A Slender Clue.

Thames Star, Volume XLV, Issue 10240, 5 June 1909, Page 6 (Supplement)

A Slender Clue.

A remarkable example of deductions after the fashion oL Sherlock Holmes that led to the arrest of a brutal murderer are given, according to the Berlin correspondent of +be Daily Mirror," in the German review, "'Nlatur and KultUr." Some time ago a landed proprietor in the provinces was murdered, and beside, his body was found a, long ctape dovered! with; a fine .powder, and to the „..collar qf which adhered two .tufts of hair,, one ,?rey and the other reddish brown. The hair and the cap© were submitted to a criminal psychologist, who, after minute .inspection of them, oarne to the following conclusions:, "The murderer," he said!, 'V a middlte-aged man, sligihtiLy bald. He has a, dog with long, reddish-brown, hair, which ij in the. habit, of playing with him. By trade he is a cpirpenter or sawyer." This detail as to the murderer's <>'coupntion was deduced from ffche pd|vder on thei oaipe, which, esaiMned uh-, dler the microscope, proved :to be sawdust. 'Airmed with this information the police instituted a. search, and a few days ago arrested a middle-aged carpenter, slight' y bald, whose hair ;was turning grey. Hie admitted that h« owned a dog with a reddish-brown qoa*. After, reading the. police, description, o? him. ia which he was charged with the; murder of the landowner, he turned deathly, pale and at once admitted that lie was the. author of the crime.