The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1893-03-19

| place is a mere trihe. Sometimes the gams
will become shy and will not make move
| for weeks. 1t proved so in this case. A
week now passed without single incident
worthy Of record. Daily, however, the re-
ports of the msn-Operator No. and has
side" Operator No. S-were handed to the
bureau. These told of shadowing or of
covering" the subject from the hotel ana
back again.
! That night, very late, Jack Shepard was
passenger on the ferryboat to Wee
hawken. He then took the street car and
rode a long way to q lonely part OF the out
skirts. 1t was nearly IL O'Clock. it was
| through a new country; the street car line
was one OF those irregular suburban affairs.
| In the car was Door laboring man, cad Ia
blue jeans, returning with his dinner pail
from his hard toll.
Shepard left the car after riding half an
hour. He went straight to 2 splendid villa
set back in a small park Beside the broad
| highway. A knock on the front door and
| he was admitted to the grand home A
woman came to the door, all glitterlng In
silks and diamonds
| Those diamonds we're the stolen property,
and this woman was enjoying the ill-gotten
wealth.
SOMETHING ABOUT DETECTIVES
! The day of DISCUSSES In the detective bust
ness is gone by. All that one reads of false
| "AAohGAot NhAukCo VI SOobhAhSo anu hAA VIC
rest is likely to be spun out of the imagina-
| tion.
Your real detective is a very practical
! fellow.
The great Supt. Byrnes of New York,
before whose very name crooks in every
land tremble in their hiding, SAYS that
there is no romance about crime. He has
done all he can, and that is a great deal, to
| reduce thiet-hunting TO a scientific basis.
If a man is to be 'sbadoweu" be is simply
Swallowed, and that is all there is to it.
There is none Of the claptrap disgusting"
| Of the dime novelist and of the cheap circuit
drama. Nor does your good detective need
| to be spying around under the very nose Of
his victim. He can remain long way off
or he can be near at hand; at any rate he
never reveals his presence by grotesque
ogling, passing and repassing, as the cheap
novelistl would have you believe. He
| simply acts like any other sensi BILE man
| would-not a detective-who might chance
to be told to watch" friend. Between the
words "watch" aud shadow" there is
little difference except that one has a
more mysterious sound than has the other
And your good detective docs not use the
word ''shadow" either. He prefers the
| wagner expression took" This is to pre-
vent suspicion. There are hundreds of men
| in responsible positions in New York who
are weekly subjected to close watch. All
their outgoings and mornings are reported
TO the head o the firm. II fellow Is going
| wrong ten TO one the sort OF life be Is lead
ing will show it. Therefore all the large
90 cporations spend plenty OF money In the
shadowIng" business yearly. Thus the
| senior partners know at a glance Just
where their young men have been the
night before. The information comes to
them in the form OF the reports, given as in
the Shepard case. These reports are often
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tsctive will photograph the doingS OF his
subject with almost microscopic fidelity.
| he will include the drinks the chap took in
public, the people be bowed to on the street,
the ladies be chatted with, whether they
were stylishly dressed or the contrary, their
personal charms; also the very shop window
the subject fingered before on his way up or
down town.
For safety the detective calls himself
Operator No. l" or "Oper ttor No. B."
When the first detective Is weary by long
hours his side" comes up and relieves him.
Then the first man comes back again, and
SO on. II the subject leaves town on the
train for Boston or Buffalo the detective is
following STILL as silent &c she grave as con-
slant as the shadow 60 the sun, telegraph
ing to his partner to follow at once, keep
ing him Informed by repeated kilograms
Just where TO meet him; by and by the
second man catches up again, and 50 1t goes
All this is the work OF the ''shadower
Detectives have more trouble shadowinq
women than they have with men. The rea.
son for this IS obvious. A man can 90 any
place his subject can enter. but be oanno
follow a woman wherever she may go. A
woman. for illustration, can go into a big
bazar, with ten or more doors. and give the
shadow the slip with the greatest Of ease. A
man could never do this. Then, again, if q
woman drops" to the detective she car
make him much trouble by leading him
long and fruitless journey, all over time
miles and miles, just merely to "mak,
sport" of him. This is a thoroughly femi
nine trick, 30 the best detectives say.
CAUGHT IN DRAG.
When Jack Shepard came down to worl
that next day be said to his brother clerk
whom he was relieving;
"Were there any letters for me while
was gonep
There we're notn
Ten minutes later he was summoned t
the office OF the proprietor.
Two strange men we're there. One Of thes,
men was Harkaway the other the CLERK
had never seen before. The proprietor, il
a cold voice, said;
sheppard, you will consider yourself un'
der arrest"
The man started backward with low CRY
of surprise.
What's that?" he gaSped. looking from
one face to the other.
shepard p said the manager, in a quie,
way, did you ever know a man named
Percy Renwickp
He is my friend, the Chicago drummer
81 thought So Remem ter, this 10 a mat
ter OF life and death answer at your peril
Did you, or did you not, ever know q man
named Percy Rem wicxP
"Nevsr-only as l say"
"You lier'
"What does that mean?" said the clerk
faring up.
1T means. said Harkaway, coming for.
ward, that you are hereupou formally ar.
rested for the diamond robbery of three
months ago. 1t means, too, that Percy
Renwick and Jack Shepard are one and the
same parsonage. Under the former name
you have been getting mail at this hotel
These letters were written to yoI by the
woman 10 whom you gave the diamonds and
for whom you must now spend twenty years
in Sing Sing. Your time has Gomez
With this the detectives slipped the irons
on the the thiers wrists.
And to this day, a, he sits in his lonely cell
in Sing Sing, he does not know how 1t was
that bis lovers country villa, far down thai
lonely road, back IN that splendid private
park, where be visited only under cover OF
midnight. was unearthed. He thinks about
It often and often IN the silent watches OF
the night, like many another convict
thinks of the points in the great game
wherein he failed and for which he now