The Indianapolis leader. (Indianapolis, Ind.) 1879-1890, 1881-08-20
rest, was shadowed nine weeks by three diff.


ferent detectives.
"The investigator" continued Mr. Pinker-
ton, dis the man who, after a crime is COM
mitted, makes a preliminary investigation.
He usually works with the local officers. He
seldom pretends to work in secret. He looks
the ground over. mingles with civilians,
talks with every one. and forms his conclu-
sions. He must be a man of greater intelli-
gence than is necessary to make a good
shadow. He reports the results of his inves-
tigations, and on his report is decided the
course to be pursued. Perhaps one result of
his report will be that shadow put on a
certain man, and an effort is made in that
way to reach the truth in the matter. The
preliminary Investigator, in short, opens the
way for private investigation.
"The roper must, to speak plainly, rope
men in He comes nearest to the dime
novel detective of any in the list, but he is q
great way off from that romantic hero. The
roper is simply gentlemanly person. social,
of good address, able to frame excuses for
anything he may do or say, and able 20 turn
| the conversation In any way ne pleases. He
must have travelled, must have good
knowledge of men, must be an easy talker,
| but better listener.
GAS to the question of payW
swell, the pay runs all the way from SIS
and $40 week to $4,000 year. The man
that goes on dangerous mission doesn'
necessarily get the highest wages. In fact,
he does not get them. He works for SO
much, and does what he is ordered TO do.
| But at the same time a man is not asked
| to do dangerous piece of work against his
will. If he hesitates, he need not go. To
succeed, man must 60 willingly. Of
course the fact that a man succeeds in a
dangerous piece of work is often the means
of an increase of his salary. Why, it's like
any other business exactly. Every man has
his value. 1t won't do to work for reward.
Human nature Is human nature, and when
man sees big pile of money coming as the
result of fixing crime on some maxwell,
it's often dangerous for that man, guilty or
innocent. Tne work should be done for so
much, whatever the result
"What is the average life of detective2"
| "Well, don't know as to that. / think,
though, they stick to the work on an aver
age, say fifteen years. Then they get tired
of travelling and want to settle down. They
get situations in banks, hotels and other in
sttutions."
"Are female detectives much employed or
depended upon2"
at is difficult to get a respectable woman
to do detective work. There are lots them
that claim to be detectives, but they must be
employed with caution. They are occasion
ally useful to work up case against wo-
man. In such cases we usually employ q
female relative of some one of our men--s
woman who knows what detective work is,
and who is respectable. But we have to be
very careful always in employing women.
GAS rule detectives are Jealous of each
other. It's human nature, L suppose, especi-
oil xuha ic off A I'd
stirs up every man that thinks he is detec-
tive. The Charley Ross case is a striking
example We had turn at it and we had q
very curious experience. We thought sure
ly we were on the track of woman with
the boy. We followed her to Montreal,
then to Quebec, then across the Atlantic to
England, then to Aberdeen, Scotland, then
back through London and Liverpool, and
back again to Quebec; and when at last
we caught up with her, we found that she
was q woman who was trying to get her boy
away from her husband. 1t is very fire.
Quently the case that in working up one
crime we run across the perpetrators of an
other. This is natural since all classes of
professional criminals work in gangs. Each
gang usually bears the name of the
!, leader. You would be surprised to know
how exclusively each class attends to its own
| line Oh WOTk. lucTc are tuc -lIon uicu, WIZ
do nothing but safe burglary. There are
the store burglars, who devote their entire
attention to silks, kid gloves and laces.
, There are the house robbers, who begin in
the fall AMI work through the winter. They
| are also known as second-story men, or
climbers They spent their summers rob-
bing hotels. Then there are the higher
, class the counterfeiters and forgers. Some
; of them make plenty of money, but it goes
as fast as it comes, and none Of them dies
/ rich. There is one exception that comes to
my mind as 1 speak, Max Shiubourn. He
} WAS the best safe burglar that ever operated,
: and he made some tremendous hauls. he
4 went into the safes OF the Lehigh Coal and
f Navigation Company in Whitehsven, Pa,
( three times; twice AS preliminary steps, just
! looking over the g ound, you know. Inc
7 last time he found $4,000, and then he took
, Int. He robbed the Westmoreland Bank, in
Q MARYLAND, and he broke the Ocs an Bank In
] this city. He and George Miles educated the
4 best class of bank burglars. Shinbourn took
$500, 600 out of this country, and to-day is
j. said to be successful business man in Bel
s gium, employing 500 men,"
]. "Do detectives marry2'
: "Sometimes. But man with family can
Q not In the nature of the case be rs good de-
o tective,as daring,as ready to go anywhere al
- q moments notice,as an unmarried man