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THE CHINA MAIL, JANUARY 23, 1940-

REAL LIFE DETECTIVE TRIUMPHS

SPY

MARATHON WALK TO UNMASKED

OBTAIN CONFESSION

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When Jennie Becker, wife of Abra- ham Becker, a chauffeur living in the Bronx, disappeared without notice, it caused a lot of neighbour- hood gossip. On the first day of her absence Abe said jokingly to a friend: I have just got rid "Congratulate me. of my wife."

Later, when the neighbours be- came persistent in their inquiries, he displayed a letter and

n telegram signed in his wife's name. The letter said, among other things:

"I am leaving with another man to whom I was married before I met you."

But the neighbours, who were loyal to Jennie, didn't believe this. They told police they suspected foul play. Detective McCartin of the Morrisania station felt the same way about it. When he discovered that Becker had been living with another woman his suspicions were confirmed.

it had been interred in a lot

near an automobile road in the Bronx

They might dig McCartin also learned that Becker was too general. was intimate with Harry Monstein, up half of New York City without a fellow chauffeur and Reuben Nor-finding it. So McCartin resolved

Convinced that try another plan that he had learned kin, an iron welder. they shared guilty secrets with Becker, in the school of detection. the detective began to question them.

·By- GEORGE BARTON

Under pressure, Monstein said he had sent the gone to Philadelphia and letter and the telegram

to Becker signed in his wife's name. For doing his ex- this he was paid $10 and penses.

to

WEARING HIM DOWN He went to Norkin, charged him with the crime, demanded to know where he had buried Jennie Becker. Norkin denied having anything to do with it. So McCaritn took him in hand, led him to approximately where the burial had taken place and asked him to point out the exact spot.

"I don't know and I can't tell you," retorted the harassed one.

"Then I'm going to walk you up and down this plot of ground until you do tell me," said the detective.

So the marathon began. He march- ed Norkin over the ground not once but a hundred times. The man was on the point of a physical and nervous In-breakdown, but still he would not give in. The walk was resumed. Norkin

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trick McCartin then tried a

famous had learned from the spector Byrnes, He had Becker ar- rested and thrown into a cell. Satis- protested,

"Unless you tell me, I'll keep this fied that Monstein was not actually concerned in the woman's disappear-up forever. I'll keep it up until hell

freezes over," said the detective.

Near the end of the third hour Norkin gave a shriek of despair and pointed to a plot of ground they had passed repeatedly.

"There," he cried, "she is buried

cell ance he put that worthy in the

with with Becker

instructions to "pump" him to the limit. But Mon- stein did not have to do any pumping. he Becker wanted to talk and talk did. "It seemed to relieve his mind.-- "Jennie will never come back," he the confided to the stool pigeon in cell. "I paid two fellow to bump her off. They drove up in a chine, hit her on the head, with

near hammer and buried her automobile road in the Bronx.

When Monstein asked for further details, Becker said that Norkin did

$100. the killing for

The feeling was that it had been a "neat job' and the husband claimed that it would be impossible for the police to get anything on him.

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old

But he reckoned without his pal, Harry Monstein, whose first step, after being released, was to go

to Detective McCartin and tell him the whole story. The case was nearly complete, but McCartin

it would be useless to go before a jury until the body had been found and duly identifled." The statement that

knew

SHE-KO

FOR SORES.

there!"

The body was recovered and both Becker and Norkin went to the chair.

SCARCITY

OF COAL IN BERLIN

The scarcity of coal in Berlin, where shopkeepers now get one-third of their usual supply, has hit the population severe winter. terribly hard in this The ice has closed all canals, and the railways are used for supplies to the Western Front. In these circumstan- ces drastic action has been decided on.

Every Sunday, when railway traffic is not so great as on weekdays, speci- al trains will carry coal to the capital and all big towns. All members of the Nazi organizations, Including the Hit- ler Youth, are required to unload the trains voluntarily and take the coal to the retailers, from whom citizens must fetch it themselves. For a long time shopkeepers have not been allowed to deliver coal to their customers. The Eczema, itch, cold sores, pimples, only exception now is that the volun- ulcers, boils, plies, and other skin all-tary workers can deliver coal to in-

ments, all respond valids and old people. favourably to the There is also a scarcity of potatoes healing excellence in Berlin. Dealers get only one-half of She-Ko, the aro- the usual supply, and this is rendered matic ointment of more inconvenient because of the lack of all kinds of vegetables this winter.

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the Dr. Williams A Hamburg tavern-keeper named Medicine Company. Friedrich Riech has been sentenced to Also for minor in- three years' hard labour for listening juries such as cuts, to foreign broadcasts and allowing scratches, abrasions, burns, scalda, others to do the same. Apparently he

Ko la rapidly curative. It is sold and a circle of trusted, clients were hémists, everywhere.

the habit at tuning in to French tions and listening to the Goon R3 à stranger came in the curre was switched of.

Antiseptic - Curative

IN SYDNEY

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The war, with all its ramifications, is still spreading itself in incorrigible fashion over all the principal pages of the Australian newspapers, writes the Brisbane

of the correspondent "North-China Daily News." Even the national pastime, racing, seems to be getting far less of a spread than it merits. The first Australian shot of the war has been fired but it pans out to be far less than imagined on read- ing the news story. Port Darwin on the northern coast is the scene of the Incident.

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It appears that pearling lugger, making for port, refused to heave to when ordered, so a 6-inch shell was fired across her bow. The vessel stop- to ped, was examined and allowed proceed.

The master of the lugger said that he did not recognize the examining boat which ordered the ship to halt and so continued. The master was Japanese. Queried, he said he didn't understand.

Much more dramatic is the un- masking of a spy in Sydney. A crumpled piece of paper wiht a jum- ble of figures and letters was found in his office by a businessman. He gave the paper to the military intelligence officers who, in three days, broke the code.

The message was an accurate survey of the dispositions and lines of fire at one of the most Im- portant points of the constal de- fences of Australia.

The trail fed to an elderly woman, keeper of a boarding house, who had

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