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...State's Attorney's office had gone to Toronto to bring Martin Insull back to U. S. justice. At 3 a. m. on their return trip their train rolled across the U. S.-Canadian border and came to a stop in Detroit. U. S. Immigration Inspector Joseph Als, going through the cars, roused 64-year-old Martin Insull from sleep. Was he a U. S. citizen? No, he was a British citizen who had resided 40 years in the U. S. How long had he been away? Seventeen months. Did he not know that an alien who left...
...Inspector Als turned on them sternly: "I will arrest you if necessary for interfering with a government official in performance of his duty. The penalty is five years in the penitentiary...
Messrs. Johnson and Ryan grew calmer. They and their prisoner dressed. Accompanied by Inspector Als they went to the Book-Cadillac hotel to spend the remainder of the night. At 9 a. m. they appeared in a shabby little immigration court. There a board of inquiry decided within 15 minutes that Martin Insull was likely to become a public charge and could not be admitted to the U. S. The board however consented to parole him in custody of the Chicago police until his trial...
...then hiring five of the fanciest detectives to track down the murderers of Alexandre Stavisky and of Judge Albert Prince. The Paris-Soir pack of bloodhounds included Detective Story Writers Georges Simenon and André Gaston Leroux, son of the creator of Arsène Lupin; onetime Chief Inspector Alfred C. Collins of Scotland Yard; famed ex-Chief Constable Frederick Wensley, Britain's greatest detective (TIME, July 8, 1929); and last but not least Sir Basil Thomson, onetime Director of Intelligence of the British Secret Service...
...neither the British nor Japanese consulates in Marseilles needed. Announced the Sûreté Générale: "Police throughout Europe cooperated with us, but we found the aid of the American police most valuable." All this was news to both Federal agents in New York and Inspector Joseph Donovan of the Criminal Identification Bureau who stated that he had not been asked to make any investigation of the Switzes, their family or their friends. Just to be sure, Scotland Yard carefully examined the Chelsea, London flat in which the Switzes lived for many months. There they found...