The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1890-09-02
A MISSIVE TO THE MAYOR.
A st. Joseph Detective Agency
Wants TO Rid Sedalia
of Thieves.
What the Manager Has to Say
i'm a Letter to Our Hon
Orable Mayor.

The FLOWING was published in the
81. Joe Ballet recently AID it has put
an army Of detectives, that are camp
ing in ct Joe, under marching or-
ders:
"Sedalia, Mo-, August 25.-Mike
Daley, a section laborer, was robbed
OF over 81, 800 in g,eebbacks while
asleep in the rear of ON East Sedslia
saloon to day, and there is no clue to
the thi.f. Less than a month ago
friend took 81 500 from Da'ey while
he was drunk and the money was de-
po:it-d in hank for safe keeping. As
soon as he sobered up Daley Wi hdrew
the cash and had carried it on his
person since, which fact was known
to many toughs who laid fer him.
''Seoalia is fairly cverun with
thieves, but none of them are ever
apl rehended. There have been more
than a dozen burg aries in he past
week and not a single arrest"
The following letter explains itself,
as far as it goes:
E. w. Stevens, Mayor, Sedalia, Mo.
DEAR SIR.-We ipclose clipping
from one of our morning papers and
respectfully inquire i We can he of
any assistance to you, By furnishing
good man, of course stranger In your
city, who will cooperate with, and as
sist your Chief of police in ferreting
out these matters. We do not mean
by this to reflect upon your police, or
that they are not doing their duty.
But from an experience of twenty
five years 10 such matters We know
that stranger, who has the ability
to ADAPT himself to the circumstances
ar, uaG him, can materially assist the
officers, by apparently becoming a
Gro K himself thereby getting Ill
with them, and btirg able to point
out VIII } the guilty parties are. Cooks
soon find out who the local detec ives
are. Hence a stranger operates with
more success, and 1T is In this sen e
that we write you regarding The mat
ter, and trust that cur letter will be
read in The spirit in which
it is written. We have me good
men, whose testimony can not be im-
peached, and should you desire,
would be pleased to cooperate with
you, for the purpose heretofore spoken
of. Respectfully refer you (by per-
mission) 10 our mayor, "a to OR re-
sponsibiliiy, &C.. &c. Awaiting your
reply, remain fraternally,
Z. T. LOCKE.
Mr. Locke, Sedalia, has enough
real crooks without importing s,ran-
ger TO become an apparent crook"
VINO viii come and stand on the street
corner with a SLOUGH hst pulled over
his eyes and a cigar in his mouth with
the fire end elevated at about forty
five degrees.
Now, as to "getting in" with the
crooks, that is very valuable sug.
gestion from your agency. No, thank
you, we have ''gOt in" already deeper
than we care to, but we want TO get
our, and any valuable suggestion that
YOU en- make to that end will be
thankfully received by the police of
Soda ia and by Major b, ok, who fired
three times at a burglar the other
night, missing him the first time aud
hitti. g him the other two times where
he missed him the first time.
Furnish us a good mn" is capt.
tai idea. We never thought of that
before. Sedalia has lots of good men
and they are al hunting the thieves.
1t is truism that you must ''set a
thief to catch a thief" and that is the
reason that we can't capture any of
craftsmen, because our police and
"good men" of Sedalia are not thieves.
They are honest men.
Again, getting good man" from
your detective force would be bold
piece of business, thus depriving st.
Joseph of the safety that the services
of "good man" would give that city.
Now, if your "good man" could
"point out the guilty parties" we
would give him 81. 90 per week and he
find himself. This offer is made by
the BAzoo, without the consent of the
mayor aud hoard Of aldermen, but we
make it in the interest of getting our
census returns augmented by the
importation Of one good man" from
all the "good men" oc st. Joseph.
They cannot be impeached is a
very valuable suggestion. There is
not any one In Missouri who believes
that St. Joseph has an able bodied
liar. We have two or three in Soda,
liza and they are "whistling for the
dogs," preparing to move on, but st.
Joseph's reputation for liars is very
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