an ali unusually mur hur ivr it was t lie great I french rench P detective who declared that if lie fi found ou nd it shirt hirt button on oil the sidewalk he could in an hour find the shirt from ivich it had fallen we YC arc are reminded of that saying by a it bk very clever piece bece of detective detectives skill ill recently exhibited in new now jers jersey ff in connection with a murder of sa s1 singular fl matroci atrocity ty A short time ago the tile bodt body of f a woman her face crushed beyond recognition waa was accidentally ci discovered in a lonely wood near the new tersey shore at first tho the only clew to her identity her clothing put the police on of P a wrong scent and they arrested a man for tho the crime crime he however readily produced alivo alive an and dwell well theroman the woman whom lie was accused of having slain and the detectives had to begin their work over again their clew was now flow reduced reduce to an empty rl ine wine bottle found near the tile b body d which apparently afforded as slig slight OCT vt a trail as the shirt button but by the aid of the bottle the assassin was run to earth the police assumed th that a t the deceased or her murt murderer lerer or both had brought the bottle t to tile spot and drank the contents conten tt the next step therefore was to find out to wl whom aiom the wine had been sold and for this purpose every saloonkeeper saloon keeper for formilia for miles milca around wag was visited at length a retail liquor dealer named edward sabel remembered that he had disposed of such a bottle of wino wine to a woman who had anfor informed in him that she had just been married by the rev dr mabon and wanted to treat the minister as she and her husband were about to depart for franco france the saloon keepers description of the dress drew worn wom bythe by the woman tallied with that on off the corpse and he lie likewise wise remembered having seen a man waiting for her outside the police next visited the rev dr mabon who recollected having m married a couple on may ad and that after tile ceremony the woman departed and presently returned with a bottle orwine of wine and insisted on his taking a glass the new york address given by the tile pair a i r was next visited visite dand and th ere all about b j u t mr and mrs kettler Kettl cr the supposed assassin and victim was discovered it was nest next found that the couple had passage in the amerique which sa sailed r ailed on oil the ath dinst but they did not go and so kettler cr who proves to be the mur derer lost his only chance ofa of escape caa on the ad dinst the pair went out T fl in fensten fhi dir kiino t j tedy IM e wa was s ioanu no ma cretu returned rnea alone and his manner was excited the police easily captured him and he partially admitted hia his guilt opinions ns differ as to the motive chic which impelled the crime the police impute it to plunder but the cause may have been other from that as before the marriage mentioned kettler had a living wife and the murdered woman a living husband A motive for the murder is sought in ill this connection of course alie alleged marriage arriage by dr mabon was no marriage at all tile ceremony was simply void in law in various aspects the case belongs to the romance of crime jn deded tives philosophy there arc are no such things as trifles even an empty bottle is significant