Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-05-24

man who has his good. hard money stalk
ed on a horses chance to win q race don't
Ike to see IL handed right over to the book
makers without any action at all.
The new jockey club should establish
some rule TO govern a starter. There should
be a limit set upon the time the horses are
allowed TO remain at the post. and then
there Will not be so many breakawsys Gauss
ed by jockeys maneuvering for position. In
the American Derby at Chicago last year.
Pettengill kept the horses back for an hour
and half. This was just as reprehenslble
on his part as-the action of Rowe in send
ing off the handicap field with the favorits
standing still while two other excellent
horses were shut out from making a run for
a place. The starters powers are entirely
TOO autocratic, and l believe every horse
owner in America would like to see a limit
placed on them"
"A great many OF the criminal cases for
winch detectives are given credit for WON
oerful shrewdness and acute cunning in
working up 10 a legal conclusion are a
great deal OF that estimable quality called
luck said Henry A. Sullivan, a former
ny cop OF Chicago. at the ST. James last
night Il don't mean TO saw that the men
ia my profession are not keen and album
oantIy equipped with the subtle Instinct
Mn u aIlo~s them TO solve mysterious
CRIMINAL puzzles that may be placed be-
fore them but in many cases whore a cr.iTa-
maj is apprehended and brought TO book
Ior some weIl-covered-up crime The goddess
VI fortune mas great deal to do with il.
remember one instance. which nav serve
as case In point. Several years ago in
Chicago a pawnbroker's shop was entered
In the night, Its safe blown open and a
very large quantity Of watches and iev,alrv
captured and carried off There u,as -
solutely no clue TO the PERPETRATORS Of tbs
crime, and the police and detective denart-
ments were at their wits ends to find some
suggestion, no matter how faint e. might
be, of the identity OF the thieves The v-orlr
uio not bear the impress of any burglara
then known to be in Chicago or anN-vhere
near IL, but that IL was done by profess
slonals there was no doubt, because rverv-
tnlng was clean-cut and the safe itself
showed that IL had been attended 10 by
men who understood all about the business
one night. a couple of weeks after ,he
ICCpery mad occurred, three central Office
detectives who were of duty were nlaXtny
friendly little game of poker over on he
horth side. Along about midnight ali throe
oi them got broke and concluded they would
20 nome While they were walking down
the street they saw two men annroaching
carrying an evidently heavy Garnet bae he
tween them. One of the detectives suggest
ca. In a Jocose spirit, that the party might
get another poker stalk by holding nm Fhe
men with the grip. His remark caused a
laugh and the trio proceeded toward the
TWO men without further thought when
suaoeniy the latter stopped irresolutely.
Instantly the detectives suspected sor1e-
thing was wrong and intuitively closed i'm
on the strangers. That carpet bag con-
tained nearly all OF the stolen property
from the pawnbroker's shop which was
robbed as described. and the two men were
recognized as cool and determined burglars
from the east. Their names were Chase
and Muller ana they are still serving their
terms at Joliet or course the detectives
were applauded by the public and the press
for their wonderful shrewdness IN running
down the perpetrators OF such a mysterious
crime. and recovering so much OF the booty.
but the facts were exactly as I have stated
ana any Chicago detective can substantia.e
the story If YOU ask him about it on the
uuiet I"