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Show HOW TO SOLVE CLUELESS CRIME Give Plenty of Publicity, Advises Celebrated British Brit-ish Detective By NORRIS QTJINN, NEA Service Staff Writer. NEW YORK, Nov. 7 How should a murder mystery be solved? How can the Increasing number of American murder mysteries that go; down In the police blotter as "un-i solved" be cut down? These two questions were anvcred today In an exclusive Interview with NEA Service by one of the world's greatest criminologists, Sir Basil I Thomson. K. C. B, Sir Basil for years was head of the famous criminal Investigation depart-1 rnont of Scotland Yard, London, and i during the war was British director of Intelligence. He now is in the United States on a lecture tour. PUBLICITY HELPS DETECTION Whilo the British criminal expert refused re-fused to comment directly on the Hall-Mills Hall-Mills murder, ho outlined the general principles of criminal Investigation which he believes should be applied to mystery murders. "The whole success of any murder Investigation depends on the steps tak-Sll tak-Sll at the outset," Sir BjlsII said. Three steps are most Important. "First Is the examination of the scene of the crime This should be done vlth especial ciro and, in some cases, the locale of the crime should be carefully shut off so that evidence! will not be destroyed or the investigators investi-gators confused by curiosity seekers. ' Second, In the holding of an effl- clent autops and the securing of reliable re-liable medical testimony. To my mind, the autopsy should be held open as long as possible, for fresh facts' will always be uncovered "Third Is giving to the public 5n certain cases most accurate knowledge, of the crime That means that many witnesses will be brought to light who. Otherwise never would have known their knowledge could bo of any value to the police. SHERLOCK HoL.Ml.s METHOD Mii USED "The Inductive methods of Sherlock Holm si and other fantastic detectives of fiction are generally useless In real criminal Investigation. "To detect real criminals one needs a thorough organization Instead of the lone-hand activities Of ft Sherlock Holmes, hard work in place nf , ocalne and tobacco, full publicity Instead of dark secrecy. "Unsolved murders, you know, arc very rare in England. I'll tell you how they're cut down there, though I want you to bear In mind that I am not trlng to tell American police how to run their business. RED l 11 h sni. ED, "When a murder Is committed. It is listed at headquarters. If lt'3 still unsolved un-solved on the second day. It Is listed j In red ink. That red Ink record : stands until the case is solved If It takes years. "That's why we do not cease activity ac-tivity In a murder mystery as Poon as public Interest wanes. You'll hear nothing about a cape in the press for months then suddenly there will be an arre3t. We never forget a crime. " me difficulty Amerlcna police face Is the enormous size of your country which enables a murderer easily to 'loso himself.' CLOSER POLICE CO-OPERATION NEEDED. "You can overcome this by bringing bring-ing about closer co-operation between-police between-police in different cities and I understand under-stand you are doing this. Close association asso-ciation and contact between police heads Is desirable, but contact between be-tween police subordinates Is more advantageous. ad-vantageous. "I brought this contact between subordinates sub-ordinates about In England when I admitted ad-mitted provincial d teethes to the London detective school where they studied side by side with London detectives de-tectives You aro now doing things like that here and should continue to do It more." Sir Basil has hnd a colorful career. Born In 1S61, the son of an archbishop, arch-bishop, he was educated In Eton and Oxford and called to the bar. He entored the colonial service and I became prime minister of Tonga, a ' Pacific Island. He was governor of Dartmoor prison, of Wormwood Scrubs prison and secretary to the prison commission. He has been In tho criminal Investigation Inves-tigation department of Scotland Yard since 1913. How Scotland Yard solved a seemingly seem-ingly cluelelS murder told by Sir i Basil Thomson. K. C. B.. head of the famous criminal investigation department depart-ment : "On tho night of an air raid the body of a young woman, headless and handles, was found wrapped In burlap bur-lap sacking In a Iondon square. The (body bore but one garment, a piece !of underclothing. "Identification seemed hopeless There was no face. There were no hands, which precluded the use of fingerprints. Tho body bore no distinguishing dis-tinguishing marks. "The locality of the find was roped off and carefully examined. The lone 'piece of clothing was scrutinized. IX j bore a laundry mark W Jthln an hour we had located the laundry and km a Iwho had brought the garment there j a oung French woman, recently arrived. ar-rived. 'We checked up her friends. She had few. One was a butcher. We searched his homo and found the slain woman 8 head and hands concealed In a tub of salt. He was hanged." oo Juan county. member of the state con.t ii mionui convention and other offices. Tho Hammond family have traced their genealogy back to the year 1000 A I. The family Is organized with John H. Hammond as president and Mrs. A P. Sorensen as secretary for g nealoglcal nnd temple work All persons Interested In the Hammond family organization are requested to : communicate with Mrs. Sorensen at R. IF. D. No. 1, ogden. oo |