Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 69, Indianapolis, Marion County, 29 July 1924 — Page 8

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WIDE ATTENTION IS FOCUSED Cfi FINGER PRINTING Bonus Applications to Prove or Disprove Theory of Infallibility, Timet Washington Bureau, ISZS Sew York Ave. WASHINGTON, July 29.—Crimnologists, Jurists and police officials ill over the world have focussed heir attentions on a temporary miilding at Sixth and B Sts., this hty. For from that structure in the next few months will come the answer one way or the other to Claims made by identification experts that the linger print system is Infallible and that no two finger prints are ever alike. It’s the building where 5,000,000 finger prints of the regular and national army are kept carefully filed. Every application made for the bonus by an army veteran will be carefully compared with the originals to protect Uncle Sam igainst fraud. Several years have elapsed since the prints on file were made, and the comparison with the bonus application prints is certain to either disprove or prove the claims made for the finger print system. If any prints are found in legitimate applications that differ from the ones taken at the start of America’s participation in the World War, Walter S. Kaye, director bf the identification bureau, will be the most surprised man in the world. “Since the Army adopted the finger print system in 1906 I have never found two prints alike. There are no doubtful cases’and no two finger prints are alike any more than two rtilowers are alike." Kaye said today. Bogus Name Given As he spoke a man advanced with a note from the office of Judge Advocate General Davis requesting the man’s finger prints be checked up in order to prove his bonus claim was valid. The applicant said his real name was O. M. Thompson of this city, but that he had enlisted in Chicago in July, 1917, under the name of Roscoe T. Bruce, because he was not 21 and because his parents would not approve his enlisting. In less than two minutes Kaye had obtained the identification card made in 1917 under the name of Bruce, taken an Imprint of the applicant's right forefinger and after a microscopic comparison stamped "O. K.” on the bonus blank. Kaye says that the finger print system is so positive that often even death does not destroy its effectiveness. y “One of the most unique identifications I ever made followed the big flood at Galveston, Texas, In August, 1915," Kaye stated. “After the water receded an unknown soldier was found in the debris. After all other means of identiI~atlo3f*had failed the authorities cut off two of the soldier’s fingers, placed them in alcohol and forwarded them to Washington.” Identification Trouble Kaye stated that when the bottle reached the identification bureau the skin had become detached from the fingers, but that he constructed fingers of wood, carefully glued the Skin on and a few minutes later ascertained the victim was Fred Aldrich, who had enlisted at Jefferjon Barracks, Miss., Oct. 23, 1913. Another series of identifications proving the value of finger prints followed the torpedoing of the U. S. Transport Tuscania with a loss of Bome 200 lives off Ireland, Feb. 5, 1918. When all attempts had failed to Identify thirty-five victims their finger prints were taken and forwarded to Washington. From the army records Kaye identified thirty-four of the thirty-five, but the last prints were too indistinct. As only one of the crew remained unidentified a simple process of elimination enabled military authorities to determine his identity and thus not one of the victims was placed in a nameless grave. In addition to the 5,000,000 finger prints in the Army bureau there are 1,300,000 prints in the Navy Department and 175,000 in the Marine Corps. A force of about 300 extra clerks will be required to make finger print comparisons of the bonus applications received In all these departments.

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BEGIN HERE TODAY John Ainsley, a man of education and breeding, becomes a D/aster crook—preying upon other thieves. Swede Thomaseen. a brutal murderer, is killed in Ainsley’s apartment by the White Eagle, a notorious international crook. While the police search for Ainsley—or rather for “Robert Stickney'—he is preparing to sail for Australia. In the Trevor dining room Ainsley overhears a distraught young man tell his pretty girl companion that he intends to kill himself. Ainsley finds out that the young man is a thief and that his thievery will bo discovered next morning. Acting on a generous impulse. Ainsley offers the young man twenty SSOO bills as a gift. NOW GO ON WITH THE STORY “1 SAID that I was a thief I I am,” he said. "Tomorrow I j morning my employer will find ten thousand dollars missing from his cash-box.” I tapped the notes in my hand. “Unless —" I suggested. "It will be years, if ever, before I can repay this loan.” "I never lend; I give,” I told him. He looked at me. I am rto sentimentalist, but I tell you that I saw a soul cross from hell Into heaven. But still he hesitated.

“You must know exactly the sort of person to whom you are making the gift,” he said. I liked him because he made no pretense; he did not cringingly swear that it was a sacred obligation. “Go on,” I encouraged him. “My name is Frank Tirrell. I'm a sort of confidential clerk for Phineas Garbon. He is a trader and speculator. The bulk of his operations have to do with jute, hemp and kapok. But he also takes flings m anything that comes along. "I am his only employe. His office consists of one room on the ground floor of a dilapidated old building on West Bradway. He has no regular office hours. I know nearly as much of his affairs as he does. Also I have a key to his safe. In that safe he frequently keeps as much as fifty thousand dollars in cash. This is in order that he may not lose any bargain because of delay in getting his hands on the actual money needed to close a deal.

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“He is a great gambler. He frec uently tells me of the big pokergames in which he plays. He also bets heavily on the races. He Is about sixty-five. He is thin and shabby. He is a bachelor. He Is also the meeanest man that ever lived. “I was working, three years ago, for a ship-brokerage firm. Mr. Garbon did some business with us, aplarently liked me, and asked me to work for him. He promised me that he would take me into partnership. Whenever I remind him of his promises, he evades the issue. Times are not too good. I have not been able to leave him. "Several times I have been with him when he placed wagers on the races with a couple of handbook men named Harris and Poganni. Yesterday an acquaintance of mine gave me a tip on the races. He has given me many tips before, but I never played them. Always his tips have been correct. Today I asked Mr. Garbon when he was going to make good his promises to me. I have

been engaged for two years to Rose Peters.” The girl touched his hand again, and I knew that she was his fiancee. “Mr. Garbon laughed at me. He told me that if I didn’t like my job 1 could quit. He left the office about 10, saying that he would not be back until morning. I suddenly went insane. That’s all there is to say about it. I opened his safe, took out SIO,OOO, and placed it, at 5 to 1, with Harris and Poganni, on the horse that my friend had told me about yesterday. The horse finished fifth “That’s all. Do you still want to give money to a thief?” Now, if one Judges Tirrell by his bald confession, one finds little extenuation. But I saw the girl. I knew how the broken promises of his employer must have galled the youth. And I am not one to say that one error makes a criminal. I handed him the twenty bills. “Put it back in the safe, and all will be well,” I told him. Ho was too proud to break down.

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THERE' UPON THE FLOOR LAY GARBON. I rose to leave, but the young man clutched at my hand. “I don’t even know your name,” he cried. "And besides, I want you to go with me to the office. I want you to see me put the money back in the safe.” He had restrained himself so long that a breakdown was near. I know something about the nerves. I knew that to refuse his request might cause him to give way to the inclination to hysteria. “My name doesn’t matter. Some day, when you are rich, I shall look you up and ask repayment. Until then my identity is unimportant. And of course I will go with you to your office.” I stepped out of the alove; I did not wish the girl to embarrass me with their gratitude. But as we put her into a taxicab to take her home, she threw her arms around my neck and kissed me. Had I earned with the sweat of my brow the money

although his lips quivered. The girl put her hands before her eyes. I myself felt a lump in my throat. It was worth ten thousand dollars to gain the feeling of godlike benevolence that I possessed at that moment. “What can I say?” asked Tirrell. “Nothing,” I answered. "Only, for the sake of Miss Peters, who seems to be standing by you ” The girl lowered her hands. “I told him that even if he went to Jail,’she said proudly. "I'd marry him." “He won't go to Jail,” I assured her. “And so help me God, I’ll never do anything again that’s wrong,” vowed Tirrell.

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which I had Just/ given to her lover, the kiss would have been worth every penny of It. I saw her go. I wondered if I would ever see her again. Then I shrugged. Why should I? • • • Tirrell and I took another taxicab: we went down Broadway to the postoffice, and then left the cab, proceeding on foot to our destination. In front of the address whither we were bound, Tirrell stopped with a cry of amazement. He pointed a shaking finger at a window. “There's a light in the office,” he gasped. “"What of it?” I asked. “Mr. Garbon must be there,” he

sadi. "You may have left the light on, yourself.” I suggested. He shook his head decidedly. "He’s In there. We’ll have to tell him—perhaps he's opened the safe. Let’s go in.” I seized his arm. “If he’s there, you’ll have to confess. You don’t want to do that if you can avoid it.” “But if he’s found out that the money’3 gone—” Tn interrupted him. “He isn’t going to telephone the police at this hour. We’ll wait until he leaves, then slip In there, put the money back in the safe, and in the morning, when he finds the money there, he’ll think he dreamed it all. At any rate, there’ll be no talk of Jail.” He pondered this. I made another suggestion. “Has he a telephone at his home? Then ring him up; if he answers, he Isn’t in his office. We’ll know that you’re mistaken in thinking you turned off the light. Try It.”

He was trembling now, suffering from the sudden reaction to despair, and amenable to any suggestion. From a near-by lunchroom he telephoned his employer. He emerged from the booth so white that I feared he would faint. ‘His housekeeper answered. She told me that Mr. Garbon had gone to his office, In response to a telephone message, an hour ago, from .me!” • I whistled. "And you didn’t telephone him. I think we’d better enter the office.” Tirrell unlocked the door of Oarbon’s office, and we entered the room. There, upon the floor, his bloodstained head indicating his murderer's ferocity, lay Garbon. The opened safe against the wall furnished the motive for the crime. I grabbed young Tirrell just as his hand was on the telephone. “What’s the idea?” I demanded. “The police,” he answered. I pointed at the open safe. “That looks like motive enough, but the

OUT OUR WAY—By WILLIAMS

police are going to ask questions. Don't forget that somebody impersonated you on the telephone an hour ago.’ "But you can prove that we found the body,” he protested. 1 shook my head. Obviously, I who was avoiding embarassing questioning from the police on one subject, did not care to invite it on another. "I would have to tell the whole story of our brief acquaintance. I might not be believed. It might even be said that we planned the murder together. Imagine asking a jury to believe that a stranger gave you ten thousand dollars.” “But you did.” he protested. “W r e know It; and Miss Peters knows it; but would a jury believe it?” I asked. He sank helplessly Into a chair. “But what else is there to do?” he asked.

I also sat down.' The problem seemed unsolvable. Yet there must be a way out. Now, a great thief—and I may be pardoned if I consider myself great —has in him the qualities essential to the making of a great detective. I had always sneered at detectives. Occasionally, as my readers know, I had outwitted the best of the profession. And now, before the Celeste .sailed, I must justify my sneers. (Continued in Our Next Issue.)

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