Walker Lake bulletin. (Hawthorne, Nev.) 1883-1926, 1888-12-19

ari accBiro i--counis Tn. iapre. hnoxl-
euga Of any .iud E4ay Al sonle time prove
useful.
"A detective must have good eycsight
and good hearing, and especially such {,
power Of quiet observation as will enable
fm to make Il mental note Of every thing
t.st goes on around him without seeming
10 do SO. he must always bear i'll mint
itat appearances arc often deceptive. An
innocent man wrongly accused will almost
always appear like aguilty one, while hard
ened criminal, under the most terminating
circumstances, will reaaiiy assume the be;.i'-
ing oi injured innocence ..s,s5t
: '.tean recall some striking illustrations
of this, and OF the utter unreiabiiity OF cir
cuinstauiial evidence. One occurred re.
Gently in England. A farmer was tried at
anc Yorkshire assizes for the murder OF u
pedd.er. The only evidence against him
was purely circumstantial, and consisted of
his having been the last person with whom
the pe,daler had been seen alive, and in the
fact that at the time of his arrest he was
wearing a wig which was identified as hay
ing belonged to the murdered man. The
accused accounted for the possession Of the
wig by saying that he had found it lying in
the road on returning past the spot where
he had parted from the ped.lcr. His state
mept was MT believed The jury found
him guilty OF murder in the first degree,
auG the judge was abcut TO pronounce SEN
tence Of .death. when one of the spectators
arose and, declaring the innocence Of the
farmer, proclaimed himself the real mur
dcrer. He fully corroborated tine farmer 8
statement about the wig, saying that in the
mortal struggle with the peddlcr, whom he
had attacked within few moments after
tho farmer had left him, the wig had fallen
from his victims head, but that in his haste
% rob the uead man and conceal mis- body in
the ncdge he had entirely overlooked the
circumstance. The real murderer was sub
seGuently langed for his crime.
II was one night privately summoned to a
fashionable club in New York. where u re-
pr, cl y wealthy swell was beieved TO be
chc ~ at poker.
"-ae.. yh he Indignantly denied the accu.
sntion of having cards conceaed about his
person. nc absolutely refused TO permit hlm-
self 70 be searched or to dlsplay tho lon-
tents Of his pockets. When we came to
search hlm by force we found no cards, but
several nam sandwiches III his clothes.
Losses in Wall street and at the gaming ta-
bic had SO reduced him in circumstances
t,aaL he had been Obliged to give up tallin &
his slcais regularly at n restaurant or board
ing nouse ana TO buy cneap food winch he
carried III his pockets ana 0evoured surrep-
utlously wncn opportunity offered. pre-
fcrring to deny himself IN this way rather
than 10 sacrilco his passion for ine dress
and play.
"a prominent English detective who re-
cently visited this country to work up y
case in the interest of tho Bank of Eng giand
told me he was called to the South Ken
sington Museum in London d few years ago
to arrest u gentleman on suspicion OF hav-
ing stolen a very valuable old Roman CON,
believed to be tho only one of its kind eK-
tant Upon presenting an Official order he
had been permitted to take tho coin from
the case to which he had seemingly re-
turned 1t after examining for some time.
But when tho attendant was about TO lock
the case tho coin was missing. The gem
tleman Indignantly denied having it, and
refused to DO searched. The detective
have mentioned, by atorcible search, found
the coin upon MIN and was about to take
him 70 prison, when, as the attendant was
about to replace the coin in the case, he
discovered The one belonging to the muse
uIn just where it mad s-lppod out of sight
when tho gentleman restored 1t. 1t seems
that there was Snoi her of tho coins, and that
the gcn,.cnlan had purchased 1t and had
peen anxious to compare 1t with the one in
tho museum to establish its genuineness.
Thus you see how black circumstances may
pear against the most Juno
O. n.
g., ct, nav Of a private detective"
Sd .sr.,i FTeg 1ha usual charge OF
lar .i.a.-s IS - pes day, of which
-. i.iLiso.1 caii3 about one-haif.
Mn- .te' "a ll.ss9 experience on the
= &C g3. - in connection with some
onct sSG ,atmse Gs5 UP as private dc.
.vctiu.a. ara then I1sy charge whatever
III ,lls they cen get. l have known
+a : patrons to pay them tho absurd rate
OF $50 per day'