The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1881-03-18
Photography a . Means Of Detecting
Criminals.

1nOtOgraphy u Q Means Of Detecting
Criminals.
THERE are many striking instances o.
the value of pictures to assist in the de
lection of criminals. The venerable
Mrs. Ogden Hoffman was once robbed
Of her pocketbook on the rear platform
OF Fourth Avenue car. She was posi-
tive that she could pick out the man who
robbed her, and, on visiting the Rogue's
Gallery, instantly picked out the picture
of a weli-known thief named Fatty Do
Ian. the COMPANION of Red Leary, whe
was detected picking pockets at the
Paris Exposition, and served five
years in French prison. Inspector
Byrnes caused the arrest of Dolan, and
not long afterward, by some mysterious
channel, Mrs. Hoffman,s watch was re-
turned. The famous English swindling
swell, Lord Beresford, was recognized
walking on Broadway with an elegantly
dressed lady by Detectives Dusenbury
and Radford. His lOrdship was highly
indignant, and protested against the &C
ton of the detectives as an outrage. he
was confronted with his picture, how
ever. which had been sent here from
England, and the lady was advised to go
home. In March, 1876, Detectives Fields
and Conner arrested Vermont muir.
derer named George Miles, alias Bliss,
VINO was recognized by a picture sent
here by the Vermont authorities. The
same officers arrested in the same way
Dave Jones, an escaped burglar, from
Boston, whose picture was sent here
from Boston, with the information that
he would probably visit this city. The
picture of Henry Shatton, q Michigan
forger, caused his arrest here in 1878,
and he was sent home to get sentence
of fourteen years, which he is now serv-
ing. Dave Mooney and his partner
"Frenchy," who had robbed man in
Boston and escaped to this city, were
recognized by their pictures and sent
back. The business is now so system
atized that in the case of disappearing
criminal it is but the work of a few hours
to print a full description of him, ac-
companied by his photograph. 1t was
by one of these circulars that Andrew
Gillen, the murderer of Mary Sigerson,
last November, was recognized and ar
rested in Cedar Keys.
Detectives Hines and Won Gerichten
recently recognized in Fulton Street,
solely by their pictures, two brothers,
John and Edward Delaney, who were
guilty of robbing a school up town.
Some of the stolen property was found
in their , possession, and Inspector
Byrnes got hints for the discovery of
more at their home. It is now very
common thing for foreign Governments
to send to the State Department pictures
of escaped criminals who should be ex-
tradited. From one of such pictures,
in 1877, Detective Won Gerichten ar
rested an Austrian forger, Augustus
Bassler, who had obtained $50, 900.
When the notorious Sherry Mike stole
$12,00g worth of silk in Washington his
picture was sent here, and Detectives
King and Lyon recognized him in the
street. In August, 1879, Louise Miller
stole 200. The victim had her pic
ture, and gave it to the police. One
day Detective Williamson spied the &C
cused woman walking in Wall Street,
recognizing her by her picture in the
gallery. He arrested her, and she got
a sentence of four years. In September,
1875, Detectives Adams and Gerichten
arrested John Welch and Brick Malone
on pictures sent here from Buffalo.
The culprits got twenty years. sentence
each for masked burglary. John Kern,
an Albany burglar, was recognized in
this city in 1873 by his picture, and on
being sent home got sentence of twen-
ty-five years. At the time of the Planet
Mills robbery in Brooklyn, several citi-
zens identified the pictures of Dave
Hunt and Bill Bartlett as men who had
been seen about the premises. Detec-
tives Radford and Hanley arrested
them and they got twenty years each.
There is one picture in the gallery
that is of interest to housekeepers. 1t
is that of celebrated servant thief,
Annie Riley, demure, modest, intelli-
gent-looking girl, who gives perfect
satisfaction about eleven days, and then
runs Away with whatever valuables she
can lay hands on. The last time her
picture was identified she got two
years sentence. Julius Strang, the
Pittsburgh torger of $4,000, was az
rested by Detective Dorsey, in 1877, on
a picture sent here from Pittsburgh. In
the same year Dorsey and Adams ar
rested on a picture John Moloney aud
William Rowland, two San Francisco
thieves, who had stolen $4,000, and
escaped to this city. Three Chicago
thieves, Johnny Curtin, James Roberts,
and James Cunningham, who had stolen
$4,000 and escaped to this city, we're
captured on pictures by Detectives Dor
seq and Riley.
The and hundreds of other similar
cases have so signalized the value of
pictures that no criminal is permitted to
go without some sort of a likeness by
which he may be traced. They are OF
inestimaole value in furnishing aid to
the authorities on the trial of criminals.
There is a regular system of book-keep.
ing, and records which enable Inspector
Bvrnes to furnish at u minutes notiee
the history of any prominent criminal
Each is known by a number, and each
arrest and conviction is recorded in q
book 30.
Not long ago application was made to
have the picture of a banco steerer taken
out OF the gallery on the ground that he
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