Show V I 1100 TRUE DETECTIVE STORIES I i I I II I Copyright 1920 1320 by the Wheeler Sn Syndicate Syn- Syn Inc There are Rr many who have ridiculed the methods by which h Craig Kennedy Sherlock 11 Holmes Fo Fos s and d other master i sleuths of f fiction ha have haar ar arrived a at their Infallibly correct conclusions by b de deductive de- de Ced reasoning or bv by mEc mechanical apparatus apparatus ap apparatus ap- ap which registers every fraction of or a heart beat or every minute change In the suspects suspect's respiration But every now and then these same methods are used by detectives In real life liCe frequently with a great degree of I success For ex example there was I the Hotel Iroquois murder case In which Commissioner Geor George e S S. S Dougherty applied applied ap ap- ap- ap plied a mixture of the Holmes o and Kennedy Ken Ken- fled nedy Id rules relies u in such a t manner as to make I the tle guilty guIU m man mn n practically convict himself him hirn self although at the time he be was waa ig- ig ignorant ig ignorant of or the fact tact that tha t he was doing It GUl SI DEU DR William H n. Jackson a n wealthy guest of the hotel was vas found Cound dead in his room roon one morning stabbed through the heart His ills gold watch and several other oth oth other er Cr pieces of jewelry had not been touched touch but the only money In his clothes j were ere three 25 cent pieces In one of oc his vest pockets As Jackson was known to carry a good deal of money the supposition n was that he had been murdered by someone who either lost his nerve or who failed to to take ke kethe the watch and jewelry because they could be too easily tra traced ed hen Kven Commissioner Doughertys Dougherty's knowledge of or the working of the tile crimInal criminal crim- crim Inal mind could find little that could be dignified by bv the term clue Jackson had returned to his bis room rather late the night before before In In factS fact one of the clerks clerIcs recalled seeing him enter shortly after midnight mIdnight but but the elevator boy said that he had come up alone and that no one had gone up to o or come cone down from the same floor for tor or several hours afterwards Sl MC n I G G. G That means nothing D Dougherty pointed out The Tile man han who killed him 1 might just s as well have walked down downa I a lg couple pi of flights before grewal taking the elevator Its It's more than pos possible that to avoid suspicion h he h walked all an the way down a and out through the lobby as if he had a perfect c right to be there i No Xo hurried departures departure early this morning morns morns' morn morn- In ing s' s he asked the tile room clerk cierI morn morn-I one None at itt all sir Only a few peo people le have checked out and I happen to know know- a all of t them We have havn a their r home ad I ad ad dresses Creases s if you ou need e them hP After a careful examination of or the J room and tile the body bady of ot the tile murdered 1 man Dougherty returned to hi his office and contented with seeing that I the machinery of or the police was as kept carefully oiled But to no effect effet Beyond lie Ue- yond vond the very patent fact that Jackson had been struck down in cold blood there was waR no indication of or the weapon weapon or the criminal PU S. S As days passed without further developments de developments developments de- de the public began to criticise else cise and find rind fault tault Have Slave things come to such a a. pass people asked each other that a man can be killed Ic In a big hotel and the police are unable to find even een a single person who might have done It It And as is usual at such uch times A the tile fault was laid at the door of the police commissioner corn corn- missioner er Finally when tIle the wave of criticism had reached a n. height that he be could no I longer afford to overlook It it Commissioner Commis Commis- stoner Dougherty decided to try a method meth meth- od d which as aa he phrased It was a shot In the tile dark dark and and a a. to one Sh shot at that All weve we've been een able to find out he said laid to toone one of ot his lieutenants Is that Jackson Jaclson was stabbed blabbed by br a left lert handed man standing behind and slight COone to CO toone toone one side of him Jackson Jaclson droP dropped ed without without without with with- out a a. sound and the tile murderer was able abie to lift his roll roU without disturbing the body In the tile Tile The whole thing probably didn't take more than sixty sixty- I seconds Now ow excluding the guests Inthe inthe In Inthe the hotel at the tile most time time most of or whom It Is manifestly Impossible to reach reach reach-I I want you to round up every person who was waR In ill the Ir Iroquois that night Find rind out ones ones' are left heft handed and bring em down do hero here and let me talk to em V t Third degree chief hi r f Xo So snorted the commissioner That wouldn't do In this case At least the old fashioned kind Im I'm going to try ty something new Its It's a gam gamble le b bi t weve we've got to take a cli chance One ebY by one the left left handed brigade ade I I Iwas j was marched ar into n Doughertys Dougherty's U Y office 1 t tOne dh Dt fiCi One by one he put lt to them a set of questions que one of the first of which re- re II r d their health and the he state Of of their pulse Once he had his finger er on the tile suspects suspect's wrist he never lifted It until the final filla question had been asked and ansu answered ered I It Jt was pot until th the commissioner commenced to question Paul Geidel the I elevator boy who hall had taken Jackson I up to his to his floor the night that he had been murdered that he- he noted any material Ich Change in t the e pulse feats beats eats of f the per- per sons he was s examining x YI he a asked ked I I r I I l J.- J. S G Geidel ekiel what wha t he ile had done Immediately later At t least he knows something I la after fter Jackson had stepped out of ot his about the crime Ills His pulse Is proof of or car c car ar the tile boys boy's pulse hesitated and then that But aloud the commissioner c commenced to race But his voice was only said Youre left Jelt handed arent aren't quiet Q enough as he replied that Jack Jack- you jou ou s son lion on had asked him for tor some Ice water No Xo sir replied Geidel promptly t that hat he brought it placed it outside his I Right handed And again his ilis pulse d door and had then gone on with his I was racing w work ork I d do Dougherty concluded A T MADE I T Thank kIJ you jou for o coming o here I The Instant n the h boy boj- I left if the he commissioner com corn Instantly a thought flashed Into I missioner ordered him followed Two Doughertys Dougherty's d mind Jackson mind Jackson opened the I days davs later he was arrested and finally door produced a roll of bills asked I convicted one convicted of the f for one few tew cases on record rec ree- fa or change for tor a dollar and tipped Geidel lord ord where a mans man's Inability Inability- to conI control con con- ja a I quarter slipping shipping the tile other three Into I his bis heart hear action during the strain I his vest est pocket Geidel Gedel seeing the j of af lying provided the the initial Indication I money m murdered ed Jackson either then or of his guilt |