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Show ' '' ' ' ' ' Hj The sleuth with the gum shoes ' ho used to poor into dark alleys, who used to enter saloons and drink with the toughs, and who used to lie in darkened hallways with his ear glued to a door in the hopes of overhearing conversation that might lend to arrest and conviction of criminals, no longer figures prom-incntly prom-incntly in the news. Even Sherlock Holmes, who has been pictured by his creator as a Hj man who could follow up a series of clews in order to find the crlm-H1 crlm-H1 inal 'is no longer the most pictur- esquc man In the quest of evil doers. The man who is in tho public eye mostvand Is getting the blg'hurrah . Bi from the crowds today, Is the sclen- H tlfic detective who uses electricity H' lo r'ng evidence right lo his office, who uses the latest scientific artifices H to capture his criminals. Tho dictagraph which astounded 1 tho world just a few years ago when j used to run down an organization of criminals Is only one of tho modern devices used by the scientific dotoc-tjve. dotoc-tjve. Tho big 1D14 edition of de-tectlve3 de-tectlve3 needs to know somothlng about chemlstrj', biology and elec-trlclty. elec-trlclty. Sherlock Holmes Is plc-tured plc-tured as being an export on psychol-j psychol-j ogy. He could read a man's thoughts Bj before the man thought them. Had Sherlock been a real man Instead of a story, book hero he would have been a wonder. But the shock Sherlock Holmes used to give to felons when ho . caught them was nothing as to tho shock criminals in real life have received when they have been con-j con-j fronted with their own conversa- tion in a record or havp been told where they have been aiid what they have been doing. The detective of the old sohool was indeed a smart man. His method was to get In the mental state of tho crook and say to himself, "Now what would I have dono had I been the crook?" He follows the reasoh-1 reasoh-1 lng lines of the criminal and then H1 looks along those lines for clews. He hunts for the man who acted Just 1 as the criminal of his mind would But the detective who gets all the H, press notices of tho day is not nec- essaKly a deep thinker. He has In his hands a few simple contrivances, some one els has thought out. The most widely known of these is Hj' tho dictagraph. Tho detective must be somewhat of an electrician. He Hj places the ear of tho dictagraph In Hj the room whero the conspirators aro.aud runs a wire along tho wall Hj to his office. Ho listens at the rc- celver and hears all that goes on. Ho turns on the record and the ma-chine ma-chine records every word. Another great aid to the detec- tlvo is the impression paper by , which tho roll top desk sleuth can set evidence against a suspect wlth- Hj ' . out anyone knowing it but himself. In a recent murder near London the murderer, a woman, in opening Iho door. left her finger print Im-preBslon Im-preBslon on the door knob in leav-lng leav-lng the scene of the killing. Al- c. together six suspects were rounded up to tell what they knew of the H: killing. Hj WOMAN CAPTURED WITH IMPRESSION PAPER. All refused to eay anything. A friend of tho slain' man suspected tho woman but did not daro causo her arrest for fear of suit In caec she ; should bo proven innocent. Ho told his story to a detective in Scotlnnd H' Yard. Tho detective sent for tho i woman and while talking to her. got i her to place 'her Angers on a plcco of Impression paper. She departed without knowing she had left her finger -print with the detective. Tho Hj detcctivo then used a microscope W. and found tho finger print on the Hj paper and tho one on tho door knob Hi wore identical. Tho woman con- Modern inventions havo dono much to maJcc crime more and moro hazardous. Tho devices for captur-Hi captur-Hi ing criminals arc better subjects for H etorlcs and plays than tho old tlmo detective tricks, -Robert- Hilliard, who is playing the part of the detective de-tective on the stage this season, uses tho dictagraph and other devices. In speaking of tho dictagraph, Hilliard Hil-liard says: "Don't bo afraid; it won't hlto you. It has the longest cars in the world and it makes the cleverest criminal look like a jackass." As originally designed-by Its inventor, in-ventor, K. M. Turner of Is'cw York, the dictagraph was lntonded only for commercial purposes. It is a flat, circular disc. Take an average aver-age sized apple and cut it across horizontally into three equal parts, and the middle section' would bo about the thickness and circumference circumfer-ence of a dictagraph. It Is really a highly sensitized telephone that may be hidden In any out of the way nook or corner. It may be slipped under tho carpet, or fastened fas-tened inside a cupboard, or attached to the bottom of a table, or behind a picture or office calendar anywhere any-where that lta presence would bo least suspected. Tho main thing Is to run a hidden wire that connects it with a receiver such as switchboard switch-board telephone oporators wear clamped to tho ears of a smart, wldo awake detective who is concealed con-cealed in another room, fr even In another, building. The distance is meroly a matter of wiring and the process is so slrnplo that if observation observa-tion car. be avoided a connection can bo established in rive minutes. Of course tho detective on tho receiving ond must be an expert stenographer, stenograph-er, and able to record what he hears. And oven a whisper Is conveyed to UihU,,Ck floors or heavy v alls, so distinctly that every syl- n l0JnCarrIeil- JUSt t0 Show Its possibilities the Inventor has Imbedded Im-bedded a dictagraph In a soUd .block of cement a foot thick and it t r Dotectlvo William J. Burns, who collaborated with Harriet Ford, and Harvey j; 0'HlggIn9 ln the fsfl I ITPPER left Bob Hilliard) u at telephone, listenine; to the ' counterfeiters in another room at upper right. At the left hand side of the desk, where the counterfeiters counterfeit-ers are talking, a dictagraph is attached. It carries every word to the detective. Center Cen-ter and lower left Hilliard is obtaining the finger prints by a trick, without the knowledge of the woman. Lower right The capture of the conspirators. J ship of "The Argylo Case," a detective de-tective play, relates many Incidents of dictagraph work. "One of the most dramatic sltua- -tlons I ever encountered in my in- vestlgations," says Mr. Burns, "developed "de-veloped In the arrest of a grafting Alderman in Detroit "An operative personated tho -agent of a railway company willing tofpay for an ordinance of special privilege.' Tho corrupt city official waa. suspicious when he entered the ; mm sfii if ' room. He looked about carefully to see that no witness was in hiding. Then he pocketed his bribe In marked money.. "As he left thc office of the supposed sup-posed railway agent, the grafter ran into my arms. ".'Out this way, please," -I said," quietly pushing him through a doorwaj' leading to thonext room. There stood three of my men, with receivers strapped to their oars. The typewriter had Just recorded every word that had coma over tho dictagraph wires. "I suppose you realize what you have been up against. I said to the victim, who stood with open mouth, bulging eyes and his face a ghastly white. He realized It, and a few minutes later had signed full and complete confession Implicating tho rest" of his corrupt ring." Detective Burns also relates a curious instance of whore a shrewd embezzler was exposed, although ho took no one into hU confidence. He had a. habit of talking to himself while shaving in tho morning. A dictagraph was planted behind hla mirror, and a Burns detcctivo hired a. room on the floor below whero ho lodged. One morning oa tho suspect sus-pect emerged, slick, serene and smooth shaven, he was taken into custody and shown stenographic reports" re-ports" of highly Interesting soliloquies. solilo-quies. In which he had dl3cussed with himself the best means or outwitting out-witting ' detection. - He, too," confessed. con-fessed. ' UjMfcPfcrii Vjfr fluff laYiWKIS Mr. Hilliard has a fad for attending attend-ing big criminal trials. It enables him to study character and legal methods. In Indianapolis a year i xgo last November he daily attended attend-ed the trial of tvo score of tho alleged al-leged dynamite conspirators, said ro havo been mixed up In thc Mc-.Tamara Mc-.Tamara outrages. The defendants n the case wero not lacking in curiosity. cu-riosity. Most of them wero out on ball and boarded at English's Hotel next door to the theater. They made up a theater party one nignt and went to see tho dictagraph demonstrated in tho play. They, too, had only a hazy Idea of how it "obtained the goods." Curiously enough the very dictagraph that Burns had planted In the office of I- M. Ryan, and largely Instrumental Instru-mental in obtaining convictions. Is now shown In thc lobbies of the various va-rious theaters whero Hilliard presents pre-sents his dramatic unfolding of the Argyje murder and counterfeiting mysteries. When ox-Assemblyman Stlllwell of New York Was convicted of bribery last fall, and sent to Sing, Sing, a dictagraph was planted In his cell by detectives who wished to obtain, confessions that would implicate im-plicate men higher up, and Incidentally Incident-ally be useful in the impeachment trial of Governor Sulzer. Stlllwell flatly denied the stenographic notes. But there Is a new device, the Roneophorie, that hns formed a silent partnership with thc dictagraph. dicta-graph. It records every Inflection of a suspect's actual voice and re- produces It phonographlcally. A criminal may deny notes of what he said, but ho cannot very well deny the utterances Qf his own voice. The dictagraph cannot be bought at any price. It is only leased to responsible re-sponsible parties Cor legitimate purposes. pur-poses. Every little eavesdropper Is numbered, and it is always known who has possession and for what use. It would be dangerous in the wrong hands. The professional secrets entrusted to lawyer or physician phy-sician would .be jeopordlzed. Installed In-stalled by outside -rivals, in a great ;, business establishment it would 're veal trade secrets. And If a tired business man's neglected wife could slip ono under the desk of his tall, slender blonde stenographer, the most embarrassing domestic complications com-plications might result. The dictagraph, dicta-graph, no matter how it babbles secrets,, was never invented to be a wrecker of American homes. BLEACHES RILLS TO RAISE THE Jf. Mr. Hlllard "has introduced another an-other new effect in the counter-felting counter-felting episode of tho play that provides pro-vides a- sensation almost ns pulse-stirring pulse-stirring as tho talking dictagraph. Thero Is a scene in a counterfeiting counterfeit-ing plant In Washington Square. Dr. Kreislcr, an old German sclent- 1st gone. wrong, has invented a color photograph scheme for making bogus gold certificates. To obtain the real Government fiber paper ho first bleaches genuine 51 bills. His confercdatc, Sim Gage, a cheap pickpocket, protests against spoiling actual money. "Doctor," he remonstrates, "it peeves me-it noarly drives mo dippy to see you washing the real rnonsr but of a perfectly good 51 bill. Wouldn't it bo a lot cheaper If you'd fake the paper?" "That's the way with you Amerl- vJHiL- ,contomPtuo"sly replies Krlesler (a prototype of tho famou Charley Ulrlch, the most expert of mocoru counterfeiters). "No patience pa-tience no artistry get-rlch Quick Perfection is a thing of little lit-tle fhlnKs." Mr . Hilliard docs not. attempt to educate the theatergoer into the acceptance ' of 'any special ethical aBBr"""" 1 tin i h ' creed. He says very frankly:! fj "I have striven to minister to a k long-established craving for detec- tyo'. melodrama, equally popular J whether portrayed behind the fool- I lights or described between covers, Thia Is a field of literary and dram- ; a tic endeavor not despised by tlio most accomplished craftsmen. I Even so consummate an artist a.i i Richard Ma.isfleld achieved hia llrst ; . commercial success and the com- morcial result Is most significant of popular taste in the intensely V melodramatic, psychological study j: ' of crime. 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." j "Ijhe . greatest masters of. fiction have delighted In spinning the web of mystery. Wilkio Collins showed ; wonderful adroitness In 'The Moon- I stone.' Gaborlau and Edgar ,Allen j P6e made the lynx-eyed Lecoq and f the crafty Lupin Immortal. Robert Louis Stevens6n. In his 3Uperb story, "The Wrecker," glided a po- i lice mystery with literary refine- ; ment and grace of charaeteriza- i Hon. Conan Doyle In hla earlier Sherlock Holmes stories revealed fine romantic artistry. m "Real life throhs and pulses with m melodrama. It comes very near & home to 'most of us. In our experl- enc.e at one time or another. Its fi appeal Is . universal. Women wan- fl der with delight, through the laby rinth of criminal mystery. The I harassed business man instinctive- ly turns for distraction to. the nctf- ; H est detective story. Even the cur- I rent plays for children nave make- m believe and mystery to captivate Eg the young Imagination. m "The detective Is as familiar i S flgure upon the stage as In fiction. jg Whn Mme. Janauschck moved g l'Jo a thunder cloud through tho J PJS tfigic episodes of 'Bleak Ifou?-' J g Inspector Bucket of Scotland Yura made vital and awesome by the M master skill of Dickens, fully & vlded Interest with the woes of & Lady Dedlock. A long line f Bleuths have given relish to tho con- ,. filets between tho enemy of society J -fe and his implacable foe of the la 'n tho stage adventures of 'Capiat J :Ji Swift 'Jim the Penman.' 'Baffle' , J 'Arsone Lupin' and ,3herlo HoImeB,' the picturesque Jnvetl- gator addicted to hypotheses an" Vfci hypodermics." p'- r r "i ii Mi ajgBfc |