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Page 14 The ConsHtiilionM agazins young foreigner finally was found by elimination. Then the trail led to a money changer who had given the young man the bill in exchange for French francs. But there again the trail stopped; the man wm a stranger. The Next Motc Nevertheless, they were francs and not rubles or lei or pounds sterling. And the enormous machine in Alexanderplatz seized on the gossamer thread of clue, and slowly, delicately, began to weave something more of it.

A jaunty young man stepped into a money changer's bureau a day later and. taking out a bill for a thousand francs, asked for German marks in exchange. The money changer counted out the marks, shoved it over to the young men, and then said me- "chanically: "Name and address, please, on this blank." The young man had turned to leave, but at the words paused. "What's the necessity? That bill is per-' fectly good." "Don't know the changed replied laconically. "Police orders." "Since when?" "Yesterday afternoon." Vs The young man reflected an instant, then cheerfully signed a name and address and left.

But in his hotel room be said to another young man, who occupied an adjoining room: "These Boches will be asking every purchaser of a box of matches to present a birth certificate next, I suppose." And he told of the incident at the money changer's. -Disposing of the Loot. "Of course you gave a fake name and address?" "Of course." The two smiled quietly and almost forgot the incident. They were busy sending various packages by express to a small hardware dealer doing a quiet business in a town on the French border. The packages were all labeled "tu trays, "enamel basins," "Nickel knives and forks." and the like.

But the young man who had told of the incident at the money changer's would have done better to have given the right name and address when he changed the Trancs. For there were so many who had ehanged francs that day that even a machine could do no more than just check up the many names and addresses that came in that way In everv instance where on check; ins real address the machine dropped the matter. But when it- came to a name and address that on checking up at the Meldwesen that vast catalog did not answer with an automatic "present," the machine began to make alarming noises, like a bit of mechanism gone awry. The Net Spreads. "Why isn't that address right?" the brain part of the machine asked.

"Because answered machine-like logic, "the person who gave it probably shies at truth in such matters. If so, let's learn some more about him." So the money changer who had furnished the address in question was told to trace the serial numbers of as many as possible of the German bills he had given the young man who was so Inexact about hie name and place of residence. Meanwhile the young man himself had another incident to report to his friend that evening. "Funny," he. said, but did not look too much amused.

"I went to the postoffice to send off the last of our packages, and paid for the expressage with a 50-mark note. was leaving the building when a clerk came running out after me. "'Pardon me, mein herr, but didn't you give me this bill? he asked, showing me one. "I looked at it, and it was the bill I bad given, not him, but another clerk. I could tell by a bit of transparent mucilage paper with which one corner had been strengthened.

But. of course. I told him it was NOT the bill I had paid with. A Suspicions Clerk. 'The clerk looked startled and suspicious.

'At any rate, would you be good enough to step into office with me to tell my superior that? he insisted. "Naturally I told him I hadn't time. But he became insistent. 'My superior has ordered me to bring you back!" he cried. 'And what the devil is your superior to I demanded, and started off.

Well, would you believe it? He seized my sleeve to detain me! But as you may imagine, he didn't hold it very long." He grinned, and the other too. For the other knew what had happened, without being told. When the insistent clerk innocently seized the young man's sleeves, his fingers pressed it. The next moment he snatched his hand away with a lound cry. Time To Eaa.

Under the sleeve was another sleeve of leather: thickly mounted with sharp, short tacks, points outward. And before the clerk could summon a policeman the young man leaped to the step of a rapid-moving car against regulations and waa The two young men enjoyed the joke on the clerk for a short while then they became irritable. "What's the matter with this foot city the last two, or three days? Seems to me every step one takes is being measured and registered by "some machine. Thank heaven we're off tonight!" one of thent summed it up. They packed their grins, dressed the part of two small town merchants, got their forged French passports stamped with police permission to leave Berlin, and got on the night express in the direction of the border town to which they had been ex- pressing their "hardware" packages.

At an express stop nearest the border the two got off and took a local train for their last destination in Germany. Half a dozen men got off with them, but there was nothing suspicious about them to the two. On the local train the vaunted German thoroughness of system seemed for once to have slipped a cog. For the conductor forgot to collect their tickets, although he passed them several times. At the border town the two were met at the station by the hardware dealer to whom -they had expressing the packages.

He looked suspiciously at the half dozen other passengers who got out with the two young men. Ground for Suspicion. "Seems to me you've had quite a lot of company on your trip," he said. "Are you sure none of them have been asking you questions?" The two young men smiled. 'Not only they, but even the conductor left us alone.

He didnt even collect our tickets. Here they are." The other did not seem as amused as they expected him to be. "H'm! That is certainly exceptional." he grumbled. "And I dont like the exceptional. Healthy life in this country is always on schedule.

But come along! Tonight will see you out of the country with that stuff, thank goodness!" As the afternoon wore on. however, and nothing occurred to disturb his two guests, who stayed inconspicuously at his house, even the hardware man became easier In his mind. When night came he went out into his barn and harnessed two horses to a wagon covered with a tarpaulin under which a load of cabbages was plainly He himself was dressed as a farm hand. The Custom's House. The man drove off toward the boundary line.

At the next cross roads two other farm" hands in a small auto truck which, however, was empty, swung into the road and rolled after the cabbage wagon, keeping it in sight until they came to the toll bridge crossing a little stream that formed the boundary line. The farm hand who drove the cabbage wagon got down and showed his Identification papers such as they were to the gendarme with the lantern. The two men in the automobile behind his wagon watched the proceedings apparently with indifference. But when the gendarme called to some of his mates in the guardhouse, the two in the automobile looked at each other. At the call of the gendarme there issued a surprising number of men from the guardhouse and surrounded the driver of the cabbage cart.

The two in the automobile grew restive. Then they saw several of the men start rummaging among the cabbages. Thereupon things began to happen fast. The two in the car stepped on the gas, backed quickly, and, making a short turn, started back the way they had come. But behind them stood a big automobile truck barring the road, and from it jumped several other men.

Dark as the road was, the two in the machine saw that the men running toward them all carried arms. The. driver jerked the wheel and started the machine across a field. The men In the road sprinted after them. A furrow caught the lunging car and sent it bowling over.

But the two occupants sprang out and raced to a near-by barn, at their heels a dozen shouting men. And now came the sound of revolver fire behind them. The two gained the barn a bare dozen -feet ahead of the others, but had ample time to bar the heavy door. A few seconds later there was thundering blows at the door, heavy voices clamoring: "Open in the name of the law!" "Listen!" came from within the barn. "We can see you.

Before you get us, some of you will get our bullets. We have many of them. We are good marksmen, and are determined not to be captured. Keep away!" Then the -men at bay heard a military order. Through a barn window they saw a dozen men get into a sort of squad formation.

They were the mechanical men of the Berlin police machine, men who had spent at least nine years in the German army, men who obeyed as only mechanical men would. The two inside did not want to go- to a German prison. But neither did they want to die just yet. They held a whispered conference, and chose a term for burglary as the lesser of two evils. A minute later they came out of the barn, their hands high in the air.

(Carrit, 1M. he Tfc. OwtintlM.) 0-p there proved to he a real person at a When Justice Triumphed Continued From Past I was planning to do it. It was a comedy ficer inquired what tit was wanted for, the man muttered "you'll find out." Other officers told of now Kudzinowski poured out his confession to them. They prepared a statement, they said, and he signed it.

A SKULL FRACTURE WHILE SWIMMING. Attorney Simpson, in presenting trie ao-fense, called experts -who stated that thw defendant had suffered a slight skull fracture while swimming some 17 years before and that he consequently suffered front periodic brainstorms. The experts stated that the fracture exerted periodic pressure on the brain, causing insanity at such times as the pressure was exerted. der is death in the electric chair?" he was asked. "Whatever it is, I want to pay the penalty," he said in a dull voice.

EAST SIDERS GATHER FOR JOEY'S FUNERAL. While he was being questioned, the funeral was taking place over in Manhattan. Throngs of east aiders gathered In front of the Storelli home to see the little coffin carried out to the hearse. In later talks with the police, the prisoner admitted that he had gone to his mother and confessed the crime to her in Scranton. We approach another startling twist in the story Under questioning by the police, the prisoner on the evening of December 10 said that be was doing railroad work near Lake Hopatcong, N.

on August 25, when he ob-, served several picnicking children. He watched the groups and finally, when a little girl was separated from her family, he went up to -her and asked her if she would like to take a boat ride. She said she" "would and followed him. "When I attempted to attack her shs screamed," he said, "so 1 choked her and beat her to deathThen I became frightened. I realized that I would have to do something with the body quickly.

So I carried it to a box car which was standing with some others on a siding. I put it Inside and climbed in with it. In a little while the train began to move." He admitted that he enjoyed the ride witl the dead body of This victim. The train -stopped about thre hours later, he said, and he looked out and saw that he was near Blairstown, N. J.

He decided to leave the train. "But I could not bear to leave the body," he went on, "so I lowered rt out of the car. Nobody saw me. Finally I wrapped the body in newspapers, weighted it with a brake shoe, and threw it into the Delaware When he had finished this confession to the murder of Julia Mlodianowska ha were convinced that he had told the truth and set out on another hunjt for a body, the while Jersey Justice cleared the way for Kudzinowski's passage to the electric chair. He showed the police where he had killed Julia Mlodzianowska and where he bad thrown the body into the river.

The searchers found a bloodstained bit of cloth on the bank of the Delaware river. The child's mother wept at the sight of it but she could not say for certain that this had been part of Julia's dress. Later a shoe was found, but nothing more. Kudzinowski was arraigned in the First criminal court City, on December 15. He seemed in high spirits as he entered the courtroom.

At one time during the proceedings he was heard to hum a tune. He seemed to have recovered from the depression that had possessed him at the time of his arrest and return to Jersey City. His attorney, William L. Griffin, intimated that the defense would be insanity. Several days later he pleaded not guilty to the indictment.

Judge Robert V. Kinkead in a proclamation from the bench said that the state of New Jersey was prepared to defray any reasonable expense in providing medical examination to determine the defendant's mental condition. "This man is entitled to bis day in court, no matter how revolting the crime," he said. "I recall that two wealthy youths in Chicago accused of a crime equally revolting had the benefit of the best expert testimony, and there is no reason why this man, because he is poor, should be denied this defense. The counsel cannot be expected to meet the expense out of their own Kudzinowski went on trial before Judge Charles M.

Egan on January 9, 1929. Deputy Attorney-General Aloysius McMahon, in charge of the prosecution, called 12 witnesses in rapid succession, completing the state's case in record time, so quickly, indeed, that the defense was compelled to plead for an adjournment. -The state based its case on the defend-' ant's confession to the police. Po-: liceman Claude E. Burgin, of Detroit, that Kudzinowski staggered up to his traffic booth and drunkenly-stated that, he was wanted by the police.

When the of that's all I can remember about it." The newspapermen stared at the quiet, remorseful prisoner. They could see Joey in the picture theater, squealing his delight at the while the man beside him plotted what he was to do. "We only stayed about a half, three-quarters of an hour. When we came out I told him we would take a little trip. I took him to the Hudson tube station on 14th street, and we went on the train to Journal square, in Jersey City.

He wouldn't go into the elevator that takes you up to the street level he seemed afraid to go in it so we went up the stairs. We walked along Hudson boulevard and then finally dowa to the road that leads across the meadows to SecaucuS. "It was dark by this time and the boy was nervous. He kept asking where we. were going.

"We came close to the Susquehanna railroad bridge, and started to take him down the embankment into the meadows, where the high weeds were. I held the boy's hand tight. He began crying. "He said, 'What are you going into the dark I said, 'Never mind, come I dragged him after me into the high marsh grass. "He didn't want to take off his overcoat.

He cried and I hit him. He began to scream, 'Mamma! But it was a lonely, barren region. Kudzinowski had worked in the vicinity and iuew the land perfectly, even in the dark. He went on to describe the unprintable details of his crime. He said he cut the child's throat with his pocket knife, "which had a spring blade so I could open it with one hand." In a little while he left the body, scrambled up the embankment, threw away the knife and started walking toward Secaucus.

He found a railroad camp where he washed the blood from hl3 hands and body. He had fled westward and found a job in a hotel washing dishes. He held that job until he went on a three days drunk which landed him in jail and culminated in his confession. "Do you know that the penalty for.mur- McMahon, as is usual in these cases where insanity is found by defense experts, called another expert as a rebuttal witness. This alienist.

Dr. Henry A. Cotton, of Trenton, said that he believed the defendant sane and capable- of distinguishing right "from in cross-examination. Dr. Cotton admitted that the skull fracture could cause periodic The prosecutor in his summing up stated that the only test of Kudzinowski's sanity was whether or not he could tell right front', wrong.

he had a conscience he knew right fiom wrong," said McMahon, "and if he did know right from wrong it is your duty to bring in a verdict of murder in the first degree." Simpson argued that the expert testimony had conclusively shown the man to be insane. "To convict him of murder would ho to stigmatize humanity," he said. "The state has not even proved that Kudzinowski was in Jersey City the night of the crime." The jury, however, decided that the defendant knew right from wrong and after 63 minutes deliberation found him guilty of murder in the first degree without recommendation for mercy, In New Jersey that makes. a. deatb sentence mandatory.

He was ruled sane by physioians of the Trenton State hospital staff 19 months after he was convicted Jersey justice being a bit slow at the business of carrying out the sentence and on December 20 he was electrocuted. (Copyright, 1MO. far The Cutittta.) was handed the document to sign but ha snatched it from the detective and tore up. It was announced that had denied the substance of it. Nevertheless, the polios.