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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1928.

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CANARY MURDER CASE

S.VAN DINE AUTHOR THE BENSON MURDER CASE

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PHILO VANCE JOIN F-X: MARKHAM, District Attorney of New York County MARGARET ODELL (THE

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posed Vance, did you take a good look at the inside door-knob of that clothes-press 7"

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[the effort resulted only in twisting" "I say, 'Captain. Dubois," Inter-circle, and orchestra stalls.

the overhang of the lid. But the steel chisel was inserted. with a knowledge of the correct point of oscillation, where a minimum of leverage would produce the counter acting stress necessary to displace Pre lockbolts."

"A professional job?" suggested Heath.

"Highly so," answered the in-i aspetor, again inking. "That is to say, the forcing of the lock was

TONY SKEEL, a professional hur-professional. And I would even

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go so far as to advance the opinion JESSUP,that the instrument used was one especially constructed for such il- legal purposes."

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yellow powder over the inside knob. The mun swung about abruptly. When he had blown the loose par- and gave Vance a glowering look.ticles away, he bent over it with "People ain't in, the habit of his magnifying-glass. At length handling the inside knobs of closet he straightened up, and gave Vance duora. They open and shut closets a look of ill-natured appraisal, from the outside."

Vance raised his eyebrows in simulated astonishment,

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"There's fresh prints on it, all right," he grudgingly admitted; "and unless I'm mistaken they were- "Do they, new, re. y-Faney made by the surne hand as those on that! Still, don't y'know, the table. Both thumb-marks are if one, were aside the closet, one uthar loops, and the Index-fingers are both whorl patterns.... Here,

The submarine F14 has been couldn't. reach the outside knob,"

"The people know don't shut Pele," he ordered the photographer, themselves in clothes-closets." Du- "make some shots of that knob. located. The destroyer Aquila is had been done, anchored near the spot and de- When this Could this have done the job?" bois's tone was pandorously sar-

Dubois, Bellamy, and the photo-spite the unfavourable weather castic.

has succeeded in installing a tuhe Heath held out the noker.

The other looked at it closely,

"You positively amaze me de-grapher left us.

A few moments later, after an to supply air to the submarine and and turned it. over several times.elared Vance. All the people 1

I might have been the instru- know are addicted to the habita interchange of pleruantries, Inspec- fasten a steel cable to the hull. THE STORY THUS FAR

ment that bent the cover, but it was sort of daily pastime, don't y' tar Moran also departed. At the Communiention is still maintained door he passed two men in the with the crew of the submarine It was the jewel case that puz-not the one used for prying open now."

Markham, always diplomatic, In-white uniform of internes, who had whose afterpart is damaged, zled Vance. I was found in the the lock. This poker la cast iran

come to take away the girl's body. | Reuter..

(To Be Continued.) · apartment not far from the stran and would have stamped under any tervened.

"What idea have you about that gled body of Margaret Odell, the great pressure, whereas this box beautiful, stage star known as the of cold rolled eighteen-gange closet, Vance?"

"Alas! I wish I had one," was "Canary." The case looked as ifted plate, with an inset, cylinder someone had first tried to open it pin-timber lock taking a paracenthe dolorous answer. "It's because with a poker and then had suc-tric key. The leverage force neces. I can't, for the life of me, make ceeded in opening it with a chisel.sary toistort the flange sufficiently sense of its neat and orderly ap- Vance, Markham's friend, and a to lift the lid could have been made pearance that I'm an interested in student 1 cris psychology, only by a steel chisel." thinks it most peculiar.

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CHAPTER VI.

"Well, that's Baat Heath seemed well satisfied, with Inspec ter Brenner's conclusion. "I'll dend the box down to you, Professor, and Deputy-inspector Conrad Bren-you can let me know what else you ner was on of that small army find out."

" take it along, if you have of "cbscure, but highly capable ex- perts who are conneeled with eno objection." And the little man New York police department, and tucked it under his arm and Heath grinned at Markham. who are constantly being consult-shuffled out, without another word. ed on abstruse technical problems, but whose names and achieve.Queer bird. He ain't happy un- ments rarely get into the public less he's measuring jimmy marks on doors and windows and things. prints.

He couldn't wait till I sent him His speciality was locks and bur-the box. He'll hold it lovingly on ginrs' tools; and I doubt if, even his lap all the way down in the antong these exhaustively pains-subway, like a mother with a baby." taking criminologists of the Uni-i Vance was still standing near the versity of Lausanne, there was a dressing-table, gazing perplexedly more accurate reader of the evi- into space.

dential signs left by the imple- "Markham," he said, "the con- ments" of house-breakers. In apdition of that jewel-enso is posi- pearance and bearing he was like tively astounding. It's unreason- a withered little college professorable, illegient-insane. It compil His black, unpressed suit was old-cates the situation moet damnably. -fashioned in cut; and he wore a That steel box simply couldn't have

very high stiff collar, with a narrow been chiselled on by a profes black string tie. His gold-rimmed donul burglar and Jet specteles were so thick-lensed that don't y' know, it netually was." the pupils of his eyes gave the im- Befiae Markham could reply, a pression of acute belladonna poison-satisfied grunt. from Captain Dubois ing.

attracted our attention. When Heath had spoken to him, Pre gat something for you, Ser- he merely stood staring with geant," he announced.

We moved expectantly into the 'sort of detached expectancy; he seemed utterly unwire that there living-room. Dubois was bending was any one cise in the room. The over the end of the library-table sergeant, evidently familiar with almost directly behind the place the little man's idiosyncrasies of where Margaret Odell's body lind 'manner, did not wait for a response; been found.

blt started at once for the bed Ile took out an insuflator, which was like a very small hand-bellowa

room.

"This way, please, Professor," he and blew a fine light-yellow powder directed, cajolingly, going to the evenly over about a square foot of dressing table and weking, up the the polished rosewood surface of jewel-case. "Take a squint at this, the table-top. Then he gently blew and tell me what you see!

away the surplus powder, and there

Inspector Brenner followed appeared the impression of a hu Heath, without looking to right or man hand distinctly registered in left, and, taking the jewel case, saffron.

The bulb of the thumb and each went silently to the window and began to examine it, Vance, whose fleshy hummock between the joints interest seemed suddenly to be re-lof the fingers and around the palm awakened, came forward and stood stood out like tiny circular talands. watching him,

All the papillary ridges were clear-

For fully five minutes the littlely discernible, The photographer | expert inspected the case, holding then hooked his camera to a po It within a few inches of hla my-cullar adjustable tripod and, care- opic eyes. Then he lifted his fully focusing his lens, took two glance to Heath and winked several flash-light pictures of the hand-

mark. times rapidly.

This ought to do." Dubois was "Two instruments were used in opening this case." His voico was picased with his find. "It's the small and high-pitched, but there right hand-a elour print-and the was In it an undeniable quality of guy who made it was standing And authority, "One bent the lid and right behind the dame.... made several fractures on the it's the newest print in the place." baked enamel. The ether was, I "What about this box?" Henth should say, a steel chisel of some pointed to the black document-box kind, and was used to break the on the table near the overturned

Jamp. lock.

"The first instrument, which was "Not a mark-wiped clean,"

Dubois began putting away his blunt, was employed amateurishly at the wrong angle of leverage; and paraphernalia,

it. Really, y' know, it should have.

een artistically looled."

Heath was not entirely free from the same vague misgivings that were disturbing Vance, for he turned to Dubols and said:

"You might ge over the knob, Captain. As this gentleman says, there's something funny about the condition of that closet.

Dubois, silent and surly, went to the closet door and sprayed his

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