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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 15, 1940.

REAL LIFE DETECTIVE TRIUMPHS

CHUNGKING

THE DEATH OF MARIE BANK NOTE

PALLOT

The city of Havre, France, was as silent in the grave at 2 o'clock in the morning on Oct. 12, 1909. The gen- darme, making his nightly rounds, was trying the doors of the houses that lined the Passage des Murthurins. He reached the knob of the door of the dwelling occupied by Marie Pallot. To his surprise it yielded, moved in- ward. He walked slowly along the corridor until he came to the dining room. There a sight met his gaze that sent shivers up and down his spinal column.

Marie Pallot sat by the table with her head

cold in on her arms - death. An examination showed she had been struck on the head with ก blunt instrument. The room was upset. The open door of a cupboard indicated robbery. A careful search revealed no clues. The following day the chief of police, being at his wit's end, called upon Professor Reiss, an authority on criminology and a lecturer at Lausanne University, to help him with the problem.

The professor came that afternoon, a

-By- GEORGE BARTON

but

quiet, unobtrusive gentleman, filled with nervous energy. After lis- tening to all the police could tell him, he went to the house, examined it minutely. His first act was to pick up a splinter of wood on the inside of the threshold. It was covered with blood,

"The blood of the murderer," he

said calmly. "He obviously cut his Anger when he forced in the door. When you get your man you will find that his hand is cut."

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He indicuted four drops of human blood and a number of grease spots on the floor. When the police laugh- ed at this he said, quietly:

"The murderer was carrying a lighted candle. They are the drip-

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too thin?:

Every young girl should be bright and full of energy. The pink flush of health should be in her cheeks. She should be hungry for her meals, fond of an evening's recreation, and walk- ing with a spring in her heels and sun- shine in her eyes. She ought to be ir- resistible; life is at its best.

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pings from it."

ORDER

Chungking, To-day.

The four Chinese Government banks have announced that in order to pre- vent the Japanese from collecting and disposing of large quantities of bank- notes for foreign exchange, all bank- of notes overprinted with the names places in occupied areas will not be accepted as ready.cash by branches in Shanghai, but may be exchanged for demand drafts on either Chungking or the place of issue concerned.

With th exception of Shanghai, where special conditions prevall, how- ever, these notes are freely accepted in the interior places.

Occupied area notes of the four banks and Chinese banks under the above ruling do not include (1) Cen- tral Bank notes issued in Hankow in Last of all he picked up two long 1926, (2) Bank of China notes issued bits of red hair near the chair where in Hankow

(3) and Changsha and the woman had sat. He said they | Bank of Communications notes issued were from a man. They were rough, in places outside the Great Wall.- bristly, probably came from his mus- Central News. tache. The professor scooped up some of the candle grease from the floor, saying that the candles were not made in France.

Specimens were sent to the Surate In Paris. Back came a report assert- ing they could have been made only in Sicily. As a result the professor deduced that the murderer was a sallor, that he came from Sicily, that he had a red mustache, that he had cut his left hand and that the motive of the murder was robbery.

It was found that a ship called the Donna Maria had arrived from Sicily only 48 hours before. The police

hastened to the vessel. Professor Reiss went with them, but remained in the background. Most of the crew were ashore, but the police hid them- selves in a sentry box on deck and watched for the sailors as they re- turned, one by one.

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Presently a huge, rough fellow, in ragged clothes, came aboard. There was a cut on his left hand and he had a bristly red mustache. The chief of police touched him on the shoulder. "You are wanted for the murder of Marle Pallot."

He did not turn pale or tremble. Instead he fought the chief of police and was taken only after a severe tussle during which four men battled with him. When he was searched they found the stump of a candle in the pocket of his pea jacket. It was made of the same material as was in the candle grease found on the floor of the murdered woman,

Eventually Reddy Forfarzzo that was his name confessed. He said Marie he had gone to the house of Pallot, and finding her asleep had robbed the cupboard. She awoke as he was leaving and in the struggle he had struck her on the head with a heavy slugshot.

Professor Reiss modestly disclaimed any special credit for the triumph of justice, but the fact remains that it would still be a mystery had it not been for the deductions he made from two bristly red hairs and a few blot- ches of candle grease.

ALLIES' TACTICS

"This war is not an adventure, but the discharge of a great duty," declar- ed Mr. R. B. Bennett, the former Canadian Premier, on his arrival at New York aboard the s.8. Statendam en route for Canada.

A girl who is thin, breathless and weak, anaemic, tired and wan, too lan- guid to enjoy plain food, too shy and timid to attract, often being ill for a "There are varying views as to the day having to be in bed, and always conduct of the war," he told report- looking limp and unhappy, will im-ers, "but I think it is realised in the prove wonderfully under the influence of the new rich blood that Dr. Wil main that the Allies followed not only liams' Pink Pills can give her. She the sound course but the one best cal- will gain vitality and attractiveness, culated to gain an early victory, grow healthy and jolly, get rid of all her lassitude and languor. Had

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