The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-20
MEN WHO NEVER sLEs p.
Thrilling Incidents In the Life Of an
American Detective.

citations by 8 reporter consented 10
talk about the business.
There Is all the difference In the
world" he said, 'between the metho Is
used by the secret service agents of dill.
ferent countries. People who read
French novels have an idea that the
DISCUSSES spoken OF in them as being
woin by the Lecogs of the different
stories ARE something utterly untrue
Strange as it may seem, however, it is
true.
"a French detective who can not so
disguise himself that his superior can
not recognize him could not find en-
ployment in any detective bureau. The
DISCUSSES are wonderful, too, and even
/ the strong light Of day shows no I'M
perfection in them.
There are two sorts of detectives in
! Fra ce-State detectives and the mu-
niclpal or city force. Among the for
mer no one knows who his fellow de-
tectives are, and as they never work in
pairs, the necessity for knowing each
ether is not so great. The workings OF
the French bureau is very thorough
and more like the American method
t. an the English.
.sThe latter never think of Disgusting |
themselves, and go to work openly. Ii
a bank is robbed in France a new as !
sistant teller or clerk appears in the
bank a day or SO afterward. He is u
detective, of course, and where in
England the detective would be called
in in front Of all the employees and ask
them all name Of questions, the
French would say nothing, and moth
ing more would probably be heard of
the robbery until the thief was caught.
1.-THE English have a great system of
stoo!-pigeons. Among the vicious of
all classes, male and female, are always
those to be found who, for the sake of
being protected In a certain way, carry
all Il e news OF the crooked WORK done
among the swell mobsmen, as high
class thieves are called, t. Scotland
Yard, where Is situated the Criminal
Investigation Bureau. If Harry, the
SWELL is flashing a great deal of money
about the fact is at once reported to
the police, and il any large forgery or
robbery rs recently occurred, Harry
the SWELL is liable to prove an aliDi.
Inside the great portico of Scotland
Yard is large case containing the pho
tographs of all the dt tectives employed
by the bureau, and the crooks or thieves
can have free access at any time to
study the faces of thosa who are liable
to be after them at some future time.
This ~stool-plgeon system Is not used
much in America. as the police do not
put much faith in it.
''In France CT England, II the en-
ploye Of a big banking house is suspec-
led Of irregularities his habits are
watched and the facts are a~scertained,
while IN America a man will b. set on
the track Of the supposed thief, make
his acquaintance III ~lngratiate him.
self into the suspected mans conf
dence. He will spend as much or more
money than the suspect. and will go
into any dissipation with him. In the
event Of irregularities in any large con-
Germ, the American detective becomes
an employe of the Experimentation
as q porter or a director of a bank.
Tie clew and the working up Of it is
made much more of by an American
than by any one else. He will jump at
conclusions from a faint something,
and frequently hit the mark; where the
stolid Britisher would be stumbling in
the dark.
ITO he a good detective a nan must
be possessed of courage, brains and
GOODNESS. There is no mystery. how
ever i~mpenetrable it may appear, but
what can be solved IL the right methods
are emp'oyed. There was a case l re-
member in Chicago.
IA well. known business man was
found murdered in his Office. The
crime had evidently been committed
the night before, for the body had been
cold a long time, and the mans family
had waited for him to come to his home
the evening previous. His yaluables
had been taken, the safe had been rified, |
and beyond the ghastly bullet hole in
the mans head, there was nothing to
indicate with what the crime had been
committed. No pistol was found.
4 was put on the case and reasoned
that as the robbery was evidently COM
mitted for gain the murderer must 30
IN poor circumstances. l visited all
the pawn shops in the city. and found
that five revolvers had been pawned
between six O'Clock the previous even
ing and the morning. There were 40 |
caliber, the size evidently used to kill
the man. Two OF the men were we'll
dressed and the other wasn't. The lat.
ter wa described to me, and l took the
pawnbroker down to the different rail-
way depots where trains were leaving.
We went through three trans. and
finally located the man in a smoking
car. / arrested him. and much of the
dead mans property was found in his
possession. It's not much Of a story
if the man hadn't pawned the pistol he
would certainly have gotten oil, but 1t
shows how much little things amount to-
aud will give you an idea Of how a
detective will 60 to work,
"The life of a detective is startling
enough, but it gets tiresome and mono
tonous, and l expect soon to retire. l
remember n case that happened in
New York. A swell reception was
given by one Of the leaders OF society. |
One of the guests had laid q valuable
solitaire in the ladies' dressing-ro0m on
the wash-stand, and forgetting 1t, had
left it. On her return to find IL, 1t had,
of course, disappeared. Nobody knew
where 1t was. The trunks of all the
servants were searched, but nc trace
could LIE found Of the jewel, which
was worth $4,000. I finally found 1t
where it had been pawned for $500 in a
pawnsllop by a French woman l took
the visiting list Of the hostess, and
finally, after a weeks search, found
that one of the guests. a rich woman,
had a French maid, ard that she had
gone to Europe shortly after the recep-
l on.
II had to wait for her return, made
the acquaintance Of the maid and took
! er to The pawnbroker's, where he iden-
tilted her. She confessed and her mis-
tress redeemed the diamond and paid
all the expenses. L never told on her.
you see also that pawnbrokers are
important factors in u business, and
that they are frequently of service in
detecting crime. Still, pawnbrokers
encourage robbers, for il there were no
shops the temptation to steal would not !,
be SO great.
"It's a singular business in every