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The 1DDOD®WDNWOOLOHDSOOD Exploits ODOOS tlon. Mathematics. (Copyright, 1012, by Dodd, Mead & Co.) ts CHAPTER I. ¢ The Murder. IVES In fiction nearly always make a great mistake, ost invarinbly antagonize the regular detec- Now in real life that's impossible—it's fatal.” ) | fatiure of a large Wall street brokor: house, Kerr Parker & Co, and the p cultar suicide of Kerr Parker. “Yes, {t's Sinpoastble, juat as it is Impossible for out In the Crippen case. “My idea of the thing, Jameson,” continued Kennedy, “is that the professor of criminal science ought to work with, not against, the regular detectives. ‘They're all right. They're indispensable, of course. Half the secret of success nowadays ts orgunisation, The professor of criminal science should be merely Clearing up that Wall street case I see you are reading.” I expressed some doubt as to whether the regular police were enitghtened enough to take that view of it. “Some of them are,’ he repiled. ‘Yes- terday the chief of police in a Western “elty sent a man Eart to see mo abvut the Price murder—you know the case?” Indeed I did. A wealthy banker of the town had been murdered on the road to the golf club, no on or by whom, Every clue had prov fruttiess, and the list of suspects wi iteelt 80 long and so impossible as to @tem moet discouraging, “He sent me a piece of @ torn hand- (eerehier with a deep blood stain on it,” Pursued Kennedy. ‘He sald it clearly @€n't belong to the murdered man, that §% indicated that the murerer had him self been wounded in the tussle, bu yet % had proved utterty useless ot Would I ace what I could make it “After his man had told me the story Thad a fesilng that the murder was ‘committed by elther « ‘Sicll!an laborér On the links or a negro waiter at the citib. ‘Well, to make a ghort story shorter, I deckled to test the blood stain, ‘Probably you didn't know it, but the curnegic Institution has just published a minute, careful and dry wtudy of the blood of human beings and of animals. tn fact, they have been able to re- classify the whole animal kingdom on this basis, and have made gome moet aurpristng additions to our knowledge ition. New T don't propose to bore you with the details of the ‘ests, but one of the things they showed was that the blood atin certain branch of the buman race 7 a reaction much like the blood of » certain group of monkeys, the chim- avrves, while the blood of another » gives a reaction Ike that of the Of course, there's lots more to th all that need concern us ‘1 tried the tests, The blood on the handkercilef conformed strictly to the latter test. Now the gorilla wae, of Se, out of the question—this was no Morgue murd Therefore it was the negro waiter. ‘ * 1 interrupted, ‘the negro of- ived at dinner: ‘Congratulations, vented Jackson your evidence wired, Confessed.’ 1 jake, off my hat to med. ‘Next you’ be c pytamiding stocks, borrowing money solving this Kerr Parker cane for mire.) from two trust companies which they Satin” bald he. eunply. control. It’s a lovely schame— That night, without saying anything, "ead about it. I suppose. Also youve I sauntered down to the tmposing new ee Lote tne woe eater Of will call ‘the Svatem headquarters, but, having once had that comes - &reat show of supporting the market. his mouth as I poured forth my sus: Goa Yet the runs continue, hoe sald at length, th this pro/essor fellow ts it to-enorrow 5 led it. group of people who were in hi 5 a ey down here toe With him. They are holding a council night?? he asked quickly. s j T reached for the telephone, found Parker rises, s' Craig in his laboratory finally, and in dow. falls, am \ fess than an hour he was in the offic can get to him, made “This je a most daffilng case, Profes. t? Keep the thing quiet. It 4s given out sor Kennedy, this case of Kerr Parker,” that he committed suicide, The papers said the inapector, jaunching at once theory, into his subject. “Here is @ broker interested tn Mexican rubber, Ike @ good thing—plantations mouth shut so far, and will say nothing jtn he ‘# branching out into coast- —Kerr—Parker—was—murdered. Ua taarenc Tines: another man as. jow here comes the amazing part of molated with him !s heavily engaged the story. in @ railway acheme from the United States down into Mexico. Altogether were open at the time. There were lots plain eamships and railroads are tap- of people in each office. There was the m; rubber, oll, copper, and I don’ know what other resions, of the ticker, and the hum of conversa- of it. lent my desk For instance, 1 believe that organisation piue science would go far toward dence th — @ moment, “Yes,” I agreed, looking up from reading an accaunt of the and over. QZ 7 DEFY ANY ONE TO TELL THE MOMENT WHEN 4 DISC rea Oo THA STOLL ‘Here in New York they have been my laborator; “Th drawled the inspe ously, shaking his head, “Perhaps,” We found the street offices firm no one smiled Kennedy. read that It comes into competition with there will still be plenty of work for a certain group of capitalists whom wo the police to do, too. clue to the murderer. ‘Well, p's dupression in the market whole organigution to follow it up, be= alo t once rumors are eve me. Now, Inspector, can you spare epread about the weakness of ghe trust the time to’ go down to Parker's oillce ‘of the Central Office carefully Se™Mpanies; runs start on both of them, and take me over t eniftea The System—you know them—make a We can develop some Selmer Wem Sornar to corner Of “Sure,” answered O'Connor, and within knows five minutes we were hurrying downtown or the trust In one of the department automobiles. Mice under guard of one of the Central Office men, while 10 the outside office Parker’ clerk and a few ELLY ET LN TET NT ST ENTE ee LO mer fe t_ Bullet We have any number of witnesses of a Genius Ive the whole affair, but as far aa any of them knows no shot was fired, no Wh Ss 1 Cc ‘ P smoke was seen, no noise was heard, O VOIVE|S UPIME PrODS™| |ro: was'sny weapon tount’ Yer nere on a thirty-two-calihre bullet. lems as Other Men Solve ‘The coroner's physician probed It out of Parker's neck this aftarnoon and turned it over to us." Kennedy reached for the bullet and turned dt thoughtfully in hia Angers for ‘One side of it had appar- Le ently struck @ bone in the neck of tne murdered man and was flattened. The other side was still perfectly amooth. With his tnevitable magnifying glass he scrutinized the bullet on every side. aig Watched his face anxiously, and I could our firet conversation on crime and %¢¢, that he was very Intent and very “Extraoninary, most extraordinary,” he said to himself as he turned tt over “Where did you @ay this butlet struck “In the fleshy part of the neck, quite th \ a little back of and below his ear and © newepapers. Bootland Yani found that Hitt ts owe “nis collar, ‘There wasn't ector, I think we shall be able to what the préf aor, DUC our hands on the murder—I think Professor of a technical school often ts—a sort of consulting engineer. Yin oo get & conviction, ir, on the evie 1 shall get from this bullet In like a storys vetor, increda- “But T've only got # Tt will tax the rround? No doubt hing else there." confidential sxistants were atill at work tn a subdued and awed manner, Men were working in many other Wail that nignt during of wae in the directors’ room, Suddenly Panic, but in none was thero more reas toward the win. 80m for it than here > a doctor that it was the qulet tenacity of this confidential clerk that saved even much of Parker's estate as was saved | for his widow--little enough it was, too, What he savgd for the clients of the Ti evor know. or other I liked John Downey, the clerk, from the moment I was introduced ta ; je seemed, to me at le Fight in the aame territory as those till the inquest. For Professor len’ the typical confidential clerk whe would of the Rubber Trust, Now, in addition nedy. my an on the sp carry, a secret een The ofMcer in charge touched to the inspector and Downey hastened “The doors to the offices on beth sides to put himself at our service. that the murder had completely him and that he was as anz- usual click of typewriters, and the buss fous as we were to get at the bottuin water T learned | Somehow jt, to be worth million and . his hat Ee ee eI er aT ERE PT EY “Mr. Downey," began Kennedy, “I understand you were present when this sad event took place.” “Yos, sir, sitting right here at the directors’ table,” he replied, takiag a chair, “like thie.” ‘Now, can you recollect just how Mr, Parker acted when he was shot? Could you—er—could you take his place and show us just how it happened?” “Yeon, mir,’ said Downey. “He was sitting here at the head of the table. Mr. Bruce, who t# the ‘Co.’ of the firm, had been ing here at hia right; I was at the The inspector has a list of all the others present. That door to the right was open, and Mra. Parker and gome other ladies were in the room”—— ‘Mra. Parker?” broke in Kennedy. Like @ good many brokerage we have a ladies’ room. Many ladies are among our clients, We make a point of catering to them. At that time I recollect the door waa open—all the doors were open. It was not a secret meeting. Mr. Bruce had juat gone into the Indies’ department, I 208, fa ‘Nothing else?” “Nothing eles.” “What happened after fonok?"* “We entered Fd ladies’ department. t! think to ask some of them to stand by the frm—he was an artiet at smoothing over the fears of customers, particularly women, Just before he went in TI had seen tte ladies go in a group toward the far end of the room —to look down at the line of depositors on the etreet, which reached around the corner from one af the trust com. wrapped ‘up hastily, and cang for a nen Re Where did he eend *?" ‘To Mrs, Parker, I suppose. I didn’t panies, T thought. “T wae making @ note of an order to send into the outside office there on ™! the left, and had just pushed this but- ton here under the table to call a boy to carry it. Mr. Parker had just re- ceived a letter by special delivery, and seemed considerably pussied over it. No, ¥ don't know what {it was about. Of a eudden I saw him start In hia chair, rise up unsteadily, clap hie hand on the back of his head, staeger across the floor—iike this—and fall here.” “Then what happened? “Why, 1 rushed to piek him up. Everything was confusion. T recall some one hehind me saying, ‘Here, boy, take all these papers off the table and carry them into my office before they «et lost in the excitement.’ T think It was Bruce's voice. The next moment Tf henrd some one say, ‘Stand back. Mra. Parker has fainted.’ But I didn’t pay much attention, for T wae calling to some one not to get a doctor over the telephone, but to go down to the fifth floor where one has an office. I mada Mr. Parker as comfortabie as T could. There wasn't much I could do, He seemed to want to eny something to me, Dut he couldn't talk. He was paralyzea, at least his throat was. But T did man- age to make out finally what sounded to me like, ‘Tell her T don't believe the scandal, I don't believe it.' But before he could aay whom to tell he had again become unconscious, and by the ti the doctor arrived he wae dead. 1 guess you know everything else as well as T do.” . “You didn't hear the shot fired from any particular direction?” asked Ken- nedy, “No, air.” * “Well, where do you think it came ? me, air, The only thing T can Sigur was fired from the outside office—pe haps by some customer who had i money and sought revenge. But no one out there heard It, either, any more than they did {n the directors’ room or the ladies’ di t."* pout that message, ignoring what to me seemed to jortant feature of the of the silent bullet. TMdn't you sec it after ali wae over?” “No, sir; dn fact Thad forgotten about it Ul this moment, when you asked me to reconstruct the circumstances exact- ly. No, sir; I don't know a thing about ft. I can't say it impressed iteelf on nind at the time, either.” m “What did Mrs, Parker do when she ¢: came to?" Could Reach It. TEMPERANCE lecturer was enthusiast cally denouncing the we of all {ntoxi- canta, says the Cleveland Leader, “1 wish all the beer, the wine, all the ‘whiskey in the world wae at the bottom of the ocean,” he said, Hastily Pat arcee to his feet. “Sure, and so do 1, sor," he shouted, “I wish every bit of It was at the bottom of the a? ‘An ther were leaving the hall the lecturer encountered Pat. “I certainly am proud of you," be said, “It | was @ brave thing for you to vise end ony what | you did, Are you @ testotallert”? . indade, gor,” enewered Pat, -_—_—————_. } Practice. 66] CONSIDEI it I heve been the victim cf arp practice,” “In whet weyt’ “Browa convinced me that 1 out ts that it di arked Ken- fii BOECHIDHDOODEDHHGH DOGS DG}DOGHHDOTGOOHDDOOOLOHHWOOHOOGIE 89.9 Y An Absolutel % & of Detective Story % % y NE OOOO Dr OOOO: 20) as I have never before. He was ead by that time, of course " ‘Mr. Bruce and I saw her down in the elevator to her car, In fact, the doctor, who had arrived, said that the soone ene would be. She was quite hysterical, was taken home the better “Did tJ say anything that you re- ee apector, “What did she eay Downey," ead the in- ehe wae Boing down in the elevator?” “Nothing.” “Teli us. I'l arrest you if you don't.” “Nothing about the murder, on my honor, K protested Downey. ennedy leaned over suddenly and shot @ remark at him, “Then it waa about the note.” Dor enor whey was surprised, fut mot quickly ugh. Still he seemed to be consider- something, and in a moment he sald: “I don't know whet it wee about, tut I feel it is my duty, after all, to tell 1 heard hi » ‘I wonder if he you came A woman's auto- hear the address.” ‘We next went over the whole suite of had foarcely have been those sitting immedi Parl offices, conducted by Mr. Downey. noted how careful! into the directors’ room t! open door ment. He stood ly Kennedy looked a he been the ‘ker at the directors’ table. The street windows were directly in front of him, and back of him was the chair on fou In Parker's own office we tim which the motor coat had been in ent some jo, as well as in Bruc Kennedy made arch for the note, but, finding not! hing in either office, turned out the contents of Bruce's scrap basket. There didi in't seem to be anything in it to in- terest him, however, even after he had Pieced several torn bits of scraps to- eet! her with much diMculty, and he was about to turn the papers back when he noticed something stick! the side of the bi Tt looked like & mass of wot paper, and that was pre- cleely what it was. ‘That's queer,” said Kennedy, pick- ing It loose, Then he o he preparing to leave. nd him out of town Probably need his n he gete back.” . Riley will i wo ik to h and I'll put him under your ord Tt was not until late in the following that I saw Kennedy again. been a busy day on the Star. We before the Stock hag 9 to work that morning expecting fi the very financial heave it five minutes to te’ opened, the news came in ov to ber the old And fe Forced!" muttered the edi! sell his railroad, steamship and rub- ‘holdings to it. On this condition it ises unlimited support to the mar- aging as he waited on the office ‘phone lines in red Us 4 beat our rivi itreets with the first extras. “Why, employer and got the job 1 had vacated, 1 am still looking for employment and ap- prectation.”—Deteolt ¥vee Prem. P An Irishman’s Foresight. AT end Mike were working on @ now build RET uN te + ow “ ee eee ee ee ae § muckreking it would have made! Oh, OOGOOOOE GODOT W Type is | DOOHOOHNOOHONT HG O aware ee|A Story of Craig Ken- nedy’s Strange Adven- tures in Clearing Up Se- mentite ores! §6Cpets of the Underworld. ing—it edite the news before our men Get It, and as for grist for the divorce courts and tragedies—well——Hello, Jen- ad eS awn the opy in on Rush it,” snd bees ‘I know it. That's @ ty swift ‘bunch of females that nave Seen epee ulating at Kerr Parker & Oo.'s. I un- fruttiese also. ree deratand there's one Titian-haired young yuse for a while EBs the Hane ae by A. ay. oF ant ope buaser on the door sounded, and 10 n't yor mn divorce: who is @ sort of ringleader, though she oPries \t fo Gnd © messenger Bey with rarely goes iy to her brokers’ ‘Ta Mr. “Why, nm offices, She's of those uptown 0, he Plungers, and the story ts that she h8® checked myself and added: “Te wil be hei & Whole string of scalps of all: Bun day-schopl superintendents at her belt. Presently, You ean leave the “she can make Bruce do pretty nearly Und! anything, they say. dfe's the latest oon- go, Si, tnis fe the Daneel he tlemmoned quest. I’ got the story on pretty good for. i tune ts Gal es bo authority, but until I verified the names, {hey hed @ hard time ¢o Ang it, dates and places 6f course I wouldn't Suesses it’s all righ' jo uarges are dare print @ line of it. The story goce @ Cente Mign here. that her husband 1s @ hanger-on of the |! signed the book, feeling ike @ wiet, System, and that she's been working in &N4 the boy departed. What ft all thetr interest, too, That was why he ™eant I could not guess was a0 complacent over the whole af- Just then T heard a hey in the lock, fair, They put her up to capturing and Kennedy came in, Bruce, and after she had acquired I pointed to the package Kennedy &" influence over him they worked it so made a dive for it and unwrapped it. that she made him make love to Mrs, It was a woman's ponges automcbile Parker. cot. He held it up to the light, The “It's @ long story, but that fen't all pocket on the right-hand side was of it. Mhe point was, you see, that by scorced and burned and @ hole was this devious route they hoped to worm torn clean through it, out of Mra. Parker some inside infor- ‘How did you get It? I exclaimed. wation ebout Parker'a rubber echemes ‘That's where "yoy eomes in,” said Kennedy. Police at my re- which he hadn't divulged even to partners in business, It wi: quest went over and carefully planned plot, and som from Parker's of in traced every one of them up. At last the conspirators were pretty deep! iu the mire, I guess, I wish I'd had all they found one that led to Bruce's detective, the facta about who this red-haired apartment. None of them led to Mrs. male Machiavelli was—w! jece of Parker's home. The reat were all busi- of a and satisfactorily accounted that’ this wae the one here comes the rest of the news story DISCOVERED Iw TH ut Casonectous Over the wire. By Jove, it is said on that involved the disappearance of the authority that Bruce will be taken automobile coat, It was a chance worth as one of the bourd of directors, taking, so I got Downey to call up ‘What do you think of that?” @o that was how the land lay—Bruce ognised Downey's voice and suspected making love to Mrs. Parker and ghe nothing. Dewney assumed to know Presumably betraying her husband's se- about the coat in the package recel' crete. 1 thought I eaw it all—the note yesterday. tie azked to haye it sent wp from somebody exposing the echame, here, J see the scheme worked. Parker's incredulipy, Bruce sitting by _ “But, Kennedy, do you think eh¢'-—— um and catohing sight af the note, his peechiess, looking at the hurrying out into the ladies’ department t and then the shot. But who Gred it? y—yet,* he replied After all, I had only picked up another “But tf you could tell me eue. anything about that mote Parker re Kennedy was not at the apartment at ceived I'd thank you.” Ganer, ané an inquiry at the labora- I related what our managing editor haired women in the case, re e the Byetem in which her husband fs ee heavily involved? I'l “Poe, eot a lst af purcnesny of C4 tind o€ revolver," he said, we have, Ly Se eee Se oe oe store in the @ought therm pet or ’ “Pretty nearly all isn't geod enough"; eald Kennedy. jena" Riley ' "Oh, 4! ive ot ? by Pa Kennedy, rigntening pt “Riley, will @ay that you're @ wonder at using: the organisation in ferreting out suo! things, ‘There's just ene more thing f every one of these peopie.” He handed> the policeman @ list of his “‘suspecta,” every ane mentioned in the case, scratched hls shin thoughtt crete! LJ Me. a hard one, Mr. Kennedy, ae ‘You ae; houses epartmen lo want to do it by means of » do you, air? Of course not, Well, how can we get int “You're a pret He Breen should ¢ yeu could Jelly ald, if how, Bruce's valet. The valet of course ree sleeve ae “dt wi have te be all, “THAT name 18 tn the Het," whispere! Private deskn he called them. It included neatiy- dublously 44 oer Bi ting Into se many itm Ne Hl It; |-leoking at PS | it best we i f