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"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. Ho had then pulled the bolt knob upward until the horsehair loop was disengaged. A piece of the horachair, 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 criminal device. Ho
was later convicted of the murder of his
concerned a lumberman
SK any Scotland-yard man the name of the greatest detective in the world and he will reply "Dr. Hans Gross." This may set you back a little, 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 Criminal Investigation and pulled at it by the thread (whom he had in the offing) had
the pin in the centre of the table, free to marry his 'inamorata" hanged."
examining NEW WEAPON FOR Department has ever heard he had fastened. Apparently he it not been for an
ONE of Gross's own cases the name before.
was antisfied. He unwound a magistrate of the criminal court, in the mountains who mysteri-
·HONGKONG
Hana Gross, who was born further length of cotton and named Hollman.
ously disappeared. He was a just over a hundred years ago, when he had sufficient he thread- "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 get to work be found, and the authorities Towards the end of his carcer "The end he brought back into to figure out how Konrad could wished to know whether he was 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-boat classifica on the subject of crime and out again from the inside out. As a last resort, he de-
They took the problem to der Without pretending to criminals-System
Kri- through
one of the air-holes. cided to give the entire door, Gross, who did not concern him- minalistik."
and Then he closed the door caro both inside
outside, technical knowledge,
a self with an endeavour to trace To-day, translated into eight fuily. He had left plenty of microscopic examination.
the last movements of the still express the common-languages, it is the text book of slack for his purpose and Tab "But there was not the vanished man. His concern sense opinion that such vessels the detectives of the world. (the intended victim) heard the slightest aperture anywhere, was to obtain are ideally suited to the defence
click of the lock as it was fasten- and the door fitted so tightly ception of the character of this a working con- SIR NORMAN KENDAL, ed and his heart sank.
around the frame that a plece man. of this Colony. It is likely that
head of the Criminal
"He watched the door fan of paper could not have been
He was not even concerned experts will admit that cruisers, | Investigation Department, re- cinated and saw that Lander was passed through any crevice. destroyers, and submarines of cently re-edited the English pulling the slack of the cotton Hollman examined the door with his physical aspect. What translation. He compares Hans through the air-hole. Presently minutely with a powerful lens. dominating trait in the man's he wanted to get at was the 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, Station, would be largely Carroll's "Hunting
mental structure. of the door.
Higher and higher came but in the end he was rewarded. ineffective if ever this outpost
Gross examined a good many Shark." He too Was "ages the angging line of cotton and Just above the bolt he found on ahead of fashion." were attacked by a major sea innumerable
Although the table's level, slid down the the inside, close to the edge of witnesses brought in to him changes have taut cotton, and came to rest on the door, a very small hole which from the community in which power, with capital ships avail- taken place, Gross's main prin- the table. Tighter grew the was barely discernible. Open- the man lived. Finally an old able; and moro 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
first wrote them.
the sort of person who would the relatively small ships |
sently the pin came out, passed outside surface directly opposite was In this volume of the accumu- through the hole in the key, to the hole inside. But there never had any good tools! of the China Fleet be helpless lated experiences of hundreds of leaving it in the exact centre of was no corresponding hole visi-
Gross broke off his investiga- criminala, 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 man's character. 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 the puzzling series of murders tor."
seemed fresher than that on the the man was not dead, but had which made "The Greene Mur-
rest of the door.
deliberately concealed himself. der Case" a best-seller.
The spot was solid, but this The reason would be that the did not deter Hollman's investi- affairs of such a person would
THAT'S the way Wallace worked his locked door.
this cyclopedia of crime the
Edgar Wallace too found in Turn to the record of actual gation. He borrowed a hatpin not be kept in order, his busi- basic plot of "The Clue of the New Pin," in which murder is cloaked under the appearance of suicide. The dead man
►
crime and we find the case which from one of the tenants in the neas would be found to be con- gave Wallace his idea.
building, and heating It, ran it ducted haphazardly; it would be "Konrad was a truck driver in through the hole on the inside. likely that he was financially in- Berlin nearly fifty years ago. With but little pressure the volved and, finding his affairs in found locked in a vault with the found dead in their cellar room; door, coming out on the outside appeared.
was His wife and five children were heated hatpin penetrated the " hopeless muddle, had dis- key to the door on the table be- and the door a ponderous affair exactly in the centre of the new- When the man's business
without even a keyhole or space ly painted spot.
came to be inquired into, the around the moulding-was "Moreover, when Hollman prediction was justified, and it securely bolted on the inside. withdrew the hatpin a piece of was afterwards discovered that nounced one of murder and gui- pin; and on the pin was also dis. bankruptcy.
at once pro- tough horsehair adhered to the he had left the country to avoid cide on the part of the mother; cernible a slight film of wax.
side him..
care
"The case was
to strike if the Mediterranean situation demanded the presence of heavy British concentrations. It can be argued, then, that it is a risky business to leave cruisers and destroyers based on Hongkong if war threatens. While they would be in a better position than American units attempting to defend the Philip pines against a first rate power, they would probably rate the
Here is Wallace's murderer at same nickname as that borne by work:- Uncle Sam's
ships formerly "No other word he spoke, but stationed on the two Philippines took something from his pocket; bases "the Suicide Fleet." If it was a reel of stout cotton. Hongkong were guarded by a Then from his waistcoat he pro- swift fleet of motor torpedo duced a new pin, and with great;
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- except perhaps submarines-to 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, currying 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 scems ideally suited for a strik-have room to manoeuvre
lesser vessels, providing they ing force in these waters. Of light to see, a blockading force and its effectiveness against capital might find it very much diflicult ships, even given the element to deal with the little, 15-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 be. On that assumption they seems to be little doubt that the defence of such isolated colonics recommend themselves for the value of such so-called mosquito as this one, where ald 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 largest of auch fleets in exia- naval expert, Hector C. Bywa
be really effective. As the tence. Stories were told during ter, believes, 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-boata flashed up to and utilising them in largo numbers, across the bows of British and sending them, like a swarm men-o'-war as they churned of hornets, against their objec tives. Attacking from all quar
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD. tolldly through what was once ters they have every chance of
to Rome, mare nostrum.
Tho success even, against the most experience of the advantages of ponderous armamente.
HOW particularly obser- vant was this greatest By Lichty sertion that what
of detectives is shown by his as--
"Make that fool husband of mine stop laughing-show, him the price taga!”
A Woman suspected 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- flance by raising the sole so that the heel only is on the floor.
"And 21 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 every detective should take to the scene of a crime is embodied in the £80 Murder Bags used to- day by Scotland-yard.
It is a fascinating book,