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...Anesthetist began his nocturnal visitations two weeks ago, mainly concentrating his fiendish attacks on women. One said a smell like gardenias "made her legs tingle." Another said a fat man had squirted perfume into her bedroom. Mrs. Carl Cordes discovered a damp pink cloth on her back porch. She sniffed it and immediately "felt as though a charge of electricity had gone through me." She was taken to a hospital with burns and temporary paralysis...
...once obvious to Mattoon's housewives that the anesthetist had baited Mrs. Cordes' porch with a cloth soaked in the same substance he squirted through windows. After that the number of his victims increased. Mattoon's ten policemen, who had been ignoring the archcriminal, now sallied forth at night, seeking they knew not what and not finding it. Chicago newsmen swept joyfully down upon Mattoon and wired leering accounts of The Gas Fiend, The Thin Man of Mattoon, The Mad Phantom and The Screwball Chemist...
...Illinois Criminal Investigation Laboratory sent an investigator named Richard T. Piper to Mattoon to get the pink cloth from Mrs. Cordes' porch. The laboratory could find no indications of gas or other chemicals upon it. Piper sat up all night reading chemistry books and announced the next day that the anesthetist was probably using chloropicrin, a heavy, colorless liquid made by chlorinating picric acid...
...brought to bear. Gorgon père is finally discovered to be the nameless, galumphing coach hound of the local fire department. But that slobbering, fragrant beast has no vocabulary other than "Arf," is a parasitic icebox-crasher to boot. He refuses to move off the Baxter's porch rocker until frightened by the word "bath...
...little before 11 o'clock in the still hot morning, an elderly Western Union messenger climbed the steps to the red-bricked sun porch of a bungalow in Tonawanda, N.Y., and pressed the bell. Mrs. Michael C. Niland was busy with the housework when she heard...