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Scotland Yard’s Big Six Vindicated While Under Fire of Critics BY C\ PATRICK THOMPSON'. SCOTLAND YARD. London's fa mous anti-crime organization, is feeling pleased with itself again. For months it had been under a cloud. A polid? constable had been murdered while attempting to make an arrest. His assailants had sent bullets crashing through the pu pils of his eyes—and then had sped to safety in a stolen automobile All Eng land was stirred—and called for the swift punishment of the murderers. Scotland Yard set to work on the ■ ease, but nothing happened. Month after month went by without an arrest being made: without even a clue being ] found, so far as the English public j Many were the criticisms that were j leveled at the slow, laborious methods j of crime detection, though for years j these methods had held England's an- j nual crop of murders to a \erv small ; minimum and had reduced the number of unsolved murders virtually to the j vanishing point Many were the entreaties for the 1 Yard to abandon its time-worn method of keeping everlastingly on a certain j track. •‘lntroduce modern methods:" j “Get your man!” And then, just when it looked as if Scotland Yard had been licked, that it had been sticking stubbornly to a wrong scent—two arrests were made J and two convictions were obtained Scotland Yard had vindicated itself and its methods. It is a thrilling story—the store of this vindication, but before we launch into that, let’s glance at the men who ! have brought it about—-"the Big Six" of Scotland Yard. Come with me behind the scenes of the great red-turreted building on Thames-side, by the Houses of Parlia ment. and meet these six superdetec tives. the men who are chiefly respon sible for the fact that out of a year s j total of 114 murders (this in a popula- | tion of 38.000.000* only two remain un- i solved. ** * * Ji'OREMOST among Them stands the vulture - headed Chief Constable Wensley, chief of the criminal investi gation department. Normally he is re- j sponsible for the detection and suppres sion of crime among the 7.500.000 per sons in the metropolis. Actually, he is the chief detective of England, al- j ways liable to be called in by the police chiefs outside his area for the solution of some major crime. He directs operations on every major crime and presides at the daily confer ence of the big six. His men make j about 150.000 arrests a year. 16.000 of ! these being for indictable offenses ranging from arson, rape, counterfeit ing and wounding to robbery with vio lence and murder. He is the master elucidator, probably ! the most efficient and experienced de tective functioning today, and one of the world's remarkable men. His face, with its great beak of a nose, trap mouth and basilisk eyes, is stony in its calm. He used to be a “footslogger," an ordinary patrolman: now he rides with his powerful shoulders and big vulture head slouched against the cushions of a huge limousine. In the 40 years intervening between , one state and the other he has acquired a marvelous knowledge of the under world and its ways, and has gone about collecting murderers, counterfeiters, ; forgers, robbers, gang chiefs and other criminal fry as you or I might collect stamps—tenaciously, expertly, interest edly. yet detachedly. He thinks crime is a disease. But J when he is after a man there is no i eoftness about him. He is tenacious as a bulldog, cunning as a ferret, sharp as a hawk, relentless and merciless. He has his human side. He is with out vindictiveness He is on hand- i shaking terms with hundreds of crim inals. He has helped the destitute family of many a crook. His life has never been attempted. There was a rime when the chiefs of j the East Side gangs he was engaged in ; breaking up swore that his life was not worth a moment’s purchase. But he ; went about the crime quarter unarmed , and unescorted—and lives. He made his name in the service by 1 gang smashing, and his name with 1 Moses Gets Houston Warning * This Smith Party Is in the Big League, Brother, When It Comes to Sitting the Enemy Down With a Single Para graph,” Says Rogers—Always Excitement at a Demo cratic Anything. BY WILL ROGERS. WELL, all I know is just what I read In the papers, and what I see as I prow! over ; the old Commonwealth. Here we are down here in Houston, all getting set for another Dog Fight. I think we are going to have a lot of fun down here. There is j always excitement at a Democratic; anything- Os course it dont look like ; there 1* any way to keep from nominat ing Al, hut that dont maxe any dif ference. there i* always something that will stir up an argument even , If they all agree And talking about Smith reminds me of an incident that happened at the i Kan*** City show Senator Moses was the Chairman or Ringmaster of the outfit, and. of course no one at any of j those things can take office without j making the customary speech. Well here i* part of what he said, We enter j this coming battle militant. We intend to carry the fight to the enemy, and we challenge them to bring forth their , strongest champion, whether he emerge from another 103-round battle of ihe Madison Square Beer Garden or from a convention held spellbound by the Tammany Tiger We are ready for, him bring him on and we will bury i him We will welcome him with ho*- { nitabie hands to a bloody grave and - we care not whether his name be! Brown. Jones, or Smith ” Now them is stnfiig words Moses, j even f or a Prophet to utter Now it* all right to use then; on the ordinary j run of Politicians. It sounds great, J and the gallery eat It up. But when j you are messing with Ai Smith, why j you are not dealing with the ordinary j politician you are going up against a man that can take the English; language and throw it back to you ; wrapped up as ridicule, and Moses he will have you taking to the Moun* lie ; will make you wish you had smitten | those words on a rock, and not uttered them in national convention This Baby Smith i* a past master of re - j nartee You been dealing with some of j those slow thinking Senators around there, and you are liable to get a little f/wkx tor you hand out some mean • ridicule yourself. But brother, tills Bmlth party is in the Big League when it comes to sitting the enemy down with a single paragraph So Jam just j ti nii you oft Lay oft this Guy, you ir»v defeat him at the polls this, Autumn but the more dignified you ha££ your end of » the bettor If t ever come* to s battle of words he %ih have all ti* Dellfatgg, so you 1 Criminal Investigators Are Led by Man Wbo Is Credited With Being World’s Most Efficient and Experienced Detective. Relentless Methods Are Combined With Complete Freedom From Vindictiveness. * ——.———■—.— mm——mm —■—WW————■——w—————— mmmmm ——. I . x ' s it* • ~ ,?jsv <= . ’ >'«• J S; -i - L*- 1 * ,* y . v $ “ONE OF THE ESSEX POLICEMEN WAS FOUND DEAD IN A LONELY LANE.” . the public by solving two extraordinary i murder mysteries. One was a case in which he had to j find the murderer of a headless woman left lying in a West End square. His ! only' clue was a laundry' mark on a ' sheet shrouding the corpse. He hunted i his man along lines which have since become the standard method at the i Yard in the approach to all murder j mysteries. First he asked himself what sort of person would be likely to commit such a crime; he estimated the mental and psychological aspects of the case; and then he examined the known bad char acters who might have done the thing. He asked three main questions: Who was the last person seen with the vic tim? Who were the victim's friends? Where was the instrument used in the crime purchased? He got his man. a Belgian butcher named Voisin. Voisin was hanged. The other case is known in crime his tory as “the trunk murder.” The dis membered corpse of a woman was found in a trunk deposited in the cloakroom at a London railway station. The only clue was a dishcloth marked “St.'' But that clue led Wensley to the office of a man named Robinson, and a blood stained match in that office completed the chain of evidence. Robinson was executed. a* * a J-JAWKINS. bald, stout, spectacled, is j the robbery and blackmail expert. I He is the repository of innumerable se- ; crets of the haut monde. The late Lord t Rothschild. England's Pierpont Morgan. * ; better keep the election on votes and not on Slogans There 1* men that j can speak better English than Smith, but there is not any that can make it sound any better. By the way, however, Moses made a mighty good officer. He gave us an ex ample of the Republican methods. The \ minority was drowned out by the j gravel. The best speeches made there were by young Bob Lafolette and Senator Borah. The others could have sent ’em In by mail. But say, this young Lafolette has a great deal of the old man in him. He has that kind <>f little sympathetic f touch In his voice, like a sincere appeal, and looks like a real promising young fellow He looks like he has a great ; career ahead of him. It's too bad he is ! so many ahead of his time, but he is. It will take about three generations of ; Lafolette* before the people catch up to j what they are working on Borah was great. He was on the opposite side from what he usaully is, that is, he was try ing to pacify them, and not stir 'em up. He was against the Mary MrHaughen bill, and a lot of the Lawyers for the j farmers were for it. But the conven- j lion voted it down, so that kills that, j Coolidge always said it wouldn't work. ! I don't know whether it would or not, but I know it never will, i It seems good to come to a Conven tion where some of the Public men are I known. Outside Bill Borah with the Republicans nobody knows any of them. ; But down here when a man gets up to , speak, why we al! know who it is. They j to have more color and character. j And tire old town of Houston is sure i i set to give ern a tlm<- This Convention 1 means a lot to the State of Texas. ! | Thousands are seeing it this coming j * week that never had any idea of what \it was like I have often said, and I Hili say and believe it, that North Caro lina has made more progress in the , last few' years than any other State in ; the Union, and Texas 1* next. Not a 1 bad record when you figure that there !is 48 (count 'em) Texas is a-humming She has some great towns. Don’t get out of the State, you Dellgates, till you j have seen some of the other town* they j have Course it is a little warm here ! now, and may be all week, but we are ‘ ah overweight anyway, and havent got ! the Will power to reduce by less eating, so we will kinder perspire it off here. They have a great Convention hall that they pul up aft-r they landed the | Convention. They are hustler* down) ; here. They have to go some to do a better \ job of it than Kansas City did They i did mighty proud by their Republicans, I j and were blessed with great weather, I ' The New York Deiigation IR coming in THE SUNDAY STAR. WASHINGTON, P. C.. .TUNE 24. I32S—HART T. | once called him in to settle a black ! mailer. Hawkins arranged a neat trap. Ten j ! thousand dollars was to be placed in a ; ! hotel washroom. Hawkins fixed up an ’ electric contraption to ring a bell in an adjoining room when the notes were : picked up. The bell rang. Hawkins i rushed in and seized a man who was i desperately trying to wash black stains ; off his hands. Hawkins had covered the notes with powder scraped from indelible pencils, so that the blackmailer should be marked beyond all doubt. Bill Brown, the black-haired giant, is the burglar specialist. Then there is Nicholls. With his little, waxed mus tache and dapper air he looks like a floorwalker. But there is nothing of the floorwalker in his mental make-up. ] j He is an adept at disguise, a master in j I the gentle art of shadowing, talks French and German, is an expert on | the international “dope" traffic and stopped the use of drugs among the troops during the war He prepares cases for the director of public prose cutions. John Ashley, another of the formid able bunch, looks like a Methodist par son and does the detail thinking for j Wensley. He talks to criminals in such : a fatherly way that he usually gets the I | truth out of them. He has trained his ; ! memory to such a degree that when he • '< sits in at the conferences of criminal 1 j and legal experts when major crimes j are under discussion the alternative to ! a search of the records is to “ask Ash | ley-” ! He is the man who docketed at the ; ! Yard over 1.000,000 records of British I " THE NEW YORK DELEGATION IS COMING BY BOAT. by boat and they have built a special j canal that brings ’em up from the i ocean. They are talking about putting a wet 1 INDIAN THIEF TRACKER. IN India the great enemy of thieves Is the khnjl, whose 'nam' 1 signings "searcher" or "tracker" and whose busi ness Is to truck criminals by their foot prints These trackers are trained to their calling from youth and become exceedingly expert. They are an espe cial terror to the cattle stealers, who, In the parts of the Punjab ad joining the Indus and other large rivers, where much grazing Is carried on, are very plentiful. These match their cunning against that of the tracker, but they have to be very clever to throw' him off the scent. One of their tricks Is to catch a buf falo, drive It Into the river, and, cling, ing to Its tail, guide it In the way they desire to go By this means they are | quickly carried down the current and ! leave no telltale footprints. But the | ruse Is not always successful, for the teason that the tracker thinks nothing of distance and Is likely to come upon (the tracks farther on. where the tiuef I was forced to leave the stream. A good tracker, it is asserted, will fol i low a thief, yard by yard, for a hundred ! miles and come up with him In the end. I In one instance a burglar was once tracked until the searcher reached the • and international crooks. Possibly this I accounts for his prematurely gray hair Once he was explaining to a well i known man how almost everybody car- j ried an identification mark in the shape i of a laundry mark. He was shown a laundry mark on the other's clothes an£ asked to identify it. He was puzzled. “That’s got me.” he confessed. “I know the marks of all the well known laundries, but I've never seen that sort of marking before. Besides, it's green thread, which is most rare.” The other then explained. He had just returned from a visit to America and was carrying laundry souvenirs of New York! Supt. Savage, brown haired, good looking, is the youngest of the six. He is an ornithologist. He will tell you | that there is only one satisfactory way j !of getting rid of a body. The details are not, however, for publication. ** * * CO much for the Big Six themselves. Their method, the famous Wensley method, of working, does not make such romantic reading as that of Sher lock Holmes. In fact, it is nothing more than one of those laborious ' j methods of crime detection which the , ! celebrated Mr. Holmes never ceased to j | ridicule, a method, nevertheless, which ! has proved its adequacy to the hilt, i ! Nowhere is it better demonstrated than j | in the Gutterldge case—now assured of ! ; a prominent place among the classic crimes—the murder of a police officer in September, which culminated in the ! arrest of the murderers six months j later. i Early on the morning of September ; plank In the platform. I hope they get j it in before its over, so we can try It out ; and see if It works. 1 (Copyright. 19280 lock-up of a village 80 miles from the smarting point. Inside the building was the man he hud set out to find The police of that place had observed a sus plclous-looklns character walking about carrying a small bundle arid hud promptly locked him up An examina tion of the bundle brought to light Jew elry worth several hundred rupees. In one instance the tracker’s skill al most condemned an Innocent man. Two sheep belonging to a government official trad been stolen and the footprints were found to be those of a man employed to look after the public gardens. The man was arrested, but when the track was followed up It was found to end opposite the police station, where the skins of the sheep were discovered, As It seemed unlikely that a thief would deposit his booty under the very eyes ol the police, a further investigation was made, and It was eventually proved that the sheep had been taken by the police, who, to throw the trackers oft the scent, had stolen sud worn the gar dener’s shoes. • More than half the automobiles being sold in Egypt this year are of Ameri can make. ! 27 Wensley had a telephone call from 1 the police of Essex, the adjoining i county to London. One of their men. : Gutteridge. had been found dead in a I lonely lane. He had received a fatal shot, had staggered back and fallen, and as he lay he had been shot again through each eye. Wheel tracks showed that an automobile had stopped at that spot. The dead man had pencil and note book out. Detectives were dispatched. While they were busy the discovery of an abandoned, blood-stained car in a cul de-sac on the outskirts of the city en abled Wensley and his colleagues to re construct the crime in its principle fea tures. OuM'-idge, on patrol at night, had ! recognr the doctor's car approach- 1 I ing iti car had been stolen from a j doctor's garage), seen it occupied by j strangers and had hailed it. No doubt! he had blown his whistle and the thugs I had stopped Gutterldge had started to ! ask awkward questions, and the ban- ! dits. seeing long terms of penal servi- ! tude ahead for carrying loaded fire- ; ; arms and driving in a stolen car— i British law comes down with a heavy j i hand on the armed criminal with a bad | i record—had shot him. Why had they then pursued him to ; the roadside and sent bullets crashing ! through each eye? Doubtless because i they had a superstitious dread of the • impression of themselves appearing on the retina of the dead man’s eyes. The Yard had three immediate clues: I <1) the bullets extracted from the body, j <2> the stolen car and (3) a cartridge case left In the car. They also had a description of the i Deadly Diseases Are Conquered BY ALAN MACDONALD. • THE far-flung army of research scientists, forever engaged in ! the war against the lorces of death, report advances on all ' fronts. No less than 22 vic tories over the satraps of human suf fering have been won or consolidated within the past year and a half, many of them of major importance. The crack enemy divisions of paresis and pernicious anemia, long regarded as fatally unconquerable, and accountable for millions ot casualties since the age old war began, have been routed and relegated to a comparatively minor place. Lasting triumphs have been achieved against such powerful stub born units as scarlet fever, erysipelas. • sleeping sickness and cancer. The victories were achieved at great 1 cost. Dr. Kideyo Noguchi, the heroic Japanese research physician of the Rockefeller Institute, and Dr. William Alexander Young, his assistant, died as a direct result of their drive against the deadly African yellow fever. Dr. Noguchi, who hunted germs around the world as other men track big game, went to Lagos, Nigeria, on the trail of the yellow fever bacillus. One might suppose that the germs were warned of his coming, for shortly after his ar rival he came down with the disease, which yearly kills hosts of black men. He was rushed to a hospital and there, with himself as subject, he con ducted research experiments from what eventually proved his death bed. He had a monkey Inoculated with the disease. The monkey died. The doc tor temporarily recovered, due, ac cording to his own judgment, to in oculation with the anti-yellow fever germ which he himself developed some years ago. Further experimentation with fluids of the monkey resulted in the capture and isolation of the germ Dr Noguchi had come so far to find. Forthwith, he and his aid. Dr. Young, set about to develop a preventive vac cine against this African scourge. But the disease was not so easily subdued. Dr. Noguchi was stricken with a re turn of the fever, and this proved fatal. Dr. Young died of the same con tagion a tveek or so later. And other men have taken up the fight that they began. The award of the 1927 Nobel prise for medicine to Prof. Julius Wagner- Jauregg of the University of Vienna amounted to a decoration, and focused the eyes of the w'orld for a time upon one of the most interesting campaigns of this eternal struggle- that of the conquering of paresis It was not a sudden victory. Prof, Wagner-Jauregg began his work against the dread pa ralysis many years ago. In 1917 the disease was still considered incurable. If paresis got you. as far as doctor* were concerned you were doomed to slow but inevitable death. The Vienna scientist observed that sufferers from paralysis usually showed ,» , ;** v' . * * flfe' • — h *—■*-+ yjPtJBBa— jXßlllilS * HBan!S|r\3jltV*fjUQn doctor’s instruments which had been in the car, and which had disappeared. They knew the type of gun from which some, at least, of the fatal bullets had been fired. ** * * A ND , here Sir Wyndham Childs, the chief of the secret political police and counter-espionage, an ex-army offi cer, butted in and made a significant discovery. Childs is lean, polite, a nar row-eyed lynx of a man. He was a musketry expert in the armv. He ex amined cartridge case, bullets and photographs of the shot-riddled Lie and found that <a) tha case was tint of an obsolete Mark IV cartridge with drawn from the army soon after the war started. <b) one of the bullets fired through the eyes had been pro pelled by black powder, a detonation for cartridges not used since 1894. and (C) the other had been propelled by cordite. It was thus established that two men, one of whom had a mixed assortment of ammunition, were concerned in the crime; and Childs could further say that when a revolver was found the breach shield of which duplicated the peculiarities in the fatal cartridge case —marks now known to be as Infallible as fingerprints—that would be the weapon with which the constable was murdered. In the process of testing these theories the Yard chiefs examined over 1.30 Q revolvers, and spent days firing bullets into wood and examining the effect under the microscope. That would have taken friend Holmes quite a time, even with the assistance of Dr. Watson. Meanwhile months went by. No ar rest. What were Wensley and his men up to? They were looking for the killer's gun, and conducting a system atic comb-out of suspects and others. Everv revolver that came into police tv' . m, -e ~ • ' // * j | “WITH A CRY OF RAGE BORIS LEAPED FOR THE BOY.” | _______ ~ -v .jy 1)R. HIDEYO NOGUCHI. WHO SACRIFICED HIS FIFE IN ISO FATING THE AFRICAN YEFFOW FEVER GERM. Improvement after recovery from an at tack of some fever-producing disease. Experimentally, he began producing fever in animals and patients by inocu lating them with ervsipelas germs, tu berculin. typhoid vaccine and even poi sons. But the victory was not to be so simple. Years passed, and at last the doctor hit upon the idea of trying inoculation of patients with malaria germs. This showed unusual promise and he developed the idea. At last he had a definite treatment. He allowed malaria to have its way with the para lytic for 8 or 10 days and then cured the fever with quinine. The treatment Is now being used all over the world, and an average of one-third of the suf ferers are cured outright, according to reports, while at least 25 per cent can be sure of improvement. One disease had been Induced to betray another. No less arresting is the recent triumph of Drs. George R. Minot and William P. Murphy of Harvard University over per nicious anemia. Death had few more mysterious or more effective allies. About ninety out of every hundred suf ferers from the malady died In 1926. for Instance, 3.000 persons passed on because of it in England and Wales alone Today probably not more than ten of every hundred are lost. The ta jpQHK ''£? ufl | fl J «|P ■.■»i it«» , i i «jS4Hm4 1 HE^ml hands went to Scotland Yard. The war office co-operated. A weird and won derful collection of guns accumulated. Uneasy folk in illicit possession of re volvers furtively dropped them. They were fished out of rivers and off waste land, and sent to the Yard. The owners were hunted out and questioned. The record office provided the names of all criminals of violent tendencies who had been liberated from prison in the last two or three years They were looked up. Thousands of men were traced and interrogated. Detectives shadowed suspects and kept watch for wanted crooks who had eluded the round-up. There were sudden raids and surprise searches The vulture-headed Wensley sat in his office by the old river and, in the course of months, saw his search nar row down to six suspects. One was a habitual criminal named Browne. Even Dartmoor, where they tame tigers, had not been able to tame him, and he had served every day of his last sentence of four years. Browne had eluded all search. ** * * CUDDENLY enter chance, the incal- culable factor. In Sheffield, the steel city of the Midlands, a recklessly driven car collides with a local car and goes on. The aggrieved local man manages to note its number as it shoots away. It is a London registration num ber. The Sheffield police ask the London police to look it up. The latter report back that the name is not known at the address. It looks like a fake number. Will Sheffield inquire further and re port? Sheffield gets busy and finds that a local man was in the mystery car as passenger. This man is an ex-convict. He is questioned and discloses that the driver was Browne. Browne has a ga rage at Brixton. bles have been reversed on this enemy with a vengtCM^. The inside ifV goes that Dr. Minot, a distingulfed* investigator, in the midst of a • successful life, was stricken with diabetes, another until re cently fatal sickness. The learned sa vant stood among his laboratory appur tenances and knew' that in four or five years he must die. for such was the best science could do against diabetes., Then out of Canada came word that another research man. Dr. G. F. Bant-! ing of Toronto, had discovered insulin, j a preparation from the pancreas of j sheep and oxen, that checks and some times. as after events proved, cures the disease. With insulin Dr. Minot could live out his normal span of life. The pancreas of sheep and oxen! No ] doubt that directed the doctor's mind 1 in a naw direction, and after many ex periments he announced that a simple diet of liver was the cure for pernicious anemia, an affliction in which the red corpuscles of the blood are devoured, apparently, by the white ones, with a resultant slow but sure death. Liver, j Dr. Minot found, contained some hlth- 1 erto unknown ingredient that Increases red corpuscles and stops the disease. The conquest of scarlet fever was ac-> compllshed by Dr. George F. and Gladys H. Dick of the John McCormick Insti- I tute for Infectious Diseases at Chicago, i Antitoxins for the cure and prevention t of diphtheria and smallpox had been ' found and used, and these two scourges had been blocked in their raids and epi demics; but scarlet fever had been much more stubborn. Scores ot research workers had striven in vain to find or ■ isolate the germ or cause of the disease. | The Chicago doctors conducted thou- i sands of experiments, inoculating ani-! mate and finally volunteer humans with the disease, and at last caught the germ, i They then developed an antitoxin so that ( humans can be vaccinated against it, and also a skin test which deter- j mines which Individuals are susceptible and which immune to the fever The lives of countless children undoubtedly i have been saved by this victory of science. Erysipelas, or St Anthony's fire, as the fulsome skin affliction has been known since the beginning of medi cine. is another of death's allies to fall at last before the forces of mod ern science. Dr. Konrad E. Birkhaug of the University of Rochester recently i developed an antitoxin treatment to I be used in the eartiy stages of the ; illness that has given remarkable re- ! suits. The Art* of St Anthony was j never a disease of such high death < rate as paresis or pernicious anemia, but it entailed long periods of confine ment and suffering Dr Birkhaug s method, according to statistics available at Bellevue Hospital, This “leak” in Sheffield reaches the hawks at the Yard. Instantly they pounce. But the Flying Squad men And that Browne is away. He has motored to his old prison at Dartmoor to bring a friend, a convict due for release, back to London. Here the tale touches fantasy. Browne drives the released convict to Scotland Yard, where he has to report on entering the metropolis, and then goes on to Battersea. The waiting de tectives jump on him before he can reach one of his several guns. In the Yard they are on tenterhooks. They have got one of the killers. But, the evidence? In Browne’* garage an • expert ex amines the collection of guns. He breaks one. Mark IV cartridges in the cylinder and the breach shield dupli cates the peculiarities in the fatal cart ridge case. H« breaks another gun. It contains an asstorment of ammuni tion, two rounds of which hold black powder propellant And there arc the doctor's stolen In struments ! Strange vanity! The killer, strong, intelligent, cunning, ferocious, is so sure of not being tracked that he has held on to the very evidence needed to hang him—the guns, the ammunition, the in struments. Ttye Yard's half-year's patient hunt is at an end. All the detectives’ theories have proved correct. They incidentally have confirmed their favorite conten tion: That detective work is only about a 55 per cent factor in unraveling a crime, the other 45 per cent being ac counted for by the items of information received—uniformity of style, careless ness and vanity. In that order. For months they had known as much as Sherlock Holmes could have dis covered by his celebrated deductive method: but without that “information received’’ they would still be looking for Browne, and, lacking this interlock ing system, this deadly close-woven net for gathering information from every comer of the island and getting action on it from a central headquarters, not all the Holmeses in the world could have found Browme. let alone effected an arrest and secured the essential evi dence. I New York City, where is maintained one of the largest erysipelas clinics in the world, has reduced the death rate from 12 to 4 per cent.' and has cut the ; hospital period of sufferers in half. In i vest iga tors first got track of the erysipe j las germ back in 1831, but though re search may be said to have been prac i tically continuous from that time, it was not until Dt. Birkhaugs expert -1 ments that any way was found to i checkmate it. Less spectacular, but from a broad ! viewpoint Quite as important, were the advances made against the enemy in the long fight that has been waged in what might be called the cancer sector. Tests announced by Dr. Howard B. An dervont showed, for one thing, that can cer in chicken can be rendered inactive by small quantities of aluminum and calcium salts And German scientists have proved that under certain eondi- DR. F. tl. BANTINtI OF TOROX TO. THF. DISCOVERER OF IX. SI 1 IX. tions healthy cells of human tissue can ; be changed to malignant or cancerous cells by arsenic Whether the first tests | ix»int the way to any aid for human | cancer sufferers, and whether the Ger man experiments shed any further light on the problem of their cure, is highly problematical- but science regards both as distinct contributions. Some day. they believe, will come the cure for can cer. just as did the cure for anemia or the deadly paralysis. But If the men who brought about these front-line victories against the great enemy bore what seems the brunt of the fighting, there were supporting workers whose researches undoubtedly prefaced further triumphs of tomorrow ' x vS ** > i *'v''* 5