The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1886-01-15

which depends upon their evidence,
but the victims, as a rule, do not know
this.
Foolish wives get jealous and visit
these sharks. They want to know
where their husbands 90 nights. The
detective gets fifty dollars, and as much
more as he can, in the start. Then the
shadOwing begins, or, rather, is sup
posed to. If the victim responds read
lily to further demands it is kept up as
long as the money is Forthcoming.
When the supplies are cut off the case
is dropped. If with a little trouble it
is discovered that the man is really
visiting other women or improper re-
sorts, the programme is varied. The
standing and character of the husband
are inquired into, and if it is found that
he has money and is not very strong
minded, he receives a visit some fine
day from the detective in his private
Office. As rule the sharper finds an
easy victim, and in consideration of
report as to his habits dictated by him
self being furnished to his wife, from
one hundred dollars to five hundred
dollars is paid the detective by the hus-
band.
''Well, another source of revenue
comes from women under the protec-
ton of well-to-dO or rich men. Women
of this class are, as a rule, supersti-
tiCus. They are fearful q losing their
hold upon the affections and the purse
strings of their protectors, and they go
to fOrtune-tellers. Now, in many cases
the fOrtune-teller is in league with a
private detective. She tells the foolish
woman that another woman is plotting
against her happiness, and advises her
to have him followed, recommending
her to the detective who is in partner
ship with her.
when business is dull this class of
men resort to a new dodge to raise the
wind. They insert advertisements in
the daily papers under the head of
Business Opportunities" offering an
interest in an established Office bust
ness for from five hundred to fifteen
hundred dollars. You would be sur
prised to know how numerous their
victims are. AS soon as they pay their
money to the proprietor of the bureau,
the freezing-Out process begins. 1t is
needless to say that they never see any
of the money that comes in, that their
partnership papers are so drawn as to
be utterly worthless and that in a very
brief time, if the victim is not suff-
GENTLY disguised to get out of his own
free will, he is thrown out on his head.
If he INDUCES in threats he is told to
sue and be-blessed.
''There is another class of private
detectives who do not advertise, but
who have for clients lawyers to whom
they are known. In many instances
they do legitimate work and are very
useful; in others the lawyers are sim
ply partners with them in their black
a linn cchn1,ooC Tor. L.
Judge and prominent LAWYER was
retained for the defense in large will
contest in the Surrogate's Court. The
other side placed a young woman on
the stand whose testimony was very
important. On cross-examination she
testified that she had been married in
Harlem to young clerk living in New
Haven, and as to a lot of her relations
living in and around New York. A
private detective was employed and in
one day he learned that she came from
the West. had no relations in the East
at all and had been married to a gam
bier in a certain house known to the
police on Thirty-first street. It is, per-
haps, needless to say that her testi-
mOny was thrown out and the case
won by that fact.
''There are many men among this
class of workers, too, who are not to
be trusted, fact well known to
shrewd lawyers, who, generally, when
they employ one detective engage a
second one to watch the first.
IAN ex-State Senator, who does a
large law and collective business, was
retained not long ago by firm who
had been selling goods on credit to a
man on the East side. They suspected
that he was shipping the merchandise
to Western cities and selling it at auc-
ton, but could get no proof. The Sen
atOr Immediately sent for a detective
to watch the place and see when and
what goods were sent away and where
they went to. Then he hired a second
detective to watch the first. In two
day time their reports tailed so well
he suspected collision between them.
Then he Swallowed the pair of them
himself, and found them both drinking
and smoking in the back of the thief's
store and dividing one hundred dollars
a day between them. They are not
now employed by him, and the store
keeper is doing time in Auburn Prison.
Another class of men are employed
by the large banks down town to
shadow their clerks. 1t is not an in
variable rule, but the majority of banks
have their clerks, however long they
have been in the banks employ,
Swallowed for a week or two twice a
year, and full report of his proceed
ings in writing sent to the President.
They believe that men entrusted with
the handling of other peoples money
will always bear watching, since ex-
travagance and bad habits often come
late in life.
Sometimes a clerk who is found to
be living too high receives a friendly
warning and the watch is continued.
At other times polite request for his
resignation is handed him without ex-
PLANTATION, and he is totally ignorant of
the cause or the means by which his
downfall was accomplished. "
By this time we had finished our
lunch ana started our second cigar, and
the shadows of an early winter twi-
light were creeping in at the windows.
Zone more thing and III finish this
yarn, said the ex-detective. II doubt
if any one outside of professional wire
pulling politicians knows to what an
extent private detectives are used in
politics And they must be expert men,
too, for every effort is used to throw
them off the scent, and once they are
spotted they cease to be useful and
must be replaced. Politicians of i'm
portance are Swallowed by the other
side, and it is astonishing what shrewd
gUesses are made as to their plans sim
ply from a knowledge of the places
they have visited, the people they have
received and the consultations they've
held. Many would-be candidate has
had to withdraw from a contest by
reason of facts about him learned
through shadows, and that is true of
men in high places as well ds low ones.
Many an attempt at fraud in the substi-
TT Is ,on los I'll h.