Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1886-07-04
BbeeIias Register
DETECTIVE WORK.
THE POPULAR IDEA OFT ENTIRELY ERRO-
NE0US.
Nos! COnvics Run to Earth By Processes
Called Pumping and SuRng---Dlf-
ference Between Real Detectives
and the SlsUth Hounds Of
Fiction.

remember Of the Chicago police depart
meut a day or two ago. Il think the ma
;,rity Of the ideas must have been formed
from a careful reading Of a series Of mOdera
detective stories. Now that l am out Of
,b.. bu,iness don mind telling you what
van perhaps already knOw-that the usual
stories of detective work are the veriest
h.sb There is not one officer in 10, 900,
f,r instance. whoever diSguiSes himself for
nm, work he may be bent upon. The sue
,.,,.ul detective is the man who has the
harvest and most accurate knowledge Of a
,,,rfirullr class of criminals. For instance,
m -, rnunterieiting ease there are one or two
I-nit,i states officers who will look at u
hill after a scrutiny will say, Now, let's
-. There are three men in the country
,,h, are capable Of such work n tins. Bad
rs.g Is doing ten-year stretch IN sing
S5,.r Clever Charley Is IN heck ut Joliet
~ Sweet William * the only one who Is
~, I,r.,,-it must be William SO he pro-
....r. IN la,.lte William. and when they get
L.., they have thcman who did the work.
II hive certainly read some very inter
...in, newspaper reports about how Dctec-
,.,,. S.l-9uL-SO. while StrOlllng down State
,tr.r, ,lv "A suspicious looking individual
,,h.m he piptd to remote part OF the
rrry and eventually arrested IN possession
,f o-npcrty supposed To nave been the
,rrndrr from the burglary OF old Money
Lra's house. 10 always seemed To me that
,r,r. must he good deal OF ShrewedncSS
in ,br officer who can spot a mysterious
Leaking party. who 70 any one else looks
n, different from 10000 other young men
,r,.,.u D., seen on the street. How Is
that.
-rkT'S ALL N YOUR EYE"
,,,s fb. r.plv OF the cN-Oiljrcr. Ninety
mine. ont uf 100 c.l~rs are worked through
rr....rs,lI or some Chief or extinct who
Len, pasted ON the doinSS Of others ot his
rla,- Iu the city.
..H.. knows some officer intimately, and
p.t inlruuru,ly Is in the regular employ
,f rb,. rit,. lie gugS Ia this officer whom
h.. Lu.,y, and tells him that the night BE-
E.p. Thrte-Fm-rTrd Jack, who Is well
known tp the officer turned e trick on In
ir,u. avenue with Tommy SO-anl-So, and
rtrt M, stuff Is planted 0t such and
surh a place Acting on this information,
the objects visit the place indicated and
is,f 81. refund and wait till their man shows
up Lot, at ability about that, ism there:
same, p,5plg have an idea, You know, that
eftrr a burglary the detectives visit the
house here /, occurred, and, after cSamin-
tu.s certain lulrSS on the window where
fb.. rrau cot in. Immediately SAY: This IL
,h,. work ui slippery sun; he Is the only
fellow who does this sort OF work IN thus
Particular style. Nothing ot the KIND
IL, lust ~ told you in nnety-rlne eases
uut Of LOSE Ina the other cJSc some citizen
..,,r, thr officers information that leads to
thr capture ot the man.
How about the private detective agen-
,,,-.
No better thln tine others 80 iIras skill
i, concerned. The only real difference IL
that Ih,,r Is a superior intelligence an the
mJIy up ct the agency people. They are
INST tate 40 ShIlowiug q man az the re-
quest oi his employer or wife, but any man
vlrh ugdiuary guu,l S.:,,e, who
Knows HOW Tu KEEP Ills MOUTH SHCE,
will make a good shadow. IL You VIII
watch the private agency men carefully
,uu will lind that they associate EuS'iy
l,tth the high-tonCd criminal cEu>S. They
are solid with uur or two leaders amt all
the gamblers. All thieves uf any pCOml-
urnrr are gImblrsS. and Us soon ~ they
turn "a hig iricS. they axe sure to turn ny
herr. OF an Ssmy other city ami play the
Ltuk' q little. The agency mcu who are Us
>.rgtriu.. with ths gamblers hear oi this u
,nun l, thy crook strikes town, ami little
iIrpiry SIT on foot will show where the
a1oS came liuu. 10, then, IN the course
ct 81. lew day,. complain; is lodged with
turss.u,.y people from the town where the
SUSPECTED llrty has been that "a big conf
d,ur- guus has been played, or that u
forged check ms brrn worked on SOME
hans oil other Institution, 1t is not ~ very
head Q, uutginc that the thief who was 70
entity SD Hush is the one who turned the
trick
And ..s 10 }9uk robhCrigs?'
Well thyy arr a good deal like the
rs,e- of concentrating. II takes skilled
.uf ,.,p.rirucyd mau 20 blow a safe or n
Vault. aud tine prnpootton of safe blowers
toutarr yl,,s,.s o. criminals Il 80 small that
tits uaJ $50 very hard to say whose work q
Particular Job is. In ease OF murder,
where There. were no immediate witnesses,
yuu viii GuI chat The police viii arrest m
Discriminatory rom ~ To- POD tOughs, and
then r.ig cu their ability rs bumpers to get
som, uu,. OF the lot who may know who
t.t
gu~qEEAL gN TIE GUILTY NAN.
u tM, fails. thrn they are nj the end OF
lH..r rrf,. and have To give the case up.
luJ VII and hy looking over the record
gIAt lu every blind ease OF any Importance
tle 6slssaYes sgryly got LETT unless the
paiRrrai ar ems of she 2cccssogleS gives
hharis sSay ~ s1me f00lish move.
81 G,ea on the lOestl detective force
an, a. , elass, those who have kept their
eyes o. a while travelling beaeSal Che sub-
stations and have f6Fmei a wide sesiuaint-
Jar. awrE criminals IN the districs, and
a.r. therefore. abb, 10 obtain irforutstlm
to-. These crooks about the movements OF
tEu-r -U.p ctyd of having been mixed up
ld r.r'..iu criminal work. One man | have
40 Wlga cultivated tough negroes while
iDlr,.s9s o., no. Harrison street district, and
h. Is ahi. tuNuj out anything he wants to
Aas'N down there
y>j' uo'8 comparatively easy matter
To- tnlr away from the police
YES, it Is, When you come TO think Of
tas rIsr s. ita which criminals keep out OF
iur reach nt ihc police in Russia and
:I"ra, wU.gc cyrry Cpu,icr,g', every p0r-
trr every ,hugIycFcr, every hoUSekceper,
i'""h-si q" report To the police al once a
"r.s ..r lrdrisjls about strangers whom
'l"s usy ag,y come I'M contact with, IL
>i"iat Boz Ho wonder that I'm this country
aEa.i cam r.ric ,ha police. Take the ease
o! .a7"1- HrUaS in hiding somewhere,
sai 20 -e,m 60 have been IN impoSSibiity
!" aurt.' hlm. lie might easily be Secreted
}. '", ',,y aud the police have no means
Oi IN ling it ont. 81,
thsnyo have no faith in the sO-called
q. ,','', work g., i' exists in the minds OF
'a' lg'.,i,r. ur tales by old Sleuth, 'GabO-
"1n aua D.. Gos,sobay'="
such work as is described 10y the aver
sS' detective il au jmlGsSiblitv.
The Wicked Cyclone.
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