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The Tell-Tale Typical Violinist Marks, on the Thumb-Print
That Enabled the Criminologist to Demolltn
the Baroness's Subterfuge.
"Bj exactly the same means which the UealeMY Extractor? had Used to get the hypno
tised Baroness 10 sign me note, ine scientific selective ubiockcq ine ooor 01 inc
victim's subconscious mind and forced her to reconstruct the whole forgotten episode."
The Jealousy Extractor
How the Famous Dr. Brunelacbi Discovered That the Little Baron
- ess Had Stolen Her Own Diamonds to Keep Quiet a Blackmailing
Hypaotiat.
I ARLY on tb morniag of February 18
the famous Doctor Brunelschi, one of
the leading Italian criminologists, was
called up in his apartments at Rosao. The
Baron Vanatorio, one ot the great Roman
noblemen, was at the other end of .he wire.
"The baroness's" diamond necklace has
been stolen I " he cried, ''will -you come at
oncer"
"Where was it kept?" asked
it,
the crlmlaolo-
gist
"In a sate, in her bedroom," Answered the
baron.
"Have nothing at" all disturbed and allow
no one to enter the room until I get there,''
commanded Dr. Brunolschi.
"I have already given orders tp that ef
fect and locked the room," answered the
baron.
"Good." said Dr. Brunelschi, hanging up the
phone. In a few minutes ho was entering
the Vanatorio palace. He was met by the
baron in a high state of excitement
"It is the famous Vanatorio necklace that is
gone!" cried the baron., "It is valued at
HDO.OOO, but its family associations are !-.
valuable. Look tboy loft this in its place,"
He thrust a hand into a pocket and drew out a
marvelous necklace, glittering and shooting
forth sparks ot light "H'b paste;' he said,
"and an almost perfect imitation "
Dr. Brunolschi examined tho substitute
closely.
"When did you discover the robbery?" he
asked.
"The gems must have been taken between
4r30 this morning and U o'clock," said the
baron. "The baroness wore them last night
at the ball of the French embassy. We re
turned home at t o'clock, chattered until
4:30 -and then went to our own rooms. Usu
ally I lock the necklaco away at once in the
safe in the baroness's room, but seyeral times
lately I have omitted to do so. When I met
my wife in her room this morning sho asked
me to lock the necklace away and it was
then bat I discovered the substitution." -
"Did you take the necklace out of the safe
yourself last night before the baronetis wpre
. "Yes." '
"Has anyone else the combination ot the
safo"
jOnly w wjte."
-You say that on previous occasions you
omitted to lock it away at once. Was the
necklace ever out of the safe for more than
tweatysfour houra ata time?"
"I do not remember. But, ye8"he Inter
rupted himself: "certainly, about a fcrtriight
ago. I -waa called away early one day. My
wife had worn the necklace the evening be
fore and I had forgotten to lock it up. It
was out of tho safe for two days then.".
"Why, If the baroness has the combination
of the safe, did she not think to lock It up?"
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'The baron lauiched.
"When I say she has the combination, 1
mean ehe knows it Once or twice, to tease,
her,-1 tried to get her to open the Bate. But
after fussing with it for more than halt an
hour she admitted that she was unable to
do bo."
Dta Brunelschi asked to be taken to the
baroness's boudoir. He stopped at the thres
hold ana through his glass examined mlnuto-
Jy tbe edges of the door and the knob. Get-
d0WQ oa ht handa and knees h(J kgtR
a systematic travel from side to side of the
room, examining each Inch ot floor and rug
as he did so. He ato-pped tor many minutes
.beside the bed of the baroness and was evl
iently much interested with what he found
on' the rug beside it. From there he crawled
to a bureau, apparently following a lino ot
footsteps imperceptible to the baron. Then
he crawled from the bureau to the door and
after a tow seconds .crawled back again to
the bedside. He had described on his hands
and knees triangle between bed, bureau and
door.
' Abruptly he stood up and began to ex
amine the bureau.
"The necklace, I imagine, was in one ot the
drawers," he said.
"Yes," answered the baron. "This one.. It
was locked."
Dr. Brunelschi examined the scratches and
indentations where the drawer had been
forced open with minuteness.
"I shall know the instrument that was used
to. force the drawer at once," he Bald. "It was
a .small screw driver with a part ot the edge
broken off. But why a famous violinist wh,o
wears a number eight and a halt shoe, wears
them full ot mud on a clear, bright night,
has enough carbon .on his fingers to be a
-nencil maker and apparently appears and
disappears out ot thin air hf this room should
use auch an Instrument is extraordinary."
He turned a quizzical glance at his host
"I never heard of such a combination,"
gasped the Baron.
"Neither did I," said the crlmologUt "yet
that is what the search shows so far and
something else,"
But he resolutely refused to tell what that
something else was. A bit of paper caught
hls.neye. Opening it, he demanded to know
what medicine the Baroness waa in the habit
ot taking.
"Veronal, 10 grains, when she cannot sleep,
she took It this morning. That is why ehe
heard nothing," said Baron Vanatorio.
Dr. Brunelschi touched his tongue to the
paper, and then placed the paper in his pocket
With his microscope he examined the white
satin case in which the necklace had lain, be
fore openlug it As ho lifted the case an un
mounted photograph, -to which a piece ot paper
was pinned, fluttered to the floor. Dr. Bru
nelschi stooped to pick it up, and uttered an
exclamation ot pleased surprise.
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"T am afraid, Baron," lie said, "that I can
not go on without troubling the Baroness.
Will you ser1 one of the servants to her, and
aak her to come here?"
"Tho Baroness," he husband said, "has gone
out. She had had an appointment to visit a
sick friend, whom she bad promised some,
books, and bqo was eo Intensely excited by
what had occurred that I thought the air
would do her good."
Tho criminologist's eyes fell upon a win
dow box. He examined It, took from it some
earth and under his glass compared it "with
some ho had found on the carpet of the
room.
"Con I see tho Baroness's signature?" he
asked. The Baron brought him some letters,
and the scientist compared these with tho
piece of paper he had found.
"Baron," he said abruptly, '1 am forced to
ask a delicato question. Do you and' your wife
live happily together?"
Tho nobleman flushed. He began to stem
mer. Ho was a very handsome young man,
and his embarrassment did not ill become
him. He admitted finally that the first years
of their marriage had boon made miserable
by his wife's Jealousy. Six months since,
however, after a long talk with her, during
which she had promised to overcome' her
foolish jealousy, things had suddenly changed
entirely, and jealousy seemed gone. They
were perfectly happy now.
"Lot ub go downstairs," said Dr. 'Brunelschi.
"I wish to be in the hall when your wife re
turns." r
The footman badJust opened tho door, aB
the two men descended, to admit the
Baroness.
When Dr. Brunelschi, the Baron and his
wife wero all alone ho said:
"Baroness, I am going to make you very
very angry at first. In the end you will for
glvo me.
"About six months ago you visited a
Madame, Robina, a hypnotist. You bad her
hypnotise you repeatedly, giving-you the sug
gestion to overcome your insane jealousy of.
your husband. She succeeded in doing this.
You paid her liberally, without & doubt, but I
am afraid you made tho mistake of giving her
a check. She thus procured your signature,
and you were staggered when she recently
wrote you that you had given her a noto for
$100,QOO. She sent you a "photograph of this
alleged note. You were in despair because
you desired above everything not to let him
know what measures you had embraced to
cure yourself of your Jealousy.
"In your despair you docidod to steaj your
own necklace. You never could get the eafo
open, so you availed yourself of his absence,
a few weeks ago, to take it to a Jowolor's and
have a paBte necklace made.
"But before you could substitute the paste
jewels, the real necklace was again locked in
What!
Women
-irf HE ardent practl6e ot the tango,
I the pursuit of 'business and the
striving for the, vote are continuing
to-glve women deeper, harsher and mor
powerful voices than they used to have.
Carefully trained scleritiflo observers
state that these things are actually1 hap
pening. By tho time woman gets the
vote, it is said, it will'he difficult to dis
tinguish hor voice. 'from a man's... .The
high, clear woman's voice that thrilled a
man to the innermost depths Qt his' being
in other-days will be heard no more. In its
place will be U dull monotonous drona ot
tho ordinary buness man.
A distinguished European and a New
York physician, both expert students ot
the human voice, havo observed these in
teresting tacts. The immediate occasion
for calling 'attention to them was the re
markable yotce ot Miss Ruby Holder,' a
beautiful young English concert singer.
Miss Holder is a tenor. She is the only
woman tenor. In the world; it is believed.
The experts declare that she has the fe
male voice ot the future, tho voice that
will be developed by waman through her
fierce fight for equality with man, her
energetio participation in novel dances
and sports and her absorption in business.
It was Dr. Helnrlch Feidler, physician to
the court slngera ot Berlin, whq first
perceived that women's voloes were
changing, and pointed out that Miss
Holder's organ was an example of tho de
velopment many ot thorn would eventually
attain:
According to this authority, 'the change
in tho female voice wan first psychological
then physiological. Business and profes
sional life in which women have in recent
years been associated with men
has developed in them that hard,
matter-of-fact air .and control of
emotion w,hlcl naturally call tor a
lower register of voice. Business
conditions are causing her to lead
a less emotional life. The voice
to a great extent is a product ot
tho mind.' As the character ot tho
thoughts changes the character of
the voice changtis. The low voice
is tho expression' ot the physical
nature, the high voice ot the spirit
ual and mental. This is a material
age and the' voice ot women Is in
correspondence with the age.
The physiological explanation
begins with the statement that wo
man's vocal cords are becoming
thicker. This is a reflex ot hor
athletic life and the great output
of her energies In whatever form
she employs them, whether at golf
or in a gymnasium, tangoing or
tennis. The doctor then explains
Miss
that woman la developing a new
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the safe. Your onDortunltv
to
change it came this morning" when
the Baron again forgot to lock it up.
"Love, Baroness, and desperation
had sharpened your wits so
that you were almost .crimi
nally Ingenious In cpvering your tracks
but being an honest woman you could not
help betraying yourself Into absurdities. You
thought that you must leave finger prints
about, because you know an Investigation
would bo made, and you had read of such
prints. You supplied them by tracing a thumb
print you found prlatod In a magazine upon
the door knob with carbon paper!''
"How on earth do you know that?" cried
the weeping lady.
"A man whoso fingers were
tho print showed," answer
ed the criminologist, "could
not have avoided leaving
similar marks on the
drawer But there were
none there. Besides, the
thumb is that of a violin
ist's 'left band. There are
little callous lines, caused
by fingering the strings,
which you also . faithfully
copied. I happen to recog
nize them as belonging to
Kubellk. Manifestly, my -dear
lady, Kubelik is out of
the question.
"Again there is tho mys
tery of the foot-prints. They
are wonderful, muddy im
pressions which start at the
ido of your bed, go to your
bureau, and end abruptly at
your own door. How, my
. dear lady, did you imagine
the burglar got in your room
and out again? But beside
the prints of the large
shoes at the side of your
bed are those of your own
little feet You put them
so grimy as
S
'The baroness slipped a
huge pair of. shoes
over her own pretty
little feet"
on there after watering tho
earth in the window box
and rubbing them with it. That window box
also served to bury the veronal which you
did not take. No one could swallow ten grains
of veronal at 5 in tho morning, and be up and
about before 9.
"Thero remains only to learn whether your
signature to the check is genuine or forged.
Madame Robina, of course, did not send you
the. original note. And the photograph I
found In the bureau is too indistinct to admit.'
of certainty. But I think the signature is
yours. However, that does not matter. Even
if It is yours, the note is not valid if your
signature was obtained under false pro
tenses." The Baroness's face was crimson with humiliation.
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months ago this newspaper publish
ed a series oi remarKame articles wmcn
detailed, in the form of actual cases,
the astonishing work of the scientific detect
ives of Europe. In response to the many re
quests received for more of these cases, a
second series has been begun which promises
to be even more absorbing than the first.
It is .of one of these men whose work is be
ing told that W. J. Burns, the famous American
detective, wrote during the first series:
"I am making a conservative statement when
I say that the actual application in real life in
detective work of the methods of Professor
Reiss, of the University of Lausanne; Professor
Gross, of Germany, and others is more be
wildering, to the uninformed than any of the
imaginative detective work of Sherlock
Holmes.'!
"I cannot remember," she said, "whother
I signed it or not If I did sign it, I must
have done so while in the hypnotic state."
Dr. Brunolschi asked permission to hypno
tize her at once, to settlo the matter conclu
sively then and there. She consented. Hold
ing a prism of glass in the air before hor
eyes, and a little above hor head, he Induced
the cataleptio ftate within a few minutes,
and then, at his command, his patient recon
structed the whole forgotten episode. She
reacted all her movements while under tho
influence of Madame Ro
bina, showing that she had
signed the note -while in
tho hypnotic trance induced
by the "Jealousy extractor!"
Or. Brunelschi awakened
tho Baroness, and then ex
plained to her and to her
husband that tho subjective
mind, which, completely
dominates any one in the
hypnotic state, has a p6r
feet memory. It forgets
nothing. One. may suggest
to It that when the ob
jective mind regains con
trol, that the latter shall
remember nothing of what
has happened In tho hyp
notic condition. It will ac
cept the suggestion, and
act upon It cutting out all
recollection of what it has
been told to forget
"But you cannot," said
the criminologist, "with
equal success, suggest to
the subjective mind a sim
ilar forsretfulness as far as
itself is concerned. On the
other hand, the subjective
mind has no reasoning facul
ty. It accepts as absolute truth whatever It
is told. Thus, when Madame Robina sug
gested that tho signing of the noto was a
joke, the Baroness believed her implicitly.
Thus, also, she the normal mind forgot
what had happened during the trance. We
had to bring forward the subjective mind
again to learn what had happened."
Relying upon these tew salient facts which
underlie all, hypnotic phenomena, Dr. Brunel
schi had elicited the information he wanted.
Madame Robina was arrested for hor brazen
attempt to mulct the Baroness, but at the
lady's request her husband allowed her suit
against her to drop. The Baroness did not
want all Rome to know the nature of her
hypnotic treatment for "Jealousy extraction."
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type of jaw. It is pointed out that Miss
Holder has in comparison with the size
ot her rather frail little body an enormous
jaw. Her lower Jaw measures five inches
from the farthest back to the front point
of the jaw. The Jaws of most women
were about three Inches between these
points. Latterly their jaws have been
growing larger, tho dimensions common
ly being three to four Inches.
With a deeper voice woman needs a larger
Jaw in order to talk as efficiently as Before.
For three years Miss Holder's rich tenor
voice amazed liondon and the Continental
cities she visiter
Her teacher, the noted George Santley,
said the young woman with the tenor voice
profoundly puzzled him, but her voice was
perfectly natural to her.
"She Is simply a herald of the coming
voice of woman," explained Dr. Feidler.
."She has arrived ahead ot time. That is
all.' Modern conditions are transforming
the voice of women. We have in Frauieln
Helder the completed voice. In the women
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about ub voices are in the malting. Women
ot the future will have tenor voices. The
soprano voice, like the blonde, is doomed."
Miss Ruby Helder recently cross
ed the Atlantic at the Invitation
ot Mrs. August Belmont She came
tn nine- nt ft mnalr.nl of Ta Dnl. iXl.
w -- O " " b .1.1 U . UQI-
o mo uuiy living woman tenor,
her gift may be regarded as an in'
d cation of the trend of the feml-
umo voico io-aav. women's vnta.
Tenor Voice. Ini lew musical" y u"a t0 be'
mont's home. While on her brief
visit to this country her vocal me
chanism was examined by a New
York physician, who makes a
specialty of treating singers' voices.
He agreed wth Dr. Feidler as to
the masculine tendency of the
modem woman's voice.
"Miss Helder has naturally a
man's voice, and a very fine one,"
said the expert.
"Her Jaw is Very large. Tho up
:er Hp is extremely prominent and
he bridge of the nose high. I
test the capacity of mouths by the
amount of water they will contain.
Miss Helders contained four and a
half ounces, the ultimate capacity, u
Examining her throat revealed a
very large palate and extraordin-. JT
arily strong .walls of the mouth
chamber. Her palate and throat
are like that of Caruso, bo large
and strong that looking into them
I thought of the interior of a Gothic
cathedral. ,
"While her voice is a remarkably
strong and musical tenor and she
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