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...years passed, and the museum officials seemed either not to notice or not to care, John began taking somewhat larger things home with him. One sizable antique table journeyed from the museum to Chiswick in several installments, most of them hidden in John's trouser leg. Like the other objects in John's home, it received the tenderest care and affection, for John and Mary were both proud of their private museum. Unfortunately, the-public museum from which its beauty stemmed in time grew suspicious. Recently, on a tip from the museum, police raided John's house...
Soil in the Trouser Cuffs. Whenever a body is found after sudden, violent or unexplained death, one of the 24 medical examiners must be on the spot before it is moved. With routine examination of all bodies destined for cremation (to prevent destruction of evidence), this means that 20,000 of the city's annual 100,000 deaths are checked. About 350 involve homicide. Every day, from ten to 20 painstaking autopsies are performed; each body is carefully examined not only for poisons but for hidden signs of wounds, or for internal evidence of strangulation (which may have been...
...fangled detective gadgets with which Dr. Gonzales himself pioneered was the spectrograph. In 1942 the husband of a woman found strangled in Central Park had seven witnesses to swear that he had been at a dance at the time of her death. But spectrograph analysis of soil in his trouser cuffs broke his alibi and clinched the case that sent him to the electric chair...
...warrant was served on Dr. Hamilton in the hospital, where he had gone after suffering a broken hip in another fall. In his trouser pocket police found a bottle containing seven more cyanide capsules, which the doctor said he had thought about using on himself. He also told the police that he intended to use the cyanide for mounting moths in a collection. The charges made by his wife, he said, were "fantastic and absurd...
...nice girl, maybe? Hey, sah-jint, you want numbahone nice virgin girl?" Sometimes they snatched a pen or wallet from his pocket and scampered off down an ill-smelling alley. Sometimes the crippled ones, scabrous and foul with dirt, hunched themselves into his path and clawed frantically at his trouser leg. "Money, skoshi money, little money! Three days, eat have-a-no, sah-jint...