St. Paul daily globe., 1891-04-26
TYPES OF CHARACTER
AS Revealed by a Casual
Glance Into the Municipal
Court.
Pen Pictures Of Our Local De-
tectives, Koran, Daily and
Kenaley.
A Little Gossip About Other
Well Known Police Court
Sojourners.
Well Known Figures Whose
characteristics Are Fa-
miliap to All.

There is no better place to study
human kind than in the court room, for
within the temple of justice congregates,
at one time or another, men, and women
too, of every shade and grade of char
acter. Go dcwn to the municipal court
any morning, save Sunday, about 9
O'Clock, and casually survey the motley
crowd that gathers there. Over in
one corner of the room sit the detect
ives, sleek-looking body of men, not
dressed in snowy uniforms with brass
buttons, but in common, everyday
civilian clothing. The young man with
the smooth face, coal-black hair, and
dark, piercing, shifting eyes, is Tom
Horan,a a name we'll known to the crooks
of the town. who dread it as much as
rat does a terrier. Tom is a new hand
at the business, having been ap pointed
something less than two years ago.
but anybody who sizes him
up for a novice in the line
of a sleuth-hound reckons without
his host, for no detective on the force
has better record than he. For q num-
Der of years he was employed by the
Omaha road, and it was whilst so en-
gagged that CHIEF Clark got his eye on
him, and, seeing in him the making of
a good detective, recommended him to
the mayor. Since then his career has
been one uninterrupted line of sue
cesses. His 'best hold" to use a slang
phrase, is in dealing with the younger
element of lawbreakers. and it is rarely
that these youths remain at large any
length of time after they have com
mitted crime.
The thick-set man, with the full-bloom
complexion and general innocence Of
express ion. IS Mike DAILY. He is con-
sidered to be the best detective on the
force, and his captures during the years
that he has served the city of st. Paul
are among the most notable in local pO-
lice annals. His general appearance,
which is more like farmers boy than
that of lynx-eyed Hawkshaw, is much
in his favor, for not even the most
suspicious of crooks, who did not know
him already, would ever suspect the
nature of his business. 1t Is this fact,
no doubt, that has made him so highly
successful. He is an all-around man,
and the task of running down a muir
derer is as cOngenial to him as that
of ferretting out pickpocket.
The low-sized man with the decided
characteristic of blue lip is Tom
Kenaley, an old and tried official. Tom
knows no such thing as fear, and he can
look down the muzZle Of Smith &
Wesson in the hands of a desperate
worker without showing the faintest
sign of trepidation. He joined the po-
lice force away back in the sixties, and
his commission dates about the same
time as that of Chief Clark and Jim"
Nugent. AS policeman he won his
spurs, and Old-timers will we'll remem-
Der Kenaley, as he did duty at the old
court house, keeping order among the
He had tough set to deal
with, for in these days blue coat did
not inspire the dread it does now. 1t
was no infrequent occurrence for po-
liceman to be jumped on by set of
toughS, who, after removing his star,
taking his club, and wiping the earth
with him, quietly dispersed through a
convenient alley, and remained at large
to repeat the performance whenever oc-
cason offered, 1t was in putting the
Quietus on such characters that Kenaley
gained a reputation OF being fearless
and efficient officer. After more than a
score of years service as policeman,
he was called to higher and more re-
sponsible post of duty. That he has
acquitted himself creditably, the police
records will amply testify. He possesses
the remarkable faculty of never forget
ting face after once having seen it,
and the crook who "bobs up serenely''
after a lapse of years feeling secure
from detection, should see to it that
Kenaley is ''out of sight"
The long, lean. lank police officer with
the diminutive head and massive feet is
the celebrated Joe Davis, who has a
penchant for making deScents in the
dead hour of the night on class of fe-
males popularly known as ''chippieS."
Joe looks like an attenuated interroga-
ton point, but anybody who questions
his courage don't know the man, that's
all. He has been threatened and shot
at time and again by offensive law
breakers, but he seems to have a
charmed life, for he has escaped so far
without a scratch. There are many who
regard DaYiS'S action in arreSting fallen
women as an effort to gain for himself
cheap notoriety by harassing and annoy
ing a set of miserable sinners who are
more deserving of pity than censure.
But this argument is raised principally
by disgruntled individuals who have at
one time or another fallen into Joe's
clutches, and should count for naught.
The tall. portly gentleman, with the
aldermanic paunch and the acOrn-shaped
Uranium, who pleads the cause of mu-
nicipal court prisoners so loudly and so
eloquently, is James J. McCafferty, an
attorney at law who has achieved con-
siderable success as a criminal pIeader.
MACS" practice is not confined to this
court by any means. but it is in this
branch of the law that he appears to be
best verSed. He is hard worker and
labors as assiduously to bring about the
liberty of a plain drunk as he would to
liberate felOn. His 'long suit" is the
severity of his crosS-eXamination which
is of the most rigid, searching charac-
ter, and the witness who can stand I'D
under his raking fire is deserving of
congratulation. He is rather disagree
able to try case against because of his
nagging and repartee, and this may be
called his weakness. On the whole,
however, Mac is a good fellow, and his
friends, who are many. areSglad TO
see him forging to the front. He is a
ready speaker and a splendid judge of
human character, and these two require
ments stand him well in his criminal
law practice.
That handsome gentleman with black
hair, laughing eyes and girlish features.
who sits, or rather spreads himself on
his chair, and gaZes in the direction of
the bench, is not the owner of the court
house. He is George O'Reilly, who
offlciates instead of the city attorney,
whose dignity will not permit him to