The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-04-10
No. 48.
CUR NEW YORK LETTER.
Boss TwEED'S Es-CRENATIoN-
THE POLICE-DETECTIVFS AND WHAT
THEY NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. ,NCE
THE GERMANS

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THEY Do-INFLATION-TEN
THE GERMANS.
NEW YORK. April :. 1874.
BOSS TWEED
Doesn't like his quarters az BIack-
wells Island. 1t was expected bv the
burly Boss, and his friends. thar the off
eials on the Island would NOT dare TO
treat the great swindler as the other Grim
lnaiS were treated. but they were griev-
ouSly mistaken. Boss was shaved and
cropped, and arrayed like Joseph in a
coat OF many colOrs, with pants TO
match, and he was put in Just such ser
wee as he was tit to do. Consequently
he has tired of ii, and invOkes the law To
get him out He wants to go to Ludlow
st. jan, where n man may have as many
rooms and Just such living as he chooses
topay for. Judge Davis sentenced Tweed
TO imprisonment in the county iaiI y
which he corrected to 1.-THE penitentia-
ry.' The Boss's counsel insist that he
had no right to make the correction. and
that LudlOw-st. Jail is the place where he
must be confined. They want the Boss
in quarters where he can recognize his
court; where wine and waSSail will be as
of yOre; where he can bring together the
scattered hosts of Tammany. and be
once more the dictator of New York De-
mOcracy. For after all they miss the
great organizing ability he undoubtedly
| possesses. The Boss will get out before
| long, entirely Then look out for a ring
that will be a ring.
CREMATION.
There has been a society organized
| here for the purpose of doing away with
burying the dead-burning the body in
stead. The memebers pledge themselves
to be burned as fast as they die, and, as
if TO show the world the value of the idea,
one man died last Friday and was
burned. The coffin, We are told, was
pa et in an upright position, inside a
tire-proOf receptacle, through which arti-
ticially heated air was forced in a cur
rent, carrying all the nOXiOus gases up
chimney, and leaving after the process
a small residue of snow-white ashes only.
The process was completed in twenty
minutes, at a cost for fuel of 81 25. The
ashes We're gathered and placed in an
urn III the parlOr of the father of the de-
ceased. Those who are urging it say
that the cost of diSpOsing of remains is
brought TO very small point; that the
idea of consuming body by fire is not
so repugnant as TO put it into the ground
to decay; and that as cemeteries are Ger
tain TO be crowded, cremation is better
on sanitary grounds. The papers are all
discussing il. It will doubtless come in
TO quite general use
THE POLICE.
To keep such order as is kept in New
York requires an army of policemen, to
the number of 2. 500, which costs the
city about $, 800, 900 per annum. This in
cludes only the regular policemen. The
DETECTIVES
are a body by themselves, who, while
they are regularly appointed, get no pay
from the city, but from those for whom
they work. These men seem to be a
necessity, but it is questionable whether
they do not make more crime than they
suppress or prevent. The first requisite
is TO know, personally, every thief in the
country, their peculiarities, and manner
of work. We will suppose a bank has
been robbed and a detective sent for
He looks at the work, notes how the
thief or thieves got into the building.
and how the safe was operated on, and
determines in his mind exactly who did
it. He recognizes his work as accurate
ly as shoemaker would shoe he had
made. Suppose bonds TO the amount of
$50. OG0 have been taken. The Bank
offers so, 900 for the recovery. The as
tute gentleman knows that Jenny
Dawson" ''cracked the crib and he |
knows also that the finding of Jenny |
would be an impOssibility. But he |
knows Jemmy'S woman, or one of Jem-
my's friends. and so in his good time he
informs Jemmy's woman that the re-
covery of the bonds stolen from the /
Bank, of so-and-sO, is in his hands, and
waits. Presently JemIny's woman en-
ters into negotiation with him, the bonds
are returned, the Bank pays the S10,-
600, which the thief and detective divide,
and it is all over. There are very few
arrests and convictions of big thieves,
for the reason that the thief is necessary
to the detective, and the detective to |
the thief They have u common inter
est-in fact they work together. To ar
rest a skillful, daring and industrious bur
glar would be to destroy his business.
Another use these men are put to is
SHADOwING
suspected people. For instance, If a
bank officer or merchant suspects an |
employee of appropriating money, a de-
tective is put on his track Wherever he |
goes, there will be behind him a gentle |
manly man, who never loses sight of him |
The number of times he goes into drink
ing places-the very liquor he drinks, |
the kind of money he pays for it, the |
gambling places he goes into. and the |
houses of III fame he visits-all these are
recorded, and so recorded that it can
all be brought home to him. They never |
know they are being fJilJWei. for the
detective IL too adrOit Tor that The re-
suit of his observations are given every
morning 10 his employers, who have no
difficulty in coming to very accurate con
cluSiOns If the suspected man has a
salary of IS, 900 per annum, and no other
resources, and if he is living at the rate
of $40 900, they have no difficulty in
coming TO the conclusion that he is
stealing from them IS, 600 per year. And
then, Just when he fancies ne is all Sc
cure lac is taken to task. He of course
denies the charges, but the detective,
with his fatal book, catches him. and he
cOnfesses his sins But these are not
the only Use they are put TO. If wO-
man suspects her husband of unfaith-
fulness She resolves her doubts by the aid
Of these convenient persons, ard rice
cersa. They are paid high salaries, and
may be Of some Use to the community,
but / doubt it. They make thieying
safe business, at all events.
INITIATION.
The proposition to initiate the currency
meets with the most determined oppO- |
SitiOn in this city. The press is hOwling /
against II, and the citizens back the press.
The Her0id holds that imitation means /
population and that If it il persisted ia.
IL viii provoke civil war The fact is |
New York, having so much of the
wealth of the country, wants as little
currency as possible. for the less there is
the more secure her grasp upon the
country. Then again the purple-nOsed 1
old gentlemen who are out of business.
with a million or two, want the purchas-
ing power Of the dollars they have to be
as great as possible. Their view Of the
case i purely selfish. They do not take
into account the needs Of the country.
They want TO continue 10 hold in their
own hands the financial destiny of tie
country; 70 let on the steam and turn it
of Just when the turning on and cutting
off will make them the most power. The
HerGioiS talk Of trouble i all bOsh. There
l. a great deal Of arrogant egOtism in a
great city, but the city of New Ork knows
very well that while the country can get
along very well without New York, New
York can't get on at all without the
country The war between the East and
West which the HeTaid Is trying 10 force,
would make New York a deserted city
IN -iy months The war with the South
illustrated this. The great trade-tlie
TRADE. that had been cOurfed-was the
Southern. \ Southern merchant was
made a. much of as a Barbary prince,
while the Western merchant had no at
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