The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-07
MOTHS AND THE BROADWAY LAMP.
Why Detectives Hunt for Criminals in
the City's Great Thoroughfare.

81 am waiting for bunco sharp who
ought to have got into town yesterday or
the day before from New Orleans" said a
detective from police headquarters, who
| stood in a doorway on Broadway, near
| Twenty-sixth street. "He has been out of
town for nearly two years, but he had to
| skip New Orleans on account of a heavy
job he put up on farmer down there.
We've got to get him and send him back.
| / never saw him with whiskers, but Pm
| told he wore 'em when be started north.
| You see l missed him at the depot. He
didn't come in on the express Probably
| got off at the last stop and came in on a
| local / think he'll be along here some
| time today.
That's popularity of the crook in this
city. He adores New York to an extent
that leads him into taking all sorts Of
risks, and he simply can't stay away from
this strip of land right along here on Broad
way Now, there are certain dives all
through this locality where crooks are in
the habit of congregatiDg, but when one of
them is wanted he will avoid these places,
knowing that they are the first spots ex-
amined by the police. They are like
ostTiches, however, that stick their heads
into the sand about Broadway and come
out here liz the boldest way, thinking them
selves lost in the crowd.
81 was On burglary case few months
ago, and was looking for man who was
good for fifteen years when once got the
iron on him. Well, did the down town
and up town resorts for weeks, and never
set eyes on the chap. l went into dens
where anywhere from ten to twenty Jail
birds would be, but my man never showed
his nose.
'Twas beginning to get tired, when one
day thought would walk up Broadway.
/ was going by the St. James hotel when l
saw quiet looking, well dressed man with
gray mustache and beard standing ON the
steps, His high bridged nose and small
eyes were familiar. l made as though l
was going to enter the hotel, and got close
enough to look at his right cheek There
was the mark 1 was looking fora long
scar just under the beard where it grew
thin on the cheek.
II took my man without any more ado,
and he said when we were on the way to
headquarters that Broadway had always
got him into trouble. 1t really is the most
fascinating street in the world, you know,
and 1 don't blame the boys for sticking to
it, even if it does play them false. Hello!
There's Mr.. Bunko. I'll have to be ex-
cused. All the way from New Orleans,
and on Broadway ths first day."
The detective stepped from the doorway,
walked up behind a young man with a
sandy beard, and touching him on the
shoulder slipped pair of handouts on
him, and before crowd could gather had
him on horse car bound for police head
quarters.-New York Sun.
The Tusks of an Elephant.
''The tusks of an elephant are the upper
incisors Of the breast. They are not in
tended for chewing. however, but for de-
Tense. You find all through creation the
most astonishing adaptation of the teeth to
necessity. You are familiar, of course,
with the mighty ivory lance of the mar
whal, ten or twelve feet in length and strong
and sharp enough to be driven through the
side of ship. That lance is simply the
left upper incisor of the mammal Once in
a while by freak both of the upper in
cisors will be developed in the narwhal so
that it is equipped with two spears instead
of one. The tooth in this case is designed
for a weapon in fighting. The female has
no lance.
Look at the sawfish. The entire length
of it's saw, which is prolongation of the
nasal process, is fringed with teeth. Again
you have weapon merely, the manner of
the creature being to strike right and left
for the purpose of wounding its prey. In
mammals, however, the teeth are restrict
ed to the jawbones. Lizards and snakes
have them on the bones of the palate as
well. True bony teeth are peculiar to ami
mails which have back bones
The most elaborate dental apparatus
known belongs to the sea urchin, whose
jaws are composed of forty pieces, moved
by forty separate muscles. Snails have
sort Of ribbon with which they rasp their
food as with file. Anteaters. though
they are mammals, have no teeth at all;
but they get there just the same, having
no need to chew their prey. The whale
bone whale is another mammal that has no
teeth, its practice being to swallow its food
in Washington Star.