The evening world., 1894-01-19
WATCHED BY POLICE.
Lawyer Moss Says Parkhurst's
Men Are Under Surveillance.
Every Action Noted with a View to
e%ntrappins Them.
Hints Dropped by n Mysterious visi.
tor at Headquarters.

From al incident which occurred at
Police Headquarters this morning II Is
believed that agents OF Or. Parkhurst's
society for The Prevention Of Crime are
being Swallowed BY Central once detec-
tives The object II this surveillance IL
70 sud. Is 20 entrap the men into some
net. perhaps similar - that which ex-
ChiAr Agent Gardner declares he fell
into A few days ago.
Tire incident referred to was the ap-
pearaace Of a la who called at Police
Headquarters this morning. He was OF
dark complexion ard wore a dark mus
-acnA and vandyke beard. He was
~vsl-iresei.
Ire man entered the Detective Bureau.
raere ne remained but a few minutes.
He -e.usai TO disclose the ratur ot.his
er-ara = the reporters. but said:
II you 10 not know who am. cam
not s%niishtsn you but MAJ may say pa Pa /
hursts Society. As to what my business
IS rere this morning. l will not say.
Time-;Ir7c will demonstrate that
time tat the police detectives were
pulled 81 Of the trail OF Parkhurst
agents and o@cials, and ser TO work
leg!tmateiy on police business which
taiIy needs them Just TOW
II thAy or their superiore entertain
tire !dsa OF entrapping any Of the Society
men. ! advise them to thro" up the joo
ness, taat they may earn the salary
which TIE city pays them
IRE stranger then hurried down Mott
street At Boyery and Houston street he
boarded a Fourth avenue car going
None Of the otrcials seen about Head
quarters knew the man and in the pc
tectiv& Bureau they said he had trans
acted no business there. The impression
gathered was that the tranger was In
the Bureau TO see and not TO talk
The occurrences as related. n hints
recall some Incidents which form a
startling conclusion.
Or the morning Of Nov. 3 Supt. Byrnes
private once and talked 70 them for
quite a long time. after which the de-
tectives left Headquarters. This was
the day on which the three men WIG
on four Parkhurst men at Broome and
Bowery on the afternoon OF Friday. Oct.
q. were arraizned in Essex Market Po-
lice Court. and there discharged by Jus.
would not appear as compliments.
II Is said that these detectives were
ordered by the Police Commissioners.
through Supt. Byrnes. to see that there
after Parkhurst men. agents and Off
Gals were kept under constant suryetl-
lance, and that nothing they. did be al
lowed 10 escape the nOtlce Oh tHe ponce
that might in any way compromise the
P%arkhurst men. and. perhaps, result in
the downfall OF some OF the latter.
During the proceedings in Essex Mar
ket Court that day, more than a dozen
Central ONCE men were seen In the
room, taking a minute mental report oil
everything that occurred In connection
with the case in hand. Each Parkhurs'
man was closely scrutinized by the de
tectives.
Lawyer Moss. when asked about thu
man who visited Police Headquarters
would Civ no satisfactory reply. AS re
CARDS the shadowing. he said:
That is no new experience for any Of
VA engaged In this work. Nearly every
bod who has been connected with oul
org imitation has been Swallowed at onF
time or another. We have rot had q
sps cifc complaint from any OF our mer
recently, but such of them as are known
at Police Headquarters are unauest!on
ably under surveillance most OF the time
"Dr. Parkhurst Is spotted. and ! know
that my movements are carefully
watched.
ION Sunday, Jan. I, my house wa
watched all day by n man who made 6
memorandum in n notebook OF every
thing and OF every person who happened
to enter or leave the house. II wa!
amusing to me, because all my visitor:
were friends OF mine and had no bust
ness with me in connection with tn
Society.
I'VE have many men In our employ
whom the police do not know, and W.
them finding out. Tor obvious reasons,
Il know the police rave tried repeat
eddy to get men In the Society's emplo!
to give up the secrets OF the organiza
ton, but so far we have been successful
in preventing them accomplishing thei
purpose