Show I TRUE DETECTIVE STORIES AT 4 A. A AM A.M. It M. M I Copyright 1920 by the Wheeler Syndicate Syndicate Syndicate Syndi Syndi- cate Inc In all the annals of the tho Parisian police police po po- l lice ice force scarlet stained and anti bloody as asI as ashey I t they hey are the murder of Monsieur Remy a an n aged merchant of the Rue Hue dela Pa- Pa I stands out as one of at the most prominent riot not only on account of the I peculiar br brutality of the crime but be- be of ot the manner in which it was solved I In discussing it one of the leading I authorities of New ew Scotland Yard deClares decia de- de cia dares Clares res that only a French backed b by the latitude which the French law I I I permits ils its police force could have solved the mystery Not ot even evan in the United States declares the British detective where the third degree has been known to be used with effect could a similar method have been followed M. M I. I Hamara Haman I is to be congratulated on his success it is doubtful however if it he could have achieved it except on his native soil soU But tho the fact remains that the crime I was essentially French and the methods employed ed in its detection were those which the Parisian police have found most efficient whether they come up I to the standard of the ethics of foreign foreign for for- eign alga forces or not Reconstruction of a crime has never been officially recognized I outside of France but there it remains re remains remains re- re I II mains one of the most potent forces jor obtaining of confessions a a. species of mental third degree which can hardly I fati fail when properly applied Tn th a 1 Or v. v HU U I Hamard chef du service de tie la In first made a minute examination of the premises with a view to discovering whether the murderer had left any traces behind Apparently however he had I used extreme caution The window I through J which hl entrance n c had d b been ef- ef I j had been e cut with ith Vi a diamond mo d j i j I i pointed instrument the latch slipped I back and the missing piece of glass replaced re replaced re- re I I I placed lest it attract the tile attention of ofa a passing gendarme On the glass where j i ione one would naturally expect es to find incriminating in- in InI incriminating i I criminating fingerprints were merely dull shapeless splotches The criminal dUll hal had been careful ae to wear near gloves Jn Inside s t the same m persistent caution I was everywhere apparent The house had evidently been entered with the Intention in In- In tl t of burglary only The safe In the l library had been opened and rifled but t the he swinging door had overturned a chair a and nd the noise had either frightened the i intruder or he had feared that It would arouse rouse a the ilie old merchant whose light I s sleeping leeping was a matter of common knowledge knowl knowl- e edge dge In the neighborhood Fearing detection or possibly on a I s search earch for further loot the burglar had crept upstairs and had entered Remy's b bedroom I The merchant partially awakened awak await ened hall hati started to arise that arise that much I was shown by bv the position of the only only to be struck down by the blow of a keen bladed dagger over his heart Then while the body of the old man lay still bleeding the tile murderer had ransacked the room loom even pulling aside the bedclothes In a search for hidden hidden hid hid- den treasure That summed i tin tinT T r r TT 1 i w. w l apparently all there is s t- t to th the case e N No clues no evidence no Incriminating marks of any Kind Committed in the darkness about 4 o'clock In the morn Ing og the crime appears to be he as black and sinister as the grave There is only one ray of light and even that is so faint that it could hardly be bo called Il II- II l tinS tinS' One ray monsieur queried an as as- as Where Is it it I see nothing And I have I been over the house and the grounds almost with a microscope You have noticed the extreme care used In entering the house The assistant nodded And the fact that nothing on the first floor with the exception of ot the safe and one chair has been disturbed A aln thE Combine o th tho two two A burglar as was the as cautious cau cau- cau man who entered here would not have used a light an that electric it might torch attract He would the have not feared even someone outside But in all thee attention of these well rooms filled with ith furniture nothing Is misplaced nothing has been always alwa's excepting the chair overturned What does that suggest near the safe That the thc criminal was the house familiar with and knew where the chairs stood tables anti and Precisely Not only was he flU familiar nm with it but lUt he practically heart He ne knew It t by could and anti did did find in hi his the dark That way our search amaZingly very vert fact n Instead of ing for any anyone one of lOOK a thousand burglars we will pro prone prone- concentrate attention unon persons Our wandered through this who could have i brie bric without maze of a disturbing petal of a lower flower as much as the II After a M. M fortnight of It intensive hL i. i in loves loves- I crime had been that toe the committed by named Lagarde a man n formerly butler In the Hemy Remy employed employee as a house but who had been discharged for falsifying counts Lagarde however his MS ac accounts ac- ac have havo been several miles claimed claims to away at the tle time the crime was committed and his alibi alibi was sustained by what appeared incontrovertible evidence to be It u was of this that Hamard hesitated to because arrel arrest him and finally decided to play his trump I card the card the reconstruction of the crime On Oct the pretext of Informing the police I as to some minor details about the Remy Hemy I house Legarde was wag escorted there shortly short short- I ly after midnight precisely one month I from the night of the murder After I entering he was left alone in the library I of the dwelling while Hamard Barnard and his I associates busied themselves with Something some Some- someI I thing upstairs Then at 34 4 the chief I at z t police announced that hIs bis arrange arrange- ments menta were complete and requested that the butler accompany him upstairs I I Without a word they took their places in what had been the bedroom of the dead man and antI in a voice which scarcely rose above a whisper Hamard said The only wa way to uncover unco a crime of this kind kindIs Is to follow the mental processes and reactions of the man who committed it Listen Did you ou hear that scratching sound The rhe pane pane Is being cut There That faint almost inaudible noise was made by the raising of the sash The murderer is crossing the library lIe He is opening the safe The chair has fallen to one side He listens listens every every nerve taut with fear that the noise has aroused the sleeping man He continues his search He lIe starts to mount the stairs here here the muffled pad pad-pad-pad of feet was audible on the carpet outside He He approaches the room He lie enters I The sleeping man stirs In his sleep H moves He lie wakes He starts to ris nis But the murderer callous to ever save the money for which he lusts plant plane his dagger over his heart Hi As the chief described the scene it W wa acted with the precision of clockwork figure on the bed half rose and then sa sari back with a throaty gurgle as J figure only figure only partly visible in tn the IJ light struck light struck down at him and a of blood flowed over the counterpane Stop it For Gods God's sake stop atop HI IUt The shriek came from Legarde I c can stand 1 it I did it it 1 did It o oA On iJ stop stopA stop stop- U A moment later he was led out in custody cus CUIl tody of the policeman who had played th part of Remy and the one who had pose as the murderer Hamard turning u uthe the lights smiled as the clock strud strud four |