The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1892-09-26

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| Quoted the girl, had taken her to Chicago
and secured accommodations for her IN a
disorderly establishment, doubtless for the
purpose Of secrecy.
FINDING THE GIRL
II secured photograph of the man, had
| a small tintype made from it and framed
the latter in a locket set with Imitation
pearls. This hung on my watch chain
and then / started for Chicago. Unfortun-
ately the girl had given no address on any
| OF her letters, and so my only course was to
search for her in all the dis0rdsrly houses
Of the windy city. Upon arriving 1 secured
a complete list Of them and proceeded to
visit them in turn. at each one l asked to
| see the mistress Of the establishment aud
requested to know whether Mr.. Blank
mentioning the manufacturers name-was
in. was an intimate friend of his and had
| an engagement to meet him there. Getting
a negative reply from the women, would
say that perhaps she knew him by another
! name, showing her az the same time the
| picture in my locket. No., was the reply
| IN each instance; she did not know
the geutleman'-until the ninety fifth
| hou was visited, when the land
lady at once recognized the portrait. He
| was not in the city, she explained. I re-
| quested to know If his lady friend was in ,
and was told to walk right upstairs, where
1 would find her. The girl was the one
| sought, and she accompanied me back to
New York that afternoon. 1t was always
supposed by her friends that she had merely
been away on visit. and she has been mar
| rled well since. Her abduotcr was never
punished, for fear Of scandal aud he still
bears as highly respectable a reputation as
| ever.
ANONYMOUS LETTERS.
| "Most decent people declare that anopvs
nous letters are unworthy of attention,
very commonly they destroy them and pay
| no regard TO shem, knowing that they are
most likely to be inspired by motives of
cowardlY males. Nevertheless my expe-
rience has shown that 30 per cent. of all
such missiveS contain statements which are
| true III the main. Persons who get them
| often employ detectives to ferret out the
writer's. The first step in this kind
! OF work Is to get as complete as
possible a list of the friends aud
known enemies of the endividual
addressed. Next, the guessing faculty must
be put In play to discover who could have q
| motive for writing the communications. 1t
is prime axiom in the detective business
| that the motive should DO looked for at the
beginning; once found, it is most likely to
| point finger in the right direction. Anony-
nous letters may be divided roughly into
several classes, namely, maliciously annoy
| ing, threatening, slandering others, appris-
ing secretly of danger, advising merchants
chat they are being robbed and by whom
and warning husbands about their wives, or
vice versa.
MOTIVE AS POINTER.
ITO illustrate the value Of motive as
| pointer l will tell you a little story. A
merchant came to me and complained that
| he had been greatly annoyed by anonymous
letters connecting his name in the most Of
fensive manner imaginable with that Of an
esteemed young lady Of his acquaintance
| He had showed the mildest one of them TO
her and she had,been exceedingly mortified.
| He could lot think Of single enemy that he
had. My questions ELECTED the fact that he
| was q bachelor and well to do, whereas
she was not well off and over 3O-an age at
| which many women are anxious to be mar
ried. ventured to ask: DO you not tbl nix
it possible that this lady has written these
| communications herselfp Ny client felt in
suited and told me pretty plainly that he
did not think l understood my business
| An right l replied, that may DO So He
| had no more facts to give, except that the
letters were never written twice on the same
paper, scraps and half sheets being utilized.
LIVE ADDRESSES.
| "In the detective business we are aided to
a great extent by chance and intuition.
| Accident often reveals what all our ingenu-
| ity might not have discovered In this
/ SetoC a ACAb AIsbAHCtAFciJ buh6 udh uDOu
the correct solutlon-namely. that woman
herself had written the letters. She was
! employed in an establishments which dealt
| in what are known commercially as
| live addresses.' A man who desires
to push speciality OF any kidd goes to
such firm and says that he wants ,0Oc
| names in Ohio, 1000 names in Pennsvl-
vania, and 80 on. He pays SO much per
| thousand for envelopes addressed to these
names, in which hs circulars are inclosed
| and sent broadcast. Now, the names must
all of them be those Of live people, who
may buy what the circulars offer for SALE
| The way in which they are got is very Curl
Gus. Adver tisements are widely published
in newspapers Offering some valuable ar
tice, such as new patent washtub
worth S25 to any one who will
write TO the firm and agree to act as its
| agents. or course people by thousands re-
spond, each one hoping to obtain washtub
for nothing. They never get anything in
| return, but the advertisers secure what
they waut-namely, thousands and thou
sands of names and addresses. These are
termed live addresses, and, as has been
said, they are worth money.
| Now it was by such firm that the
| young woman l suspected was employed.
This fact would satisfactorily account for
the scraps and half sheets of paper no two
OF which were alike / watched her caugh bit
| neT IN Une ACT OF pOSGlnR OEuer anonymous
letters to the merchant and obtained con-
fessiou. She owned that she had written
them for the purpose OF inducing him TO
marry her.
LETTERS TO PROSPECTIVE FATHER-IN-LAw.
THAT story reminds me Of another. Two
years ago young man in this city was ca
gagged to a charming girl. Her father re-
ceived a number of anonymous letters
stating that his expected son-in-law was a
roue, a drunkard and a gambler. He
brought some of the missives TO me. They
were all In the handwriting Of woman
and had been mailed in the came postoffice
district, as the postmarks showed. | got a
map of New Y ork aud drew a line with blue
pencil on it, making the boundaries of that
district. Then l went tosee the young man
who was accused, and l said to him: 4 am
going to ask you some questions, but you
mus not ask me any, What do you mean ?
he asked. "Just what l say replied,
adding: I anu your friend, and you will
do yourself an important service by
acquiescing. Now, tell me whether any
lady of your acquaintance lives within the
boundaries have marked on this nlap.n
FINDING THE WRITER.