The Worthington advance., 1881-08-25

rewarded by setting out In loose soil 'than
by the saucer and sand process; but We do
not wish to say that il IL to bs preferred.
MODERN DETECTIVE WORK. IS. Is.
AProfsssion with Little Romance or lGys-
49, s~lf al Iert About 1t. T.: -: -
G. II. Pinkerton in New York But .,,s -
To begin with, I'll say that detectives are
divided into three general classes: shad-
ows, Investigators, and ropers. When a
man begins the business he il put at shad-
owing. It is AN excellent way to try him
and see what stuff there is in him. II he
will watch q house night after night, in all
sorts Of weather. or man day after day,
without exciting suspicion. it is pretty safe
to employ hin, regularly. A good shadow
is an important part Of a detective force. In
a great many cases of crime there is no
clew to the criminal, but only suspicion.
The shadow is told to watch such 3 man
and see what he does, what sort of company
he keeps, where he resorts; or he is told to
watch u hOlse, see who goes in and ont,
what the character Of the inmates is, what
hours they keep. Now in order to do this,
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verance. He must not only not excite the
suspicious of tine suspected parties, but he
must not excite the suspicious Of the
police. It is very awkward for detect
i've to have to give an account of himself to
policeman. While the policeman may be
the most bonest and faithful in the world,
| it endangers the case if he knows detect
| i've is around, and mentions it casually to a
brother policeman. You can see that to do
his work we'll a shadow must be a man
whose appearance will not provoke com.
ment or attract attention. You'd not make
| good shadow. You're too tall. A very
| short man won't do. In fact, a thoroughly
commonplace looking man is the very best.
He should be young and active. We have
had Office boys who developed considerable
talent for that sort of work. Sometimes
boy can be used where man can not He
can hang around q house, make the ac-
quaintance OF other boys in the neighbor-
hood, and the criminal, who may be watch
! ing from inside the house for a chance to
steal ont unobserved. may think the coast
clear when he sees that there is no one
around except two or three boys playing
marbles on the sidewalk. We had a case Of
this kind in Baltimore at the time of the
robbery of the Third National bank there.
We wanted to watch q house in Perry street,
| and We couldn't do it with any of our
regular shadows. So we put q boy there
He was playing marbles when the man
came out. and then gave the signal that re-
suited in bis capture. But boys, as a rule,
are not safe. They are likely to become
too important in their own estimation, and
they may talk. Some great criminals have
been captured by means of shadows. The
Northampton bank robbers were shadowcd
| months before Scott and Dunlap were ar
| rested. Billy Corners was shadowed two
months. and Red Leary, before his last
arrest, wac shadowed nine weeks by three
different detectives.
The investigator, continued Mr.. Pink
erton, "is the man who. after crime is
| committed, makes a preliminary investiga-
tion. He usually works with the local Of
! ticers. He seldom pretends to work in
| secret. He looks the ground over, mingles
with civilians, talks with every one, and
| forms his conclusions. He must be q man
| of greater intelligence than is necessary to
make good shadow. He reports the re-
suits of his Investigations, and on his
| report is decided the course to be pursued.
Perhaps one result Of his report will be
that shadow is put on certain man, and
an effort is made in that way to reach the
truth in the matter. Tho preliminary in
vestigator, in short, opens the way for pri-
vate investigation.
The roper must, to speak plainly, rope
men in. He comes nearest to the dime
novel detective of any other in the list,
but he is q great way off from that romantic
person, social, Of good address, able to
fnme excuses for anything he may do or say,
and able to turn the conversation in any
way he pleases. He must have travelled,
| must have good knowledge of men, must
be an easy talker, but better listener.
"1s detectives life particularly danger
ous?"
Not in the east. No more so than yours.
When man has the law on his side and
attempts to arrest criminal, there is not
much danger. Criminals ars very often
towards, especially our eastern thieves and
burglars. Occasionally a young reckless
thief will attempt to shoot, but such men
are OF the lower order of criminals. Bur-
glars, counterfeitors, forgsrs. and the like
| take chances of being arrested as one of
the chances of their business. If you
have the law on your side and 20 at them
in in a proper manner, you'!l win every time.
1fa detective ie foolish enoug,
to 90 single handed into a
thieves resort he's bound to have
trouble, no matter who the criminal is.
But in the west and south q detective takes
his life in his hand. The detectives who
are sent into Arkansas, Texas, Missouri,
Western Tennessee, Mississippi, Alabama,
the Indian Territory, and into the great
south and west generally, run tremendous
risk. We lost five men in Missouri in
eight months in looking up the James and
Younger brothers. Our men were working
Tor the Adams Express company at the
time. The men who go ont after such
criminals earn their money every time,
can assure you"
That suggests the question Of pay"
well, the pay runs all the way from $15
and $40 week to $500 year. The man
that goes on dangerous mission doesn't
does not get them. He works for SO much
and does what he is ordered to do. But at
the same time man is not asked to do q
dangerous piece Of work against his will.
Ii he hesitates he need not 70. To sue
ceed. man must go willingly. OF course
the TACT that man succeeds in dangerous
piece OF work is often the means of an in
crease in his salary. Why, it's like any
other business, exactly. Each man has his
value. It 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 man
we'll, it's often dangerous for that man, in
nocent or guilty. The work should be done
for SO much, whatever the result"
What is the average life Of detective?"
We'll, don't know as to that. I 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
institutions" III
Are female detectives much employed
or depended upon9" '-.'.,t:
1t 10 difficult to get respectable woman
to do detective work. There are lots of
them that claim to be detectives, but they.
must be employed with caution.
They are occasionally useful to
work mp case against woman. In such
cases we usually employ female relative
OF some OF one our men-a woman who
knows what detective work is, and Who is
respectable. But We have to be very careful
always in employing women. :; >. @*s, . #
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