Show copyright enay easy for the trained german mind twelve years yearn ago when I 1 was waa a reporter on tile lie new york E enang world the lie body of a young woman expensively dressed wits found in a thicket in a lonely and part of lons long Is lanil she bl bad been murdered shot through tile the tend licud harry stowe of our staff filie deceased was tile tho first reporter to reach the place tho tl anil nd in searching about it stowe happened upon something the lie local coroner had overlooked it scrap ot of discolored per ier hearing printed and written words in german cimmin upon it stowe quietly slipped the paper into ills pric packet ket and caught tile first train for town lie rond read german Jer nian himself so go lie took tile his find to the office of the lie german consul there lie met av ar elderly spectacled exceedingly serious gerlous looking undersecretary who the printed and written inscriptions script ions for him then thu tho wanted to know what it wits nil all about stowe told him explaining that tile the identity of the muro murdered ered woman was still a profound mystery that lint nobody could guess who or what ehe wits wild ile he described ler her clothing in some detail snorted the lie german stupid fools that these american policemen arel to the mind the ilia whole tiling thing Is simplicity itself by a pr process icess of 0 elimination diminution nil and deduction it Is possible to ertan beyond question exactly what munner manner of woman tills was avila could you do it asked stowe hopefully in one little minute 1 said bald the tin undersecretary der secretary impressively go ahead then please and do it begged very well said the german my bly young friend please follow me closely tills this paper shows that some woman bought at a store lit in certain dinall articles kitchen ut utensils enalls a a potato masher al grinder no woman in germany unless she was a housewife would buy mich buch things go sot I 1 on the othar hand tills this woman you tell me wore forty dollar cor corsets sety no konan in Geri miny unless slie she was tin an actress would wear forty dollar corsets no actress would buy common household utensils that would make lier it a bouse housewife wifel no housewife would wear forty dollar corsets cor nets that would make her tin an ac actress 1 and there you a arel re I 1 |