Show CLEWS THAT SOLVED MYSTERIOUS CRIMES T P OConnor M P in Chicago Tribune One recent murder me of a castS that made an immense sensation in France three years after Waterloo In the year 1515 a M Mar Martin tin receiver of at was murdered on the high road and at mid ta turning to lila home Time motive for forthe the criMe was obviously robbery as M Martins purse his watch and his ring were curried oft by hIs Though the murder was committed on the public ih broad cay light no one the crime hoard the shot or n in the neighborhood any stranger After the most exhaustive tion outly a slight single and was by the p Part of the taper wadding with which the charge of time gun had been rammed down was found in the a of stained on the with blood and beneath with powder but underneath these stains some writ lug ivan discerned of a curiously character Under tim date of 1503 words and phrases which were used only In glass manufacture became legible Armed with this little bit of blackened and paper the police interviewed the proprietor of a glass factory and begged to hr allowed to inspect his bo ks Under date of 1803 they found an entry of the of some glaur of which the fragment of waddIng was of the invoice This suggested to the do a suspicion of the of the proprietor who had been for ten years out of the country Search was made for and he was found ott his kneen in prayer When lie hot only confessed the crime but showed the officers the missing watch ring it is find a similar case re reported ported thus In Lord Amiee dote Book I remember Fi One ease where I was for a long time I Ithe the evidence did not to touch I Ithe the at all and lie d him with the most perfect seeming to think himself soft At tact time surgeon wa who stated that tim deceased I killed by shot a gunshot In the head and ho the matted hair and stuff cut from and taken out of the wound it was all hardened with blood A basin of warm water was Into court and as time blood was willy a piece of pa paper per wadding of the gun which proved t be tle half of ii ballad halt had be found h w tlc en d nother odd case for conviction I taken hp twelve rears he hat e deJe and though was he found Twelve years afterward the pf the mur tIered nian was in a public home He ZeU was cued by some one picking his pocket Ji started Good God man that brother twelve years ago The mUrderer had en enlisted listed as a soldier and gone to India after the deed was corn and he had just landed at Liv Liverpool on the first act was to pick the pocket of the brother 2000 track Ia years before Scotland would no doubt scorn to take Sir Dole into Its coun ads ms an American detective consult H L Stevenson Arthur Johnstone in his Stevenson In the Pacific tells time sat together auto evening in the veranda of an inn at Waikiki the detective confided to case of difficulty he bath in hand and also his theory of It As Stevenson hardly seemed to attend for ho sat looking dreamily at the seat the detective left him to have a chat with the more so landlord On his return to the Veranda however Stevenson suddenly roused himself to say I think I have that riddle of yours You see its just like writing a story If you go at it It vilI work out all allright right your theory does not do doat at all because it will never work out outLet Let you my thern of tue case aM then tell mc what you think of It Tile did not at first think anythIng of theory of the case It was daring even for a the and dangerous to work if It did not happen to come off But on think lug It well over with shin Ang eyes fixed intently on face the beean to believe there was something In It When Stevenson at last asked triumphantly Well he replied Well sir I shall try your the theory ory but if it don t win you and I will lose between us the 1000 fee I am to tobe be paid for a conviction At this Stevenson laughed and said Sir if II I pay you the 1000 and throw you the theory for nothing it won |