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THE CHINA MÁIL, JANUARY 13, 1940

REAL LIFE DETECTIVE TRIUMPHS

TURKISH

A DOUGHNUT SHOWS DELEGATION Kitty

THE WAY

On the afternoon of Oct. 26, 1916,

a team of horses, with a vegetable in wagon,

a form yard ran into Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The driver, who was doubled up on the seat, tumbled backward. It was found that he was unconscious a pistol wound in his side. He was rushed to the Pottsville Hospital, where he identified as Daniel Wagner, a well- to-do farmer of the section.

was

His possessions were found to be intact, including a well-filled wallet which held the proceeds of the

sale

of his produce. How and when and why he was shot was a mystery. During a few minutes of conscious- ness he said he had fallen asleep on the way home from market and the horses jogged on as they often had be- fore. Suddenly he felt a sharp pain in his side and dimly saw a figure in the roadway. That was all re- membered until he recovered con- sciousness in the hospital.

As the victim was at the point of death the Pennylvania State Police were summoned. First Sergeant Sny- der, with an assistant, took over the investigation. They wasted no time and, with the aid of searchlights, traversed the been covered

awny

came

team.

road that had by the run- Presently they which

to deep hoofmarks satisfied Snyder that they were at the point where the horses had taken fright and had begun to run wild.

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Making a thorough search of each side of the road, they found a brown bucket containing a doughnut-with a piece bitten out of it. Obviously some one had suddenly dropped the doughnut. A further search revealed

-By-

GEORGE BARTON

It was dark in that swamp, but a pair of Snyder presently found

at him. The bright eyes peering owner had a pistol in his hands, but was so terrified at the sight of the State policeman that he was unable to use it. The officer brought his pri- soner out of the swamp and placed him in an automobile in spite of the farmers who wanted to clamoring

IN SOFIA

Sofia, To-day.

A luncheon was given by the Bul- garian Foreign Minister yesterday in honour of the Secretary-General' of the Turkish Foreign Ministry and members of the Turkish trade delega- tion which has been visiting in London and Paris.

The delegation arrived in Sona on Thursday evening and is expected to have talks with the Bulgarian Minis- ter of Commerce.--Reuter.

hang the culprit. He succeeded In placing him in jail unharmed.

The evidence in the case was SO that Hillson was overwhelming promptly convicted. In the mean- time Wagner had recovered so that the sentence of 12 years in the pen- itentiary was the limit allowed by law. It was another feather in the cap of Sergeant Snyder and fresh glory for the Pennsylvania State Police.

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When asked who the new-com - er reminded her of the mantally sketchy girl-friend said that man to whom she had promised the next dance.

TO-NIGHT

SATURDAY, 13th JANUARY, 1940

with

Putting

a piece of white cotton cloth two holes out in the centre. two and two together," Snyder decided that it was an improvised mask that had been used by the man who had shot the farmer.

On the following day Snyder vis- ited the nearest town, located the baker shop where the doughnuts had been purchased. The baker was able to give a good description of his cus- tomer. He said he was a Negro, over six feet high. He had bought enough doughnuts to fill the brown bucket. Next they found the little trimming store where the white cloth had been purchased. The description of her patron given by the woman correspon- ed precisely with that given by the baker.

Bnyder next consulted the records of the State Police and found that the description tallied with that of Harvey Hillson, who had been sent to prison

of some years before on a charge highway robbery.' He discovered also that the convict had been released from prison only the day before the shooting of Farmer Wagner. The runaway horses alone had prevented the robbery.

Snyder promptly called on the old mother of the Negro, in the belief that the steps of the convict would instinctively lead him home. As he entered the front door a man ran from

the rear: A general alarm went out. All of the State Police available were summoned to join in the man-hunt. They were supplemented by the farm- ers of the vicinity, bent on retribution.

In the end the fugitive was traced to the edge of a swamp. The police were armed and the farmers carried rope. They had resolved to give the slayer a taste of Judge Lynch's justice. But Snyder waved them all back. He announced that he was going into the Awamp-ALONE! It seemed foolhardy,

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