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Show terp rater rejoined, bwM thla eoi-I eoi-I section la ao rare sad eo valuable." I , Thea ha repeated that the mdala bad . bin far tun? years U umiiIm of a relative of the HelwnaoUarna in-. tlmatlng that tha ell lies with tba monocle waa 1b some way connected with thla wonderful housa tM waa . prsaaid for funds, aloes hla great estates did BOt yield enough o say tba high Income taxes. . v , . A tUasarkable Bargalp,-' I prateatad that X waa ot going to buy anything I could not ass, aad tba interpreter insisted that' It waa a " remarkable bargain. . But her" Bald part and than would tura hack to t ma to aay that tba medallion consisted con-sisted largely of msrvelously sxe-. sxe-. cuted beans and boat that practically practi-cally every . Papa waa represented, that tba beede af all tba great rulers af tba world and all tba great gen-luaaa gen-luaaa wara la tba collection. In fact, they played It ap ao wonderfully that no regulsr eollaotor could bar re-fuase. re-fuase. . I played my part, naturally beginning begin-ning to ahow mtareet aftar all thla description. '' But tba latarpratar want oa; ba bad ma goine and ba waa datannlned to baVa raa gasping with aa turn aaa before ba waa dona ' wara with theroeerraa, Thsy tboocM 1 would buy tboaa sMdaTiloaa W aay price. N The Deal la Mad. Would Z depoalt loO.eto marks aa svldencs of good faith If thsy would taka ma to tha bom of tba aaam- ' atraaa la tba family af tha awnara of tba collection. In wboaa tamporary possession tha traaaura waa kapt aa that tha OoTaramaat might sot find ' It and aetaa ttl Tha Intarpratar set forth tha proposition. - t I rapUad that I could not ralaa aa much monay. sltneugb I believed I could ralaa SO.OO by noon of tha next tin wa a hug Great Dana dog. ' lookad down at tha beast and spweo-latad spweo-latad on him, "Ha looks paaoaful onough." 1 aald to myeelt, "but TO stager If ha d ct a word from hla - master ba could throw any man to tbeTiOor and bold him there." Usable ta Signal. . I haVl aa arrangement with Trattla that I twould atay aa long aa X could and haggle over tha priea; and that aftar I laid seen tha antlre aoUaotloo I would -walk over to tha window facing tha a tract and light a cigar-. cigar-. ette. That -frould ba tha signal for , tba raid. But that arrangement did not work oud Aa aooa aa wa sot Into the apartment tha brown haired . woman went tar all tha wtndowe and drew tba Hinds. After talking- g treat deal about ' Government inspectors to tmpraaa ma that they had to ba moat careful, care-ful, one of the men brought In from an adjoining; room elgsry-one traye full af tha moat beautifhl medalllona I ever aaw. 'X waa daggled by them. They were e-praad out aa chaire and lounge, and I began to gloat over them aa any true cellector would. Aa I wag going- to buy than) X counted tha plecea mm I Inspected. , -Thara-wara mors thea -4J0S midal 1 lions. .. t - While I waa ma ktng- tha I napes-tloa napes-tloa I heard tha tlnlde of a piano la tha next room, and then I beard tba brown haired womaa tell one of tba glrlg to play a certain air. Tba girl did play, aad very welL ( Then tha warnan obviously etheir mother-called mother-called her re anger daughter and directed di-rected bar to' play. t Her execution waa alao good. .' I Anow tha piano waa played to allay excitement, for when thlevea are In tha teaae burl-neaa burl-neaa of making a transaction for tba loot they Bead aon-iethlng- to calm -them, and nothing aoothea kke muala- Bealdea. tba girla, tha woman, wom-an, tha (treat Dana and tha whole Betting helped to etage tba prcposl-tloa. prcposl-tloa. . :..- I aald I would taka tha medal-Hong medal-Hong t the prloe agreed upon. ; The traya ware packed In trunka. r: . I asked tba men to balp ma get tba - trunka down to tha motor car wait. ' Ing to front and to go back to tha hotel with me, where X had arranged ar-ranged to make payment 1 told them. Seised b Police. 1 I1 1 1 'U--1 - " ' ' '", f 1 1' l tZ ",' ' : ,Q'C.) S'i.j 'I ::' !r i-f ly- nk, - " By GEORGE S. DOUGHERTY. . Formerly Deputy FoUoe Ceaaasle, ale-aee ef New Terk. WHEN I aet out last year for a pleasure tour of Europe X carried lattara ef lntro- - ductloa to poUca heada on tha ether I . aide. ' One waa addraaeed to Com- : wdaatoaer WUUam BJchter of Berlin, i Commlaeloner Rlchter te a new police ! esecatlva, having coma la with tha . 4 aaw Oemmwt Ha la a aVxaanat ' and a member of the working party -e moat democratle fellow and waa . formerly a pioeueroua aaloonkeeper. I mentloa hla political tendenclee because be-cause It la not tha fact that all tba municipal offlotato ef tha new Oar-many Oar-many are of tha Republican party. Berlln-o meet famous police official la a boldo-t-er fro the Kalaer'a Oot-erament. Oot-erament. and tt la with thla Imperial-let Imperial-let that my story baa much to da. Hla name la Tret tin. The Great Tret tin la an mdlapenaa-ple mdlapenaa-ple official who' had made ao good la erery way aa Chief of Criminal la-vest! la-vest! ration la the Berlin Police Department De-partment that there waa nothing else to da but keep him oa tba Job la aplte of the political turnover that, followed Tb war.Trrttln -waa Lieutenant la a famous Oermaa regiment during the war and be lost hla right arm -In tha eerrlce of hi country. He la In every way a ro-jnaatle ro-jnaatle figure. Ha la a young man. just over 11. with a square. Inscrutable Inscrut-able face which might ba taken for that of a man twenty yeera older or ten years younger. He wears glasses, baa a abort, atubbly mustache and to abort and stocky. I looked at bun ad decided he moat ba a human eannonball of energy and ambition. He la nervous and fidgety. I waa curprlaed when X heard hua apeak, t expected to hear a low, tense voice, but It la not. Be la loud roleed. almost al-most bellowing. I talked with him and discovered at once that be la full ' af maneuvers whea la action. ' Tag Myatary Soirer. -1 Ha appealed to me. Tret tin I . It aounda Ilka tha name of a great -magician. I never beard hla first aame, I don auppoee anybody la Germany knowa It. Ha la Trattla tha Great; Trettln tha enemy of tha criminal ; Trettln tba mystery solver sol-ver ; Trettln tha keen - and eharp Wltted. If ha were la America I dare aay a Jartoa of our underworld "" would be! "If you dont. watch out Trettln win get you." - I talked first with Commissioner . tticbter. He expounded kl( theorlea - at gome J-tir-h,- aajring that he was Bet a beuever In force. "I think Bending armed man In uniform to disperse moba frequently agitates . and Infurtataa them the mora. be aald. "I believe In reasoning with tholr lea tiers before Using force. It st better to have foroea bidden for prtmpt actio tbaa to make a great bUlty. Curtooely, everybody la Oar-many Oar-many baa aa impreeaioa that all wealth la tba United lutae coasei either from oil or mines. I told Trettla that X did sot know tba Intelligence methods of tba Oermaa Oer-maa . polloa systems la aay detail, but surmised they had underworld informants. ' They had, ba aald. Than I requested that ba have them .circulate tba aame story hi tba underworld, un-derworld, - -The paragraph waa pubHehed la - tba next daya paper. X am quite aura, too. that Tret tin 'a Informants did their part Fortunately, nobody In' tha Hotel Esplanade nor la all Berlin knew anything about my 'actual occupation occupa-tion except, of eourea, tha offldala. , My disguise as a weslthy traveler ., waa fairly perfect, for I waa traveling travel-ing as a man ef wealth, aad . I might aay that la Oermany X was a ' Tory wealthy man Indeed. A Telephone Calt . ' One afternoon aeveral da ye after my bit ef strategy had beea launched la tha new spa pars, while I was sitting la tba American bar of tba Esplanade. I waa called to tha telephone and naked la fairly i good English If I waa tha American Interested In, medallion collections. Tha voice oa the other end ef the wire waa English with a Oermaa accent. It had a twinge ef London about tt, and I Judged tha speaker to be a Oermaa who had Brad la London at aema time or another. X told him that t waa aa Americas Ameri-cas and that I waa Interested la medalllona. but , that the Bewapapar Items had beea exaggerated that X Bought only the vary rare . apest-mens, apest-mens, I tried to discourage htm, but he refused to turn loose the wire, and finally asked me If X would be interested la eeeing a vary valuable ool lection. I aald X would. "But who are you?" X asked. He . replied that ha waa the agent and Interpreter for the owner of a very valuable collection ef medallion a very distinguished relative of the royal family who waa at tha moment mo-ment In financial dlfflcultlea. X la- ' vlted him and hla employer, te call at tha hotel, giving my suite number, num-ber, and to bring tba eollectlon or samples with them. Ha aald they would come at once. Torty minutes later- three aaea ' were announced and ahowa ap. to my sitting room,' All ware aalto dapper, genteel appearing and well dressed. One of them war a- monocle mono-cle and a fancy waiatooet The la- ' terpretar took bla position aa inter. . medlary ha. tod, wa asset bnmaca- ' lata and the preliminaries fog dick--. eiing bogaa. After tba preliminaries prelimi-naries had beea passed X expreeeed astonishment - that the medalllona bad not beea brought for my examination, exami-nation, pointing out that fat America whea buyer met Belter tha latter la-. , variably had tha goods to exhibit. ' But not so with thee good, tba to- - I away with my movrey. The Interpreter Inter-preter gaid that waa' satisfactory te him and all agreed. I figured I would be watched until the meeting the next dAy at noon, but I succeeded la communicating secretly with Trettln to ten him or at) that had paaaad and to wara him that whatever men were assigned to follow oa ware not to be bonsbeada. - X suggested that the detective who were to be at the hotel at aooa the Beat day be Instructed to keep out " of tha corridors, that they wait la a Umoualne outside until they aaw me coma out: then they were to follow . the antlre party at a cautloua die-Unco die-Unco wherever wa ahould go. It waa necessary, of course, that ha - assign a man or two who knew me by eight. He assigned himself. On the Wy to Loot. . X got the. SO.IM). mark oa the dot the following day. The Interpreter appeared a minute or two ahead of time aad X gave him tba money. He paaaad me tha temporary eon tract. -Tha transfer waaunaaa In my sitting room and ba told me he bad a car waiting downstalra. "We walked down the stairway to tha aide antrance.and got Into the waiting machine. I lei him gat In first. far.X.didnt. want-him want-him to alam tba door on me and run . away with my money. The chauffeur of that automobile drove for mllee and miles la suburban sub-urban sections of Berlin that I had ' never seen. Then, after he had ' twisted about a mass of vary abort atreeta ba brought tba machine to a halt. Ha got out and made quit an extensive and lengthy aurvey to see if we were being followed. I aeked tha Interpreter, outright: "Why ahould ' wa ba followed f And be replied aa a crook doea characteristically: Tou can never ten about those things. The Government might arrest me . for Bailing them and yon for buying : them." I tried to turn pale. X pretended ' a beat X eould to be alarmed. That waa what be expected me to be. Tha chauffeur got beck Into The car and drove a few circuitous block . to a handanme apartment house. The Intarpratar and I got out and entered the high vaulted doorway. Wa went up three flights of stairs . and then came to a door. Tba interpreter inter-preter rapped eharply oa the penal-Ing penal-Ing of tba door three tlmea with a lead pencil. We jrera admitted by a comely middle aged woman with beautiful brown hair. la tha well furnished living room were the two men who had come to the hotel with the Interpreter the day before. There were other persons la other rooms of the apartment. X could hear them talking. Two red cheeked, blue eyed little girls appeared on the scene. . They were nice and healthy and middle class looking; I figured one about fourteen year old and tba other sixteen. Lying quietly but alertly near the couch upon which the man with the monocle waa slt- A toon at we reached tha sidewalk eight detectives, the treat Tretiin in the lead, -rushed down upon us from hiding places in doorways and around the block. there ware condition X would have te meet If I wanted te transact bus!, aeaat the sale of the medalllona muet ba ea a atrlctiy caah basis, ao that the Oermaa Government would act know of the tranafer and therefore there-fore would not collect taxec that tba entire transaction must ba evtir . . I pretended to become Indignant, Vowing that I had no desire to be-eeme be-eeme a party to such secrecy, that I did not .intend to aid ia defrauding the Government by auch methods. That convinced them that X wa sincere sin-cere and up to bo trickery, ao they changed then- taeUca. They began to laud the collection. The interpreter interpre-ter would turn to the moaoded el tinea ti-nea and converse with him ta Oermaa Oer-maa of which I understood a good with thla ta!kf medals. Thera ware more tbaa 80S aoUd gold plecea. ha said, and tlO silver; others were alloyed and marry wara Jeweled. Thea he played hla beet card to straighten up my Interest and build up my an-tbualaam. an-tbualaam. ; He Informed me that there were busts of aeveral el the Presidents of - tha United Btataa la the collection, mentioning particularly our martyrs, - Washington, IJacon Garfield and ' McKlnlay. Thla Would naturally appeal ap-peal to an American with aay Yankee Yan-kee blood la hla veins, particularly If tha proposal ware made la a forefga country. They had me thera aad they knew It I told them I wanted to sea the medalllona and asked him V.X might manage It. X aaw how pleased they day. And ao they llnally agreed that I wa to be shown the collection upon depositing that amount with tba in- ' terpre'.er. . for which be would give me a. temporary contra Ot Tha money . waa to be returned aadthe contract destroyed If I did net buy. but they wara certain that X woukj UT- If I did. I wa to pay aa V additional 50,060 mark. I wa ta Wake the . ' Initial depoalt and receive tbe contract con-tract tba next boob. , . X agreed, with leamaUuuit Blnee . I was to give the Interpreter 10,000 marks as evidence of goodsith I insisted that a long aa the deal waa hanging fire and tba Interpret.' had my money. X ahould bold hua aa a hostage that be atay with me until we should reach a final agreement. I dldnt propoaa to have him run Aa soon a we reached the sidewalk side-walk eight detective, the Greet TrettlB In the lead, rushed down upon a from hiding place la door- Waya and around the block. They aeised tha trunks, arrested uemy. elf Included and then made a eweeping raid of the premleee, tak-Ing tak-Ing altogether eeven men Into custody cus-tody still Including me. I looked around at my fellow prisoners and suddenly discovered that the Interpreter, In-terpreter, who had my 50,000 marks, wa not In sight! It wa easy for me bow, a prisoner, to become In- ' dl grunt ao I raged up and down, ' shouting my Innocence and declaring declar-ing hi a loud American voice that I bad beea victimised, yelling to the detectivee that I had already made a depoalt and the man' who had my money waa gone. I waa a tin play. Ing my pan. aad I still had thea fooled. Trettln looked at ma and grinned. Ha realised) that the Police Department Depart-ment would have to pay me the 10,-004 10,-004 back If ha tailed to catch the Interpreter, In-terpreter, ao ha himself went Into the building and made a search. He found the Interpreter la a halleray. That made eight prisoners. Including - me. But Trettla still was not satis-fled, satis-fled, . . I aaw that be waa going to arrest the two girls and the womaa, aad I objected. He insisted, but I made auch a fuss about It that ha finally agreed to let them go free. The other prisoners thought that I had merely outtalked Trettln. They atlll were unaware that I had any other power except tha power of speech. . Suddenly Trettln changed hla mind about letting tha womaa and tba girl go free. It appeared that soma one had taken the medallion of. Liaxt. Wags or, Johana Strauss and ether' famous German composers and bad . given them aa presents to the two Innocent towheaded little girls. Cer- -talnly aa student of muala they were delighted to have these medallion medal-lion and they wanted to keep tbin. They told Trettla ao aad ba waa infuriated. in-furiated. He wanted to take them v to prison, and it waa all I ceula do te dissuade him. I evea urged aim to Jet the girl keep the medallions. But h would not do that All of a went to prison la two police cars, and tha machine la which I had taken tha long drive over Berlin. Ber-lin. After, the thing waa over and seven meal had been lodged la Jail Trettla and the detectives took- me away from the prisoners, ostensibly to taka me to another celt After wa were out ef sight of tie compartment compart-ment In which they were placed Trattla Trat-tla extended bla left hand. - "I and my men would be highly honored te be your guests for dinner." din-ner." ha aaid, I gladly consented and we went te a nearby hoteL Then I became a apendthrift entertaining Trettla and a doaea officers with a fun course dinner, wine, liqueurs and excellent cigar, at a cost of 100 mark 2.M ta American money. Some mlluonalrel . : ' . - - ' " , military display. i looaeu nun at the wlrdowa la hla office, observing observ-ing score of bullet bolee through them, and at tha walls looking as if they bad had smallpox. Biota T X knew very Uttle about riots. CrlmU aal InveatiamUoa waa my work. I told bun aa .'"Ah. Trettln," be aald. aad sent for , Trettln. Tha Commissioner showed his aid that part of the - letter ef introduction which referred to my experience aa aa investigator. ' Then the three of us talked for a Utile while. Trettla took occasion' to Jeer at me a little, with auch aide remarks aa: "According to the letter Commissioner Dougherty brings with him. he baa Quito a reputation as a detectle." ' A Base! ef Televee. ' ' Then bo turned suddenly to me In a gleefully malicious eort est way and challenged met "If Commissioner Dougherty of . Krw York la auch a marvel would be offer me some suggestion to assist as-sist me in rounding up a band at ternatlonal thieve supposed to be Bow In Berlin t" -Shoot" I aald; X waa pleased W1'-h the challenge. Then he proceeded to eatllne his belief that a group of professional thieves who bad robbed aa Italiaa collector of rare and valuable medal. Bona were at the time congregated la aema quarter of Berlin and that a wonderful collection which they had stolea was hidden la or Bear tha city. Ha bad bo Men aa to what part of the city the thieves and tba loot might ba located. Ha did know, how-"t, how-"t, that he collection waa worth X.000.000 Bvarks sod that tba owner ha offered a handsome reward for . ta-e recoverr of the property and the arrest ef the thlevea. '. j "I can help. X said. Thea X eng. gee ted that tba pre waa always ' ready to help collaborate with a do- , t active chief, and proposed that he, Trettla. arrange to have the Bertla news pa para publish a story that aa American millionaire by tba aame . ef George ft Dougherty who had made hla great wealth la oil to the Western pert of the United States-was States-was stopping at tha Esplanade HoteL Incidentally tba Uttle aa-Bouncement aa-Bouncement of tha millionaire's presence la VWlia was te carry the Bote that Mr. Doughertys hobby Baa collecting rare medalllona, I sur urested that oil ba specified as (be source of wealth to lend piauet- ' |
