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THE STRAND MAGAZINE
An Illustrated Monthly
EDITED BY GEORGE NEWNES
Vol VII., Issue 42.
June, 1894
Martin Hewitt, Investigator.
Illustrated Interviews.
The Queen's Yacht.
Light.
Zig-zags at the Zoo.
Stories from the Diary of a Doctor.
Portraits of Celebrities at Different Times of their Lives.
Crimes and Criminals.
Beauties.
Count Ferdinand de Lesseps.
Some Interesting Pictures.
From Behind the Speaker's Chair.
The Iron Casket.
The Queer Side of Things.
Pal's Puzzle Page.
Index.
Transcriber's Notes.
"MIRSKY WAS STARING STRAIGHT AT ME."
(See page 571.)
Martin Hewitt, Investigator.
By Arthur Morrison.
IV.—THE CASE OF THE DIXON TORPEDO.
Hewitt was very apt, in conversation,to dwell upon themany curious chances andcoincidences that he hadobserved, not only in connectionwith his own cases, butalso in matters dealt with by the officialpolice, with whom he was on terms of prettyregular and, indeed, friendly acquaintanceship.He has told me many an anecdote ofsingular happenings to Scotland Yard officialswith whom he has exchanged experiences.Of Inspector Nettings, for instance, who spentmany weary months in a search for a manwanted by the American Government, and inthe end found, by the merest accident (amisdirected call), that the man had beenlodging next door to himself the whole of thetime; just as ignorant, of course, as was theinspector himself as to the enemy at theother side of the party-wall. Also of anotherinspector, whose name I cannot recall, who,having been given rather meagre andinsufficient details of a man whom he anticipatedhaving great difficulty in finding, wentstraight down the stairs of the office where hehad received instructions, and actually fell overthe man nea