Identifier: Boone_County_Recorder_Vol_34_1908 (find matches)
Title: Boone County Recorder
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Boone County Recorder
Subjects: Boone County, Kentucky newspapers
Publisher: Boone County Recorder
Contributing Library: Boone County Public Library
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g toyour guests be probed. The suggestion met with so muchopposition that It was abandoned. Thedetective remained in the library untiljiearly midnight. He seemed.to haverun up against a dead wall. Bflt hehad been doing a lot of thinking. As hestarted to leave one of the servantstapped on the door. What is it?crled Sir William Im-patiently. A telegram for Lord Mortimer,was the response. Lord Mortimer wM the impecuniousearl. The host was instantly all at-tention. He took the telegram? andexcused himself to the detective. Pardon me a moment until I givethis to Mortimer. He left the rooid~~and was gone 10or 15 minutes. He returned with aperplexed look. What is it? asked the detective. Mortimers not in hia room, and Icant locate him anywhere. Of course, he said almost rudely,theres no significance in his ab-sence from his room. Hes aboutsomewhere. Of course, assented Sweeney,tactfully. The detective renamed at the houseall night. When ho departed for Scotland Yard In tao noraln* ha carried
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7?& H4£T GEH5-WEBSGOmf. 7>/L */ with him an ordinary drinking g.V»s—a dirty glae3 that looked aa If Itmight Tiave- contained stale ale thenight before. Ke had picked it up Inone of the room3 of the house andthe care he bestowed upon It almostbordered on the ludicrous. He seemedparticularly anxious not to permit theglass to rub against anything. An hour later a chance visitor atScotland Yard might have witnesseda curious experiment being made withan ordinary drinking glass. The ex-periment was a success. The opera-tive discovered ontng-gtaBl the im-prints of four fingers and a thumb.The marks were perfectly distinct andthe finger and thumb prints had beenreproduced perfectly on sensitizedpaper. company resulted in finding the con-ductor who had charge of that par-ticular train. He remembered thatone passenger had boarded the trainat the station. Did he- go on to London? he wasasked. No, was the response, he alight-ed at the first station this side ofLondon. The trail was bec

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