unpopular convictions in ‘The Police Are Puppets,’ I had not had the courage to put them to the test. Since I had none of the average weakling’s sensitiveness to violent death and none of society’s prejudices against premeditated murder, I determined to make an actual test. “The second reason for my decision to remain in Washington was that I met a charming young woman, the daughter of a Senator, and through her good offices secured a place as secretary to a New England Con- gressman, and two years later be- came her. father’s secretary.” At this point in Fuhrman Wells’ personal record there was noticeable & distinct change in style. No longer did he lapse into long involved sen- tences. It was as if he wrote now with effort, forcing himself to the task. “I was in love now. For the first time in my life I was really in love. My projected experiment. seemed no | longer important. The Senator was rich and politically powerful. We knew he would object to an alliance between his daughter and his secre- tary. Our affair, therefore, remained GIVE A HAND TO & secret from the world, And it was all the sweeter because of the secrecy that surrounded it. Had 1t continued, my plan to prove that the police are fools would have been permanently discarded. However, it did not con- tinue. “Out of a clear sky the young wom- an in question informed me she did not love me. When I tried to dis- cover the cause of this sudden change of heart, she grew angry. She said I was twice her age. which I was not, called me ugly, stupid and ridiculously vain and presumptuous,to think that she cared for me. Soon after I learned there was another man. He was a younger man than I—e man of ex- traordinary physique and a most in- gratiating manner. “Por almost a year I suffered in silence. Perhaps I thought that I would ultimately win her over again. I do not know. I know only that it came to me at last that I had lost her. And almost in the same moment of that realization I found myseli think- ing of my experimen: in crime again. And now I thought no longer of vic- tims yet to be selected. The Senator, his son and his duaghter were ideal subjects for my little laboratory dem- onstration. < “To_give the police every advan- tage, I decided to follow the plan us I had given it in ‘The Strange Case of Dr. Chezzlee” Each of my victims was to know that he, or she, was to be murdered, in what manner and where his, or her, body was to be dis- covered. The son should be stabbed with an ice pick and his body left in A Complete Set of At- tachments in Exchange for Your Old Cleaner... If You Purchase This Rebuil¢ E De Luxe l For Only $39.50 —You need no longer tolerate the inefficiency of your old cleaner, when you can get this rebuilt Eureka at such a low price. It is a most efficient cleaner—see it, WOOL-BARS* He | ONLY *TRADE MARK Madrid, open-shonk san- dal of suede with brood strap. 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