The evening world., 1894-01-19
WATCHED BY POLICE.
Lawyer Moss Says Parkhurst'i
Men Are Under Surveillance,
Every Action Noted with a View to
e~ntrapping Them.
Hints Dropped by n Mysterious WISH
tor ut Headquarters.

From an incident which occurred at
Police Headquarters this morning 1t is
believed that agents OF Dr.. P%arkhurst's
Society for the Prevention OF Crime are
being Swallowed by Central Office detec-
tives. The object of this surveillance. It
Is said, Is to entrap the men into some
net. perhaps similar to that which ex-
| Chief Agent Gardner declares he fell
into a few days ago.
The incident referred to was the ap-
pearance OF a mar who called at Police
Headquarters this morning. He was Of
dark complexion and wore a dark mus
tache and Vandyke beard. He was
well-drescd.
The man entered the Detective Bureau.
where he remained but a few minutes.
He refused to disclose the nature Of his
errand TO the reporters, but said:
IF you do not know who ! am. l can
not enlighten you. but ! may say that, I
am In n way connected with DR.. Park
bursts Society. AS to what my business
is here this morning. l will not say.
Time-time will demonstrate that.
II will, however. say that It is about
1'ns 'H of Of ofe the P'"f trail Of Perkhurst
agents and officials, and set to work
legitimately on police business, which
badly needs them Just now,
L t"tN VI NIOll etptt SiSch Noiii
the idea of e%ntrapping any of the Society
men. I advise them to throw up the Job
at once, and seek more profitable busl-
which the city pays them"
The stranger then hurried down Mott
street. At Bowery and Houston street he
boarded a Fourth avenue car going
None Of the officials seen about Head
quarters knew the man, and IN the De
tective Bureau they said he had trans
. no h,elpAao thAra Thu I'm - autNn
| gathered was that the stranger was In
the Bureau to see and not to tall
The occurrences as related, and hints
thrown out by the mysterious visitor,
recall some Incidents which form a
startling conclusion.
on the morning of Nov. , supt., Byrnes
summoned a score of detectives INTO MS
private office and talked to them for
quite a long time. after which, the de
tectives left Headquarters. This was
the day IN which. the three men who
on four Parkhurst men at Broome and
Bowery on the afternoon of Friday. Oct.
81. were arraigned in Essex Market Po-
lice Court, and there discharged by Jus
tice RYAN, because the Society's men
would not appear as complainants.
1t 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 surveil-
lance. and that nothing. they. did be al
lOWeQ 10 escape tIe nolSt u thc poHSo
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 MAJ
ket Court that day, more than n dozeu
Central ONCE men were seen In the
room. taking a minute mental report OF
everything that occurred In connection
with the case in hand. Each .Parkhurst
man was closely scrutinized by the de-
tectives.
Lawyer Moss, when asked about the
man who visited Police Headquarters,
would give no satisfactory reply AS re-
CARDS the ~shadowing, he said:
"Tha Is no new experience for any OF
us engaged in this work. Nearly, every
body who has been connected with our
organization has been Swallowed at one
time or another. We " not had a
specific complaint from n OF our men
recently. but such of them as are known
at Police Headquarters are unauestion-
ably under surveillance most OF the time.
DIR. P~arkhurst is spotted. and / know
that my movements are carefully
watched.
ION Sunday, Jan. I, my house was
watched ali day by a man who made a
memorandum in a notebook OF every
thing and OF every person who happened
to enter or leave the house. IT was
amusing to me. because all my visitors
were friends Of mine and had no busi-
ness with me in connection with the
Society.
w have many men in our employ
whom the police do not know. and we
them finding out. Tor obvious reasons.
Il know the police have tried repeat
eddy to get men in the Society's employ
to give up the secrets of the organiza.
in preventing them accomplishing their
PURPOSE