The Port Gibson reveille., 1893-03-10
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Incidents ln the xAes OF
American Detootiv@s s



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Unis@d @ems@s, mxz@f rsp@aA@d soaAcas@kAoms
by = reporter fox th@ Denv@r gCoL1 Tfm@as
oonssntad 10 talk about tn@ ouaAn@@s.
s'rhsTs - an The differences Ia tbs worid."
be said. ssb@twe@n the methods nssd By Us
secreG serwsoe sRents Of dlHSreut countrsea-
People VITO read Frenoh novals have an id@a
that he disguises spoken og In them - b.
ing worn By the Loooqs cf The dizerena
stories ca somethinR utterly untrue.
Strange 90 Il mag seem, however II Il true.
sA French detective who can not 80 dia.
wulse himself that bis superior can noe
recognize him could not nnd employment
In any detective bureau. The DISCUSSES are
wonderful, TOO, ard even tho stFong ll9nt OF
Aay shows no imporfection In them. q
.Thero are two aorta of detectives Ia
Franco-state Detectives and the municipal
or oity forco. Among the former no one
Knows who his fellow detectives ara, and
as they never work In pairs, tbs necessity
Tor knowing each other : not 80 great Tbe
workings Of the French bureau La VERY
thorough and more like The American
method than she English.
sSThe latter never think Of diaguisina
themselves, and go 20 work openly. III
bank IL robbed In France . new assistant
teller or clerk appears In the bank day or
80 afterward. he Ia q detective, OF course,
and where In England the detective would
be called in m frontof al the employees and
eskthen al manner ofQuostions, the French
would say nothing, and nothing more would
probably be beard Of the robbery untn ths
thief was caught
THE English have q great system Of
stool-plgcons. Among the vicious OF al
classes, male and female, are always those
70 be found VINO, Tor the sake OF being pro
tected In q certain way, carry all the news
Of the crooked work done among the swell
mobsmeu, as high class thieves are called,
70 Scotland Yard, where IL situated the
Criminal Investigation Bureau. III Harry
the Swell, In flashing great deal Of money
about the fact In at once reported 20 the
police, and II any large forgery or robbery
has recently occurred, Harry. the Swell
ia liable 10 prove an alibL Inside the great
portico Of scotiand Yard In q large case
containing the photographs OF all the detect
fvea employed BY the bureau. and the
crooks or thieves can have free access as
any time TO study the faces Of thoae whe
are nable 10 be after them &c some future
time. This stool-pigeon system Ia not use&
nuch In Ame-ica. % the police DO not pus
much faith in IL
sin France or England, II the smploye es
big banKlng house Is suspected OF irrcgu-
larities his habits are watched and the
facts aacer tanned, while In America q man
win be set On the track Of the supposed
thief, make his acquaintanee and ingratiats
himself into the suspected man % conhdance.
He win spend a. much or more money than
the suspect, and win 20 into any dissipation
with aim. In the event Of irregularities In
any large concern, the AmericAn detecssye
becomes an smploye Of The corporssSon--
whether as porter or q director Of bmnk.
TIE clew and the working up Of IL Ii made
much more Of BY an American than By eny
cne slsa he win jump 1t conclusions from
faint something, and frequently his The
mark; where the stolid Bwitishar wouA
Re stumbling In the dark
ITO be q good detective q man must be
possessed Of courage, brains and coolneas.
Thera is no mystery, however lmpenetrAhls
1t mar appear, but what can be solved IL
the right methods are employed There
was q case remember In Chicago
"a well-known business man waa found
murdered one morning In his o1ice. The
crime had evidently been committed ths
night before. for the body had been cold
long time, and the mans family bad waited
for him 10 come 70 bis home the evening
previouA His valuAbles had been taken,
thu safe had been rihed, and beyond the
ghastly bullethole In the mans head, there
wAs nothing 70 indicate with what the crime
had been committed. No pistol waa found.
II was put on the case and reasoned THAI
- the robbery was evidently committed for
gain the murderer must be in poor circum-
stances. visited ail the pawn shops In the
city, and found that ave revolvern had been
pawned between slx O'Clock the previous
evening and the morning. Three were &S
caliber, the size evidently used "a kill tbs
mAn- Two Of the men were weu-drease1
and the other wasn't The latter wHs
described 20 me, and 1 took the
pmwnbroker down 10 the different rail-
way depota where trains were leaving. We
went through three trains, and finally
located the man In . amokingcar. 1 ar
rested him, and mnch Of the dead mans
property was found In bis possession. Irs
not much OF o story-if tho man hadn'k
p@wned the pistol ho would certainly have
GOT on, but II shows how much little things
amount 70, and win give you an idea Of how
mdetective viii 20 10 work
ssThe life OF . detective II startling
enough, but IL gets tiroaome and mouoto-
noua. and expect soon toretire. Iremem-
A~& 9&A@ A@@& kAA@& A&N kEA&4 IA AHGW AUX
A very swell reception was given by one OF
the leaders Of society. One OF the guests
had laid a valuable solitaire Ia the ladies'
dresaing-room on tho wzsh-stand. and for
getting L. had left H. On her return ta
6nd 1t, Il had, Of course. disappeared. No
body knew where II was. The trunks Of all
the servants were searched, but no trace
eould be found Of the powell. which was
worth $4,000 1 finally found II whore II
had been pawned for $500 In pawnshop By
French woman. took the Waiting list og
sh@ hostess. and finally, after O weeks
search, found that one OF the guesta. q raoh
woman bad o French maid, and that aha
bad gons 10 Europe shortly after tie -
@@ption-
"a bad 10 wait for her return, made lbs
mcqusinkance Of the maid and took her 10
kha pawnbroker'a, whore ho identified her.
Bhs confessed and her mistress redeemed
shs diamond aud paid all the expenses. I
never tsld On her =
"You see also that pawnbrokers are I'm
powtmnE factors In our business and Ehme
they aRe frequeutly OF service I'm deteoGln@
crime Sun, p@wnbrokerm encourage rob
0era. for IL there were no shopa ths tsmp&a-
ton 70 steal would not be 20 great
@Ik'a singular business ln every wmv.u
concluded tho ahicf-taksr ~Fascinmtinw In
many wars, out 1ke every thing else, ema
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