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"Indeed?" hs remarked, coolly going back
to the reaction.
"Yes," I cried. "It is a scientlflo criminal
- who seems to leave no dues."
Kennedy looked up gravely. "Every crim
inal leaves a trace,'' he said quietly. "If It
hasn't been found, then It must be because no
one has ever looked for It In the right way."
Still gaxing at me keenly, he added: "Tea,
I already knew there was such a man at
large. I have been called in on that Flettfher
rase— he was a trustee of the university, you
ksow."
"All right," I exclaimed, a little nettle\
that he should hare anticipated me even so
much In the case. "But you haveft't heard
the latest."
"What is itr he asked with provoking
calmness.
"Taylor Dodge." I blurted out. "has the
■aan r
Kennedy fairly jumped as I repeated the
aewa.
"How long has he knownT" he demanded
eagerly.
"Perhaps three or four hours," I hssarded.
Kennedy (taxed at me lt*edly.
"Then Taylor Dodge Is dead!" he ex
elatmed. throwing off his acid-stained labor
atory coat, which had once been a smoking
Jacket, and hurrying Into his street clothes.
"Impossible!" I ejaculated.
Kennedy paid no attention to the objec
tion. "Come, Walter,"* hs urged. "We must
hurry before the trail gets cold."
Thsre was something positively uncanny
about Kennedy's assursnce. I doubted—yet
I feared.
It was well past the middle of the night
when we pulled ap In a night-hawk taxlcab
before the Dodge house, mounted the steps
and rang the bell.
Jennings answered sleepily, but not so
much so that he did not recognise me. He
was kbout to bang the door shut when Ken
nedy interposed his foot.
"Where Is Mr. Dodge?" asked Kennedy.
"Is hs all right?"
"Of coarse he Is—ln bed," replied the
fcutler.
Just then we hesrd a faltA cry. like noth
. Ing exactly human. Or was It our heightened
imagination, under the tpel! of the dark
ness?
"Listen!" cautioned Kennedy.
We did. standing there now in the hall.
Kennedy was the only one of as who was
cool. Jennings's face blanched, then he
turned tremblingly and went down to the
library door, whence the sounds had seemed
to eome.
He called, but there was no answer. He
turned the knob and opened the door. The
Podge library was a large room. In the
centre stood a big flat-topped desk of heavy
mahogany. It was brilliantly lighted.
At one end of the desk was a telephone.
Taylor Dodge was lying on the floor at that
end of the desk—perfectly rigid—his face
distorted—a ghastly figure. A pet dog ran
over, sniffed frantically at his master's legs
and suddenly began to howl dismally.
Dodge was dead!
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derer Left oA the Suit Are Identical with His Own.
"Help!" shcsted Jennlng-s
Others of the servants came rushing In.
There wii. for the moment, the greatest
excitement and confusion
Suddenly a wild figure in flying garments
flitted down the stairs and Into the library,
dropping beside the dead man, without seem
iag to notice us at all.
"Father!" shrieked a woman's voice,
heart-broken. "Father! Oh—my God—he—
be la dead!"
It was Slalns Dodge.
With a mighty effort, the heroic girj
oeemed to pull heroolf together.
"Jennlnga"' she cried, "call Mr. Bennett—
to mediately!"
From the one-sided, excited conversation
of the butler over the telephone. I gathered
that Bennett had been in the-process of dis
rotoing In his own apartment uptown, and
would fee right down.
Together. Kennedy, Elaine and myself
lifted Dodge to a sofa, and Elaine's asnt,
Josephine, with whom she lived, appeared on
the scene, trying to quiet the sobbing girl.
Kennedy and I drew a little away, and
he looked about curiously.
What was It?" I whispered. "Was it na
tural, an accident or—or murder?" The word
seemed to stick in my throat. If It was a
murder, what was the motive? Could It
!»»▼• been to gat the evidence which Dodge
had that would Incriminate the master
criminal?
Kennedy moved over quietly and examined
the body of Dodge. When he rose bis face
had a peculiar look.
"Terrible!" he whispered to me. "Appar
ently he had been working at his accus
tomed placo at the desk when the telephone
tang. He rose and crossed over to it. Bee!
FAEMEBS AUSTRIA'S STAY
Asked by Government to Cultivate
Every Plot of Ground
Vienna. Feb. 19.—The Austrian Min 1
ister of Agriculture has issued an ur
rent appeal to farmers not to leave a
single plot of ground anywhere uncul
tivated. He declares:
'' Peace depends more than over upon j
That brought his feet on this register Ist
Into the floor. As he took the telephone re
ceiver down a flash of light must have shot
irom it to his ear. It shows the character
istic electric burn."
"The motive?" I queried.
Evidently his pockets hsd been gone
through, though none of the valuables were
missing. Things on his desk showed that a
hasty search had been made.
Just then the door opened and Bennett
burst in.
As he stood over the body, gazing down
at it, repressing the emotion of a strong
man, he turned to Elaine, and In a low voice
exolaimed: "The Clutching Hand did this. I
shall consecrate my life to brlss this roan
to justice !*•
He spoke tensely, and Blaine looking up
Into his face, as If Imploring his help In her
hour of need, unable to speak, merely grasped
his hand.
Kennedy, who In the meantime had stood
apart from the rest of us. was examining the
telephone carefully.
"A clever crook," I heard him mutter be
tween his teeth. 'He must have worn gloves.
Not a finger print—at least here."
Perhaps 1 can do no better than to recon
struct the crime as Kennedy later pieced
these startling events together.
Long after I left, and even after Bennett
left. Dodge continued working In his library,
for he was known as a prodigious worker.
Had be taken the trouble, however, to
pause and peer out into the moonlight that
flooded the back of the house, he might have
seen the figures of two stealthy crooks
crouching in the half shadows of one of the
cellar windows, one crook at least masked.
The masked crook held In his hands care
fully the ends of two wires attached to an
electric feed, and, sending his pal to keep
watch outside, he entered the cellar of the
Dodge house through a window whose pane
they had carefully removed. As he came
through the window he dragged the wlras
with him, and, after a moment's reconnoiter
ing, attached them to the furnace pipe of the
old-fashioned hot-air heater, where the pipe
ran up through the floor to the library above.
The other wire was quickly attached to the
telephone where its wlrjs entered.
Upstairs Dodge, evidently uneasy in his
mind about the precious Llmpy Red letter,
took it from the safe along with most of the
other correspondence, and. pressing a hidden
spring In the wall, opened a secret panel and
placed most of the Important documents In
this hiding place.
Downstairs the masked master criminal
hau already attached a voltmeter to the wires
he had installed, waiting.
Just then could be heard the tinkle of
Dodge's telephone, and the old man rose to
answer It. As he did so he placed his foot
on the Iron register, his hand taking the tele
phone and the receiver. At that Instant came
a powerful electric flash. Dodge sank on the
floor, clutching the Instrument, electrocuted.
Below, the master criminal could scarcely re
frain from exclaiming with satisfaction as
his voltmeter registered the powerful current
that was passing.
A moment later the criminal slid silently
Into Dodges room. Carefully putting on rub
ber gloves and avoiding touching the regis
ter, he wrenched the telephone from the
grasp of the dead man. .replacing it In its
normal position. Only for a second aid he
pause to look at his victim as he destroyed
the evidence of his work.
Minutes were precious. First Dodge's
pockets, 'then his desk engaged his attention.
Tfcere was left the s&Je.
As ho approached the strong box the mas
ter criminal took two vials from his poc'.tets.
Removing a bust of Shakespeare that atood
or, the safe, he poured the contents of the
vials in two mixed masses of powder, form
ing a heap on the safe, into which he in
serted two magnesium wires.
He lighted them, sprang back, hiding his
eyes from the light, and a blinding gush of
flams lasting perhaps ten seconds poured out
from the top of the safe.
It waa not an explosion, but Just a dazxllng,
intense flame that sizzled and crackled. It
•semed Impossible, but the glowing mass was
litsrally sinking, sinking down Into the cold
steel. At last It burned through—as if tha
safe had been of tlndor.
Without waiting a moment longer than
necessary, the masked criminal advanced
again and actually put his hands down
through the top of the safe, pulling out a
bunch of papers. Quickly he thrust them all,
with Just a glance. Into his pocket.
BUII working quickly, he took tho bust of
the great poet which he had removed, and
placed It under the light. Next from his
pocket he drew two curious stencils, as it
were, which ha had apparently carefully pre
pared. With his hands atlll carefully gloved,
ha rubbed th» stencils on his hair, as If to
the work in the fields this spring. The
power of the -State is conditional uoon
the productiveness of agriculture."
The question of food supplies in
Austria-Hungary is daily becoming
more acute, anil the Government has
confiscated al! stores of grain. The
shortage of fodder for cattle is great
ly increasing the gravity of the sit
j nation.
HAKRISBURG STAB-INDEPENDENT, FRIDAY EVENING, FEBRUARY 19. 1915,
Band Anniversary Concert
Lebanon. Feb. J 9. Arrangements
for the anniversary concert and enter
tainment by the Perseverance band
Tuesday night. March 2. have been
placed in the hands of capable com
mittees The officers of the organiza
tion are in charge of the affair, which, :
including motion pictures, will be given
in the Academy of Music. '
cover them with a film of natural oIU. Thee
he deliberately pressed then over the atatue
tn several places. It waa a peculiar action,
*nd he eeemed to fairly gloat over It when it
was done and the bust returned to lta place,
covering the hole. i
As noiselessly aa he had come, he mjde his
exit after one last malignant look at Dodge.
It was new but the work of a moment to re
move the wires he had placed and clii&b out
of the window, taking them and destroying
the evidence down In the cellar.
A low whistle from the masked crook, now
sgaii* in the shadow, brought his pal stealth
ily to his aide. '
"It's all right." he whispered hoarsely to
the man. "Now you attend to Liimpy Red."
The Villalnoue looking pal nodded and,
without another word, the two made their
getaway tn opposite directions.
When Llmpy Red. still trembl!sc. left the
office of Dodge earlier in the evening, he hsd
repaired aa fast as is shambling feet would
take him to his favorite dive uo on Park
Row. There he might have been seen drink
ing with any one who came along, for Llmpy
had money—blood money—and the recollec
tion o? his treachery and revenge must be
forgotten and celebrated.
Had the Bowery "sinkers" not got into his
eyes he might have noticed among the late
revelle-« a man who spoke to no one, hut took
hie place nearby at the bar.
Llmpy had long since reached the point of
saturation, and lurching forth from hie ntv
found cronies he sought other fields of ex
citement. Likewise did the newcomer, who
bore a strange resemblance to the look-out
who had been stationed outside st the Dodge
house a scant half hour before.
W hat happened later was oply a matter
of seconds. It came when the hated snitch
—Tor gangdom hates the informer worse than
anything else, dead or alive—had turned a
sufficiently dark and deserted corner.
A muffled thud, a stifled groan followed aa
a heavy section of lend pipe wrapped in A
newspaper descended on the crass skull of
Limpy. The wielder of the improvised but
fatal weapon permitted himself the luxury
of an instant's cruel sgiile—then vanished
Into the darkness, leaving another complete
job for the coroner and morgue.
It was the revenge of the Clutching
Hand—swift, sure, remorseless
And yet it had not.been a night of com
plete success for the master criminal, as any
one might have seen who could hnv« followed
his sinuous route to a pla.-e of greater safety.
Unable to wait lonrer, he pulled the papers
he had taken from the safe from his pocket.
His chagrin at finding most of them to 'r>»
blank found only one explanation of foiled
any of the men he had seen—Gross. Lacas
real one:
Kennedy had turned from his futile exam
ination for marks on the telephone. There
stood the safe, a moderate siied strong box,
but of a modern type He tried tli* door. It
was locked. There was not a mark on it.
The combination had not been tampered r.ith
Nor had there been any attempt to "soup''
the safe
With a quick motion he felt In his pocket
as if looking for gloves. Finding none, he
g!*tlce*l about and seized two pieces of paper
from the desk. With then-., in order not to
confuse any possible linger prints on tl'.a
bust, he li'ted it off
I pave c Rani of surprise.
There, in the top of f.ie safe, yawned a
ga.?lng hole, through which ore w,-;a have
thrust his arm '
"h "*at Is it?" we asked, crowding a-'jout
hlrt.
"Tiiem:!:," he reoiied laconically.
"Thermit?" I repeated.
"Tes—a compound of tron oxide and po~-
dered aluminum* Invented b; a c.teruist at
<lerr?:arv. It gi\es i. te".ne'»ture o*
ova.- fi\e thousand degrees. ?t will eat it 3
Wi!' til rough the strorgcst s:eel."
Jennir.gs. hi* mouth wide open with won
der, advanced to take the bust from Ken
nedy.
Vo—.lcr.'t touch he waved him off. iay
i"-? the hurt on the Jfsk. "'i want no one to
touch it—don't you sve how careful I was to
use the paper, that there might be no ques
tion about any clue this fellow may have left
on the mnrfclet'"
As he spoke Craig was d.stlng over the
surface of the bust wltb some Slack powder.
"L.©ok!" exclaimed Craig suddenly.
We bent over. The black powder had, in
fact, brought out strongly some peculiar,
more or less regular, black smudges.
"Finger prints:'' I cried excitedly.
"Yes," nodded KeJir.edy, studying them
closely. "A clue, perhaps."
"What— those little marks—a clue?" asked
a voice behind us.
I turned and saw Elaine looking over our
shoulders, fascinated. It was evidently the
first time she had realized that Kennedy was
in the room.
"How can you tell anything toy that?" ah*
asked.
hy, easily," ha answered, picking up a
gl.-ss p»p*r weight which lay on the ueak.
"You sec, I place my finger on this weight—
so I dust the powder off the mark—so.
You could see It even without the powder
on this glass. Do you see those lines? There
are various types of mark'.ugs—four general
types —and each person's markings are dif
ferent, even If of the same general type
loop, whorl, arch or composite."
He continued working au he talked.
"Tour thumb marks, for example. Miss
Dodge, are different from mine. Mr. Jame
son's are different from both of us. And this
fellow's finger prints are still different. It
is mathematically Impossible to find two
alike in every re®pcct."
Kennedy waa holding the paper weight
near the bust aa he talked
I shall never forget the look of blank
amazement on hla face as ha bent over closer.
"My God"'he exclaimed excitedly, "this
fellow is a master criminal! He haa made
stencils or something of that aort on which,
by aome mechanical process, he haa actually
forged the hitherto Infallible finger print*!"
I, too, bent ovar and atudied the marka on
the bust and thosa Kennedy had made on the
pa>per weight to show Elaine.
THE FINGER PRINTS OS THE BUST
WERE KENNEDY'S OT.'X.
(To be continued next week.)
Accepts Can to Waynesboro Church
Union, Feb. 19.—The Bev. John
Lewis, for a number of years pastor of
the I T nion Presbyterian church. this
place, has accepted a' call to become the
{ pastor of the Presbyterian church at
! Wayifesboro, and the board of trustees
> of the church accepted his resignation.
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IOWA "DRY" LAW IS PASSED
Mulct Law Repeal. Restoring Prohibi
tion, Up to Governor
Des Moines, la., Feb. 19. —The lowa j
House vesterdav passe*! the Olarkson j
•bill, which repeals the mulct law, ef
fective January 1, 191t>. bv a vote of
79 to 29.
The measure already has parsed the
Senate and will now go to the Govern
or, who has indicated his intention of
si>(ning it. Under its provisions lowa
will return to State-wide statutory pro
hibition.
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GERMAN RUSE. TO DECEIVE
Every rase, every little trick Is employed la the great European war to deceire tbe enemy. The accompanying
photograph shows • bogus 42 centimetre gun mounted on a carriage by the German seldiers to deceive the allied avia-
LENT MUX US OUT SLAVER
Reappears Voluntarily After Five Years
to Face Murder Charge
Xew York, Feb. 19.—Seized with
what he saitl was an irresistible im
pulse at the approach of the Lenten
sctkaon, Frank Madalena abandoned a
prosperous business in Steubenville,
0., and came to this city yesterday to
face a charge of murder, for which hi'
was indicted five years ago. MadaJeua
is accused of shooting and killing Jo
seph Papa, once his partner, after a
quarrel.
M:*d;. 'en;: fled, but was subsequently
indicici on a charge of first degree
murder: Reaching Steubenville, he en
in business and prospered. Of
late his conscience troubled him. he
said yesterday, and the approach of
lAii t strengthened his impulse to face
the murder charge.
(JAS GUSHER SroUTSTERROR
People for Miles Around Rush in Awe
to 20,000,000-Foot Roarer
Washington, Pa.. Feb. 19.—The
Manufacturer's Light and llcnt Com
pany yesterday brought in a record
breaking gas well, which it is believed
will make, when controlled, fully 20,-
000.000 cubic feet of gits per day. At
the present time the well is beyond all
control and the roar of tho escaping
gas can be heard for nearly three miles.
When the ga* first cut loose with a
tremeiaJous rear; terror was spread
over a wide territory. Word rapidly
spread that there ha 1 been a big ex
plosion, and people came from miles
around. On learning the true cause of
the '-'eat and continued roar, tliey
.'.yed tn watch the ineffectual efforts
i f the g;>s men to check and control
the flow of precic-us fluid.
May Restore Dcatli Penalty
Olympia. Wash., Feb. 19. —-The State
senate Judiciary committee has Voted
to report favorably the bill to repeal
the anti-capital punishment law passed
by the 1913 Legislature. Supporters of
capita! punishment; for first decree mur
der point out that in the last two
months ten murders have been commit
ted in King comity, which includes
Seattle.
Engine Proving Satisfactory
The iarge 1.-l s type of engine which
is now being tried cut l\v the Pennsyl
vania Railroad Company is proving
more satisfactorily then the company
is expecting. The engine was brought
to Marysville with a heavily loaded
train Monday in a period of fifteen
hours, and returned Wedne-' lay to Al
toona with 120 empty steel cars in a
period of nine hours and fifteen min
utes.
CARRIES HIS ASHES HOME
i Bride Will Sprinkle Them at Russian
Home of Suicide
New York, Feb. 19.—Carrying with
I her the ashes of her husband, who
! killed himself because he wa« afraid
; that some day t.heir love might grow
,' cold, Mrs. S. W. (irote sailed yesterday
> for Russia on the steamship Hellig
i Olav. She is on her way to Riga,
I where, in accordance with the last
1 wishes of her husband, she will spriu
j kle his ashes on his old homestead,
j Mrs. (irote's husband ended his life
• last October. lie had married Mrs.
.'(■ rote, a beautiful woman of Swedish
; birth, two weeks before. There was a
, | report at the time that Grote in wooing
i j her begged her to take him for two
| weeks only, promising at the end of
! that time to die and leave his fortune
j to her. Before sailing Mrs. Grote, with
I tears in her eyes, denied this story and
| said that the great love which her hus
i' band bore for her was the only reason
j for his act.
I "He was frightfully jealous,'' sho
; said. "He loved me so greatly that he
i i otiM not bear the thought that some
' day I might cease to love him, and he
died when his happiness was great-
I est.''
FASCINATED INTO THEFTS
Youth's Plea Substantiated By Failure
to Market Loot
Pottsville, Feb. 19.— "1 TY:IK not
forced to steal and didn't want to sell
loot for money, but 1 found that 1
simply had an obsession for theft,"
i was the confession of Wilbur Geiger,
11 17-year-old robber, who was arrested
| some time ago charged with heading a
gang of burglars who robbed a large
! number of houses in this section. Bcv
| era! wagonloads of plunder have been
j reclaimed by the police,
j Little effort was made by Goiter to
I sell his loot, and the facts in possession
of the police substantiate his declan
; tion that he stole simply because of the
fascination it had for him.
Man, 07, Still Active as Worker
Marietta, Feb. 19.—Jacob Miller,
| of near town, 9 7 years old, made eight.
| large clothes racks in his carpenter
; ,-iiop the past two months. His nerve
i is steady and he works to pass away
| the time. Ijevi Longenecker, of Mar't-
I etta. who is soon 80 years old, is mak
; ing a table from pieces of wood gath
| ered from all parts of the United
| States, including several pieces from
! the prisons of Libby. Danville and
[ Salisbury. Mr. l,ongenecker ha-< com
pleted within the past five years four
tables, which are made of more than
I 10.000 pieces of wood.
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