Show BRAINLESSCRIME The latest burglary mystery Is not a mystery at all The police believed It was and they were unhappy Their hands are pretty full of unexplained mysteries already and they did l not want another The critical reader may ask how mysteries could be In the hands of the police but If he knows the Brooklyn police he will not ask any such foolish question The detectives unravel mysteries by main strength and foolishness rather than by the use of their minds Everyone knows how easy It Is to unravel a tangled cord by I taking hold ot one and pulling That is the way we unravel mysteries herewith here-with the hanUs But the police are happy because Herbert McConnell the clerk who was found bound In Win dolphs drug store In Flatbush avenue has confessed that he let a fellow clerk tie the ropes about him and pound his face black and blue so that their employer em-ployer might believe that It was outside out-side burglars who had robbed the cash drawer rather than the clerks themselves them-selves The brilliancy of McConnells Intellect Is not dimmed by the brilliancy bril-liancy of the police intellect When McConnell is released from prison at the end of the sentence which he Will surely receive he could make a living In a dime museum as the champion fool of seventeen counties Men and women who have robbed a housfe in which they lived have tied their own hands to lead the owners of the property to believe that some other person was guilty of the crime but It Is a long time since anyone consented to be beaten by a partner In crime for the sake of diverting di-verting suspicion That Is what McConnell Mc-Connell consented to We should like to get a full confession from the other clerk before forming a final conclusion on the motives which led to the robbery rob-bery It is possible that the otherclerk was a man of brains It may be that he had a grudge against McConnell and wanted to give him a good thrashing without running any risk of physical harm himself It Is possible that he proposed the scheme of robbery for the sake of getting the opportunity ot bruising McConnell It Is easy to Imagine Im-agine the glee with which he sent his fists flying about McConnells head after the latters hand were tied The police should concentrate what little brains there may be in the detective force and see If they cannot discover the grudge which would Induce the unharmed un-harmed clerk to assault his fellow employee em-ployee BrooklynEagle Senator Hill la I quoted as saying to a boy at Jamesport When you are old enough to vote I am afraid 1 will bo out of politics entirely The boy Is 12 years old so that the Senator gives himself nine years leeway If some people In this State have their way ho will bu out ot It long before that Ill ooklyu Express ExSenator Conger of Michigan who fifteen years ago was one of the lenders of the Republican party Is now a poor man living In Washington Two ytars ago Mrs Conger died leaving the aged exSenator an annuity of Jiuu a month The executors of tho estate It seems however have not paid tho annuity tot almost a year The other day ho won his suit and the courts ordered the executors to pay the money duo or go to Jail Mr Conger Is now 74 years old One of the greatest speeches which he ever delivered was that at the Chicago convention In KM |