Los Angeles daily herald., 1889-08-18

OF course, If we have to uncover a man
and put him on the witnees-stand, then
We have to send him away somewhere
and take care OF him afterwsrd-tbat is
only fair. If we didn't we would find
it hard ever to get any man to go into
the box. Even that is not much. A
couple of hundred pounds is ample"
GLOW about those big amounts that
are said to be paid out?'
81 never knew of anything Of the kind
in Ireland. II there are any big pay
ments they have gone to America or
Russia. believe man could keep his
finger on the pulse of Irish conspiracy
here in Dublin and not spend $4,000 in
his natural life Of course State secrets
and military information cost heavily
and from what have heard about your
American informers, they come higher
than ours here in Ireland"
This difference in the price Of informa-
tion between the old country and America
is corroborated by Mr.. Robert Pinker.
ton, who, in chatting with reporter on
the subject, said: "It is all nonsense
talking about the large sums which are
said to have been paid out by Scotland
Yard. Some eight or nine years ago
was over there on business,
| anu uau W kct stdiom0uJ
from crooked source. 1 ex-
what 1 wanted-that is what it would
if that world be about right. He stared
at me in horror and threw up his hands,
saying: My God, man! You'll spoil
every thief in England-e10 is more
than enough-it will be liberal.' OF
course they can't buy what they want in
this country for such figures, but they do
not pay much over there"
The pay of the Scotland Yard men
proper averages 923, or about $115 q
month"; large salary for London,
where five shillings day is considered
fair wages and expert clerks are glad to
make G1O q month. Beside the salary
there is always liberal travelling allow
ance, and all expenses in that line are
paid without question. Vouchers are
seldom asked for, nor even itemized &C.
counts. Sometimes these expense bills
are heavy, especially when there are
ocean voyages to be made. The ordi-
nary travelling expenditure is about 92 a
day.
AS the secret service is largely politi-
cal, one function of Scotland Yard is the
foreign correspondence, which is carried
on invariably in the language of the
country to or from which the letters are
directed. As Englsnd's relations cover
the world, this part Of the work ia ex-
ceedingly interesting. Polyglot trans
lators who know every tongue under the
sun, are constantly at work turn
ing Russian, Hindustani, Persian and
China into police English, and
pisa versa. There are also employed
expert cryptologists who are supposed to
be able to unravel the blindest of ciphers !;
and it is fact that the aid of the Eng
lish expert has been more than once
called in by both Russia and Germany in
this work. The cipher used by Scotland
Yard itself is the old movable key word,
the key generally being the name of the
place to which the message is sent.
In 1883 mailbag belonging to the
British Embassy was captured and
number of cipher messages taken, some
of which were afterward printed in LIE
Figaro in Paris and copied into Irish and
English papers. One of these cryptic
grams-to show the system-was as iol-
lows:
Aaf-a-bmtp esghc- boa - ilaon-
| isadma-whsoop- bwpe-stiwd
ye-hinpfael-p- p-baed-pnhaet
krat-7500-msiln?
1t is altogether probable that the
words in this steganograph have been
divided wrongly, and those who have
put in some time upon the unriddling of
the letter believe that the letter "a" is
non-signifcant, which has been put in
only for the purpose of confusing the i'm
proper inquirer.
The common police cipher used be-
tween the central Office and the lower
grade of officers, constables and the like
in England and Ireland is simplicity
itself. 1t consists 10 simple transpo-
sition of letters, for instance, Ssh" for
"k" and SIX" for "h," and 30 through
the alphabet. This code is changed the
first of each month, and new key sent
out from the central offices in London
and Dublin. Almost as soon as 1t is
issued it falls into the hands of
the National League people, who also
have their decipherers, and for any Sc.
curity the cipher gives after the third or
fourth of the month police messages
might as we'll be written in ordinary
| English.
In cabling code cipher is used which,
of course, defies inspection. A specimen
of this steganograph received in New
York last winter runs thus:
Able -desert-ocean-Chica
observation-disclosures Pretense.
Ali that is known about this dispatch
is that it certainly came from Scotland
Yark to an English detective in New York !;
and that it preceded by few weeks LIE
Caron's departure for London.
Most of the English detective work in
America is done through the Pinkertons !;
but there are always three or four Scot
land Yard men in the country watching
the dynamite societies and looking after
their Irish friends in different parts of
the country. These men are chosen
with great care, and have privileges and
pay beyond their fellows. One of them
who was stationed in New York last
year is said to have been paid
So, 900 a year and expenses. How
thoroughly the preventive work in
America has been done is proven by the
fact that not one dynamite outrage was
planned or executed without informa.
| tion more or less full being cabled be-
forehand to Scotland Yard. In
some cases shadows have accom-
panied the dynamitsrds from the
quay in New York to the Jail
door in England, as was the case with
DR.. Gallagher. Through the same
agency explosives and Internal machines
have been found in spite of the most in
genious concealmeut, and, indeed, 30
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