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Show i i ' Pki i 1 I-im FXHHk"Ji I 1 Hi Fife ill KKr n ilwSSSSLCfc H j A URDER will out- r r-rT How many use this 7 ' expression dally with- out thinking 'what It C means? It Is applied to trivial matters in an ln- y definite way. Yet police , I I and detectives the world -OS V y r over are unanimous In V declaring that It is true: ; i also the believe that In nine cases out of ten l', the murderer wll' be caught. ' Archives of the various police departments of the United States show that In almost every Instan' e "iiurdcr will out." It may taKo a da, a month, a year, or a decade, but eVen- ; ' tuallv some loophole left by the murderer will ! km up and a case which had hererofore been a mstor, apparently without hope of solution. ; r. ill Ltcomo simple. j No m ittor how carefully the slayer has cov- rrf-d his 'rail No matter how immune ho Imag-; Imag-; 1'i v hiniseTf from cnptuic, the police say somc-,,ffic somc-,,ffic bo lms left a clow which, when found. 5 v ill lf.id to his cnptuie. f "nhr-c lecords of metropolitan cities teem with j nmrdo's and some of them arc unsolved, but. from a police viewpoint, this Is duo to the fact J that the loophole lef t . by the slayer has not been dIscocicd, but will be some da. Pc-. Pc-. rusal of the records show this anticipation Is j urli founded, for by far a majority of the crimes i hae been solved, and solved at a time when 3 sol ltior seemed almost Impossible. Iriecords also show that In many instances the mocst trifles have led to the capture of murderers mur-derers and sent them to the Penitentiary, elec-t elec-t trtc rhair and gallows. A letter, a gnarled root of a tree, an effort to hide a trivial bord a pair ofshoes, Initials on a pillow slip, a " Inpothetical solution by a noted author, all trifle In their vay, wore the moans of unraveling un-raveling some of the most noted murder mys-tenes mys-tenes the world has ever known. The nnllro Middle "vTcst. from the Mississippi Rnrr states to the Rocky Mountains, Is being searched, at this writing, May G, for that small I Illinois, Iowa. Missouri, Kansas and Oklahoma csppriallv are asking: """ What strange turn In the cards of fate will place Ora and Frank Lewis, the bandit slayers of Patrolman "William A. Dillon and Motor Cy- cle Officer John F. McKenna In SL Louis. Into the hands of Justice? Several week"? have passed since Ora shot and killed McKenna In the oll-fllllng station nt TVhlttler street and Delmar boulevard, and nn hour later assisted In beating Patrolman Dillon to death In the garage In the rear of j the Lewis home on Athlono avenue, and yet, nt this time of writing, thcro Is no tldlng3 as j to fho whereabouts of the fugitives. ,vj They disappeared as completely as though i swallowed up by the earth. Pinco they abandoned aban-doned tho murder auto on the lonely country' ' road, after burying the body of Dillon, all trace of them has been lost. Ask tho average civilian and he win say ! tbcro Is no chance of capturing the slayers :, AbI: any policeman or detective and he will declare most emphatically they cannot get awav. Fate has already played a large part In the career of the Lewis brothers. First came the mysterious woman's voice over tho telephone directing tho officers to a store to "got In-tj In-tj formation concerning the man who killed McKenna Mc-Kenna " This . resulted In the arrest of Roy LcwIh who admits his connection with the mur ders of McKenna and Dillon, and names his two brothers as principals In both crimes. Then came the two boys, who witnessed a part of the death struggle in which Dillon engaged 'ith the bandits, and furnished tho police with tho first definite Information of the time and Place Dillon was slain. Tp to the tlnrio the officers searched the Lewis home there was no description of any of tho toys. Tho stepfather, however, followed the trade of an Itlnorcnt photographer. In his Idle moments ho had taken pictures of the varloun members of the family. Police found a half dozen poses of the missing boys, and it was , these photographs which enabled tho police to send broadcast thousands of circulars bearing Pictures of tho fugitives. The only question In the minds of the police 5s where will they be found. Rovers since youth, the Lewis brothers are equally at home In Kansas or Illinois, where they ypent portions por-tions of their childhood, and have slnco mado It a stamping ground. Oklahoma, Iowa, and, in fact, almost any place along tho Mississippi to cast of tho Rockies, Is a familiar to the hardlts as the streets of his city are to a native. That they will bo found Is not questioned by the- police, and, strange as It may seem, they ba-c this conclusion on well-founded sequences and point out that somo of the most notable f murder cases the world has ever known have ' been solved thiough the most trivial items. One of tho most notable cases solved through a trifle was tho famous "Lamp Elack Swamp" mystery, which hold New York and New Jer-j Jer-j fey police In throes of excitement for several 1 daT. come six or eight years ago. A laborer en route to work one cold winter morning found tho body of a nude woman, the ' back of her head crushed, fringed In by thin f Ico which had formed over night In the Lamp t Black Swamp, near Harrison, N. J. The swamp I derived its name from a factor?' on its banks hleh pumped Hh black waste into the swamp. ' A hundred yards below tho body tho woman's r clothing was found. The garments were wrapped m a neat bundle and weighted down with a '; tone. I . The suit was tailor made and braided. With 1 this braid as a clew, pollco and reporters start- II d out In quest of the Identity of the mur-M mur-M dered woman. The man who designed the WJ biald was found In. twenty-four hours, and r through him tho manufacturer of tho coaL It HL aa ihen traced, to tho etore, thence J.0 th wr W X-:1 A Letter Solved Mystery, woman who purchased it back to the alteration altera-tion department of the store, and back again to another woman, who Identified It as avcoat sold to Mrs Belle Vhlttcmoie of New York. This work required about four days. The body was then identified by a sister of the slain woman and a man was arrested for the murder. mur-der. The entir-ec'se was cleared thiough the biakl on the coat, The execution of Hans Schmidt, the unfrocked clergyman of New York, In the electric chair In the death house at Sing Sing Prison, adds another an-other link to tlie chain of circumstances to which detectives the world over point to bear out their contention that murder will out. Speak to the average detective of a mystery and he will laugh. "Yes It Is mysterious, but It will be cleared." will be the answer from nine out of ten of the men who enjoy fume and fortune for their ability abil-ity to track evildoers and unravel mysteries, before be-fore which the average man would stand appalled. ap-palled. The detectives believe, and a perusal of the records In tho big bureaus of the world prove the claim, that somewhere, somehow, the perpetrator of the crime, has left a trail to his identity and the solution of the matter only waits on them finding that tell-tale clow. In many Instances, and this has been true In some of tho most notable tiagedles that nave engaged the attention of the world In the last half century, the clew which led to the arrest and conviction of tho culprit camo from the moat Insignificant things, which in all probability would have been overlooked by any but an experienced man-hunter. The murder of .Anna Aumuellcr, the crime for which Hans Schmidt paid tho penalty wltn his life, was a typical crime of New York, but iho barbarity of It caused a shudder even In New York, where unusual crimes for other parts of tho world are not out of tho ordinary. The dismembered body of tho girl was found floating In the Hudson River opposite "Wood-cliff, "Wood-cliff, N. J. Tho head was never found and for a time It looked as though the Now York police had a mystery which was more than "worthy of their steel." From Initials found on a. pillow slip with which a portion of the body was wrapped, the police In ten days managed to Identify the girl as a former maid In the rectory of St. Boniface's Church, Working from this foundation tho ponce arrested scnmuu anu mier nc maue a complete confession of tho crime. He first desired to plead guilty, but later changed his mind and an effort was made to show that he was insane. This failed. St. Louis was the stage on which three murder mur-der mysteries wore unraveled that surprised tho entire country. A letter, a gnarled root and a desire to give bond wero the threads which led to a chain of evidence which sent two men to tho gallowo and a third to tho Penitentiary Pen-itentiary for crimes which looked to be unfathomable. un-fathomable. It was a lotter, written In an effort to throw the police from his trail, which sent Walter H Lennox Maxwell to his death on the gallows gal-lows for the murder of Arthur Proller. Both men were Englishmen and this, coupled with tho crime, md.de It a matter of International Importance. Im-portance. Maxwell, whose right name was Hugh Mot-tram Mot-tram Brooks, was the no'er-do-wcll scion of a well-to-do English family, and lived largely by his wits, posing as a physician with the aid of r medical diploma which he had himself him-self drafted, , His victim, Charlc3 Arthur Prel-lor, Prel-lor, a wealthy English silk manufacturer and salesman, had befriended Maxwell, as ho was known here, and It was this benevolence which resulted in bis murder. April 14, 18S5, the body of an unidentified man was found In a trunk in a. room at the old Southern Hotel. Later it was identified as Proficr. and then It developed that Maxwell, Max-well, with whom Prcller shared his sulto at the hotel, was missing. Tho police were convinced con-vinced thnt Maxwell waB the slayer, but where was Maxwell? Clew after clew was followed down without result. Days lengthened Into weekB and the police learned of a letter written In French and signed T. C. D'Auglor, which had been left In a conspicuous place In the "Palace Hotol at San Francisco. D'Auglcr, the pollco learned, had posed at the hotel as a military authority from Franc. Investigation showed that D'Auglor, the writer of the letter, which had given an intimation inti-mation that Maxwell was In "Boston, from which city he had come to St. Louis to meet tho man he afterward slew, and Maxwell were one and tho same. D'Augler, it was learned, had sailed from San Francisco April 12, 1885 on a steamer bound for Auckland, New Zealand.' Cables were rare and coBtly In taoaa day i but the police were determined Maxwell should be brought to Justice and a cablegram costing J-i-12 50 was sent to the American consul at Auckland asking tho arrest at Auckland of Maxwell. For many years this cablegram stood at tho head a3 the most costly ever sent, but' In these days of frenzied finance It has dropped back. The ship was boarded In tho Auckland Harbor Har-bor by the consul and the properly constituted consti-tuted authorities. D'Auglcr, a3 Maxwell was known on .the ship, denied strenuously that he was Maxwell. Unfoitunatcly for him, however, how-ever, he removed his hat during the parley and the quick ees of the consul saw the label of a St. Louis hat storo In It. That settled tho argument Maxwell was taken Into custody cus-tody and later admitted his Identity. Detectives De-tectives Tracy, Badger and Tucker, all since dead, wero sent to bring tho culprit back. The trip cost more than $1500. A bitter legal fight wms waged for nearly two jcars In an effort to sae Maxwell from the gallows, but It failed, and. August 10, 1SSS. ho was hanged. It was a desire on the part of II. H. Holmes, known to the police of tho United States as the greatest murder monster produced In the last century, to give bond for a trivial offense of-fense charged against him that brought to J&W ! I I -I fMRA pili- 1, . Shoes a Clew to Identity. light a scries of wholesale murders In several cities, and which eventually cent 'MonBter Holmes," as he was known, to the gallows In Philadelphia. Under the namo of II. II. Holmes, though ho had a score of aliases, Holmes had bought a drug store. Before ho had paid for It ho sold It and as he was about to take a train he was taken Into custody on a chargo of disposing dis-posing of mortgaged chattels. Holmes was placed In Jail and his cellmate was Marlon Hcdgepcth, a notorious train rob-Dcr rob-Dcr and bandit of that day. October 9, 1894, Hedgepcth bent word to the chief of police that he would Uko to have a conforenco with him. It was granted. Hedgepcth realized tho Penitentiary for llfo was tho best ho could expect.1 It was agreed that If a sentence of twenty-flvo years was guaranteed him ho would "turn up" to the pollco tho greatest crim inal monster of the ago. Holmes was at that moment on a train speeding speed-ing for the East, having gained his liberty on a bond obtained through Ilcdgcpeth. The rcvo-" latlons of Hedgepcth were gicn rapidly and In time to stop the train at East St. Louis. Holmes was taken Into custody there and returned to St. Louis Hedgopeth had Informed the pollco that while In the cell with Holmes tho latter had asked him to got a bondsman for him and. In showing how he could readily glvo him a goodly sum for the favor, once ho was at liberty, lib-erty, unfolded how ho had killed people to get Insurance which had been placed on their llvey. With tho arrest of Holmes an Investigation started tho developments which shocked tho world. Men, women and children had been slain by Holmes forjnsuranco which ho had placed on their lives. One entlro family had been slain bv him. His houso In Chicago, known as "Holmes Castle," and tho "House of Mystery, ' gave up much silent evldenco of tho crimes committed com-mitted within its walls. Philadelphia had also been In tho path of Holmes, and several murders mur-ders had been committed there How many persons met death at tho hands of Holmes was never learned. It was vailously estimated from a score to a hundred. Eventually Holmes was turned over to the Philadelphia authorities and hanged In the Jail yard there May 7. lb'JG. But for Marlon Hedgepcth and tho desire for bond thore la no telling whon he would have fallen Into the clutches of the law. Frederick Seymour Barrlngton, bogus English Eng-lish lord, owes his Incarceration in tho Penitentiary, Peni-tentiary, where ho Is now serving llfo Imprisonment Impris-onment for tho murder of James McCann wealthy racehorse man, to the gnarled root of a troo which hold tenaciously to tho mud-mlrcd mud-mlrcd banks of an abandoned rock quarry. Barrlngton becamo known as a private emissary emis-sary of tho EngllBh crown. Ho was wined feted and dined. Tho lord had troublo In receiving re-ceiving his remittances and when ho had borrowed bor-rowed money from several :ncn and still had not received his remittance, an Investigation started and tho lord soon became a person of no consequence. Ho finally took up his abode In a small boarding board-ing place, ne continued posing as a lord, and after a short courtship married Miss Wllhol'mlna Cochrane of Kansas City. Miss Cochrane had a brother who was wiser In tho ways of tho world than she, and, believing her the victim of an- imposUr, kicked tho bogus lord lnto-th street Barrlngton was then haled Into court and was fined ?500. He went to the Workhous" in lieu of It. This aroused a storm of indignation. He accepted ac-cepted a parolo and went to work for a man named Gillespie, who at that time ran a chain of saloons. A saloon was opened and a hugo sign placed over tho door on which was run the legend, "Lord Barrlngton's Buffet." Barrlngton, dressed In evening clothes and a silk hat, promenaded up and down outside the i bar. Thousands flocked to the place. Gillespie Liter dropped tho lord and said that he had found him tampering with tho cash register and that he believed he had designs on the llfo of Gillesplo. Ono night, while Barrlngton was in tho bar, McCann, whom he was afterwards convicted of murdering, walked into the saloon. .McCann bought the lord a drink and remarked: "I don't think they gave you a square deal Barrlngton. and I feel sorry for you, so here'n fifty to tldo you over." McCann provided for Barrlngton In a hotel which he operated In the West End and after that Barrlngton and McCann were constant companions. At the races, theaters, saloons, billiard halls and othor places Barrlngton was seen In company with McCann, who was footing all tho bills. Ono evening at tne hotel Mrs. McCann complained com-plained of a headache and McCann and Barrlngton Bar-rlngton started for tho drug store to get something to alleviate It. McCann never returned. re-turned. Mrs. McCann reported the disappearance disappear-ance of her husband to tho police. Barrlngton was taken to headquarters, where he was cross-questioned without result. He told of a fight between a man, two women and McCann. Barrlngton said he attempted to aid McCann but was bcaton Into Insensibility and. as ho fell, ho saw McCann entor the caniago and drive off. Police and reporters accompanied accompan-ied "the lord" to the scene. The grass was trampled and there wore many footprints In the yielding giound, softened by a torrential rain of the preceding night. Barrlngton was released, without having even been placed In a cell. The disappearance of McCann was a nine-day mystery and was then forgotten, save by the widow. With the coming of late spring tho flood walera which had backed up from the MIs-souil MIs-souil and overflowed tho vicinity of Bonflls Body Held by Tree Root began to icccde. One day tho afternoon papers 1 carried a four-lino Item to the offect the nudo body of an unidentified man had been found In an abandoned quarry. Gratiot Cabanno, a special officer, who had Investigated the disappearanco of McCann. saw the item. He hurried to tho McCann home. The body, the foot of which had boon caught In the crotch of a gnailcd tree root, Jiad been exposed by the receding water. It had been burled near the spot, but was exhumed and Identified by Mrs. McCann. as that of her husband. hus-band. There wero four bullet holes In tho back of tho head, and tho face had been disfigured, dis-figured, evidently with a razor. In an effort to prevent any chance of Identification. After the Identification Cabanno hurried to the McCann home, whore tho lord was still domiciled. There was an express wagon standing stand-ing at tho door, and as ho entered he met Barrlngton and tho expressman carrying Barrlngton's Bar-rlngton's trunk downstairs. Tho lord was taken Into custody and sent to the Mounted District Station. Later ho was taken to Pollco Headquarters. Head-quarters. As ho left the patrol wagon a watch and ring which wero later identified as the properly of the murdered man, wero found on tho mud guards Other property which was said to belong to McCann was found in the possession of Barrlngton. Investigation resulted In showing that Barrlngton Bar-rlngton was an English criminal with a long record at Scotland Yards. Pieco by piece tho officers built up a caso against him, and when ho waH trlod a Jury found him guilty of slaying slay-ing McCann and fixed his punishment at death. Barrlngton contended that McCann still lived and that tho Identification waa not complote. He also donled that he and "Burgoyne," as tho English criminal was known, wore ono and tho same. Tho telltalo finger prints of Burgoyne, tnkon In Scotland Yards, and tho oncB of Barrlngton wero Identical, however. c Many sided with Barrlngton In tho opinion n that tho Identification of McCann's body by a tho widow was not sufficiently complete to s warrant tho state exacting Barrlngton's llfo, and Joseph Folk, then governor, commutod tho s death sentence to life Imprisonment. Detec- tlves, however, aro convinced that tho body o was that of McCann, who was never heard " from. s Tho- importance- of the -gnarled root Is shown t OHA LEWIS Wanted on Murder Charge. by the intention of the murderer. He had thrown the body Into tho abandoned quarry after disfiguring the face. The quarry was filled with flood water; from the Missouri River. When It receded the body of the victim would float out Into the river and bo whirled away In tho flotsam and Jetsam into tho Mississippi. But the gnarled root hidden by the murky flood waters clutched the foot of the slain man and exposed the crime. Had the slayers of Pearl Bryan removed the shoes from her feet after they had cut off her head It Is more than probable the murder of tho little country girl would have gone unpunished un-punished and her decapitated body been consigned con-signed to tho grave cf an unknown in somo cemetery or the Potters Field. This was another an-other crime which riveted national attention and for a time proved one of the most difficult dif-ficult that Cincinnati, Ohio, and Newport, Ky., officials ever grappled with. It was a frosty fall morning In the early 90s that John Huck, a farmer boy, driving to market mar-ket with, a load of garden truck, discovered the body of a headless woman lying on tho road ulmost under the guns of Fort Thomas, a military reservation near Newport, Ky Tho head had been severed as though by the hand of a practiced surgeon, but otherwise tho body wns not mutilated Tho trunk was 'taken to an undertaker's In Newport, Ky.. and during the next ten days thousands flocked to view the headless body In an cfTort to Identify It. At that tlmo It was estimated that In ono day moro than 10,-000 10,-000 persons from neighboring cities viewed tho body It was toward tho close of the second week when hope of over Identifying the body had about been abandoned that a shoo manufacturer manu-facturer out of ldlo curiosity followed tho stream of humanity into the undertaking room where tho body waa still on view. His gazo riveted on tho shoes. 'I mado thoso shoes In my factory." ho said to tho undertaker, "and I believe the girl can bo Identified by them, aB they are 'a stylo I have only been manufacturing a short time, I think." ' A' V V Initial cm Pillnin Sslin n CIpiil H A wire to the factory revealed that but two 1 :ofcs had been sold. Ono had been sold to i l dealer In Indianapolis, Ind., and another to i I dcalor In Greoncastle. Ind. Both trips aro t hort ones from Newport. r Tho Indianapolis dealer had his case In re- t erve stock and It had not oven been oponed. U Greencastle three pairs had been sold. One 1 f them had been charged, but who had pur- r based tho other two pairs? A clerk In tho v tore was shown one of the shoes taken from t no headless bodv, 2 Fl?ANK , LEWIS H Without an Instant hesitation he said: "That's IH Pearl Bryan's shoe. She Is the only girl In KH town with a foot that small." Hl Tho Bryan home was on tho outskirts of fll the city. Dusk was falling when Detectives jH Cal Grim and Jack McDermott of the Cln- H clnnatl (Ohio) forco, with half a dozen, re- porters from various metropolitan dally news- H papers, knocked at tho door. It was opened IH by a man of the sturdy-farmer type, wfio little reckonod the harbinger of woo which was to QH greet him. H In answer to a question as to the where- jH abouts of'hls daughter. Pearl, he said, that she IH was In Indianapolis and that he had received a IH letter from her that morning. Then tha IH garments which had bcon taken from tho fll headless body In the Newport undertaking Bl rooms wero shown him, and he Identified them 1 as belonging to Pearl. H A slstor of tho murdered girl accompanied H tho officers flack to Newport and mado the ll Identification of tho body complete. Tho letter writer In Indianapolis, who had Imitated tho handwriting of the girl so as to deceive even H her parents, proved to be a relative. TtaveB- H tlgatlon revealed the country girl had loved iH well but not wlsoly a dapper city youth, Scott 1 Jackson, a dental student, who had spent his H vacation at the homo of a sister in Green- , H When tho country girl had appealed to him IH to aid her In her distress he induced her to H como to Cincinnati, whero sho had mot Alonzo H Walling, another student and bosom chum of jjl Jackson. Then tho relative was drawn into jH the plot and ho wrote the letters from In- IH dianapolls indicating the girl was there on a H visit to friends. Failing In their purpose to H assist tho girl,, Jackson and "Walling took her (IH for a drive on the lonely Fort Thomas road and 1 cut off her head. H Jackson and Walling were arrested In a Y. M. C. A. meeting. They narrowed. tho crime H to themselves when arrested, each declaring' ll tho other had killed the klrl. They made a M litter fight to prevent being taken from CIncIn- H latl, whero they were arrcstpd, to Kentucky, vhoro tho muider was committed. This waa ascd on tho ground tho girl died from drugs H md thoy had cut off tho head to conceal iden- H lty. The condition of tho road and tho leaves H I'hero tho body was found showed, however, H n the opinion of exports, that she had been ll nurdered, and after a weary legal fight they H ,-ero transferred to Nowport, where they wer H rled, found guilty and hanged, March 19, 1897. l 'ho relative was .given his liberty for his aid. sLM |