CLUES TO CRIME

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13966, 16 August 1919, Page 3

CLUES TO CRIME

SOME CURIOUS INSTANCES,

The suapocited' burglar who sk&l atand .fatally ■wounded Constable Camp IxjU in. a back cicxiiir^. at 637 Groat. Easbern Rolad, Glasigciw, Scotland, ovea-looked one thing as he flew from the scene of his dlastia.vdly outingei— liie lefitj his ctaipi behind him («ays a wri;tier in am English papar). '

A .trifle amd of ma siignificanoe., you miay gay. It was -a tiriflo thait led toi tilie capture of 'tih&i noitorious Dr. Cl'ifpipen. "Whieni thiis aslfute villaani got on boia.rrt ship and was racing aoTOBS the AtH'aav tic as fasifc go a modea'toi liner comiid carry him, he not unnaturally thought he was safei. Buit he had «v,erlooikied one little kean—hie forgot all about wireless telegraipihy; it brougihit about his capture.

A broken ©oat butiton, long preserved dm tin© Black Museum) aib Scott - land' Yard,, -was tihe apparently inisiignificamtt due tihait led. toi the comivii'otiomi of on© of thie moat dangerous, of armed bmrgjlans- In amotiher ©age -.a. famous French, defective! one© traceu a murdeirter withim 48 hours, with. nothing to go upon except a. solitoiry tirouser button. ; MILLER'S. MISTAKE. Th.o woifonLoiuisi FVtoz Mulkr would, ia all piroiba;bd'litiy, haiva remained a free mam till thie end of his days had it trifOttt bean for the injiniuteist eoraip of (tissue (paper. ■;" After foully murdering a Mr Braggts dm ai railway carriage, Muller made off with his -victim)'s hat. When ■ caught, several mon.tths latetr, a top hat, declared tlo be Mr Briggs's, was foumri in hits (possession,. "If it is Mr Briggs'a • halt," saiid the haittter, "you may find: a piece o«t tissue paper inj tine lining 1. Mr Briggs's hat was too largo for hum, so I put tine [paper inn toi make it fit " FATAL "SCRAP. OF PAPER." John Tome was little more tihami a mere youth when he stood hie mal aiti the Lanciaater Aasiizes, charged witih. tihet'^u-iurdeir 1 of a imam named Cul&hyiwThe evidence -against, Toms was meagre and unsatisfactory, until then.l was produced in court a blood stained piece of paper. It was handed to tihe jury and examined by than,, and en it were still plainly discernible 'tihe wards of a noirtlh country ©omio son^. A song book was found in Toms s "pocket?., and part of one page of it was missing. The pdiecie found im the dead men's wound corresponded with it ex r aotly. A SCIENTIST'S OVERLOOK Webster was one of the foremost soienitiists of his, time, a mam of- remarkable abdßty and of high character, bui^ extremely nervous and hasty. One; day he had a sudden sliarp' quarrel over money miaittcard with his lifetlong friend Dr. Parkman. In the sitlruggle Dr. Paa'kma.n, wa® accidemtially killed. Webster out tibto body aip in his laiboratoiry, and burnt and destroyed all the parts, even the bomeisBut he fotrgoti on© thdiig miade one Lift—' tie miisteibe.' Among the ashes and clinkera of tin© futrnaice waisi found pflirt of a set of false teeitih, -whicili a dentisit recognised as halving belonged to the miesingl miain. Thoset false teo+h hanged Wabstor, eoid before h« was oxecuitied he oonfesBed. A YOUTHFUL MURDERER Jessei Pottiieiroy was only a schoolboy wlhioi played and larked abouit as other boys do>; but the games of boyhoo4 were noit to his taste —he found plea. sure only in maiioioaiisly tormenitiLng* all those weaker than, fiimself. At last whew he wa^ almost 14, h/isi aruoi propensities found-.their finiail and terrible expression im tihe mrurder of a playmaite, a prertity Little gitl. He killed her for the sole and only reaisom thait he found' a 'terrible pleasure in. waitcn&ng her death agoniies; , ■ Young as he was h» snowed! .a diab> olital olevennesß in. flisposing! of tihe body of hrisi vicit'im,'. He buried it in qutiicikliine. He forgot, wharfs an. older mam wooiid probably Lev© also neglec ted—T*tihe raits miighiti get at the body before tiho quicklime Tifld entirely aonsumaed it. At.ten.tion was thus diirect td to the lime, on observant ma,n thinking the incident curious.