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TEXT BOOK
SK any Scotland-yard
man the name of the greatest detective in the world and he will reply This "Dr. Hans Gross."
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"But
"It was obvious, then, how Konrad had bolted the door from without. He had first bored a tiny hole through the door above the bolt, looped a piece of horse- hair over the bolt's knob, and slipped the two ends through the hole. He had then pulled the bolt knob upward until the horsehair loop was disengaged. A piece of the horsehair, had, however, caught in the hole and remained there.
"Konrad had then filled up the hole with wax and painted it on the outside, thereby eliminat- ing practically every trace of his criniinal device. He was later convicted of the murder of his
self with an endeavour to trace the last movements of the vanished man. His concern
for I doubt if one in a
"Presently he stuck the end of and Konrad would have been family, sentenced to death and thousand persons outside
the pin in the centre of the table, free to marry his inamorata' hanged." the Criminal Investigation and pulled at it by the thread (whom he had in the offing) had
ONE of Gross's own cases Department has ever heard he had fastened. Apparently he it not been for an examining
concerned a lumberman the name before.
was satisfied. He unwound a magistrate of the criminal court, in the mountains who mysteri- Hans Gross, who was born further length of cotton and named Hollman,
ously disappeared. He ТУДА Д just over a hundred years ago, when he had sufficient he thrend- "Hollman, for no tangible tradesman with one or two little. Hongkong is to have one, and was a professor of criminology ed the key upon it, carrying it reason, did not believe in the sawmills. No trace of him could suicide theory, and set to work be found, and the authorities possibly more later, of the new at the University of Prague, well outside the door.
"The end he brought back into to figure out how Konrad could wished to know whether he was Towards the end of his career type, fast, triple-motored Hor-he compiled a monumental work the vault, and then pushed it have bolted the door from with- living her dead. nets of torpedo-bout classifica-on the subject of crime and out again from the inside out. As a last resort, he de- They took the problem to tion. Without pretending to criminals-"System Kri- through one of the air-holes. cided to give the entire door, Gross, who did not concern him.
B outside, Then he closed the door care both inside and technical knowledge, onc To-day, translated into eight fully. He had left plenty of microscopic examination. still express the common-languages, it is. the text book of stack for his purpose and Tab
there, was not the sense opinion that such vessels the detectives of the world. (the intended victim) heard the slightest aperture anywhere, was to obtain a working con- click of the lock as it was fasten- and the door fitted so tightly ception of the character of this are ideally suited to the defence
SIR NORMAN KENDAL ed and his heart sank.
around the frame that a piece man. of this Colony. It is likely that
head of the Criminal
"He watched the door fas- of paper could not have been
He was not even concerned crevice. experts will admit that cruisers, Investigation Department, re- cinated and saw that Lander was passed through any
with his physical aspect. What examined the door destroyers, and submarines of
the English pulling the slack of the cotton Hollman cently re-edited
he wanted to get at was, the translation. He compares Hans through the air-hole. Presently minutely with a powerful lens. the type at present on the China Gross with the Jubjub in Lewis the key came in sight under the
"It required hours of labour, dominating trait in the man's Station, would be largely Carroll's "Hunting of
the door. Higher and higher came but in the end he was rewarded. mental structure.
Gross examined a good many Snark." He too was ineffective if ever this outpost
"ages the sagging line of cotton and Just above the bolt he found on ahead of fashion." Although the table's level, slid down the the inside, close to the edge of witnesses brought in to him were attacked by a major sea innumerable changes have taut cotton, and came to rest on the door, a very small hole which from the community in which the man lived. Finally an old power, with capital ships avail- taken place, Gross's main prin- the table. Tighter grew the was barely discernible. Open- able; and more particularly ciples are as sound as when he strain of the thread, and pre- ing the door he inspected the peasant told him that the man sently the pin came out, passed outside surface directly opposite was the sort of person who In this volume of the accumu- through the hole in the key, to the hole inside. But there never had any good tools i
Gross broke off his investiga- lated experiences of hundreds of leaving it in the exact centre of was no corresponding hole visi- to strike if the Mediterranean criminals, novelists have found the table. Tab watched the ble. Hollman did find on the tion with that explanation of the murder plots in abundance. bright pin as it was pulled across outside of the door, however, a situation demanded the presence Van Dine took from its pages the floor and through the ventila small spot on which the paint He said it would be found that of heavy. British concentrations. the puzzling scries of murders tor."
seemed fresher than that on the the man was not dead, but had rest of the door.
deliberately concealed himself. It can be argued, then, that it which made "The Greene Mur-
THAT'S the way Wallace
"The spot was solid, but this The reason would be that the is a riaky business to leave (der Case" a best-seller.
worked his locked door, did not deter Hollman's investi- affairs of such a person would Edgar Wallace too found in cruisers and destroyers based on this cyclopedia of crime the crime and we find the case which from one of the tenants in the ness would be found to be con Turn to the record of actual gation. He borrowed a hatpin not be kept in order, his busi- Hongkong if war threatens.basic plot of "The Clue of the
building, and heating it, ran it ducted haphazardly it would be While they would be in a better New Pin," in which murder is gave Wallace his idea.
cloaked under the appearance of
"Konrad was a truck driver in through the hole on the inside. likely that he was financially in- position than American units
Berlin nearly fifty years suicide. The dead
ago. With but little pressure the volved and, finding his affairs in man was attempting to defend the Philip found locked in a vault with the found dead in their cellar room; door, coming out on the outside appeared.
His wife and five children were heated hatpin penetrated the a hopeless muddle, had dis- pines against a first rate power, key to the door on the table be- and the doora ponderous affair exactly in the centre of the new- When the man's business they would probably rate the side him.
without even a keyhole or space ly painted spot.
came to be inquired into, the Here is Wallace's murderer at same nickname as that borne by work:
around the moulding-was "Moreover, when Hollman prediction was justified, and it Uncle Sam's ships formerly "No other word he spoke, but accurely bolted on the inside. withdrew the hatpin a piece of was afterwards discovered that stationed on the two Philippines took something from his pocket: nounced one of murder and sui- pin; and on the pin was also dis- bankruptcy,
at once pro- tough horsehair adhered to the he had left the country to avoid bases "the Suicide Flect." If it was a reel of stout cotton. cide on the part of the mother; cernible a slight film of wax. Hongkong were guarded by a duced a new pin, and with great Then from his waistcoat he pro- swift fleet of motor torpedo care and solemnity tied the GRIN AND BEAR IT boats, however, there would be thread to the end of the pin, no necessity for naval craft-
would the relatively small ships of the China Fleet be helpless
except perhaps submarines--to
first wrote them.
have room to manoeuvто
bc.
and
remain here in the face of dan-swift, small craft is not new. ger. For the modern motor While the modern armour and |torpedo-boat, carrying a sting in range and accuracy of big ships
its tail as it darts at better than renders them more or less in-| forty knots against its target, vulnerable to attacks from seems ideally suited for a strik-lesser vessels, providing they ing force in these waters. Of light to see, a blockading force its effectiveness against capital | might find it very much difficult ships, even given the element to deal with the little, 16-ton of surprise in its favour, It is carriers of destruction which impossible for the layman to the modern M.T.B. appears to make any estimate. But there
On that assumption they seems to be little doubt that the defence of such isolated colonies recommend themselves for the value of such so-called mosquito as this one, where aid from craft is accepted by the experts. British capital ships might not Italy has been building them be possible in sudden crisis. rapidly in the past few years One or two, or half a dozen do and is believed to have the not seem enough, however, to bé really effective. As the largest of such fleets in exis-naval expert, Hector C. Bywa- tence. Stories were told during ter, belleves, the value of such the recent crisis in the Mediter- small craft is to be found chiefly rancan of how these Italian in the possibility of building and torpedo-boats flashed up to and utilising them in large numbers, across the bows of British and sending them, like a swarm men-o'-war as they churned tives. Attacking from all quar of hornets, against their objec- THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. stolidly through what was once, ters they have every chance of
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man's character.
HOW particularly obser- vant was this greatest By Lichty sertion that what
"Make that foot húsbiid of mine stóp laughing-show him the
price tags!
of detectives is shown by his as- woman auspected of a crime does not say in words, or express in her features, or by the movement of her hands, can always be deter- mined by the position of her feet.
"In anger," says Gross, "when a woman cannot stamp because that would be too expressive, she turns her soles slightly in- wards and makes small curves with the point on the ground.
"Impatience is shown by the alternating and swinging pres- sure of the heel and toe repeat- ed with increasing rapidly. De- fiance by raising the sole so that the heel only is on the floor.
"And a dangerous mental state is always indicated when the foot is put forward and the shin bone slightly stretched out with all the toes drawn in to- wards the sole of the foot like a cat when it feels good."
Do you know what a Murder Bag is? The equipment which Professor Gross suggests overy detective should take
to the scene of a crime is embodied In the £30 Murder Bags used to day by Scotland-yard. Bu It is a fascinating book.
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