New Britain Herald Newspaper, December 8, 1922, Page 22

Qriumphs of 7 M.Jongquelle | by MerviLLe DavigsoN PosT ® 1092 NEA Service, THE TRIANGULAR HYPOTH Begin Here Today The mysteroius man, DERNBURG PASHA, citizen of the Turkish Empire, has been mur- dered in 'Paris and the Ottoma; government demands reparation fol his deatth, A M, JONQUELLE, greatest of French detectives, fognd that Dernburg met his death in the library of his home, his throat was slashed and the white squares in the checkerboard floor were spotted with blood-—ap- | parently the trail of the escaping assassin, The Turk Envoy called on Mr, Jon- quelle. “What was Dernburg doing Paris?” M. Jonquelle demanded. in Go On With the Story CHAPTER II. The Envoy's eyes narrowed. He' looked at Jonquelle a moment as in a furtive inquiry. ¢*I do not,” he sald. “What was his mission in Paris, monsieur?” “You will be surprised, to learn it."” continued the Prefect of Police. “Dernburg was undertaking to falsi- fy a work of art. It was a very re- markable work of art, and one of value. The persons who originally produced this work of art expended aj great sum of money, an almost in- credible sum of money to perfect it. If one could falsify: it successfully, one could make a fortune at the ven- ture. Dernburg knew this. “He had| thought about it for a long time. He had conducted a great number of ex- periments. Finally he was satisfied that the thing could be successfully done ,and he came here from Stam- boul, took this abandoned house in the Faubourg ' St. Germain, brought with him his devices, and prepared to undertake the great'@hlng which he had in mind. Then, monsieur, ze- fore the thing could be accomplished, the mysterious visitor appeared; and this morning is dead.” It was evident that the " Oriental was profoundly puzzled. ‘I do not undefstand - you, mon- sieur,” he said. “You say that Dern- burg Pasha had perfected a method by which he intended to falsify a work of art?” *Yes, monsieur.” L “Phen he was called upon by one who knew of this method and wished to rob him of it¥ “No, monsieur,” “Then by those to whom the origin- el of the art belonged, and wished to prevent this falification?” “No monsieus,” meplied the Prefect of Police. “Dernburg Pasha's death resulted from & sense of despair.” Jonquelle took his hand from his pocket, revealed the thing upon which This, fingers had closed when. he sat down to this conference. He opened his hand 8o that the thing was visible. It looked like & little: square box of some whité substance, as of marble or chalk ar glabaster. It was not larger than two inches square. It was, per- haps, an inch thick, made in two pieces. There was a tiny hole, like a keyhole, with a beveled, edge, on the line where these pieces joind. The box had & heavy rubber band about it. It lay for a moment exposed in the paim of Monsleur_.lonquelle's hand. *1 have here,” he said, “the thing that was the cause of this man's death. It was also the cause of his mistortunes leading up to this fatal morning. It has ben an’ obsession with him. In the German Empire he undertook this thing. His design was discovered, and. he fled to Tur- key. But he took his obsession with him, and when the war was ended, he saw a method of getting an in- demnity out of France with it—a method by which he could enrich himself at the cost of I'rance. He worked out his plan carefully; he came to Paris; he got this house. He was ready to put his plan.into effect when, unfortunately, for him, the mysterious visitor of last night ap- peared. “Dernburg was shrewd, unscrupu- Jous and farsighted, But he was not shrewd enough, and he was not far- sighted enough. The stranger, who came to see him last night, knew all about him, knew every detail of his activities, knew the big plan that he had in mind. He had watched him, had followed his career. He knew the very day that he came to Paris. He knew his object in taking this empty house in the Faubourg St. Germain. He knew every _step of the secret arrangements whieh Dern- burg had perfected for the carrying out of his scheme; and at the oppor- tune hour he entered this shouse. These are the facts, monsicur, which 1 have accurately ascertained, which are true beyond doubt.” ‘And so,” said the Orienttal, ‘this mysterious stranger finally ran Dern- burg Pasha to earth here and killed him.” The Prefect of Police arrested the man's discourse with a gesture. “You travel, monsieur,” he said, “a point beyond my conclusions. Do we know that this midnight visitor is the assassin? We must consider the evidences as they are presented to 8." 5 “The evidences are conclusive of this fact,” replied the Envoy, “it cir- cumstantial evidences can ever be conclusive of a murder, Here is the opportunity, the quarrel, the dead man remaining in the library, blood- drops falling from the weapon on this drawing room floor as he hastily crossed it, and the escape over the wall of the garden. “But, monsieur,” said the Prefect of Police, “where is the motive? The writers on the value of indicatory evi- dences,in the investigation of a crimi- nal case, tell us that there should be time, opportunity and motive. The time, monsieur, and the opportunity are here, plainly indicated; but the motive? Where shall we look for that?" The Oriental turned, as with an in- spiration, in his chair. 2 Y “Why, monsieur,” he said, ‘you spoke at considerable length upon the motive You seemed to know it quite well . You conceal, as you have indicated, the somewhat mysterious evidence of it in your hand." “Quite true, monsieur,” replied the Prefect of Police! “but you will ob- | what you are pleased to call ‘this con- 74 serve that it is I who am familiar with this motive, It is I who have Inc crete evidence' in my hand, And at brings me to an interesting hy- thesis with three phases fo be con- ered. Let us consider them, mon- sleur! I pame them in the order in which they occur to me: first, mon- sieur, that 1 killed the mdn; second, that you killed him; and third, that the agency that Kkilled Dernburg Pasha is no longer living in. thig world."” The Oriental turned face contracted and tense, voice firm, “Very well, monsieur,” he “whither do these suggestions you?" Jdonquelle continued in volce, “To arrive at that” he said, *we must first consider the evidences which have'led you to believe that his his suddenly, but said; lead an even “YOU CANNOT MEAN THAT DERNBURG PASHA WAS MUR- DERED BY A DEAD MAN.” Dernburg was killed by the man with whom he quarreled last night in the library. Now, if you please, mon- sieur ,we will look a little at the in- dicatory signs.” He paused. “There is always this disturbing feature about circumstantial evidence, the trick of pointing in the direction that one is going . If one has a con- clusion, one will find that the circum- stantial evidence supporta it. You have a theory, monsieur,™ that this visitor was Dernburg's assassin, and consequently, to you, the indicatory evidences will turn themselves about in order to support thegthéory which I maintain. Take, for €Xample, these blood-drops on the marble floor of the drawing rom. In support of your theory, they have fallen by hazard from the assassin’s knife in his flight, and you would cite them as confirma- tory of your theory. “‘Now, monsieur, I would cite them also as confirmatory of mine. “You will observe that each of these seven hlood-drops has fallen on a white square of this checkered marble floor. There is no. drop of blood on a black square. Why, mon- sieur, “should these drops appear only on the white squares? I consider that fact with my theory in mind, and I conclude that they so. appear be- cause the one who placed them there wished them to be seen. = We cafinot conceive that he would undertake to create evidence against himself. And ft is beyond our conception 'of coin- cidence that each of these seven blood drops should, by accident, have fallen precisely on a white square when there was an equal number of hlack squares intervening. Therefore, monsfeur, .these evidences did not come by chance; they came by de- sign.” He continued like one who recites the detalls of a formula: “I find my theory also confirmed at a farther point me, when I inquired, that the assassin, after fleeing room into the escaped by climbing over since the gate was nailed up and had been so naitled up for a Now, monsieur, I caused this wall to be examined, coated over with dust, has any of this dust been removed; consequently the assassin ] NEW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, FRIDAY, DECEMBER 8§ 1922. wound Is no lon world" or did you, or was he, in fact mur. dered- at all?" The Orlental looked at the man in a sort of wonder, ‘He was surely murdered,” he said, The Prefect of Police spoke e oné. in some reflection, It is by no means certain," Envoy, escape by ellmbing over the wall, forl If he had underttaken to eclimb the wall- at any point, his body, in that labor, would have removed the coat- ing of dust, You see, monsieur, I do not find your indicatory evidences designed to support your theory, They seem rather conclusively to es- | tablish my own.” He made a vague gesture as though to dismiss the matter, “And so, monsieur, we find our. selves before the triangular hypothe. not (sis! Did I murder Dernburg Pasha, You explained to this drawing garden, had the wall, through walled long time, in our next LINCOLN'S ¥ “One may be dead without having been murdered” replied the Prefect of Police. “It is possible that ihe hand that gave Dernburg Pasha his mlullguw‘n' a nelghb The whole top of it is At no ,point did I — WONDER CLOTHES SHOP — Retiring The Turkish Envos made clamation of surprige, “You cannot mean that Pasha was murdered by a dead man!" (The concluding installment of this adventure of M, Jonquelle will appear sue,) Bellingham, Wash,, Dec, ger alive 1n this an ex- Dernburg w use /e D DIES, 8.—J. 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