Salt Lake Telegram | 1931-04-16 | Page 19 | Mater Strokes of Great Detectives

7 s astir aster Strokes of Great Detectives ts I t By G GL GEORGE BARTON 1 General and the Hollow Canes Si On February 5 1880 the Czar r o of Russia arranged a 3 splendid dinner a at ate e winter palace in St. St Petersburg Petersburgh h t L honor of the Pr Prince nee of Bulgaria O was a state affair and all of oC the Details falls taUs were planned on a A. scale o of oC grandeur It W deur commensurate with the thet thet t t of oC the Russian empire Five Fi minutes before the g gusts guests ts asS as- as S in the tho state dining room Mere ere was an n explosion which pierced ate ie stone floors and made a gap tenet ten tenet et long and six feet wide vide in the dinIS din din- H IS Ig hall hail where the table had been Nt t for dinner The explosion killed I the ve e police guards and Injured thirty thirty- I ve jve vc others 3 s The Czar and his ro royal y al guests had hart Reaped death as if it by a miracle t. t General the chief of police A it St. St Petersburg was charged with tusk task of solving the mystery m of the th pl and of r bringing the i gu guilty ty tyl l Justice It would have been a hard isk isk in any circumstances but it was glade still stUl more difficult because of oC sic vo c fact that at that time lime the palace bused used several thousand persons attendants servants and of or all kinds came and went h k swarms arms The first clue curiously enough lame mc from the tho outside One of oC the eret cret police informed General Trept Tf tt t that a number of or men had been beenen beensen sen een en in the vicinity of the palace Carrying bamboo canes His response ame like the crack of a pistol 3 Arrest every everyone one of oC them and firing them before Core me mel I I Fourteen of them were rounded up hey alley were ere searched but nothing In- In was found on them But Buthen then hen It came to the canes It was Afferent Each one proved to be ollow and contained a sheet of Uslie Us- Us ue lie paper on which was printed a call callor callor or Dr a meeting of revolutionists One Onet f t the prisoners being put to tor- tor revealed rc the names of several f f his associates One of these was victor the son of or a peas- peas nt and a man of great ability His earns were searched and in the rawer of a It cabinet they found a of plans of or the winter pal- pal cc ce It was v. v worn orn and frayed as If It lad cad been carried about for some time lost significant of all the lines indi- indi Ung the great dining hall were verc with a a. cross Thus was connected with he explosion of February 5 IMO 1850 While the police were scouring tie ie cIty and suburbs In an att attempt a find the man they discovered a aIt ait ait it of paper in the basement of the alace on which was written Do not delay longer longcr The time as come to act This paper pape corresponded with bits f t f paper that were found in Chal- Chal room The case against him to be complete Over two ears later later-ht later In March 1883 he 1882 he was nested He was tried speedily and n the of or that month convicted ad rid executed It was some time after that that le 18 authorities learned he had made Is way to the palace by represent- represent ig tg himself as a carpenter who had hadeen haden sen en sent there to make repairs He that the tho emperors emperor's din din- g tg room was above the cellar in the carpenters were at work though between it and the cellar sere lere was a guard room used by the of the palace lived in the palace for early arly four months and every night nights 3 s used a package of dynamite for forIs foris Is 13 pillow pUlow At least a a. dozen men had misted in smuggling in the vc ve For instance If 11 the baker In the orning lorning would hand a A. couple of rge rolls to it would ex- ex te no comment and yet the Inno- Inno nt bread was but a cover er for dyna- dyna lite Ite Some of it was hidden in car- car tools some in the lining of caps said that while he was in inie into into to ie basement of the palace he suf- suf red d frightfully from headaches hick were caused b by the poisonous of the nitroglycerine on hick he rested every night When 1 arrived fifty kilograms the stuff had been Introduced and andie ie to counterfeit carpenter was in a to go ahead with his deadly ork ark The signal came from the ex- ex committee and the explosion Mowed escaped with his life at tat lat time only to forfeit it on the two years years' later Copyright by Public Lcd Ledger cr