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THE BEE: OMAHA, SUNDAY, JULY S, 1921. 6 D Worlds Greatest Detective Cases Mystery of Sands Solved in 4 Hours A Degenerate Frenchman and Native Confederate Held as Murderers. (Continued from laet Sunday.) By NAZARIENE DAAN KANNIBELLE. To the natives it was a mystery of the sand, but to the trained detective the sand on the top of the head of the $phinx told a plain and simple tale, as vivid as though it was writ ten on parchment by one who had witnessed the grim tragedy. In the sand Dr. Masaryk saw plainly the fairly fresh footprints of four people two footprints of men who wore boots with heels on them, while the other two footprints were those of barefooted natives. It showed that a man wearing boots, followed by a bare-footed Arab, had reached the top in a single file. Near the edge of the sand a little further were scattered marks of footprints, con fused and irregular, denoting a strug gle between a man who wore boots and, a bare-footed Arab. There were two spots on the sand where this confusion of footprints and irregu larities were imprinted, . denoting that there had been two struggles, simultaneously, perhaps, between a man who wore boots and abare- footed man. Then he came to a blurred mark somewhat sliding at the edge, showing where one of the men in the titanic struggle, for life had finally Slipped and fallen down to death. , . . For many centuries this silent . Sphinx had gazed across the desert i sands and no doubt witnessed many a grim tragedy, but never, prrhaps such a romantic tale as was hidden ' in the footprints in the sands as read - by the famous detective. . Once more Dr. Masaryk examined the place and this time he observed a clear imprint of a hand where one of the men who had struggled had slipped for a second or so. He had already spent an hour ex amining the place He heard the anxious voices of the police officers below asking him imploringly if no was all right. The Cairo policy ctvef was rather superstitious anrt felt that some hidden danger would victimize the great detective.r ,;Wait!" was the only answer they got back. , . " Clue Is Discovered. As Dr. Masaryk went over every inch of tlfe space on the head of the Sphinx still more mystery unfolded itself. He saw a small pile of ,sand and he thought it unnatural that it should remain in that shape in spite of the constantly blowing desert winds. He scattered the sand and suddenly came across something hard. He grabbed it. It was the curious brass statuette, the image of sin ancient goddess, his dead friend had shown him with such childish glee, only a few hours before the image with the handle that came to a knob-like end. On examining it he 'found that the handle was missing. . ; lie put the statuette in his pocket and returned to the party, and or dered the Cairo officer to lead the wav down. "I saw all I wanted to see, and I am satisfied with what I have seen," he remarked grimly On reaching .the foot of the Sphinx Dr. Masaryk stopped sud denly. He was filled with emotion. For a second or so he regarded Selih, the Arab, bitterly, and, turn ing to the Cairo police chief, point ing to the Arab, he ordered, "Arrest that man." , "But he Is not alone in the mur der," he said. "He has a confeder ate. I shall find him in two hours." For a second or so Selih seemed turned to stone, but suddenly adopt ing an attitude of resignation, he offered his hands to be handcuffed by the police. As one o-f the offi cers led the Arab toward the city Masaryk cautioned him to keep that man safely ana not to auow anyone to see him. Thev returned to the hotel and Dr;- Masaryk took the chief of the Cairo police to a private room and asked hiin if he knew anyone who was stopping there or somewhere m the city who was slightly lame and about" six- feet high,' with the middle finjrer of his left hand missing. The chief of police was astounded. Arrest Him at Once. . ' Why Great Allah!" he shouted. "You want De Alandor, a mysteri ous Frenchman who is stopping at this hotel." , Masaryk. jumped to his feet and shouted: "Attest . him at once. He is the other murderer." "Great Allah and his good proph ets," cried the dumbfounded native police chief. "How did you find out? You must have communicated with the spirits on the top of the Sphinx. I have always heard that strange spirits frequent that place," he added. "Arrest that man at once and l;r!ng him to me. I want to stand fnce to face with him. Then you will know all about it," he com manded. When the Cairo police chief left the room Dr. Masaryk took the - bronze statuette out of his pocket, and on examining it he found that in the base of the statuette, where the handle was missing, there was a tiny hole. Dr. Masaryk reasoned that the handle coming to a knob like end, and fitting into that hole, was the handle of a thin dagger. Only a dagger of that fine blade could inflict the wound found on the bodies of his friend, Dr. Kellerman, and the dead Arab. He thought that the statuette was perhaps a sheath for fine poison dagger, perhaps possessed by one of the ancient Egyptian priests, saturated with some deadly poison such as the an cient Egyptian priesthood only knew how to make and which has, for cen turies, puzzled the modern scientist Presently the Cairo police chief returned with De Alandor. Tro Frenchman had hardly entered th? room when Dr. Masaryk roared: "Why did you murder my friend? " "Murder your . friend!", cried tlv Frenchman, a man six feet high "Surely you are joking, sir. Onl' half an hour ago I learned that a man was dead on the Sphinx. 1 have not left the hotel during the last 24 hours." He was ready with an alibi. "In that case how do you explain the imprint on the sand on the top of the Sphinx of a hand with the middle finger missing? I observe that your middle finger of the left hand is missing," demanded Mas aryk. 'A strange coincidence, sir. But coincidences are misleading and prove nothing," replied the accused man with an attempt to appear cool and bluff his interrogator. "Nevertheless, I am going to prove that you are the man," said Masaryk grimly. "I am going to relate exactly how you killed Dr. Kellerman and I am going to see that you pay the penalty for this infamous crime with your life. Arc you ready to hear the story repeat ed?'' again roared the great crime in vestigator. Accused Man Cringes. The Frenchman stood silent. "Somehow or other you learned from his scoundrel of a servant that he had in his possession a priceless necklace. You lured Dr. Kellerman to the top of the Sphinx; telling him of some alleged discovery you' had made there. Once you got him to that lonely place, you attacked him and after a struggle, which the im prints on the sand tell plainly, you murdered him and threw him to the bottom. He neither suspected you nor his servant, as he had no weapon in his possession with the exception of the brass statue he had on him. But he was a man of courage and he used it as a weapon, or tried to use it. In the struggle a spring in the ancient statuette, which he had lately discovered, was touched, re leasing a dagger, saturated with deadly poison. You overpowered him, took the dagger away from him and stabbed him." Dr. Masaryk pronounced his everv word slowly and grimly. The Cairo police chief and his assistants seemed bewil dered. The accused man turned white and stood before the great detective like a piece of stone and made no answer. "That is not all. Now listen - the proof," continued Dr. Masaryk. "You stole a gold and ruby neck lace from the. archaeologist." Then, turning to the Egyptian police, he ordered them to search the accused. De Alandor did not move, but the nervous twitching of his fingers con vinced Dr. Masaryk how near he was to the truth. In De Alandor's inside vest pocket the Egyptian police found the price less ancient necklace of gold and rubies. He' too, was handcuffed and just before leaving the room he turned to Dr. Masaryk and said, "That scoundrel of an Arab told you all abou it," and with those words on his lips he was led away to prison. "How did you happen to suspect Salih, the Arab?" asked the chief of the Caico police, who stayed behind to talk the case over with the fa mous detective. "I suspected Salih at once. It was only a few hours before that I had a pleasant conversation with my old friend, Dr. Kellerman. If he had any intention of going to the top of the Sphinx he would have told me. In fact,' I was to meet him "again later in the afternoon. So I conluded that he was enticed to pay that visit to the Sphinx at that hour of the night by some one who had already plotted robbery. When I reached the top the Sphinx I was convinced that the Arab was lying," he said. "How did you know that?" begged the Cairo police chief. Convinced of Lie. "The Arab had stated that Dr Kellerman was bitten by a veno mous snake or insect. He also ad vanced the intelligence that his fath er had told him stories of poisonous reptiles inhabiting those regions. In he had really believed what he as serted he would have hesitated when I ordered him to take us tip by the same road .as he and Dr. Kellerman had gone up. He was barefooted. He did not even ask for shoes, but as you know, he never hesitated This fact 'convinced me that Salih had made up the snake story or was repeating the lie conceived by his confederate, the Frenchman. "On reaching the foot of the Sphinx I observed in the sand the footmarks of more than two per sons. When I asked Salih if there were others going up there he as serted that there were none beside his master and himself. "Further up, when he had reached three-quarters of the journey up to the top of the Sphinx, he stopped saying that his master had come to grief at that spot. When I ordered him to proceed further up he showed the greatest reluctance to continue the journey. The murder had taken place on the top of the Sphinx, i. was sure of that, and so was the Arab. That was the reason he hesi tated from going higher 1 up. He knew that, once up there, I would find the clue to the murder. "If I had allowed the entire party to go the confusion would have been great and I could not follow up the footprints of the original four who battled up there in a life and death grapple in' which two of the partici pants were murdered.' On reaching the top the story unfolded itself very simply. Salih had told us that Dr. Kellerman had gone on the journey all alone. As I have told you before I was already convinced that the Arab was lying because I had seen the footmarks of more than two per sons at the foot of the Sphinx. I NSV. IV! v.4Ak' iViiilMiv .earn 1 W-fW i SUNandMmeatrJU mh, comparison: Jt knew the Arab was lying because the foot marks of the four persons I had observed at the foot of the Sphinx had indicated that two men who wore boots and two men who were barefooted had traveled that spot. Naturally I expected to dis cover the same footprints On the top of the Sphinx, in which I was not i mistaken," said Dr. Masaryk as he threw back his head in self-satisfaction. Footprints Tell. "Tell me, great master, how did you know the height of the frrench ! man ? You looked for a man six ! feet high," asked the Cairo police ! chief. v "The space between the footprints i told me that the person who took that length of strides must be at least six feet high, smiled the de tective. , "And now, my friend, you will want to know how I found out that a finger of his left hand was miss ing," said Msaryk patronizingly. "Yes, yes, sir, that is still puzzling me." "Well, a print of his hand, where he had pressed it in the sand, per haps to save himself, indicated that, the hand had a finger missing. "One more question, sir," again pleaded the police chief. "You said the Frenchman limped. How did you know that?" "The impression of. one foot was deeper than the other in the sand." "Now there is one more mystery to solve, Dr. Masaryk." said the po lice chief apologetically. "We must find out the identity of the other Arab." "That is still-puzzling me. How ever, the poison with which that se cret dagger was saturated and hidden in the old Egyptian statuette was so powerful that it is impossible to recognize the Arab's features. How ever, in a few hours we will solve that mystery, too." The bewildered, dazed, surprised and admiring Cairo police chief left Dr. Masryk, thanking him effusively in a truely oriental fashion. Later in the day, Salih, the Arab, once more faced the great crime in vestigator, but this time his ac cuser and tormentor came to him to his cell. After two hours of psyco legical grilling, which we in Ameri ca have termed "the third degree," Salih confessed. He was not Salih, the dead arch aeologist's native servant. He was his twin brother. Kellerman's serv ant had remained faithful to his master and died with him irL. the struggle to save the archaeologist. The name of the Arab under ar rest was Said. Salih foolishly told his brother about his master's dis covery of the priceless necklace. Said carried the intelligence to De Alandor, the Frenchman, and the plot was mapped out between the two. De Alandor was a rogue and swindler and had had a long inter national career. He was always on the lookout for victims to swindle and. rob. In Cairo he was looked upon as the master mind of the Cairo fraternitv of crooks and crim inals. He had hundreds of native crooks bringing him intelligence as to where prospective victims could be found. There is no doubt that Dr. Kellerman's servant's twin brother .carried the .intelligence to De Alandor, who laid the plot. It is evident that the original scheme was to rob the archaeologist, think ing that he would make the journey alone. It does not appear that De Alandor and his 'native tool had planned murder. It was Said who had persuaded Dr. Kellerman to visit the Sphinx that night, telling him that he .had discovered something that would interest him. But on reaching the top they discovered that Kellerman was accompanied by his faithful native servant. The plan changed, a struggle resulted, ending in the murder of Dr. Kellerman and his faithful Arab. Two weeks later De Alandor and Said paid the penalty. (In next Sunday's TV wateh for another "World'! Greatest Detective Caae." (Copyright, 1921, by the International. News Bureau, Inc.) ' Manawa Plans Big For Holiday Crowd , Bathing is certain to be the lead ing attraction at Manawa park over the Fourth of July, although pic nicking, boating and dancing will en tertain thousands. During the last week overflow water from the Mis souri river has seeped through the lowlands into the lake, raising the level of Lake Manawa about five feet. Four swift motor launches are' now in service, carrying passengers across the lake. Rapid street car service will be maintained to Manawa throughout the hot days, with special service on July 4. Ad ditional parking space is being pro vided for automobiles. The aviation stunts and base ball game at the Nielsen field, just a short distance from the park, will furnish enter tainment for many people on July 4. North Omaha Carnival To Start on Monday A street carnival will be held at Twenty-fourth street and Ames ave nue under auspices of the North Omaha Activities association for a week beginning next Monday. The S. W. Brundage shows will provide the amusement attractions. The Brundage shows make up one of the largest carnivals in the country and travel in 25 special cars. , Chicago is to have a home for actresses which will furnish a real homelike atmosphere. omething What the Empress Offers for Week if t&Wv Benny Harrison, who just com pleted a tour as principal comedian with the Dolly sisters in "Oh Look," is to appear at the Empress for the first four days of this week in a new act for vaudeville, entitled "She Cares for Me." Mr. Harrison is assisted by Miss Mabel Warner, a former musical comedy favorite. One of the important attractions of the show is to be provided by Bald win, Austin and Gaines, who are capable comedians, good singers and thoroughly understand the knack of entertaining. An act that will be pleasing to the kiddies is that to be presented by "The Wise Hound," a dog who goes through a program of antics which are con ceded to be the best seen on the va riety stage. Completing the vaude ville program are the Kanazawa Japs, who are to present a sensa tional acrobatic turn. Krug Park Swimming Pool Enjoys Greatest Season Over15,000 people cooled off in the big pool at Krug park during the past week. It is estimated that there are close to 8,000 women and kid dies learning to swim in the pool. Free sea swing tickets will be given again on Sunday to the lucky bath key numbers at 4 o'clock. Wednesday, July 6, is the first re turn of the first group of school kid dies to the park for their picnic. This bunch come from the north end of the city. Friday, July 8, the sec ond group comes out for their sec ond picnic and outing. On the fol lowing Monday and Wednesday two more big school picnics will be held. The Fourth of July will see one big feature after another. In' the afternoon at 3 o'clock, the Champion M. W. A. drill team will put on a special drill. In the evening A Patriotic Review" will be staged in the big lawn arena in the center of the park. Lakeview Plans for Big Time on the Fourth Preparation is made to entertain the crowds at Lakeviey park for the Independence Day celebration to morrow. Dancing is sure to attract thousands. Leonard Jacobs orchestra with Boyd Senter, the saxophone king, will provide a special holiday program for dancing. Next Wednesday night at 10 o. m. Rev. Charles W. Savidge will of ficiate at the marriage of A. M. Shill, ex-service man, and Miss Elsie Lind sey, both of Council Bluffs. The marriage will be conducted with all the pomp usually found in the homes of the ultra-fashionable The public is invited to attend and witness this event. Out - of - for Fourth PICNIC! " Bring the family and friends to the most beautiful park within hundreds of miles of Omaha or Council Bluffs. BATHING! Big fresh lake of cool, clean water, freshly tested and found to be 100 per cent healthy and' wholesome for swimming. Fleet of swift launches to carry bathers " to and from long sand beach. BOATING! DANCING! Other Attractions! Germans, Sick Of Gloomy Films, Long for Comedies Tense Tragedy With a Shud der Guaranteed for Every 1,000 Feet of Film Order of Day. Berlin, July 2. Gloom movies are the vogue in Germany today and the movie fan who feels the need of a screen laugh stimulant has a hope less hunt. Tense tragedy with a shudder guaranteed for every 1,000 feet of film is the order of the day. Germany wants to laugh b.ut the film producers have -forgotten how to mix the screen scream cocktail. The selection of film stars has de veloped into a national vamping .contest with . the attendant horrors of betrayed blond wives, poisoned birthday cakes and sure death in the last reel. Propaganda Film. The most horrible film on the screen at the moment is probably "The Black Plague," which is a propaganda production picturing the French troops of occupation in th; Rhincland assaulting white women. The advertising poster shows five negroes in French uniforms fighting over a screaming white girl. "Give us something at which to laugh; we have enough troub'es of our own without going to the kino to see some more," is the appeal of the theatergoers. But the German film studio is practically without comedians. There are many stars, whose names over ' the theater en trance mean that a new selection, of horrors are to be seen within for the payment of 20 marks. Bans Importation. , There is not a single German film star whose name is synonomous with clean fun. John Bunny and Charlie Chaplin, U. S. A., were the fun favorites in Germany before the war, but the German government has put a ban on film importation. Historical tragedies are done very well in the German photoplay. "Anne Boleyn," showing in America as "Deception," and "Madame Du Barry," selling to full bouses as "Passion," were both taken in Berlin studips with German actors in th-' leading roles. . Germany is glad that America is enjoying her tragedies, but would like a little Doug and Mary in exchange. Tom Spends 7 Weeks in Freight Box Nailed in Crate and Is Nearly Lifeless When Taken Out at Sidney, Australia, After Long Voyage Wins Fame. .". ' ' ' San Francisco, July 2. The cat' came back. And be it said Thomas came back in style. He was only an alley cat a few months ago. Now he's famous. He's in the movies, and his name has taken up good space on the cables. This is how it all came about: Pickings were lean in Detroit early in January, and Thomas who was nameless then climbed into a big crate on a foraging expedition. Just then there was a loud bang. Prepared for any emergency, he crept deeper into his hiding place. All Darkness. All was darkness, "xpd there was much commotion, but Thomas was too afraid to move; After an inde terminable time all was still. Thomas looked around and found that he had been securely nailed in with an in struction book on how to manage an automobile. He was jailed in a crate protecting an automobile. The weary weeks passed. He licked the grease around the edges Doors the of July! r A whole fleet of rowboats and launches, with miles and miles of beautiful lake to be explored. . ;-f. There is no better orchestra than the Kriss orchestra in the city. Try it! Breezy lakeside pavilion. . Giant roller-coaster, roller-skating, merry-go-'round ' and dozens of other attractions, all good time ! MaraiftWi8) Park (Admission Free) Old Dobbin Wins Against Motor Car in Circus Work i Unloading the There is still one place that the power of locomotion has not been assigned to the automobile, and that is the circus lot. In the transporting of paraphernalia from the cars to let, and vice versa, "old dobbin" still continues to reign supreme. And when the Hagenbeck-Wallace circus arrives here July 11 it will have more than 500 head of horses, all beauties. . But even though this is one field that the "gas car" has not captured, the horses have found out this seasan that they have a con- of the crate. He ate the instruction book and some of the trimmings. "There' was only a quiver of life when" the big crate was opened in Sydney, Australia, and the automo bile taken out. . Curled up and al most lifeless, eyes glazed and coat rough and unkempt, the 'cat was found. " 1 v" Only careful nursing restored Thomas. He was named in honor of the machine in which he had taken his mealless voyage of seven weeks, half across the world and over two oceans. Becomes Valuable. Thomas had become valuable. He became the pet and pride of the au tomob'ile company 'after -which he is' named.- He has been filmed and photographed, dined and feted. In surance of $5,000 was taken out and a passport secured for his return trip to America. C. G. Pool and Mrs. Pool vyere named as guardians for the prince of cats, and Thomas will be taken for a tour de luxe of the east, wind ing up at his old home in Detroit. waiting to show you a - 1 : Lis $$0 r Tip' r; :h V5 fi ' ji ' Circus Train. tender for honors. This contender is the tractor, and many are being used by the circus in transporting ot its animal cages. This the tractor is dcing most successfully, but there are a few jobs left that even this contender failsv . insofar as the old mare continues to find a welcome home in the tented world. The Hagenbeck-Wallace circus premises to bring many new features here this season. Prominent Euro pean acts have been contracted. Novelties are to be offered in the trained animal acts and, according to repcrts, one of the most complete menageries of the world is being carried. A street parade, more than one mile long, will be the official intro duction of the show on July 11. Landis a Hunter Cullen Landis is an expert rifle shot on the range. He goes deer hunting every season, but gets ner vous when he sees his living quarry and has yet to bag his first prize. PHESS NEW SHOW TODAY WHE Home of the Double Show BALDWIN, AUSTIN A GAINES "A Triple Alliance" BENNY HARRISON Late Comedian With the Dolly "9tter KANAZAWA JAPS Japanese Gymnaita THE WISE HOUND .Photoplay Attraction "CHILDREN OF NIGHT" Feaftirine WILLIAM RUSSELL wiryiW 5 The Assured Center of Summertime Fun in Omaha is LAKEVIEW PARK Ask . Anybody Everybody Goes An ideal spot for clean, wholesoms Fourth of July fun. DANCING Dance PrlcM are: 20c lor ' after, aeon or 30c Leonard Jacobs' Orchestra with BOYD SENTER the Saxophone King Special Matinee Tomorrow Today at 3 Tonight at 8 for (he en tire evt. And an avalanche of cool, refreshing attractions. Next Wednesday night, at the dance palace, two loving hearts will be united in the holy bonds of matrimony; Rev. Chat. W. Savidge . will officiate at the ' PUBLIC MARRIAGE OF A.M. SHILL and MISS ELSIE LINDSEY Pages. Ringbearers. Flower girls. Jan Band. Charivari 4th 0' July at Krug Park! BIG FEATURES ALL DAY I Band Concent "Birth of Old Glory." Big Screen Spectacle! Bay Scouts Drill! Champion Drill Team! "Patriotic Review" at Night) Free Souvenirs! Pavlowa's Sister -Found Working As a Seamstress Is Employed at Chicago IIos pital at Salary of $40 a Month After Terrible Ex perience in Russia. Chicago. July 2. Vera Pavlowa, sister of Anna, the famous Russian ballet d.Micer, has been found here in poverty, sewing in a hospital at $4C a month. Five years ago she lived in Mos cow and her position was apparently secure. She had but one step more before becoming the star dancer o( the Moscow ' Imperial Ballet. She was a member of the family of Count Golitzin, a political power. Then came the revolution. Anna is the only relative 'who is still liv ing.' Her parents, .five brothers and her husband were killed during the fighting.. Her 3-ycar-old son died of typhus. .She was held captive in a prison at Odessa for months. Lights Give Warping. . Hers is one of the stories of the vicissitudes of war which is almost without parallel. "After the revolution Odessa ap peared safe and I went there," she said in relating her story. ''One night after my dancing as I nearcd my home the lights in the house and the moving forms in the windows warned me the worst had happened. Odessa, too, was about to be swept by the revolution. Already the marauding bands of hoodlums were busy looting the place. . "My parents were murdered that night. The house was ransacked. I fainted and awoke in prison. For five months I was in jail. I was ill and the wound of a knife that one of the men thrust in my back bothered me constantly. Now Destitute. "Then came the allied troops and I was released. I had heard of .ChK cago because my sister used, to like to dance here. I came here. But I was still sick. My wound did not heal. Anna has given me some money, but I am now destitute, ex cept for the $40 a month I make sewing. "But money doesn't mean much to me. I have had it and I have spent it. A thousand dollars tonight and nothing in the morning. That is why my sister has made it so I get only a little money at a time. ' "I detest sewing. Think of me sewing long hours on a nlachine making sheets and towels I who was once a dancer with the Moscow ballet! Think of it I" Borglum Piano School. 2661' Douglas Street AuKUgt . M. Borglum, Madam . Borglum, (Pupils of Wager Bwayne) ' Solfegc-Schvartz Method J'arjs . Hormony Public Perform- . ance. Summer teaching, morningi. ' The Only Big CIRCUS to visit Omaha this year. Monday, July 11th TENTED ggrERJAIKJll.Kt 100.000.00 riiv s uirrsb jwurr At 10.90 a am Doo OR? ortK (-T1 (-TFH. Reserve seat tickets on sale day of circus at Merritt's Drug Store, 16th and Farnam Sts., at same prices as charged on show grounds. Positively the largest circus in the world giving a daily street parade. Do not mis. the PUBLIC WED DING WED. July 6th '" i