Delaware state journal. [volume] (Wilmington, Del.) 1870-1883, 1872-09-28
4 DETECTIVES STORY
Love-Making for Business
Purposes.

NV name is-no matter. | am called
Tony. have never been a member of the
regular police, and hope the vanity Will
be pard0ncd when say that ! consider my
occupation grade or two above il since
il must he evident to every one that dull
person may he, and often is, servicehhle
policeman, while adetuctive has no chance
of success without a ready perception, and
a close study of human nature. am in-
tuitively possessed of faculty of imiia-
ii0n, which | have cultivated to be of
great service in my business, rs 1t enables
me to assume, in II very deceptive manner,
the disguise Of any character ! pleasei in
deed, 50 many different parts have played,
and in such various company have ! mix
ed. that il appears to me serious problem
at times where my proper position in soci-
sty lies.
have partner in business whose real
name have no right to make public. He
Is u course featured person, aud is capable
of converting himself by means of dress,
inte one Of the most rough-looking and
rcpnlsive Of men. While in one of the
meanest of his disguises, some one gave
him the name of "Slouch'' and this rath-
or yepulsiye soubri4ust, attached to him ut
first in spirit of pleasantly, Is now about
,hrouly name 10y which address him. lie
is GOOD hearted fellow, muscular and
courageous. spd he has, in more than one
instance. resc 0e,i me from great peril II
not actually saved my me-
slouch has a Remarkable faculty of read
ing crime on the face. His conclusions
are generally correct yet how he arrives
ni them is a mysterS 10 me. My own sus-
picious are mostly the result of some theo'
ry. and / will freely confess that my
IMAGINATION has often led me n-iray. II
il different with slouch. a single look al
the euspected person seems enough ioI
him. lie has Oilcu upset a nicely woven
tissue Of apparently rerrOboratiye incident'
for me, bya glance al the party suspected
a shake of the head, aud ernil and pro
yohing dissent. Only Que instance occur
red where was right and lac was absolute
ly wrong but as ils recital would be
dirression, ! sha,l reserve II for anothe
time.
We are sometimes together, and at othel
Zines widely separated. There Is not
pailr,,ad, canal or steamboat route in th'
Irn;teJ State that one or the other of III
mas nat tra veled oyef in the pursuit OF ou
calling. Recently we have been sojonrn
ing in San Francisco
Some time siHee the officers OF the F
bank in the city Of New York gave lnior
NATION to the police that their notes ha'
been extensively counterfeitrd In q man
mer 80 alarmingly perfect that many Q
the spurious bill had passed through 'ueu
own hands without detection-in fact, In
first intimation of the crime wat the per
ceptible imitation of their paper IN elreula
tion. Every line and shade of the Or'glna
bill was reproduced in the counterfeit IL
such perfect manner, that, without INT
aii Of u microscope, detection vas ntterl
impossible. Once discovered 1t was plain
that no other counterfriting process coul
30 completely initiate the genuine hut I'll
art Of photography, AMI in that sclenc
1he manipulators must have been skilled
SLOUGH and went to work at once, le'
by the incentive Of large conditional re
ward. We labored for many weeks with
out success. There was not a single pho
togral,hic establishment in that large cit.
that esea ned our visits in disguise, and II
my zeal 10 succeed in the undertaking,
studied tile at from beginning to enc
Nearly three m0uLhs had been fruitlessl
spent in this way, Ehen one evening
messenger was sent TO us In haste, iroi
hecashier Of the bank, requesting us
hurry to his room. lie Informed Ne tha
two passenger-tickets had been pusehpst
that day at the California steamship oihe'
every dollar for which had been paid
the spurious bills. lie had made some il
quiries himself in the matter, and inform
ed us that thu ticket agent had no rcco
lection of the persons from whom he ha
received the money, and that the steam'
would sail at nine o'eloek on the follow
ing morning. sloueh AID l took Il
matter into consideration, and urged l
the advice and counsel of the bank of
GERS, we determined to take passage In Il
same boat. A trunk apiece was hasti
packed with our motley wardrobe, al
after agreeing upon our disguises, we sa
eel out next morning, taking diilere
routes, and proceeded without any sho
of haste TO the vessel.
| hesitate to say that l was much d
gusted ON this trip, because my appea
Rnce, as near us | conld make Il up, W
that of Well dressed gentleman of f
tune tryellng for pleasure, aud, of couri