THE CHINA MAIL SEPTEMBER 6, 1939. TO-DAY'S STRANGE STORY OF REAL PEOPLE
A GREAT GRIMINOLOGIST'S MASTERSTROKE
BY JOEL C. MATHEWS There was excitement at Walnut Creek, a suburb of Berkeley, Cali- fornia, when it was announced that a new building just completed was ✡ laboratory for the manufacture of a new and wonderful brand of artificist .silk. The secret process was to make millions for its inventor, the osten- tatious chemist, Charles Henry Sch- wartz. Heavy machinery was install- ed, a night watchman was employed and the inner sanctums were- kept locked against the eyes of the prying public.
Schwartz was a dapper figure, 30
He had years old.
a wife, three
to
IT WAS NOT THE CHEMIST'S HAIR
children and a fine home. He spoke been extracted were raw. The teeth had, one-time chemist who had lately be- German fluently and was said
just been drawn whereas Schwartz's came, a fanatical evangelist and who have been a flying ace, also a spy, in corresponding teeth had been extract- had been living in a shack near the
His right ear the World War.
There was laboratory. ed a long time before. for din-one feature of the burned face that "Darwinian lobe" noticeable
intact-the who had known him and`
had
to all his bony
-a
He did not come home ner on the night of July 30, 1925. remained oven partially
right ear. The lobe was entirely pre- | structure had been very nearly like
form. that of Schwartz. served. it was of a peculiar
"Dar- what anateníists classify as a winian lobe." Enlarging photographs af Schwartz Heinrich saw that he had no such peculiarity.
Instead, he had a snack brought in by the watchman, who was then The chem- dismissed for the night. ist called his wife on the telephone about nine o'clock stating that he
He would soon be home.
sounded Five very tired and depressed.
Sufficient skin was left on the fin- minutes later the entire countryside
ger-tips to show under the miscros- was shocked by an explosion that shattered windows and dishes, Flames cope that their prints had been burned off by acid. And there were relics of reaching to the sky located the 'catas-head-wounds proving that the victim trophe, at the Schwartz laboratory had been bludgeoned before which was completely gutted before flames had reached him. the fire engines could arrive. When Fire Chief Guy. Spencer entered the ruins the first sight to meet his gaze was a human corpse charred beyond recognition.
Poking further into the mass of charcoal and twisted metal Spencer found the remains of six sticks each with an end wrapped in cloth saturat- ed with an inflammable fluid. Where a closet had been, near by, he found against the wall cases of a powerful explosive whose combustion had been prevented by the chemical spray used by the firemen. Had they gone off there would have been not ing left of
the corpse.
Mrs. Sch-
"Yes, it's my husband!" wartz reeled when the sheet was drawn back and she gave her iden- tification, which was corroborated by the watchman, But Chief Spencer would not agree with the consensus that the explosion had been acciden- tal.
al-
Schwartz had evidently been tacked by his someone coverting his secret formula someone who had his laboratory to destroyed him and cover all evidences of the attack upon him.
lived one crimino- Hein-
Right there in Berkeley of America's most eminent logists, Prof. Edward Osear rich, a lecturer on criminal investiga- tion at the University of California who has served as expert in important
including criminal trials,
those of and the famous "Fatty" Arbuckle d'Autremost traín bandits.
the
A police broadcast located Schwartz in a rooming house in Oakland, Cali- fornia, the great city on the bay shore The police just south of Berkeley.
Forcing it found his door locked. open they discovered ́`him lying on wound his bed, a warm revolver in his hand, blood trickling from a fresh in his head. On the bed-table was a packed suitcase, a roll of money and a letter to his wife confessing his guilt and asking her forgiveness.
insur-
His suicide cancelled the ance to Mrs. Schwartz, whom the authorities entirely exonerated.
Heinrich thus demonstrated to his satisfaction that the dead man was not Schwartz but someone whose body had been prepared to correspóna in every detail with his in case it should not be entirely consumed. His murderer had anticipated the fire- men's almost miraculous prevention: THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LTD of the combustion of the cases of ex-
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Now appeared a boy living near toward the laboratory who had run
the explosion it immediately after
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The authorities now became in- of evidence terested in several bits that had been under Prof. Hein- richs' microscope-scraps of that appeared to have been parts of a religious tract, also some badly burned handwriting which ution applied by the criminologist restored sufficiently for photographic
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the result of the publicity was sensa- tional.
his
After insuring
life Schwartz who was really penniless and whose laboratory was sham without either gas or electric connections, had recent→ ly advertised for an assistant research chemist. After others had been reject- char-ed-evidently because their physical red corpse found in the ruins; X-rays characteristics differed from his-hé outlines had accepted one Gilbert Barbe, a showed that the skeleton's
Becoming interested in the case, Heinrich began work
on the
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agreed with descriptions of Schwartz given by his wife. His dentist's re- cords showed that the chemist had two teeth missing and- the corpse lacked those identical teeth.. The. professor's miscroscope when applied to-some small scraps showed that the dead man had on a blue denim shirt and overalls. But Schwartz had not been so dressed when the watchman had brought in his supper, The wat- chman itemized what that supper had consisted of, but the contests of the dead man's stomach did not check with a single item, Nor were his lungs corroded by fumes and this proved that death had occurred be
LOCAL DOLLAR fore the explosion. Obtaining, Sch- wartz's hairbrush, Heinrich found The demand rate on the Hong Kong that it contained no hairs that check-dollar to-day was 1/2-13/16.
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