r. von Riedau nodded to Muller. The latter had been sitting at a little
side-table writing down the questions and answers. When Riedau saw this
he did not send for a clerk to do the work, for Muller preferred to
attend to such matters himself as much as possible. The facts gained in
the examination were impressed upon his mind while he was writing them,
and he did not have to wade through pages of manuscript to get at what
he needed. Now he handed his superior officer the paper.

"Thank you," said Riedau, "I'll send it out to the other police
stations. I will attend to this myself. You go on with these people to
see whether they can identify the corpse."

Fifteen minutes later the three stood before the body in the morgue and
both the bookkeeper and his companion identified the dead man positively
as Leopold Winkler.

When the identification was made, a notice was sent out to all Austrian
police stations and to all pawnshops with an exact description of the
stolen watch and purse.

Muller led his companions back to the commissioner's office and they
made their report to Dr. von Riedau. Upon being questioned further,
Pokorny stated: "I had very little to do with Winkler. We met only when
he had a report to make to me or to show me his books, and we never met
outside the office. The clerks who worked in the same room with him, may
know him better.. I know only that he was a very reserved man and very
little liked."

"Then I do not need to detain you any longer, nor to trouble you further
in this affair. I thank you for coming to us so promptly. It has been of
great assistance."

The bookkeeper left the station, but Mrs. Klingmayer, who was now quite
reassured as to the harmlessness of the police, was asked to remain
and to tell what she knew of the private life of the murdered man. Her
answers to the various questions put to her proved that she knew very
little about her tenant. But this much was learned from her: that he
was very close with his money at times, but that again at other times
he seemed to have all he wanted to spend. At such times he paid all his
debts, and when he stayed home for supper, he would send her out for
all sorts of expensive delicacies. These extravagant days seemed to have
nothing whatever to do with Winkler's business pay day, but came at odd
times.

Mrs. Klingmayer remembered two separate times when he had received a
postal money order. But she did not know from whom the letters came,